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Full In the Loop

Advanced guide to getting in the loop.

Supplementary to "Civilization Essentials."

If a movie is on this list, then it has one of these:
-Pop culture reference value
-Meme value
-Example of a namedropped director/producer/actor
-Popularity + cult popularity
-Had a cultural impact regardless of quality

There are 92 films in this list released in the 2000s.

  • The Dark Knight
  • There Will Be Blood
  • In the Mood for Love
  • Oldboy
  • Inglourious Basterds
  • No Country for Old Men
  • The Departed
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox
  • Mulholland Drive
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Kill Bill: Vol. 1
  • Little Miss Sunshine
  • Coraline
  • Synecdoche, New York
  • Pan's Labyrinth
  • Gladiator
  • Brokeback Mountain
  • The Royal Tenenbaums
  • Requiem for a Dream
  • Catch Me If You Can
  • Million Dollar Baby
  • Zodiac
  • Donnie Darko
  • Shaun of the Dead
  • Slumdog Millionaire
  • Ocean's Eleven
  • The Emperor's New Groove
  • Spider-Man 2
  • Superbad
  • Cast Away
  • V for Vendetta
  • A Beautiful Mind
  • Mean Girls
  • Mamma Mia!
  • The Notebook
  • Spider-Man
  • American Psycho
  • Legally Blonde
  • Cars
  • Moulin Rouge!
  • 28 Days Later
  • Minority Report
  • Juno
  • Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
  • Iron Man
  • Atlantis: The Lost Empire
  • How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
  • (500) Days of Summer
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  • Saw
  • A.I. Artificial Intelligence
  • 13 Going on 30
  • Barbie Fairytopia: Mermaidia
  • White Chicks
  • Hairspray
  • Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
  • Love Actually
  • Freaky Friday
  • Bridget Jones's Diary
  • Jennifer's Body
  • Barbie: Fairytopia
  • The Fast and the Furious
  • My Big Fat Greek Wedding
  • The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
  • Ocean's Thirteen
  • 300
  • Miss Congeniality
  • The Blind Side
  • X-Men
  • The Ring
  • Ocean's Twelve
  • The 40 Year Old Virgin
  • 27 Dresses
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  • The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
  • The Italian Job
  • I, Robot
  • Charlie's Angels
  • Final Destination
  • Scary Movie
  • Coyote Ugly
  • Sex and the City
  • Silent Hill
  • Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
  • Final Destination 2
  • Click
  • Chicken Little
  • Flowers for Algernon
  • The Room
  • The Incredible Hulk
  • Twilight