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waynehead
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
Location: Jongno
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 Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 5:27 am Post subject: Best of the 00s? |
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One man's opinion, I'm eager to hear yours as well.
Movie - In the Bedroom (2001)
Album - Van Lear Rose (2004)
TV Series - The Shield (2002-
Book - The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2007?) |
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Sergio Stefanuto
Joined: 14 May 2009
Location: UK
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| Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 8:07 am Post subject: |
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Album: anything by Tool or Opeth
Movie: No Country for Old Men
TV: Dunno
Book: Can't decide. There have been too many excellent nonfiction |
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Gibberish
Joined: 29 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 11:40 am Post subject: |
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I'm sure this post will be incredibly objective and not influenced by people's tastes at all. Here's what will be remembered:
Album: OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, Daft Punk - Discovery, Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP, the rise of the indie/emo music scenes.
Movies: No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Lord of The Rings and Harry Potter, superhero movies in general.
TV: HBO's big ones: Sex and the City and The Sopranos, the death of the sitcom era, the birth of reality TV.
Book: A Million Little Pieces, and I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell, in all likelihood.
All this stuff will someday be considered "'00" stuff, I guarantee it. |
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seonsengnimble
Joined: 02 Jun 2009
Location: taking a ride on the magic English bus
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| Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 11:47 am Post subject: |
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Album: The Strokes, Is this it
Movie: Grizzly Man
TV: Deadwood
Book: I have no idea. I've only read a few non-fiction books that were published recently, and most of my fiction has been from before 1990. For kids fiction, I like the Artemis Fowl series, however. |
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Hyeon Een
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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TV: The Wire, The Wire, The Wire, The Wire.
I can't think of any other TV show which even comes close. I used to think the Sopranos was good until I saw the Wire. It's just another level of good. I wanta become a gay and marry Omar haha. |
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meangradin
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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TV: The Wire, The Wire, The Wire, The Wire.
I can't think of any other TV show which even comes close. I used to think the Sopranos was good until I saw the Wire. It's just another level of good. I wanta become a gay and marry Omar haha. |
Have you watched "The Corner?" It is a predecessor of The Wire with much of the same cast. It is as great as a show can be when it deals with this type of subject matter. |
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Rusty Shackleford
Joined: 08 May 2008
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| Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Hyeon Een wrote: |
TV: The Wire, The Wire, The Wire, The Wire.
I can't think of any other TV show which even comes close. I used to think the Sopranos was good until I saw the Wire. It's just another level of good. I wanta become a gay and marry Omar haha. |
The Wire is streets ahead of most anything ever put on television. Band of Brothers would have to be up there. I would argue it's not a TV show though. More like a 10 hour movie.
Movie: No Country or In Bruges. Or City of God.
Album: Apologies To the Queen Mary; Wolf Parade. Or Return to Cookie Mountain; TV on the Radio.
Book: Difficult. Haven't read much from this decade that really grabbed me. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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well, I spent most of this decade in South Korea...
Movie - Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, starring Sean Penn (each at their best!)
Album - Celine Dion's A New Day Has Come (I loved every song regardless of snob opinion)
TV - The New Battlestar Galactica series (top-3 all-time in terms of sci-fi series, a rare treat)
Book - Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry (it's long; I've read it twice) |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Tonight we're gonna party like it's two thou-sand and nine! |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:57 am Post subject: |
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My mind is pulling blanks on books for 2000- Most of the books I read are old.
Album- Hank Williams III, Risin Outlaw, Norah Jones - Norah Jones, Alison Krauss & Union Station- New Favorite and Lonely Runs Both Ways...Not 'Great' albums though.
TV- Deadwood, Firefly, The Corner, Trailer Park Boys...Probably the strongest medium of the 2000s was television. Plenty of shows that one can add to a best of list.
Movies- I dunno...Wall-E...Yes!...Moulin Rouge...O Brother Where Art Thou...they weren't GREATS though...maybe Royal Tenenbaums...maybe Ratatouille...
Books- The Pentagon's New Map- Thomas P.M. Barnett. But Non-Fiction rarely is 'great'. |
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Tycho Brahe
Joined: 15 Jul 2009
Location: Suwon, SK
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| Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 8:36 am Post subject: |
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album - Kid A - kind of surprised nobody has said that already ...
tv - Firefly or the Wire
movie - spirited away
book - i dunno. I spent most of this decade in a university, so most of what i read was pretentious toss. |
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chrisblank
Joined: 14 Aug 2009
Location: Incheon
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| Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:42 pm Post subject: |
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TV: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Album: 21st Century Breakdown by Green Day
Movie: Lord of the Rings
Book: Fables (graphic Novel) |
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kabrams
Joined: 15 Mar 2008
Location: your Dad's house
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| Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Hyeon Een wrote: |
TV: The Wire, The Wire, The Wire, The Wire.
I can't think of any other TV show which even comes close. I used to think the Sopranos was good until I saw the Wire. It's just another level of good. I wanta become a gay and marry Omar haha. |
Too bad the Emmy voters didn't see it that way. I cannot fathom how this show was nominated for only like 2 emmys throughout its entire run. I mean...how. Why. No acting. No best drama. No best writing.
I mean this show was consistently rated best American television show of all time and in some cases, the best show in the history of television, year after year by some of the most respectable magazines, papers and critics in the industry.
I don't even understand it. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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The First Season and Third season of the Wire was great. But what kinda made the show only VERY VERY good and not great was McNulty. The whole "I'm a rebel cop who loves my kids" schtick was so lame. Daniels was a bit over the top too.
Really what made the show was the Barksdale family, Stringer, Prop Joe, and Omar.
I like The Corner or 'Homicide: Life on the Street' more than 'The Wire' |
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Gibberish
Joined: 29 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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| chrisblank wrote: |
TV: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Album: 21st Century Breakdown by Green Day
Movie: Lord of the Rings
Book: Fables (graphic Novel) |
Bahahahahahaha
Man some people are just dense |
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