21st century movies that you would define as the BEST and up there with the classics.

nope - nun. nada.

i'm more interested in films of the thirties than the new ones today.

Saw a Melvyn Douglas film called - good girls go to paris with Joan Blondell on youtube.
very entertaining. last week, it was best film i've seen this year so far. light comedy.

La la land sounds like a bad Fred and Ginger film?

remakes and superhero films or gritty melodramas rule and i'm getting more depressed.
has anyone sat thru transformers and understood what they were watching... a thousand metal shards shifting every frame? the story doesn't exist. it's just special effects.

one of the best films i have seen in recent years is

oh brother where art thou....just sneaks in at 2000

troy , kingdom of heaven, a couple of decent attemps at epics

It would be a brave man who'd deny the presence of Ted 2 on this list.

Interstellar and Donnie Darko are my favourites of this century thus far.

There Will Be Blood

Pan's Labyrinth

The Lives of Others

Moon

all superb films IMHO

whilst waiting for the golf one night i watched

blue is the warmest colour , that was quite hard to turn off


ditto i watched spring breakers, ....a difficult film to get into but very much worth the effort

pans labyrinth is a brilliant film bigh,

Oh if we are including the wonderful world of World Cinema , there are plenty

City Of God
Untouchable
Downfall
Amores Perros
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Amelie
City Of Life and Death
Departures
I'm A Cyborg But That's OK
Nine Queens
The Secret In Their Eyes

28 Days Later
Into The Wild

shocking omissions by self

Johnny_Mustang

It would be a brave man who'd deny the presence of Ted 2 on this list.



Has there ever been a more damning film review than this?

Johnny_Mustang

OK, not strictly a review but you'll get the gist.........

....Myself and Mrs Mustang watched the very excellent La La Land yesterday. As the credits rolled at the end I heard the chap in front of me say "It wasn't as good as Ted 2".

I mean, seriously?

If that's not bad enough Ted 2's not even as good as Ted 1.

I felt like punching the ignoramus square in his chops.

Donnie Darko
Downfall
The Lives Of Others
Sin City

Django Unchained and True Grit

Gladiator

Les Miserables just for Anne Hathaway's performance if nothing else.

I'm going to throw my hat into the ring with the very beautiful and haunting The Pianist.

Outstanding.

Interstellar and Moon have 'soft' ripoffs of Kubrick's HAL

no country for old men

two films worth watching below... not any classics.

The Hoax
Its all gone pete tong
Shifty
Fracture
Filth
Sexy Beast
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
The Bank Job


But my favourite is.......Lay the Favorite

Talking about superheros....

The fantastic four 2005

Alvin and the chipmunks 2 the squeakquel


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Honourable mentions.....

Gladiator

Final Destination

Blue is the warmest colour is an excellent film if you don't mind subtitles and lesbians getting naked

Inglorious Basterds For Me.

where there subtitles twizzle, i never noticed.

Tey were where the **** is...

C l I t..

I quite liked Das Boot  a long film but it draws you in and is very atmospheric

Another vote for There Will Be Blood, an absolute masterpiece of a film.

yes, made me want to go bowling

There Will Be Blood is a brilliant film. Boyhood would be my other favourite from this century.

Other notables, The Departed, Gangs of New York, The Theory of everything and wolf of wall street.

Agree with Gangs of New York, have watched it countless times.

24-Hour Party People and The Grand Budapest Hotel are two films I can watch again and again. And each is pretty well unique in its own way.