Was the Last Decade of Movies THAT Bad?

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[Caipirabob]

Is this all a decade of movies is worth?

According to the American Film Institute's new list of the 100 greatest films, the last 10 years have produced only four great ones: "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" (No. 50), "Saving Private Ryan" (No. 71), "Titanic" (No. 83) and "The Sixth Sense" (No. 89).

I get bloated just typing those titles. Granted, the last 10 years have been a historically weak period for films. They can't touch Hollywood's golden era of the '40s, or the heralded '70s, when maverick directors roamed the studios.

[Doohickey]

Eh. I don't agree with all of these, of course. One movie that is missing that I definately think should be there is Apollo 13.

[BlazingArizona]

If any film from the last decade belongs in the list, it should be “Sideways”.

[Shooter 2.5]

I was disappointed with “Open Range”. Another example of hollywood where the good guys get to shoot a Bazillion times because they are outnumber three to one. Realism has to mean more than costuming and props.

[jslade]

The best movie I’ve seen in years was “The World’s Fastest Indian”.

True. Great movie. Anything with Anthony Hopkins tends to be great. However, I would nominate "Second Hand Lions" with Robert Duvall and Michael Caine.

[Shooter 2.5]

Resident Evil 3 is in post production. I really think I’m in love with Milla Jovovich. All of her bruises and cuts in the first one weren’t makeup because they were real.

She is in a movie called .45. It’s a brutally realistic movie of small time criminals and there are some great lines in it. My favorite is “six months with her, and all her boyfriends changed their names to “Plantiff”.

[Doohickey]

North by Northwest is #55 on the list.

[Fishrrman]

Question asked:
Was the Last Decade of Movies THAT Bad?

Yes, it was.

The last movie I went to a theatre to view was "Brother's Keeper" (a documentary, actually) in 1993.

I don't think I'll be going back.

- John

[Notary Sojac]

"Titanic" is a masterpiece.....It brought in more money in ticket sales and DVD's than any movie in history.

By that same logic, McDonald's cuisine is a "masterpiece". It is not, rather it is consistently manufactured pap designed to be inoffensive to the maximum number of people.

And it achieves that end very well and very profitably. As did "Titanic".

[Hardastarboard]

Waterworld and The Postman

I saw both of those movies, and didn't think either one was as bad as everyone said. You are right that Open Range is a classic western, very well done.

[Fishrrman]

I, too, hated Titanic. It was far inferior to "A Night to Remember."

If you want to see the best "shipwreck" movie ever made (they actually partially sank the "Ile de France" to make it!), get ahold of "The Last Voyage", 1960, directed by Andrew Stone.

- John

[Hardastarboard]

You do have a talent.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Lists with Citizen Kane featured as the number one film of all time, aren't worth the time to read.

The only people who think it was the "best movie ever" are movie snobs.....get over it....it wasn't that good.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

One quibble - Dick Cheney is missing. Perhaps as Theoden?

Up until the illegal immigrant invasion, it was this...

[libertybell]

Are you gay?

[Brett66]

I think I’m one of only five people on the planet that liked Starship Troopers.
The thing I liked about it was their unapologetic attitude towards war.
They knew that humans were the dominant species of the galaxy and weren’t afraid to nuke you to get the point across.
It’s actually a very refreshing departure from Hollywood’s stereotypical angst-ridden hand wringing about war.

[Drew68]

Kate Winslet's magnificent rack couldn't save this fecesfest of a movie.

LOL!!!!!!!

Different strokes for different folks, I guess. Titanic will go down as one of my favorite movies. Sorry, but I feel it was epic filmmaking! I rate a movie on the "won't turn it off" factor, --meaning, when you are surfing the remote control and you land on one of these films, you don't keep surfing. You watch it to the end.

In no particular order:

Titanic
Saving Private Ryan
Goodfellas
Gladiator
Braveheart
Silence of the Lambs

OK, some of those are more than 10 years old, but those are my top made in the recent time.

Of course, Lawrence of Arabia is the best film ever made.

[JennysCool]

Though undeniably popular, I think North by Northwest is severely underrated. It's really the first big, brassy, glossy globetrotting adventure, and reportedly greatly influenced the makers of the James Bond series, which got rolling three years later. You could almost frame it as Cary Grant as an unwitting Bond, and Leo G. Carroll as "M." One of the truly great adventures, in any case, and it still holds up incredibly well.

[Drew68]

I think I’m one of only five people on the planet that liked Starship Troopers.

No, there's two of us.

Brilliant filmmaking. Great special effects. Lots of blood and gore. But you're right. A lot of people didn't "get it." Netherland's Paul Verhoeven, unfortunately, with Showgirls, kinda knocked himself out of the running with Hollywood's A-list directors.

That's another one of those films that when it comes on TV, I watch it to the end! And Clancy Brown is great in it! Hell, even Jake Busy is pretty good! Even Doogie whatshisname! Sadly, we had to wait for Wild Things to see Denise Richards take her top off.

Awesome film!

[rlmorel]

I don’t think it had anything to do with realism...it was a story, told with a theme in mind more than anything approaching realism.

[Drew68]

I also thought Open Range was a dandy classic western. Enough to make me forgive Kevin Costner for Waterworld and The Postman.

Open Range was a great film. Especially the gunfight at the end! I didn't expect Costner to have such talent as a director.

Still, Dances with Wolves beating out Scorsese's Goodfellas for best picture and director will go down as the greatest injustice in Academy Award history.