Film4's "100 Must-See Films of the 21st Century" 2014

I take that one over their most recent 301 though.

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Goon is pretty damn good.
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I've seen these. I bolded the ones I liked, though I don't necessarily count all of those as "must-sees."

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Hey, I love that movie.

Man of Steel and The Hobbit made it onto an all time great list? All by themselves those two make the entire list suspect.

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1 - Mulholland Drive Tried it twice, I am not trying it again.
3 - There Will Be Blood On my 100
4 - Under the Skin Visually stunning but needs a little time to simmer
9 - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind On my 100
10 - Zodiac Very good procedural
11 - Spirited Away Fun. Miyazaki grew on me a bit.
16 - The White Ribbon Intriguing and engaging
17 - Before Sunset On my 100
19 - A Separation On my 100
20 - 12 Years A Slave Not a favorite but certainly a masterpiece
21 - Pan's Labyrinth [rating]4[rating] Really creepy, quite enjoyable
25 - No Country for Old Men On my 100
30 - The Social Network On my 100
32 - The Royal Tenenbaums On my 100
33 - Once Upon A Time In Anatolia Amazing cinematography
38 - A History of Violence Don't get the love
41 - Sexy Beast Great Kingsley performance elevates it.
42 - Gravity My favorite from last year
43 - Frances Ha Not bad, got the pretentious label from me
45 - Punch-Drunk Love Has grown in my estimation with each watch
51 - City of God On my 100
52 - The Great Beauty Visuals=great, Narrative=terrible
53 - The Lord of the Rings Trilogy On my 100
60 - Mean Girls Waaaay better than I expected
63 - Shaun of the dead My favorite of the three, well written
64 - Bridesmaids One funny scene does not a classic make
65 - The Tree of Life Quite a surprise for me
69 - The Man Who Wasn't There First watch last week
70 - The Hurt Locker Super intense. Has some lulls
72 - A.I. Artificial Intelligence Seems to be getting more rep now
74 - The Dark Knight On my 100
79 - Stoker Under rated thriller
80 - Lost in Translation On my 100
81 - The Wolf of Wall Street One of my favorites from last year
85 - 25th Hour The narrative didn't thrill me
86 - Frozen Good not great
90 - District 9 Somewhat over rated
91 - Adventureland Pleasent
92 - Finding Nemo One of my faves from Pixar
93 - The Avengers Great comic book flick
96 - Slumdog Millionaire liked it except for the game show aspect
97 - Goon Didn't get the love
99 - A Knight's Tale Original
100 - Casino Royale My second favorite Bond

Obviously a lot I love and very little i hated. Some are head scratchers as far as calling them must watches.

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AMEN! Though I liked (but did not love) The Hobbit, but LOATHED Man of Steel.

I've only seen 51 of these, but of those I would recommend most. Not sure why Frozen is more of a must-see than several other animated movies. Here's what I've seen:

1 - Mulholland Drive
3 - There Will Be Blood
9 - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
10 - Zodiac
11 - Spirited Away
13 - Margaret
14 - Hidden
15 - Talk to Her
18 - Dogtooth
19 - A Separation
20 - 12 Years A Slave
21 - Pan's Labyrinth
22 - 4 Luni, 3 Săptămâni Şi 2 Zile (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days)
23 - Brokeback Mountain
24 - Memories of Murder
25 - No Country for Old Men
26 - Let the Right One in
30 - The Social Network
32 - The Royal Tenenbaums
38 - A History of Violence
42 - Gravity
43 - Frances Ha
44 - A Prophet
45 - Punch-Drunk Love
47 - The Lives of Others
50 - Happy-Go-Lucky
51 - City of God
53 - The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
54 - Berberian Sound Studio
55 - The Descent
57 - Elephant
63 - Shaun of the dead
65 - The Tree of Life
69 - The Man Who Wasn't There
70 - The Hurt Locker
72 - A.I. Artificial Intelligence
74 - The Dark Knight
75 - In Bruges
80 - Lost in Translation
81 - The Wolf of Wall Street
82 - American Psycho
85 - 25th Hour
86 - Frozen
89 - We Need to Talk About Kevin
90 - District 9
91 - Adventureland
92 - Finding Nemo
93 - The Avengers
96 - Slumdog Millionaire
99 - A Knight's Tale
100 - Casino Royale

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There are some interesting choices (and omissions), certainly. Personally I think it's a bit of a strange time to do a list of the century. Maybe in another ten years. At least then they could get a bit of perspective on some of these choices.

However, people turning their noses up at Mean Girls and Frozen... I can only assume you don't get the idea of a cult film as something that has endlessly rewatchable, quotable (or singable) appeal to a lot of people. I know quite a few people who love these two films. A lot. I don't see that these films should be bumped off the list to make way for a mediocre Scorsese or Tarantino or other insert-slick-violent-but-ultimately-shallow-and-uninvolving-man-flick-directed-by-big-name-director.

I think some of you are taking this a bit too seriously. Most lists you know what you're going to get, and there's few surprises, there's mainstream lists (IMDB), serious lists (Sight and Sound) and all sorts of others. This list seems like a decent mix of films people would recommend for those interested in films, a nice variety for everyone.

Kill List

Though Yi Yi could never make it as high because Sexy go insane, I think it's got the feeling of a MoFo list

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That's a good point actually. Just look at our Seventies list with The Spirit of the Beehive sitting next to Rocky II.

Mean Girls and Frozen are OK films, but that doesn't mean they should be on a top 100 MUST SEE list of the century so far.

They're definitely not 'must-see films' in my opinion.

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Pretty good list imo, very diverse and varied for the most part.


1 - Mulholland Drive
3 - There Will Be Blood
4 - Under the Skin +
6 - In the Mood for Love
7 - Werckmeister Harmonies -
9 - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind +
10 - Zodiac -
11 - Spirited Away
14 - Hidden -
17 - Before Sunset -
20 - 12 Years A Slave
21 - Pan's Labyrinth
24 - Memories of Murder
25 - No Country for Old Men -
26 - Let the Right One in
30 - The Social Network
32 - The Royal Tenenbaums
38 - A History of Violence +
41 - Sexy Beast
42 - Gravity
45 - Punch-Drunk Love
46 - Kill List -
51 - City of God
52 - The Great Beauty -
53 - The Lord of the Rings Trilogy -
57 - Elephant
60 - Mean Girls
63 - Shaun of the dead -
64 - Bridesmaids
65 - The Tree of Life
69 - The Man Who Wasn't There -
74 - The Dark Knight -
80 - Lost in Translation
81 - The Wolf of Wall Street -
82 - American Psycho +
85 - 25th Hour
87 - Young Adult
90 - District 9 +
91 - Adventureland
92 - Finding Nemo +
93 - The Avengers -
94 - Nymphomaniac -
96 - Slumdog Millionaire -
98 - Irreversible +

I'll take a violent but shallow "man flick" over a singing princess movie any day.

'Must-see' isn't the same as 'best' though. It's like the 1001 movies to see before you die list, some films are worth seeing because they represent a particular movement, or style, or country, or group of people. Some are important for their influence on subsequent films, and some just for the cultural reference they provide rather than their intrinsic artistic merit.

Sure. I just don't think Mean Girls or Frozen fall in any of those categories. They're decent films in their own genres, but in no way are they "must see" material in any sense of what that means.