Best Films of the Past 20 Years

texdawg

Watching Hell or High Water again. Love it.

I'm through those small towns often during hunting season.

Really like how they use the actual small towns in the movie.

AnotherDawg

Errors and Omissions:

Kudos to @Ugadawg1993 for bringing up Contagion (2011) on another thread. It made me realize there were some worthy films I failed to mention in my initial posts. So here's a list of additional "honorable mentions," some of which have also been noted by others in this thread.

Listed from the most recent to the oldest, dating back to 2000. Roughly half of these are comedies- not necessarily "great" films- but worth watching.

Yesterday, Atomic Blonde, American Made, Wind River, The Revenant, The Accountant, Interstellar, Fury, Bridesmaids, Crazy **** Love, Limitless, Contagion, Get Him to the Greek, Couples Retreat, Adventureland, Superbad, The Interpreter, Munich, Along Came Polly, Friday Night Lights, Bruce Almighty, Meet the Parents.

JeffSentell

Big fan of this thread. Let's take it a step further.

Who has time on their hands? Well....duh.

Let's establish a DawgNation Forum "Streaming" or "MovieWatch" club? It reminds me of a classic Larry Munson story I will have to share with everyone sometime on our "Before the Hedges" program.

The idea:

• Let's set up a poll. Prior to that, let's establish a group of viewing options such as: Watch "Baby Driver" or "Longmire" or "1917" or "The Program" and we vote on it. I'd like for some of the options here in this thread to serve as the fondation for our first few polls.
• Democracy rules. We vote. Then we all watch it together and come back to the poll thread for groupthink and discussion.
• As an abiding premise, I'd like for it to be something we all might have missed that maybe we should have not. Like a cult classic such as "Drive" and not so much "Avatar" or "Endgame" with all of this.
• It can also be a Netflix original or a streaming option.
• I like this idea because we all have our pockets of expertise that can add to our community. I'm starting to depend on a few voices here for their RottenTomatoes clout the way each of you turn to your favorite beat or recruiting reporters for UGA information.
• I'll readily admit that if I watched as many movies (or played more golf or tennis) as I do football players, then I'd be much more engaged in making sure I don't miss a good watch or three.

As our story begins .......

"Honey, I've got to watch this tonight or this afternoon."

"Why? What's this movie? I've never heard of it? Who's in it?"

(this is a key step here. This will allow me to skip the line on having to play hype man for a movie in my marriage. Instead of just telling my bride that Mark Wahlberg is in it.)

"It is a DawgNation Digital Learning Cinema Night."

"DawgNation is asking us to do it. You can do your part and join in, too."

"Well, if it is for DawgNation. Those guys are just like us."

END SCENE

Who's up for it?

texdawg

Great idea

AnotherDawg

https://forum.dawgnation.com/discussion/comment/420864#Comment_420864

Jeff- thanks for the nice words and for the suggestion. I just got home from my 16 hour road trip. Will give this some thought when my brain function returns.

I also welcome input from everyone else on this thread.

AnotherDawg

Taking advantage of the down time, I cobbled together a list all of the films mentioned on this thread. Would you believe the number is well over 200?!?

So, to wrap things up, I've edited the complete list down to 100 films. If one of your personal favorites didn't make the cut, please forgive me. It's hard to eliminate half the films without stepping on some toes.

For the record, I consulted Rotten Tomatoes' ratings for final cuts and films I had not seen, to determine which ones were most worthy of inclusion. (An imperfect process, but better than being arbitrary.)

Naturally you can find any number of such lists online, but this one is ours, the official DawgNation Top 100 Films of the Past 20 Years. Thank you all for your contributions.

EDIT: I meant to clarify- this final post is not for the purpose of further debate. It's just to collect the films in a single place so folks can re-visit the thread whenever they're looking for a movie to watch and want to find one they haven't seen before.

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1917

28 Days Later

3:10 to Yuma

A Quiet Place

A Star is Born

Adaptation

Adventureland

Almost Famous

American Hustle

An Education

Argo

Arrival

Baby Driver

Before Midnight

Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

Birdman

Borat

Bridesmaids

Bridge of Spies

Captain Phillips

Cast Away

Catch Me If You Can

Chef

Contagion

Crazy Heart

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

Django Unchained

Donnie Darko

Drive

Dunkirk

Edge of Tomorrow

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Ex Machina

Finding Nemo

First Man

Ford vs. Ferrari

Foxcatcher

Gone Baby Gone

Gone Girl

Guardians of the Galaxy 1 & 2

Hacksaw Ridge

Hell or High Water

In Bruges

Inception

Inglourious Basterds

Insomnia

Iron Man

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 & 2

Knives Out

Kung Fu Panda

Lost in Translation

Manchester by the Sea

Margin Call

Memento

Michael Clayton

Million Dollar Baby

Minority Report

Molly’s Game

Moneyball

Mystic River

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Pan’s Labyrinth

Parasite

Philomena

Rush

Searching for Sugar Man

Shrek 1 & 2

Sideways

Silver Linings Playbook

Slumdog Millionaire

Spider-Man (2002) & Reboot (2017-19)

Spotlight

The Artist

The Avengers Series (Marvel)

The Batman/Dark Knight Trilogy

The Big Short

The Bourne Trilogy

The Departed

The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Hurt Locker

The Imitation Game

The King’s Speech

The Lives of Others

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

The Martian

The Master

The Pianist

The Queen

The Social Network

The Trip

The Wrestler

There Will Be Blood

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Traffic

United 93

Up

Up in the Air

Whiplash

Wind River

Zero Dark Thirty

JoelSidneyKelly

Mr. Bean's Holiday is a fantastic movie.