The 21st Century’s 100 greatest films

BBC Culture ^ | August 23, 2016

[dp0622]

true. But at least they played straight characters. Now the movies all 100% propaganda for gays.

[Nip]

Oh? Really?

We are less than 17 years into the 21st Century and someone has come up with the greatest films for the entire one hundred years?

Well then, close down the visual entertainment system world wide! After all its “settled” and nothing can change it, ever. It has been nice knowing you Hollywood, Pinewood, Bollywood, and all the rest.

[ctdonath2]

“we asked critics to name the greatest American films of all time, and we were surprised that only six films made since 2000 made the top 100.”

Well, “of all time” covers an outer limit of 120 years, starting with Edison inventing the first movie projector. That leaves us with the 21st Century covering about 13% of all movies. Of that, 6% of movies make the “21st Century movies making the all-time-best” list - not an unreasonable conclusion, considering that a large chunk of “best” take a long time to rise to the surface, considered “meh” at the time but eventually deemed “great”. There’s also the mass of late-20th Century nominees which _won’t_ stand the test of time, falling from “wow, that was amazing when I saw it in my teens!” to “wow, that list-maker had lousy taste when he was a kid”.

6% isn’t bad at this point.
Give it time.
Surely “John Carter” will top the list eventually.

[mrsmith]

What a load!

21st century filmmaking has excelled only in combining CGI and action in films. So far anyway.

[ctdonath2]

Seen: 96. Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton, 2003) 93. Ratatouille (Brad Bird, 2007) 87. Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001) 83. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001) 62. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009) 59. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005) 51. Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010) 50. The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2015) 41. Inside Out (Pete Docter, 2015) 35. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000) 33. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008) 29. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008) 27. The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010) 25. ​Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000) 17. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro, 2006) 13. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006) 4. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001) Am surprised how many Pixar movies made the list.

[yuleeyahoo]

Even though I have seen about half of this list, I can safely say that none of these films would make my list of the 100 greatest films ever made.

[katana]

Just counting films with Viggo Mortensen, two they missed are Eastern Promises and The Road. The latter is too dark for most people but an excellent film nonetheless. And how did they miss the LOTR trilogy of 2001, 2002, and 2003? I wasn't much of a Mortensen fan until I started adding up all the really good films he'd been in.

[PAR35]

If you thought the Scientology version of War of the Worlds was great the first time through, remind me to not look to you for movie reviews.

[Organic Panic]

Oh if only Sharknado was made a few years earlier...

[Dave W]

Would you believe I watched that scene you described last night? It was masterful. Both were superb in the scene. I may have to make sure I have a quarter in my pocket from now on. I saw the movie in the theater and have not watched it again until last night. I did not remember that scene at all, but the movie I never forgot. One of the all time best. Javier won the Oscar for best actor and, of course, the movie won Best Picture.

The suspense is unbelievable. Everything is well done. I even liked Tommy Lee Jones and he is not one of my favorites.

[Mr. Douglas]

The list is worthless opinion pap. Mad max, fury road was terrible and yet it’s way up the list.

[Mr. Douglas]

I saw Under the skin and you are absolutely correct. It is a B film at best. It belongs on a 100 worst list, not best.

[Mr. Douglas]

Yeah. Pretty much anything from the Cohen brothers belongs on the list.

[raybbr]

I commend you for not listing any of the “Godfather” movies. The first one was good, not great, the rest were boring.

[Mr. Douglas]

That’s the one that caused me to toss the whole list as well. I liked the MM movies but that one was just awful.

[Albion Wilde]

bump

[randomhero97]

Any list for "greatest 21st century" movies that doesn't include the Lord of the Rings series, specifically The Fellowship of the Ring, is a pointless list.

It appears this list focuses more on social justice warrioring, though.

[Scythian_Reborn]

I never saw any of them, never like mob movies ...

[YogicCowboy]

1939, absolutely.

WWII prematurely ended the Golden Age of Hollywood: Male stars enlisted, and movies became propaganda.

I am not denouncing patriotic, war-time movie making as have my leftist associates of the past (deriding them as jingoistic); I am merely acknowledging that vigorously advancing the artistic state of the still-new art had abruptly ceased to be the focus after 1940.

Some of those movies were still quite good; they just weren’t as consistently or dramatically ground breaking as in 1939 (or, to a lesser extent, 1940).

[ExGeeEye]

A bit early for this, isn’t it?