Best Movies of the Decade

The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford  
The Departed – Lots of fackin swearin’.
No Country For Old Men – hardcore
Anchorman - Comedies don’t get a lot of respect on “best of” lists because they’re considered less-than-important filmmaking. But damn, that movie made me cry with laughter in the theater which I had never done before or since.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – Epic visuals.
The Royal Tenenbaums – Epic storytelling. 
Ghost World – Jeez that feels like a lifetime ago. 
Amelie - Gorgeous.
Kill Bill 1&2 & Inglorious Basterds – Considering I despise Tarentino as a personality/celebrity, not a bad decade, sir.Kudos. You read my blog, right, QT?
Zodiac - Gorgeous.
High Fidelity: I don’t think you could work at a used music store and not appreciate this movie on some level.

Proof Family Entertainment Can Rock: The Incredibles & WALL-E – Really well-done & solid. The design of the Incredibles, the film titles, and a lot of the merch was just excellent. WALL-E: the robot itself was just great. A fucking CUBE with a hollow MIDDLE. And he folded up SO NEAT.

My Post-Apocalyptic Winners: Children of Men and The Road

My Mid-Apocalypse Winners: 28 Days Later and Shawn of the Dead

Best geek movie franchise: Lord of the Rings

Worst: Star Wars prequels

I think Fight Club should get an honorable mention, as it was released in Oct. of ’99 & it’s still fucking rad.

I think The Matrix should get an honorable mention (another ’99er) because, despite whether you liked it or hated it, and despite the rest of the trilogy which totally gayed up a good thing, I think this movie held a lot of impact on the last decade. It took the wire-fu from Hong Kong and transformed it into a hyper-real high-tech computery visual language for fight scenes. 10 years later and you watch a trailer for a movie like “Kick Ass“, and the Matrix is all over it. As a direct result of it, kung fu has become a standard fight scene element in most American action films (heck, it actually turned around and affected a lot of the subsequent Hong Kong output). Unlike hype surrounding movies like The Phantom Menace & Avatar, The Matrix really DID affect how (certain types of) films are made.

Semi-Honorable Mentions go to Death to Smoochy, Idiocracy, Team America: World Police, and Pootie Tang, which I enjoyed certain moments of immensely, even if the movies themselves were sort of mediocre. Generally eh movies with a few really really incredibly good scenes. Derka derka.

AFTERTHOUGHTS:

Moon - Jeez, that was pretty fuckin’ good.

Triplets of Belleville – Jeez, that was pretty fuckin’ good.