Our top 10's of 2000 - Time to throw down - Page 2

As of 7/26/01

1. Requiem For A Dream
2. Yi, Yi
3. Dancer In The Dark
4. In The Mood For Love
5. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
6. High Fidelity
7. Amores Perros
8. Traffic
9. American Psycho
10.Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?

Best Documentary:
The Life And Times Of Hank Greenberg

Other Notable: The Girl On The Bridge, Almost Famous, Not One Less, Erin Brockovich, You Can Count On Me, Chicken Run, Chunhyang, Chuck & Buck, 13 Days, The Claim, The Princess and the Warrior, Fantasia 2000

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Nick’s Top 10 of 2000

Last Update July 18th, 2001

1. Traffic

2. Memento

3. O Brother, Where Art Thou?

4. High Fidelity

5. Requiem for a Dream

6. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

7. Almost Famous

8. Wonder Boys

9. Amores Perros

10. Chopper

Well, here goes....

1. Boiler Room
2. Way of the Gun
3. Ninth Gate, The
4. Pitch Black
5. Men of Honor
6. Titan A.E.

Can't think of anymore that are worthy. I still have much catching up to do. Especially with all of the movies that have come out in the last month or so.

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1. Fantasia 2000 (9/10)
2. Best in Show (9/10)
3. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (9/10)
4. Almost Famous (9/10)
5. Yi Yi (9/10)
6. Requiem for a Dream (9/10)
7. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (9/10)
8. Nurse Betty (8/10)
9. High Fidelity (8/10)
10. Wonder Boys (8/10)

Have not seen (amongst others I'm sure):
Pollock, Butterfly, Sunshine

The Rest(in close to the correct order):
Eights:
Chicken Run, Dancer in the Dark

Sevens:
You Can Count on Me, The Gift, Virgin Suicides, Snatch, Traffic, Small Time Crooks, Whole Nine Yards, The Terrorist, Joe Gould's Secret, Quills, Chocolat, State and Main, What Women Want, Unbreakable, Croupier

Sixes:
Shanghai Noon, Eyes of Tammy Faye, Dr. T and the Women, Shadow of the Vampire, Saving Grace, The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle, Chuck and Buck, Erin Brockovich, The Cell, Contender, Time Code, Cast Away, Bamboozled, Family Man, X-Men, Cecil B. DeMented, American Psycho, Keeping the Faith, Boiler Room, Billy Elliot, Mission: Impossible II, Girlfight, Frequency, Way of the Gun, Two Family House, Legend of Bagger Vance, Where the Money Is, Bring It On, Gladiator

Fives:
Charlie's Angels, Patriot, What Planet Are You From?, Rules of Engagement, U-571, Pitch Black, Titan A.E., All the Pretty Horses

Less:
Watcher, The (4/10), Perfect Storm, The (3/10), Mission to Mars (3/10)

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Last edited: 05-29-01: added Yi Yi

OK, first of all, let me say that this list represents films I enjoyed, not necessarily films I think are brilliant on any sort of technical level, bearing study for years to come. I'm sure some of my choices will inspire some eye-rolling. Aside from the first two, these aren't in any sort of order.

1) Almost Famous (I don't remember the last time I saw a film that had the emotional impact of AF)
2) Requiem for a Dream
3) High Fidelity
4) X-Men
5) Pitch Black
6) Virgin Suicides
7) Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (though I wish it weren't castrated)
8) Urban Legends: Final Cut (I'm sure everyone's here, but it's a return to dumb '80s slashers, a subgenre I've loved for years)
9) Final Destination
10) Godzilla 2000 (though I don't think it'll be as much fun outside of a theater)

I'm tempted to replace one of those with "The Whole Nine Yards".

I plan on seeing "Traffic", "Shadow of the Vampire", "The Gift", "Best In Show", "Chicken Run", "State and Main", and "Meet The Parents" as soon as the opportunity presents itself.

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1. Requiem for a Dream
2. Requiem for a Dream
3. Requiem for a Dream
4. Requiem for a Dream
5. Requiem for a Dream
6. The Emperor's New Groove
7. High Fidelity
8. Shanghai Noon
9. Gladiator
10. Me, Myself, and Irene

Ask me again in a year and a half. These are the only 2000 relesases I've seen, though the more I read about it, the more I want to see You Can Count on Me (and it's actually playing in town right now.) CTHD is also set to open here some time in the next few weeks.

No need to turn this into another "why I hate going to the theater" thread, but, man, I really hate going to the theater.

FINAL LIST
Ric's Best of 2000

1. Almost Famous
2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
3. Traffic
4. Wonder Boys
5. Requiem for a Dream
6. Cast Away
7. Best In Show
8. X-Men
9. Gladiator
10. High Fidelity

Last Updated Mar 17 2001

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Revised on January 17, 2001 to include O Brother, Where Art Thou?.

Second revision on April 4 to include Dancer In The Dark and The Contender.

For the time being, my top 10 are:

1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. By far the best of 2000. A Masterpiece.
2. Erin Brockovich Julia Roberts best performance to date and also Soderberg's best of 2000.
3. O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Coens at the top of their form. A laugh riot. Owen Gleiberman must be on crack.
4. Billy Elliot A remarkably well acted audience pleasing film. Young Jamie Bell should get an Oscar nom.
5. Fantasia 2000 A worthy sucessor to the 1940 classic.
6. Gladiator The summers best film and gets better every time I watch it.
7.The Perfect Storm An exciting, emotional rollercoaster
that delivered on all levels.
8.Dancer In The Dark..A haunting, mesmerising, remarkable film by Lars Von Trier with a heartwrenching amazing performance by Bjork. Wow.
9.The Contender..A very good story and great performances by Joan Allen, Jeff Bridges, Gary Oldman, and Sam Elliot elevate this political thriller into top 10 territory.
10.Frequency The spring sleeper hit that was mind bending and deeply personal at the same time.

Honorable Mentions:
Space Cowboys Clint Eastwood's geriatric version of Armageddon which turned out to be a surprisingly entertaining well acted film.
High Fidelity Told a similar story in the vein of Almost Famous but was better, funnier, and more entertaining than that somewhat, IMO, overrated film.


Yet to see.. You Can Count On Me, 13 Days, Finding Forrester, Quills, Requiem For A Dream but will probably catch most of these on DVD so my list is probably 95% complete.

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Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus.

Updated my picks and added in more of the list since I have now seen CTHD and can heartily recommend it to anyone within shouting distance. I have it tied with Requiem For A Dream because both were so different and yet so very good in their own way that I couldn't short-shrift either one on my list.


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Sorry, Seth McLeod.

Updated to add 13 Days on the list.


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Bump.

(Updated 1/15/00)

A ton of films was released here over the weekend and I saw three (13 Days, CTHD, and O Brother). All three were good, but only CTHD made my top 10, which has been updated accordingly.

Updated to add Traffic to my list. I also almost added 13 Days, but I'm going to think about that a little more.

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Going by the IMdb's dates as to when a film was released wide in the US in 2000 (I don't care if some of these films were at Cannes in 1999 or played LA/NY on Xmas).

Magnolia*
O Brother Where Art Thou
Almost Famous
Traffic
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
The Virgin Suicides
Best In Show
Erin Brockovich
High Fidelity
Shanghai Noon

Honorable Mentions (Reissues)

A Hard Days Night
Legend of the Drunken Master

* OK, this was on my best of 1999 too, but if I didn't include it I would only have a top 9. Maybe when I can finally see Wonder Boys I'll change my Top 10.

I edited my list to elevate Dancer in the Dark to #1, and add a bunch I saw last week.

Oooppps! Sorry Seth, please see my continuing most updated Top 10 list somewhere in page 5 of this thread.

I'll try to watch a lot more (films that are in everyone's list ) this week ... Thanks!

In order of personal preference:

1. Billy Elliot
2. Almost Famous
3. Traffic
4. Yi Yi
5. Requiem for a Dream
6. High Fidelity
7. Croupier
8. Nurse Betty
9. Dancer in the Dark
10. Bamboozled

After adding Requiem, Dancer and Bamboozled, Sunshine, The Contender and Unbreakable have fallen off the list. I still maintain very high opinions of the films.

edited 3/10/01

Updated my list on page 2 to include O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and additional comments on my top 10.

Seth

You were right on with your assesment of O Brother... I loved it and also consider it to be one of the Coen brothers best films.

BTW, If you want a quck fix till the DVD is released, pick up the soundtrack. It's a doozy.

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Well, so far it looks like this:

1. You Can Count On Me - A++++
2. Requiem For A Dream - A+++
3. Keeping the Faith - A
4. Erin Brockovich - A
5. Unbreakable - A-
6. Chocolat - A-
7. Pay It Forward - B+
8. Girlfight - B+
9. Cast Away - B+
10. What Lies Beneath - B+

If my top ten could be stretched out just a tad, I would include...

Finding Forrester - So it was another Good Will Hunting... Who cares? The story was still very inspiring. To me, at least - B

Traffic - Pretty damn good; not great. Does look like a film that may grow on me with time though - B

Chicken Run - Gotta respect those guys for having the creativity and patience to put something as entertaining as this together - B

State and Main - Very funny, indeed. Mamet was a little too quick for me, but I still absorbed enough to enjoy most of it - B

Possible 'top ten' films I have yet to see are...

Yi Yi
Pollock
Before Night Falls
Billy Elliot
Croupier
Girl on the Bridge
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
George Washington
Sunshine
Shadow of the Vampire
Malena

Highly acclaimed films that did not 'fully' click with
me were...

Almost Famous - Good writing, but I just couldn't relate to any of the characters - C+

Wonder Boys - Again, good writing, but way too slow, and just not all that interesting, period - C

Gladiator - Come on, guys... Yes, it was entertaining, has lots of action and has a semi-decent story, but -even though I do have it on DVD - was it really that good?!?! Good enough to deserve all these high accolades?! Don't think so. To me it's just another enjoyable big-bugeted summer epic - B-

Guilty pleasures...

Charlie's Angels - I just can't get enough of'em.

The Perfect Storm - Yeah, a corny ending, but still, I left the theater exhausted and very saddened. The alst film that had this effect on me was Titanic. And that, to me, says a lot about the movie.

Remember the Titans - Though quite formulaic, it had some very solid performances backed up by strong themes.


VERDICT: Last year ended well, but was hampered by a roster of some of the least entertaining films I have seen in recent years.


- A.

PS: List will be updated as I go along.

I posted my Best a few pages back but I saw Croupier the other day and loved it. I urge people to see this movie.

Here are my other favorites...
* Gladiator
* You Can Count on Me
* Dinosaur
* Frequency
* Requiem for a Dream
* Broken Hearts Club
* Almost Famous
* Meet The Parents
* Charlie's Angels
* Erin Brockovich

1. Requiem for a Dream
2. CTHD
3. Almost Famous
4. American Psycho
5. Traffic
6. O Brother Where Art Thou
7. Unbreakable
8. High Fidelity
9. Remember the Titans
10. 13 Days

The first two on my list really stand out. I don't think that any of the other movies I saw are close to challenging for those spots. Numbers 3-8 are pretty interchangable I think. All have strengths and weaknesses. Remember the Titans and 13 Days were solid, but there are few others that I have yet to see.

It always amazes me when I walk out of movie thinking that there is no way anyone liked it only to see it on someone else's top ten list... Pay it Forward, Final Destination, Me, Myself and Irene?! MMI might be the worst studio film I have ever seen. Honestly, It is up there with The Jerky Boys and The Phantom on my all-time worst films I have ever seen. I can't believe anyone even liked it, let alone put it on their top ten list. I would rather Ted Danson's new sitcom for three hours than that horrible piece of crap for even five minutes.

I could go on and on about that garbage movie, but I won't. I will let you all get on to read more lists.

Charlie, I'm not sure if you're referring to me, but the only reason Me, Myself, and Irene (what a pile of horse shit) is on my list is because I've only seen 6 movies that were released in 2000. What can I say? My wife loves Jim Carrey so we usually see his movies the weekend they open. I probably should have stayed out of the thread, but, hey, the game looked fun and I wanted to play.

Like I said, give me year to watch the great 2000 releases at home and I promise I'll put together a much more presentable list. BTW, I'm almost ready to post my Best of 1999. Where'd that thread go?

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I'd just like to interject that I thought at the beginning of this thread it stated that ppl wouldn't question or put down others choices. Guess some can't follow the rules.
It's a shame too, cause my top 5 almost mirrors Charlie's...and while I enjoyed American Psycho, I imagine others might think it a gratituous piece of trash.. though they wouldn't say... cause they followed the request of the thread poster.

For the record, Requiem for a Dream was my favorite movie of the year and I'm glad to see a lot of people on here agree.

Doug