...so they recently updated their list of the top 250 films of the new millennium, and i figured i'd show my grades for the movies i've seen (gosh i'm bored). oh, and also, read the little blurb they have for half nelson. it's hilarious. it's like, "now, whenever there's a movie that involves race in some way, we have to go out of our way to find some way to insult crash!!! YES!!!" and no, i'm not really a hard grader. and yes, i have changed some grades from ones i put on the blog already. oh well. and yes, i know there are going to be cineasts sniggering all over my D for inland empire and my F for gerry and me you and everyone we know and yet my A-s for crash and cold mountain, and for that, i'm very sorry. i wasn't aware i was allowed to have different taste and opinions from you all.
1. In the Mood for Love A
2. Muholland Dr. B
3. Far from Heaven A-
5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind A+
6. Sideways A-
7. Lost in Translation A+
8. A History of Violence A
9. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring B+
10. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon A-
11. Y tu mama tambien A
12. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King B
13. Spirited Away A
14. Talk to Her A
15. Million Dollar Baby B+
16. Before Sunset A-
17. Memento A-
18. Ghost World C-
19. Adaptation. A-
20. The Queen C+
21. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers B-
22. United 93 B+
23. The Squid and the Whale A-/B+
24. The Departed A+
25. American Splendor C-
26. The Royal Tenenbaums B
27. You Can Count on Me A
28. Mystic River A/A+
29. 2046 B-
30. Punch-Drunk Love B-
31. Moulin Rouge! A
32. In the Bedroom A
33. Brokeback Mountain (haha it's only #33) B-
34. Dancer in the Dark B/B-
35. Capturing the Friedmans A
36. Grizzly Man A/A-
37. The Incredibles B
38. Kings and Queen B
39. About Schmidt B
40. Waking Life C+
41. Almost Famous C-
42. Cache B
43. The Pianist B-
44. Finding Nemo A-
46. The Aviator B+
47. AI: Artificial Intelligence B
48. The House of Mirth B+
49. Donnie Darko C-
50. Traffic A
51. Letters from Iwo Jima A-
52. Requiem for a Dream A
53. Dogville A-
54. Borat A
56. Pan's Labyrinth A-
57. Vera Drake B+
58. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner C-
59. Half Nelson A-
60. Good Night, and Good Luck. B+
61. Shrek A (shut up)
62. City of God A-
63. L'Enfant B+
64. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World B
67. Munich B+
68. Elephant B-
70. The Fog of War A
71. Children of Men A/A+ OMG WHY IS THIS NOT HIGHER.
72. Amelie C-
73. Gosford Park A-
74. Amores Perros A-
75. Capote B+
77. Bad Education A
78. House of Flying Daggers B+
81. The Triplets of Belleville B-
82. The Piano Teacher B-
84. Volver A (geez I have an Almodovar fetish.)
86. Wonder Boys A-
87. Sexy Beast A-
89. Kill Bill, Vol. 1 A
90. Inland Empire D
91. Kinsey A- (mmhmm motherfuckers)
93. Gangs of New York C+ (oh, Marty.)
94. Fat Girl D+
96. In America B
99. Erin Brockovich B
100. Little Miss Sunshine B+
101. Spellbound A-
102. Bloody Sunday B
104. Maria Full of Grace B+
105. Last Days D
107. Fahrenheit 9/11 B
108. Kill Bill, Vol. 2 A
109. The Hours B/B+
111. Hotel Rwanda B+
112. Hero B+
113. Chicago A (WHY is this not top 100. GRRRRR)
114. Bowling for Columbine B
115. Together B
116. School of Rock B
119. 21 Grams C-
120. George Washington A-
121. High Fidelity C+
122. A Prairie Home Companion B+
123. Chicken Run B+
127. Flags of Our Fathers C+
128. Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit A-
129. demonlover D-
132. The Deep End D+
134. Monsters, Inc. B+
136. Paradise Now B-
137. O Brother, Where Art Thou? B+
138. Spider B
139. About a Boy B
140. Before Night Falls B
141. King Kong C-
142. Gladiator B+
143. Black Hawk Down C-
144. Billy Elliot B
145. Collateral B+
149. Morvern Callar B+
151. Under the Sand B
156. The Five Obstructions C+
157. Monsoon Wedding B+
159. Minority Report A
161. The Man Who Wasn't There B-
162. Three Times B-
163. Syriana B-
164. The New World B-
165. Faithless B
169. Me and You and Everyone We Know F
171. Shattered Glass B+
172. Mysterious Skin B-
173. 25th Hour A (this should be whoah higher, as well.)
174. Broken Flowers B
175. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou B+
176. Chuck & Buck C+
177. Match Point B/B+
179. Brick B
180. Ray C+
181. Lovely and Amazing A-
182. The Motorcycle Diaries B
183. I Heart Huckabees B
184. Cold Mountain A-
186. Junebug B
187. A Scanner Darkly C-
188. Time of the Wolf B+
190. Crash A-
191. Spider-Man B+
192. The Station Agent B
194. Kung Fu Hustle B
195. Spider-Man 2 A-, and way more acclaimed than its prequel
197. Dirty Pretty Things B-
198. Ali B
201. Shaun of the Dead B+
202. The Barbarian Invasions B+
204. The Others B
205. Hedwig and the Angry Inch C- (oh, John Cameron Mitchell. I so want to like your movies, because they're always so ambitious. But then they are always huge freaking messes.)
206. Bamboozled B-
208. Gerry F
209. Solaris C+
211. Bad Santa C
212. Inside Man A (Bamboozled is over this? Uh. Okay.)
213. Little Children B+
214. Babel B-
215. The Quiet American B
216. Casino Royale A-
220. The Constant Gardener A-
221. The Descent B/B+
223. Whale Rider B
224. A Beautiful Mind B-
225. Touching the Void B
226. Thirteen Conversations about One Thing C-
227. Bus 174 D+
229. State and Main B-
230. An Inconvenient Truth B
231. A Very Long Engagement B
235. A Mighty Wind B-
239. Lantana A
240. 8 Mile C- (?!?!?! this list seems to be really hard for any sort of new movies to get on it. there is no way even the divisive films of this year, like the fountain and marie-antoinette, were somehow less praised than this...)
244. The 40-Year-Old Virgin C+
245. The Sea Inside B
246. Howl's Moving Castle B
247. Quills B+
248. The Saddest Music in the World D
films that dropped off the list:
American Psycho B
My Summer of Love C+
Oldboy C+
Pride and Prejudice A-/A
Darwin's Nightmare B
Igby Goes Down D+
With a Friend Like Harry... C-
The Devil's Backbone C+
Sunshine State C+
Closer B-
Catch Me If You Can A-
House of Sand and Fog C+
War of the Worlds C+
Angels in America A+++++++++ (this should be #1, not falling off the list. idiots)
