The New York Times 25 Best Movies of the Century

Still Life>>>Touch of Sin

^^ agree

"Bad Santa" should have been the token comedy pick

40 Year-Old-Virgin is such a failed stab at populism

i would have gone w Superbad

Spirited Away

no Children of Men, no credibility

maybe for best videogame

Without Werckmeister Harmonies the whole thing is a sham.

Step Brothers would have been the braver (and better) comedy choice

Why not Bridesmaids in place of 40-y-o-V is the real question?

And yes, I too forgot about Shattered Glass and boy was that good

except the title

i'm sure Apichatpong Weerasethakul is properly chastened that his entire output in the last 16 years can't stand up to Apatow and George Miller.

Better luck next time!

The dumbest movies suggested for this list itt:

Zootopia
Marvel movies
The Hangover
The Wrestler
Zoolander
The Lives Of Others
Shattered Glass

Movie I honestly wish had been on this list:

Josie and the Pussycats

I like Shattered Glass but yeah it's absolutely not listworthy. And I agree with the chorus re: Inside Out. Up would be infinitely preferable as the Pixar entry. White Material is kinda a wtf pick as well

yeah, as smart people have been pointing out for years, The Lives Of Others is sentimental garbage.

Magic Mike 2 is better than at least 10 of the films listed.

agree that 35 Rhums should be the Denis choice.

I just kinda pulled Shattered Glass out of my ass (ouch!). But it is one of my personal favorites from this century. I'll swap it out with Être et avoir.

xxp it's XXL, actually, and yes ... maybe closer to 15

Trouble Every Day (2001)
Vendredi soir (2002)
L'intrus (2004)
35 rhums (2008)
White Material (2009)
Bastards (2013)

I hated L'intrus, but that's quite a run.

Nymphomaniac should be taking up the sex comedy slot

35 Rhums is the better film, but WM has Nicolas Duvauchelle.

Nymphomaniac should be taking up the sex comedy slot

I didn't hate L'intrus so much as was utterly baffled by it. Still haven't seen the vampire movie, gory-as-fuck not v appealing to me.

I'm hoping to direct Magic Mike: Magnum.

starring Tom Selleck as the crusty but benign strip club owner

Mr. Lazarescu is a didactic bore iirc

If there is one great American comedy of the century besides Eternal Sunshine it might be Fantastic Mr. Fox.

I'll add Frances Ha and Damsels in Distress.

yeah DiD is a riot

Ghost World
Wet Hot American Summer
Shallow Hal
the Jackass trilogy
A Serious Man
Fantastic Mr. Fox
I Love You, Phillip Morris
Inherent Vice

Not saying they deserved to be on the list, just saying they're great American comedies.

for a romanian movie about the health care system i'd have gone with 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days.

hmmm, "great" has to be at least in Preston Sturges' ballpark for me

xp

xp Lazarescu has more laughs tbh.

Yeah, yeah, comedy is dying out with the silent generation, et al.

i like I Love You, Phillip Morris and Inherent Vice plenty, but can't put "great" in front of them.

I couldn't bring myself to watch a Jack Black-Gwyneth Paltrow vehicle. I'm sure it makes Lubitsch look like a piker.

MacGruber

Yes.

No

cinema, boys, not SNL movies

You're gonna have to break that one down for me, doc.

cinema, boys >>> SNL movies

Glenn Kenny had a go

For sport, here's my whack at a 25 films of the 21st: pic.twitter.com/IYjmI9rD6v

— Glenn Kenny (@Glenn__Kenny) June 11, 2017

btw don't miss that new Bill Morrison doc -- helluva story

what a card

predictably i think these lists suffer from a lack of verhoeven, mostly black book

tom

lol brad I almost mentioned that but I felt it would be too aggressively on-brand

"Too on-brand" would've been Soto sayaing "list suffers from lack of Bryan Ferry hair"

I agree with more of those than the Times list, but I'd swap in Haywire for Che.

Haywire for Che was amazing, it's true.

The dumbest movies suggested for this list itt:

Zootopia
Marvel movies
The Hangover
The Wrestler
Zoolander

― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Monday, June 12, 2017 10:54 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'll add Frances Ha and Damsels in Distress.

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, June 12, 2017 11:13 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah DiD is a riot

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, June 12, 2017 11:13 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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lol holy shit sorry simon & eric i got my H's mixed up