Best 21st Century Film

[Laddy]

Best 21st Century Film. Go.

Pan's Labyrinth.

[LocoColt04]

What Dreams May Come.

[Raistlin]

Hotel Rwanda
The Dark Knight
V for Vendetta
Donnie Darko

Yes, I am a nerd. :p Pan's Labyrinth is good too. I'm blanking on others right now, but I also need sleep.

[Shorty]

From an overall perspective, I am super torn between Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and No Country for Old Men.

From a personal perspective, The Royal Tenenbaums or maybe Lost in Translation.

Everything Raistlin listed is top on the list, that's for damn sure. The Dark Knight is an obvious choice as well.

[Pumpkin]

Donnie Darko is one of my favorite movies.

[LocoColt04]

You know what I just realized? As amazing as my choice is, it's disqualified. It came out in 1998. My concept of time is completely shot.



Maybe Eternal Sunshine or Pan's Labyrinth... either are solid choices. I may have to give this some more perspective, though this really only gives us 13-14 years of movies to work with now.

[Rantz]

All of the ones mentioned so far are on my shortlist for sure, although I actually haven't gotten to Hotel Rwanda yet despite having had it downloaded for a long time. I'd also like to add a more recent film - Intouchables.

As for picking out just one, nope.

[charliepanayi]

Mulholland Drive.

[Pike]

Finding Nemo.

[I Took the Red Pill]

Oldboy
Drive
Inception
Lost in Translation

fuck i need to stop or i'm just gonna keep going.

[Night Fury]

Snakes on a Plane

[Slothy]

Wall-E.

[Jiro]

I dunno I've heard Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus was pretty great

(I am not a film buff so I don't even know where to begin)

[Rye]

Oldboy, hands down.

[Madame Adequate]

The Emperor's New Groove.
Mean Girls.
Battlefield Earth.
Shalon Soccer/Kung-Fu Hustle.
Lost in Translation.
Bubba Ho-Tep.
Finding Nemo.
Wall-E.
The Incredibles.
Oldboy.

[Jinx]

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.

[Pike]

The Emperor's New Groove.

This, or alternatively Lilo & Stitch.

[Del Murder]

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
Yeah, I thought this was pretty obvious.

[Jinx]

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
Yeah, I thought this was pretty obvious.

Apparently not that obvious, if it took 15 posts for someone to say it!

Unless, of course, you're just agreeing with me and saying, "This is definitely the best answer."

[Loony BoB]

The Emperor's New Groove

EDIT: Wait, that was 20th century. Damn.

EDITRA: Okay, okay. Untouchable. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1675434/)

[charliepanayi]

Screw accuracy, the 21st Century started on January 1st 2000!

[Loony BoB]

If we're going down that road then I revert back to The Emperor's New Groove.

[Del Murder]

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
Yeah, I thought this was pretty obvious.

Apparently not that obvious, if it took 15 posts for someone to say it!

Unless, of course, you're just agreeing with me and saying, "This is definitely the best answer."
I was expressing my shock that it took 15 posts. I definitely agree. These were the best movies made in this century so far, and by quite a large margin.

[Pike]

I'm still gonna honestly go with Finding Nemo.

[Night Fury]

I REALLY DON'T KNOW!!

In all seriousness I just don't know. Maybe House of Flying Daggers for me because it's just a piece of fucking art.

[Scotty_ffgamer]

Can we all just agree on Dragon Ball Evolution? (I do seriously love watching that movie. It's fun to make fun of).

I'd personally probably say The Royal Tenenbaums or The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

[Pheesh]

Yikes, best? Maybe the Dark Knight, just because it has everything.

But if I went more by what were my favourites I would say Scott Pilgrim, Toy Story 3 or 500 Days of Summer.

[Jinx]

I REALLY DON'T KNOW!!

In all seriousness I just don't know. Maybe House of Flying Daggers for me because it's just a piece of smurfing art.

This is true.

[Araciel]

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.

[The Captain]

I'd agree that LOTR was probably the biggest and greatest achievement so far of the 21st century. If we all think back to when it was announced, very few people actually believed that A) It could be pulled off and B) That it would be any good, so to look back now and see how epic it is in scale and scope, it deserves the cake.

I'd also give a special mention to four movies that are near and dear to my heart for very different reasons:

Almost Famous, which came out in 2000 so I guess it qualifies, for STILL being my favorite movie ever, after countless viewings.

Children of Men, for being one of the most audaciously shot and edited movies I have ever seen.

Spirited Away, for being as close to a perfect fairy tale as anything I've ever seen.

Up, especially the four minute Married Life montage which may well be the most moving, heart-wrenching thing I have ever seen. I have only been in one other movie theater where literally everyone was weeping collectively (Saving Private Ryan, which I saw at a screening for Army Vets).

Take care all.

[charliepanayi]

While I wouldn't put the Lord of the Rings films as my absolute favourite of 2000-onwards, they would be up there. Not least because fantasy and film don't usually mix at all (as the legions of fantasy adaptations that have come along before and since demonstrate).

[Shiny]

I second Children of Men and Pan's Labyrinth. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is less allegorical, but still in my top ten favorites of all time so that of course is on my list as well. Inception not so much for the bulltrout story, but for the groundbreaking set design and special effects.

Other notable mentions: Amelie, A Beautiful Mind, Ichi the Killer

Those were all from 2001. Such a fantastic year for filmmaking that was. Yoda I am.

From 2002: City of God. I am stopping here.

[Laddy]

City of God, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lost In Translation, Lord of the Rings, Spirited Away, No Country for Old Men, Amelie, Requiem for a Dream, Children of Men, Looper, Memento, Hotel Rwanda, Inglorious Basterds, Oldboy, Up, and Donnie Darko are some other personal choices.

This was a very underrated period for sci-fi and fantasy films.

[The Man]

The first post got it right. It's Pan's Labyrinth.

There have been a lot of other great films - LotR, Children of Men, No Country for Old Men, etc. - but Pan's Labyrinth managed a level of artistic achievement that no other film I've seen from the past thirteen years has managed.

[Scotty_ffgamer]

I really need to watch Pan's Labyrinth again. It's been a while since I've seen it, but I remember it being extremely good.

[Rantz]

I never realised Children of Men was so well liked before now. I just thought it was okay, but didn't stick out to me at all as anything special.

[The Captain]

The cinematography in Children of Men is utterly top notch and it has an underrated, low-key world building element which has become more and more popular in the years since it came out.

Take care all.

[Spuuky]

I don't know what to say to people who think Donnie Darko is in contention to be the best movie of this century so far, except that they should probably watch better movies.

And suggestions like Lost in Translation are straight out, because, regardless of anything else, a movie must at least be interesting to be the best movie.

I'm surprised people like Oldboy so much. It's pretty good, but I've seen better Korean Revenge Dramas. Since 95% of Korean movies are about vengeance anyway. I'm not even sure Oldboy is the best movie in its own trilogy.

[Del Murder]

What do they call people who critique others' selections without making one of their own?

[Calliope]

Well I don't know, Del Murder, what do they call people who critique others' selections without making one of their own?

Handsome, probably.

[Del Murder]

No that wasn't it.

[Calliope]

Well, feel free to tell us, then.

EDIT - Upon further consideration, I would say Man on Wire, followed by The Bridge, Kung Fu Hustle and Ocean's Eleven.

[Shiny]

The cinematography in Children of Men is utterly top notch and it has an underrated, low-key world building element which has become more and more popular in the years since it came out.

Take care all.
Not just the cinematography, but also the storytelling and the editing. There were shots that seemed continuous, but were actually the magic of the editor. So much symbolism in the film. Also it's the best I've seen Clive Owen, but he was also good in Closer.

[Shorty]

And Sin City! But in agreement, Children of Men is his best.