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The Top 164 (166) Movies of the 21st Century. On to the TOP 10!! (42 Viewers)

there we go. FORD V FERRARI. vroom vroom mother****ers
It was...pretty good but not amazing, IMO. Was nice to see Jon Bernthal not play an obnoxious jerk for once and Leo Beebe/Josh Lucas makes for a decent quasi villian. Really makes me think of Air (which I really liked) which makes sense given they share a lead actor and have similarish storylines (upstart underdogs), I thought they could have done without the last 15ish minutes. Just have the movie end after the race but I get it, they were going for a tearjerker. I felt nothing though. Some neat triva, the Butterworths (think they ever get tired of Mr/Mrs. Butterworth jokes?) also wrote Edge of Tomorrow and a movie that I liked called Fair Game. Like I said, it's pretty decent and felt like something I could put on and relax for 2 hours but it didn't really feel like the 55th best movie of the past 24 years.
 
there we go. FORD V FERRARI. vroom vroom mother****ers
It was...pretty good but not amazing, IMO. Was nice to see Jon Bernthal not play an obnoxious jerk for once and Leo Beebe/Josh Lucas makes for a decent quasi villian. Really makes me think of Air (which I really liked) which makes sense given they share a lead actor and have similarish storylines (upstart underdogs), I thought they could have done without the last 15ish minutes. Just have the movie end after the race but I get it, they were going for a tearjerker. I felt nothing though. Some neat triva, the Butterworths (think they ever get tired of Mr/Mrs. Butterworth jokes?) also wrote Edge of Tomorrow and a movie that I liked called Fair Game. Like I said, it's pretty decent and felt like something I could put on and relax for 2 hours but it didn't really feel like the 55th best movie of the past 24 years.
I get that reaction, it is at its core a predictable sports movie. It’s definitely a movie that benefited from me first seeing it in the theater. It sounded amazing in jnaX, your seats were rumbling with the engines.
 
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there we go. FORD V FERRARI. vroom vroom mother****ers
It was...pretty good but not amazing, IMO. Was nice to see Jon Bernthal not play an obnoxious jerk for once and Leo Beebe/Josh Lucas makes for a decent quasi villian. Really makes me think of Air (which I really liked) which makes sense given they share a lead actor and have similarish storylines (upstart underdogs), I thought they could have done without the last 15ish minutes. Just have the movie end after the race but I get it, they were going for a tearjerker. I felt nothing though. Some neat triva, the Butterworths (think they ever get tired of Mr/Mrs. Butterworth jokes?) also wrote Edge of Tomorrow and a movie that I liked called Fair Game. Like I said, it's pretty decent and felt like something I could put on and relax for 2 hours but it didn't really feel like the 55th best movie of the past 24 years.
It wasn't. Depending which of us you ask, it was the 62nd or 64th best movie in 35 years. :grad: ;) I could be wrong, but I thought that was how Miles died IRL, so not sure why they would leave the crash off the story in the movie.

If I am not mistaken 80s and I both saw this one in the theater, and that added to the experience and the ranking - as well as cranking it on the limited setup I have on through the headphones. IMO this is a perfect example from the 21st century of what I personally like a good pg-13 movie for just about everybody to look and sound like. You poke fun at my allergy to CGI, but it takes me out of the movie. I know how it is shot and it takes the mystery out of that aspect of moviemaking for me. It also is more likely the acting is crap as the actors stand in front a screen and pretend. I like a variety of stuff, and at the end of the day I don't think I am that hard to please: tell a good story with interesting characters and shoot as much as you can practically.

ETA: didn't see 80s' post confirming he saw in the theater.
 
There was a slight mistake on my sheet as I grouped them incorrectly. Nothing with the scoring, I just usually have my movie with the lower rating, but I didn't catch this tie in points. I am going to keep it as is, because I said we would have 2 from 80s in this morning and the movies tie for points anyway. I will keep it so I babble about my 3 over lunch break and he can have the morning for his 2 entries.
 
My lunch trio are odd:

The best remake/reboot of the 21st century --> Finally a Kevin Smith film making the list
The foreign movie that started my love of foreign movies. A Tarantino-esque movie by a director who has shown up 2x on my solo list so far already. --> D'ya like dags?
A movie about a musician and a harmless two-word phrase that will get me to :cry: -->
Walk hard, hard
Down life's rocky road
Walk bold, hard
That's my creed, my code

I've been scorned and slandered and ridiculed too
Had to struggle everyday my whole life through
Seen my share of the worst that this world can give
But I still got a dream and a burning rage to live

Walk hard, hard
When they say, "You're all done"
Walk bold, hard
Though they say, "You're not the one"

Even if you've been told time and time again
That you're always gonna lose and you're never gonna win
Gotta keep that vision in your mind's eye
When you're standing on top of a mountain high

You know when I was a boy, folks used to say to me
"Slow down Dewey, don't walk so hard"
And I used to tell them, "Life's a race and I'm in it to win it
And I'll walk as damn hard as I please
How do I walk boys?"
 
Germane to nothing...

Just for fun I ripped through Wikipedia's list of movies for the last 25 years to see what movies I'd consider for my list of 160-ish. Easily 50% of my list would be different from this one. It might be closer to 75%.

It's just interesting to me is all.
 
Germane to nothing...

Just for fun I ripped through Wikipedia's list of movies for the last 25 years to see what movies I'd consider for my list of 160-ish. Easily 50% of my list would be different from this one. It might be closer to 75%.

It's just interesting to me is all.
I'd love to see some lists at the end of other people's top 20-30. For me this was so much harder than other decades or lists, and to narrow down i focused a lot on movies I rewatch, buy, rekindled my love of movies, or surprised me the most in the last 25 years.

If i did "best" movies, my list would look much different, and i would expect someone using my similar method of narrowing down movies to come up with a vastly different list as well. This is just 2 people's opinions, we just seem to agree and differ on enough to make the combo countdowns interesting.
 
Germane to nothing...

Just for fun I ripped through Wikipedia's list of movies for the last 25 years to see what movies I'd consider for my list of 160-ish. Easily 50% of my list would be different from this one. It might be closer to 75%.

It's just interesting to me is all.
I'd love to see some lists at the end of other people's top 20-30. For me this was so much harder than other decades or lists, and to narrow down i focused a lot on movies I rewatch, buy, rekindled my love of movies, or surprised me the most in the last 25 years.

If i did "best" movies, my list would look much different, and i would expect someone using my similar method of narrowing down movies to come up with a vastly different list as well. This is just 2 people's opinions, we just seem to agree and differ on enough to make the combo countdowns interesting.
I also would really struggle to get to 160. I think I'd come up about 30 titles short. But the top 30 would be pretty good, I think.

Also - The last 5 years of movies have been pretty bad.
 
Germane to nothing...

Just for fun I ripped through Wikipedia's list of movies for the last 25 years to see what movies I'd consider for my list of 160-ish. Easily 50% of my list would be different from this one. It might be closer to 75%.

It's just interesting to me is all.
I'd love to see some lists at the end of other people's top 20-30. For me this was so much harder than other decades or lists, and to narrow down i focused a lot on movies I rewatch, buy, rekindled my love of movies, or surprised me the most in the last 25 years.

If i did "best" movies, my list would look much different, and i would expect someone using my similar method of narrowing down movies to come up with a vastly different list as well. This is just 2 people's opinions, we just seem to agree and differ on enough to make the combo countdowns interesting.
I also would really struggle to get to 160. I think I'd come up about 30 titles short. But the top 30 would be pretty good, I think.

Also - The last 5 years of movies have been pretty bad.
We each only did 100
 
Germane to nothing...

Just for fun I ripped through Wikipedia's list of movies for the last 25 years to see what movies I'd consider for my list of 160-ish. Easily 50% of my list would be different from this one. It might be closer to 75%.

It's just interesting to me is all.
I'd love to see some lists at the end of other people's top 20-30. For me this was so much harder than other decades or lists, and to narrow down i focused a lot on movies I rewatch, buy, rekindled my love of movies, or surprised me the most in the last 25 years.

If i did "best" movies, my list would look much different, and i would expect someone using my similar method of narrowing down movies to come up with a vastly different list as well. This is just 2 people's opinions, we just seem to agree and differ on enough to make the combo countdowns interesting.
My guess is because it's more recent, it hasn't become solidified last past decades have. There has been less time, less rewatches, less lists like AFI, SIght and Sound, etc to really lock down as much of a consensus. We know that movies which are the biggest in their moment don't always live on to be hailed as such. The Greatest Show on Earth, Out of Africa, Airport, etc. are these huge hits and get all these nominations and then in 10 years nobody watches them and people scratch their heads when they see them on lists of award winners and highest grossers. Then we have growers who were overlooked upon release but became classics like The Thing, The Big Lebowski or Night of the Hunter.
 
#37: THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD - 89PTS




#12 on Ilov80s' list
The best rom-com of the century- a truly modern update to the genre and a star making performance from Renate Reinsve.

#36: THE BRUTALIST




#11 on Ilov80s' list
Classic epic Hollywood film making. It feels very 1970s to me. If you haven't seen The Pianist in awhile, this feels like a spiritual sequel. The Pianist being about an artist surviving the Holocaust and The Brutalist being about an artist coming to America after their Holocaust experience and trying to build a new life. Epic epic epic.
 
Germane to nothing...

Just for fun I ripped through Wikipedia's list of movies for the last 25 years to see what movies I'd consider for my list of 160-ish. Easily 50% of my list would be different from this one. It might be closer to 75%.

It's just interesting to me is all.
I'd love to see some lists at the end of other people's top 20-30. For me this was so much harder than other decades or lists, and to narrow down i focused a lot on movies I rewatch, buy, rekindled my love of movies, or surprised me the most in the last 25 years.

If i did "best" movies, my list would look much different, and i would expect someone using my similar method of narrowing down movies to come up with a vastly different list as well. This is just 2 people's opinions, we just seem to agree and differ on enough to make the combo countdowns interesting.
My guess is because it's more recent, it hasn't become solidified last past decades have. There has been less time, less rewatches, less lists like AFI, SIght and Sound, etc to really lock down as much of a consensus. We know that movies which are the biggest in their moment don't always live on to be hailed as such. The Greatest Show on Earth, Out of Africa, Airport, etc. are these huge hits and get all these nominations and then in 10 years nobody watches them and people scratch their heads when they see them on lists of award winners and highest grossers. Then we have growers who were overlooked upon release but became classics like The Thing, The Big Lebowski or Night of the Hunter.
There's a bit of that for sure. At least for me, it's hard to rank things I haven't seen twice. I get other people don't do that and maybe don't watch movies more than once, but I think it's weird. On top of that we are all old, so chance are that a movie gets a repeat watch and either becomes that nostalgic favorite you watched over and over, or like your example (and it applies to me) movie like Lebowski grow in appreciation as you watch them. Most of us probably watch most of the movies at home, while distracted, and one time. The average person probably watches few movies than Shows/Social Media/sports as well in the 21st century. THEN add in all the movies that were made for a streamer and not for theaters and our choices are way more than we used to have access to. THEN we add it personal tastes and it wouldn't surprise me at all if it was a lot harder to get a consensus of great movies from this century vs. the 90s or 80s with this group.
 
#37: THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD - 89PTS




#12 on Ilov80s' list
The best rom-com of the century- a truly modern update to the genre and a star making performance from Renate Reinsve.

#36: THE BRUTALIST




#11 on Ilov80s' list
Classic epic Hollywood film making. It feels very 1970s to me. If you haven't seen The Pianist in awhile, this feels like a spiritual sequel. The Pianist being about an artist surviving the Holocaust and The Brutalist being about an artist coming to America after their Holocaust experience and trying to build a new life. Epic epic epic.
Worst Person is yet another I really liked, but didn't get a rewatch in. The Brutalist will be one of the first I watch after this is over. School starts next week, so my weekdays off will have more time for movies during the day again!
 
#37: THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD - 89PTS




#12 on Ilov80s' list
The best rom-com of the century- a truly modern update to the genre and a star making performance from Renate Reinsve.

#36: THE BRUTALIST




#11 on Ilov80s' list
Classic epic Hollywood film making. It feels very 1970s to me. If you haven't seen The Pianist in awhile, this feels like a spiritual sequel. The Pianist being about an artist surviving the Holocaust and The Brutalist being about an artist coming to America after their Holocaust experience and trying to build a new life. Epic epic epic.
Worst Person is yet another I really liked, but didn't get a rewatch in. The Brutalist will be one of the first I watch after this is over. School starts next week, so my weekdays off will have more time for movies during the day again!
Yeah it's a long one you will need a big chunk for The Brutalist
 
#34: AMORES PERROS - 91PTS




#10 on KP's List
This was a really good movie but one I'll never watch again. I like violence in movies but this was felt especially brutal and tough to watch. Maybe it was the dog part.
 
Several days ago, I started combing through a list of all the movies that were released (atleast in america, I'll have to comb through foreign later) to help jog my memory. I got up to 2007. I had wanted to finish but I'm lazy and have other stuff so I may not get it done until later.
 
#34: AMORES PERROS - 91PTS




#10 on KP's List
This was a really good movie but one I'll never watch again. I like violence in movies but this was felt especially brutal and tough to watch. Maybe it was the dog part.
100%. When I post later, I will try to reinforce this yet again. One of the 3 story lines is about a pair of friends wrapped up in dog fighting, and those scenes are very brutal and bloody.
 
With another batch of movies, we do another round of great original movie music






 
Yeah, that's right - #9. LOOOOOVE that movie. IMO it is the best remake/reboot, musical, and love letter to an old property you will find in the 21st century. There are two movies in the top 10 that made me feel like a kid again during this time. The next you will see tonight with my #8 movie.
 
I had zero idea/recollection that a Muppets movie came out in 2011.

I'm still not sure you didn't make it up.
Lol. It was one of those when I saw it come through, I thought 0% chance was this going to be good. Loved it the first time, had my wife watch it since we both grew up with the show and movies , and she loved it. Kids not as much, but they still like it. Imo a home run for anybody who loved the Muppets or the movies. Segel was co-writer as well, and the humor is right in my wheelhouse. The songs are really fun and catchy too. Easily my favorite family movie of the era.
 
Germane to nothing...

Just for fun I ripped through Wikipedia's list of movies for the last 25 years to see what movies I'd consider for my list of 160-ish. Easily 50% of my list would be different from this one. It might be closer to 75%.

It's just interesting to me is all.
I'd love to see some lists at the end of other people's top 20-30. For me this was so much harder than other decades or lists, and to narrow down i focused a lot on movies I rewatch, buy, rekindled my love of movies, or surprised me the most in the last 25 years.

If i did "best" movies, my list would look much different, and i would expect someone using my similar method of narrowing down movies to come up with a vastly different list as well. This is just 2 people's opinions, we just seem to agree and differ on enough to make the combo countdowns interesting.
My guess is because it's more recent, it hasn't become solidified last past decades have. There has been less time, less rewatches, less lists like AFI, SIght and Sound, etc to really lock down as much of a consensus. We know that movies which are the biggest in their moment don't always live on to be hailed as such. The Greatest Show on Earth, Out of Africa, Airport, etc. are these huge hits and get all these nominations and then in 10 years nobody watches them and people scratch their heads when they see them on lists of award winners and highest grossers. Then we have growers who were overlooked upon release but became classics like The Thing, The Big Lebowski or Night of the Hunter.
There's a bit of that for sure. At least for me, it's hard to rank things I haven't seen twice. I get other people don't do that and maybe don't watch movies more than once, but I think it's weird. On top of that we are all old, so chance are that a movie gets a repeat watch and either becomes that nostalgic favorite you watched over and over, or like your example (and it applies to me) movie like Lebowski grow in appreciation as you watch them. Most of us probably watch most of the movies at home, while distracted, and one time. The average person probably watches few movies than Shows/Social Media/sports as well in the 21st century. THEN add in all the movies that were made for a streamer and not for theaters and our choices are way more than we used to have access to. THEN we add it personal tastes and it wouldn't surprise me at all if it was a lot harder to get a consensus of great movies from this century vs. the 90s or 80s with this group.
Of course there's like at first watch/listen but repetition is what gets a lot of people to like/love things. The movie/tc ladscape has changed alot since the 80's/90's.
 
Germane to nothing...

Just for fun I ripped through Wikipedia's list of movies for the last 25 years to see what movies I'd consider for my list of 160-ish. Easily 50% of my list would be different from this one. It might be closer to 75%.

It's just interesting to me is all.
I'd love to see some lists at the end of other people's top 20-30. For me this was so much harder than other decades or lists, and to narrow down i focused a lot on movies I rewatch, buy, rekindled my love of movies, or surprised me the most in the last 25 years.

If i did "best" movies, my list would look much different, and i would expect someone using my similar method of narrowing down movies to come up with a vastly different list as well. This is just 2 people's opinions, we just seem to agree and differ on enough to make the combo countdowns interesting.
My guess is because it's more recent, it hasn't become solidified last past decades have. There has been less time, less rewatches, less lists like AFI, SIght and Sound, etc to really lock down as much of a consensus. We know that movies which are the biggest in their moment don't always live on to be hailed as such. The Greatest Show on Earth, Out of Africa, Airport, etc. are these huge hits and get all these nominations and then in 10 years nobody watches them and people scratch their heads when they see them on lists of award winners and highest grossers. Then we have growers who were overlooked upon release but became classics like The Thing, The Big Lebowski or Night of the Hunter.
There's a bit of that for sure. At least for me, it's hard to rank things I haven't seen twice. I get other people don't do that and maybe don't watch movies more than once, but I think it's weird. On top of that we are all old, so chance are that a movie gets a repeat watch and either becomes that nostalgic favorite you watched over and over, or like your example (and it applies to me) movie like Lebowski grow in appreciation as you watch them. Most of us probably watch most of the movies at home, while distracted, and one time. The average person probably watches few movies than Shows/Social Media/sports as well in the 21st century. THEN add in all the movies that were made for a streamer and not for theaters and our choices are way more than we used to have access to. THEN we add it personal tastes and it wouldn't surprise me at all if it was a lot harder to get a consensus of great movies from this century vs. the 90s or 80s with this group.
Of course there's like at first watch/listen but repetition is what gets a lot of people to like/love things. The movie/tc ladscape has changed alot since the 80's/90's.
Yep, used to be you bought a VHS/DVD and didn't have many so you would rewatch the same moves over and over. Or TNT/TBS/USA/HBO kept replaying something and since there weren't so many options you just watched it over and over. Also being kids, teens, college kids there is just more time to throw on a movie and watch it again, watch it with friends, etc.
 
Germane to nothing...

Just for fun I ripped through Wikipedia's list of movies for the last 25 years to see what movies I'd consider for my list of 160-ish. Easily 50% of my list would be different from this one. It might be closer to 75%.

It's just interesting to me is all.
I'd love to see some lists at the end of other people's top 20-30. For me this was so much harder than other decades or lists, and to narrow down i focused a lot on movies I rewatch, buy, rekindled my love of movies, or surprised me the most in the last 25 years.

If i did "best" movies, my list would look much different, and i would expect someone using my similar method of narrowing down movies to come up with a vastly different list as well. This is just 2 people's opinions, we just seem to agree and differ on enough to make the combo countdowns interesting.
My guess is because it's more recent, it hasn't become solidified last past decades have. There has been less time, less rewatches, less lists like AFI, SIght and Sound, etc to really lock down as much of a consensus. We know that movies which are the biggest in their moment don't always live on to be hailed as such. The Greatest Show on Earth, Out of Africa, Airport, etc. are these huge hits and get all these nominations and then in 10 years nobody watches them and people scratch their heads when they see them on lists of award winners and highest grossers. Then we have growers who were overlooked upon release but became classics like The Thing, The Big Lebowski or Night of the Hunter.
There's a bit of that for sure. At least for me, it's hard to rank things I haven't seen twice. I get other people don't do that and maybe don't watch movies more than once, but I think it's weird. On top of that we are all old, so chance are that a movie gets a repeat watch and either becomes that nostalgic favorite you watched over and over, or like your example (and it applies to me) movie like Lebowski grow in appreciation as you watch them. Most of us probably watch most of the movies at home, while distracted, and one time. The average person probably watches few movies than Shows/Social Media/sports as well in the 21st century. THEN add in all the movies that were made for a streamer and not for theaters and our choices are way more than we used to have access to. THEN we add it personal tastes and it wouldn't surprise me at all if it was a lot harder to get a consensus of great movies from this century vs. the 90s or 80s with this group.
Of course there's like at first watch/listen but repetition is what gets a lot of people to like/love things. The movie/tc ladscape has changed alot since the 80's/90's.
It has a bit, but i think people also waaay overrate tv shows. Imo the biggest change for movies is the action/blockbuster type fare. That is much different. However, there are stiil great prestige dramas and rom/coms now as has ever been. I would also argue that horror is as good as it's ever been, and would say the same about family/animated movies. Also more access to movies overseas which is a plus.
 
Germane to nothing...

Just for fun I ripped through Wikipedia's list of movies for the last 25 years to see what movies I'd consider for my list of 160-ish. Easily 50% of my list would be different from this one. It might be closer to 75%.

It's just interesting to me is all.
I'd love to see some lists at the end of other people's top 20-30. For me this was so much harder than other decades or lists, and to narrow down i focused a lot on movies I rewatch, buy, rekindled my love of movies, or surprised me the most in the last 25 years.

If i did "best" movies, my list would look much different, and i would expect someone using my similar method of narrowing down movies to come up with a vastly different list as well. This is just 2 people's opinions, we just seem to agree and differ on enough to make the combo countdowns interesting.
My guess is because it's more recent, it hasn't become solidified last past decades have. There has been less time, less rewatches, less lists like AFI, SIght and Sound, etc to really lock down as much of a consensus. We know that movies which are the biggest in their moment don't always live on to be hailed as such. The Greatest Show on Earth, Out of Africa, Airport, etc. are these huge hits and get all these nominations and then in 10 years nobody watches them and people scratch their heads when they see them on lists of award winners and highest grossers. Then we have growers who were overlooked upon release but became classics like The Thing, The Big Lebowski or Night of the Hunter.
There's a bit of that for sure. At least for me, it's hard to rank things I haven't seen twice. I get other people don't do that and maybe don't watch movies more than once, but I think it's weird. On top of that we are all old, so chance are that a movie gets a repeat watch and either becomes that nostalgic favorite you watched over and over, or like your example (and it applies to me) movie like Lebowski grow in appreciation as you watch them. Most of us probably watch most of the movies at home, while distracted, and one time. The average person probably watches few movies than Shows/Social Media/sports as well in the 21st century. THEN add in all the movies that were made for a streamer and not for theaters and our choices are way more than we used to have access to. THEN we add it personal tastes and it wouldn't surprise me at all if it was a lot harder to get a consensus of great movies from this century vs. the 90s or 80s with this group.
Of course there's like at first watch/listen but repetition is what gets a lot of people to like/love things. The movie/tc ladscape has changed alot since the 80's/90's.
It has a bit, but i think people also waaay overrate tv shows. Imo the biggest change for movies is the action/blockbuster type fare. That is much different. However, there are stiil great prestige dramas and rom/coms now as has ever been. I would also argue that horror is as good as it's ever been, and would say the same about family/animated movies. Also more access to movies overseas which is a plus.
I wasn't talking about the quality per se but the streaming as opposed to 80/90's where we were all watching the same things sometimes ad nasuem. I remember in 5th grade when Tremors came on TV one night and we were all talking about it the next day. I doubt something like that would happen in the year of our Lord 2025.
 
Germane to nothing...

Just for fun I ripped through Wikipedia's list of movies for the last 25 years to see what movies I'd consider for my list of 160-ish. Easily 50% of my list would be different from this one. It might be closer to 75%.

It's just interesting to me is all.
I'd love to see some lists at the end of other people's top 20-30. For me this was so much harder than other decades or lists, and to narrow down i focused a lot on movies I rewatch, buy, rekindled my love of movies, or surprised me the most in the last 25 years.

If i did "best" movies, my list would look much different, and i would expect someone using my similar method of narrowing down movies to come up with a vastly different list as well. This is just 2 people's opinions, we just seem to agree and differ on enough to make the combo countdowns interesting.
My guess is because it's more recent, it hasn't become solidified last past decades have. There has been less time, less rewatches, less lists like AFI, SIght and Sound, etc to really lock down as much of a consensus. We know that movies which are the biggest in their moment don't always live on to be hailed as such. The Greatest Show on Earth, Out of Africa, Airport, etc. are these huge hits and get all these nominations and then in 10 years nobody watches them and people scratch their heads when they see them on lists of award winners and highest grossers. Then we have growers who were overlooked upon release but became classics like The Thing, The Big Lebowski or Night of the Hunter.
There's a bit of that for sure. At least for me, it's hard to rank things I haven't seen twice. I get other people don't do that and maybe don't watch movies more than once, but I think it's weird. On top of that we are all old, so chance are that a movie gets a repeat watch and either becomes that nostalgic favorite you watched over and over, or like your example (and it applies to me) movie like Lebowski grow in appreciation as you watch them. Most of us probably watch most of the movies at home, while distracted, and one time. The average person probably watches few movies than Shows/Social Media/sports as well in the 21st century. THEN add in all the movies that were made for a streamer and not for theaters and our choices are way more than we used to have access to. THEN we add it personal tastes and it wouldn't surprise me at all if it was a lot harder to get a consensus of great movies from this century vs. the 90s or 80s with this group.
Of course there's like at first watch/listen but repetition is what gets a lot of people to like/love things. The movie/tc ladscape has changed alot since the 80's/90's.
It has a bit, but i think people also waaay overrate tv shows. Imo the biggest change for movies is the action/blockbuster type fare. That is much different. However, there are stiil great prestige dramas and rom/coms now as has ever been. I would also argue that horror is as good as it's ever been, and would say the same about family/animated movies. Also more access to movies overseas which is a plus.
I wasn't talking about the quality per se but the streaming as opposed to 80/90's where we were all watching the same things sometimes ad nasuem. I remember in 5th grade when Tremors came on TV one night and we were all talking about it the next day. I doubt something like that would happen in the year of our Lord 2025.
Gotcha. That I agree 100%. Movies would also stick in the theater for months as well.
 
Germane to nothing...

Just for fun I ripped through Wikipedia's list of movies for the last 25 years to see what movies I'd consider for my list of 160-ish. Easily 50% of my list would be different from this one. It might be closer to 75%.

It's just interesting to me is all.
I'd love to see some lists at the end of other people's top 20-30. For me this was so much harder than other decades or lists, and to narrow down i focused a lot on movies I rewatch, buy, rekindled my love of movies, or surprised me the most in the last 25 years.

If i did "best" movies, my list would look much different, and i would expect someone using my similar method of narrowing down movies to come up with a vastly different list as well. This is just 2 people's opinions, we just seem to agree and differ on enough to make the combo countdowns interesting.
My guess is because it's more recent, it hasn't become solidified last past decades have. There has been less time, less rewatches, less lists like AFI, SIght and Sound, etc to really lock down as much of a consensus. We know that movies which are the biggest in their moment don't always live on to be hailed as such. The Greatest Show on Earth, Out of Africa, Airport, etc. are these huge hits and get all these nominations and then in 10 years nobody watches them and people scratch their heads when they see them on lists of award winners and highest grossers. Then we have growers who were overlooked upon release but became classics like The Thing, The Big Lebowski or Night of the Hunter.
There's a bit of that for sure. At least for me, it's hard to rank things I haven't seen twice. I get other people don't do that and maybe don't watch movies more than once, but I think it's weird. On top of that we are all old, so chance are that a movie gets a repeat watch and either becomes that nostalgic favorite you watched over and over, or like your example (and it applies to me) movie like Lebowski grow in appreciation as you watch them. Most of us probably watch most of the movies at home, while distracted, and one time. The average person probably watches few movies than Shows/Social Media/sports as well in the 21st century. THEN add in all the movies that were made for a streamer and not for theaters and our choices are way more than we used to have access to. THEN we add it personal tastes and it wouldn't surprise me at all if it was a lot harder to get a consensus of great movies from this century vs. the 90s or 80s with this group.
Of course there's like at first watch/listen but repetition is what gets a lot of people to like/love things. The movie/tc ladscape has changed alot since the 80's/90's.
It has a bit, but i think people also waaay overrate tv shows. Imo the biggest change for movies is the action/blockbuster type fare. That is much different. However, there are stiil great prestige dramas and rom/coms now as has ever been. I would also argue that horror is as good as it's ever been, and would say the same about family/animated movies. Also more access to movies overseas which is a plus.
I wasn't talking about the quality per se but the streaming as opposed to 80/90's where we were all watching the same things sometimes ad nasuem. I remember in 5th grade when Tremors came on TV one night and we were all talking about it the next day. I doubt something like that would happen in the year of our Lord 2025.
Never. Those were the days, show to school Monday morning and everyone is talking about the episode of The Simpsons the night before or Seinfeld on a Friday. Those days are gone.
 
Germane to nothing...

Just for fun I ripped through Wikipedia's list of movies for the last 25 years to see what movies I'd consider for my list of 160-ish. Easily 50% of my list would be different from this one. It might be closer to 75%.

It's just interesting to me is all.
I'd love to see some lists at the end of other people's top 20-30. For me this was so much harder than other decades or lists, and to narrow down i focused a lot on movies I rewatch, buy, rekindled my love of movies, or surprised me the most in the last 25 years.

If i did "best" movies, my list would look much different, and i would expect someone using my similar method of narrowing down movies to come up with a vastly different list as well. This is just 2 people's opinions, we just seem to agree and differ on enough to make the combo countdowns interesting.
My guess is because it's more recent, it hasn't become solidified last past decades have. There has been less time, less rewatches, less lists like AFI, SIght and Sound, etc to really lock down as much of a consensus. We know that movies which are the biggest in their moment don't always live on to be hailed as such. The Greatest Show on Earth, Out of Africa, Airport, etc. are these huge hits and get all these nominations and then in 10 years nobody watches them and people scratch their heads when they see them on lists of award winners and highest grossers. Then we have growers who were overlooked upon release but became classics like The Thing, The Big Lebowski or Night of the Hunter.
There's a bit of that for sure. At least for me, it's hard to rank things I haven't seen twice. I get other people don't do that and maybe don't watch movies more than once, but I think it's weird. On top of that we are all old, so chance are that a movie gets a repeat watch and either becomes that nostalgic favorite you watched over and over, or like your example (and it applies to me) movie like Lebowski grow in appreciation as you watch them. Most of us probably watch most of the movies at home, while distracted, and one time. The average person probably watches few movies than Shows/Social Media/sports as well in the 21st century. THEN add in all the movies that were made for a streamer and not for theaters and our choices are way more than we used to have access to. THEN we add it personal tastes and it wouldn't surprise me at all if it was a lot harder to get a consensus of great movies from this century vs. the 90s or 80s with this group.
Of course there's like at first watch/listen but repetition is what gets a lot of people to like/love things. The movie/tc ladscape has changed alot since the 80's/90's.
It has a bit, but i think people also waaay overrate tv shows. Imo the biggest change for movies is the action/blockbuster type fare. That is much different. However, there are stiil great prestige dramas and rom/coms now as has ever been. I would also argue that horror is as good as it's ever been, and would say the same about family/animated movies. Also more access to movies overseas which is a plus.
I wasn't talking about the quality per se but the streaming as opposed to 80/90's where we were all watching the same things sometimes ad nasuem. I remember in 5th grade when Tremors came on TV one night and we were all talking about it the next day. I doubt something like that would happen in the year of our Lord 2025.
Never. Those were the days, show to school Monday morning and everyone is talking about the episode of The Simpsons the night before or Seinfeld on a Friday. Those days are gone.
Was Game of Thrones the last time we had that around here?
 
Germane to nothing...

Just for fun I ripped through Wikipedia's list of movies for the last 25 years to see what movies I'd consider for my list of 160-ish. Easily 50% of my list would be different from this one. It might be closer to 75%.

It's just interesting to me is all.
I'd love to see some lists at the end of other people's top 20-30. For me this was so much harder than other decades or lists, and to narrow down i focused a lot on movies I rewatch, buy, rekindled my love of movies, or surprised me the most in the last 25 years.

If i did "best" movies, my list would look much different, and i would expect someone using my similar method of narrowing down movies to come up with a vastly different list as well. This is just 2 people's opinions, we just seem to agree and differ on enough to make the combo countdowns interesting.
My guess is because it's more recent, it hasn't become solidified last past decades have. There has been less time, less rewatches, less lists like AFI, SIght and Sound, etc to really lock down as much of a consensus. We know that movies which are the biggest in their moment don't always live on to be hailed as such. The Greatest Show on Earth, Out of Africa, Airport, etc. are these huge hits and get all these nominations and then in 10 years nobody watches them and people scratch their heads when they see them on lists of award winners and highest grossers. Then we have growers who were overlooked upon release but became classics like The Thing, The Big Lebowski or Night of the Hunter.
There's a bit of that for sure. At least for me, it's hard to rank things I haven't seen twice. I get other people don't do that and maybe don't watch movies more than once, but I think it's weird. On top of that we are all old, so chance are that a movie gets a repeat watch and either becomes that nostalgic favorite you watched over and over, or like your example (and it applies to me) movie like Lebowski grow in appreciation as you watch them. Most of us probably watch most of the movies at home, while distracted, and one time. The average person probably watches few movies than Shows/Social Media/sports as well in the 21st century. THEN add in all the movies that were made for a streamer and not for theaters and our choices are way more than we used to have access to. THEN we add it personal tastes and it wouldn't surprise me at all if it was a lot harder to get a consensus of great movies from this century vs. the 90s or 80s with this group.
Of course there's like at first watch/listen but repetition is what gets a lot of people to like/love things. The movie/tc ladscape has changed alot since the 80's/90's.
It has a bit, but i think people also waaay overrate tv shows. Imo the biggest change for movies is the action/blockbuster type fare. That is much different. However, there are stiil great prestige dramas and rom/coms now as has ever been. I would also argue that horror is as good as it's ever been, and would say the same about family/animated movies. Also more access to movies overseas which is a plus.
I wasn't talking about the quality per se but the streaming as opposed to 80/90's where we were all watching the same things sometimes ad nasuem. I remember in 5th grade when Tremors came on TV one night and we were all talking about it the next day. I doubt something like that would happen in the year of our Lord 2025.
Never. Those were the days, show to school Monday morning and everyone is talking about the episode of The Simpsons the night before or Seinfeld on a Friday. Those days are gone.
Was Game of Thrones the last time we had that around here?
Yes I think that might have been the last TV show to have that kind of universal must see TV effect
 

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