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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.
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.
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:
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
LearningCinema 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?
Great idea
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.
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
Mr. Bean's Holiday is a fantastic movie.