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Team America: World Police 2004

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New millennium, new technology. Film cameras were the standard way to shoot a movie for over a century, and now they to had to make space for upstart digital. Without digital cameras, zombies would’ve stayed dead; 28 Days Later was only possible with how quick and easy it is to set up with them. Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation) and Neill Blomkamp (District 9) certainly benefited from the new technology.

Movies were also used to absorb our collective trauma. We escaped into magic and wonder in the months after 9/11 with Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings, while we celebrated the end of the Great Recession by getting the hell off this planet with Avatar. And speaking of those series, we didn’t want their installments taking up all the spots on this list, so one movie representing the whole franchise was chosen for those worthy.

And your vast comic-book trivia knowledge became a social asset, not a bullseye for beatings. Iron Man, The Dark Knight, and Spider-Man 2 opened up new ways of connected storytelling (and money making). And it wasn’t just superheroes making the leap to the mainstream. Fanboy culture, the internet, and sites like the one you’re reading now helped bring “genre” movies to the cultural forefront: zombies (28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead), sci-fi (Avatar, Serenity), horror (The Descent, Saw), and fantasy (Pan’s Labyrinth).

Meanwhile, under-served voices started to make some noise in the mainstream with films led by females (Mean Girls, Whale Rider, Bend It Like Beckham, Twilight), made African-American filmmakers (Love & Basketball, Barbershop), and featuring Asian-American stars (Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Better Luck Tomorrow). And that’s not including the increasingly easy access to international material like City of God and Let the Right One In.

And we still haven’t touched upon Pixar’s golden age (WALL-E, Finding Nemo), Hollywood finding the formula for comedies perfectly balanced between smart and dumb (The Hangover, The 40-Year Old Virgin), or that the Fast & Furious series got its humble beginnings here. A lot happened in this decade: Discover it all with the 140 Essential Movies of the 2000s!

Source: https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/essential-2000s-movies/

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Movie's that are Good an well worth watching new and old main genre's include indie,action,crime, and thrillers. Adding movies as I go

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HollyWood Movies based on Popularity

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Best Movies of the Decade

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50 greatest comedies according to Empire Magazine, published in July 2019.

"The only honest art form is laughter", said the great Lenny Bruce. "You can't fake it." With that in mind, allow Empire to guide you through 50 of the most truthful films ever made, by which we mean our list of the greatest comedies of all time. Whether you're a clown or a curmudgeon, there's guaranteed to be something here to tickle your ribs.

https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/best-comedies/

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30 Films Quentin Tarantino wants you to see according to IndieWire

https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/quentin-tarantino-favorite-movies/screen-shot-2019-05-16-at-9-02-27-am/

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My favourite comedies of all time

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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/sep/13/100-best-films-movies-of-the-21st-century

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Никто этого, в общем, не просил, а The Guardian взял и сделал топ-100 лучших фильмов 21 века. Среди ста фильмов два российских — «Русский ковчег» Сокурова и «Левиафан» Звягинцева.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/sep/13/100-best-films-movies-of-the-21st-century

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So this year BBC Culture decided to get serious about comedy. We asked 253 film critics – 118 women and 135 men – from 52 countries and six continents a simple: “What do you think are the 10 best comedies of all time?” Films from any country made since cinema was invented were eligible, and BBC Culture did nothing to define in advance what a comedy is; we left that to each of the critics to decide. As always, we urged the experts to go with their heart and pick personal favorites, films that are part of their lives, not just the ones that meet some ideal of greatness.

Created August 2017

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