My Favorite Films of the Last Decade #1

Christine: It’s life… and it’s happening… it’s really, really happening… right… now…

Top Twenty of the Decade #1

Luisa: Life is like the surf, so give yourself away like the sea.

Top Twenty Films of the Decade – Recap

And so we come to the end of our Top Twenty Films of the Decade. It’s been an interesting trip down memory lane, for us anyway, hopefully for you too. Of course, a lot of movies come out in ten years. It was tough to whittle down a list to twenty favorites. What about the films that almost made the cut? Films that, for one reason or another, didn’t quite make the top twenty.

My Favorite Films of the Last Decade #2

Mary: How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d.

Top Twenty of the Decade #2

Leonard: I can’t remember to forget you

My Favorite Films of the Last Decade #3

Daniel Plainview: I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed.

My Favorite Films of the Last Decade #4

Ed Tom Bell: You can’t help but compare yourself against the old-timers. Can’t help but wonder how they’d've operated these times… The crime you see now, it’s hard to even take its measure. It’s not that I’m afraid of it. I always knew you had to be willing to die to even do this job. But, I don’t want to push my chips forward and go out and meet something I don’t understand. A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He’d have to say, “OK, I’ll be part of this world.”

My Favorite Films of the Last Decade #5

Alfred Pennyworth: …some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Top Twenty of the Decade #3

Sara: Purple in the morning, blue in the afternoon, orange in the evening…  And green at night. Just like that. One, two, three, four.

Top Twenty of the Decade #4

The Bride: I want him to know what I know. I want him to know I want him to know. And I want them all to know they’ll all soon be as dead as O-Ren.

Top Twenty of the Decade #5

Daniel: I hate most people.

My Favorite Films of the Last Decade #6

Ed: I’m not gonna say, you know, “there’s plenty more fish in the sea.” I’m not going to say, “if you love her, let her go.” And I’m not going to bombard you with clichés. But what I will say is this: it’s not the end of the world.

My Favorite Films of the Last Decade #7

Eva: These are hard times for dreamers.

Top Twenty of the Decade #6

Arthur Leigh Allen: I am not the Zodiac. And if I were, I certainly wouldn’t tell you.

Top Twenty of the Decade #7

Steak-and-Fries: I smoke, I snort. I’ve killed and robbed. I’m a man.