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Good category; bad choice IMO. That movie was so trite and preachy I couldn't even sit through it the 2d time I watched it. Friday Night Lights was much better.

 

I forgot about FNL. That was a better movie than RTT, I agree.

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Surprised you picked Grindhouse, I was disappointed in that film. Was Justice League: The New Frontier released in theatres?

 

You can put foreign movies in your list, I picked "Let the Right One In" & "Night Watch" on mine.

 

I enjoyed Grindhouse as well. Although, I thought that Planet Terror was the better of the two flicks.

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Here are my picks for the movies of the decade and the genre's I decided to go with. Before someone points it out I know most of my picks are post 2004 but hey I was a bit younger in the early part of this decade so that could explain it. And if you can think of more categories I forgot put them in.

 

Comedy- Happy Feet

 

Horror- Happy Feet

 

Romantic Comedy- Happy Feet

 

Super Hero Movie- Happy Feet

 

Action Movie- Happy Feet

 

Documentary- Happy Feet

 

Animated Film- Happy Feet

 

Drama- Happy Feet

 

Best Overall- Happy Feet

 

Biggest Disappointment- lack of Happy Feet II

Epic...the BEST penguin movie ever!

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Comedy: The Hangover

 

Horror: Saw

 

Romantic Comedy: Sweet Home Alabama

 

Superhero Movie: The Dark Knight

 

Action Movie: Blackhawk Down

 

Documentary: Indoctrination U

 

Animated: Cars

 

Drama: The Wrestler

 

Best Overall: The Wrestler

 

Biggest Disappointment: Star Wars

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Surprised you picked Grindhouse, I was disappointed in that film. Was Justice League: The New Frontier released in theatres?

 

I watch so little of current horror genre it is best of category for me. Slasher, Jason, etc movies do not appeal to me and should be a different category.

 

I do not know if "Justice League: The New Frontier" made it to US theaters. It was a film I wanted and got on DVD due to the excellent voice players and 50s classic style art when it came out. It only made $3.5 million at box office and according to IMDB it was a direct-to-DVD so I guess it was released only to a very small set of theaters.

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Invincible was my favorite sports flick, with the Cinderella Man a close second

 

Sports Movie great category to add I would say that mine would have to be Rocky Balboa a great way to end the Rocky series and a very good film that didn't try to do too much. Honorable mentions - Friday Night Lights and The Replacements (Guilty Pleasure movie).

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I watch so little of current horror genre it is best of category for me. Slasher, Jason, etc movies do not appeal to me and should be a different category.

I do not know if "Justice League: The New Frontier" made it to US theaters. It was a film I wanted and got on DVD due to the excellent voice players and 50s classic style art when it came out. It only made $3.5 million at box office and according to IMDB it was a direct-to-DVD so I guess it was released only to a very small set of theaters.

I know what you mean, I find that there are few horrors worth watching anymore.

 

However, I recommend "The Descent". I found it to be a very good horror flick. Check it out.

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435625/

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I was sitting next to a couple from the hills of East Tenn. at this flick. When the movie ended the husband very loudly said "What the F?" I agreed wholeheartedly. Wierd flick.

 

The movie was gripping (though weird indeeed) until the end when I also said WTF

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After giving it some thought, my favorite movie of this decade: "City Of God" It is a foreign film, but don't let that scare you off... a little Tarantino-ish, but a well told story, and great to look at. It is about the drug lords of the Brazillian slums, and based on a true story of a power struggle between opposing drug lords. The movie flies by, lots of action, and lots of humor, amazing soundtrack... a tad on the violent side, but very powerful. It likely would have won an Oscar, but was disqualified because it was not submitted to "the Acadamy" on time. Yes, my favorite movie of the last decade.

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After giving it some thought, my favorite movie of this decade: "City Of God" It is a foreign film, but don't let that scare you off... a little Tarantino-ish, but a well told story, and great to look at. It is about the drug lords of the Brazillian slums, and based on a true story of a power struggle between opposing drug lords. The movie flies by, lots of action, and lots of humor, amazing soundtrack... a tad on the violent side, but very powerful. It likely would have won an Oscar, but was disqualified because it was not submitted to "the Acadamy" on time. Yes, my favorite movie of the last decade.

 

From what I've read many places, and heard, it is an amazing movie. I have not yet seen it, but I plan on watching at some point. :ph34r::wallbash:

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Best movies, in no order and without regard to genre (and without me bothering to get up and look at my dvds)

 

Brick

The Lookout

There Will Be Blood

Once

Man On The Train

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

I'm Not There

Clean

the Life Aquatic

Fog of War

Brand Upon the Brain!

Mulholland Drive

Inglorious Basterds

24 Hour Party People

High Fidelity

Old Boy

The Baader Meinhof Complex

Memories of Murder

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biggest disappointment:

tie: "juno" and "there will be dull," which is more notoriously known as "there will be dull." damn, can't stop writing that. "blood," dammit, "there will be (dull) blood"

two god-awful movies, both involving two very overactive actors, who absolutely knew nothing about nuance, and two directors who couldn't control their precocious divas.

 

jw

 

ADD: and far too many blowhard critics, who fell over themselves in an attempt to show how freakin' out it they were, aka dull.

 

Juno was pretty meaningless garbage, I'll give you that. But There Will Be Blood is amazing i actually went out and bought a blu ray player just for that film. I watch it (along with the original dawn of the Dead) every couple months just to keep me honest.

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Some Of My Favorite Films of the Decade

(That haven't been mentioned yet ... unless I missed some)

 

Comedy: Old School (in my opinion, both Will Ferrel and Vince Vaughn's finest work), Wonder Boys, Snatch

 

Drama: In Bruges, Unbreakable

 

Mystery/Thriller: Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang, Memento

 

Action Adventure: Casino Royal

 

Western: Open Range

 

Doc: Anvil

 

Remakes: Ocean 11

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Good category; bad choice IMO. That movie was so trite and preachy I couldn't even sit through it the 2d time I watched it. Friday Night Lights was much better.

 

Finally someone who agrees with me on this! lol I take a lot of crap for saying Friday Night Lights was a better film than Titans...Denzel was great, but I just didn't care for that film nearly as much as everyone else did. Friday Night Lights was all-around badass, though!

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Okay, here's my list of favorites from various categories...

 

Horror Film: Let the Right One In

Foreign Film: The Lives of Others

Action: District B13

Comedy: Borat

Rom/Com: 50 First Dates

Independent: The Station Agent

Buddy Flick: Sideways

Biggest Disappointment: Matrix II/III

Worst Film: The Wicker Man

Film I Thought I'd Hate, but Loved: Elizabethtown

Sports Film: Miracle

Chick Flick: The Notebook

Best Ending: The Shape of Things

Guilty Pleasure: Goal

Most Disturbing: Flight 93

 

 

Other Favorite Films:

 

Assassination of Jessie James, Frost/Nixon, Crash, No Country for Old Men, House of Sand and Fog, Jackass I/II, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Love Liza, Man on Wire, Napoleon Dynamite, Once, Passion of the Christ, Serenity, Stuck on You, Walk Hard, Bubba Ho-Tep, Before Sunset, District 9, Star Trek, Letters from Iwo Jima, Gran Torino, Inglourious Basterds

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