Some notes: These are clearly not the best movies of the past decade. These are 100 of my favorites as of this moment right now as I am making this list. There are clear trends. I like horror movies and genre movies. There is a lack of foreign movies and documentaries here. I prefer playful fantasy movie franchises over austere fantasy movie franchises. I like violence (in movies). I like melancholy. I often see satire where others don't (including the filmmakers responsible). I gravitate toward movies about young people rather than old people. A lot of these movies strike me as kinda slick. Etc.
Yes, I cheated a lot - lumping movies together. My list, my rules.
There are still a lot of movies from 2009 that I have not yet seen. Also, my choices are very typical of the young straight white American male - so I feel like something of a cliche. Not very many surprises or unseen gems. I refuse to assign rank or hierarchy. Hence, these are listed alphabetically.
Also, it turns out this project was a terrible, terrible idea. Even worse than the Disney viewing project, and I don't plan to make another list ever again for at least a week. I would normally dump a load of ephemera about each movie, but I'm not that crazy.
This is not technically the last year of the decade, but monkey see, monkey do.
28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later
A.I Artificial Intelligence
Adaptation.
AfterschoolAlmost Famous (Untitled)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert FordBad Santa
Billy Elliot
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
BrickBrokeback Mountain
Buffalo SoldiersCapturing the Friedmans
City of God
CloverfieldConfessions of a Dangerous Mind
The Constant Gardener
The Dark KnightThe Departed
The Descent
Dogville
Donnie DarkoElephant
The FallGangs of New York
Gomorrah
Gone Baby Gone
The Good Girl
GrindhouseHalf Nelson
The Harry Potter Movies EXCLUDING the first two.The short films of Don Hertzfeldt (Rejected, The Meaning of Life, everything will be ok, i am so proud of you).
A History of ViolenceHot Fuzz
The Hurt Locker
In the Loop
In the Valley of Elah
The Incredibles
Inglourious BasterdsKill Bill (Vol. One)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Let the Right One In
The LookoutThe Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lord of WarLost in Translation
Memento
The MistMoulin Rouge!
Munich
Oldboy
The Others
Panic Room
Pan’s Labyrinth
Paranoid ParkThe Piano Teacher
The Pirates of the Caribbean TrilogyThe Prestige
Primer[Rec]
RepriseRequiem for a Dream
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Rules of AttractionSave the Green Planet
A Serious Man
Shaun of the Dead
Sin City
Six Shooter
Slumdog Millionaire
Spider-Man 2
Spirited Away
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Synecdoche, NY
There Will Be Blood
Thirst
Treasure Planet
Two LoversWALL-E
Wanted
Watchmen
The Weather Man
Where the Wild Things AreWonder Boys
The Wrestler
Y Tu Mamá También
You Can Count on Me
Zodiac
Darren AronofskyChristian BaleKristen BellBrad BirdAlfonso CuaronLeonardo DiCaprioRobert Downey, Jr.Joseph Gordon-LevittRyan GoslingMichael HanekeDon HertzfeldtSpike JonzeCharlie KaufmanMartin McDonaghTakashi MiikeHayao MiyazakiChristopher NolanIsabella RosselliniGore VerbinskiLars Von Trier
David CronenbergMartin ScorseseSteven Spielberg
A closer attention to continuity in both franchise movies and serialized television.Netflix.Pretty yet bleak cinematography.Puzzle movies and playing with chronology.Repertory and Midnight Movies at the BelcourtScreenwriters being directors (Charlie Kaufman, Scott Frank, Shane Black, Andrew Niccol, etc.)Smaller independent movies coming to Nashville more often.
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