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My Top Twenty Movies of the Last Decade

December 9, 2009

Here’s my list of the top 20 movies of the decade. They’re not in order of best to worst and I gave a short reasoning for my choices next to each title.

1.Kill Bill Vols. 1 and 2- The cinematography

2.The Lord of the Rings Trilogy- The music and the way it followed to books pretty accurately

3.Shrek- The dialogue was very funny and the graphics were great

4.Wall-E- Great message and graphics

5.Up- Great graphics

6.The Dark Knight- The music and the plot made it great.

7.Gran Torino- Great plot and it was Clint Eastwood.

8.Slumdog Millionaire- Fantastic cinematography and great plot

9.Boy in the Striped Pajamas- Unexpected plot and interesting cinematography

10. Inglourious Basterds- great cinematography, especially in the first scene and the plot was great

11. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl- great plot and pretty original. Amazing soundtrack as well

12. Crash- compelling and great acting

13. Memoirs of a Geisha- great plot and acting

14. Enchanted- very original story line

15. Across the Universe- It was a new kind of musical. Very original

16. Amelie- great cinematography and interesting storyline

17. Bourne Identity- great action film

18. Count of Monte Cristo- suspenseful and acted well

19. Doubt- Meryl Streep was great.

20. Watchmen- great graphics and interesting plot