Of that list it would have to go to The Dark Knight, Sin City, and possibly 40 Year Old Virgin. LOTR was uninspired and too fanboy to deserve any real votes for quality, and Star Wars is another fanboy wet dream that didn't really deliver much of anything. Transformers was an extended GM/Join The Navy add, Gladiator was Russell Crowe beating off for 2 hours, Wall E is such a random choice I won't even give that or Shrek 2 any creedance, Harry Potter and Pirates encompass more uninspired childrens blockbusters posing as something other than a little boy playing with his little wand, and Memento was decent but gets way more credit than it deserves. "ooh it's backwards, I'm so baffled!"
The Dark Knight was the rebirth of Batman, and not only that but it was of exceptional quality. Batman also led way for self-loather Ledger to do us a favour and deliver one actual decent performance (short of sucking weiner in a tent), before his final stint in limbo where he'll have to look at vagina for all of eternity. Sin City was so completely original and well directed that it created its own genre of artistic impression. The 40 Year Old Virgin opened up the Judd Apatow claim to fame and preceeded a slew of similiarly written (but ultimately uninspired) follow ups that have dominated the comedy market.
Amelie is for closet cases, Spiderman should have been a hell of a lot better, Casino Royale was awesome but did nothing for film, 300 and V for Vendetta were both wicked action flicks with no real resounding attributes, Finding Nemo is closely nudged out of spot 3 because it was the pinnacle of animated film success, Bourne Ultimatum was only good for Damon, and last Donnie Darko was pretty good, but mostly managed to confuse emotion-driven teeny boppers and fairies who jerked off to the gay cowboy Brokeback Gyllenhaal. Poor Heath, no more penis to unsheath.
There it is folks, the
undisputable,
inarguable truth.
