1000 is good not because it leads to many questionable films, which as many have pointed out it does, but rather because it has an eye to the future. The ideas of lists as evolutionary creatures in which their changing nature are a reflection of our changing concepts is a hell of a lot more interesting than, oh no there's so many of them I won't get a platinum award. By placing at 1000 we are given greater access to watch the dynamic nature of the list that will hopefully be along for a long time. Be patient and in 60 years you'll be complaining about how 1000 is not enough.
Are you illiterate Spiro? A History of Violence is at number 9. It's higher than I'd put it but it's a good film and apparently the majority of sources used think it's one of the best films of this century. This list is not made by the people at TSPDT by the way unless you count which sources they choose to use for it. Talk to Her is the one in the top 10 I personally don't like but that doesn't void the whole list for me.
Erik - for the lists like TSPDT that get updated, would it be possible to leave the old lists up? Couldn't they be marked as the 2009, 2010, or 2011 edition? It would be interesting to compare the lists for the truly obsessive.
Film is at number 674 is not correct. There had to be this movie - http://www.artnewsnviews.com/view-article.php?article=in-camera-an-unobtrusive-gaze-of-the-filmmaker-s-journey&iid=21&articleid=526
Does one realize a Century is a unit of measure dictating 1000 years? Its starting point is culturally specific. People who complain about 2000 was in the 20th not 21st Century offer up that there was no year 0, however, there was no year 1 till people dictate a construction of time that followed a religious history based on fuzzy logic. One could also argue that year 1 begins upon the completion of year 1, similar to how we count age. All in all, people who argue the should it begin in 2000 or 2001 are fundamentally silly people who believe in a concrete reality of artificial, human creations. And Public Enemy is a nitwit.
If anyone is interested, I made a list of the previous films (the ex-Top 250) and I sorted them by how many times they were in the Top 250. 4 films made the list 6/7 times, 22 films made the list 5/7 times, etc.
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MMAlpha
The 2015 edition has been released and it's been expanded to 1000 films:http://www.theyshootpictures.com/21stcentury.htm
mrjeels
1000 is good not because it leads to many questionable films, which as many have pointed out it does, but rather because it has an eye to the future. The ideas of lists as evolutionary creatures in which their changing nature are a reflection of our changing concepts is a hell of a lot more interesting than, oh no there's so many of them I won't get a platinum award. By placing at 1000 we are given greater access to watch the dynamic nature of the list that will hopefully be along for a long time. Be patient and in 60 years you'll be complaining about how 1000 is not enough.Fish_Beauty
1001 movies for 15 years? That's overfishing.Thorkell
Ask the people who run the site to update it.leyenda
Are you illiterate Spiro? A History of Violence is at number 9. It's higher than I'd put it but it's a good film and apparently the majority of sources used think it's one of the best films of this century. This list is not made by the people at TSPDT by the way unless you count which sources they choose to use for it. Talk to Her is the one in the top 10 I personally don't like but that doesn't void the whole list for me.hookylw1500
Ooh 2021 update came out today. First Cow the highest new entry.45MinuteZoom
What needs to be done so that this list gets updated?Phil2000
Erik - for the lists like TSPDT that get updated, would it be possible to leave the old lists up? Couldn't they be marked as the 2009, 2010, or 2011 edition? It would be interesting to compare the lists for the truly obsessive.Igor_Brynner
Film is at number 674 is not correct. There had to be this movie - http://www.artnewsnviews.com/view-article.php?article=in-camera-an-unobtrusive-gaze-of-the-filmmaker-s-journey&iid=21&articleid=526mrjeels
Does one realize a Century is a unit of measure dictating 1000 years? Its starting point is culturally specific. People who complain about 2000 was in the 20th not 21st Century offer up that there was no year 0, however, there was no year 1 till people dictate a construction of time that followed a religious history based on fuzzy logic. One could also argue that year 1 begins upon the completion of year 1, similar to how we count age. All in all, people who argue the should it begin in 2000 or 2001 are fundamentally silly people who believe in a concrete reality of artificial, human creations. And Public Enemy is a nitwit.EndsInThemselves
If anyone is interested, I made a list of the previous films (the ex-Top 250) and I sorted them by how many times they were in the Top 250. 4 films made the list 6/7 times, 22 films made the list 5/7 times, etc.http://icheckmovies.com/lists/previous+tspdt+21st+century+films+sorted+by+most+times+in+the+top+250/endsinthemselves/
robin28
the 2014 version is up nowhttp://theyshootpictures.com/21stcentury.htm
Ljusbus
While I absolutely love The Wire, I can't understand why it has a place on this list.PeacefulAnarchy
Fucking Amal isn't from this century. And yeah this update has quite a few mistakes, especially the final 50, I'm sure it'll be fixed soon.Paper_Okami
The 20th century produced a ton of crap as well and many many great movies.Showing items 1 – 15 of 51