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07Nov2009
'9/11' Tops 'Telegraph' Movies of the Decade List
Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 2:11AM
We're just a couple months away from the acknowledged end of the decade (it's really next year, because there was never a year zero, so this decade actually ends in 2010), and that means we'll get Best of the Decade lists on top of Best of the Year lists. I'm actually looking forward to the process myself and I'm revisiting some of the 25 movies or so I think have a chance to make my own list.
2 - Brokeback Mountain
3 - The Incredibles
4 - There Will Be Blood
5 - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
6 - Memento
7 - Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
8 - Amores Perros
9 - The Passion of the Christ
10- Slumdog Millionaire
11- The Lives of Others
12- Amelie
13- West of the Tracks
14- Saw
15- Before Sunset
16- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
17- 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
18- Mamma Mia!
19- Capote
20- Lost in Translation
21- The Bourne Supremacy 22- City of God
23- Shaun of the Dead
24- The Gleaners and I
25- Up
"It may not have been the best film of the decade. It may not have been the best film Moore has made (that honour still belongs to 1989’s Roger and Me). Nevertheless, it’s hard to overstate the importance of this film, a modestly funded political documentary that was shunned by its Disney backers but went on to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes, coin more than $220 million around the world, and boost the emergence of politically liberal, agenda-driven multiplex fare such as Supersize Me (sic) and An Inconvenient Truth."I can think of one problem right away: Super Size Me came out about two months before Fahrenheit 9/11 and spent three weeks in summer 2004 in the top ten despite only playing in a couple hundred theaters. So I can't see how 9/11 had a tremendous impact on Morgan Spurlock's movie.Secondly, while there have been great documentaries since 2004, this decade may have seen even better documentaries before Fahrenheit 9/11, and I'd argue that Moore's film might have actually diluted the effectiveness of the non-fiction film, based in part on his reliance on shaky half-truths to tell a more incendiary story. There's a fair amount of tabloid journalism in that film, and I'm not sure that's what the format is supposed to foster. So here's the top 25 films of the past decade, according to the editors of The Telegraph: 1 - Fahrenheit 9/11
2 - Brokeback Mountain
3 - The Incredibles
4 - There Will Be Blood
5 - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
6 - Memento
7 - Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
8 - Amores Perros
9 - The Passion of the Christ
10- Slumdog Millionaire
11- The Lives of Others
12- Amelie
13- West of the Tracks
14- Saw
15- Before Sunset
16- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
17- 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
18- Mamma Mia!
19- Capote
20- Lost in Translation
21- The Bourne Supremacy 22- City of God
23- Shaun of the Dead
24- The Gleaners and I
25- Up
Colin Boyd | Permalink | in Documentary, Lists, Michael Moore | Print Article | Email Article | 3 Comments | Share Article
Reader Comments (3)
...[I]t's really next year, because there was never a year zero, so this decade actually ends in 2010
Actually Colin 2000-2009 is a perfectly good decade. Just like 1995-2004 or 1983-1992 would be.
Oh and sorry for the double post, but if this is suppose to be the list of most "important" films of the decade it is hard to not include the first X-Men film given that it unleashed the comic book/superhero craze that now dominates the box office.
Blade was the first successful comic book movie, for marvel
that when they decided to try spidey and the xmen