The Guardian's list: "The 100 Best Films of the 21st Century"
09-15-19, 06:08 PM
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The Guardian's list: "The 100 Best Films of the 21st Century"
Here's another list of great films, this time only from the last 20 years.
Here's the link: The 100 Best Films of the 21st Century
1. How many have you seen? I'm rather ashamed to say that I've only seen 20 of the films on the list.
2. Are there any films on the list that you feel shouldn't be there, or any that aren't on there that should be? Discuss.
Here's the link: The 100 Best Films of the 21st Century
1. How many have you seen? I'm rather ashamed to say that I've only seen 20 of the films on the list.
2. Are there any films on the list that you feel shouldn't be there, or any that aren't on there that should be? Discuss.
09-15-19, 06:20 PM
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29 films for me, can't say I agree with the list very much.
09-15-19, 06:24 PM
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I’ve seen almost a third of the films. I definitely have some catchup up to do.
I chuckled a little when I saw Anchorman listed. I like it, but it shouldn’t be on the list. Same story with seeing Ted listed. Not sure Get Out should be on there either. I skimmed through the list, I’m sure there are others.
A lot of stuff seems to be missing, but that kinda goes without saying whenever one of these lists are made.
I chuckled a little when I saw Anchorman listed. I like it, but it shouldn’t be on the list. Same story with seeing Ted listed. Not sure Get Out should be on there either. I skimmed through the list, I’m sure there are others.
A lot of stuff seems to be missing, but that kinda goes without saying whenever one of these lists are made.
09-15-19, 06:34 PM
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There's a startling absence of horror films on this list. The Witch, Hereditary, and The Descent all belong on it. Session 9 too.
09-15-19, 08:31 PM
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The first handful that came to mind for me, personally, are all absent.
Almost Famous
Memento
Life of Pi
Kubo and the Two Strings
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
At least Miyazaki made the list.
Almost Famous
Memento
Life of Pi
Kubo and the Two Strings
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
At least Miyazaki made the list.
09-15-19, 09:09 PM
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Also absent are:
Pan’s Labyrinth
Children of Men
City of God
and, IMO, the best movie of the 2000s is No Country for Old Men which is ranked all the way down at #86.
Pan’s Labyrinth
Children of Men
City of God
and, IMO, the best movie of the 2000s is No Country for Old Men which is ranked all the way down at #86.
09-15-19, 09:29 PM
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Uh oh. The Dark Knight isn't number one. Isn't that against some list law?
I do appreciate these kinds of lists. Just like with Oscar nominations here I have a list of films to avoid in the future.
I do appreciate these kinds of lists. Just like with Oscar nominations here I have a list of films to avoid in the future.
09-15-19, 11:23 PM
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Anchorman is a great film and comedies deserve to be recognized.
Having just rewatched Lincoln this week I am baffled by its ranking, or even its inclusion. It’s a terrible, boring slog. Sometimes foreigners see some greater importance in these things than we do. I don’t know.
12 Years a Slave just isn’t that good. It’s best bits are way too similar to Malick. My favorite McQueen film remains his first, Hunger.
Gravity and not Children of Men seems like a mistake.
Mostly a pretty good list. I love anything that includes 24 Hour Party People.
Having just rewatched Lincoln this week I am baffled by its ranking, or even its inclusion. It’s a terrible, boring slog. Sometimes foreigners see some greater importance in these things than we do. I don’t know.
12 Years a Slave just isn’t that good. It’s best bits are way too similar to Malick. My favorite McQueen film remains his first, Hunger.
Gravity and not Children of Men seems like a mistake.
Mostly a pretty good list. I love anything that includes 24 Hour Party People.
09-16-19, 12:45 AM
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46 for me. An interesting list, I don’t get too fussed by the rightness or wrongness of lists as it’s all just an opinion but I appreciate the diversity of this one. It’s given me quite a few to seek out!
09-16-19, 04:52 AM
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09-16-19, 05:34 AM
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Ive seen 40 of the list but looking over it im only interested in 43 of them so thats not to bad watch wise. I would have added a few though like Almost Famous, The Prestige and Across The Universe
09-16-19, 06:21 AM
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2000 isn't technically the 21st century, so how much trust can I put in this list? 
The fact that anything, let alone "Team America: World Police" is ahead of David Lynch's Mulholland Dr. is laughable. But if we take the rankings out, I'm fine with a good 75 percent of these.
The fact that anything, let alone "Team America: World Police" is ahead of David Lynch's Mulholland Dr. is laughable. But if we take the rankings out, I'm fine with a good 75 percent of these.
09-16-19, 06:25 AM
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Agreed. I reviewed it back when it first came out, gave it four out of five stars, but said the first half of the movie wasn't very good, but it redeemed itself in the second hour and got called everything from a bad critic to a racist.
09-16-19, 07:06 AM
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66.
09-16-19, 08:10 AM
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I've seen around half of the list.
The following only rate "Fair" in my book and don't belong on any Best Of list:
Lincoln, A Serious Man, Team America, and Under The Skin
The following only rate "Fair" in my book and don't belong on any Best Of list:
Lincoln, A Serious Man, Team America, and Under The Skin
09-16-19, 08:48 AM
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I agree with most of the picks, but there's some stuff in there that just doesn't belong.
Others that are totally MIA
Zodiac
Eastern Promises
Kairo (Pulse)
Three Times
Bad Education
The Pledge
Dancer In the Dark
What Time is it There?
Twentynine Palms
Werckmeister Harmonies
Mysterious Skin
Trouble Every Day
Antichrist
Memories of Murder
and a lot more
Others that are totally MIA
Zodiac
Eastern Promises
Kairo (Pulse)
Three Times
Bad Education
The Pledge
Dancer In the Dark
What Time is it There?
Twentynine Palms
Werckmeister Harmonies
Mysterious Skin
Trouble Every Day
Antichrist
Memories of Murder
and a lot more
09-16-19, 09:12 AM
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21, only three of which I'd consider for such a list (ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, SPIRITED AWAY, IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE).
I would have put three other Tarantinos on the list in addition to OUATIH:
KILL BILL, VOL. 1
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
DJANGO UNCHAINED
Others I'd add:
Two by Satoshi Kon: MILLENNIUM ACTRESS, TOKYO GODFATHERS.
One by Makoto Shinkai: YOUR NAME (KIMI NO NA WA).
Two by Mamoru Hosoda: WOLF CHILDREN and SUMMER WARS.
One by Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi: SHIN GODZILLA.
One by Corey Yuen: SO CLOSE.
One by the Coen Bros.: TRUE GRIT.
One by Tony Scott: UNSTOPPABLE.
I would have put three other Tarantinos on the list in addition to OUATIH:
KILL BILL, VOL. 1
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
DJANGO UNCHAINED
Others I'd add:
Two by Satoshi Kon: MILLENNIUM ACTRESS, TOKYO GODFATHERS.
One by Makoto Shinkai: YOUR NAME (KIMI NO NA WA).
Two by Mamoru Hosoda: WOLF CHILDREN and SUMMER WARS.
One by Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi: SHIN GODZILLA.
One by Corey Yuen: SO CLOSE.
One by the Coen Bros.: TRUE GRIT.
One by Tony Scott: UNSTOPPABLE.
09-16-19, 10:24 AM
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David Lynch's Mulholland Drive right behind Team America: World Police is even funnier than Team America: World Police.
09-16-19, 12:28 PM
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They sure had a lot to say with their #1 pick, There Will Be Blood. I can't say that I disagree 
Paul Thomas Anderson’s strange masterpiece, freely adapted by him from Upton Sinclair’s 1927 novel Oil!, has a dark title that threatens a calamity now visible on the horizon: destruction of the Earth itself. And it is all inscribed in the story of the movie’s leading character, a man with the Bunyanesque name of Daniel Plainview. Daniel Day-Lewis gives perhaps the greatest, certainly the most exotic performance of his career as an oil prospector in the early 20th century, rewarded with colossal wealth that never gives him the smallest pleasure.
The movie perhaps looks even stranger, starker and more unforgiving now than it did in 2007 when it first came out. But from 2016, there has been a raging Plainview in plain sight in the White House: Trump, the eccentric property billionaire and spoilt baby whose cranky tweets are as crazy as Plainview’s deranged “milkshake” pronouncement.
What a spectacle Anderson and Day-Lewis create: a portrait of male belligerence and fear, a Tutankhamun of misery, walled up in his own sarcophagus of wealth and prestige.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s strange masterpiece, freely adapted by him from Upton Sinclair’s 1927 novel Oil!, has a dark title that threatens a calamity now visible on the horizon: destruction of the Earth itself. And it is all inscribed in the story of the movie’s leading character, a man with the Bunyanesque name of Daniel Plainview. Daniel Day-Lewis gives perhaps the greatest, certainly the most exotic performance of his career as an oil prospector in the early 20th century, rewarded with colossal wealth that never gives him the smallest pleasure.
The movie perhaps looks even stranger, starker and more unforgiving now than it did in 2007 when it first came out. But from 2016, there has been a raging Plainview in plain sight in the White House: Trump, the eccentric property billionaire and spoilt baby whose cranky tweets are as crazy as Plainview’s deranged “milkshake” pronouncement.
What a spectacle Anderson and Day-Lewis create: a portrait of male belligerence and fear, a Tutankhamun of misery, walled up in his own sarcophagus of wealth and prestige.
09-16-19, 12:55 PM
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Seen 38. Most of the movies I haven't seen sound interesting, so good suggestions.
The inclusion of Gladiator is the only one I find truly baffling. I think the best film on the list is Dogtooth.
If I could add a movie, it would be The Comedy, one of the most disturbing and unsettling movies I've seen, which is unique considering those emotions aren't dredged up by violence, or a supernatural sense of dread, but rather by looking seriously at people who've adapted a "cool" ironic persona in the of expressing their true personality.
This is the only movie I can think of I've seen in the last twenty or so years I believe changed the way I looked at the world.
The inclusion of Gladiator is the only one I find truly baffling. I think the best film on the list is Dogtooth.
If I could add a movie, it would be The Comedy, one of the most disturbing and unsettling movies I've seen, which is unique considering those emotions aren't dredged up by violence, or a supernatural sense of dread, but rather by looking seriously at people who've adapted a "cool" ironic persona in the of expressing their true personality.
This is the only movie I can think of I've seen in the last twenty or so years I believe changed the way I looked at the world.
09-16-19, 03:00 PM
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TED being on there, but not CITY OF GOD? Also neither SONG OF THE SEA nor THE SECRET OF KELLS on here?? And I do like Team America a lot, but at number 10??
This list goes in the trash bin.
This list goes in the trash bin.
09-16-19, 03:12 PM
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I'm missing a lot and i disagree with several choices. But its good reference if anything to check out some new films
09-16-19, 03:18 PM
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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and Team America: World Police is on this list, but not Paul Greengrass's United 93? Yeah, this list is a joke.
09-16-19, 03:36 PM
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It's missing a lot IMO.
I've watched 5 movies a week for the last 25 years.
There is no way I am willing to go back thru THAT list unless someone is willing to pay me a helluva lot of dough.
I've watched 5 movies a week for the last 25 years.
There is no way I am willing to go back thru THAT list unless someone is willing to pay me a helluva lot of dough.
09-16-19, 09:32 PM
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I think I might like this one better
‘Mulholland Drive’ Leads Intriguing BBC Critics Poll On 21st Century’s Top 100 Films
https://deadline.com/2016/08/mulholland-drive-bbc-culture-poll-top-100-films-list-21st-century-1201807366/
‘Mulholland Drive’ Leads Intriguing BBC Critics Poll On 21st Century’s Top 100 Films
https://deadline.com/2016/08/mulholland-drive-bbc-culture-poll-top-100-films-list-21st-century-1201807366/