So here's the thread where we gives our top movies of each year, of the whole decade, as well as some of the best performances of the decade. Feel free to offer as many or as little as you like! Here goes!

2000
Best Movie - Requiem for a Dream
Honorable Mention - Cast Away, Gladiator, Erin Brockovich, The Patriot

2001
Best Movie - Ocean's Eleven
Honorable Mention - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Monsters, Inc., A Beautiful Mind, Black Hawk Down

2002
Best Movie - Spider-Man
Honorable Mention - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Chicago, Catch Me If You Can, The Bourne Identity

2003
Best Movie - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Honorable Mention - Finding Nemo, Pirates of the Caribbean, X2: X-Men United, Sea Biscuit, Cold Mountain, Mystic River, Kill Bill: Vol. 1

2004
Best Movie - The Incredibles
Honorable Mention - Spider-Man 2, National Treasure, I Robot, Troy, Anchorman, Million Dollar Baby, The Notebook, Kill Bill: Vol. 2

2005
Best Movie - Batman Begins
Honorable Mention - Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Munich, Good Night and Good Luck, Crash, War of the Worlds

2006
Best Movie - The Departed
Honorable Mention - Casino Royale, Cars, Borat, V for Vendetta, Little Miss Sunshine, Dreamgirls, Inside Man

2007
Best Movie - No Country for Old Men
Honorable Mention - Michael Clayton, There Will Be Blood, 300, Juno, Enchanted, Superbad, Sweeney Todd, Transformers

2008
Best Movie - The Dark Knight
Honorable Mention - Iron Man, WALL-E, Gran Torino, Quantum of Solace, Slumdog Millionaire, Frost/Nixon, Forgetting Sarah Marshall

2009 (so far....haven't seen some that haven't come out in theaters or on DVD yet)
Best Movie - Up
Honorable Mention - Star Trek, The Hangover, Taken, Watchmen, District 9
Possible contenders (when I see them) - Inglorious Basterds (haven't seen it yet), The Road (GREAT book by Cormac McCarthy, guy who wrote No Country...), The Lovely Bones (Another GREAT book + direction by Peter Jackson = potentially amazing movie)

Best Male Acting Performance of the Decade
Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood
An otherwise slow movie (to say the least), Day-Lewis is absolutely mesmerizing in this movie. I can't really put my finger on what it is about him in the movie, but his performance just sucks you in and doesn't let you go until the movie is over, by which time you're kind of wondering what the movie was even about. The "I drink YOUR milkshake!!!" scene is unbelievably weird and memorable. I like to rewatch this movie just to see that scene.


Best Female Acting Performance of the Decade
Ellen Burstyn as Sarah Goldfarb in Requiem for a Dream
Definitely my favorite female performance of all time. While the movie (both plot-wise and direction-wise) stands up very well on its own, Burstyn's performance puts this movie over the top. She is absolutely heartbreaking in this movie, and its hard to not feel bad for the character, even though you know its a movie. A very underrated actress, and the fact that she lost out on the Oscar to that wooden actress Julia Roberts is highway robbery.
How do you not win an Oscar for this performance:

Transformers was awful. Same typical Michael Bay bullshit, different day. Doesn't even deserve an honorable mention.

Yama Hama wrote: Transformers was awful. Same typical Michael Bay bullshit, different day. Doesn't even deserve an honorable mention.

Ya.....but Optimus Prime. :s

Inglorious Basterds shouldn't be on the list IMO.

2000
Best Movie - Requiem for a Dream
Honorable Mention - O Brother Where Art Thou, Gladiator

2001
Best Movie - Memento
Honorable Mention - Donnie Darko, Black Hawk Down, Training Day

2002
Best Movie - Road to perdition
Honorable Mention - Gangs of New York, Insomnia

Never saw Chicago

2003
Best Movie - City of God
Honorable Mention - Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Weakest year of the decade.

2004
Best Movie - Kill Bill 2
Honorable Mention - Million Dollar Baby, Anchorman, Collateral

2005
Best Movie - Crash
Honorable Mention - Munich, A History of Violence, Sin City, Palindromes, Grizzly Man

Maybe my favorite year for movies of the decade.

2006
Best Movie - Little Miss Sunshine
Honorable Mention - Pans Labyrinth, V for Vendetta, The Departed, Children of Men

2007
Best Movie - No Country for Old Men
Honorable Mention - Eastern Promises, 300, Superbad

2008
Best Movie - Slumdog Millionaire
Honorable Mention - Doubt, Gran Torino

2009

Best Movie - Inglourious Basterds
Honorable Mention - The Hangover

There are a ton of movies from 2007-2009 I haven't seen (There Will Be Blood, Juno, Michael Clayton, Frost/Nixon, Dark Knight, Up, Iron Man, etc.)

Best Male Acting Performance of the Decade

Denzel Washington in Training Day.

Runner ups: Russell Crowe in Gladiator, Daniel Day Lewis in Gangs of New York, Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote

Best Female Acting Performance of the Decade

Ellen Burstyn in Requiem for a Dream

Runner Up: Naomi Watts in 21 grams

And for the record, I hated the Lord of the Rings series and I'm not a fan of superhero movies, hence no Spiderman or Batman.

Mulva,

Check out Michael Clayton ASAP. Amazing movie. Was THIS close to putting it as best movie of 07.

Glad you share the appreciation for Ellen Burstyn. Just watched the movie tonight on Bluray for the first time and was in awe again at the scene that I posted.

I think Precious was by far the best movie I've seen this year alone. I was really surprised by the performances in it.

Mo'Nique is actually a frontrunner for the best supporting actress Oscar, which I think is pretty cool, given her awful body of work, but she really would have earned it in this role.

Mooney44Cards wrote: Mulva,

Check out Michael Clayton ASAP. Amazing movie. Was THIS close to putting it as best movie of 07.

Glad you share the appreciation for Ellen Burstyn. Just watched the movie tonight on Bluray for the first time and was in awe again at the scene that I posted.

Will do. I'm a big Clooney fan. Not sure why I've never gotten around to seeing it. That, the Wrestler, and Dark Knight are all on my to-watch list over the next couple of weeks.

Mulva wrote:

Mooney44Cards wrote: Mulva,

Check out Michael Clayton ASAP. Amazing movie. Was THIS close to putting it as best movie of 07.

Glad you share the appreciation for Ellen Burstyn. Just watched the movie tonight on Bluray for the first time and was in awe again at the scene that I posted.

Will do. I'm a big Clooney fan. Not sure why I've never gotten around to seeing it. That, the Wrestler, and Dark Knight are all on my to-watch list over the next couple of weeks.

Michael Clayton is awesome. The ending is spectacular. and, I was JUST about to post, that IMO the best movie of the decade was the Wrestler

The Patriot....not much else.

Mulva wrote:

Mooney44Cards wrote: Mulva,

Check out Michael Clayton ASAP. Amazing movie. Was THIS close to putting it as best movie of 07.

Glad you share the appreciation for Ellen Burstyn. Just watched the movie tonight on Bluray for the first time and was in awe again at the scene that I posted.

Will do. I'm a big Clooney fan. Not sure why I've never gotten around to seeing it. That, the Wrestler, and Dark Knight are all on my to-watch list over the next couple of weeks.

The Wrestler was very good. And it was good to see Darren Arronofsky take on such a different project like this. He also went outside of his normal moviemaking habits in the movie. Its no Requiem but its very good.

2000 - American Psycho
2001 - Memento
2002 - Catch Me If You Can
2003 - Old School
2004 - Kill Bill Vol. 2
2005 - Crash? (nothing great)
2006 - The Departed
2007 - No Country for Old Men
2008 - Gran Torino
2009 - I Love You Man

bigdaddy2003 wrote: Inglorious Basterds shouldn't be on the list IMO.

If you like Tarentino stuff, then I think that you will like the movie. If not, then you won't. I personally enjoyed it immensly.

My bests based solely off what I have seen:

2000 - Gladiator
2001 - A Beautiful Mind
2002 - My Big Fat Greek Wedding
2003 - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
2004 - Ray
2005 - Lord of War
2006 - The Departed
2007 - Gone Baby Gone
2008 - Slumdog Millionaire
2009 - The Hangover

Best Male Performance - Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight
Best Female Performance - Diane Lane in Unfaithful

HeathAlum21 wrote:

bigdaddy2003 wrote: Inglorious Basterds shouldn't be on the list IMO.

If you like Tarentino stuff, then I think that you will like the movie. If not, then you won't. I personally enjoyed it immensly.

I am a huge Tarantino fan however I was extremely let down. This movie doesn't even sniff Pulp Fiction.

2000-Requeim for a Dream
HM-Cast Away, Meet the Parents, The Perfect Strom, Gladiator.

2001-A Beautiful Mind
HM-Shrek, Monsters, INC., Oceans 11

2002-LOTR: The Two Towers
HM-Gangs Of New York, The Bourne Identity, Ice Age.

2003-LOTR: Return of the King
HM-Finding Nemo, Pirates of the Caribbean, Lost in Translation

2004-Ray
HM-The Incredibles, Million Dollar Baby, Anchorman: The legend of Ron Burgundy

2005-Batman Begins
HM-Lord of War, Crash, Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith

2006-The Depatred
HM-Cars, V for Vendetta, Children of Men, Borat.

2007-No Country for Old Men
HM-I am Legend, 300, Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End.

2008-The Wrestler
HM-Dark Knight, Gran Torino, There will be Blood

2009-District 9
HM-The Hangover, Taken, Watchmen.

Best Male Perfromance - Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler
HM - Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight

Best Female Perfromance - Ellen Burstyn in Requiem for a Dream

2000:
Requiem for a Dream
Men of Honor

2001:
Donnie Darko
Shrek

2002:
Gangs of New York
The Bourne Identity

2003:
Mystic River
Lost in Translation

2004:
The Aviator
Anchorman
Million Dollar Baby

2005:
Syriana
Batman Begins
Capote
The 40 yr. Old Virgin

2006:
The Departed
Little Miss Sunshine

2007:
Michael Clayton
There Will be Blood
Atonement
Juno
Gone Baby Gone
No Country for Old Men
Knocked Up
(lots of good ones this year)

2008:
The Dark Knight
Doubt
The Wrestler
Forgetting Sarah Marshall

2009:
Taken
The Hangover
Watchmen

Heard good things about:
Couples Retreat
Law Abiding Citizen

Think I'll like:
The Lovely Bones
It's Complicated


Best Actor of 2000's:
Daniel Day Lewis for There Will be Blood and Gangs of New York. Was perfect in both roles.
or
Leonardo Dicaprio for The Aviator and The Departed and Gangs of New York and Blood Diamond.


Best Actress of 2000's:
Meryl Streep was great in at least 4 movies, Doubt, Mamma Mia (I didn't like the movie, but she was good), Adaptation, and The Hours.

bigdaddy2003 wrote:

HeathAlum21 wrote:

bigdaddy2003 wrote: Inglorious Basterds shouldn't be on the list IMO.

If you like Tarentino stuff, then I think that you will like the movie. If not, then you won't. I personally enjoyed it immensly.

I am a huge Tarantino fan however I was extremely let down. This movie doesn't even sniff Pulp Fiction.

I don't think Tarantino will ever make a movie that will impact our culture like Pulp Fiction did, let alone make a movie as good as Pulp Fiction ever again.

...for 2005 *my* write in vote

Wedding Crashers!

Best male acting performance: Heath Ledger, from "The Dark Knight". He was so creepy, yet so mesmerizing at the same time.

Not really sure on my favorites, but 2006 HAD to be the best year for films for me. 3 of my top 5 favorite movies in that year, The Departed, Blood Diamond, and The Last King of Scotland. Not to mention good films like The Pursuit of Happiness, Dead Man's Chest, Rocky Balboa, and Flags of our Fathers/Letters from Iwo Jima.

slide22 wrote: Not really sure on my favorites, but 2006 HAD to be the best year for films for me. 3 of my top 5 favorite movies in that year, The Departed, Blood Diamond, and The Last King of Scotland. Not to mention good films like The Pursuit of Happiness, Dead Man's Chest, Rocky Balboa, and Flags of our Fathers/Letters from Iwo Jima.

Forest Whitaker was unbelievable in Last King of Scotland. The movie was good but not great IMO but Whitaker was awesome.

Requiem For A Dream, ftw!

I have to give some love to Band of Brothers, perhaps one of my favorite mini-series/films of all time.

2000 - Gladiator, never cared for Requiem for a Dream
2001 - Black Hawk Down and Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
2002 - Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Spiderman, Panic Room
2003 - Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, Pirates of the Caribbean, Finding Nemo
2004 - Spiderman 2, Passion of the Christ, I, Robot, National Treasure
2005 - Cinderella Man, Sin City, Batman Begins, Wedding Crashers, Munich
2006 - Inside Man, V for Vendetta, United 93, The Departed, The Prestige, Night at the Museum, Children of Men
2007 - 300, Ratatouille, Hairspray, Transformers, Bourne Ultimatum, 3:10 to Yuma, Dan in Real Life, Sweeney Todd, The Orphanage
2008 - Ironman, Cloverfield, Wall-E, Dark Knight, Tropic Thunder, Traitor, Frost/Nixon, Gran Torino, The Wrestler
2009 - Taken, State of Play, Star Trek, Up, The Hangover, Public Enemies, GI Joe, Inglorious Basterds, Zombieland

Those are not in any order for the most part. 07 or 08 were probably my favorite years for movies top to bottom.