The Top 164 (166) Movies of the 21st Century. We have some morning drinking going on. (23 Viewers)

[TripItUp]

My 16th most overrated movie of all time

Seems like a difficult film to be overrated. Perhaps you are referencing the Rotten Tomatoes scores which are favorable.

 

[Ilov80s]

#92: A TALE OF TWO SISTERS - 49PTS

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This was #52 on KP's list.

That’s a new one to me.

 

[KarmaPolice]

#92: A TALE OF TWO SISTERS - 49PTS

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This was #52 on KP's list.

That’s a new one to me.

I can't recommend enough that people activate AMC+ for a month during October. It has Shudder along with the subscription and it gives people access to a lot of great horror movies. Pretty sure the add on with Prime is only $7/month. I bring it up because this one seems to be on there, as was One Cut of the Dead.

 

[KarmaPolice]

A Tale of Two Sisters along with Audition were the two horror movies from Asia that got me hooked again on the genre. The 90s were really bad for horror movies, and this helped me unlock so many more movies to come that I love from a genre I had sort of given up on. This one is about, no surprise, two sisters returning to their house after stay at an institution. Creepy step mom's and other events have you questioning wtf is really going on. I remember being caught off guard by this one and actually trying not to look at the screen as a couple creepy parts kicked it. I had all the lights off and sound turned up as one should watching a horror movie. It has stuck with me since that first watch 20 years ago. It's been a bit since I've seen it, so I hope it still holds up for anybody who might try it. I have started a list for this year's 31 run in October, and this one is on it.

 

[Dan Lambskin]

#92: A TALE OF TWO SISTERS - 49PTS

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This was #52 on KP's list.

That’s a new one to me.

I can't recommend enough that people activate AMC+ for a month during October. It has Shudder along with the subscription and it gives people a lot of access to some great horror movies. Pretty sure the add on with Prime is only $7/month. I bring it up because this one seems to be on there, as was One Cut of the Dead.

Here’s my current Spooky Movies list I’ve never seen. A lot of these are from the horror countdown

Might have to kick off mid September. No way I’ll get through all of these though

Antivirals

Black Christmas

Borgman

Burnt offerings

Clown in a Cornfield

Conjuring

Creep

Dead Zone

Don't Move (2024)

Eden Lake

Errementari

Family Pack

Frankie Freako

Fur Babies

Green room

Happy Death Day 2

I saw the tv glow

Insidious

MadS

Mandy

Messiah of evil

Near Dark

Platform 2

Possession

Possessor

Rabid

Revenge

Shivers

Skinamarink

Slither

Speak no evil (2022)

Spookies

Suspuria

Taking of Deborah Logan

Tenants

Terrifier 3

The babysitter / part 2

The Brood

The Children

The color out of space

The Conference

The Descent

The girl with all the gifts

The Greasy Strangler

The Night House

The sadness

The Void

Time Cut

You're cordially invited

Terrified

 

[Dan Lambskin]

My 16th most overrated movie of all time

Seems like a difficult film to be overrated. Perhaps you are referencing the Rotten Tomatoes scores which are favorable.

This one was so bad any positive reviews were enough for me to count it

 

[KarmaPolice]

Oh, **** @Ilov80s - Messiah of Evil!

 

[KarmaPolice]

My next pick is a Korean horror movie and the first of the 21st century to scare me and make me want to watch more and more foreign horror movies. The very first was Audition, but that is a 90s movie. Oddly, it's a scene with a burlap sack in both movies that seemed to scare me and stick with me the most.

The next tie are one from 80s and that is about a famous murder with a title that annoyed people and my highest rated R/raunchy comedy from era. Movies I have in the same category as Step Brothers. We have one more higher overall but that was the one we agreed on. It was one I just rewatched recently.

 

[KarmaPolice]

That is quite a list, @Dan Lambskin - some great options on there. And some Nic Cage options.

 

[BLOCKED_PUNT]

The 90s were really bad for horror movies,

I generally do not like horror but we got Army of Darkness and Tremors. Most of you will disagree with me, both that they are horror AND good movies but The Mummy and Deep Blue Sea are movies I like.

 

[KarmaPolice]

The 90s were really bad for horror movies,

I generally do not like horror but we got Army of Darkness and Tremors. Most of you will disagree with me, both that they are horror AND good movies but The Mummy and Deep Blue Sea are movies I like.

The 90s had a lot of crappy slashers and worse sequels. There are gems I love, but that was most of the tone of the 90s for me when I think about the horror movies I watched in HS.

 

[BLOCKED_PUNT]

Congo was good too depite what @El Floppo and others with bad taste say.

Both movies (Congo and Deep Blue Sea) got 3 star reviews from your hero Roger Ebert

 

[KarmaPolice]

I wouldn't put those in horror, but that's just me. We ed that in scoresman's thread too, though.

 

[BLOCKED_PUNT]

The 90s had a lot of crappy slashers and worse sequels

yeah, I didn't watch most of them so I'll take your word for it.

 

[Dan Lambskin]

That is quite a list, @Dan Lambskin - some great options on there. And some Nic Cage options.

I’ve actually seen green room so there might be a few others I’ve already seen

I think we’ve tried Mandy twice and wife doesn’t like it so that may be one I need to watch on my own

 

[KarmaPolice]

That is quite a list, @Dan Lambskin - some great options on there. And some Nic Cage options.

I’ve actually seen green room so there might be a few others I’ve already seen

I think we’ve tried Mandy twice and wife doesn’t like it so that may be one I need to watch on my own

I love the 1970s options on there - Black Christmas, Messiah of Evil, The Brood, Suspiria. Dead Zone feels more 70s than 80s to me as well.

 

[Dan Lambskin]

That is quite a list, @Dan Lambskin - some great options on there. And some Nic Cage options.

I’ve actually seen green room so there might be a few others I’ve already seen

I think we’ve tried Mandy twice and wife doesn’t like it so that may be one I need to watch on my own

I love the 1970s options on there - Black Christmas, Messiah of Evil, The Brood, Suspiria. Dead Zone feels more 70s than 80s to me as well.

Older movies are always a tough sell to the wife but sometimes I can convince her.

 

[KarmaPolice]

We have one more non-animated family movie (G or PG) coming up later, but I was talking to my daughter and we came up with another mini-list that won't spoil anything.

Favorite underrated non-animated family movies in the KP household:

Night at the Museum series - both kids liked this series and I like 1 and 2. I really dislike Rebel Wilson so I try to talk them out of Part 3
Diary of a Wimpy Kid series - again, mostly the first two, but I don't hate any of them. Both of the kids LOVED these books, and I thought the movies were fun.
Scooby-Doo 2 - my daughter didn't like Scooby-Doo, but the wife got to relive the Scooby Doo love with my son. I was surprised how much I liked the live action movies, especially the sequel. There were some really fun new animated movies of Doo and we loved the What's New, Scooby Doo series from the early 00s.
Sky High is a goofy, fun super hero movie about a kid with famous super hero parents starting super school without any powers. Funny side characters like Bruce Campbell as one of the teachers.
Daddy Day Care is one my daughter and I watch. Eddie Murphy and Jeff Garlin as the dads starting the day care

Most of those are on Disney+ for anybody with kids who might want to try anything they haven't seen. Scooby isn't on a streamer, but can be rented. But the most watched and hardest cut was...

Here Comes the Boom is sooo much better than the premise seems. Kevin James is a science teacher who takes up MMA to help save the music program at the school and the teacher's job (Henry Winkler). If I allowed myself another family movie, this would have been it. Easily the biggest surprise of the family movies I tried at the store. I loved it, then started watching it with my son and he loved it. My daughter loves it as well after showing it to her a couple years ago. For sure a top 3 most watched family movie here. The one still to come is more "my" pick though, and the one I would watch by myself the most. ETA: it looks like it's on Netflix or Starz.

 

[KarmaPolice]

That is quite a list, @Dan Lambskin - some great options on there. And some Nic Cage options.

I’ve actually seen green room so there might be a few others I’ve already seen

I think we’ve tried Mandy twice and wife doesn’t like it so that may be one I need to watch on my own

I love the 1970s options on there - Black Christmas, Messiah of Evil, The Brood, Suspiria. Dead Zone feels more 70s than 80s to me as well.

Older movies are always a tough sell to the wife but sometimes I can convince her.

Black Christmas is more a straight slasher/mystery but had some dark humor. Dead Zone is more on the thriller side too. You might have more success with those - the other 3 can get a little weird.

 

[El Floppo]

Congo was good too depite what @El Floppo and others with bad taste say.

Both movies (Congo and Deep Blue Sea) got 3 star reviews from your hero Roger Ebert

Ugly. Woman.
Ugly. Blocked Punt.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

I think I liked Sky High. I definitely liked Kelly Preston in Sky High.

 

[Ilov80s]

That is quite a list, @Dan Lambskin - some great options on there. And some Nic Cage options.

I’ve actually seen green room so there might be a few others I’ve already seen

I think we’ve tried Mandy twice and wife doesn’t like it so that may be one I need to watch on my own

I love the 1970s options on there - Black Christmas, Messiah of Evil, The Brood, Suspiria. Dead Zone feels more 70s than 80s to me as well.

The Brood rules. I am not a big Cronenberg fan but I love The Brood.

 

[BLOCKED_PUNT]

Scooby isn't on a streamer, but can be rented.

or you could watch it here. The quality is crap though so you are just better off spending the $4 to rent it

 

[BLOCKED_PUNT]

Night at the Museum series - both kids liked this series and I like 1 and 2. I really dislike Rebel Wilson so I try to talk them out of Part 3
Sky High is a goofy, fun super hero movie about a kid with famous super hero parents starting super school without any powers. Funny side characters like Bruce Campbell as one of the teachers.


Here Comes the Boom is sooo much better than the premise seems. Kevin James is a science teacher who takes up MMA to help save the music program at the school and the teacher's job (Henry Winkler). If I allowed myself another family movie, this would have been it. Easily the biggest surprise of the family movies I tried at the store. I loved it, then started watching it with my son and he loved it. My daughter loves it as well after showing it to her a couple years ago. For sure a top 3 most watched family movie here. The one still to come is more "my" pick though, and the one I would watch by myself the most. ETA: it looks like it's on Netflix or Starz.

yeah, I liked these

 

[Ilov80s]

We have one more non-animated family movie (G or PG) coming up later, but I was talking to my daughter and we came up with another mini-list that won't spoil anything.

Favorite underrated non-animated family movies in the KP household:

Night at the Museum series - both kids liked this series and I like 1 and 2. I really dislike Rebel Wilson so I try to talk them out of Part 3
Diary of a Wimpy Kid series - again, mostly the first two, but I don't hate any of them. Both of the kids LOVED these books, and I thought the movies were fun.
Scooby-Doo 2 - my daughter didn't like Scooby-Doo, but the wife got to relive the Scooby Doo love with my son. I was surprised how much I liked the live action movies, especially the sequel. There were some really fun new animated movies of Doo and we loved the What's New, Scooby Doo series from the early 00s.
Sky High is a goofy, fun super hero movie about a kid with famous super hero parents starting super school without any powers. Funny side characters like Bruce Campbell as one of the teachers.
Daddy Day Care is one my daughter and I watch. Eddie Murphy and Jeff Garlin as the dads starting the day care

Most of those are on Disney+ for anybody with kids who might want to try anything they haven't seen. Scooby isn't on a streamer, but can be rented. But the most watched and hardest cut was...

Here Comes the Boom is sooo much better than the premise seems. Kevin James is a science teacher who takes up MMA to help save the music program at the school and the teacher's job (Henry Winkler). If I allowed myself another family movie, this would have been it. Easily the biggest surprise of the family movies I tried at the store. I loved it, then started watching it with my son and he loved it. My daughter loves it as well after showing it to her a couple years ago. For sure a top 3 most watched family movie here. The one still to come is more "my" pick though, and the one I would watch by myself the most. ETA: it looks like it's on Netflix or Starz.

I would add Instant Family. This one surprised me. I definitely don't consider myself a Mark Wahlberg fan but this was genuinely heart warming and funny. It's a sweet story about a couple who decide to adopt and while It is sweet, it also gets into some of the real hardships that come with adopting. I was genuinely shocked by how much I enjoyed it.

 

[KarmaPolice]

We have one more non-animated family movie (G or PG) coming up later, but I was talking to my daughter and we came up with another mini-list that won't spoil anything.

Favorite underrated non-animated family movies in the KP household:

Night at the Museum series - both kids liked this series and I like 1 and 2. I really dislike Rebel Wilson so I try to talk them out of Part 3
Diary of a Wimpy Kid series - again, mostly the first two, but I don't hate any of them. Both of the kids LOVED these books, and I thought the movies were fun.
Scooby-Doo 2 - my daughter didn't like Scooby-Doo, but the wife got to relive the Scooby Doo love with my son. I was surprised how much I liked the live action movies, especially the sequel. There were some really fun new animated movies of Doo and we loved the What's New, Scooby Doo series from the early 00s.
Sky High is a goofy, fun super hero movie about a kid with famous super hero parents starting super school without any powers. Funny side characters like Bruce Campbell as one of the teachers.
Daddy Day Care is one my daughter and I watch. Eddie Murphy and Jeff Garlin as the dads starting the day care

Most of those are on Disney+ for anybody with kids who might want to try anything they haven't seen. Scooby isn't on a streamer, but can be rented. But the most watched and hardest cut was...

Here Comes the Boom is sooo much better than the premise seems. Kevin James is a science teacher who takes up MMA to help save the music program at the school and the teacher's job (Henry Winkler). If I allowed myself another family movie, this would have been it. Easily the biggest surprise of the family movies I tried at the store. I loved it, then started watching it with my son and he loved it. My daughter loves it as well after showing it to her a couple years ago. For sure a top 3 most watched family movie here. The one still to come is more "my" pick though, and the one I would watch by myself the most. ETA: it looks like it's on Netflix or Starz.

I would add Instant Family. This one surprised me. I definitely don't consider myself a Mark Wahlberg fan but this was genuinely heart warming and funny. It's a sweet story about a couple who decide to adopt and while It is sweet, it also gets into some of the real hardships that come with adopting. I was genuinely shocked by how much I enjoyed it.

We haven't gotten to that one because it's pg-13 and I hadn't researched the rating yet. I'll add it to the pile. I was thinking about doing more movies in the pg-13 in a bit as well, and I make sure to mention this again and any others you want to send for a mini list.

Another one I forgot until now was Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, no Good, Very Bad Day. That is another that everybody in the family likes. Also on Disney+.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Scooby isn't on a streamer, but can be rented.

or you could watch it here. The quality is crap though so you are just better off spending the $4 to rent it

We own both movies, all 3 seasons of the show, and a few of the animated movies. They didn't seem to be easy to find online, and we got tired of renting them at the library over and over.

 

[KarmaPolice]

#91: THE 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN - 51PTS

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#50 on KP's list

 

[KarmaPolice]

#90: THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD

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#50 on 80s' list

 

[KarmaPolice]

Tomorrow morning we will start the day with another in the teen/coming of age bucket and yet another a24 movie. Also one of our greatest directors dipping his toes back into the sci-fi genre adapting a novella.

as for the rest of the day we will have a couple more movies with scenes of wrestling, we have a couple with organized crime and gangsters, we have two movies with couples trying to overcome social barriers to be together. We have a couple DotM directors (one 2x tomorrow), and one I was too scared to do. My favorite actor from this time makes another appearance. Overall tomorrow I think will feature some people will have strong thoughts about.

Marco will have 2, and I believe one will be the first time we will have a movie that was on all 3 of our lists show up.

 

[Ilov80s]

#91: THE 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN - 51PTS

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Hard to argue with how funny this was.

 

[Ilov80s]

#90: THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD

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I think this is Brad Pitt's best work and the Roger Deakins cinematography is gorgeous. Easily one of the 2 or 3 best westerns of the century.

 

[BLOCKED_PUNT]

Also one of our greatest directors dipping his toes back into the sci-fi genre adapting a novella.

i know! (maybe)

 

[Ilov80s]

as for the rest of the day we will have a couple more movies with scenes of wrestling

I think I know these two lmao

 

[Ilov80s]

Good timing, The Ringer just posted this today

The Oral History of ‘The 40-Year-Old Virgin’

Twenty years ago, chest hair was ripped, improv was maximized, and a V-card was taken. Here is the story of the movie that kicked off a golden age of raunchy bro comedies.

www.theringer.com

 

[BLOCKED_PUNT]

Good timing, The Ringer just posted this today

The Oral History of ‘The 40-Year-Old Virgin’

Twenty years ago, chest hair was ripped, improv was maximized, and a V-card was taken. Here is the story of the movie that kicked off a golden age of raunchy bro comedies.

www.theringer.com

loved the KP doccy

 

[Pip's Invitation]

#91: THE 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN - 51PTS

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Hilarious. Everyone in the cast knocks it out of the park. It would have been easy to make this mean-spirited but they got the tone just right. Apatow's shtick became played out for me a few years later, but movies like this were why he became such a big deal in the first place.

 

[KarmaPolice]

#91: THE 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN - 51PTS

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Hilarious. Everyone in the cast knocks it out of the park. It would have been easy to make this mean-spirited but they got the tone just right. Apatow's shtick became played out for me a few years later, but movies like this were why he became such a big deal in the first place.

What I posted in my recent blurb after the rewatch is this one sticks out because it has the most heart - I like Carrell and Keener together, and the scenes with him and Keener's daughter are good as well. Great cast and side characters and watching the actual reactions during the waxing will never get old. Carrell was perfect for this.

 

[shuke]

#97: BIG FISH - 46PTS

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KP's #55 movie

I've recounted this before, but I saw this in the theater and was uncontrollably sobbing at the end.

 

[shuke]

#93: THE DARK KNIGHT - 48PTS

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#53 on 80s' list

double life, parent issues, Oscar winner

Finally got around to seeing this in the past year, and I really don't understand the hype.

 

[shuke]

Movies Jack Black is good in:
School of Rock
Jumanji
Kung Fu Panda

Fin

Airborne!

 

[KarmaPolice]

#97: BIG FISH - 46PTS

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KP's #55 movie

I've recounted this before, but I saw this in the theater and was uncontrollably sobbing at the end.

It gets me every time I watch it as well.

 

[KarmaPolice]

#89: MINORITY REPORT - 52PTS

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#49 on KP's list. Also on @The Dreaded Marco 's list

 

[KarmaPolice]

#88: EIGHTH GRADE - 52PTS

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#49 on 80s' list

 

[Ilov80s]

#88: EIGHTH GRADE - 52PTS

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Maybe an odd ball choice for so high. There's no stars. It's directed by Bo Burnham but it's not really a comedy. The movie feels very real to the experience of kids today and how they deal with anxiety, the struggle to fit in, development of love interests, their parents, etc. It's a remarkable movie IMO and especially coming from Bo. I hope we see him write and direct more because he's quite talented. How is this for an endorsement on a teen movie, Molly Ringwald said "...it was the best film about adolescence I've seen in a long time. Maybe ever."

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Saving Private Ryan is the apex of Spielberg's career.

Minority Report is on the initial part of the downslope. It is still a good movie but has the initial signs of being both too slick and too rote to match his earlier career output.

 

[Idiot Boxer]

If I see Joker on this list, I swear I'll

most people, including myself, liked the first Joker movie.

It's trash. Caddyshack 2 was better.

Phoenix was good. Movie is hot garbage.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

If I see Joker on this list, I swear I'll

most people, including myself, liked the first Joker movie.

It's trash. Caddyshack 2 was better.

Phoenix was good. Movie is hot garbage.

Preach!

 

[Idiot Boxer]

Congo was good too depite what @El Floppo and others with bad taste say.

Both movies (Congo and Deep Blue Sea) got 3 star reviews from your hero Roger Ebert

Congo, the movie based on the Michael Crichton book?

This may have been one of the worst adaptations of all time. I really wanted this movie to be good.

 

[KarmaPolice]

#88: EIGHTH GRADE - 52PTS

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Maybe an odd ball choice for so high. There's no stars. It's directed by Bo Burnham but it's not really a comedy. The movie feels very real to the experience of kids today and how they deal with anxiety, the struggle to fit in, development of love interests, their parents, etc. It's a remarkable movie IMO and especially coming from Bo. I hope we see him write and direct more because he's quite talented. How is this for an endorsement on a teen movie, Molly Ringwald said "...it was the best film about adolescence I've seen in a long time. Maybe ever."

Odd criticism, but for me when I watched it was TOO real. It captured that age so well, and it came out about the time I was dealing with Middle Schooler and how they talk and think. For me it was an uncomfortable watch I didn't have the desire to revisit, but it was a really good movie - especially considering where it came from with the director.