On a more positive note than the carp films name a film of the the noughties that you think was exceptional.
I am going for Downfall, a German made film about the last days of ww2 in berlin. I don't know how accurate it is but I thought it was exceptionally shot and acted.
Y tu mama tambian?
Still have to watch Downfall - bought it over a year ago but not got round to it yet. 🙁
In The Loop.
Aother WW2 film worth watching is The Counterfeiters. It's a German made film aswell and is bloody incredible!
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I don't know if you will calss any of the following as blockbusters and discount them but i have really enjoyed
Spirited Away
Garden State
Igby Goes Down
Pan's Labyrinth
And i recently watched 13(Tzameti) which was extrodinary.
Pan's Labyrinth was superb. Would Oldboy be classed as a non-blockbuster?
El Bola.
when I first saw The Fountain http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414993/ I found it quite difficult, pretentious and a bit boring, but it really stuck in my head for some reason and it's got better the last two times I've seen it, which is usually a good sign. I can't really figure out why I like it so much, but it's one that really sticks out for me.
Lives of others has to be up there somewhere
Je t'aime depuis longtemps. And not just for Kristin Scott-Thomas.
Festen. 1998 but rules are there to ...........
Seems like a foreign film thread could fly.
Inland Empire is stunning - think it was David Lynch's last film. Not actually been back to the cinema since.
City of God
Mesmerine
The Prophet
Probably older than a decade but, La Haine
Last Night - 1998 but what the hey, reminds me of someone which is always good
Donnie Darko - Obviousley
Adventureland - have to be in the mood though
The trouble with non-blockbuster films is that studios have got wise to the fact that Indie style films seem to sell well
Garden State. It's a little bit ****y, to be fair, but it works.
Hero
Brick
City of God
The Pianist.
Let the right one in.
Being John Malkovich.
Little Miss Sunshine was pretty good.
Would like to see Goodbye Lenin again to see if it was as good as I remember it.
As well as most of those above - thought Pan's Labyrinth was excellent.
All depends on how you define 'blockbuster' I guess.
My picks would be -
Memento
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
28 Days Later
Dogma (nearly the noughties)
Shaun of the Dead
still on the fence about Tideland and Jarhead
slainte 🙂 rob
Another vote for City of God
Anchorman!
Ach, cmon, if Anchorman and Little Miss Sunshine aren't blockbusters, what are?
(Lots of good films above).
Anchorman a blockbuster? Don't even remember it being out in the pics!
Production costs must have been fairly small too so surely not a blockbuster.. Although I accept it is a Hollywood film.
Come & See.
JCVD, it is simply superb on so many levels. If Colin Firth had been the main character it would have won 16000 Oscars.
Telstar
The Kid
Looking for Eric
Four Lions
Anchorman a blockbuster? Don't even remember it being out in the pics! Production costs must have been fairly small too so surely not a blockbuster
Budget
$26,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend
$28,416,365 (USA) (11 July 2004) (3,091 Screens)
£555,864 (UK) (12 September 2004) (291 Screens)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0357413/business
I think blockbuster isn't too far off, no?
Sideways
and another vote for little miss sunshine
another vote for 'downfall', possibly throwing in 'frost vs nixon'
Winter's Bone
Pan's Labrynth
Life Aquatic with Steve Zizzou
Biutiful
Into the Wild
Sideways
Shame
Gomorrah
Tyrannosaur
Mid-August Lunch
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Ooops, missed the noughties bit - most of mine are newer.
'son of rambow' is great, but loads of other good ones mentioned above. really enjoyed 'outpost' as it was filmed locally and the baddie does the commentary for some of the no-fuss mountain bike events =)
Life Aquatic with Steve Zizzou
Blimey, it's a good thing we're all different, isn't it? A lot of films bore me - if i watch them on DVD I might well go and make a cup of tea in the middle and not pause it - but The Life Aquatic...I can't begin to tell you how much that annoyed me.
'Changes' sung in Portuguese, in a sort of boss nova style? Ooh, it's so [i]arch[/i], so [i]knowing[/i], so [i]clever[/i]. Actually, Wes, it's not. It's just pretentious toss, the sort of thing that makes me angry beyond measure.
Take one bunch of brilliant actors. Add a rubbish script, a lot of whimsy, a bunch of quirkiness, then stir in a cup - no, make that two cups - of unfunny, and there you have The Life Aquatic. It's probably the worst film I've ever seen, and the running time of almost two hours (I had to look this up - it felt much longer) didn't help.
Napoleon dynamite
Pan's Labyrinth.
I've got a dreadful memory for films, and favourites is very hard, but I'm really glad I watched...
[b]Tsotsi[/b] (if you like City of God)
[b]Before Sunrise[/b]
[b]Old Boy[/b] (I didn't like the others in the trilogy)
[b]Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring[/b] (pretty depressing though)
[b]Priceless[/b] (french mainstream romcom - I much prefer it to the hollywood variety)
[b]Mesrine[/b] (good long tv-style french thriller)
[b]Zatoichi[/b]
[b]Heartbreaker[/b] (an even better french mainstream romcom)
[b]The Lives of Others[/b]
[b]Primer[/b] (convoluted mind games and time travel)
[b]Once[/b]
[b]Sideways[/b]
[b]Let the right one in[/b]
The Driver – like someone said ‘it stuck in my head’ too. I did not like it at the time either.
District 9 and Dead Man's Shoes
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Audition
Dumplings
Visitor Q
A Bittersweet Life
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
Napoleon Dynamite
"Do the chickens have large talons?"
Sympathy for lady vengeance +1 for that
Hereafter, I don't know if it was a 'blockbuster' or not but I had never heard of it before I watched it on Sky movies the other week. I suppose the fact that it had Matt Damon in and was directed by Clint Eastwood gives it a Blockbuster heritage.
The Life Aquatic. It's probably the worst film I've ever seen
You've never seen The Fisher King, have you?
Pan's Labrynth
Buba Ho Tep
Dead Man Walking
A Prophet
Goodbye Lenin
You've never seen The Fisher King, have you?
You're right, I'd tried to put that stinking pile of manure behind me. That said, it's still not as bad as The Life Aquatic. It tries, and in part at least, it succeeds. It just doesn't have the full panoply of miserablist crapness that only Wes Anderson can deposit on the screen.
Amores Perros
Bombon El Perro
Red Dog
no mention of The Illusionist yet?
Does There's Something About Mary qualify as a blockbuster?
really like The World's Fastest Indian and Flying Scot
Does There's Something About Mary qualify as a blockbuster?
I'd say so, some big names in there.
Dead Man's Shoes fo sho.
Leon
Ronin
Napolean Dynamite
Gay Boys in Bondage
no mention of The Illusionist yet?
It's good but it's not the best of the decade.
I think Four Lions would be a good contender for both summarising and satirising the decade.
As a personel favourite it would have to be (Soulboy) not because it was great acting or sets but it reminded me of my Youth on the Northern Soul Scene 😀 .
I suppose any film which stirs up good memorys from your teenage years will be good to watch, even the ones that remind you of that first failed attempt with some lucky girl round the back of some Garage somewhere 😳
Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior, from 2003
Some excellent muay thai fight sequences, little bit of humour, acting pretty average.
...of the last decade
Some people need to check when half these films actually came out. You may be alarmed at how much time has passed 😆
I agree with lots of those above.
I will chuck Moon into the ring as well 🙂
no mention of The Illusionist yet?It's good but it's not the best of the decade.
And it was 2010, no? Fabulous film though. Am off to see a dramatized version of Belleville Rendezvous next week 🙂
Continuing the animation theme, I'd mention
9
Coraline
Hols Moving Castle
Into the Wild.