Episode 194: The Best Films of the Decade (According to Us)

==Show Notes==
: We break down our TOP TEN FILMS OF THE DECADE in a very special episode of The Important Cinema Club podcast. What made the cut? What is a great movie you should see? How are we foolish not to include THAT motion picture? Listen to find out!
==Films Discussed==
* Police Story (1985) Dir. Jackie Chan
* Cape Fear (1991) Dir. Martin Scorsese
* Drunken Master II (1994) Dir. Lau Kar-leung
* The Rock (1996) Dir. Michael Bay
* Armageddon (1998) Dir. Michael Bay
* Versus (2000) Ryuhei Kitamura
* Surviving Christmas (2004) Dir. Mike Mitchell
* Transformers (2007) Dir. Michael Bay
* Murder Party (2007) Dir. Jeremy Saulnier
* The Informant (2009) Dir. Steven Soderbergh
* Little Fockers (2010) Dir. Paul Weitz
* Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) Dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul 
* Who Killed Captain Alex? (2010) Dir. Nabwana I.G.G.
* Robot (a.k.a. Enthiran) (2010) Dir. S. Shankar
* In the Family (2011) Dir. Patrick Wang
* Haywire (2011) Dir. Steven Soderbergh
* The Color Wheel (2011) Dir. Alex Ross Perry
* Fast Five (2011) Dir. Justin Lin
* A Simple Life (2011) Dir. Ann Hui
* The Master (2012) Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
* Don’t Let the Riverbeast Get You (2012) Dir. Charles Roxburgh
* Eega (2012) Dir. S.S. Rajamouli
* Stray Dogs (2012) Dir. Tsai Ming-liang
* Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie (2012) Dir. Tim Heidecker & Eric Wareheim 
* Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) Dir. Joel & Ethan Coen
* Pain and Gain (2013) Dir. Michael Bay
* The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) Dir. Martin Scorsese
* Why Don't You Play In Hell (2013) Dir. Sion Sono
* Blue Ruin (2013) Dir. Jeremy Saulnier
* Inherent Vice (2014) Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
* God's Not Dead (2014) Dir. Harold Cronk
* Heaven Is For Real (2014) Dir. Randall Wallace
* Welcome to New York (2014) Dir. Abel Ferrara 
* Listen Up, Philip (2014) Dir. Alex Ross Perry
* The Knick (2014-2015) Dir. Steven Soderbergh - TV Series
* Furious 7 (2015) Dir. James Wan
* I (2015) Dir. S. Shankar
* Bahubali (2015) Dir. S.S. Rajamouli
* SPL II: A Time for Consequences (2015) Dir. Soi Cheang
* Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Dir. George Miller
* 88:88 (2015) Dir. Isiah Medina
* Cemetery of Splendor (2015) Dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
* In Jackson Heights (2015) Dir. Frederick Wiseman
* Green Room (2015) Dir. Jeremy Saulnier
* 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016) Dir. Michael Bay
* Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016) Dir. Paul W.S. Anderson
* Sully (2016) Dir. Clint Eastwood
* Ex Libris: New York Public Library (2017) Dir. Frederick Wiseman
* LBJ (2017) Dir. Rob Reiner
* Paradox (2017) Dir. Wilson Yip
* The Fate of the Furious (2017) Dir. F. Gary Gray
* Hold the Dark (2018) Dir. Jeremy Saulnier
* The 15:17 to Paris (2018) Dir. Clint Eastwood
* Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019) Dir. James Leitch
* Saaho (2019) Dir. Sujeeth
== Discussion Notes ==
* These are not definitive lists, but personal favorites - what meant the most to our hosts
** Defined what they were interested in and the trends of the decade
** Mostly they're recommendation machines
*** Justin's list
*** Will's list
* Will - "I model my life after Peter Bogdonavich"
* Cemetery of Splendor - 
** Great movie to drift in and out of
* In the Family
** Easy watching despite the seemingly heavy subject matter
* Don’t Let the Riverbeast Get You
** Contains the funniest joke of the decade
* Ex Libris: New York Public Library
** Will loves libraries!
* Fast Five
** Pure blockbuster film-making getting the formula right
* The 15:17 to Paris
** Clint Eastwood brings us Wiseau-esque performances from real people
** Justin makes a lengthy comparison to a dog turd
* A Simple Life
** Realistic slice-of-life movie made with Hong Kong megastars
* Stray Dogs
** A film best experienced by being trapped with it
* Eega
** A fly revenge movie with montages and musical numbers - it just works!
* Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie
** If you want to know what's wrong with the world, watch this movie
* Why Don't You Play In Hell
** A movie on the love of movie-making filled with enthusiasm
* Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
** Contains one laser-eyed monkey man
* Blue Ruin
** Straightforward genre movie told deliberately
* Welcome to New York 
** Gérard Depardieu at his slobbiest, and a great commentary on the hell-world that we live in
* Listen Up, Philip
** A film filled with personalities from Justin's Twitter feed
* Who Killed Captain Alex?
** No movie is better to create a great community experience
* 88:88
** A difficult but moving Canadian experimental film
* The Wolf of Wall Street
** Best as Scorsese has ever been
* SPL II: A Time for Consequences
** An escalating martial arts film Justin has re-watched a dozen times
==Listener Letters==
* Nathan - 
** Found a solution to the twenty-year old murdered Christmas tree mystery!
*** The Fir Tree (1979) Dir. Martin Hunter
**** Based on Hans Christian Andersen story
*** Will - hearing the trees voice flung him back to kindergarten
* Suggestions for episodes: critic Manny Farber and director Delmer Daves
** Manny Farber - fuel for a termite art episode in the works
** Notable films of Delmer Daves
*** Dark Passage (1947)
*** Jubal (1956)
*** 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
*** The Badlanders (1958)
==Post-Outro Discussion==
*Our hosts talk the (new) new Ghostbusters
**There are no jokes - thanks Stranger Things
*When are thes nostalgia/remake fans going to die off?
*The first Ghostbusters - sloppy, but makes up for it on Bill Murray's charm
*Will is betting against the new remake
**Like Terminator or Predator, the corporate pie-charts demand a new one every five years
*Justin calls for a Batman Forever reboot - put Jim Carrey back in the leotard!
*The scourge of parents showing their kids the things they love, hoping they will love it too
*Films discussed
**Animal House (1978) Dir. John Landis
**Days of Heaven (1978) Dir. Terrence Malik
**Ghostbusters (1985) Dir. Ivan Reitman
**Filmation's Ghostbusters (1986) - Cartoon series
**The Real Ghostbusters (1986-1991) - Cartoon series
**Monty Python reunions (1989-2014)
**Groundhog Day (1993) Dir. Harold Ramis
**Wet Hot American Summer (2001) Dir. David Wain
**Young Adult (2011) Dir. Jason Reitman
**Men Women and Children (2014) Dir. Jason Reitman
**Dumb and Dumber To (2014) Dir. Bobby & Peter Farrelly
**New Star Wars movies (2015-2019)
**Ghostbuster (2016) Dir. Paul Feig
**Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2020) Dir. Jason Reitman