FLICKBOARD PICKS OF THE DECADE: 2000-2009

Ten years, 980 flicks.  That's the impressive 2000-2009 tally here at the RFB, where we've been flowing like the River Jordan for well over a decade, and still going strong.  With The Aughts now behind us, we found it a fitting occasion to capture some "picks of the decade" from our most active members.  The results will, of course, serve as a source of controversy and ridicule to fuel us right on into the next ten years.

Out of all our "best of" choices, 10 flicks appear on multiple lists (they are noted in bold below).  The most popular picks: "You Can Count on Me" and "The Lives of Others", appearing on three lists each.  In fact, if there is such thing as consensus, Mac seems to have best captured it, with each of his top six picks appearing on other lists.  Kilty, as usual, was the greatest bucker of trends, with only two of his picks appearing elsewhere, and with some bold left-field choices to boot.  But that's why we love the guy.

As for popular "worst of" picks?  Only one showed up on multiple lists - "Star Trek: Nemesis", which Brown and Mac are still blaming JT for dragging them into, eight years later.

Get this: If you were to look only at our members' top 3 picks, you would see only ONE repeat flick - "The Lives of Others".  In other words, forget what I said about consensus - we're all over the map in our choices.

Other "best of" notes: Brown bookends his list with documentaries...JT and Mac butt heads on "Sideways" (on one guy's best-of and on the other's most overrated)..."Kill Bill" appears on two lists, but for different movies...four of Kilty's 10 picks star either George Clooney or Christian Bale.

Your final key stat: From 2000-2009, a total of 55 flicks were nominated for Best Picture Oscars.  Yet only 10 of those nominees appear on ANY of our best-of lists.  Can you identify them?

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BEST OF THE DECADE

WORST OF THE DECADE

MOST OVERRATED OF THE DECADE

MOST UNDERRATED OF THE DECADE

The only 10 Oscar Best Picture nominated flicks that appear somewhere on our best-of lists: Lost in Translation, Finding Neverland, Sideways, Munich, The Departed, No Country for Old Men, Michael Clayton, Slumdog Millionaire, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and The Reader.

Only three of the 10 winning Best Picture flicks of the decade appear on any of our lists: The Departed, Slumdog Millionaire, and No Country for Old Men.

Oscar winning flicks that are nowhere to be seen on our lists: Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind, Chicago, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, Million Dollar Baby, Crash, and The Hurt Locker.