NSR: What's your top 5 movies of the last 15yrs?

[Motterman]

@ Motter... very interesting list.

Obviously, this list is of movies I've actually seen. I'm sure there are 68 other films more deserving... but hey, I'm a busy fella.

[johno]

Am I the only one who thinks Bruce Almight was better than Anchorman?

[MtP07]

Am I the only one who thinks Bruce Almight was better than Anchorman?

I'd agree with you on that one.

[johno]

ok... thank goodness because I've heard so many people rave about anchorman... which, don't get me wrong was funny and clever at times but Bruce Almighty was laugh out loud funny for long stretches...

[Achtung]

2. Saving Private Ryan(How it lost to freakin' Shakespeare in Love for best picture is absurd.

Agreed 100% on getting robbed for Best Pic.




3. Ronin

Damn I knew there was one I was leaving out! Loved everything about this movie. Even DeNiro fans seem to forget it.

[listen_up_fergie]

Has nobody mentioned Fight Club as yet?

[johno]

Has nobody mentioned Fight Club as yet?


its been mentioned... I don't know why though... really original, but I wanted more from it.

[River Eddie Plate]

Goodfellas, CaddyShack, Usual Suspects, Godfather (1+2), Bronx Tale.

[sixer1]

My top 5 of the last fifteen years:

1. Saving Private Ryan (great, great movie)
2. LOTR
3. Clerks (Big fan of Kevin Smith. Loved Mallrats, Chasing Amy, and Jay and Silent Bob.)
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Whale Rider (Don't believe it would have been mentioned. However, it's a great movie)

Honorable Mention: There's Something About Mary (Best comedy of the last fifteen years.)

[yossarian]

Has nobody mentioned Fight Club as yet?

I did....as an honorable mention.

[billyireland]

You forgot Star Wars...would never think you'd put Badlands in your top ten.I personally prefer Nosferatu instead of Cabinet in regards to German Expressionism.
Although I can respect what Star Wars did, it's not one of my top 20, personally... probably just because I've never been big into sci-fi of that nature. I put Badlands in because I think it's a great movie with a lot of potential to watch fover and over again and it caught the attitude of the time perfectly, according to most - it was a toss-up between thatr or Bonnie & Clyde, but Musica Poetica sealed it ;). Dr. Caligari was the original horror movie (and was made in 1919, my bad on that and imo had more to it than Nosferatu - plus if you heard it with that live soundtrack, you would understand. :D

[billyireland]

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Saving Private Ryan(How it lost to freakin' Shakespeare in Love for best picture is absurd.
3. Ronin
4. Elizabeth
5. Rounders - Just for Teddy KGB "Just like a young man coming in for a quickee, I feel so unsatisfied"

6. The Matrix. - the precision sound from this movie is astonishing on a good home theater. The rain, shell casings. oh my....
Rounders is a good movie, especially as I am a bit of a poker buff, but Malkovich butchered the Russian accent for Teddy KGB, according to a good few people I have heard from.

Suprised to have no yet seen a mention of Heat or Miller's Crossing (unless I missed them).

[billyireland]

My top 5 of the last fifteen years:

1. Saving Private Ryan (great, great movie)
2. LOTR
3. Clerks (Big fan of Kevin Smith. Loved Mallrats, Chasing Amy, and Jay and Silent Bob.)
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Whale Rider (Don't believe it would have been mentioned. However, it's a great movie)

Honorable Mention: There's Something About Mary (Best comedy of the last fifteen years.)
Good to see somebody else give Clerks a mention ;). Also shocked to have completely forgotten There's Something About Mary. :eek:

[billyireland]

Am I the only one who thinks Bruce Almight was better than Anchorman?
Nah, Anchorman was hilarious in so many ways, while I thought Bruce Almighty was a decent flick that dragged out after a while (had he been killed by the truck, the movie would have been a LOT better, but too short).

On the subject of comedy, Harold & Kumar as well as the Family Guy movie deserve honourable mentions.

[Dark Savante]

Billy I thought you were a movie buff...yet no mention of Yojimbo or Seven Samurai nor Blade Runner nor Citizen Kane...um... *shrugs

;)

My all-time list is considerably different to my top xx of the last decade and a bit come to think of it.

[Numquam Moribimur]

Originally Posted by mtkillamanjohno
Am I the only one who thinks Bruce Almight was better than Anchorman?


Oh my ....Anchorman was one of the funniest movies i have seen ...when the dog gets kicks off the bridge by the
"bad man" ... :D

[billyireland]

Billy I thought you were a movie buff...yet no mention of Yojimbo or Seven Samurai nor Blade Runner nor Citizen Kane...um... *shrugs

;)

My all-time list is considerably different to my top xx of the last decade and a bit come to think of it.
I did mention Seven Samurai. But as for Citizen Kane, that wasa brainfart on my behalf - it was pretty late when I posted it. Yojimbo, I have to admmit to having not seen yet, and Bladerunner, great as it was, borrowed an awful lot from other movies, most notably, Metropolis (the sets for instance, are startlingly alike).

[yossarian]

Nah, Anchorman was hilarious in so many ways, while I thought Bruce Almighty was a decent flick that dragged out after a while (had he been killed by the truck, the movie would have been a LOT better, but too short).

On the subject of comedy, Harold & Kumar as well as the Family Guy movie deserve honourable mentions.

Team America? For the musical numbers alone.....great stuff.

[billyireland]

Team America? For the musical numbers alone.....great stuff.
TBH, I expected more from it... still, it got a good few laughs but wasn't on par with some of the best comedies of the last 15 years, imho.

[yossarian]

TBH, I expected more from it... still, it got a good few laughs but wasn't on par with some of the best comedies of the last 15 years, imho.

You gotta love any movie that has to "tone down" puppet sex in order to get an "R" rating.