Zeroes Entertainment

The unnamed decade is coming to an end. (Though technically, this is a multi-named decade: the Zeroes, the Nothings, the Aughts, the Oughts. And technically, the decade ends next year, but for convenience I'll ignore these issues.) Inspired by my buddy melanism, my favorite list blogger, who recently created the decades top 50 TV shows, albums and movies, (and entertainment weekly who makes infuriating lists regularly,) I endeavor to undergo an attempt to try to create my own list of the top TV shows and movies, in order (no music, I just don't know it well enough to judge). So, peruse it or skip it at your leisure.

No more ado.

Movies of the Decade:

1) Gladiator
2) The Matrix
3) Garden State
4) Serenity
5) The Dark Knight
6) Little Miss Sunshine
7) Big Fish
8) Love Actually
9) Juno
10) The Ring
11) Batman Begins
12) Slumdog Millionaire
13) The Girl Next Door
14) Yes Man
15) The 40 Year Old Virgin
16) Spider-Man
17) Lars and the Real Girl
18) (500) Days of Summer
19) Wall-E
20) Win a Date with Tad Hamilton
21) X-Men
22) About a Boy
23) Away We Go
24) American Gangster
25) Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith
26) Superbad
27) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
28) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
29) Remember the Titans
30) Iron Man
31) Amelie
32) Zoolander
33) Taken
34) Tropic Thunder
35) Definitely Maybe
36) Forgetting Sarah Marshall
37) Hotel Rwanda
38) Old School
39) Watchmen
40) Napoleon Dynamite
41) Saw
42) Moulin Rouge
43) Star Trek
44) Shaun of the Dead
45) Waitress
46) Hamlet 2
47) Memento
48) Adaptation
49) Mr. and Mrs. Smith
50) The Hangover



TV Shows of the Decade: (started this decade)
1) Lost
2) Arrested Development
3) 24
4) The Office (American version)
5) Firefly
6) Scrubs
7) The Wire
8) Glee
9) Pushing Daisies
10) Freaks and Geeks
11) Dexter
12) Mad Men
13) Chuck
14) Friday Night Lights
15) How I Met Your Mother
16) The Big Bang Theory
17) Bones
18) It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
19) House
20) Battlestar Galactica
21) Psych
22) Smallville
23) Pardon the Interruption
24) Modern Family
25) Monk
26) Community
27) Castle
28) Better Off Ted
29) Burn Notice
30) Gossip Girl
31) The Office (UK version)
32) Fringe
33) True Blood
34) Big Love
35) Heroes
36) Flight of the Conchords
37) Dirty Sexy Money
38) Greek
39) My Boys
40) Coupling
41) Eureka
42) 30 Rock
43) The Chapelle Show
44) Jericho
45) Late Night with Craig Ferguson
46) The Colbert Report
47) The Daily Show with Jon StewartReno 911
48) Breaking Bad
49) The Sarah Connor Chronicles
50) Extras

I put a high premium on entertainment... because it's fun. Additionally, a movie (or a TV show) is not good unless it's entertaining, while it can still be good even if it's missing another key component like if it is not intellectually provocative or emotionally evocative. Ideally, it's got all 3. But, at least, it must be entertaining.

I reserve the right to make changes for errors or omissions or because I was totally wrong, but this is pretty much it.

I apologize for those of you who prefer my long-winded rants, but I'm saving my blabbering for another venue and another time.

Yours, etc.
Papa Bear