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Michael Lisenbery's avatar

My top 10 of the 21st Century:

10. Brick

9. Before Midnight

8. The Martian

7. The Tree of Life

6. Coraline

5. Portrait of a Lady on Fire

4. The Prestige

3. Lord of the Rings (Just… all of them)

2. Perfect Days

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

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Rachael Sage's avatar

This is an amazing list. Respect for #5 ❤️‍🔥

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Tom's avatar

“Would you erase me?”

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Tom's avatar
Jul 1Edited

Mine (all time):

10. The Nightmare Before Christmas

9. Sleeping Beauty

8. Her

7. Drive

6. Memento

5. Moulin Rouge

4. Hero

3. Lord of the Rings

2. The Dark Knight — filmed right outside where I worked

1. Inception — also filmed right outside where I worked — the movie that finally made me remember a truth I too once knew, but chose to forget. And then flew to LA. I carry the totem, hoping I too would learn to forgive myself, just like Mr. Cobb.

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Anas Abusalih's avatar

Picking just ten is HARD but here's what I came up with (in no particular order):

The Boy and the Heron

Arrival

1917

Manchester by the Sea

Silence

Lala Land

Snowpiercer

Nebraska

Whiplash

Spider-Verse movies

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Sandra G Parker's avatar

I 100% agree with Wall-E. The very first time we ordered DoorDash I told my family "It's happening! We are becoming those people who don't get up!"

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Melinda's avatar

Oooooweeee this is hard. Ok but I'll look forward to Part #2*★ lol

...10 best movies (estimated one of course 😉)

But at the age of about 5 was actually

*★Nightmare On Elm Street 1St one*★ lol ikr!

*★Dirty Dancing*★

*★Ghost*★

*★Secret Life Of Bees*★

*★Hurt Locker*★

†★Cats Eye*★

*★Green Mile"★

*★Entire Fast and The Furious*★

*★Inception*★

*★Entire Hangover Set*★

🥰🦋🌻✨

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Leslie's avatar

So tough to just use movies from this century. Sorry guys, I couldn't pick any movie with Tom Cruise other than A Few Good Men.

For me (no particular order)

Inception

The Conjuring series

Zombieland and double tap

Just Mercy (#1)

Shawn of the Dead

The Shape of Water

The Help

Mama

Fences

Green Book

Black Panther

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Suzume's avatar

Ooh, The Wind Rises is a great choice.

My three favorite movies are probably: Inception, Howl's Moving Castle, and Muppet Treasure Island.

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Tom's avatar

Yesterday was the 15 year anniversary of the movie Inception. Thank you for being part of my favorite movie ever made. <3

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Rachael Sage's avatar

Wall-E is the most prescient movie that nobody talks about. I'm surprised and glad to know that it made that list, which means that maybe more people will see it (and talk about it!)

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sofia's avatar

my top 10:

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Meaghan Wilson Anastasios's avatar

What? No "The Hottie and the Nottie"? Robbed.*

* A joke.**

** And I can't believe I'm living in an era when I actually feel the need to point that out.

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Sandra G Parker's avatar

I have browsed some of the responses, and I am quite surprised that no one has named Perfume: The Story of A Murderer. It is so dark and beautiful. The cinematography is fantastic. It is my second favorite movie of all time.

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Lynn Chen's avatar

Not in any order but… Midsommar, Perfect Days, Boyhood, Worst Person in the World, Eternal Sunshine, Afternoon Delight, Force Majeure, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Before Midnight, I’m Still Here

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Jennifer Kuzbary's avatar

I love the film, WALL-E. When you started talking about how we are headed in the direction of becoming those button-pressing blimps and that you kind of hated saying it with a smile, a thought occurred to me. If you program a machine to wrest control, that’s what it’ll do. It has nothing to do with any ‘want’ of the machine. It’s not what the machine wants but what the humans wanted when they (we) made the thing. We are organisms whereas the machine was made — with nonorganic materials — by organisms.

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Veri's avatar

This is my list, in alphabetical order:

* Atlantis: The Lost Empire

* Ben X

* Blue Spring (青い春)

* Cryptic

* Dredd

* The Hunters (Jägarna, this isn't a 21st century film, since it's from 1996, but it had such an impact on me because I could related to the village mentality of it and I know it does exist with English subs)

* I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (싸이보그지만 괜찮아)

* The Lighthouse of the Orcas (El faro de las orcas)

* Margin Call

* Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

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Samantha French's avatar

So looks like you decided against speaking out. Have you been paying any attention to the brutalization of immigrants in America? Or are you still too worried about calling these folks Nazi’s cuz it hasn’t gotten bad enough yet? They’re building camps and filling them with the folks that pick our fucking food while calling them vermin and gleefully celebrating the torture. And ya know, I wouldn’t be up your ass except that you shit-posted about my comment to get yourself some more engagement and then didn’t continue to speak out against the violence being committed against immigrants. It’s almost like you used the issue to get yourself some clicks. Good work, kid.

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