Which films best define the decade?

[Silvermoth]

Team America, Amelie, and Farenheit 9/11??? Wut??? I will agree with An Inconvenient Truth...2000-2009 was a decade huge for Global Warming talk.

Team America followed the 9/11 idealogy of America as the only superpower, the invincible giant, the get out of our way we're coming through hyper patriotism following the deadliest attack on American soil.

Fahrenheit 9/11 represents the growing dissapointment between the public and elected officials as well as the Bushist doctrines that dominated the idealogies of Hollywood films for the decade to come.

Amelie was a return to a childlike world of safety following 9/11 earliest days when optimism was sorely needed the most.

It's not just about what was popular in the last decade but what best represents the issues and times of the early millenium.

 

[8wid]

How can you think of the Bush Administration and not this movie .

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Starship Troopers - The brain bug is Bin Laden fill in the rest.

Yes that movie was ahead of it's time.

 

[Ghostvirus]

I am sure there will be films that will be remembered overall in this decade. But I am sure when I am 60 & they are recalling this decade on whatever the hell technology will be around then.

They will consider this previous decade to be the dark age of cinema. & if we don't start righting the ship. Then this will also be considered the beginning of the end of the art of making film. Cinema has become nothing more than a sad pathetic Nostalgic, remaking, rebooting, mindless, CGI driven, 3D riddled, no story existing, money making, pathetic excuse for an existence.

Now for Movies I think will be remembered:

X-Men will be remembered as the movie that kick started the comic book craze. Sorry Spidey fans. I know you want it to him the webbed one. But make no mistake. No X-Men. No Spider-Man.

Donnie Darko: A cult classic that people are still talking about today. Sadly it would appear that Richard Kelly accidently made something great, & hasn't been able to find that recipe again.

The Ring: Amazing film. This marks the moment just before Verbinski stopped being creative, & started sucking off the Mouse.

Almost Famous: Once again a directors last gasp. Amazing film from beginning to end.

Unbreakable: For some Shyamalans masterpiece. I love this film. Hate him now. But you can't deny this films greatness.

Star Wars: Both of the last of the pretrilogy came out in this decade, & given the fact that haters still won't shut the f**k up about it. I am sure they will still be barking years from now.

Matrix: See Star Wars for more info.

LOTR: This bad boy is the epic of epic. This was the last film to make me gasp at the special affects. The story is amazing. A great translation. & one of the few movies that has been adapted without the fans flipping out over changes.

Comic Book films: I am going to mention a few out of this category. But this genre is like the slashe films from the 80's. They just kept/keep coming.

Watchmen: I don't give a rats ass what people think of this film now. This thing will be remembered with time.

No Country For Old Men: Mind blowing film. If this film had been made back when people had attention spans. It would have been HUGE!! But alas....

There Will Be Blood: Simply awesome another movie that if made in another time would have been huge.

The Dark Knight: As much as I love this film. You take Heath Ledger's performance out of this film & you have a okay movie. Ledger, like Hopkins in Lambs. Skyrocketed the awesomeness of this film beyond the stars.

There are many more. I just don't feel like writing anymore. These are the ones that stand out to me at the moment.

I know this seems like a contridiction to what I said in the opening. But the reason I haven't named that many films is because all the ones I like date back before 2005. There has been a slow declining progression in quality this decade. So there is plenty to love in the early part of this decade. & then just starts fading away....

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Animatrix: The UN is blown up and mankind is mentally enslaved by energy sucking machines. Nuff said.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Animatrix: The UN is blown up and mankind is mentally enslaved by energy sucking machines. Nuff said.

It's a big assumption to make that the UN is even relevant anymore.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

But the UN was always a symbolic representation of humanity.

 

[redhawk23]

It always make me laugh when people say "TDK wouldn't have been memorable without Heath Ledger's performance" because its just like, well it did have him, and it had the script he worked off of, and a director who unflinchingly used his performance to the best of his ability after he died, so whats the point?