TOP 25 MOVIES OF THE DECADE

Here is the list of my favorite films of the following decade.(2000-2009)
And yes, I realize that The Company was a TNT miniseries and not a feature film, but Michael Keaton is such a bad ass, I had to put it on the list anyway.

25.) The Good Shepherd(2006)

24.) Kill Bill Vol. 2(2004)

23.) Kiss Kiss Bang Bang(2005)

22.) In the Loop(2009)

21.) Brick(2005)

20.) Road to Perdition(2002)

19.) Confessions of a Dangerous Mind(2002)

18.) The Company(2007)

17.) Lord of War(2005)

16.) American Psycho(2000)

15.) Thirteen Days(2000)

14.) Snatch(2000)

13.) There Will Be Blood(2007)

12.) The Prestige(2006)

11.) Sin City(2005)

10.) Adaptation(2002)

9.) No Country for Old Men(2007)

8.) Unbreakable(2000)

7.) A History of Violence(2005)

6.) Gangs of New York(2002)

5.) Collateral(2004)

4.) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford(2007)

3.) Munich(2005)

2.) Zodiac(2007)

1.) The Departed(2006)

A Self Fulfilling Prophecy?

To finish off the semester in my human psych and development class, our professor made us write our own eulogy. I'm sure my professor regretted giving us this assignment once she laid eyes on my paper. Well...here you go.



Leadership, kindness, honor, character, thoughtfulness. These are the qualities of a great man. Unfortunately for Dexter Babin, he possessed none of these qualities.

Then what will we remember when we think of him?
I think if we review his life of misadventures, we can understand him better.

We all know that after he FINALLY graduated college (in the shade of a decade); he tried to be an amateur filmmaker. He totally failed at that.

His first film, "Auschwitz: The Musical", basically blackballed him from the film industry.
But never knowing when to give up, Dexter took another stab at filmmaking with his second film: "Mafia Kingfish: The Story of Carlos Marcello". Surprisingly enough, "Mafia Kingfish" was an absolute hit. Dexter gained prestige, and erased the stigma his earlier film had on his career.

Then he basically ruined everything. After the success of "Mafia Kingfish", Dexter made the “socially consciousness” (his own words) film: "Abortion: The Musical".

He not only received death threats from both sides on the abortion issue, but he was also slapped with a restraining order. He was never to go within 500 feet of a camera again.

Being exiled from the film industry, Dexter then moved on to pursue another passion of his, history. He studied and taught not only about the JFK assassination, but also the history of both organized crime and the CIA in America, along with Cold War politics as well.

We all know in those confusing and pathetic years, Dexter became more and more obsessed with the JFK assassination, and the involvement of rouge members of the CIA, the Mafia, and angry Cuban exiles. He was convinced that the government had the truth. Knowing that they would never release it, he somehow broke into CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia and obtained the secret documents revealing who was behind the JFK assassination.

Well all know that he made history when he revealed to the world that it was indeed Bigfoot, not Lee Harvey Oswald, who shot Kennedy. When questioned, Bigfoot just shrugged and told the press that “He really had nothing better to do.”

As we all can remember, after Dexter found out that it wasn’t the trinity of rouge CIA agents, Mafia, and Cuban Exiles, but….Bigfoot (who changed his named to Jeff after his existence was proven), who was the sole party responsible for the assassination of JFK, he basically went insane.

In his deteriorating mental state we all know that Dexter then became more and more obsessed with prospecting oil. He grew out a thick handlebar mustache and started dressing like it was the early 1900’s. I thought Dexter’s appearance was odd, but it didn’t occur to me what was really going on until he just kept saying how there was "an ocean of oil, and nobody can get at it except for me." It then hit me that Dexter thought he was Daniel Day Lewis’s character from the movie "There Will Be Blood". I knew it was hard, but I put up with his behavior for the time being. Unfortunately I severed my friendship with Dexter when he started calling me “Eli” and kept yelling out the word “DRAAAINNAGE” while throwing bowling pins at me.

We all know that Dexter tragically died shortly after words from what the doctors called a combination of tuberculoses and a gunshot wound to the head. His body was found outside the residence of Mr. Clint Eastwood, who claimed that Dexter had been up all night throwing bowling pins against his house yelling for someone named “Blondie” to come outside. We all know that Mr. Eastwood publicly announced that he had no idea of the circumstances surrounding Dexter’s death, and suggested that maybe he fell on the 44. Magnum bullets found in his skull.