Best Movies of the 00's (so far)

As part of my "Favourite Movies Project", I've been going through my favourite movies, year by year. I've just finished going through all of the years in this decade so it's time to take the 112 films I've designated as "noteworthy" and narrow it down to a top 20. Fun times!

1) Adaptation (2002)
(Directed by Spike Jonze, Written by Charlie Kaufman)

Donald Kaufman: Okay, well here's the twist. We find out that, that the killer really suffers from multiple personality disorder, right? See, he's actually really the cop and the girl. All of them are him. Isn't that fucked up?

2) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
(Directed by Michel Gondry. Written by Charlie Kaufman)

Joel: Is there any risk of brain damage?
Howard: Well, technically speaking, the operation is brain damage, but it's on a par with a night of heavy drinking. Nothing you'll miss.

3) Amelie (2001)
(Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Written by Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Guillaume Laurant)

Narrator: With a prompter in every cellar window whispering comebacks, shy people would have the last laugh.

4) The Triplets of Belleville (2003)
(Written & Directed by Sylvain Chomet)

Triplets [singing]: Swinging Belleville rendevouz/ Marathon dancing, doop-de-doo/ Voodoo, can-can, balais, taboo/ in Belleville swinging rendevouz...

5) Lost In Translation (2003)
(Written & Directed by Sofia Coppola)

John: Why do you have to point out how stupid everyone is all the time?

6) Match Point (2005)
(Written & Directed by Woody Allen)

Nola Rice: You're gonna do very well for yourself, unless you blow it.
Chris Wilton: And how am I going to blow it?
Nola Rice: By making a pass at me.
Chris Wilton: And what makes you think that's going to happen?
Nola Rice: Men always seem to wonder.

7) I Heart Huckabees (2004)
(Directed by David O. Russell. Written by David O. Russell & Jeff Baena)

Dawn Campbell: There's glass between us. You can't deal with my infinite nature can you?
Brad Stand: That is so not true. Wait, what does that even mean?

8) O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
(Written & Directed by the Coen Brothers)

Pete: Well hell, it ain't square one! Ain't nobody gonna pick up three filthy, unshaved hitch-hikers, and one of them a know-it-all that can't keep his trap shut.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Pete, the personal rancor reflected in that remark I don't intend to dignify with comment.

9) Donnie Darko (2001)
(Written & Directed by Richard Kelly)

Rose Darko: I don't think telling any woman to forcibly insert an object into her anus is something that should go unpunished.
Edward Darko: I think we should buy him a moped.
Rose Darko: I think we should get a divorce.

10) No Country For Old Men (2007)

(Written & Directed by the Coen Brothers)

Man: Just how dangerous is he?
Carson Wells: Compared to what? The bubonic plague?

11) The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
(Directed by Wes Anderson. Written by Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson)

Eli: I did find it odd when you said you were in love with her. She's married you know.
Richie: Yeah.
Eli: And she's your sister.
Richie: Adopted.

12) The Incredibles (2004)
(Written & Directed by Brad Bird)

Mr. Incredible: Of course I have a secret identity. I don't know a single superhero without one. I mean, who wants the pressure of being super all the time?

13) Ratatouille (2007)
(Written & Directed by Brad Bird)

Django: Food is fuel. You get picky about what you put in the tank, your engine is gonna die. Now shut up and eat your garbage.

14) Secretary (2002)
(Directed by Steven Shainberg. Written by Erin Cressida Wilson)

Peter: Are you doing something sexual?
Lee: Does this look sexual to you?

15) Serenity (2005)
(Written & Directed by Joss Whedon)

Mal: Zoe, the ship is yours. Remember, if anything happens to me; if you don't hear from me within the hour; you take this ship and you come and you rescue me!
Zoe: What? And risk my ship?
Mal: I mean it. It's cold out there, and I don't want to get left.

16) In My Father's Den (2004)
(Written & Directed by Brad McGann)

Celia Steimer: One day, in a town on the edge of the world, the tide went out and never returned. The sea just left without warning.

17) Gosford Park (2001)
(Directed by Robert Altman. Written by Julian Fellowes)

Mary Maceachran: Nobody can stab a corpse and not know it.
Robert Parks: Really? When was the last time you stabbed a corpse?

18) Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
(Directed by Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Davis. Written by Michael Ardnt.)

Frank: Who is that? Nietzsche? So you stopped talking because of Friedrich Nietzsche? Far out.

19) Thank You For Smoking (2006)
(Written & Directed by Jason Reitman)

Heather Holloway: My other interviews have pinned you as a mass murderer, blood sucker, pimp, profiteer and my personal favorite, yuppie Mephistopheles.

20) Juno (2007)
(Directed by Jason Reitman. Written by Diablo Cody)

Paulie: I still have your underwear.
Juno: I still have your virginity.
Paulie: Would you shut up?