The class I TA for at American has asked me to come up with my favorite movies over the past years. I've done my best from memory and placed them where they belong after double checking. I thought I'd put it up here since a lot of people ask me about my favorite movies, but I have varying ones for different years. Here goes.
2000
1. Memento
2. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
3. Requiem for a Dream
4. Snatch
5. Scary Movie
6. Finding Forrester
7. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
8. Almost Famous
9. Best in Show
10. American Psycho
Honorable mentions: Gladiator, Battle Royale (the original Hunger Games), Pay It Forward, In the Mood for Love, The Whole Nine Yards, and the absolute worst movie that I haven't watched in a few years is Battlefield: Earth.
2001
1. Mulholland Drive
2. Royal Tenenbaums
3. Moulin Rouge!
4. Super Troopers
5. Donnie Darko
6. Frailty
7. Along Came a Spider
8. Monsters, Inc.
9. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
There weren't many films from 2001 that I really liked...
2002
1. Gangs of New York
2. Bubba Ho-Tep
3. 8 Mile
4. City of God
5. 25th Hour
6. Equilibrium
7. Murder By Numbers
8. Count of Monte Cristo
9. The Pianist
10. Bang Bang You're Dead
And of course Lord of the Rings: Two Towers
2003
1. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
2. Kill Bill: Volume 1
3. Identity
4. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
5. Oldboy
6. Love Actually
7. The Last Samurai
8. A Mighty Wind
9. Darkness Falls
10. 11:14
Honorable mention: The Room (Because it's so weird and bad)
2004
1. Crash
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Saw
4. Kill Bill: Volume 2
5. Big Fish
6. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
7. Mean Girls
8. Kinsey
9. The Motorcycle Diaries
10. The Woodsman
Honorable mentions: The Machinst (definite recommendation), Primer, and Club Dread
2005
1. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (also my favorite movie of all time)
2. Sin City
3. Brick
4. Hostel
5. Thank You for Smoking
6. The Jacket
7. Derailed
8. Cry_Wolf
9. Hard Candy
10. The Descent
Honorable mentions: Wolf Creek (best theater experience I've ever had) and History of Violence
2006
1. The Departed
2. Pan's Labyrinth
3. The Lives of Others
4. The Prestige & The Illusionist (can't separate them)
5. Akeelah and the Bee
6. Children of Men
7. The Devil Wears Prada
8. 300
9. A Scanner Darkly
10. Smokin' Aces
Honorable mentions: Little Miss Sunshine, Accepted, Silent Hill, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Running Scared, Running With Scissors, 2:37, and of course Snakes on a Plane
2007
1. No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood (absolute best films of the year)
2. Into the Wild
3. Trick 'r Treat
4. Gone Baby Gone
5. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
6. Death Proof
7. Teeth
8. Charlie Bartlett
9. Shoot 'Em Up
10. Hostel: Part 2
Honorable mentions: Superbad, Juno, Across the Universe, Eastern Promises, We Own the Night, The Kite Runner, Funny Games (remake of Australian film from 1999)
2008
1. The Dark Knight
2. Slumdog Millionaire
3. In Bruges
4. Let the Right One In
5. Cloverfield
6. Repo! The Genetic Opera (super weird, but entertaining. Paris Hilton is in it and super crazy)
7. Definitely, Maybe
8. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
9. Otis
10. Burn After Reading
Honorable mentions: Be Kind Rewind and Wanted
2009
1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Zombieland
3. The Blind Side
4. The Hurt Locker
5. The Soloist
6. I Love You, Man
7. Star Trek
8. Up
9. The Hangover
10. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the entire Swedish series)
Honorable mentions: Antichrist (Lars von Trier is amazing, check out all his other stuff too!), District 9, Law Abiding Citizen, The Road, Push, The Collector, The Soloist, Exam (surprisingly excellent and is on Netflix instant watch), Precious, Funny People (only for Aubrey Plaza's standup segment of about five minutes, but it's totally worth the full watch too).
Also, Human Centipede. Yes it is disgusting, but it's an interesting concept and a pretty interesting film.
2010
1. The Ghost Writer
2. Toy Story 3
3. How To Train Your Dragon
4. It's Kind of a Funny Story
5. True Grit
6. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
7. The Debt
8. Rubber
9. Machete
10. Devil
Honorable mentions: Black Swan, Red, Blue Valentine, The Crazies, Howl, I Saw the Devil, Buried, and A Serbian Film. Arguably one of the toughest and strangest films I've ever watched. Banned in several countries, involves some very graphic sex and violent scenes. Proceed with caution.
2011
1. Drive
2. Midnight in Paris
3. The Artist
4. Killer Joe
5. Attack the Block
6. Scream 4
7. Bridesmaids
8. Limitless
9. Carnage
10. Super 8
Honorable mentions: Hobo With a Shotgun (ridiculously fun movie), Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, and 50/50
2012
1. Cabin in the Woods & Silver Linings Playbook
2. Mud
3. Seven Psychopaths
4. The Master
5. Skyfall (my favorite Bond movie of all time)
6. Django Unchained
7. Perks of Being a Wallflower
8. Looper
9. Chronicle
10. John Dies at the End
Honorable mentions: Sinister, The Avengers, The Paperboy, and The Collection
To be completely honest, I'm sure I missed one or two of my favorites over the years, but I can't be entirely sure. If you want any explanations from this or anything let me know and I will do my best to answer your questions. I probably could have written a blurb about all of these to help more, but don't have that much time on my hands.
