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. 🙁

I quite liked THIS:-

In The Loop.

Aother WW2 film worth watching is The Counterfeiters. It’s a German made film aswell and is bloody incredible!

INFO HERE

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 ****, 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 arch, so knowing, so clever. 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…

Tsotsi (if you like City of God)
Before Sunrise
Old Boy (I didn’t like the others in the trilogy)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring (pretty depressing though)
Priceless (french mainstream romcom – I much prefer it to the hollywood variety)
Mesrine (good long tv-style french thriller)
Zatoichi
Heartbreaker (an even better french mainstream romcom)
The Lives of Others
Primer (convoluted mind games and time travel)
Once
Sideways
Let the right one in

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