:D

I am in no way implying it's a great movie, I just enjoyed the scenery.

It's a remake of infernal affairs. if you don't mind reading subtitles, watch the original. neither is really derivative of goodfellas.

ray liotta rolls over in goodfella's because he gets busted. and it's just the last 1/4 of the film where that happens. the plotline in infernal affairs/the departed would be derivative if goodfellas started there and also included a mafia mole on the narcotics squad. i don't see the similarities other than they're both mafia movies.

Both mafia movies done by scorsese but thats where it ends. I don't understand the ripoff thing either. But hey...art is about interpretation.

Try Mean Streets as well.

Or if you want the best Scorsese/de niro movie, watch raging bull.

Been wanting to contribute to this.. I won't call my list the '15 Best' of the decade, but will say they were 15, (11 features plus 4 documentaries -- which is probably my favorite film form), that I enjoyed a great deal and believe were among the best of the last 10 years..

15. Traffic
14. Capote
13. Sin City
12. Spellbound (D)
11. Bowling for Columbine (D)
10. Casino Royale
9. In America
8. No Country for Old Men
7. Man on Wire (D)
6. Juno
5. Dancer in the Dark
4. Synecdoche, NY
3. Capturing the Friedmans (D)
2. Me and You and Everyone We Know
1. There Will Be Blood

I heard the book was better.

In no order

Serendipity
Monster
Million Dollar Baby
Derailed
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Walk The Line
The Pursuit Of Happyness
Gran Torino
Crash
No Country For Old Men

A History of Violence was really good.

I can vouch for everyone of these except this one - I've tried in vain to get through it twice - no dice. And Phillip Seymore Hoffman is one of my all time favs...

Went and saw it yesterday... A really good movie...took some getting time getting use to the 3-D, but the best special effects have ever seen. Worth every penny spent to see it.

Shutter Island is really good. LD is my boy. He is legend.

I seldom go to the movies
 

Roger Dean is thinking about suing Avatar for ripping him off. Heck who didn't they rip off? The only thing good about the movie was the special effects. The message was enough to make you walk out.

My top ten since 2000:

10) Being John Malkovich
9) The Squid and the Whale
8) Mystic River
7) Match Point
6) Sideways
5) Adaptation
4) Little Children
3) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2) Before Sunset
1) The Diving Bell and the Butterfly


I never really thought about it before, but I guess Charlie Kaufman really is responsible (at least partially) for three of my ten favorite movies in the last decade.

I don't know what message your referring to... Perhaps I was too caught up in the special effects, but I came away feeling like good prevailed over evil.

I LOVED those two movies.

My top five most overrated movies of the decade:

5) Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (A good movie, but I'm still not sure how this movie won tons of awards despite being the worst offering in the trilogy).

4) Gladiator (Ummm.....okay....what is supposed to be good about this movie?)

3) Michael Clayton (Above average movie that somehow garnered more critical acclaim and box office attendance than it deserved).

2) Avatar (Visually amazing, and it is worth seeing for that, but the script reads like somebody told Cameron to take all of the worst elements of Dances with Wolves and The Matrix and combine them into one movie).

1) Moulin Rouge (One of the worst movies of the decade and yet it somehow made a bunch of money and won a lot of awards. Insane.)

It's the only one I have seen on the list and are you kidding me? I thought that all the coliseum scenes were worth the price of admission alone. I thought that it was overall an excellent movie.

The overrated list should include any George Clooney movie after 2000 (especially Michael Clayton) and anything from Jim Carrey after 2001.

Here's my 10 best:
10 Almost Famous
9 Juno (my wife's favorite)
8 Catch Me If you Can
7 Little Children (loved Kelly Leak in that one)
6 The Last King of Scotland (Garlick was great)
5 Blood Diamond
4 Unbreakable
3 Thank You For Smoking
2 Inside Man
1 Slumdog Millionaire

I haven't seen Avatar, but this guys review of it is devasting, and I should add quite hilarious. It's long but well worth it.
http://www.redlettermedia.com/

my top 15 movies id watch at anytime if they were on

trading places
race track doc
first sat in may doc
wall street
13 days .a great movie about the cuban missle c
platoon
godfather
o brother where at thou
blow
apollo 13
apoclypse now
saving prvt ryan
the sting
patton
the african queen
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rumors have a frank sinatra bio pick with leo..he wont sing.dir martin sc