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This is the list of metacritic.com's Best-Reviewed Wide-Release Films of the Decade 2000-09.
1. Italicize the movies you watched.
2. Bold your favourites.
3. Strike the ones you watched and disliked.
4. Leave as is movies you haven’t seen.
5. Post your answers.
1. Pan’s Labyrinth - 2006
2. Ratatouille - 2007
3. Spirited Away - 2002
4. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The - 2003
5. Sideways - 2004
6. WALL-E - 2008
7. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - 2000
8. There Will Be Blood - 2007
9. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The - 2001
10. Queen, The - 2006
11. No Country for Old Men - 2007
12. Incredibles, The - 2004
13. Almost Famous - 2000
14. Gosford Park - 2001
15. United 93 - 2006
16. Lost in Translation - 2003
17. House of Flying Daggers - 2004
18. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan - 2006
19. Finding Nemo - 2003
20. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - 2004
21. Letters from Iwo Jima - 2006
22. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The - 2002
23. Capote - 2005
24. Chicken Run - 2000
25. Up - 2009
26. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit - 2005
27. Brokeback Mountain - 2005
28. Slumdog Millionaire - 2008
29. Million Dollar Baby - 2004
30. In the Bedroom - 2001
31. Traffic - 2000
32. Departed, The - 2006
33. Ponyo - 2009
34. Bourne Ultimatum, The - 2007
35. Pianist, The - 2002
36. Knocked Up - 2007
37. About Schmidt - 2002
38. Atonement - 2007
39. Children of Men - 2006
40. Milk - 2008
41. Mystic River - 2003
42. Shrek - 2001
43. Volver - 2006
44. Dave Chappelle’s Block Party - 2006
45. Hero - 2004
46. Adaptation - 2002
47. Avatar - 2009
48. Fantastic Mr. Fox - 2009
49. Star Trek - 2009
50. Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride - 2005
51. Up in the Air - 2009
52. Spider-Man 2 - 2004
53. Drag Me to Hell - 2009
54. U2 3D - 2008
55. Kill Bill: Volume 2 - 2004
56. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 2007
57. Constant Gardener, The - 2005
58. School of Rock - 2003
59. Pride & Prejudice - 2005
60. Chicago - 2002 (I love the OST but not the movie)
61. Michael Clayton - 2007
62. Dark Knight, The - 2008
63. Eastern Promises - 2007
64. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - 2004
65. Mighty Wind, A - 2003
66. History of Violence, A - 2005
67. Juno - 2007
68. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World - 2003
69. Hot Fuzz - 2007
70. Wrestler, The - 2008
71. Hours, The - 2002
72. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - 2005
73. Hairspray [2007] - 2007
74. King Kong [2005] - 2005
75. Casino Royale - 2006
76. District 9 - 2009
77. Simpsons Movie, The - 2007
78. Coraline - 2009
79. Good Night, and Good Luck - 2005
80. Little Miss Sunshine - 2006
81. Minority Report - 2002
82. Frost/Nixon - 2008
83. March of the Penguins - 2005
84. Hotel Rwanda - 2004
85. High Fidelity - 2000
86. Flags of Our Fathers - 2006
87. Precious: Based on the Novel by Sapphire - 2009
88. Iron Monkey - 2001
89. Iron Man - 2008
90. Monsters, Inc. - 2001
91. 28 Weeks Later… - 2007
92. Hellboy II: The Golden Army - 2008
93. Punch-Drunk Love - 2002
94. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - 2009
95. Insomnia - 2002
96. Zodiac - 2007
97. Kung Fu Hustle - 2005
98. Aviator, The - 2004
99. Happy Feet - 2006
100. 8 Mile - 2002
saw 53/100
wow I didn't dislike any of them?
I'm reading random articles at tvtropes.org, it's quite fun and addictive and holy crap I opened dozens of tabs and ended up reading them for hours.
-> is when someone replied and added sth in the article
=> are my own remarks!
1. from Suspiciously Similar Substitute
A character who joins the cast as a replacement for a character who has left the show due to real-life distractions (contract negotiations, death, etc.) despite being integral to the plot or concept of the series. Invariably, this character fills the Stock Character slot left vacant by the departed, whether that be comic relief, intellectual, or musclebound bruiser.
Battlestar Galactica replaced Billy Keikeya with Tory Foster. This is actually the only Battlestar example. Given the improvisational nature of the series' writing it's unclear if Billy would have followed a similar arc to Tory, had Paul Campbell remained on the show.
-> Well, at the very least, he probably wouldn't have slept with Anders and Baltar.
=> lmao!!! oh Bill-eh...
2. the title of this page amuses me
3. from Anyone Can Die
REAL LIFE
The world death rate seems to be holding steady at 100%.
-> Except for the many who are still alive. Hope springs eternal!
-> But are these for-real deaths? Or is there something wonderful waiting for us after life?
=> lol I love how silly topics are handled in fake seriousness
4. Everything Sounds Sexier in French / Everyone Looks Sexier if French / Gratuitous French (love how the sub-sections are in gratuitous French too haha)
5. Covered up
A specific form of Older Than They Think where the cover version of a song becomes so iconic that people forget it was a cover at all. The cover becomes the definitive version of the song.
Even though Bob Dylan sang "All Along The Watchtower" more often than any other song he wrote, plenty of people still think Jimi Hendrix did it first. Another prominent example is "Knockin' On Heaven's Door", which some thought was originally by Guns N Roses. Indeed, many Bob Dylan songs only became famous when someone else performed them, including "Blowin' In The Wind" (Peter, Paul, and Mary); "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "My Back Pages" (The Byrds); and most recently "Desolation Row" (My Chemical Romance). He's probably this trope's biggest victim.
- The confusion regarding "All Along the Watchtower" isn't helped any by Dylan saying that's how the song should have been played to start with, nor by Dylan altering his playing to be closer to the Hendrix version after Jimi died.
- Dylan himself wrote about Hendrix covering "Watchtower" in the liner notes of his Biograph box set:
"It's not a wonder to me that he did my songs; rather, that he did so few, because they were all his."
- Of course, in any event, All Along The Watchtower is actually a 150,000-year-old coded message from God, which Bob Dylan happened to pick up on and translate into modern English because he's just that awesome.
=> BSG WIN!
6. Wild Mass Guessing aka crazy theories about everything ever (all pages include a theory saying that someone is a Time Lord haha)
This is the place to expound your knowledge of the unmentioned. In short, the garden where we plant our Epileptic Trees. What's your crazy or not-so-crazy pet theory on a story you enjoyed? Have fun filling the logic holes and rationalizing the weird, because the wilder the idea the more you'd better sound convincing. And remember, it's not a lie unless they have proof! And even then, the author is wrong.
MARY POPPINS
Mary Poppins is a God trapped in a human body.
No amount of witchcraft could produce an entire universe made from a chalk drawing. Clearly, Mary is a deity.
-> I think it's pretty obvious she's a Time Lord. Her bag is bigger on the inside!
-> And Bert's TARDIS was disguised using the Chameleon Circuit as a block of pavement. The chalk world was a Hard Light VR simulation. The people weren't massacred when the rain washed away the drawing because 1. they were just simulations of people, and 2. it wasn't washed away at all.
BSG
Tyrol
Becomes Santa Claus. He decides to live "on an island by one of the northern continents". Tales of his kindness, bravery, and enginuity eventually morph into stories of a kind, strong man living in the North Pole who somehow develops a flying sled powered by flying reindeer.
-> So Santa's sled is a Raptor?
-> Or if you prefer, he becomes Odin, the precurser to Santa.
-> "So, Chief becomes the first Scotsman?"
Springing off from the theory that the island is Scotland, his Cylon circuitry takes a beating after some sort of accident - perhaps he took the high road instead of the low road, and had a nasty fall? His body initiates a last-minute survival mode physical shift incurred only by peat chemicals in a certain canyon lake, to transform him into... The Loch Ness Monster.
"Black Market" was all just Lee's Dying Dream from when he got shot out of the Blackbird in "Resurrection Ship".
It explains why none of the events really fit any continuity, and why the events of the episode are never really brought up again. Fisk-The Pegasus' XO-just happened to die soon after from unrelated causes. The episode is just Lee's psychological struggle to come to terms with Adama Sr.'s order to help assasinate Admiral Cain. The dark nature of this situation is represented by the black market, while Lee's threatened ideals are symbolized both by an imaginary girlfriend from before the fall of Caprica (the girl he always wished he had) and by the prostitute who she resembles. Once we understand this episode as an elaborate, imagined psychomachia as opposed to a representation of actual events, it's actually pretty good.
=> I'm tempted to make this my personal canon!
FRIENDS
The six of them are in a mental asylum together
It would explain so much. The apartments that would cost a billion dollars a month in rent. The coffee shop always catering to their every whim. Retconned pasts. 'Dating' each other. And every time one of them manages to make a life for themselves outside of the circle (Ross and the English woman), something extraordinary dumb happens to screw it up. Ross LIKES being in the Happy Home with the drugs at seven. However...the PARENTS are real. Sort of. Chandler can't tell the difference between his mom and his dad. Monica hates hers and tries to get 'revenge' by claiming silly stuff. "Oh dear, now she's claiming she slept with her pediatrician." Rachel's parents, of course, drove her into the asylum with her wanting to marry an idiot. Phoebe's mom committed suicide, and she just can't get over it.
=> this theory goes on and on it's very dark, which makes it funny
HIMYM
Ted is their Mother
The show is his explaining to his children how he invented, or encountered the person who invented, the technology for male pregnancy.
-> And that person would be Barney.
-> If this is the correct theory, it has to be Barney. But Barney should be the "mother" because Ted can't meet himself.
BEATLES
Father McKenzie killed Eleanor Rigby to hide their affair
She was at the church frequently, gathering the rice or cleaning. "When there's nobody there" implies there was some reason she would not go when there were others, and she would look out her window with the face in the jar (make-up) waiting for her chance to go meet her beau. She died in the church and was buried alone by Father McKenzie because, for some reason, he killed her there and had to quickly hide the body. "Wiping the dirt from his hands" was his first step to start hiding the evidence.
=> is it wrong that I actually picture a story like this when I hear the song?
Paul McCartney can fly
We see him do it in the videos for "Off the Ground" and "Your Loving Flame." It's uncertain if he can take off without help, but once he's in the air, he can fly skillfully and even hover.
-> Well of course he can, he's dead. Angel wings and all.
-> Or he's just good at missing the ground.
-> Of course he could fly. After all, he's got Wings. But even after he lost his Wings around 1980, he could fly. The Wings were decorative.
=> LMAO and all the entries about the "Paul is Dead" theories are golden, see below
Alternatively, WE'RE all dead, but Paul McCartney is alive.
Paul is an angel of Death.
Julian Lennon was Paul via Freaky Friday
Paul was dead, but was retconned back to life
-> And the retcon made us all forget he was ever dead. Including him.
-> Retconned by whom? God?
John was Paul.
William Shears Campbell will be Paul Mc Cartney.
William is a time traveller who accidentally killed Paul, and was forced to live out the rest of his life impersonating Paul.
Paul Mc Cartney is a Time Lord.
-> It was bound to happen one of these days, and it's so obvious. Paul DID die in that car crash, but regenerated. It also explains his slight change in personality and looks, he took on a different form and got it as close to his previous one as possible. It also makes it easier to understand how he's gotten to nearly 70, and is still performing!
Paul Mc Cartney was never alive.
-> He's a vampire or zombie or robot or something.
-> Looks like someone Did Not Do The Research. Both zombies and vampires were once alive.
William Shears Campbell saved The Beatles.
Paul is a ghost.
Paul is not dead, but when he does die he will haunt all of you for making up crazy theories about him.
1. Italicize the movies you watched.
2. Bold your favourites.
3. Strike the ones you watched and disliked.
4. Leave as is movies you haven’t seen.
5. Post your answers.
1. Pan’s Labyrinth - 2006
2. Ratatouille - 2007
3. Spirited Away - 2002
4. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The - 2003
5. Sideways - 2004
6. WALL-E - 2008
7. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - 2000
8. There Will Be Blood - 2007
9. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The - 2001
10. Queen, The - 2006
11. No Country for Old Men - 2007
12. Incredibles, The - 2004
13. Almost Famous - 2000
14. Gosford Park - 2001
15. United 93 - 2006
16. Lost in Translation - 2003
17. House of Flying Daggers - 2004
18. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan - 2006
19. Finding Nemo - 2003
20. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - 2004
21. Letters from Iwo Jima - 2006
22. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The - 2002
23. Capote - 2005
24. Chicken Run - 2000
25. Up - 2009
26. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit - 2005
27. Brokeback Mountain - 2005
28. Slumdog Millionaire - 2008
29. Million Dollar Baby - 2004
30. In the Bedroom - 2001
31. Traffic - 2000
32. Departed, The - 2006
33. Ponyo - 2009
34. Bourne Ultimatum, The - 2007
35. Pianist, The - 2002
36. Knocked Up - 2007
37. About Schmidt - 2002
38. Atonement - 2007
39. Children of Men - 2006
40. Milk - 2008
41. Mystic River - 2003
42. Shrek - 2001
43. Volver - 2006
44. Dave Chappelle’s Block Party - 2006
45. Hero - 2004
46. Adaptation - 2002
47. Avatar - 2009
48. Fantastic Mr. Fox - 2009
49. Star Trek - 2009
50. Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride - 2005
51. Up in the Air - 2009
52. Spider-Man 2 - 2004
53. Drag Me to Hell - 2009
54. U2 3D - 2008
55. Kill Bill: Volume 2 - 2004
56. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 2007
57. Constant Gardener, The - 2005
58. School of Rock - 2003
59. Pride & Prejudice - 2005
60. Chicago - 2002 (I love the OST but not the movie)
61. Michael Clayton - 2007
62. Dark Knight, The - 2008
63. Eastern Promises - 2007
64. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - 2004
65. Mighty Wind, A - 2003
66. History of Violence, A - 2005
67. Juno - 2007
68. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World - 2003
69. Hot Fuzz - 2007
70. Wrestler, The - 2008
71. Hours, The - 2002
72. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - 2005
73. Hairspray [2007] - 2007
74. King Kong [2005] - 2005
75. Casino Royale - 2006
76. District 9 - 2009
77. Simpsons Movie, The - 2007
78. Coraline - 2009
79. Good Night, and Good Luck - 2005
80. Little Miss Sunshine - 2006
81. Minority Report - 2002
82. Frost/Nixon - 2008
83. March of the Penguins - 2005
84. Hotel Rwanda - 2004
85. High Fidelity - 2000
86. Flags of Our Fathers - 2006
87. Precious: Based on the Novel by Sapphire - 2009
88. Iron Monkey - 2001
89. Iron Man - 2008
90. Monsters, Inc. - 2001
91. 28 Weeks Later… - 2007
92. Hellboy II: The Golden Army - 2008
93. Punch-Drunk Love - 2002
94. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - 2009
95. Insomnia - 2002
96. Zodiac - 2007
97. Kung Fu Hustle - 2005
98. Aviator, The - 2004
99. Happy Feet - 2006
100. 8 Mile - 2002
saw 53/100
wow I didn't dislike any of them?
I'm reading random articles at tvtropes.org, it's quite fun and addictive and holy crap I opened dozens of tabs and ended up reading them for hours.
-> is when someone replied and added sth in the article
=> are my own remarks!
1. from Suspiciously Similar Substitute
A character who joins the cast as a replacement for a character who has left the show due to real-life distractions (contract negotiations, death, etc.) despite being integral to the plot or concept of the series. Invariably, this character fills the Stock Character slot left vacant by the departed, whether that be comic relief, intellectual, or musclebound bruiser.
Battlestar Galactica replaced Billy Keikeya with Tory Foster. This is actually the only Battlestar example. Given the improvisational nature of the series' writing it's unclear if Billy would have followed a similar arc to Tory, had Paul Campbell remained on the show.
-> Well, at the very least, he probably wouldn't have slept with Anders and Baltar.
=> lmao!!! oh Bill-eh...
2. the title of this page amuses me
3. from Anyone Can Die
REAL LIFE
The world death rate seems to be holding steady at 100%.
-> Except for the many who are still alive. Hope springs eternal!
-> But are these for-real deaths? Or is there something wonderful waiting for us after life?
=> lol I love how silly topics are handled in fake seriousness
4. Everything Sounds Sexier in French / Everyone Looks Sexier if French / Gratuitous French (love how the sub-sections are in gratuitous French too haha)
5. Covered up
A specific form of Older Than They Think where the cover version of a song becomes so iconic that people forget it was a cover at all. The cover becomes the definitive version of the song.
Even though Bob Dylan sang "All Along The Watchtower" more often than any other song he wrote, plenty of people still think Jimi Hendrix did it first. Another prominent example is "Knockin' On Heaven's Door", which some thought was originally by Guns N Roses. Indeed, many Bob Dylan songs only became famous when someone else performed them, including "Blowin' In The Wind" (Peter, Paul, and Mary); "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "My Back Pages" (The Byrds); and most recently "Desolation Row" (My Chemical Romance). He's probably this trope's biggest victim.
- The confusion regarding "All Along the Watchtower" isn't helped any by Dylan saying that's how the song should have been played to start with, nor by Dylan altering his playing to be closer to the Hendrix version after Jimi died.
- Dylan himself wrote about Hendrix covering "Watchtower" in the liner notes of his Biograph box set:
"It's not a wonder to me that he did my songs; rather, that he did so few, because they were all his."
- Of course, in any event, All Along The Watchtower is actually a 150,000-year-old coded message from God, which Bob Dylan happened to pick up on and translate into modern English because he's just that awesome.
=> BSG WIN!
6. Wild Mass Guessing aka crazy theories about everything ever (all pages include a theory saying that someone is a Time Lord haha)
This is the place to expound your knowledge of the unmentioned. In short, the garden where we plant our Epileptic Trees. What's your crazy or not-so-crazy pet theory on a story you enjoyed? Have fun filling the logic holes and rationalizing the weird, because the wilder the idea the more you'd better sound convincing. And remember, it's not a lie unless they have proof! And even then, the author is wrong.
MARY POPPINS
Mary Poppins is a God trapped in a human body.
No amount of witchcraft could produce an entire universe made from a chalk drawing. Clearly, Mary is a deity.
-> I think it's pretty obvious she's a Time Lord. Her bag is bigger on the inside!
-> And Bert's TARDIS was disguised using the Chameleon Circuit as a block of pavement. The chalk world was a Hard Light VR simulation. The people weren't massacred when the rain washed away the drawing because 1. they were just simulations of people, and 2. it wasn't washed away at all.
BSG
Tyrol
Becomes Santa Claus. He decides to live "on an island by one of the northern continents". Tales of his kindness, bravery, and enginuity eventually morph into stories of a kind, strong man living in the North Pole who somehow develops a flying sled powered by flying reindeer.
-> So Santa's sled is a Raptor?
-> Or if you prefer, he becomes Odin, the precurser to Santa.
-> "So, Chief becomes the first Scotsman?"
Springing off from the theory that the island is Scotland, his Cylon circuitry takes a beating after some sort of accident - perhaps he took the high road instead of the low road, and had a nasty fall? His body initiates a last-minute survival mode physical shift incurred only by peat chemicals in a certain canyon lake, to transform him into... The Loch Ness Monster.
"Black Market" was all just Lee's Dying Dream from when he got shot out of the Blackbird in "Resurrection Ship".
It explains why none of the events really fit any continuity, and why the events of the episode are never really brought up again. Fisk-The Pegasus' XO-just happened to die soon after from unrelated causes. The episode is just Lee's psychological struggle to come to terms with Adama Sr.'s order to help assasinate Admiral Cain. The dark nature of this situation is represented by the black market, while Lee's threatened ideals are symbolized both by an imaginary girlfriend from before the fall of Caprica (the girl he always wished he had) and by the prostitute who she resembles. Once we understand this episode as an elaborate, imagined psychomachia as opposed to a representation of actual events, it's actually pretty good.
=> I'm tempted to make this my personal canon!
FRIENDS
The six of them are in a mental asylum together
It would explain so much. The apartments that would cost a billion dollars a month in rent. The coffee shop always catering to their every whim. Retconned pasts. 'Dating' each other. And every time one of them manages to make a life for themselves outside of the circle (Ross and the English woman), something extraordinary dumb happens to screw it up. Ross LIKES being in the Happy Home with the drugs at seven. However...the PARENTS are real. Sort of. Chandler can't tell the difference between his mom and his dad. Monica hates hers and tries to get 'revenge' by claiming silly stuff. "Oh dear, now she's claiming she slept with her pediatrician." Rachel's parents, of course, drove her into the asylum with her wanting to marry an idiot. Phoebe's mom committed suicide, and she just can't get over it.
=> this theory goes on and on it's very dark, which makes it funny
HIMYM
Ted is their Mother
The show is his explaining to his children how he invented, or encountered the person who invented, the technology for male pregnancy.
-> And that person would be Barney.
-> If this is the correct theory, it has to be Barney. But Barney should be the "mother" because Ted can't meet himself.
BEATLES
Father McKenzie killed Eleanor Rigby to hide their affair
She was at the church frequently, gathering the rice or cleaning. "When there's nobody there" implies there was some reason she would not go when there were others, and she would look out her window with the face in the jar (make-up) waiting for her chance to go meet her beau. She died in the church and was buried alone by Father McKenzie because, for some reason, he killed her there and had to quickly hide the body. "Wiping the dirt from his hands" was his first step to start hiding the evidence.
=> is it wrong that I actually picture a story like this when I hear the song?
Paul McCartney can fly
We see him do it in the videos for "Off the Ground" and "Your Loving Flame." It's uncertain if he can take off without help, but once he's in the air, he can fly skillfully and even hover.
-> Well of course he can, he's dead. Angel wings and all.
-> Or he's just good at missing the ground.
-> Of course he could fly. After all, he's got Wings. But even after he lost his Wings around 1980, he could fly. The Wings were decorative.
=> LMAO and all the entries about the "Paul is Dead" theories are golden, see below
Alternatively, WE'RE all dead, but Paul McCartney is alive.
Paul is an angel of Death.
Julian Lennon was Paul via Freaky Friday
Paul was dead, but was retconned back to life
-> And the retcon made us all forget he was ever dead. Including him.
-> Retconned by whom? God?
John was Paul.
William Shears Campbell will be Paul Mc Cartney.
William is a time traveller who accidentally killed Paul, and was forced to live out the rest of his life impersonating Paul.
Paul Mc Cartney is a Time Lord.
-> It was bound to happen one of these days, and it's so obvious. Paul DID die in that car crash, but regenerated. It also explains his slight change in personality and looks, he took on a different form and got it as close to his previous one as possible. It also makes it easier to understand how he's gotten to nearly 70, and is still performing!
Paul Mc Cartney was never alive.
-> He's a vampire or zombie or robot or something.
-> Looks like someone Did Not Do The Research. Both zombies and vampires were once alive.
William Shears Campbell saved The Beatles.
Paul is a ghost.
Paul is not dead, but when he does die he will haunt all of you for making up crazy theories about him.