A.V. Club Produces Snoody List of the Decade's Best Films

What the hell is wrong with the A.V. Club?

I have a lot of respect for their reviews, but I was astounded by their list of the 50 greatest films of the 00's. No doubt any list like this would create a lot debate, but I was blown away by the how incredibly poor this list came out.

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The list seemed rather pretentious and lacking. I like artsy independent movies as much as the next film buff, but this list was down right snoody. Where are all the comedies?

Also note that of the nine Oscar winners for best picture over the last decade only one is in the list. Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind, Chicago, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, Million Dollar Baby, Crash, The Departed and Slumdog Millionaire were all excluded while No Country for Old Men cracked the top ten.

I am not saying that the Academy is the end-all-be-all of determining what is a great movie, nor would I have included some of those movies on my list, but they did win awards for a reason.

What bothers me the most, however, is the lack of comedies. Just like the Academy the list is dismissive of the genre. In my opinion it is harder to make a comedy that works than it is to make a drama that works, but that is neither here nor there.

I must also say that there are few filmmakers that have been more influential in the late 2000's than Judd Apatow. At least one of these films, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Superbad, Forgetting Sarah Marshall or Pineapple Express, should have cracked the list.

Other notable comedy snubs are Meet the Parents and Little Miss Sunshine.

Another failure of the list is the inclusion of the worst film Gus Van Sant has ever made, the drivel that is Gerry. I am a huge Van Sant fan but Gerry sucked big time. There were far better choices among Van Sant's other films of the decade Elephant, Paranoid Park, Finding Forrester and Milk.

Also, what was the best Pixar movie made in the last decade? How many of you answered The Incredibles? I didn't think so.

Yet the movie comes in at #26 higher than the only other Pixar movie WALL-E at #30. First of all, that is a huge insult to the best movie of 2008, WALL-E, and secondly there is no way that The Incredibles is better than Monster's Inc., Finding Nemo, Ratatouille or Up.

On another note, AI: Artificial Intelligence at #32? Really? Just because Stanley Kubrick had something to do with it does not make it a good movie.

I agree with one of the comments posted on the site about the rankings -- “This list sucks major donkey cock.”