Things about the 2000's you love!

[Foxtrotk72]

Got addicted to wow (my brother did tell me about it so yea..)
groomed my Pomeranian Marcel
working with dogs =]
got a bit drunk (also my brother says I'm an angry drunk lol)

 

[ScRaT_the_destroyer]

the technology, and thats about it, my favourite music genre's basicly died off after the 90's , in terms of films the 2000's were nothing but the decade of the sequel,

 

[TPiddy]

Hmmm, let's see... where to begin...

- Marvel starting its series of Avenger films
- Killswitch Engage, Disturbed, Devildriver, All That Remains and several other bands that destroy my eardrums on a regular basis
- Smartphones
- The NHL lockout and the subsequent introduction of a salary cap and rule changes to favour skill over brute force
- The Green movement; Hopefully the trend continues and we can finally abandon 100 year old technology
- Barack Obama - love him or hate him, the first non-white president in the over 200 year history of the US is a monumental thing... and I'm from Canada.... oh... speaking of...
- Canada's Olympic gold medal win in Hockey in 2002 and 2010
- Continuing on the Canadian front, the rise of legit development houses like Bioware, Ubisoft Montreal and Silicon Knights
- The HD revolution

 

[Wadders]

Play other games, listen to different music, and that films quote is just embarrassing.

Yeah... [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Friedberg_and_Aaron_Seltzer#Filmography] these [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_evil#Films] were [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_%28franchise%29#Films] all [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DreamWorks_Animation_SKG#Films] worthwhile [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hottie_and_the_Nottie] films. [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0957772/#director2000]

If you think films have become anything more than money spawning contraptions, you're stupider than you look.

Wow so you've provided links to a few terrible films. Well done you. Here's some news: People have been making shit films ever since the inception of cinema. People have been recording shit music ever since the birth of sound recording.

Some people however still manage to make good games, good films and good music because they want to. I'm not denying that money is an incentive, just that some people do still have pride in the entertainment that they have produced in this decade.

You just have to look a bit harder for them.

 

[Frequen-Z]

Play other games, listen to different music, and that films quote is just embarrassing.

Yeah... [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Friedberg_and_Aaron_Seltzer#Filmography] these [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_evil#Films] were [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_%28franchise%29#Films] all [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DreamWorks_Animation_SKG#Films] worthwhile [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hottie_and_the_Nottie] films. [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0957772/#director2000]

If you think films have become anything more than money spawning contraptions, you're stupider than you look.

Right, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_Royale_(2006_film)] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_(film)] these [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring] are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Two_Towers] all [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Return_of_the_King] horrific [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Assassination_of_Jesse_James_by_the_Coward_Robert_Ford] films [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layer_Cake_(film)] that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean's_Eleven_(2001_film)#Critical] are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_(2007_film)] an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_of_the_dead] abomination [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiator_(2000_film)] to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_England] the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slumdog_Millionaire_(film)] history [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_departed] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_(2009)] cinema. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrek#Reception]

If you think you can scrape the very bottom of the barrel and present them as the films that define a decade, you really are a lot stupider than look.

[small]And you people have no idea how long it took me to do all those URLs.[/small]

Please... James Bond? The Departed? Films based off books? (Don't get me wrong, they can be good, but they're not exactly original masterpieces). Wait til you're a bit older, you'll start appreciating older films.

Lost Highway, Star Wars, Alien, Grave of the Fireflies, I see them as leagues better than anything the 00s had to offer. But whatever, I don't like you, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you don't like me, we're gonna find ways to disagree with eachother. Our film tastes are different, I'm over it.

 

[TPiddy]

Please... James Bond? The Departed? Films based off books? (Don't get me wrong, they can be good, but they're not exactly original masterpieces). Wait til you're a bit older, you'll start appreciating older films.

Lost Highway, Star Wars, Alien, Grave of the Fireflies, I see them as leagues better than anything the 00s had to offer. But whatever, I don't like you, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you don't like me, we're gonna find ways to disagree with each other. Our film tastes are different, I'm over it.

Well, no one is saying that earlier decades weren't better for film... they clearly were.... but to say that nothing good came from the film industry in the 2000's is just as wrong. I personally think the 90's had some of the best films ever (Terminator 2, The Matrix, Pulp Fiction, American History X, Shakespeare in Love, Silence of the Lambs, Jurassic Park, Forrest Gump, Braveheart, Titanic, American Beauty, L.A. Confidential, 12 Monkeys, Shawshank Redemption, etc.)

 

[Frequen-Z]

Please... James Bond? The Departed? Films based off books? (Don't get me wrong, they can be good, but they're not exactly original masterpieces). Wait til you're a bit older, you'll start appreciating older films.

Lost Highway, Star Wars, Alien, Grave of the Fireflies, I see them as leagues better than anything the 00s had to offer. But whatever, I don't like you, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you don't like me, we're gonna find ways to disagree with each other. Our film tastes are different, I'm over it.

Well, no one is saying that earlier decades weren't better for film... they clearly were.... but to say that nothing good came from the film industry in the 2000's is just as wrong. I personally think the 90's had some of the best films ever (Terminator 2, The Matrix, Pulp Fiction, American History X, Shakespeare in Love, Silence of the Lambs, Jurassic Park, Forrest Gump, Braveheart, Titanic, American Beauty, L.A. Confidential, 12 Monkeys, Shawshank Redemption, etc.)

I know good films came from the 00s, I just feel they were vastly outnumbered by dime a dozen crappy comedies and even crappier horror. Nice list btw

 

[Woodsey]

Play other games, listen to different music, and that films quote is just embarrassing.

Yeah... [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Friedberg_and_Aaron_Seltzer#Filmography] these [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_evil#Films] were [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_%28franchise%29#Films] all [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DreamWorks_Animation_SKG#Films] worthwhile [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hottie_and_the_Nottie] films. [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0957772/#director2000]

If you think films have become anything more than money spawning contraptions, you're stupider than you look.

Right, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_Royale_(2006_film)] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_(film)] these [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring] are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Two_Towers] all [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Return_of_the_King] horrific [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Assassination_of_Jesse_James_by_the_Coward_Robert_Ford] films [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layer_Cake_(film)] that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean's_Eleven_(2001_film)#Critical] are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_(2007_film)] an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_of_the_dead] abomination [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiator_(2000_film)] to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_England] the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slumdog_Millionaire_(film)] history [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_departed] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_(2009)] cinema. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrek#Reception]

If you think you can scrape the very bottom of the barrel and present them as the films that define a decade, you really are a lot stupider than look.

[small]And you people have no idea how long it took me to do all those URLs.[/small]

Please... James Bond? The Departed? Films based off books? (Don't get me wrong, they can be good, but they're not exactly original masterpieces). Wait til you're a bit older, you'll start appreciating older films.

Lost Highway, Star Wars, Alien, Grave of the Fireflies, I see them as leagues better than anything the 00s had to offer. But whatever, I don't like you, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you don't like me, we're gonna find ways to disagree with eachother. Our film tastes are different, I'm over it.

Oh you did not just tell tell a 16-year-old to wait until he's older when you're 19. You don't need to mature before you can appreciate Star Wars.

Yes, "James Bond" no need to sneer-with-words; Casino Royale was incredibly well-received. And you're clutching at straws with your film based off books comment.

The LotR trilogy is better acted and directed then any of the Star Wars films, so I don't think there's any reason to denounce films based on books.

If you're so old and wise why don't you try coming up with a compelling argument instead of picking 5 God-awful films that no one likes anyway, and trying to pass them off as representative of 10 years worth of cinema. There are equally bad films from every decade of cinema.

 

[Jezzascmezza]

Lol, we just had a thread that was the exact opposite of this.
On topic, I like the gaming.
Gaming has gotten awesome.

Getting a new dog. (A lovely black Staffy called Oz.)

I have a staffy too!
Dogs are awesome...

 

[oppp7]

I love the whole world, and being part of it.

OT: The video games and... that's it.

 

[ECasThat]

The LOTR film trilogy, I don't care what the haters say, THEY WERE EPIC.

Hell yeah!
Good:
Lost
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (!!!!)
The ps2
Red vs Blue

Not that good:
Twilight
World War 3

 

[TPiddy]

I know good films came from the 00s, I just feel they were vastly outnumbered by dime a dozen crappy comedies and even crappier horror. Nice list btw

Yes, this is true, but it could just be a side-effect of the movie industry pumping out more movies in general.... at least 5-10 get released every week now, it wasn't like that in earlier decades. This means that more and more projects perhaps unworthy of film get the green light. This also means that producers have to mine deeper into other mediums to find something to adapt. Hell, when your theatre has 24 screens you gotta put something on them .

 

[Gunner 51]

Lol, we just had a thread that was the exact opposite of this.
On topic, I like the gaming.
Gaming has gotten awesome.

Getting a new dog. (A lovely black Staffy called Oz.)

I have a staffy too!
Dogs are awesome...

I'll admit that the overall quality gaming has gotten even better in the past 10 years and will continue to improve. Though the odd re-release of old games with new and improved graphics would be pretty cool. Though keeping the gameplay as it was should remain. *Cough cough - System Shock 1+2*

 

[Frequen-Z]

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Oh you did not just tell tell a 16-year-old to wait until he's older when you're 19. You don't need to mature before you can appreciate Star Wars.

Yes, "James Bond" no need to sneer-with-words; Casino Royale was incredibly well-received. And you're clutching at straws with your film based off books comment.

The LotR trilogy is better acted and directed then any of the Star Wars films, so I don't think there's any reason to denounce films based on books.

If you're so old and wise why don't you try coming up with a compelling argument instead of picking 5 God-awful films that no one likes anyway, and trying to pass them off as representative of 10 years worth of cinema. There are equally bad films from every decade of cinema.

You called me grandad =/ besides, I didn't really start looking into older films til I was at least your age, if not older, and a lot of people I know still don't watch anything other than cookie-cutter shithouse flicks so it's not exactly an unbased assumption to think you don't either.

I disagree concerning Star Wars and LotR, the films were too long in my opinion (as per the standard Peter Jackson film) and while the story was great, it was written during WWII so it's hardly a credit to the 00s.

An era is defined by it's worst moments. Every film should be good, or it shouldn't be made, it's that simple, so the bad ones stand out as places where the industry failed. Yeah every decade has those failure, but we're on about this one, and like I said in another post, I feel the shitty films outweigh the good ones.

Are we done here? I'm tired of being quoted for having an opinion that isn't the same as everyone else's.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

George W. Bush, I am forever in dept to him. Also technological advances, books! Uhhhh and Chiodos.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

Gaming became unoriginal. Music became awful. Films became shovelware.

Nope, awful decade. Sorry to be a negative nancy, but there really wasn't much good about it.

At least Pixar managed to hold out the entire decade without falling into the pit of "Let's all try to do what Michel Bay does" and made deeply impacting childerns films that made whole theaters ball their eyes out, we at least have that.

...And only that

 

[Dyme]

I was born 1991, so in the 2000s I started to actually be able to use my brain. I like that.
Other than that I can not really tell. I don't really know a world before that.

(The thought that my own parents had NO internet is still shocking to me. And my grandparents didn't even have TV. But they had the Weltkrieg against the boredom.)

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

The fact that (no matter how bad they were) the 2000's were steadily taking us, day by day, further from the 80's. That in itself is worthy of praise.