MicShazam

I'm not saying everyone is wrong about him - just that I don't like his movies.

Pan's Labyrinth is so far from being my favorite film of the 00's that it's not even faintly visible in the distance. Last time I watched it, I was feeling very disappointed. I really thought I would like it a bit more than that.

Janszoon

What are some of your favorite movies from that decade?

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Chula Vista

Great premise but fell apart in the third act. Still displayed all of the signs of where he'd end up. del Torro is easily one of my top 10.

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and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

MicShazam

I'm not so great at remembering what year a movie is from, but here's what I can find without too much effort:

No Country for Old Men
Kingdom of Heaven (director's cut)
American Psycho
Babel
Paprika
Eastern Promises
Mary and Max
The Pianist
Secretary
Black Book
Broken Flowers
Melinda and Melinda
Lost in Translation
Jarhead
The Wrestler
Zodiac
Volver
Towelhead
Ruang rak noi nid mahasan (Last Life in the Universe)
A Single Man

Janszoon

I can see why Del Torro wouldn't appeal to you. It looks like your tastes just don't run in the direction fantasy or horror at all. And it looks like the visual stylist type filmmakers you do enjoy are more real world type stylists like Aronofsky, Fincher, and the Coens.

Nice list by the way. Broken Flower, Lost in Translation, and The Wrestler would be on my shortlist for that decade as well. Mary & Max was great too.

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MicShazam

There is admittedly a lot of more realistic leaning movies among my favorites, but if you look at other decades, some fantasy does creep in and even the very rare appearance of a few horror films. I love Bram Stoker's Dracula, Legend, Labyrinth, The Thing, most Alien movies... so it's not all rooted in realism.

But yeah, I probably do lean in that direction to a high degree.

Oh and if there's one movie on the above list that I feel convinced, that a lot of people would like, if only they gave it a shot:

Ruang rak noi nid mahasan (Last Life in the Universe)



I watched it on a whim a couple years ago and it completely took me by surprise how good it was.

debaserr

Upgraded Jackson would have actually made The Hobbit.

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MicShazam

And I wish he did end up actually making them, as he was supposed to at one point... I ****ing hate Peter Jackson's versions.
I think they're bad enough that a complete re-do is justified, even this early.

debaserr

Ehhh. I think the Jackson movies are very solid efforts. I think you are probably in the minority with that there opinion, feller.

Much better than Harry Potter, for instance.

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MicShazam

I'm pretty sure a lot of people think his Hobbit trilogy is ass.