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What Was The Best Movie of The Decade?

By Michael Musto, Tuesday, Dec. 1 2009 @ 12:00PM
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Categories: Oscars, film

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Was it Glitter? Gigli?

No, let's stay away from the 'G' films.

Instead, I'll toss out some of the decade's Best Picture Oscar winners, just as possible selections to crown from:

The Lord of the Rings trilogy?

Million Dollar Baby?

Chicago?

No Country For Old Men?

Slumdog Millionaire?

Still nothing worthy of best-in-decade? All right, how about some Best Picture nominees that didn't actually cop the big prize:

Brokeback Mountain?

Lost in Translation?

The Hours?

The Pianist?

Sideways?

Babel?

Hello? I hear deafening silence, people! How about this year's classics, the ones duly headed toward Oscar glory in 2010?

Precious? The Fantastic Mr. Fox? The Hurt Locker? Up?

And let's bring on the foreign films:

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? Volver? Y Tu Mama Tambien?

STILL no fucking winner?

All right, then, Glitter? Gigli?

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Comments (25)

barb wire says:

Glitter was better than Gigli. At least it had a few laffs.

Posted On: Tuesday, Dec. 1 2009 @ 12:07PM
aquaboy says:

No fair to put the whole Lord of the Rings trilogy. The best of the three was the third one, so I'll go with that in a tie with "Babel" and "Amores Perros"

Posted On: Tuesday, Dec. 1 2009 @ 12:08PM
Anonymous says:

SIDEWAYS!!!!

Posted On: Tuesday, Dec. 1 2009 @ 12:17PM
Jonka says:


Didn't you just ask this a few blogs ago??

Posted On: Tuesday, Dec. 1 2009 @ 12:44PM
gobble says:

in the mood for love
amores perros
amelie
city of god
royal tenembaums
requiem for a dream
spirited away
traffic
little miss sunshine
snatch

Posted On: Tuesday, Dec. 1 2009 @ 1:06PM
snatch says:

City of God

City of Men

But not City of Angels

Posted On: Tuesday, Dec. 1 2009 @ 1:18PM
Leo says:

Biodome

Posted On: Tuesday, Dec. 1 2009 @ 1:52PM
CMG says:

Hot Fuzz!

It has everything.

Seriously though There Will Be Blood is fantastic but still I love Hot Fuzz with every fire of my being.

I also love City of God, Amelie, Gomorrah, The Dark Knight, Pan's Labyrinth, and The Royal Tenenbaums.

You cannot rip the movies of this decade.

Also The Room:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCj8sPCWfUw

Posted On: Tuesday, Dec. 1 2009 @ 2:20PM
Drew Hunkins says:

From what I've seen over the last ten years, here is how I'd rank them:

1.) United 93 (NOT 'Flight 93')
2.) King of Kong (documentary)
3.) American Splendor
4.) Y Tu Mama Tambien
5.) Sideways
6.) Slumdog Millionaire
7.) Jesus Camp (one scary ass documentary)
8.) Grizzly Man (documentary)
9.) City of God
10.) No Country For Old Men
11.) There Will Be Blood
12.) Sugar
13.) The Wrestler

Posted On: Tuesday, Dec. 1 2009 @ 2:29PM
nostradavid says:

Brokeback Mountain

No Country For Old Men

Pan's Labyrinth

The Hurt Locker was awesome this year.

Nine in the musical category.

Posted On: Tuesday, Dec. 1 2009 @ 2:36PM
windy says:

You've seen "Nine"?? Do tell.

Posted On: Tuesday, Dec. 1 2009 @ 2:47PM
nicestdionysus says:

MULHOLLAND DRIVE and THE INCREDIBLES

Posted On: Tuesday, Dec. 1 2009 @ 7:13PM
Mrs. Waning Interest says:

the decade isn't done yet.

Posted On: Tuesday, Dec. 1 2009 @ 8:26PM
CMG says:

That is true, still lots of movies coming out. I haven't seen The Hurt Locker but for some reason thinking about that makes me want to include District 9 which blows all of the overrated sci-fi of this past decade out of the water, not to mention more bang for your buck budget-wise.

Posted On: Tuesday, Dec. 1 2009 @ 8:40PM
Southern Dave says:

"Brokeback Mountain."

Like "Lolita" before it, a fiercely true love story.

Posted On: Wednesday, Dec. 2 2009 @ 12:57AM
DavidB says:

Hands down, no other option, "Brokeback Mountain" -- a classic for the ages.

Posted On: Wednesday, Dec. 2 2009 @ 9:04AM
latenitebump says:

monster!

Posted On: Wednesday, Dec. 2 2009 @ 10:01AM
Barkley says:

I thought "Brokeback" was a bore and I the main characters weren't sympathetic and mumbled all their lines. All the ones mentioned are sucky except "The Pianist". Movies have sucked since the 90s.

Posted On: Wednesday, Dec. 2 2009 @ 11:20AM
PETER CUSHING says:

THE THIRD LORD OF THE RINGS MOVIE SUCKED---chris lee was edited out of the 3 hour theatrical movie...three boring hours and no chris lee?!?!

and this from fanboy nerd jackson who had forrest ackerman in a movie!

Posted On: Wednesday, Dec. 2 2009 @ 3:46PM
K. says:

The Lord of The Rings Trilogy.

The Pianist

Crash,

The Devil Wears Prada,

Hotel Rwanda,

Good Night and Good Luck,

Lust:Caution,

Pollack,

Posted On: Thursday, Dec. 3 2009 @ 2:36PM
K. says:

Actually, there was a little sleeper movie I found fascinating,

Blindness starring Julianna Moore. I really liked that film.

Posted On: Thursday, Dec. 3 2009 @ 2:39PM
Bill says:

Easy, films with a gay lead character who didn't die at the end! ...errr, if I can think of one...

Posted On: Thursday, Dec. 3 2009 @ 7:04PM
trilliam s. suckley says:

sideways is the only one I loved- and thats mostly cos i to am a failed writer- general all around loser- -
but the rest, man you are right , they were all ok at best - and the last four years have been the worst- and its almost like the more serious the movie the worse it was...

so, then how about the incredibles?

actually was oh brother where are thou in the last ten years? cos that was great ..

and city of god was great too
but not much else

Posted On: Monday, Dec. 7 2009 @ 5:10PM
Jay says:

1. Brokeback Mountain
2. The Pianist
3. City of God
4. Spring Summer Fall Winter...Spring
5. Water
6. Almost Famous
7. Wall-E
8. A Very Long Engagement
9. Cache
10. There Will Be Blood

Have not yet seen A Prophet or The White Ribbon, ostensible contenders.

Runners-up: Sunshine (2000), Bad Education, Edge of Heaven, 4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days, Atonement

Posted On: Wednesday, Dec. 16 2009 @ 1:50PM
Ben says:

Brokeback Mountain.

It was a cultural phenom, it won umpteen million awards (all but the Oscar, though who cares about that, look at their inferior winners list thru the years), is relevant, and was artfully done and moving. Heath Ledger was incredible, as the NY Times said, as good as anything ever done by Brando or Sean Penn. For the record, I'm not gay, people should try to see past that and appreciate this movie for the artistic triumph it is.

Posted On: Wednesday, Dec. 16 2009 @ 1:53PM

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