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what is Control doing in the top 100?

Some awful, awful films in that list. Knocked Up? Seriously?

I second the surprise at Control's inclusion. Rubbish film.

I can't think of one great film made in the last ten year. Come to think of it, i can't think of one made in the last twenty.

Of those i've seen...

Great:

Good: City of God, Anchorman, Chopper, 28 Days Later, Man on Wire, This is England, Casino Royale

Okay: Control

Shit: Bowling For Columbine, Pan's Labyrinth, Sean of the Dead, Knocked Up, Little Ms Sunshine, Dark Knight, Lost In Translation, Gladiator, Donnie Darko, Borat, Slumdog Millionaire, Team America, Grizzly Man, Bourne Supremacy, Bourne Ultimatum

Definitely the shittest decade in cinematic history.

have you used this site? i quite like it, be good when they get the rights to more movies http://www.theauteurs.com/users/134830

good to see Bad Santa in that list. Anchorman is awful. And no White Chicks!

is this list on order? cos it's bullshit. And some of my favourite films - Turtles Can't Fly and Fucking Amal for example - aren't in this list. Because it's bullshit. But yeah, pretty great decade for films huh. Screw the h8ers

Gladiator, The Lives of Others, Downfall, Up, Monsters Inc., There Will Be Blood, No Country For Old Men, Lost in Translation, Michael Clayton, The Bourne Ultimatum, Eastern Promises, Wall-E, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Ghost World, Being John Malkovich, Slumdog Millionaire, The Darjeeling Limited. I liked those ones.

atonement, juno, inglorious basterds, superbad.

opinion dividers sure....but i'm a fan of these and more character than a lot of the fluff on that list

dont have time to go through them all

Also, would've expected to see There Will Be Blood higher up.

(54/100)

I actually thought it was quite a good list, although the popularity of No Country For Old Men will always surprise me but otherwise I can agree with most of the choices there.

I was slightly surprised Lucky Number Slevin didn't make the cut.

If so, well, I'm happy.

it's influenced just about every indie movie ever made since.

lists like these are daft anyway.
has there been a Time Out list? that'll be worth reading. but yeah it's been a dire decade hasn't it? really awful.

oh and Star Trek wipes the floor with The Dark Knight.

no ZODIAC and yet School of Rock is in there???????

The 42 most mainstream stupid ones, obviously...

Go Team America!

amelie???

I think that there's about a dozen films that I haven't seen.

There's few films that I would have liked to see in there (something by Aronofsky, Primer, Before Sunset, Oldboy, Zatoichi, Infernal Affairs, Crouching Tiger, 36, Uzak, American Splendor, Wolf Creek, Brick, A Quiet American & Dodgeball), and there are some that I think deserve no place in any top 100 of the decade (Devil Wears Prada, Crash, Traffic, Wedding Crashers, Control, Knocked Up, Little Miss Sunshine), but an argument can be made for the rest of them.

(although that's not really surprising as i mostly watch older films)

it's a decent enough list, i think it's pretty useless to focus exclusively on personal tastes when it comes to something like this - it's what has had the biggest impact or influence. it doesn't really matter if you think that for example anchorman is a shit film, there's not really any denying its iconic status in this decade.

something that i found more interesting than this list however (was going to make a thread but i guess i forgot) was empire's 10 biggest icons of the decade issue (with 10 different front covers as well!). because it was so focused (on film characters, like harry potter or the joker) it was easier to understand the thought progress behind it etc. and it was obviously more in depth.

not bad.

some shocking choices in there.

also, 'Hidden' is a total bag of shite.

Slumdog, The Queen, LKOS in the top 10, err biased much? What a joke.