23 Dec 2009 by Chris     No Comments    Posted under: Entertainment

The middle 10 of my favourite movies of the decade

A bit more fantasy in this bunch, and several selections from the many series of films (Potter, Pirates, Star Wars, LotR) which dominated the decade…

30. Bend It Like Beckham

(Gurinder Chadh, 2002)
Football! Keira Knightley! And very British too!

29. Kung Fu Panda

(Mark Osborne, John Stevenson, 2008)
My son watched this four times, back-to-back, on a plane. I think it hit the core demographic.

28. Cars

(John Lasseter, Joe Ranft, 2006)
Another charming Pixar masterpiece

27. Star Trek

(JJ Abrams, 2009)
Woo hoo! Fanboy! Watched this the first morning it was on release! It didn’t disappoint.

26. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

(David Yates, 2009)
Hard to pick one or two from the whole Harry Potter saga, but they’ve generally been getting better

25. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

(Gore Verbinski, 2003)

Easy to pick one from this trilogy though – the others were pretty dreadful

24. Slumdog Millionaire

(Danny Boyle, 2008)
Not exactly the “feel-good movie” it was promoted as, but fascinating

23. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

(George Lucas, 2005)
Lucas just about salvages his reputation after two expensive mishaps

22. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

(Alfonso Cuarón, 2004)
After watching this, I’d have like to have seen Cuarón do all eight Potter movies, not just one

21. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

(Peter Jackson, 2001)
Blew us away. Incredibly, even better was to come

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