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"City of God" at #40?? Ridiculous.
"Eternal Sunshine..." is more overrated than "Titanic". Kinda how I feel about Gondry in general.
Still, some great, great films on there. Great decade for movies. Especially international films.
Nice to see "The Man Who Wasn't There" get some love.
Eternal Dogshit of the Indie Mind.
25th Hour is a fucking fantastic flick. Easy Top 5, and I have no problem with it being #2.
I think a bigger quibble could be made with including things like Wall-E, and A.I.
Children of Men is WAY too high. Its OK, but nothing groundbreaking or seriously noteworthy. And, Adaption is as bad or worse than Eternal Sunshine.
I don't mind "Eternal Sunshine" being on the list, but no way at #1. "Adaptation", on the other hand, shouldn't be anywhere near that list. The fact that even got produced, let alone lauded, is enough to send me into a fit of extreme violence.
And the fact that that list has an irredeemable piece of shit like "A.I." ahead of both "Pan's Labyrinth" and "City of God" shames the compilers.
Actually, the more I ponder that list the more pissed off it makes me.
"City of God" is probably my personal #1.
City of God was fantastic. I've been meaning to watch that again.
Yeah, WTF are A.I. and The Prestige doing on that list? Those are just run of the mill Hollywood fantasy flicks. A.I. must be making it on overreaching ambition alone. Prestige I just can't figure out at all.
Let's not compare A.I. to Wall-E, unless you want to do so to illustrate how a "kid's cartoon" can effortlessly best a pretentious piece of overwrought Hollywood crap in just about every single way imaginable.
I enjoyed Eternal Sunshine but have never had any desire to revisit it. I liked both Adaptation and Being John Malkovich ('90s, I know), but I think Synecdoche, NY is far and away Kaufman's best.
Glad that Mulholland Dr is showing up on so many lists, and I'm even more glad that Inland Empire
isn't on this one. That may be Lynch's worst movie.
Awesome to see Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… And Spring on this list. Great to see Before Sunset ranked so high as well. Incredibles, too.
The Squid and the Whale is another one that shouldn't be here at all, and Y Tu Mamá También, Memento, and Kill Bill Vol. 1 are way too high. Agree that Children of Men is too high, too, but I like it a lot so I'm not complaining.
No Country would be my pick for best of the decade. I enjoyed it far more than TWBB, but I'd still put TWBB in my top 20 or 30, easily.