Top 5 Movies of the Past 5 Years
Posted at 8:34 am on Wednesday, July 1, 2009, in Populist Culture, and tagged amazon, batman, film, netflix, pixar.
These are movies that I would want to watch again, and possibly — which is the only downside to relying solely on Netflix for movie consumption — I would want to own. In other words, these are movies after watching on Netflix, I would consider purchasing, probably for cheap on Amazon.1 In yet another rewording of a very simple statement, these are the most re-watchable movies.
This is the authoritative list — and exclusive of any Pixar films, which don’t count, because they are always good, and should be measured separately…2
- Batman Begins
- Zodiac
- The Dark Knight
- American Gangster
- National Treasure
Runners-up: The Illusionist, Rescue Dawn, 3:10 to Yuma, and Capote.
Notes- In fact, I purchased Nos. 1 and 3 last week, in a sweet deal on Amazon. I didn’t get the special two-disc, limited edition versions with all sorts of useless extras, like behind-the-scenes shit that I would never sit through anyway. Just the movie, widescreen, and not Blu-ray. ↩
- And I am not just saying that because I am friends and neighbors with Pixar animators/designers. ↩
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