Cinephilia: The disease that needs no cure

Apparently, the thing that people are supposed to do at the end of the year is make a list. And this being the end of a decade, there are twice the lists out.

Now, i'm a bit of a cinephile.

cin·e·phile [sin-uh-fahyl] n. A film or movie enthusiast.

i really like movies. a lot. i watch a lot of them, a lot of the time. So i'ma give into the trend, and put up a list. here are 30 movies i have selected as my own personal favorite/best movies of the decade, divided into a few categories. it's a subjective list. all of these things are. i'm probably missing some awesome ones because i forgot. i've probably subconsciously left a few off because they're a little too obvious. but either way, if there are movies listed here that you've never seen, you should probably look them up. i own a bunch of them, so if you know me, ask and you shall receive.

The Ones You'll Probably See on a Lot of "Best Movies of the Decade" Lists:

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind*
  
• The Lord of the Rings Trilogy* (yes, i'm counting it as one movie. because that's what it really is)
• Lost in Translation
• There Will Be Blood*
• Kill Bill (Volumes 1 & 2, because again, it's really one movie)
• Brokeback Mountain
• The Royal Tenenbaums*
• No Country for Old Men
• City of God*

The Ones You Might See on Some of Them, Especially If It's A Really Awesome List:

• The Fountain
• The Pianist
• Once*
• The Passion of the Christ
• Moulin Rouge
• The Departed
• Black Hawk Down
• Gladiator
• Almost Famous*
• Gosford Park*
• Finding Nemo*

The Ones That Will Probably Only Be on This List:

• Inglourious Basterds
• The Reader (i still believe this would have beaten Slumdog Millionaire for the Oscar if only a few people had actually watched it.)
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
• Munich
• Finding Neverland*
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Billy Elliot
• Closer
• A Very Long Engagement
• Cinderella Man

So those are 30 movies that you should all go and watch right now. The movies marked with asterisks (that would be a * for those of you know them as "little star things") are members of very special elite group of the ones that stand above the rest (AKA the top 10), and should be higher on your netflix queue, which i am sure all three of you reading this are going to go change right away after leaving this page.