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BBC lists the top 100 films of this century (1 Viewer)

Ministry of Pain said:
1st of all it took place in the 50s, they should have set it in the 20s or 30s, I felt like I was watching a movie that wanted to be something else. 

And she only comes back to America because she is outed in Ireland and the whole process smells of religious dogma but that wasn't the way the film presented itself early on.

It was a bad movie that got a lot of critics to approve it because IMO it seemed like a small film they were supposed to get behind but the script/story was horrible.  

I guess you enjoyed The Hours?
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I liked both a great deal. Guess we shouldn't date, MoP.

 
timschochet said:
I don't have very many favorite films of the  21st century, but here they are: 

1. inglorious Basterds

2. letters From Iwo Jima 

3. The King's Speech

4. the Return of the King

5. the Two Towers

6. Capote

7. The Social Network

8. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

9. Rise of the Planet of the Apes

10. Star Trek (2009)

11. The Martian

12. Avatar

13. The Blind Side
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Tim's list is way better.  Except for Avatar. 

 
37. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)36. Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako, 2014)34. Son of Saul (László Nemes, 2015)18. The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, 2009)16. Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012)15. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007)14. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012)9. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
 

in the top 40, I haven't seen any of the above... :blackdot:  for later. Holy Motors looks like fun, the others kind of heavy.

 
wikkidpissah said:
I liked both a great deal. Guess we shouldn't date, MoP.
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I understand what people thought they saw in the movie but even the boat rides to and from seemed cheap and thrown together. 

You have New York City and all we saw was a dinner table with a bunch of weird girls sitting around and squawking. I think this movie fooled a lot of people. It will not hold up at all, it barely holds up now. It seemed like a movie that was filmed in the 70s without all the good cinematography. It was like a left over script that should hve been set in the 30s but they simply set it in the mid to late 50s to save money.

I didn't feel it was a well made film. 

 
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Ministry of Pain said:
I understand what people thought they saw in the movie but even the boat rides to and from seemed cheap and thrown together. 

You have New York City and all we saw was a dinner table with a bunch of weird girls sitting around and squawking. I think this movie fooled a lot of people. It will not hold up at all, it barely holds up now. It seemed like a movie that was filmed in the 70s without all the good cinematography. It was like a left over script that should hve been set in the 30s but they simply set it in the mid to late 50s to save money.

I didn't feel it was a well made film. 
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my mom grew up in brooklyn in the 30s & 40s before finally moving out in the 50s. she loved this movie- aside from the acting and writing- thought it felt authentic, albeit not jewish.

 
Ministry of Pain said:
I understand what people thought they saw in the movie but even the boat rides to and from seemed cheap and thrown together. 

You have New York City and all we saw was a dinner table with a bunch of weird girls sitting around and squawking. I think this movie fooled a lot of people. It will not hold up at all, it barely holds up now. It seemed like a movie that was filmed in the 70s without all the good cinematography. It was like a left over script that should hve been set in the 30s but they simply set it in the mid to late 50s to save money.

I didn't feel it was a well made film. 
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That's what makes it a world, my friend. My mother's whole family was sponsored into this country from Ol Skibbereen through the same two household jobs my Aunt Mary, as housekeeper, controlled and I saw a lot of their immigrant ambivalence in the lead girl, there. Worked for me.

 
El Floppo said:
my mom grew up in brooklyn in the 30s & 40s before finally moving out in the 50s. she loved this movie- aside from the acting and writing- thought it felt authentic, albeit not jewish.
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The 1930s...the film should have been set in the 1930s, would have felt more authentic.

NYC in the 1950s was really a terrible place for Irish women? One of the major things is how Americans dress compared to Ireland but they do nothing to showcase the difference, it's just muttered and we're supposed to buy it. 

Draper's 2nd wife from Mad Men, what a waste of time for her. She was excellent but they gave her virtually nothing to do. 

:sleep:  

 
Really annoys me that all the awards and lists like these are strictly devoted to "artsy" movies. It's so dumb.

The Hangover, Old School, The Big Lebowski. People ADORE these movies, yet you'll never see them on any list or award show.

Just because a movie might be slapstick comedy doesn't mean it's not good. When someone is making the Hangover they're not trying to make the next Citizen Kane, they're trying to make the next Animal House. But they get downgraded because they aren't "serious films". There are tons of crappy comedies that come out each year, it should absolutely be recognized as an accomplishment when you make a movie like Dumb and Dumber that has people quoting it for decades after release.

/rant

 
KarmaPolice said:
Just take him to a showing of Almost Famous, that will set the mood for him. 
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seen about half of these. disagree with many of the rankings, but they certainly highlighted some of the best in recent years.

 
wikkidpissah said:
That's what makes it a world, my friend. My mother's whole family was sponsored into this country from Ol Skibbereen through the same two household jobs my Aunt Mary, as housekeeper, controlled and I saw a lot of their immigrant ambivalence in the lead girl, there. Worked for me.
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I always like when people give strong reasons, both ye and El Floppo I can understand the posts. I still think Brooklyn is a boring fest and most people won't care for it. Felt dated and antiquated even for the time period.

They also make transportation to and from Ireland feel like these folks were coming in from Siberia.  If that many people were coming and going you would think folks in Ireland would not be all shocked on the Titanic as they make their way over the Atlantic. They made it seem like the sister was being kept in a North Korean camp with no possibility to ever escape.

Airplanes were invented in the early 1900s/late 1800s? By 1955 or whatever...for Christ's sake MOM! Buy a plane ticket and visit your daughter and stop everyone from crying about nothing...oh stop it...no really I yelled up at the projection booth to please make it stop. Finally during the self made intermission I went out to find a uniformed usher that directed me to the lobby where I went to look for some Turkish Taffy but as luck would have it they were out and apparently had been for quite some time. So I fired up a cigarette and started looking for an ashtray but was told there were non and also to extinguish my cigarette. 

 
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Skoo said:
Really annoys me that all the awards and lists like these are strictly devoted to "artsy" movies. It's so dumb.

The Hangover, Old School, The Big Lebowski. People ADORE these movies, yet you'll never see them on any list or award show.

Just because a movie might be slapstick comedy doesn't mean it's not good. When someone is making the Hangover they're not trying to make the next Citizen Kane, they're trying to make the next Animal House. But they get downgraded because they aren't "serious films". There are tons of crappy comedies that come out each year, it should absolutely be recognized as an accomplishment when you make a movie like Dumb and Dumber that has people quoting it for decades after release.

/rant
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It's not that hard, some people and sites view movies as an art form, some more on the entertainment side.  Nobody's wrong, it's just how you go into it.  Same thing happens with awards and lists for books, music, TV.  Also people's lists will probably vary quite a bit if you ask them to list their favorite movies of this era vs. the best movies of this era. 

 
Ministry of Pain said:
I always like when people give strong reasons, both ye and El Floppo I can understand the posts. I still think Brooklyn is a boring fest and most people won't care for it. Felt dated and antiquated even for the time period.

They also make transportation to and from Ireland feel like these folks were coming in from Siberia.  If that many people were coming and going you would think folks in Ireland would not be all shocked on the Titanic as they make their way over the Atlantic. They made it seem like the sister was being kept in a North Korean camp with no possibility to ever escape.

Airplanes were invented in the early 1900s/late 1800s? By 1955 or whatever...for Christ's sake MOM! Buy a plane ticket and visit your daughter and stop everyone from crying about nothing...oh stop it...no really I yelled up at the projection booth to please make it stop. Finally during the self made intermission I went out to find a uniformed usher that directed me to the lobby where I went to look for some Turkish taffy but as luck would have it they were out and apparently had been for quite some time. 
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my mom went to europe with a friend after college- in the 50s. they went by boat. I don't think intercontinental air travel and glolbal connection was as common/tight as you think.

but I haven't seen the movie yet, so I may be back here backing you up on this stuff, MOp.

 
Ministry of Pain said:
I always like when people give strong reasons, both ye and El Floppo I can understand the posts. I still think Brooklyn is a boring fest and most people won't care for it. Felt dated and antiquated even for the time period.

They also make transportation to and from Ireland feel like these folks were coming in from Siberia.  If that many people were coming and going you would think folks in Ireland would not be all shocked on the Titanic as they make their way over the Atlantic. They made it seem like the sister was being kept in a North Korean camp with no possibility to ever escape.

Airplanes were invented in the early 1900s/late 1800s? By 1955 or whatever...for Christ's sake MOM! Buy a plane ticket and visit your daughter and stop everyone from crying about nothing...oh stop it...no really I yelled up at the projection booth to please make it stop. Finally during the self made intermission I went out to find a uniformed usher that directed me to the lobby where I went to look for some Turkish taffy but as luck would have it they were out and apparently had been for quite some time. 
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Oh, I get why you wouldnt like it. Wouldn't have even responded if you both your haterflicks weren't ones i liked a great deal. Believe me, I didnt want to like Brooklyn - mum and aunties (all over 1100yo and still talkin w brogues) get all over you when finally, among the trash and the terror, there's a moviefilm like Philomena or this that's loovely and daycent for everyone. But the showing of the parish as be-all for the immigrant and the use of the two romances to reflect the cultural ambivalence of coming to America worked for me.

 
I’ve seen 47 of these.   The bolds I believe belong on this list.   I generally liked all the rest of these films except for The Tree of Life and A Serious Man.   Melancholia would have been included as one I didn't like if I had the stomach to finish it.   In the Mood for Love, Boyhood, A Separation and No Country for Old Men are in my overrated films lists but I still felt they were good films. 

100. Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, 2000)
96. Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton, 2003)
94. Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, 2008)
93. Ratatouille (Brad Bird, 2007)
90. The Pianist (Roman Polanski, 2002)
87. Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)
86. Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes, 2002)
84. Her (Spike Jonze, 2013)
83. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
82. A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2009)
79. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000)
78. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
77. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel, 2007)
73. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
68. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
67. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2008)
66. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring (Kim Ki-duk, 2003)
62. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009)
59. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005)
57. Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012)
53. Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, 2001)
51. Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010)
44. 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013)
40. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005)
38. City of God (Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, 2002)
35. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000)
33. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008)
32. The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)
30. Oldboy (Park Chan-wook, 2003)
29. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008)
27. The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010)
25. Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000)
22. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
21. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014)
19. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)
17. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro, 2006)
13. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006)
12. Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
10. No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2007)
9. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
7. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
5. Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014)
4. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
3. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
2. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
1. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)

 
Murph said:
If it had ended with him frozen in front of the Blue Fairy this would be about the right spot. But the actual ending really ruins the movie.
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I actually really liked the movie, even the ending, which was incredibly sad.

the only section that didn't work that well for me was the middle section

This continues to be an underrated film in my opinion

 
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