10 Movies From 2005 That Are Now Considered Classics

10 Movies From 2005 That Are Now Considered Classics

Between the reboot that saved Batman, a painfully realistic Judd Apatow comedy, and a landmark in LGBTQ+ cinema, 2005 was an important year for film.

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The mid-2000s was an exciting time in movies. It was before the huge phenomenon of superhero movies, and there wasn’t much diversity going on either. But it was when audiences were starting to see a dramatic move into those areas, and a paradigm shift in Hollywood had begun thanks to some of cinema’s greatest auteurs.

The year was carried by filmmakers who weren’t satisfied by the current Hollywood landscape, and they took it upon themselves to change it for the better. Between a dark and gritty reboot that saved Batman, a painfully realistic Judd Apatow comedy, and a landmark in LGBTQ+ cinema, 2005 was such an important year for cinema.

Hard Candy

Hard Candy is hard to watch, as it follows a young teenager getting revenge on the man she believes raped and murdered her best friend. The girl is cunning, tormenting the killer the whole time, acting like she’ll let him go when in reality she’ll do nothing of the sort.

The girl makes the killer believe he is being castrated before convincing him to hang himself. It’s advised not to watch on a full stomach, but it’s so well crafted, gripping the whole way through, and is one of the best movies that feature only two characters.

Capote

Capote follows the titular great American novelist, Truman Capote, as he writes his most well-known book, In Cold Blood, which is based on the real-life murder of a family in Kansas. The film fascinatingly depicts the emotional attachment Capote develops to the murderer Perry Smith despite his actions, and it makes for one of the most compelling and heartbreaking biopics of the 2000s.

The late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman was one of the best actors of his generation, and his role as the celebrated author was his crowning performance, winning him the Academy Award for best actor. His son will carry the torch too, as, though he doesn’t have any previous acting credits to his name, Cooper Hoffman stars in Licorice Pizza, the newly released 1970s period drama.

Brokeback Mountain

Brokeback Mountain is well known as a groundbreaking LGBTQ+ film, but it’s so much more than that. For a genre that’s so grounded in masculinity, director Ang Lee flipped the tropes of the Western on its head.

The film was a huge moment for the LGBT+ community, and though they had been represented in film for decades, nothing was quite like Brokeback Mountain. Lee’s instant classic film advanced the portrayal of LGBTQ+ characters into the mainstream, and it has influenced both films and TV shows with its themes and characters.

Four Brothers

When it was first released, Four Brothers wasn’t the most critically acclaimed movie in the world. In fact, it was critically derided for its overwhelming violence. However, the violence in Four Brothers isn’t anything audiences haven’t seen in a Quentin Tarantino movie, and the visual effects in the film are outstanding.

That isn’t the only parallel the movie has to Tarantino’s films, as Four Brothers is a tale of revenge too. The film follows four adopted brothers who avenge their adopted mother’s murder. Part of what makes the movie a modern classic is the strikingly entertaining and heartfelt rapport between the four main characters.

The 40-Year-Old Virgin

Though the mid-2000s wasn’t a time defined by any huge movement in cinema, one trend that comes the closest is the run of comedies directed or produced by Judd Apatow. Among Knocked Up, Anchorman, and many others, one of the most memorable is The 40-Year-Old Virgin.

The film is chock full of classic sequences. Whether it’s the infamous waxing scene or the final, surreal musical number, the movies features many of Steve Carell’s funniest movie moments. Despite the premise laid out in its title, The 40-Year-Old Virgin is a hilariously honest and accurate depiction of single life in the 2000s.

Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge Of The Sith

There are now more polarizing Star Wars movies than outright classics, as Disney’s films have divided fans, and the first couple in the prequel trilogy don’t sit well with most viewers. However, Revenge of the Sith stands as the one film outside of the original trilogy that most fans can agree on.

The movie is full of exciting battles, there’s more weight to the dialogue, and the fight on Mustafar is what audiences had been waiting to see for more thanb 20 years. It’s easily one of the most exciting sequences in the whole saga that’s as good as anything in The Empire Strikes Back, and Anakin Skywalker’s final transformation into Darth Vader is one of the greatest payoffs in cinema.

Pride & Prejudice

The classic 1813 Jane Austen novel has been adapted for the big screen countless times, so much so that it’s even gotten to the point of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. But the greatest, most faithful adaptation is the 2005 movie directed by Joe Wright.

Pride and Prejudice might not be all that daring, but a movie based on Austen’s work doesn’t need to revolutionize cinema. It’s is everything an adaptation of the novel should be: romantic, captivating, and perfectly acted. Wright did a terrific job of fitting as much from the novel as he could into the two-hour runtime.

Hitch

When it comes to romantic comedies, so few of them are considered classics. The movies might not carry the prestige of period dramas and decades-spanning biopics, but there’s a lot to love about rom-coms in their own right.

The year 2005 was a goldmine for rom-coms, as the year saw the release of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Wedding Crashers, and many others. But the best and most remarkable is Hitch. The Will Smith vehicle follows a pickup artist and date doctor who helps nerds find love, and though it isn’t the most original film of the year, it’s full of laughs, it’s uplifting, and it’s one of the best date-night movies out there.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Writer Shane Black has a penchant for buddy-cop movies, as he penned Lethal Weapon and The Last Boy Scout. But with Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, he changed the formula.

The 2005 movie follows a private investigator and a Hollywood actor who are thrown into uncovering a crime syndicate that’s way above either of their pay grades. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a tongue-in-cheek, hard-boiled crime movie, which makes for one of the most unique and best postmodern noirs. Outside of Black’s other movie, The Nice Guys, there hasn’t been anything like it since.

Batman Begins

Batman Begins was an experiment as much as anything else, and it’s amazing that it was pulled off so well first time around. In a way, as much as fans hate the earlier film, they have Batman & Robin to thank for Batman Begins. If it wasn’t for the overwhelmingly negative reception of the 1997 movie, audiences would never have gotten the realistic but still cinematic approach to the reboot.

Batman Begins was massively influential at the time, as it started the whole trend of dark and gritty reboots of existing franchises. It was also grounded in reality, which comic book movies had never attempted before. It does more than just hold up all these years later; it remains one of the greatest superhero movies ever made.

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