Best single movie of the last 5 years?

[Donnie Darko]

Love Avengers, Man of Steel, True Grit and Inception, but I'm going to go a bit off the rails and say:

Star Trek (2009)

This is a movie I watched over and over again and it is quite simply perfect. It's actually quite a bit like Avengers, in terms of that kind of four color technobabbly simple sci fi team up adventure. What puts Star Trek over the top for me is the sense of adventure and the balance of it. Kirk isn't even clearly the lead, but even when he is, the movie never becomes his vehicle. It's just well done all around.

I probably never would have thought of Star Trek, but I like where your head is there.

2009 was another really strong year for movies, IMO, just in a different way than 2007. It had Up, District 9, Avatar, Star Trek, The Hangover, and probably a lot of other stuff I really enjoyed but can't think of off the top of my head. So yeah, more of a blockbuster year, but good times nonetheless.

 

[DrCosmic]

It was, wasn't it?

I also really liked the score to Star Trek. Some of the casting was simply brilliant. And It's been a while since a movie made me feel like I was on an adventure. I could go on all day.

Apparently, according to Rotten Tomatoes, it seems as though Toy Story 3 is the best single movie in the last five years. I can't be mad at that.

 

[slumcat]

According to critics list aggregating website TSPDT, which collate 1000s and 1000s of critics lists to come up with the list of the 1000 greatest films of all time,

these 6 films below from the period, in order, are amongst the 1000 greatest films ever made and consequently the best of the period.

1. The Tree of Life - Terrence Malick
2. The Turin Horse - Bela Tarr
3. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
4. Melancholia - Lars von Trier
5. The White Ribbon - Michael Haneke
6. A Separation - Asghar Farhadi

A masterpiece each and every single one of them. And I feel sure that my pick, Amour, also by Michael Haneke, will join this list very soon, within the next two years as this list is constantly evolving and updated.

 

[Erzengel]

Can I do the last 6 years?

1. The Dark Knight
2. The Dark Knight
3. The Dark Knight
4. The Dark Knight
5. The Dark Knight

 

[CyclopsWasRight]

The best comic book movie of the period is First Class.

Agreed.

 

[DA_Champion]

Can I do the last 6 years?

1. The Dark Knight
2. The Dark Knight
3. The Dark Knight
4. The Dark Knight
5. The Dark Knight

One of slumcat's pet peeves is nolan love, I saw the thread and I thought he deliberately set the time line at five years to exclude TDK .

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I can't say which is the best but my favorite was Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I also really enjoyed Looper, Avengers and Drive but not as much as Apes.

 

[Symbiotic]

Inception comes to mind.

 

[childeroland]

According to critics list aggregating website TSPDT, which collate 1000s and 1000s of critics lists to come up with the list of the 1000 greatest films of all time,

these 6 films below from the period, in order, are amongst the 1000 greatest films ever made and consequently the best of the period.

1. The Tree of Life - Terrence Malick
2. The Turin Horse - Bela Tarr
3. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
4. Melancholia - Lars von Trier
5. The White Ribbon - Michael Haneke
6. A Separation - Asghar Farhadi

A masterpiece each and every single one of them. And I feel sure that my pick, Amour, also by Michael Haneke, will join this list very soon, within the next two years as this list is constantly evolving and updated.

Uncle Boonmee would have been my runner-up, had that been allowed.

 

[IncognitoWalrus]

2009: Fantastic Mr. Fox
2010: The Social Network
2011: The Tree of Life
2012: Life of Pi
2013: The Wolf of Wall Street
2014: ?

Best single movie would have to be The Tree of Life.

 

[slumcat]

Uncle Boonmee would have been my runner-up, had that been allowed.

Probably mine too. That movie is undoubtedly a work of genius. A monumental film - an absolutely magnificent choice to win the Palme that year.

Weerasethakul is one of the greatest film-making talents of this generation, a master really.

 

[slumcat]

2007 was indeed glorious, but damn it guys you forgot Zodiac!

And 4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days! Lets not forget that too.

 

[dude stannis]

I already had!

 

[ares834]

The Avengers.

You heard me, snobs.

 

[Donnie Darko]

I also really enjoyed Looper, Avengers and Drive but not as much as Apes.

I give Looper creativity points, and I respect what it was going for, but for some reason, I just didn't love it like most people. Pretty much everything at the farm and with the kid bored or annoyed me, but I can see why people were into it.

 

[Tanin]

Her

 

[weezerspider]

Her

Good pick.

Still sticking with The Master though.

 

[redfirebird2008]

Inception.

 

[Tanin]

Good pick.

Still sticking with The Master though.

I have yet to see The Master. Looked at a Synopsis. Sounds interesting.

 

[weezerspider]

I have yet to see The Master. Looked at a Synopsis. Sounds interesting.

It's a good one. Certainly has a dream-like quality to it, as in the narrative is very free. Joaquin Phoenix plays a drifter, so PTA wrote the narrative to just kind of drift with him. It's the definition of a character driven film, that's for sure. Some people find it boring or pretentious(though I find a film with fart jokes hardly pretentious), but it's quite a viewing experience if you are into great acting, characters and breathtaking visuals.

I actually was rather pleased that Her sort of implies that many other human beings were falling in love with their O.S.'s and Joaquin wasn't just an isolated, creepy case. It made it seem so much more innocent. I don't know, you can certainly find some commentary on our over-reliance and over-attachment to technology, but overall the film isn't cynical at all. It's very hopeful, but in a very real way. That was quite refreshing to me.

 

[gwynplaine]

 

[Mandon Knight]

UP for me

 

[The Dark Defender]

Probably The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey for me.

 

[Human Torch]

Avengers