Day: January 14, 2010

Worst Films of the '00s

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(in no particular order, except Training Day)

Training Day
Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes--ugh)
The Matrix Reloaded
Matrix Revolutions
V for Vendetta (bad decade for the Wachowskis)
Wrong Turn
Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut (see the original if you can)
Minority Report
War of the Worlds (Cruise/Spielberg--nightmare combo)
Collateral (Cruise + "hit man helps cabby realize his dreams")
Changing Lanes
Batman Begins
The Island
The Incredibles (and all Pixar)
Assault on Precinct 13 (crapping on genius)

Top 30 Films of the '00s

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(that I saw in the theatre and kept ticket stubs for [so I could do this post]--in no particular order)

The Fast Runner
Spirited Away
Punch Drunk Love
Dirty Pretty Things
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (for Gollum)
Igby Goes Down
Master & Commander (for genre subversion--the battle scenes are confusing, insanely bloody, and short so we can get to the Galapagos for long slow shots of weird nature)
Elephant
Kill Bill Vol 2
The Mist
City of God
I Heart Huckabees
Dogtown & Z Boys
Bowling for Columbine
K-19: The Widowmaker (a movie about failed military technology tanked? in 2002?)
Touching the Void
Open Water
Super Size Me
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
The Aviator
Eastern Promises
District 9
Howl's Moving Castle
There Will Be Blood
The Aristocrats
Grizzly Man
Cloverfield
Coraline
Black Hawk Down
Inglourious Basterds