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I've fallen out of the movie watching business over the last year of so, but I'm doing my best to catch up. And, in the past, I've fired off hot sports opinions about how movies aren't movies anymore. We've got cartoons and sequels -- TV on the big screen it seems --but that's it.
Anyway, I was roaming the Internets today and saw a few articles about what has been produced since 2000 that will stand the test of time. A classic, that is. Dramas, to me, are those movies where I didn't necessarily get blown away as I walked out of the theater but which caused me to think about it time and time again over the next few weeks.
Those I've seen suggested so far in the drama category that I agree with:
There Will Be Blood (2007)
No Country For Old Men (2007)
Sin City (2005)
Slumdog Millionarrie (2008)
Grizzly Man (2005) <-- Yeah, a documentary but I'm not leaving it out.
Gladiator (2000)
Lost in Translation (2003)
Black Swan (2010)
List of movies here for your suggestions. Man, this is hard.
26 comments:
A cornball movie, but I often ask myself how many times have I dismissed some simple person like "Forrest Gump" who cold have made some significant contribution that I know nothing about?
Lost In Translation a creeper of a great movie- you're not sure you're watching the same movie everybody else was talking about, until it pops into your mind days/weeks later.
It creeps in there.
PS will only argue Slumdog- DUMB, DUMB,DUMB. Who could possibly care?
I agree with almost everything on that list...and a few more for me personally.
"The Kill Bill series"
"Napolean Dynomite"
"The Dark Knight"
and a longshot, but I really liked "Walk the Line"
I would include Traffic and Mystic River on that list. Traffic is definitely a no brainer.
Sin City but no True Grit? Are you drunk?
(I am.)
Rage
An Inconvenient Truth,and all of Michael Moore's mockumentaries.
I pretty much agree with what you have listed there, except...Sin City was cool, but that was a live-action cartoon. Much too stylized to be taken seriously. And the head scratching for me wasn't because it made me think, but because it made me think "What was the point they were trying to make?"
Grizzly Man - I thought it was pretty funny. I was rooting for the bears the whole time
"Heeey, Booboo...I spy my dinner on two legs right over there."
"Gee, Yogi. You know Park Ranger Smith prefers raiding picnic baskets to mauling the visitors."
"Eff the Park Ranger, Booboo. I'm hungry!"
Triple Fake Hanna-Barbera
Lost in translation = waaaaayyy overhyped.
Lost in Translation was sooo bad and made me severely dislike Scarlett Johansson!
Inception
V for Vendetta
The Road to Perdition
The Bi-Curious Face in Benjamin's Butt.
The Backdoor Intruder
Nailin Palin?
Pelosi Does America? No wait, I'm thinking of Debbie Does Dallas.
Lost in Translation was great. It perfectly captured the "stranger in a strange land" vibe.
No Country For Old Men was the most over hyped piece of garbage that I ever wasted $8 and 3 hours of my life on!
Although it doesn't quite qualify as post-2000, and I hated it, The Blair Witch Project (1999) started the movement of amateurish/reality-shot, fictional but supposedly true, internet gossip promoted movies. Since then we've had Cloverfield, Paranormal Activity, Monsters, District 9, etc. TBWP made a ton of money, and influenced both production and promotion.
Rules, I had to see the movie, it could not be a remake, it could not be a "series" movie, it could not be animated, it could not be (exclusively) a chick flick, it could not be a horror movie and finally, it could not SUCK.
2001
Training Day, A Beautiful Mind, Blow
2002
Road to Perdition, Gangs of New York, Catch Me If You Can
2003
Mystic River, Kill Bill Vol. 1, Something's Gotta Give
2004
Sideways, Man on Fire, Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Honorable Mention The Notebook)
2005
Crash, Walk the Line, Four Brothers
2006
The Departed, The Devil Wears Prada, Failure to Launch
2007
The Bucket List, I Am Legend, Juno
2008
Gran Torino (Everything else that year was crap)
2009
Crazy Heart (Everything else that year was crap)
2010
True Grit, Inception (Nothing earned the number 3 spot)
Double Fake Roger Ebert
Nobody mentioned Talladega Nights, Anchorman, Old School or Semi-Pro?
You're my boy, Blue!
5:54 that's a pretty good list. I am also a big fan of No Country for Old Men and Let There Be Blood. The Kill Bill series was ok but not deserving of the list. Gangs of New York is one of my all time favorite movies.
Agree with Devil. No Country for Old Men was trash and an insult to the older American male! I can't believe any man in America would like that movie. Can you not see the real message in that movie?
Departed ,Snatch
Hmmmm....none of you saw The Hurt Locker? Talk about a movie that made you think..
One of the best of the last decade, for sure.
Uncle Wally
554 - No complaints about the quality of your list -- they're subjective choices, after all -- but if you exclude remakes (movies made from the same source material, telling the same story,) how could you then include I Am Legend, a remake of The Omega Man (1971) and The Last Man on Earth (1964), or True Grit?
No Country was a great movie, friendo
uw,
I saw The Hurt Locker and you're right, a powerful movie.
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