Best Screenplay of the 2000s

[LiddyRules]

This was today's imdb poll: http://us.imdb.com/poll/

Cinematical's Patrick Walsh listed his seven favorite screenplays of this decade; which is your favorite?

The 40-Year-Old Virgin
About Schmidt
The Departed
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
High Fidelity
Mulholland Drive
The Royal Tenenbaums

Just wanted to throw it out there. To vote on, I'm actually impressed with this list though Departed and High Fidelity would easily be at the bottom.

[drusilla]

i just love the nonsense in the 40 y/o virgin. the movie was way better than i thought it would be. i really love when the dialogue in movies is so close to real life. (instead of pompous like in dawson's creek or something of that caliber). i think that's why i love grandma's boy so much too.

[zentraed]

I was just having a conversation about Mulholland Dr. the other day. Of all the movies on the list, it made the biggest impression on me. About Schmidt would be second.

Wasn't the 40 Yr Old Virgin heavily improvised?

Edit: Doh! Make Eternal Sunshine my number 2.

[LiddyRules]

i really love when the dialogue in movies is so close to real life. . . . i think that's why i love grandma's boy so much too. ?? (I'm beginning to think I'm the only person who thought Grandma's Boy was crap.)

[IamFogHat]

Out of that list I would say High Fidelity but I'm sure there have been better ones in the last seven years in regards to the rest of those films.
Edit: Hm, actually I like that list, except I'm not sure why 40 year old virgin is on there.

[RAAMONE]

?? (I'm beginning to think I'm the only person who thought Grandma's Boy was crap.)

it wasnt great but how can you hate a movie with a line like "i'm sorry i came on your mom"

[TheMojoPin]

If we need to stick to the list, ESotSM all the way, maybe just for this sequence alone:

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[TheMojoPin]

?? (I'm beginning to think I'm the only person who thought Grandma's Boy was crap.)

I'm with you. I know I'm a movie snob, but I love plenty of stupid flicks, and that one just struck me as completely horrible. I chalk up its following in the same inexplicable category as the people who insist Freddy Got Fingered is an amazing, misunderstood comedy classic. Look, just because you can't believe something so grotesque and random got made doesn't mean it's good. 90 minutes of a drying turd would be grotesque and random, but that doesn't mean it's a good thing.

[TheMojoPin]

Edit: Hm, actually I like that list, except I'm not sure why 40 year old virgin is on there.

It really is a strange list. I like all of the films, but still, very random selections.

And I think it's kind of a cheat to have 40YOV up there since so much of the final product was improvised and not scripted.

[Ritalin]

The Royal Tenenbaums?

Huh?

[TheMojoPin]

The Royal Tenenbaums?

Huh?

It's a really great screenplay? Wilson and Anderson wrote so many of the parts specifically for the actors that ended up playing them and it really shows, especially with Hackman.

[mikeyboy]

I like most of the choices, especially Eternal Sunshine. High Fidelity certainly wasn't perfect, but my problems with that movie can largely be traced to the woman they chose as the lead actress. The screenplay was aces -- they really did a good job of capturing the book, all things considered. I still haven't seen "The Departed". I don't get "40 Year Old Virgin" at all. It was an enjoyable, although somewhat overrated, comedy. I wasn't that overwhelmed by the screenplay.

[Ritalin]

It's a really great screenplay? Wilson and Anderson wrote so many of the parts specifically for the actors that ended up playing them and it really shows, especially with Hackman.

We'll have to agree to disagree, because that movie bored the hell out of me, and I don't think it belongs on the same list with Eternal Sunshine.

[TheMojoPin]

We'll have to agree to disagree, because that movie bored the hell out of me, and I don't think it belongs on the same list with Eternal Sunshine.

Fair enough.

[LiddyRules]

it wasnt great but how can you hate a movie with a line like "i'm sorry i came on your mom" Because it was one of those movies that just tried to be shocking for shock's sake and was based around "You came on my mom!" like "OMG! That is so outlandish and outrageous I can amazed that they can get away with it on the movie screen." At least Freddy Got Fingered, to reference Mojo, decided to go all out with it. Grandma's Boy just seemed like a typical movie but with old women and unfunny lame shock moments.

I love Tenenbaums, my favorite Wes Anderson movie.

[GreatAmericanZero]

i voted for Eternal Sunshine, but that movie was so amazingly directed (one of the best directed movies ive ever seen, i never seen anything like it) that i dont know how much of what makes that film great comes from the screenplay. When i walked out of the movie, i walked out in awe on how Michel Gondry pulled off the premise more then the premise itself. But either way, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is my favorite film so far in the 2000s.

[Chris from TX]

Went with Royal Tenenbaums because it was the only I ever wanted to purchase and watch again. Close second is Spotless Mind.

[Yerdaddy]

"Dear Ndugu..."

I'd have said "Good Night and Good Luck" and would have had "Syriana" "Adaptation" and "Memento" on that list, that I can think of.

[ChimneyFish]

Wow.
I really have a lot of catching up to do. I've only seen two of the movies on that list.

On my personal list, I'm throwing in "The Fountain."











Bring it on, fuckers........:tongue:

[A.J.]

I thought About Schmidt was a really underrated movie...and performance by Jack Nicholson. I loved that first letter to Ndugu, the scene where he finds his wife's love letters, and his speech at his daughter's wedding.

Mulholland drive is great for this scene alone:

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[drusilla]

I chalk up its following in the same inexplicable category as the people who insist Freddy Got Fingered is an amazing,



ouch!