Films of 2000s and must sees

[ScousePig]

Rather than de-rail the classic film thread, what have been your personal favourites of the 2000s?

Here's my list of 8s and 9s from IMDB:
The Departed
A Beautiful Mind
Cloud Atlas - possible future classic?
Almoust Famous :cool:
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Hidden
Senna - possible classic territory?
24 Hour Party People
Pan's Labyrinth
Into the Wild
The Prestige
Zodiac
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Fault in Their Stars
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Love Actually
Snatch - classic
Silver Linings Playbook
Boyhood
Shutter Island
Insomnia
Before Sunset

All highly recommended.

[Baz]

Napoleon Dynamite, August Underground's Mordum & The King Of Kong.

[Jimmy Floyd]

These threads have made me realise I last went to the cinema in 2009, to see this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_(2009_British_film)

It was so good that nothing could top it. Or was it? You decide.

[SvN]

Memento is my favourite film of all time. I'll use my IMDB ratings of 9+ for the rest.

The Artist
Cloud Atlas
The Martian (No repeat viewings yet, mind)
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Wolf of Wall Street
12 Years a Slave
The Departed
No Country for Old Men
Up
Zodiac
Blood Diamond
District 9
The Aviator
Before Sunset

[Bernanke]

The Pixar-list of:

WALL-E
Up
Toy Story 3
Inside Out

Non Hollywood:

A Separation (I need to re-watch this.)
La Grande Bellezza
Un Prophète
El Secreto De Sus Ojos
Des Hommes Et Des Dieux

[Henry]

Here are my 8 and 9's:

The Wind That Shakes the Barley
The Lives of Others
The Pianist
Downfall
Hunger
The Corporation
The Edukators
Agora
Solaris
Letters from Iwo Jima
Bowling for Columbine
Fahrenheit 9/11
The Magdalene Sisters
The Dark Knight
The Departed
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Batman Begins
Into the Wild
The Prestige
Gladiator
Memento
No Country for Old Men
Snatch.
City of God
Paranormal Activity
The Descent
Sunshine
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Man from Earth
This Is England
Primer
The New World
Cinderella Man
Fish Tank
Hero
Amour
Inside Job
Mad Max: Fury Road
Inception
12 Years a Slave
Warrior
Gravity

[QE Harold Flair]

lol at the Michael Moore propaganda pieces.

Touching The Void
Into The Wild
Shutter Island
The Beckoning Silence
A Beautiful Mind
Catch me If You Can
Downfall
Interstellar
Moon
Cast Away


I'm sure there's loads more but I tend to watch factual stuff these days.

[SvN]

Alive from 1993?

[Angelsaint]

Non Hollywood:

A Separation (I need to re-watch this.)
La Grande Bellezza
Un Prophète
El Secreto De Sus Ojos
Des Hommes Et Des Dieux how "tropa de elite" is not in it should be enough for you to answer for war crimes.

A mention to "klovn" but I can understand may not be everyone cup of tea.

[Spoonsky]

These threads have made me realise I last went to the cinema in 2009, to see this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_(2009_British_film)

It was so good that nothing could top it. Or was it? You decide.

Why don't you go to the cinema?

[Boom-Boom]

I thought I was going to really like 'Into the Wild' but felt utterly bored after an hour or so. Does it get better or is it just not for me?

[Cord]

I seem to have been somewhat over generous with my 8s and 9s, so I've categorised them so as not to have one giant list:

General lot I'd still strongly go to bat for:

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Pianist
Munich
In the Loop
Frost/Nixon
The Prestige
Into the Wild
True Grit
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings
No Country For Old Men
The Proposition
Mad Max: Fury Road
Edge of Tomorrow
Gladiator
Senna
Grizzly Man
Skyfall
Casino Royale
The Dark Knight
Inception
Birdman
Memento
Moon
Zodiac
In Bruges

Foreign language (un filme de language wronge):

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
In the Mood for Love
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Raid
The Lives of Others
Infernal Affairs
Downfall
Russian Ark
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Tell No One

Not entirely sure I’d still think what I was thinking at the time but probably still good:

Shadow of the Vampire
The Wrestler
The Constant Gardener
Road to Perdition
Dirty Pretty Things

[Jimmy Floyd]

Why don't you go to the cinema?

I don't get much out of films really.

[QE Harold Flair]

Alive from 1993?

Yes, I edited it out. I think the docu-film thing was in the 2000's so I was slighlty confused.

The last film I saw at the cinema was Independence Day. I much prefer watching in the comfort of my own home, for free.

[Spoonsky]

Off the top of my head and in no particular order.

The Great Beauty
Ida
Force Majeure
Lost in Translation
Her
The Master
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Snowpiercer
Skyfall
Ex Machina
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Frances Ha
Inside Llewyn Davis
The King's Speech
Cloud Atlas
Boyhood
Computer Chess
Captain Phillips
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Whiplash

I'm sure I'll think of more over time.

[Dark Soldier]

From the ones I've rated on PtP 75% or above (quite a few will be missing due to forgetting to rate):

Sunshine
Martyrs
Kill List
Cloud Atlas
The Master
Under the Skin
Ex Machina
Black Swan
Requiem for a Dream
Dancer in the Dark
Dead Man's Shoes
Irreversible
The King of Kong
24hr Party People
Caché
À l'intérieur
Survive Style 5+
The Secret in their Eyes
Four Lions
Incendies
Take Shelter
The Raid
The Raid 2
The Hunt
Switchblade Romance
I Saw The Devil
Amour
The Orphanage
The Believer
Session 9
Polytechnique
The House of the Devil
Just Another Love Story (Kærlighed på Film)
[REC]
Intouchables
Meet The Friedmans
The Selfish Giant
Let The Fire Burn
Coherence
Force Majeure
What We Do In The Shadows
Kajaki
The Loved Ones
Confessions (Kokuhaku)
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Dear Zachary
Hard Candy
Das Experiment
Naboer
The Man From Nowhere
Headhunters
Tyrannosaur
Michael
American Mary
How To Make Money Selling Drugs
Big Bad Wolves
Miss Violence
Spring
Kidnapped (Secuestrados)
Boy A
Identity
Felon
The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas
Eden Lake
The Signal
Klass
Seuseung-ui eunhye AKA To Sir with Love AKA Bloody Reunion
Blood River
Hachiko
Cell 211
Cherry Tree Lane
Geomeun jip AKA Black House
Wai dor lei ah yut ho AKA Dream Home
Bobby Fischer Against The World
Babycall
Sound of My Voice
Sightseers
Borgman
Cheap Thrills
Blue Ruin
'71
Calvaire AKA The Ordeal
The Gift
Black Sheep
Dog Pound
Absentia
Detention
Frontière(s) AKA Frontiers
Mum and Dad
13 Beloved
Feast
Sweet Sixteen
Starred Up

Taken a few of the bigger hitters out to shorten it.

[Toby]

Off the top of my head and in no particular order.

The Great Beauty
Ida
Force Majeure
Lost in Translation
Her
The Master
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Snowpiercer
Skyfall
Ex Machina
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Frances Ha
Inside Llewyn Davis
The King's Speech
Cloud Atlas
Boyhood
Computer Chess
Captain Phillips
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Whiplash

I'm sure I'll think of more over time.

So much of that would match my own, but Inside Llewyn Davis has no place among the rest.

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl was okay but as those sorts of films go I think Juno and Easy A are better.

[Spoonsky]

Inside Llewyn Davis is one of those films that I probably couldn't objectively defend as being on par with the others, but something about the characters and the setting and the plot just speaks to me. Frances Ha is the same. I maintain that Me and Earl is a great film, but I'm also probably predisposed to like it being sort of a film nerd in high school myself.

I forgot Under the Skin.

[Bernanke]

Great shout with Survive Style 5+ DS.

[Yevrah]

The 8's and above from this century since I started rating films on IMDB about 3 years ago.

The Wolf of Wall Street 8
Rush 8
Gravity 8
Life of Pi 8
Skyfall 8
Cloud Atlas 8
Zero Dark Thirty 8
Inglourious Basterds 8
In Bruges 8
Frost/Nixon 8
The Mist 8
Catch Me If You Can 8
About a Boy 8
Gladiator 8
Cast Away 8
Erin Brockovich 8

[QE Harold Flair]

You got a favourite number?

[Yevrah]

It sort of backs up your point as there are no 9's.

Of that list I'd probably say Erin Brokovich is the best, but a few are missing that I haven't seen (again) since I started rating films.

And The Martian's definitely in there now too.

[ItalAussie]

In no particular order beyond what I can remember:

Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Inception
The Martian
Cloud Atlas
Pan's Labyrinth
Grand Budapest Hotel
District 9
Toy Story 3, Finding Nemo, Up, Wall-E, Inside Out
Beasts of the Southern Wild
The Prestige
Moon
Mad Max: Fury Road
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle
Gladiator
Zero Dark Thirty
Little Miss Sunshine
Lost in Translation
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

[Yevrah]

Toy Story 3, I'd forgotten about that. It'd be in there too and definitely a classic. The closest a film's got to making me cry since I was an adult.

[ItalAussie]

I'm still somewhat shocked that Spirited Away came out in the 2000's.

Also, 3/24 films on my list are from this year (Inside Out, Mad Max, The Martian), all of which I consider to be outstanding even by the standards of the included films. It's been a good year.

[Yevrah]

I was thinking too that it's been a good year.

And with a few notable promising efforts still to come it could end up being the best year for a long time.

[Spoonsky]

2013 was a pretty outstanding year. 12 Years a Slave, Captain Phillips, Dallas Buyers Club, The Wolf of Wall Street, Her, Gravity, Nebraska... In contrast, 2011 and 2012 were fairly turd. 2010 was also really good.

(This is based on Best Picture nominees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture#2010s)

[Lewis]

I thought The Wolf of Wall Street was alright (if one-dimensional) when I saw it, but on second viewing it's pushing boring.

[Yevrah]

Yeah, I've seen it since I gave it that 8 and it's getting downgraded in time.

[Spoonsky]

I've actually still never seen it.

A friend of mine watched it with her grandmother, which I found seriously funny.

[QE Harold Flair]

Gravity is another film you couldn't really watch twice. It was worth it for the visuals alone - there was no real story. Harold declares it a 6.

[ItalAussie]

Moonrise Kingdom is supposed to be very good, right? It's on my "to-see" list, at any rate.

[Pepe]

It is very good, yes.

[Benny]

In Bruges is easily my favourite film made since the 2000s, I barely remember any others.

[SvN]

I thought The Wolf of Wall Street stood up well to repeated viewings. I've seen it 3 or 4 times now.

American Hustle, on the other hand, was pretty turd the second time I watched it and I turned it off bored senseless after an hour.

[Yevrah]

Yeah, American Hustle is rubbish. All style and no substance.