IMDb Top Rated Films of the New Millenium

[Barbados Slim]

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They did 15 for some reason.

15. Requiem for a Dream
14. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
13. Spirited Away
12. The Pianist
11. The Lives of Others
10. The Departed
9. Amelie
8. Wall-E
7. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
6. Memento
5. Up
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
3. City of God
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
1. The Dark Knight

Interesting list and I pretty much agree. The only film I haven't seen was The Pianist. I love all of the others but I do wonder if Up is elevated because while it made an emotional superpunch to the gut in the beginning, I think Wall-E is the stronger overall Pixar film.

What fascinates me is this is based on user votes and seems to be a twist on the popular vs. critical darling argument. ROTK and The Departed are best picture Oscar winners; The Lives of Others, Wall-E, Spirited Away won their categories; and the rest were nominated for either Best Picture, Writing or Directing, save Requiem which got truly fucked by the academy.

These are all movies that get watched and watched over again. Movies that blew my mind when I saw them, each one had me going "Wow, that was more than just a movie, but a work of genius." Eternal Sunshine is my all-time favorite movie and Spirited Away is in my top 10, with Amelie and Lives of Others up there too. And City of God is truly one of the best films ever made like all the critics say.

Question is, what's not on there? Any weird choices?

 

[nx1701g]

I agree with the list pretty much. Those are a lot of the movies that I think of when I think of recent film.

 

[Starbreaker]

All good movies except The Departed. Just couldn't get into that one for some reason.

 

[Harvey]

Replace The Departed with the original and super Hong Kong version, Infernal Affairs and then we can talk. Honestly, I think you could make a lot of choices that are better than that list (although The Lives of Others definitely belongs there), but that's IMDB for you.

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

TDK is starting to get seriously overrated. I found Iron Man equally impressive. Is it because Ledger died?

 

[Mistral]

I think Memento is a one-trick-pony. Hotel Rwanda was far better. (or was that in the 90s?)

 

[Rii]

TDK is starting to get seriously overrated. I found Iron Man equally impressive. Is it because Ledger died?

I doubt that either of them will be remembered 20 years from now.

 

[CaptainCanada]

Pretty solid, though I wouldn't put Amelie that high (there are bound to be individual disagreements).

The IMDB's Top 250 has generally been a pretty respectable list of films; just with more genre diversity than you find on critics' list (sci-fi, for example).

 

[Barbados Slim]

TDK is starting to get seriously overrated. I found Iron Man equally impressive. Is it because Ledger died?

I think the key word is "starting" to get seriously overrated. It's gotten the same acclaim is it did last year when it was massively received and became the second biggest movie ever. It's just that people are "starting" their Dark Knight backlash. A film that big stops becoming a movie and starts becoming a cultural event. And through the passage of time, once it leaves the zeitgeist it becomes a thing that is passe, "sooo 2008." People start treating it like Uggs, Crocks, and Coldplay. The same thing happened with Titanic where its cool to have the opinion that Titanic sucks, people can't articulate why, they just have a strong opinion on it. The internet also accelarates this, as seen by BSG backlash.

We'll be hating Avatar a month before it even comes out.

 

[Broccoli]

TDK is starting to get seriously overrated. I found Iron Man equally impressive. Is it because Ledger died?

I am sure that is a big factor in it. As morbid as this sounds, but Ledger dying was probably the best publicity that movie could have gotten.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

The overall collection of films is good (although I haven't seen The City of God, The Lives of Others, or Spirted Away) but I disagree with the order. That being said, who knows what kind of films they've left out. I would have to look at a complete list to be certain.

 

[Bloodwhiner]

Sorry there are about 5 on that list which belong there.. ten are just fandom

 

[Aragorn]

What is this a list of? The top 15 movies Armond White hates the most?

 

[Skywalker]

The Fellowship of the Ring should be ahead of The Return of the King.

 

[Rii]

The Fellowship of the Ring should be ahead of The Return of the King.

I agree, but the rankings are derived from user ratings.

 

[Skywalker]

The Fellowship of the Ring should be ahead of The Return of the King.

I agree, but the rankings are derived from user ratings.

I know. The users are dumb!

 

[chrisspringob]

IMDb's full top 50 movies of the new millenium are listed here:

http://www.imdb.com/chart/2000s

Very new releases tend to have somewhat inflated scores on IMDb, so I expect that District 9 and Up will drop down a few spots six months from now.

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

I liked Iron Man more than TDK so right off the bat I think they are wrong.

Memento was great but I have only seen it once so I don't know if it holds up.

The Departed was just okay, nowhere near as good as his earlier work. The fact that it is still in a top ten of the decade says a lot about the quality of movies these days.

LOTR was a great trilogy, but it was hard to go wrong with it unless you screwed up on a technical or casting level.

Spirited Away I thought was atrocious.

Should Be On The List?

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Wrestler
No Country For Old Men
300
Sin City

 

[The Fatman]

^^ Yeah, I expect Up! will drop considerably with time. I did love it, but I sure don't think it's Pixar's finest work.

Overall though, with the exception of Up! I think that's a pretty damned good list. I'm having a real hard time thinking of other movies I would put that high. In fact, if you just removed Up! altogether, slotted everything else up one, then added in The Prestige at 15, I'd say I agreed perfectly.

 

[bigdaddy]

TDK is starting to get seriously overrated. I found Iron Man equally impressive. Is it because Ledger died?

I doubt that either of them will be remembered 20 years from now.

Exactly, it's not a classic if no one really remembers it in 20 years. I think it's a great movie, I give it an 8, MAYBE 8.5 and Iron Man is fun, let's say 7-7.5. Those might be a little high but I give them points for being super hero movies and no sucking (Like Spiderman).

Actually while I bring up Spiderman, I think that is one of the most over rated movies of my lifetime, much MUCH more so that The Dark Knight.