{"id":556,"date":"2010-01-17T00:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/?p=556"},"modified":"2010-01-17T00:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T00:22:00","slug":"556","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/556\/","title":{"rendered":"Movies, 2000-2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/channels\/best-of-the-decade\/\">The Onion AV Club&#8217;s lists of the last decade<\/a>, I thought I&#8217;d record my favourite films of the last ten years. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll miss some, but that&#8217;s the nature of the beast. They&#8217;re not the best, necessarily, but the ones I remember fondly and will watch again. In no particular order but with Pixar first:<\/p>\n<p>Up (wonderful, a 3D marvel)<br \/>Wall-E (genius on many levels)<br \/>Ratatouille (just brilliant, happy making cinema)<br \/>Children of Men (in which Clive Owen is good)<br \/>Memento (twistedly good)<br \/>The Lord of The Rings (yes, all 3, extended editions)<br \/>Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (oddness goes mainstream)<br \/>Am\u00e9lie (joy)<br \/>The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes! You Rock!)<br \/>The Life Aquatic (Wes!)<br \/>Sunshine (a modern day Silent Running \u2014 track that down if you&#8217;ve never heard of it)<br \/>Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen in Europe!)<br \/>Wonder Boys (so many great elements)<br \/>Sideways (for re-inventing American Indie films)<br \/>Michael Clayton (George Clooney and Tilda Swinton in fine form)<br \/>Burn After Reading (The Coens can&#8217;t fail)<br \/>Lost In Translation (so slight, but the memories are happy)<br \/>The Diving Bell and The Butterfly (unusual, beautiful)<br \/>Stranger Than Fiction (surprisingly enjoyable)<br \/>The Barbarian Invasions (a superb film about death after life)<\/p>\n<p>and the worst I had the misfortune to see:<br \/>King Arthur (in which Clive Owen is not good and the direction is staggeringly bad)<br \/>Pirates of the Caribbean 3 (so bad we turned it off; the highlight is in the extras where the director is proud of the largest set ever made that houses two full-size galleons in one shot, and then the effects guy casually mentions that they mostly painted the second boat out)<br \/>Transformers 2 (abysmal, awful, horrible)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by The Onion AV Club&#8217;s lists of the last decade, I thought I&#8217;d record my favourite films of the last ten years. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll miss some, but that&#8217;s the nature of the beast. They&#8217;re not the best, necessarily, but the ones I remember fondly and will watch again. In no particular order but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/556\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Movies, 2000-2009<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}