If someone could only watch five movies from the 2000s/2010s...

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2010's:

Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming
Bridesmaids
Dallas Buyers Club
The Wolf of Wall St
This Is the End


2000's:

Dude, Where's My Car?
Team America: World Police
Mean Girls
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Clerks II



which would you recommend?

Don't assume this is the average movie goer. These are people really serious about the art of cinema.

That being said, it doesn't have to be academic. Just movies you think are great/important/fun/noteworthy/whatever.

2010s:
Tree of Life
Midnight in Paris
The Artist
Her
Wolf of Wall Street
Holy Motors and Oslo, August 31 cause I'm not gonna NOT put them...

2000s:
There Will Be Blood
Oldboy
Inglorious Basterds
Wall-E
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

I want to die for leaving off some of the movies that I did, but there. That's my list. Will be curious to read yours.
Very pleased to see love for Midnight in Paris...God, I love that movie.



2000s

Zodiac
Children Of Men
The Machinist
Road To Perdition
Tropic Thunder

2010s

The Fighter
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Blue Valentine
Starred Up
Drive (Watched it again recently, loved)
Nice to see some love for Tropic Thunder...possibly the funniest movie of the new millenium.



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2000's:
In Bruges
No Country for Old Men
Jarhead
Ironman
There Will Be Blood

2010's:
King of Devil's Island
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Winter's Bone
Argo
The American



Young Skywalker. Missed you, I have...
2000s
No Country For Old Men (07)
Pan's Labyrinth (06)
The Hurt Locker (09)
The Departed (06)
Memento (00)


2010s
Inception (10)
The Dark Knight Rises (12)
Zero Dark Thirty (12)
Lone Survivor (13)
Argo (12)
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2010s
Zero Dark Thirty (12)
I forgot about ZDT. It was very good. I've only watched it twice. Need to watch again soon. I also almost included Inception on my list.



2000s
Quills
Gladiator
Up
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Bubba Ho-Tep

(All from my top ten. I've omitted Ratatouille for the sake of variety)

2010s
Her
Wreck-It Ralph
The Wolf of Wall Street
A Separation
Django Unchained

Probably not the "best" films in terms of artistry, but they're a lot of fun.



what is Werckmeister Harmonies about? who stars in it? I have never heard of it till today
It was only the slowest, most boring films you'll ever see.
So slow and boring that it's fascinating in some regards.

How can you get away with a shot showing nothing but a truck approaching for 5 minutes ? I don't know. But this film attempts it. And it keeps that pace up the whole film.

I wish netflix had a easy way to view my ratings by decade .. I don't trust myself to randomly pick some.

But for 2010 I can say with certainty

Edge of Tomorrow
Man from Nowhere

For 2000:

3 idiots
Batman Begins
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Ip Man
LOTR - Two Towers



2000s
In the Mood For Love (2000) - Wong Kar Wai
Oldboy (2003) - Park Chan Wook
3-Iron (2004) - Kim Ki Duk
Spring Summer ... (2003) - Kim Ki Duk
The Weeping Meadow (2004) - Theodoros Angelopoulos

2010s

A Separation (2011) - Asghar Farhadi
Boyhood (2014) - Richard Linklater
Before Midnight (2013) - Richard Linklater
Confessions (2010) - Tetsuya Nakashima
The Turin Horse (2011) - Bela Tarr



Bright light. Bright light. Uh oh.
Forgive me, Guap.

2000s

The Incredibles
King Kong
Downfall
The Dark Knight
The Return of the King


2010s

Gravity
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
The Act of Killing
How to Train Your Dragon
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2000s

The dark knight
The passion of the Christ
Wall-e
Finding Nemo
The Avengers

2010s

Inception
Dawn of the planet of the apes
Toy story 3
The way way back
Skyfall