R2D2's Ultimate Top 10 Countdown Of The 2000s #11 (Final) - Years.

Welcome to the new year! It's the first day of the new year and the final day of my Top 10 extravaganza. Over the last 10 days, we have previously seen Top 10 Comedies, Dramas, Animation, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Horror, Foreign, Musicals, Action/Thrillers, Decade Specials, and Oscar Winners of the 2000s. Now, in this final post, I'm going to be including a plethora of lists using all of the previous 100+ movies over the last 10 days (100+ because I included some 'series' films in one number, as well as one tie).

So this is what I'm going to do. I've taken all the movies I've stated of each year and compiled them into their own lists. Some years had more than 10. Some barely had 5. So if there were more, I trimmed it down to my favorite 10. If there weren't enough, I added other of my favorite films from that year that weren't on the other lists. Those movies will be labeled with an asterisk (*) and a brief note about the movie. So now for those of you who questioned why I separated foreign films from other genres, or some similar issue, here you will find them mixed in with everything else in order to have equal representation among the years. I'm starting with Year 2000 and going through 2009. And then, after that, I'm taking all the #1 positions from those years and making a Top 10 Best of the 2000s list, as it only makes sense to have my favorite film from each year be on the Top 10 of the Decade list. In other words, over the last 10-11 days, it's just been one big OCD spasm to get all my movies into categorical order and make it all nice and tidy.

Note: Before I start, I just want to give you a basic reminder that all of the following lists show my FAVORITE films, not necessarily the BEST films of any given year. That being said, let me stop rambling and end this already.

TOP 10 Favorite Movies of 2000

10. American Psycho*
(The movie that mainstreamed Christian Bale... before Batman Begins, anyway)

9. Snatch*
(Can hardly understand it, but it's still oddly fun)

8. X-Men*
(The movie that started the superhero craze)

7. Finding Forrester*
(It's essentially a teacher movie, but without the 'teacher'. And it's Sean Connery)

6. Scary Movie*
(The beginning of the "Movie" Movie craze, and it's still the best)

5. Titan A.E.

4. Final Destination

3. Memento

2. O Brother, Where Art Thou?

1. Pitch Black

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TOP 10 Favorite Movies of 2001

10. Shrek

9. Wasabi

8. Frailty

7. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

6. Ocean's 11

5. Training Day

4. Moulin Rouge!

3. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

2. Amelie

1. Spirited Away

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TOP 10 Favorite Movies of 2002

10. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

9. Chicago

8. Catch Me If You Can

7. The Mothman Prophecies

6. Equilibrium

5. Minority Report

4. The New Guy*
(Call it a guilty pleasure, this is one of my favorite comedies, and probably would have come in at #11 on my comedies list)

3. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

2. 28 Days Later...

1. Bang Bang You're Dead

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TOP 10 Favorite Movies of 2003

10. Phone Booth*
(A suspenseful and stylish film... with a brief (and funny) appearance by Ben Foster, at that!)

9. Kill Bill Vol. 1

8. Identity

7. The Rundown*
(Probably The Rock's best movie)

6. Paycheck*
(Again, I'm a Philip K. Dick fan)

5. 11:14

4. Big Fish*
(Love the fantasy elements, the heartwarming nature... fantastic movie)

3. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2. The Last Samurai

1. Oldboy

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TOP 10 Favorite Movies of 2004

10. The Incredibles

9. Finding Neverland

8. Spider-Man 2

7. Dawn of the Dead

6. EuroTrip

5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

4. Collateral

3. Napoleon Dynamite

2. Saw

1. Shaun of the Dead

Note: Yes, Prisoner of Azkaban (released in this year) is the only Harry Potter movie that didn't make one of these Top 10 lists. But it would have come in the #11 spot for those that care.

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TOP 10 Favorite Movies of 2005

10. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

9. Sky High

8. Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical

7. Unleashed

6. Hostage

5. Angel-A

4. Feast

3. MirrorMask

2. V For Vendetta

1. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

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TOP 10 Favorite Movies of 2006

10. The Host

9. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

8. Driving Lessons

7. Re-Cycle

6. Silent Hill

5. Black Snake Moan

4. I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK

3. The Prestige

2. Pan's Labyrinth

1. Inside Man

Note: I guess this is the year of foreign films. Only 4 movies on this list (6, 5, 3, 1) were made in America... but even #3 has a British director and largely non-American cast.

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TOP 10 Favorite Movies of 2007

10. Disturbia

9. Enchanted

8. Planet Terror

7. Michael Clayton

6. Death at a Funeral

5. Superbad

4. The Orphanage

3. 28 Weeks Later

2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

1. 3:10 to Yuma

Note: I guess this wasn't an outstanding year for movies? This one is probably my least exciting list.

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TOP 10 Favorite Movies of 2008

10. Iron Man

9. Man On Wire

8. Slumdog Millionaire

7. The Wrestler

6. The Dark Knight

5. Gamers: Dorkness Rising

4. Role Models

3. Repo! The Genetic Opera

2. In Bruges

1. WALL-E

Note: I guess this was my Oscar year... at least 7 of these films were nominated for some category, and I believe only 2 (In Bruges and Iron Man) didn't win.

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TOP 10 Favorite Movies of 2009

10. Adventureland

9. Watchmen

8. Thirst

7. Pandorum

6. Avatar

5. Inglorious Basterds

4. Up

3. Star Trek

2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

1. Zombieland

Note: This list is slightly different than the list I gave for an upcoming LAMBcast, as I hadn't seen Inglorious Basterds prior to the episode recording.

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TOP 10 Favorite Movies of the 2000s

DRUM ROLL PLEASE!

10. Pitch Black

9. 3:10 to Yuma

8. Spirited Away

7. Zombieland

6. WALL-E

5. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

4. Inside Man

3. Oldboy

2. Shaun of the Dead

1. Bang Bang You're Dead

Note: This is a rare case of substance over fun, I suppose you could say. I had to put BBYD at the top, because while Shaun might be my favorite movie, BBYD is--I feel--one of the most important movies ever made. So there.

CONSOLATION PRIZE: I wanted to give this film notice, because I didn't have a proper category for it (it's a documentary), but it's a film I really loved. So, a shout-out to another favorite film of the 2000s:

- The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

And that's it! R2D2's Ultimate Top 10 Countdown Of The 2000s has officially ended! We now return to our regularly scheduled programming.

Bad Movies. Bad Memory. Fun Times.

These are the movies that you saw ages ago (whatever bracket of years that might be for you), that are pretty bad movies in general when you think back, and you haven’t seen them since you were younger (for the most part)… yet you distinctly remember certain scenes and can’t help but smile. Most of the time they’re B-Horror movies, but there are exceptions. This is a list of 6 movies that take me back down memory lane. Some may be recognizable, some might not. Either way, gotta pay mad respect! … Or not.

Arcade (1993).

Who You’ll Recognize: Peter Billingsley (from A Christmas Story) and Seth Green.

Plot: A bunch of teens play a new virtual reality video game that really kills.

Scene(s) I Remember: Towards the end of the movie, the main female ends up going directly inside the main gaming unit to play the game from there. She has to beat the game in order to finally bring it down. There’s a scene within the game in which she reaches two Ferrymen, a liar and a truthteller, who she can ask one question to only one of them to help her find out which one will take her to the place she needs to go next. I remembered this scene because of the Liar’s Paradox and how mind-blowing the paradox actually is. The same paradox is also used in the movie Labyrinth with David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly.

Other: I’d love to see this movie again, just to see how laughably bad it really is, but I seriously doubt it’ll ever see the light of day on DVD.

The Gate (1987).

Who You’ll Recognize: Stephen Dorff.

Plot: A bunch of kids are left home alone for the weekend. After playing a record backwards, they unknowingly open a gateway to hell in their backyard and are then plagued by little demons and scary phone calls.

Scene(s) I Remember: I remember a few with this one. I remember the really creepy phone calls and I believe a melting phone. I remember the tiny little demon creatures and, of course, the incredibly large demon creature. I’m pretty sure they were all stop-motion monsters, which look incredibly stupid and unscary today.

Other: I remember parts of this movie being really creepy, like the phone call stuff. Though I think the ending of the movie with the stop-motion creatures would definitely ruin it for me now.

Pulse (1988).

Who You’ll Recognize: Joey and Matthew Lawrence.

Plot: Basically a ‘Ghost-In-The-Machine’ story in which a murderous pulse of electricity moves from house to house and possesses electronics and other household things in order to kill or wreak havoc.

Scene(s) I Remember: I remember a scene in which the pulse possesses a shower, somehow locking the woman in it, and turning up the heat to ‘magma’, boiling her alive. I also remember a scene in which I believe Joey Lawrence’s character is trying to go out a broken window or something, and it slams down on his hand, the glass going through it (if I remember correctly). Crazy stuff. I also think I remember a guy getting locked in his car and the pulse not letting the garage door open, so the exhaust got to him or something.

Other: Nothing, really.

House (1986).

Who You’ll Recognize: Nobody, really.

Plot: A Vietnam vet, now a horror novelist, comes spiraling down when his son disappears in his aunt’s house. When his aunt dies, however, he goes to live in the house for a bit. Unfortunately, the house is a bit demonic, and he must fight his way into finding his son again.

Scene(s) I Remember: I’m pretty sure both of these scenes I remember are from this movie and not the sequel. One scene is when the main guy breaks a mirror in his bathroom and finds a deep bit of emptiness. So he gets a rope and climbs on down, but is attacked by a bunch of winged demons. He ends up falling into a river in the middle of Vietnam or something, takes a deep breath, swims down, and comes up out of a swimming pool in his backyard. The other scene isn’t really a scene, but more of a character… the big skeletal war buddy comes back to exact revenge or something. I just remember them fighting each other and the skeletal guy ends up getting a grenade in him or something.

Other: I’m a pretty big fan of Horror Comedies these days, so I’d love to go back and see this movie again. It’d be a fun one, I think.

Guyver (1991).

Who You’ll Recognize: Mark Hamill.

Plot: A dorky kid accidentally bashes his head against an alien mechanism which merges with his body, allowing him to become a cyborg-like superhero.

Scene(s) I Remember: When Mark Hamill turns into a big lobster-creature and dies.

Other: This movie, as well as its sequel, is just so bizarre and freaky that it could be pretty cool. The creatures are just people in crappy suits, but The Guyver suit itself is just freakin cool. But what else would you expect from a movie based on Japanese Manga/Anime?

Howard the Duck (1986).

Who You’ll Recognize: Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, Tim Robbins.

Plot: A duck from a parallel universe gets sucked to Earth and teams up with a singer and a scientist to try and stop an alien that is currently possessing another scientist from destroying the world.

Scene(s) I Remember: Oh man, what isn’t to remember about this movie? A bathtub with a naked duck with human-like breasts, a electric-charged Jeffrey Jones rampaging through a diner, and the big showdown at the end with a really bizarre-looking alien monster.

Other: Of course I had to mention this movie. This is like… the king of all bad B-Movies. I used to love this movie as a kid… but I have to say, I watched it again a few months back and realized just how God-awful it is.

Closing Words: If I think of more movies, I’ll create another post. This one was more dedicated to the horror/sci-fi genres. I thought of a few more, but they weren’t within either of those boundaries, so I didn’t include them. What are some of y’all’s movies for this kinda thing?