50 Best Movies of the Decade

You may have noticed I tend to re-post a lot of stuff from Paste; one reason is they like to make lists, and many of these are worth sharing whether they're good or bad.  They just put out a list of the 50 best movies of the decade  (is it time for end of the decade lists already?  what are we going to call this decade anyway - the 00s?).  I think this is a bad list, for many reasons:

1. I've only seen 29 of these 50 movies.
2. Slumdog Millionaire is not on the list; this is NOT POSSIBLE!
3. Amelie is no. 2, and that movie reeked.
4. Many of the movies on the list are mediocre; although in retrospect, this may because it was a generally mediocre decade for film.

On the other hand, I give them mad props for scoring Almost Famous so highly, and for not including Chocolat.  I would have also moved Traffic into the top five or so, and included Zodiac and American Gangster (neither made the list) somewhere in the top 10.

Comments

[Allison]

I'm glad Grizzly Man made the list.

[Allison]

Via Tyler Cowen here is a competing list from the UK: http://bit.ly/45PnFo