Being that this year was full of total crap until the later half, it is essentially the best example of this decade in film. Many of the ten years in this decade have had really bad intros, and exuberantly awesome endings, for example: 2009, 2007, and 2006 (to say the least). That being said, I am making a list that shows the finer movies in all of these years. In the end, I will ultimately have to decide: The top ten of the decade – final draft.
2000:
1. Gladiator
2. Requiem for a Dream
3. Memento
4. American Psycho
5. The Patriot
2001:
1. Donnie Darko
2. LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring
3. Training Day
4. Vanilla Sky
5. Frailty
2002:
1. 25th Hour
2. The Road To Perdition
3. LOTR: The Two Towers
4. Signs
5. Minority Report
2003:
1. City of God
2. LOTR: Return of the King
3. Mystic River
4. House of Sand & Fog
5. Kill Bill Vol. 1
2004:
1. Million Dollar Baby
2. The Aviator
3. Mean Creek
4. Sideways
5. District B-13
2005:
1. Crash
2. Batman Begins
3. Syriana
4. Capote
5. Good Night, and Good Luck
2006:
1. The Departed
2. Brick
3. (Tie) Children of Men / Little Miss Sunshine / Pan’s Labyrinth
4. Apocalypto
5. (Tie) Babel / Half Nelson
2007
1. (Tie) Michael Clayton / 3:10 to Yuma / Sunshine
2. (Tie) Hot Fuzz / Once
3. The Orphanage
4. (Tie) Superbad / No Country for Old Men
5. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2008
1. (Tie) Slumdog Millionaire / The Wrestler
2. Revolutionary Road
3. Passengers
4. Miracle at St. Anna
5. (Tie) JCVD / Doubt / In Bruges
2009
1. AVATAR
2. Moon
3. Up in the Air
4. Inglourious Basterds
5. The Hurt Locker
6. The Messenger
7. The Hangover
8. Precious
9. (500) Days of Summer
10. World’s Greatest Dad
Top Ten of the Decade:
1. AVATAR
2. The Departed
3. Moon
4. Crash
5. The Wrestler
6. Slumdog Millionaire
7. Brick
8. Sunshine
9. Donnie Darko
10. City of God
So there you have it. My uber list for the decade. 2010 looks to be very promising as a whole, so I hope that this list of the top can be shifted around. Good day to you all, and thank you so much for reading this list.
Great list! I have seen most of these and must agree.
correction: this is so screwed up compared to modern thoughts. I may just delete this and make a new one.
Interesting choices. I strongly disagree with Avatar and Million Dollar Baby which I thought were two of the worst of the decade! But glad to see gems like Hot Fuzz, Diving Bell, Frailty and JCVD getting recognition.
Mostly a great list, though if Sunshine is the film about reigniting the sun with a nuke the size of Manhattan, I respectfully disagree. The premise was ridiculous, the acting was okay, but I found the injection of artificial tension to be insulting. Glad to see Children of Men, Moon and Up in the Air there though, sorely underrated films.
Well, Sunshine was more about the beauty of carnage, and showing how everyone fell in their own way, be it by acceptance or by involuntary bad luck. I thought the movie was brilliant. But yes, Children of Men, Moon and Up in the Air were all amazing.