Best Films you've seen (1995-Present), IYO

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AmberMagdalena
AmberMagdalena Posts: 461 Member
Everyone always says the best movies are the classics, but I can think of a ton of box office hits in the past 20 years that have made film history. A lot of the time, some films go unrecognized in their greatness.

If you go to: http://www.imdb.com/features/15thanniversary/staff , these folks picks some of the movies they considered to be the greatest in the past 15 years.

I personally love a good comedy. I think it's a challenge to make a solid comedy. Since so many things can be considered funny, sometimes comedies can lack an actual point and end up a big mess.

I only have a handful of movies that I could watch over and over and could get the same satisfaction and entertainment from, and other movies I wish I had never laid eyes on!

The best movies I've seen made in the past 15 or so years have to be:

American History X- 1998
Remember the Titans- 2000
Se7en-1995
Finding Nemo- 2003
Gran Torino- 2008
Old School- 2003
13 Going on 30- 2004
Shallow Hal- 2001
Amreeka- 2009
The Dark Knight- 2008
The Rebound- 2009

I'm trying to mix it up a bit, by adding a little of this and that.....

Worst movies I've ever seen:

Soul Plane- 2004
Harold and Kumar (any)
Norbit- 2007
Glitter- 2001

I have so many more, but these are nice short lists. This is just my personal opinion. (I know when I get home and look at my dvds I'm going to be facepalm, forgot about that!)

So here comes the fun part! I'd like to see from all of you what you think are some of the best movies you've seen in the past 15 years( give or take). It'll be fun to see what others say. You can break it up into categories or include why or why not. Make it fun!!
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  • Valqis
    Valqis Posts: 1,016 Member
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    Worst movies I've ever seen:
    Norbit- 2007

    I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SORRY FOR YOU!
  • AmberMagdalena
    AmberMagdalena Posts: 461 Member
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    Worst movies I've ever seen:
    Norbit- 2007

    I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SORRY FOR YOU!

    LOL I know! I think my brain suffered trama after that movie :laugh:
  • gemmaldavies
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    my sorta post! lol

    american history x - amazing!!
    avatar
    warrior
    bronson - u have 2 c this!
    dark knight
    the jacket
    lotr - obviously
    man on fire
    changeling
    murder in the first
    sleepers
    fallen
    inception
    blood diamond
    7 pounds
    pursuit of happyness


    there r sooo many! i cud sit dwn all day watching new films :smile: and of course the best classics
  • AmberMagdalena
    AmberMagdalena Posts: 461 Member
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    I'm bummed this post kinda flopped :ohwell:

    I was kinda hoping to get titles I could put on my playlist this weekend!!
  • ScottyNoHotty
    ScottyNoHotty Posts: 1,957 Member
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    Any Christopher Nolan movie
    Watchmen
    LOTR
    The King's speech
    Horrible bosses ( jen Aniston...Yum )
    Grizzly Man
    Last King of Scotland
    The departed ( Infernal affairs is the original Hong Kong movie )
    Donnie Darko
    Gosford Park
    Harry Potter filmfest
    A history of violence
    Run Lola Run
    Pan's Labyrinth
    Ghost Dog
    O Brother where art thou
    Lords of Dogtown
    Mulholland Drive
    There will be blood
    The royal Tenenbaums
    No country for old men
    The big Lebowski!!!!!
    Almost famous
    Crouching tiger, hidden dragon
    Spirited away
    Man on wire

    Hundreds more....
  • vacherin
    vacherin Posts: 192
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    Best films:

    The Shawshank Redemption (I know, I know, it's not post-1995 and everyone names this one when asked about their favourite film, but it's so good it had to be mentioned!)
    Leon (again, probably not post-1995 but still amazing - featuring a very young Natalie Portman who is just mesmerising)
    City of God
    The Bucket List
    Spirited Away
    American History X
    Dodgeball

    Worst films:
    Ghost Ship (utter ****e)
    2012 (seriously - don't bother)
    Tree of Life (pretentious and weird)

    Edited to add Dodgeball!
  • dubw
    dubw Posts: 429
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    Shrek I & 2
  • AmberMagdalena
    AmberMagdalena Posts: 461 Member
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    Best films:

    The Bucket List

    One of my favorites! Brilliant film!
  • jendarlin
    jendarlin Posts: 184 Member
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    This weekend I just watched one of the best movies I have seen in a long time, though that's probably not saying much because I don't watch a whole lot! :laugh: Anyway it was Winter's Bone, very good! Sorry I don't have a whole list for ya though :)
  • ggus64
    ggus64 Posts: 22
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    Absolute worst- Dinner for Shmucks

    I feel like the real shmuck was me....for actually spending money to see this garbage
  • DMZ_1
    DMZ_1 Posts: 2,889 Member
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    Superbad was one of the funniest movies I have seen in the past few years.
  • improve2012
    improve2012 Posts: 15 Member
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    World's Greatest Dad
  • christibear
    christibear Posts: 93 Member
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    The Dark Knight
    The Lord Of The Rings
    The 40 Year Old Virgin
    Session 9
    The Usual Suspects
    Pan's Labyrinth
    Juno
    50/50
    Tale of Two Sisters
    Let the Right One In
    Seven
    American Psycho
    WALL-E
    Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind
    Howls Moving Castle
    Shrek (This one got very over played but it was still very good when it came out)
    Finding Nemo
    Fargo
    The Big Labowski
    Super Bad

    The worst movie I have seen in a long time, Burn After Reading, its the only one of note for me because there are some movies you expect to be bad but this movie really bothered me.
  • calliope_music
    calliope_music Posts: 1,242 Member
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    mannn i have so many:

    Pan's Labyrinth
    Avatar
    Requiem for a Dream
    LOTR (all of them)
    Wall-E
    The Incredibles
    Finding Nemo
    American History X
    The Dark Knight
    The King's Speech
    O Brother Where Art Thou

    worst movies:

    Reign of Fire. what. the. eff.
  • xtinalovexo
    xtinalovexo Posts: 1,376 Member
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    Mr Popper's Penguins.

    March of the Penguins.

    Happy Feet.

    Penguins of Madagascar.


    and............

    Capote.
  • mrlazy1967
    mrlazy1967 Posts: 285 Member
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    Four Lions
  • Operation_Me
    Operation_Me Posts: 869 Member
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    American Beauty
    Toy Story 3
    Up
    Fight Club
    The Big Lebowski
    Oldboy
    Crash
    500 Days of Summer
    City of God
    Good Will Hunting
    Slumdog Millionaire
    Inception
  • hapoo100
    hapoo100 Posts: 940 Member
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    Boondock Saints
    American History X
    Usual Suspects
  • Allie_71
    Allie_71 Posts: 1,063 Member
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    Road To Perdition
    No country for old Men
    The usual suspects
    Trainspotting
    Fargo
    Fight Club
    Donnie Darko
    Amelie
    Snatch
    Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
    Kung Fu Hustle
    Shaolin Soccer
    Crash
    Up
    Good Will Hunting
    Big Lebowski
    Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

    Gosh, so many, I can't think.

    Walked out of Spawn.
  • Operation_Me
    Operation_Me Posts: 869 Member
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    Worst Films:

    When in Rome
    Balls of Fury
    Last Mimzy