Top flicks of the Noughties - 2007

300
Why? because of these two things... THIS IS SPARTA!!!! and this really cool website.

1408
John Cusack in a Stephen King movie. Double yes. If you don't believe in ghosts, don't stay in a hotel room that everyone else says in haunted.

Beowulf
Robert Zemeckis makes wearing 3D glasses cool again. And what an amazing place to start with one of the greatest stories known to man. A must see for Angelina Jolie fans... although you know it's not really her, right?

Breach
True story about FBI agent/Russian spy Robert Hanssen. Chris Cooper (also from American Beauty) is so darn good as Hanssen, the rigid, paranoid religious fanatic that sold secrets to the Ruskies for years before being found out. Ryan Phillipe serves well as agent Eric O'Neill who helped bring Hanssen to justice.

Charlie Wilson's War
Julia Roberts has big hair and Tom Hanks likes hot tubs.

The Darjeeling Limited
Another Wes Anderson flick starring Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman and Owen Wilson as three brothers on a journey across India. Colourful and also BillMurray-ful.

Death at a Funeral
Alan Tudyk gets nekked. Lots of laughs.

Die Hard 4
Fifty-seven years after Die Hard 3, Bruce Willis is back blowing up stuff, destroying public property and getting his insurance company's panties in a twist. Justin Long saves the day as sidekick Geek-Boy.

Disturbia
Redoing of Hitchcock's Rear Window, Shia LaBeefman can't leave his house and in turn spies on hot chick neighbour and evil killer and all kinds of fun ensues.

Elizabeth 2: Golden Age
Cate puts on lots of lovely frocks and rules the world with grace.

Evan Almighty
Sequel to Bruce Almighty, Steve Carell grows a really long beard and builds a really big boat.

Ghost Rider
Nick Cage in one of those movies that aren't his best movies. Nice bike though.

Grindhouse
Those darn American's just didn't quite understand it and fucked it up for the rest of the world. Two great directors get together to create a cinema experience that no one else got to enjoy. Tarantino's Death Proof and Rodriguez' Planet Terror were SUPPOSED to have been shown together as a double feature, just like those trashy slasher flicks back in the 70's. But they got split up. Still both great to watch though. Death Proof was definitely my favourite. You MUST watch the fake trailers made especially for the Grinhouse experience here.

Hannibal Rising
Thomas Harris' prequel to the Hannibal Lecter books. As weird as it would have been having Anthony Hopkins play a young man it would have been cool to have him in this flick. Gaspard Ulliel did a good job portraying literature's favourite cannibal in his early years but those dimples of his were most distracting!

Hitman
Cool game turned movie. Not bad. Timothy Olyphant with a shave head and a gun. Yes please.

Hostel 2
Eli Roth believes in equality of the sexes and starts hacking up girls. Didn't quite have the same punch as the first one but still a fun ride!

Hot Fuzz
By the power of Greyskull! Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright team up again and make the best cop movie ever. Stay away from the Neighbourhood Watch Association and Timothy Dalton. Yarg. Narg.

I Am Legend
One of those movies where Wil Smith gets his kit off and runs around with a gun and a dog. Quite enjoyable, handy hints of you even end up being the last person on the earth... or are you???

The Invasion
Not put here as a top flick but as a public service announcement to avoid this one at all costs!!!

Juno
The flick that gave all us beginner-writers hope. Diablo Cody took home an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for this, her first screenplay about Juno, played by Ellen Page, who gets preggers and wants to give her baby to the chick from Alias and the dude from Arrested Development. Super cool movie, honest to blog!

Knocked Up
Judd Apatow still on his mission to take over the world shows hot chicks that not so hot dudes make good fathers. Seth Rogen. What a guy.

The Last Mimzy
Not widely seen kids flick about a box of toys that gives two kids powers sends them on a mission.

The Nines
Do yourself a favour and watch this one twice. Two reasons - a) its brilliant and b) you'll understand it better the second time. Screenwriter John August takes us on a wicked ride with three stories all with he same actors playing different parts. Can't say too much without giving things away but wow, what a story. Ryan Reynolds is fantastic.

No Country For Old Men
What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss? I still get goosebumps just thinking about this movie. The Cohen brothers out-Cohen'd themselves with this one. NCFOM won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor for Javier Bardem and Anton Chigurh, a man with a coin, a cattle gun and a really bad wig. It's suspenseful, chilling, dare I say awesome! Watch it, watch it, watch it!

Sicko
Michael Moore takes is over the border to Cuba get gets some people better health care from Guantanamo Bay than they would have gotten at home. Shocking look into America's health system. Let's all move to France and have our babies there.

The Simpson's Movie
Looking back, it just didn't quite work did it. Lovely as it was seeing all that yellow on the big screen it didn't translate as well as it should have. Or maybe, it couldn't in the first place. Still, Spider-Pig is one of my favourite tunes.

Smokin' Aces
Lots going on here. Ryan Reynolds, Jeremy Piven and Wayne Newton. What more could you want?

Stardust
I loved this movie. So nice and fluffy. Loved the ghosts played by Britain's best including David Walliams, Mark Strong, Rupert Everett. Great Ricky Gervais cameo. Robert De Niro in drag. Michelle Pfieffer still looks hot.

Sunshine
In space, no one can hear you tan. Danny Boyle takes us into the big black yonder and super close to the sun in a film that teaches us that SPF 30 ain't gonna be enough and if you're in a movie and you think you're alone, you're really not. I was so blown away by the effects in this film, it has to be seen to be believed. Tan-tastic.

Superbad
Super good.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
Tim Burton and Johnny Depp. What a combination. Add a touch of Helen Bonham-Carter and you've got a recipe for wicked, bloody fun. Alan Rickman shows us his he can hold a tune (except when his throat is being cut) and Carter starts a new cooking taste sensation. You'll be wanting seconds for sure.

There Will Be Blood
I'm putting this here because I know I should watch it but haven't yet. Will be one of my new year's resolutions, promise!

Transformers
Michael Bay is like Hitler because he made Megan Fox go to Egypt. What a stupid girl. What a super cool letter. What a frikken cool movie. So loved how they had Peter Cullen from the cartoon series do the voice of Optimus Prime. Big and loud and very Bay-like. John Turtturo steals the show as usual.