Recently, I put out a twitter call for people’s favorite movies of the last ten years, hoping to get some new movie ideas to procure. Here’s a list of what I already have, I’ll post another list of what I’ve decided to get based on the twitter list. Confession, not all of these movies are groundbreaking, artful or even good.
- 8 Seconds
- 21 Jump Street
- 30 Minutes or Less
- 50-50
- 127 Hours
- (500) days of Summer
- A fistful of Dollars
- A Serious Man
- Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter
- Adaptation
- Almost Famous
- American Beauty
- An Education
- Animal Kingdom
- Annie Hall
- Anvil, the Story of Anvil
- Australia
- Babies
- Back to the Future (1-3)
- Batman Begins
- Battle Los Angeles
- Boiler Room
- Boogie Nights
- Boondock Saints (1-2)
- Born into Brothels
- Bridesmaids
- Broken Flowers
- Brooklyn’s Finest
- Buried
- Caddyshack
- Capote
- Captain America
- Casino Royale
- Catch me if You Can
- Catfish
- Changeling
- Chronicle
- City of God
- Cocaine Cowboys (1-2)
- Contagion
- Contraband
- Couples Retreat
- Cowboys and Aliens
- Crazy Heart
- Crazy Stupid Love
- Date Night
- Daybreakers
- Defiance
- Despicable Me
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid
- Donnie Darko
- Drive
- Dumb and Dumber
- Eagle Eye
- Easy A
- Edge of Darkness
- Exit Through the Gift Shop
- Everything is Illuminated
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Fight Club
- Fletch
- Food Inc.
- For a Few Dollars More
- Forgetting Sarah Marshall
- Friday Night Lights
- Friends with Benefits
- Friends With Kids
- From Paris With Love
- Frost Nixon
- Funny People
- Get Him to the Greek
- Get Smart
- Ghost Writer
- Gnomeo and Juliet
- God Grew Tired of Us
- Gone Baby Gone
- Good Hair
- Good Will Hunting
- Gran Torino
- Green Street Hooligans
- Grown Ups
- Hall Pass
- Harry Brown
- Harry Potter (all of them)
- Heima
- Helvetica
- High Plains Drifter
- Horrible Bosses
- Hot Rod
- Hot Tub Time Machine
- How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
- How to Train Your Dragon
- I Love You Man
- I Love You Phillip Morris
- Inception
- Inglorious Basterds
- Iron Man (1-2)
- It’s Complicated
- J. Edgar
- Jackass (1-3)
- Jeff Who Lives At Home
- Jesus Camp
- John Carter
- Kick Ass
- Killer Elite
- Killers
- Knight and Day
- Law Abiding Citizen
- Lawless
- Limitless
- Lion King
- Little Fockers
- Looper
- Lord Save us From Your Followers
- Lost in Translation
- Love and Other Drugs
- Machete
- Madagascar (1-2)
- Magnolia
- Man on a Ledge
- Marley & Me
- Max Payne
- Memento
- Men In Black (1-3)
- Michael Clayton
- Middle Men
- Milk
- Miracle at St. Anna
- Moneyball
- Moon
- Moth Man Prophecies
- National Lampoons Family/Christmas/European Vacation
- Night and Fog
- No Country for Old Men
- No End in Sight
- No Strings Attached
- O Brother Where Art Thou
- Out Cold
- Paul
- Pineapple Express
- Predator (1-2)
- Predators
- Premium Rush
- Prometheus
- Raging Bull
- Raid on Entebbe
- Red Tails
- Red
- Religulous
- Requiem For a Dream
- Resident Evil (Apocalypse, Extinction, Retribution, Afterlife)
- Restrepo
- Revolutionary Road
- Righteous Kill
- Robin Hood
- Rock’n’Rolla
- Role Models
- Rounders
- Run Fatboy Run
- Safe House
- Salt
- Scott Pilgrim vs the World
- Seven Pounds
- Shawshank Redemption
- Sherlock Holmes
- Shopgirl
- Shrek (1-4)
- Shutter SIland
- Slackers
- Slumdog Millionaire
- Source Code
- Star Trek
- Star Wars (1-6)
- State of Play
- Step Brothers
- Stevie
- Super 8
- Super Bad
- Take Me Home Tonight
- Taken (1-2)
- Team America
- Ted
- The A Team
- The Adjustment Bureau
- The Amazing Spiderman
- The American
- The Avengers
- The Big Lebowski
- The Blindside
- The Book of Eli
- The Bourne Legacy
- The Breakfast Club
- The Brothers Bloom
- The Campaign
- The Damned United
- The Dark Knight
- The Dark Knight Rises
- The Descendants
- The Dictator
- The Expendables (1-2)
- The Fighter
- The Five Year Engagement
- The Girl Next Door
- The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo
- The Godfather (1-3)
- The Good, Bad and the Ugly
- The Grey
- The Hangover (1-2)
- The Holiday
- The Hulk
- The Hunger Games
- The Hurt Locker
- The Ides of March
- The Imaginarium of Doctor Panassus
- The Incredible Hulk
- The informant
- The Informers
- The Invention of Lying
- The Kids Are Alright
- The King of Kong
- The King’s Speech
- The Last King of Scotland
- The Life Aquatic
- The Men Who Stare at Goats
- The Next Three Days
- The Other Guys
- The Prestige
- The Proposal
- The Rite
- The Roommate
- The Royal Tennebaums
- The September Issue
- The Social Network
- The Soloist
- The Squid and the Whale
- The Taking of Pelham 123
- The Tourist
- The Town
- The Transporter
- The Wrestler
- The Mechanic
- The Machinist
- Thirst
- THis Means War
- Thor
- Top Gun
- Transformers (1-3)
- Tron (1-2)
- Tropic Thunder
- Two Weeks Notice
- Tyson
- Unstoppable
- Up in the Air
- Up
- Valkyrie
- Vanilla Sky
- Varsity Blues
- W.
- Waiting for Superman
- Walk the Line
- Wall Street
- Wanted
- Watchmen
- What Happens in Vegas
- Where the Wild Things Are
- Whip It
- X-Men (First Class, Origins-Wolverine)
- Year One
- Youth in Revolt
- Zombieland
Feel free to reply with suggestions for addition.
