Films made in the last 10 years that have made you think "wow"

[Firky]

Sideways is about a couple of wine buffs. It's the dullest, most disappointing film I've ever seen.

I prefer the term oenophilia or casual alckie

Yes - it's funny and worth seeing but, apart from that, I'm not sure that there was anything in it to set it apart from the crowd.

It isn't one I fancied I have to say - one person saying it is crap and two saying it is good. I will download it one rainy day.

 

[Hi-ASL]

It isn't one I fancied I have to say - one person saying it is crap and two saying it is good. I will download it one rainy day.

It seems well-respected, and has earned itself 96% on the Tomatometer:

http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/m/sideways/

You may like it if films of no consequence, featuring characters that you couldn't care less about, that are shot through with bourgeois pretensions, where nothing at all happens for hours on end are your kind of thing.

 

[Firky]

I like gritty working class films directed by Ken Loach.

 

[Geri]

Last one that did it for me was Black Book,

I really enjoyed that, although it didn't make me go "Wow".

Dead Man's Shoes is the only one I can think of right now.

 

[Hi-ASL]

I like gritty working class films directed by Ken Loach.

Me too (cliched though some of them are). Now try to imagine the irritating, contentless opposite of that. I think you'd hate it.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Con Air II. Nicholas Cage is a genius.

 

[Hi-ASL]

Dead Man's Shoes is the only one I can think of right now.

What is it that people like about Shane Meadows? I can't get past the cliched plots, cliched characters and bad acting, yet he's spoken of as if he's the saviour of British film. I just don't get it.

 

[mauvais]

Con Air II. Nicholas Cage is a genius.

I don't even want to know what sick fantasy this is.

 

[Geri]

What is it that people like about Shane Meadows? I can't get past the cliched plots, cliched characters and bad acting, yet he's spoken of as if he's the saviour of British film. I just don't get it.

I have a huge soft spot for the East Midlands accent.

 

[Firky]

Me too (cliched though some of them are). Now try to imagine the irritating, contentless opposite of that. I think you'd hate it.

It will give me all the vitriol needed for Stop the City and Bash the Rich!

 

[Balbi]

The Matrix in 1999 was really a WOW.

 

[Reno]

What is it that people like about Shane Meadows? I can't get past the cliched plots, cliched characters and bad acting, yet he's spoken of as if he's the saviour of British film. I just don't get it.

No, you clearly don't get it.

His plots are nothing special, but his dialogue, characterisation and the acting in his films are utterly brilliant.

 

[The Unseen]

Why isn't The Matrix mentioned? As a 16/17year old watching that first film blew me away, possibly the first film i saw that game me the 'wow' factor.

Oh, Balbi mentioned it! Nice one!

 

[Hi-ASL]

No, you clearly don't get it.

His plots are nothing special, but his dialogue, characterisation and the acting in his films are utterly brilliant.

Damn, I was hoping it was something more than this; that I was missing something. I think we'll just have to agree to disagree.

The dialogue's pretty decent, the chracterisation's generally ok, but some of the plotlines are, frankly, daft and the acting standard is amateurish (indeed, a lot of them are amateurs, aren't they? Um.. why? They're rubbish.). There's just too much that puts me off for me to enjoy the good aspects.

It's not that they're merely mediocre. Mediocre I could live with. But I'm afraid much of it is actually... bad.

 

[Detroit City]

The Matrix in 1999 was really a WOW.

i saw that and i couldn't figure out wtf was going on

 

[Brainaddict]

Yes - it's funny and worth seeing but, apart from that, I'm not sure that there was anything in it to set it apart from the crowd.

Miseryguts If you can't see that the humour was much more subtle than what you normally see in films, and that it has characters ten times more real than most films, then you must have been thinking of your next wank instead of, like, watching the film

Miles Raymond: [while tasting wine] It tastes like the back of a f*cking L.A. school bus. Now they probably didn’t de-stem, hoping for some semblance of concentration, crushed it up with leaves and mice, and then wound up with this rancid tar and turpentine bullshit. F*ckin’ Raid.
Jack: Tastes pretty good to me.

 

[Brainaddict]

I agree about the Matrix. The memory of it is somewhat sullied by the abysmal sequels but when I first saw it on a mahoosive screen at Piccadilly it made my jaw drop.

 

[Augie March]

Why isn't The Matrix mentioned?

Requiem For A Dream
Irreversible
Ringu
The Rules Of Attraction
The Matrix
Gozu
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... And Spring
In The Company Of Men
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Blair Witch Project
Primer

Ahem!

 

[SpookyFrank]

Off the top of my head;

The Matrix (watch it again, its a lot better than you remember it)
Donnie Darko
Spider-Man (No, really)
The first and third Bourne films but not the second one
Hero
Brick (not mentioned yet? I fucking love this)
Coffee and Cigarettes
The Squid and the Whale

Not all of them stand up to repeated viewings/analysis mind you...

 

[Brainaddict]

I didn't understand half of Brick

Coffee and Cigarettes was pretentious wank.

I'll give you the first Bourne film though Haven't seen the third yet.

 

[Mr Smin]

Hotel Rwanda - i thought that was strong.

 

[Firky]

Someone mentioned the Blair Witch project

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

the only one I can think of is Inland Empire by David Lynch .
!

That made me think 'wow, what a load of shit that was'

 

[N_igma]

The Matrix
O Brother Where Art Thou?
This is England
The Wind That Shakes The Barley

 

[Augie March]

Someone mentioned the Blair Witch project

Oh yes.

 

[Brainaddict]

Oh yes.

Oh no

 

[D'wards]

What about the Lord of the Rings Trilogy? Pretty "wow" to a lot of people.

Maybe Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind for me.

I used to think whilst leafing through the Halliwells Move guide "what 4 star films will be this year?"

Though maybe we have come to a time where nothing is new or remotely original anymore, all has been done before.

If they brought out Star Wars today (the first one) would it be as seminal as it was then? Surely not.

 

[Augie March]

Oh no

Oh yes!

It's a very imaginatve, clever horror film made on a next to zero budget. A definite 'wow' film for me.

 

[N_igma]

It's a very imaginatve, clever horror film made on a next to zero budget. A definite 'wow' film for me.

3 twats running around a forest being scared of their own shadows? Think I'll pass.

 

[_pH_]

La Haine is the best film of the last 12 years

OH YES!!!

SUPERB film

'Jusqu'ici tout va bien'