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[kswiston]

There's tons of good movies, but in terms of ones I would consider classics:

• In Bruges
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Children of Men
• The Dark Knight
• No Country for Old Men
• Amelie
• Hot Fuzz
• 28 Days Later

It's always hard to predict what will have popularity 20-30 years later among people who weren't necessarily there to see the films at release. I think that I can agree with a lot of what you list to various degrees though.

City of God will probably continue to age well.

 

[disappeared]

Almost Famous
Napoleon Dynamite
Requiem for a Dream
Kill Bill

 

[Kickz]

ZombieLand
Bad Santa
Role Models
School of Rock
The Hangover
Tropic Thunder

 

[Loxley]

My beloved:

 

[deadscreensky]

Mulholland Drive
There Will Be Blood
In The Mood For Love

Those three are the best the 2000s have to offer, imo.

I need to finally get around to seeing Blood. Fully agreed with the other two though. Mulholland Drive is my straight up favorite film, and after watching In the Mood for Love I couldn't sleep at all that night. Really stuck with me.

 

[Stumpokapow]

It won't become a classic because it's obscure and divisive, but Ari Folman's The Congress surely ought to be. Probably the best movie I've seen in five or six years.

Edit: Woah, apparently not even close to being released within the eligibility range. It's really 2017? Holy moly.

 

[disappeared]

Collateral

 

[pantsattack]

THE DEPARTED

I love this movie too, op.

 

[Bubbavelli]

Not one Training Day post and we're already on the second page!

 

[disappeared]

John Q

 

[blame space]

john q is sick

so is man on fire

 

[George Oscar Bluth II]

About Elly?

 

[robotrock]

Transformers 2
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Agent Cody Banks
Meet the Spartans
Norbit
I Know Who Killed Me
Aliens Vs Predator 2

This is a fucking joke post.

 

[ElectronicOldMen]

Films which aren't necessarily my personal favourites (some of them are though!) but have earned that sort of canon status:

- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- No Country for Old Men
- There Will Be Blood
- Mulholland Drive
- Lost in Translation
- Spirited Away
- Memento/The Dark Knight
- Oldboy
- In Bruges
- Donnie Darko
- Shaun of the Dead/Hot Fuzz
- City of God
- Pan's Labyrinth
- Requiem for a Dream
- Zoolander
- Zodiac
- Amelie
- most of the 2000s output of Tarantino, Wes Anderson, Pixar

 

[duckroll]

Wong Kar Wai's In the Mood for Love (2000)
Park Chan Wook's Oldboy (2003)
Michael Bay's Bad Boys II (2003)
David Fincher's Zodiac (2007)
Masahiro Ando's Sword of the Stranger (2007)

 

[Lionel Richie]

Oldboy. It's my favorite movie this century thus far. Everything about it is just perfect, I love how violently poetic some of the shots are.

The story is simple and yet real powerful even if you can see every twist coming from like a fuckzillion miles away. Being ready for it doesn't mean it loses its power. It makes you think and never gets boring. I rewatched it recently with my GF who hadn't seen it and yes there's no real competition for it being the best of the century thus far. Besides, it has one of the most awesome fighting scenes ever:

And the best music theme for any movie since the original Godfather.

Speaking of Park Chan-wook, The Handmaiden is absolutely glorious and is quietly in my not so humble opinion the most empowering LGBT movie I have ever watched. It's sublime and it should be watched for the way it also deals with women's liberation. If Park was american he would have won like 20 oscars and would be lauded as the most relevant voice of his generation.

Other movies I'd consider absolute classics would be Gravity, Mad Max: Fury Road, Tale of the Princess Kaguya, 5 Centimeters per Second, I Saw the Devil, In The Mood for Love, The Raid 2 and motherfucking Ip Man.

 

[Speevy]

The Last Samurai



Fight me.

 

[Bronx-Man]

Spider-Man 2

 

[MrS]

Caché
Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others)
A Bittersweet Life

I'd put The Life Aquatic in there with Mulholland Dr, There Will Be Blood and Gladiator as my 'American' picks.

 

[Prompto]

Spider-Man 2

You're a good man, Bronx-Man

 

[pretty done]

lol @ Dark Knight

Kingdom of Heaven is my pick.

 

[Lionel Richie]

The Last Samurai



Fight me.

No fighting, that movie is fucking glorious. Edge of Tomorrow is another masterclass in the Tom Cruise Actionish Movie genre.

 

[hughesta]

No Country For Old Men

 

[Courage]

Miami Vice

 

[matt05891]

Seriously no one said Cast Away?


Edit: I'd also say LOTR, The Departed, Gladiator.

While more towards a particular audience, Black Hawks Down could be considered a classic as well.

 

[Bedameister]

The Lord of the Rings

c'mon guys

Yep.

 

[Bronx-Man]

Is Amelie that manic pixie dream girl movie I see all the damn time when I'm scrolling through Netflix?

 

[Miroku129]

Speed Racer
Anchorman
IronMan

 

[Courage]

Synedoche, New York

 

[Fancy Clown]

In addition to some of the stuff you posted:

No Country for Old Men
In the Mood for Love
Hunger
Hot Fuzz
Shaun of the Dead
Adaptation
Children of Men
Memories of Murder
Punch Drunk Love
The Incredibles
Ratatouille
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Lord of the Rings
Pan's Labyrinth
Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Spirited Away
Zodiac
In Bruges
Casino Royale
Inglorious Basterds
Mother
The Devil's Backbone
The Best of Youth
Michael Clayton
Waltz with Bashir
Memento
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Lost in Translation
City of God
Munich
Michael Clayton
The Bourne Supremacy

 

[Prompto]

Thanks for reminding me I still need to see Munich.

 

[ZOONAMI]

I agree. ROTS will hold up over time. We'll see about this new trilogy.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/...-sith-is-our-generations-greatest-work-of-art

It's better than ep 7 at least imo.

 

[x24hrs2livex]

Inglorious Bastards
The Departed
Training Day
Super Bad
Talladega Nights

 

[Gnome Scat]

Children of Men.

 

[Fancy Clown]

I agree. ROTS will hold up over time. We'll see about this new trilogy.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/...-sith-is-our-generations-greatest-work-of-art

It's better than ep 7 at least imo.

Camille Paglia is a hateful hack

 

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City of God

 

[StopMakingSense]

Wonder Boys

 

[The Greek Freak]

Michael Clayton.

Fast and Furious series yes even the bad ones. They are all my children.


Never? LOTR, I still don't understand how they got so popular.

 

[Oersted]

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Waking Life
In the Mood for Love
Mulholland Dr.
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Ghost World
Spirited Away
Old Boy
Y tu mama tambien
Russian Ark
8 Mile
25th Hour
The School of Rock
Cold Mountain
Before Sunset
Coffee and Cigarettes
Millenium Actress
History of Violence
Kill Bill Volume 1
Howl's Moving Castle
Capote
Broken Flowers
2046
Mean Girls
Paprika
Children of Men
Juno
La Vie en Rose
Once
Wall-E
The Dark Knight
The White Ribbon
The Band's Visit
Inglourious Basterds


Solely based on what I watched. Might have stretched here and there the definition of classic

 

[Secret Fawful]

Millennium Actress
Tokyo Godfathers
Paprika

Memories of Murder
The Host
The Good, the Bad, and the Weird

Paddington
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
Le Illusioniste
Moana
Django Unchained

 

[Fancy Clown]

Never? LOTR, I still don't understand how they got so popular.

Even if you discount its impressively faithful adaptation to a work of classic literature and the inherent qualities the narrative has, on a purely aesthetic level LOTR is a pretty stunning achievement, with some incredibly fine work in terms of production design, music, and cinematography. It also feels like the last hurrah for the kind of Hollywood epics that used to be shown in roadshows.

Also it's got like giant battles and dragons and shit so I dunno why you wouldn't get why it would have mass appeal.

 

[True Savior]

In the Mood for Love; Crouching Tider, Hidden Dragon; Memento; Mulholland Dr; Millennium Actress, Spirited Away; Y tu mama tambien, Distant, Russian Ark, Talk to her, Ten, Elephant, Oldboy, Lost in Translation, Grizzly Man, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring, Eternal Sunshine, The Lives of Others, There Will be Blood, No Country for Old Men, Dark Knight, Hunger, White Ribbon.

All this films are more or less well regarded quality-wise.

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

This thread is very confusing

 

[Speevy]

This thread is very confusing

Great movies from the year 2000 and onward that will stand the test of time.

 

[Window]

Y tu mama tambien was very sexy but its greatness was lost on me. Barring a couple of scenes very slightly highlighting socio-economic realities of Mexico I didn't get much else from the film.

 

[Jezbollah]

I'll go with these:

LOTR Trilogy
Nolan Batman Trilogy
Inception
City Of God
Spirited Away
Interstellar
The Intouchables
The Pianist
Gladiator
Memento
The Prestige
The Lives Of Others
Django Unchained
Wall-E
Amelie
Requiem for a Dream
Toy Story 3
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Snatch
Inglorious Basterds

 

[Gabriel_Logan]

Jesse James, There Will be Blood, No Country.

Edit: I'm also thinking Oldboy as well.

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

Mulholland Drive
Eternal Sunshine of the Splotless Mind
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Children of Men
Memories of Murder
Zodiac
City of Gods
Old Boy
Talk To Her
No Country For Old Men
Inglourious Basterds
Spirited Away
Before Sunset
In The Mood For Love
Kill Bill Vol 1 + 2
The New World (suck it, haters)

I could do this all day.

 

[thewaffles]

For me, Letters From Iwo Jima. Problems aside, one of my favorite films of the decade that I think gets hugely overlooked.

 

[captjohnboyd]

We have some good ones here but for shame no one putting
The Proposition
Dead Mans Shoes
And it just missed out on the 2000's but Ravenous

Maybe these arent classics (The Proposition is for sure) but they're definitely underappreciated