Suck on This, NYT

An impromptu response to a litany of pretentious BS.

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As the subheading would suggest, this Post is a bit of an off the cuff response to the New York Times’ (now) infamous list of the 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century. The other reason I’m blasting this out (without much forethought) is to challenge

Paul Imgrund

’s contention that 100 great movies haven’t been produced in the last 25 years.

So, in no particular order (and entirely off the top of my head), here are 100 films that are personal favorites of mine from the last quarter century:

• Gladiator

• Minority Report

• Black Hawk Down

• The Dark Knight

• Batman Begins

• Hell or High Water

• O Brother, Where Art Thou?

• No Country for Old Men

• True Grit

• Kingdom of Heaven

• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

• Eurotrip

• Brotherhood of the Wolf

• Sicario

• Blade Runner 2049

• The Revenant

• 300

• Dawn of the Dead

• 3:10 to Yuma

• Logan

• Ford v Ferrari

• Collateral

• Captain America: The Winter Soldier

• The Avengers

• Guardians of the Galaxy

• X2

• X-Men: Days of Future Past

• A History of Violence (replaces Spy Game)

• Drive

• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

• Death at a Funeral (replaces Stardust)

• Layer Cake

• Kingsman: The Secret Service

• Kick-Ass

• Man of Steel

• Snatch

• The Emperor's New Groove (replaces Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows)

• RocknRolla

• Casino Royale

• Skyfall

• Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation

• Mission: Impossible Fallout

• Inception

• Memento

• Pan’s Labyrinth

• Gangs of New York

• The Departed

• Sin City

• Forgetting Sarah Marshall

• Finding Nemo

• Watchmen

• V for Vendetta

• Mad Max: Fury Road

• Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood

• Kill Bill: Vol. 1

• Kill Bill: Vol. 2

• Inglourious Basterds

• The Nice Guys

• Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

• Serenity

• Once Upon a Time in Mexico

• Spider-Man

• Spider-Man 2

• Old School

• Wedding Crashers

• The Patriot (replaces Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby)

• Ocean’s Eleven

• The Hurt Locker

• Brick

• Looper

• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

• Road to Perdition (replaces There Will Be Blood)

• Meet the Parents

• Tropic Thunder

• Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

• Fury

• Frozen

• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

• Elf

• 50 First Dates

• American Gangster

• Zoolander

• Centurion

• Eastern Promises (replaces London Boulevard)

• In Bruges

• Big Trouble

• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

• Seven Psychopaths

• From Hell

• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

• The Town

• Mud

• Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

• The Bourne Identity

• Edge of Tomorrow

• The Last Samurai

• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Once again, this is far from an exhaustive list: I’m mostly just jotting these down as I think of them (mostly). And, of course, this is all entirely subjective, so please spare me any unhinged rants about how I’m an ignorant, uncultured dumb dumb.

That being said, I would love for anyone who reads this to chime in with some of their favorite movies from the inaugural 25 years of the 21st century.

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