Greatest Movie of the 21st Century so far?

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#1 lemonfreshpanda
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Considering how much of a movie fan I am, this should be a difficult question for me.
But it's not.
Granted, I cannot settle on one, but there are only two movies I could pick as the best of the last seven years:
The Lord of the Rings trilogy and Grindhouse.
Maybe it's cheating with Grindhouse, considering the fact that's it's two movies, but regardless, both movies were truly excellent. 
Lord of the Rings was as close as I've seen to perfect filmmaking in a while. Peter Jackson is quite possibly the best director today.
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#2 Apollo5000
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Not sure. I like too many films to start comparing them all...
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#3 soroush7
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Yeah, id have to say Lord of the Rings too.
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#4 SaintLeonidas
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theres to many for me to put down one...Id say Lost in Translation,Cinderella Man, the Departed,V for Vendetta,Layer Cake,Gangs of New York,United 93,Battle Royale,the proposition, its goes on....
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#5 SuperSaiyanLink
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Too easy. Snakes On A Plane.
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#6 immortality20
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If anyone else saw Clerks 2, I'm like Randall (about Lord of The Rings movies): " All the movies are is walking. Those movies were so f***ing boring even the trees started walking." I really couldn't stand them, yet so all of them in theatre, blah.

If American Beauty was made in 2000 then that'd be my favorite, if not then I'm not really sure. Probably Crash or Million Dollar Baby for writing, Sin City and Grindhouse for visuals, its just too broad to answer.

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#7 OluDara
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Pokemon 2000.

If that counts.

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#8 Apollo5000
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If anyone else saw Clerks 2, I'm like Randall " All the movies are is walking. Those movies were so f***ing boring even the trees started walking." I really couldn't stand them, yet so all of them in theatre, blah.

If American Beauty was made in 2000 then that'd be my favorite, if not then I'm not really sure. Probably Crash or Million Dollar Baby for writing, Sin City and Grindhouse for visuals, its just too broad to answer.

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Clerks II would be up there on my last, as would Batman Begins, Sin City etc and others i can't even think of at the moment.
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#9 P-N-X
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If anyone else saw Clerks 2, I'm like Randall (about Lord of The Rings movies): " All the movies are is walking. Those movies were so f***ing boring even the trees started walking." I really couldn't stand them, yet so all of them in theatre, blah.immortality20

Agreed. LOTR was boring. 

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[QUOTE="immortality20"]

If anyone else saw Clerks 2, I'm like Randall " All the movies are is walking. Those movies were so f***ing boring even the trees started walking." I really couldn't stand them, yet so all of them in theatre, blah.

If American Beauty was made in 2000 then that'd be my favorite, if not then I'm not really sure. Probably Crash or Million Dollar Baby for writing, Sin City and Grindhouse for visuals, its just too broad to answer.

Apollo5000

Clerks II would be up there on my last, as would Batman Begins, Sin City etc and others i can't even think of at the moment.

yes batman begins, mesa lova thata movie

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Too many movies. I really like Paradise Now. It''s a foreign film about two suicide bombers and what they're thinking as they set out on their mission.
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#12 johnchan3
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spiderman series?
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#13 SaintLeonidas
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spiderman series?johnchan3

for me, no never ever,ever. The only comic book movie in history that i consider good enough to go on any best of is batman begins.

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#14 dissonantblack
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300, and.....i can't think of anything.
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#15 bminns
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fight club, american beauty, cinderella man are my favorites
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[QUOTE="johnchan3"]spiderman series?SaintLeonidas

for me, no never ever,ever. The only comic book movie in history that i consider good enough to go on any best of is batman begins.

Amen. Though 300 and Sin City are pretty fantastic. Batman Begins is by far the best Superhero film ever made, but best comic book... Its a three-way tie between the aforementioned.
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#17 GameFreak315
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In my opinion, it's Million Dollar Baby...but that's just because it's my personal favorite.  :)
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#18 SaintLeonidas
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[QUOTE="SaintLeonidas"]

[QUOTE="johnchan3"]spiderman series?Apollo5000

for me, no never ever,ever. The only comic book movie in history that i consider good enough to go on any best of is batman begins.

Amen. Though 300 and Sin City are pretty fantastic. Batman Begins is by far the best Superhero film ever made, but best comic book... Its a three-way tie between the aforementioned.

yes 300 and sin city were good, but i take batman begins over the two, i cant wait for the dark knight.

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Lord of the Rings trilogy, Spiderman 1 and 2 (and 3 soon), 300, The Punisher, Hot Fuzz (I personally thought it was better than Shaun of the Dead), Star Wars Episode 3, etc.
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#20 GameFreak315
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fight club, american beauty, cinderella man are my favoritesbminns

Those two were made in 1999, so they're 20th century.  Sorry...I like them, too.  :(  :P

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#21 SaintLeonidas
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Lord of the Rings trilogy, Spiderman 1 and 2 (and 3 soon), 300, The Punisher, Hot Fuzz (I personally thought it was better than Shaun of the Dead), Star Wars Episode 3, etc.Flaming_Ape

i agree with hot fuzz and shaun of the dead, two of the better comedies in the past few years.

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[QUOTE="bminns"]fight club, american beauty, cinderella man are my favoritesGameFreak315

Those two were made in 1999, so they're 20th century. Sorry...I like them, too. :( :P

whoops, i'm drunk :P   i'm going to say cinderella man then. :P

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either million dollar baby or spirited away.
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#24 SaintLeonidas
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[QUOTE="GameFreak315"]

[QUOTE="bminns"]fight club, american beauty, cinderella man are my favoritesbminns

Those two were made in 1999, so they're 20th century. Sorry...I like them, too. :( :P

whoops, i'm drunk :P   i'm going to say cinderella man then. :P

one of the most underrated movies in the past few years in my opinion.

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Harry Potter movies, Pirates series, Spider-Man films, Batman Begins. Those are the action flicks. I've seen too many movies to list them all.

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Gigli.
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#27 dissonantblack
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Harry Potter movies, Pirates series, Spider-Man films, Batman Begins. Those are the action flicks. I've seen too many movies to list them all.

Cyrax-Sektor

you and i think alike then with movies.  

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#28 darkside646
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I vote for Space Jam.
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#29 SaintLeonidas
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I vote for Space Jam.darkside646

i vote you out of the tribe.

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I vote for Space Jam.darkside646
:lol: What happened to Mr_Sams?
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[QUOTE="darkside646"]I vote for Space Jam.Funkdaddy13
:lol: What happened to Mr_Sams?

Nothing, I just don't think we should ever forget the lulzyness of his threads.

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[QUOTE="darkside646"]I vote for Space Jam.SaintLeonidas

i vote you out of the tribe.

nooooooo there goes my chance at the million! *sob sob*  

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#33 lagosboy
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Chicago takes the cake by a little. Children of Men and Dreamgirls come in a close second though.
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#34 SaintLeonidas
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Chicago takes the cake by a little. Children of Men and Dreamgirls come in a close second though.lagosboy

I wanna see Children of Men so bad.

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#35 darkodonnie
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Personally I enjoyed Donnie Darko the most, adding Lord of the Rings, Sin City, the Departed, and Batman Begins would probably make up my top 5
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Pirates of the Caribbean 1, 2, and I just know 3 will rock.

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#37 bminns
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[QUOTE="bminns"][QUOTE="GameFreak315"]

[QUOTE="bminns"]fight club, american beauty, cinderella man are my favoritesSaintLeonidas

Those two were made in 1999, so they're 20th century. Sorry...I like them, too. :( :P

whoops, i'm drunk :P i'm going to say cinderella man then. :P

one of the most underrated movies in the past few years in my opinion.

i agree. cinderella man was one of the most beautiful movies i've seen in a long time, it was a very powerful story. i have nothing but good things to say about that movie.  

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#38 Chloroformality
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Motorcycle Diaries.

Best... movie... ever

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#39 SempiternalFett
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Donnie Darko or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
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that range is board so i cant pick one
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[QUOTE="SaintLeonidas"]

[QUOTE="johnchan3"]spiderman series?Apollo5000

for me, no never ever,ever. The only comic book movie in history that i consider good enough to go on any best of is batman begins.

Amen. Though 300 and Sin City are pretty fantastic. Batman Begins is by far the best Superhero film ever made, but best comic book... Its a three-way tie between the aforementioned.

I don't know, 300 was really just a run of the mill action flick, mediocre acting, just decent story and writing, fun to look at, great action.  It was a great popcorn movie, but I don't think it's on par with Batman Begins.

As for the best film of the 21st century, I'd agree that Grindhouse was among the best, another is  Little Miss Sunshine

I'd like to go ahead and cast my vote for worst as Superman Returns, it would have been unwatchable if not for Parker Posey and Kevin Spacey

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#42 darkside646
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honestly, for some reason, most of the movies people have suggested so far seem laughable compared to movies of the past. The only one I can really get behind was Children of Men, other than that no, not at all.
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honestly, for some reason, most of the movies people have suggested so far seem laughable compared to movies of the past. The only one I can really get behind was Children of Men, other than that no, not at all. darkside646
Compared to movies of the past?
Movies generally are the same quality they've always been. 
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#44 Film-Guy
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for me its.

City of god ( best gangster movie ever)

A scanner Darkly ( for giving me faith that there are still good animation films)

Sunshine ( for giving me faith in the Sci fi genre again)

Letters from iwo Jima ( for showing the other side of a war in an amazing way)

Children of men ( great story and some of the best camera work I have ever seen)

Pans Labyrinth ( such a beautiful movie)

Session 9 ( giving me faith that psychologicla horror is still the best kind of horror out there) 

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#45 Film-Guy
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Too many movies. I really like Paradise Now. It''s a foreign film about two suicide bombers and what they're thinking as they set out on their mission.Funkdaddy13

paradise now is an amaing film indeed, glad sombody watched it here:) 

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#46 SaintLeonidas
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for me its.

City of god ( best gangster movie ever)

A scanner Darkly ( for giving me faith that there are still good animation films)

Sunshine ( for giving me faith in the Sci fi genre again)

Letters from iwo Jima ( for showing the other side of a war in an amazing way)

Children of men ( great story and some of the best camera work I have ever seen)

Pans Labyrinth ( such a beautiful movie)

Session 9 ( giving me faith that psychologicla horror is still the best kind of horror out there) 

Film-Guy

wtf,i just looked this movie up,so much praise,why am i just hearing about it,now i have to see it.

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[QUOTE="Film-Guy"]

for me its.

City of god ( best gangster movie ever)

A scanner Darkly ( for giving me faith that there are still good animation films)

Sunshine ( for giving me faith in the Sci fi genre again)

Letters from iwo Jima ( for showing the other side of a war in an amazing way)

Children of men ( great story and some of the best camera work I have ever seen)

Pans Labyrinth ( such a beautiful movie)

Session 9 ( giving me faith that psychologicla horror is still the best kind of horror out there) 

SaintLeonidas

wtf,i just looked this movie up,so much praise,why am i just hearing about it,now i have to see it.

City of God is a masterpiece.
Though, to be honest, I didn't care for the same director's work in Constant Gardener. 
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For me it has to be Requiem For A Dream. I've seen it lots of times, yet I still get different feelings about it every time I see it.

Some others out of the top of my head would be Donnie Darko, Spirited Away, A Scanner Darkly, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

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#49 SaintLeonidas
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[QUOTE="SaintLeonidas"][QUOTE="Film-Guy"]

for me its.

City of god ( best gangster movie ever)

A scanner Darkly ( for giving me faith that there are still good animation films)

Sunshine ( for giving me faith in the Sci fi genre again)

Letters from iwo Jima ( for showing the other side of a war in an amazing way)

Children of men ( great story and some of the best camera work I have ever seen)

Pans Labyrinth ( such a beautiful movie)

Session 9 ( giving me faith that psychologicla horror is still the best kind of horror out there) 

lemonfreshpanda

wtf,i just looked this movie up,so much praise,why am i just hearing about it,now i have to see it.

City of God is a masterpiece.
Though, to be honest, I didn't care for the same director's work in Constant Gardener. 

i wish i was rich,there is hundred of movies that i want to see. i gotta get like a netflix subscription

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#50 Film-Guy
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[QUOTE="SaintLeonidas"][QUOTE="Film-Guy"]

for me its.

City of god ( best gangster movie ever)

A scanner Darkly ( for giving me faith that there are still good animation films)

Sunshine ( for giving me faith in the Sci fi genre again)

Letters from iwo Jima ( for showing the other side of a war in an amazing way)

Children of men ( great story and some of the best camera work I have ever seen)

Pans Labyrinth ( such a beautiful movie)

Session 9 ( giving me faith that psychologicla horror is still the best kind of horror out there) 

lemonfreshpanda

wtf,i just looked this movie up,so much praise,why am i just hearing about it,now i have to see it.

City of God is a masterpiece.
Though, to be honest, I didn't care for the same director's work in Constant Gardener. 

the constant gardener was a good movie, not as good as city of god of course, but it is still good. Â