Best movies last two years

I lost interest in "holleywood" - I used to have a HT setup and now it's just 2 channel music. I'm unimpressed with the lack of anything but the old cookie cutter story and special effects with political statements and advertising in the movie. I'd rather read a book, or see a classic (when they still had imagination).

1. LOTR: Return of the King. Totally awesome.
2. Hero. Beautiful visuals, story, & action sequences. Maybe kind of hard to understand for some westerner's POV, tho.
3. House of Flying Daggers. What a beautiful movie. Absolute eye candy.
4. Infernal Affairs 1 & 2: gritty story & great directing. Part 2 especially reminds me a lot of Michael Mann's Heat. Still waiting for the 3rd from NetFlix.
5. Batman Begins: this is the best Batman movie ever made. Christian Bale made a good Bruce Wayne AND Batman. Unlike George Clooney (WTF was up with that???).
6. The Incredibles.
7. Finding Nemo. I know it's > 2 years, but still watch it again and again on DVD. Very beautiful and funny.
8. Kungfu Hustler. Side-splitting funny and totally made no sense, only Stephen Chow could come up w/ sth like this.
9. 13 Going on 30. The only chick movie I like so far.

Wow, no votes for Crash? In terms of ensemble acting and intensity, I rate it more highly than any other film I've seen this year. Cheadle, Bullock, Dillon and Fraser all gave stellar performances (a first for Fraser), and the actor that played the Mexican repairman (don't recalll his name) was fabulous. My wife left finger-nail marks on the armrest she was gripping it so hard during parts.

We also liked Million Dollar Baby, but man, the ending was brutal.

not sure if it was 2 or 3 yrs ago but Waking Life and Old Boy...u have to see them'

Waking Life by Richard Linklater: animation over real "life" images: philosophy, humor, nonesense, curious

Old Boy: A Korean movie that Quentin Tarantino loves and would not have the guts to make. brillian revenge story

Henry,
We just saw "Old Boy" yesterday. What a fantastic film! A little gruesome at times, but that's what the MUTE button is for, right?