Obviously there are a few weeks left til 2009 is done, but lists can always be updated.

00 - Les rivières pourpres (The Crimson Rivers)
01 - Spy Game
02 - Road to Perdition
03 - Lost in Translation
04 - Primer
05 - Everything is Illuminated
06 - Children of Men
07 - Michael Clayton
08 - The Dark Knight
09 - Public Enemies (so far)

My choice for the decade is Road to Perdition followed closely by Everything is Illuminated. 2005 was probably the best year to me with Everything is Illuminated, Syriana, Good Night, and Good Luck, Batman Begins, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Sin City, Thank You For Smoking, V for Vendetta, and I'm sure a lot more. 2003 was the worst for me as I couldn't come up with anything really but Lost in Translation and Cold Mountain.

Other movies worth mentioning - Donnie Darko, State and Main, Equilibrium, 25th Hour, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Catch Me If You Can, The Good Shepard, The Departed, The Assassination of Jesse James, War, Inc., Lust, Caution, and the Bourne and LoTR trilogies.

Worst movie of the 00's - Ultraviolet - Myself and my two closest friends went to see some other movie til we realized it didn't come out for another week, so out of what was available my friend said this should be good based on I think his friend seeing some other movie by the same director or something (which I think was Equilibrium, which was awesome), anyways, this is quite possibly the worst movie I have ever seen in a theater ever, awful, awful movie.

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"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."

Really? LOTR: Return of the King and The Last Samurai didn't cross your mind? Don't get me wrong Lost in Translation was a pretty good movie, but LOTR was by far the best movie of that year.

I left trilogies out of my best of each years list, but I did include LoTR towards the end there. I didn't see the Last Samurai, just didn't interest me at all. When I went to netflix to make sure I was thinking of the right movie, the first movie listed under enjoyed by members who enjoyed was Waterworld lol.

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"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."

heh, LOTR wasn't the best movie of any of its years ;x

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Also here's a list from me:

2000: Wonder Boys
2001: The Man Who Wasn't There
2002: City of God
2003: Lost in Translation
2004: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2005: Hustle & Flow
2006: A Prairie Home Companion
2007: No Country for Old Men
2008: Rachel Getting Married
2009: 500 Days of Summer

If I had to make a top 10 of the decade it would include more movies from 2003-4 and 2007-8, because come on. The Fog of War, The Company, Atonement, There Will Be Blood.

Favorite movie of the decade is Eternal Sunshine, best is Lost in Translation.

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lol at The Last Samurai even being mentioned in a thread about good movies.

Pan's Labryinth should be on these lists, IMO.

The Hang Over, should be on the list.

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Devil

Build a man a fire, and he's warm for the night.
Set a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.

It feels like its been decades since I saw Wonder Boys, think I saw it when it first came out and just havent heard of it since, liked it though. Pan's Labyrinth was good too. Movies like the Hangover are just around to make money, nothing special.

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"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."

The Hangover is great, and one of this year's best, but not of the decade.

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Hey here's my list of Top 50 2000-2009. It took me an exhaustively long time to compile and it turns out it's mostly mainstream movies that everyone has seen, but for better or worse, here we are. I did this by basically looking at the list of movies released each year on Wikipedia, wrote down the ones I considered (nearly 200 at first cut), and split them into groups in no particular order, and ordered those in terms of which movies are better than others. After about 45 minutes of shifting around, I've come to a balance that I'm pretty happy with, and I think accurately represents what I feel to be the quality of one movie over another.

1. Lost in Translation
2. No Country for Old Men
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. Adaptation
5. Once
6. 24 Hour Party People
7. The Fog of War
8. 500 Days of Summer
9. American Splendor
10. Hustle & Flow

11. Rachel Getting Married
12. A Prairie Home Companion
13. The Dark Knight
14. United 93
15. Before Sunset
16. Wonder Boys
17. Brick
18. 25th Hour
19. City of God
20. The Hurt Locker

21. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
22. Shattered Glass
23. Where the Wild Things Are
24. Amelie
25. Live from Baghdad
26. The Man Who Wasn't There
27. Stranger than Fiction
28. Me and You and Everyone We Know
29. Up in the Air
30. Atonement

31. Good Night, and Good Luck
32. Minority Report
33. Away We Go
34. Mulholland Drive
35. The Company
36. Inglourious Basterds
37. The Departed
38. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
39. Kill Bill Vol. 2
40. Iron Man

41. Knocked Up
42. Primer
43. Requiem for a Dream
44. Sideways
45. Ratatouille
46. Punch-Drunk Love
47. Unbreakable
48. Star Trek
49. Pollock
50. Collateral

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lol and I have seen the following:

13. The Dark Knight
44. Sideways
45. Ratatouille

I don't do movies much

I definitely don't see the appeal of Lost in Translation. I liked it, sure, but there are easily 20+ movies in your list I would put higher.

I didn't get Lost in Translation either, and I love Bill Murray.

I watched Lost in Translation while I was traveling quite a bit for work. I think I connected with that movie more than just about any other this decade. To me, it's really all about the disconnect he feels from his life, which is proceeding back at home without him, while he's immersed in a totally new and different environment. The mundane decisions of the day to day seem weird when you're in a new environment.

Scarlett Johansson in panties

Plus she had just the right amount of curves.

I'm surprised that Synecdoche, New York is not on that list.

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Yeah, I was surprised that I couldn't find a spot for it. It came in around 53.

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Harold and Kumar go to White Castle should be on that list of 50 and higher than Knocked Up.

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"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." -Henry Louis Mencken
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VEGETARIAN -Noun (vej-i-tair-ee-uhn): Ancient tribal slang for the village idiot who can't hunt, fish or ride.

Yeah, I don't know. I like that movie, and I'll watch it whenever it's on HBO, but I wouldn't pay money to own it. Everything on this list is something I own on DVD (except the recent ones that are still in theaters/not on DVD yet). Also holy crap I own everything possible on this list.

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I never quite got lists, so here's a serious question... for those of you ranking movies - do you have a system? Do you do a little scorecard or something?

For example - I loved Pan's Labyrinth and I loved Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2. But, I have absolutely no way to say which one I "loved more."

I could get comparing say - Road to Perdition to No Country for Old Men. But, I don't know how someone compares The Hangover to Pan's Labyrinth.

It's really just a question of "which movie do I think is better?" Pan's Lab is a good movie, but I always find it distracting, where The Hangover is a good movie that I always find hilarious. I can't say anything particularly negative about The Hangover, where I can come up with several complaints about Pan's Lab, so I consider The Hangover a better movie. It is a lot of comparing apples and spare tires, but really my list boils down to what I would rather see, or what has a bigger impact, or what is a better quality of production, or what is more successful at delivering its underlying themes.

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and there is no porn on the list?

Porn is pretty much interchangeable, whereas movies (at least the ones on his list) are not.

How dare you sir…. All porn is not the same

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Devil

Build a man a fire, and he's warm for the night.
Set a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.

it really kind of is. varies in quality, but one can stand in for another in almost any situation

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When you're about to pop on a Mark Davis film as a prelude to some BDSM, you can't just substitute it for Cinderella and the Snapping Pussy, no matter how versatile Cinderella is (porn, comedy and musical!)

I think Binkee missed a movie:

Slumdog Millionaire

it was good but i didn't really even consider it when making that list, and i do not believe its omission is anything near an oversight

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I usually trust your judgement but I think you're grossly under-appreciating Slumdog if you say that it's not in the top 50. You really think Minority Report is the better movie?

yeah, by a lot. slumdog is a nice feel-good movie, and it's a fantastic story, minority report just has so much more meat to it.

cause i love meat.

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I can't really rewatch slumdog millionaire. To me, a great movie is one that I would want to own. A good one is something that I can enjoy and appreciate, yet not really want to see again. There's lots more of those. Course, a significant portion of Binkees list falls into that category for me. Opinions and all that. I still like reading his lists anyway.