2013!

Every January 1st, I think of all the movies that are now 10 years old.  Doing so used to make me feel old and out of touch, but these days I’ve found it to be an interesting examination of changing culture and tastes.  It’s fascinating to see which movies remain in the collective mind and which have faded.  It was particularly interesting to think about it this year, as 2003 marked the beginning of a new blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean franchise while capping off the successful Lord of the Rings film series… only to have it resurrect ten years later in the form of The Hobbit.

It has also been interesting to see how my personal tastes have changed.  Some of these movies were my favorites at the time, but have faded, while others I found to not be particularly interesting, but now love.  Perhaps this is the case with you, too.

So, as of now, the following movies are now ten years old:

21 GRAMS
ALL THE REAL GIRLS
AMERICAN SPLENDOR
BAD BOYS II
BAD SANTA
BIG FISH
BRUCE ALMIGHTY
COFFEE AND CIGARETTES
COLD MOUNTAIN
THE COMPANY
CONFIDENCE
THE COOLER
THE CORPORATION
DAREDEVIL
DOGVILLE
THE DREAMERS
ELEPHANT
ELF
FINDING NEMO
FREDDY VS. JASON
FREAKY FRIDAY
GIGLI
HOLES
HOUSE OF 1,000 CORPSES
HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG
HULK
THE HUNTED
IDENTITY
IN AMERICA
INTOLERABLE CRUELTY
THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS
THE ITALIAN JOB
KILL BILL vol. 1
THE LAST SAMURAI
THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN
LOONEY TUNES: BACK IN ACTION
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: RETURN OF THE KING
LOST IN TRANSLATION
LOVE ACTUALLY
MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD
MATCHSTICK MEN
THE MATRIX RELOADED
THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS
A MIGHTY WIND
MONSTER
MYSTIC RIVER
OLDBOY
OLD SCHOOL
OPEN RANGE
OPEN WATER
OWNING MAHOWNY
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL
THE ROOM
THE RUNDOWN
S.W.A.T.
SCHOOL OF ROCK
SEABISCUIT
SHATTERED GLASS
THE STATION AGENT
SWIMMING POOL
TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES
THIRTEEN
TOUCHING THE VOID
UNDERWORLD
X2: X-MEN UNITED
ZATOICHI