Can You Name All Of These 2000s Movies From Just A Screenshot?
- by Brittany Brown
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Did you know that, despite being in the years surrounding the bulk of the releases of the Harry Potter and The Lord of the Ring movies, the highest grossing movie of the 2000s was Avatar?
Avatar is a science fiction film that was released in 2009, and had a worldwide gross of $2,749,064,328. The second highest grossing film of the 2000s was The Lord of The Rings Return of the King, but Avatar still surpassed the 2003 film by $1,629,953,387. Avatar also surpassed Titanic, which was also directed, produced, and written by James Cameron.
So what makes Avatar and James Cameron so special? Well, after Titanic, the Canadian filmmaker took the next 10 years to develop Avatar, an idea he has had since 1994. Avatar was originally going to begin filming after Titanic, but Cameron put the project on hold due to cinematic technology not being as advanced for the story he wanted to tell. Avatar has a lot of first time used 3D technology.
Although the film can be considered over hyped, it is well received by both critics and consumers. We are willing to bet that, whether in theaters at at home, you have seen Avatar. But what about the rest of these 2000s movies? We bet you can't name all of these movies based on a screenshot.
What movie is this?
This second movie, as part of the Batman trilogy by Christopher Nolan, welcomes The Joker from Batman's past. Christian Bale returns to play the role of Batman, and The Joker is played by the late, Heath Ledger. Batman continues to protect the city of Gotham, but is troubled by the rise in crime with the return of The Joker, who is commissioned by the mob. The fight against The Joker becomes a personal one for Bruce Wayne, and his morals are tested.
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This 2001 film stars the late Paul Walker, and Vin Diesel, and is the first of the franchise of movies about illegal street racing. An elite street racer and his crew are being investigated for stealing electronic parts from trucks. An undercover cop, played by Walker, is determined to find out who is actually committing the crime. After developing a crush on the daughter of one of the street racers, Paul Walkers character admits that he is an undercover cop.
What movie is this?
A new technology is developed to perform permanent mind erasing. After find out that his ex girlfriend of two years, Clementine Kruczynski, hires the company, Lacuna, to erase him from her mind, Joel Barish decides to do the same. The film follows the reverse timeline of Joel and Clementine's relationship as the memories are erased from his mind during his sleep. At present time, Joel and Clementine meet on a train. They discover that both have gotten the procedure, and decide to try their relationship again.
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This 2000 movie from Christopher Nolan is a thriller about a man who has squired short term memory loss, and wants to solve the murder of his wife, which is the last thing he can properly remember. Leonard, played by Guy Pearce, can remember little details about his wife's rape and murder, but can barely remember what happened moments prior in the present. The man who hurt is wife, also hurt Leonard, which is why he suffers from his condition.
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This animated movie from Hayao Miyazaki in 2002 tells the story of a 10-year-old girl and her adventure into a world of supernatural beings. Her family is moving to a small town in Japan's countryside, and this all beings after her father takes a wrong turn. The family stops to eat, but Chihiro soon finds out that her family is in danger. Her parents are turned into pigs, and the theme park Chihiro and her family mistakenly visits is filled with demons, evil gods, and spirts.
What movie is this?
A teenage journalist is assigned to write a story for Rolling Stone about the band Stillwater. The editor thinks William is much older, and has the teenager go on tour with the band. William has a hard time fitting in with the band and getting his interviews, but groupie, Penny, helps him lighten up. When William returns to San Francisco, he writes about what he saw, but worried that the article will ruin Stillwater's reputation, the band tells the fact-checker at Rolling Stone that it's all untrue.
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This 2003 Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney film is about a lost son and a worrisome father. After losing his wife and, all but one, of his children, Marlin is very cautious with his physically disabled son. The young Clown Fish gets tired of his father's antics, and disobeys his rules, which ends up with him getting caught by a diver. Marlin is determined to find his son with the help of Dory, a Blue Reef Fish with short term memory loss.
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After a drug deal gone wrong, a Vietnam veteran comes upon the violent aftermath. At the scene is two million dollars, which Llewelyn Moss takes for himself, instead of reporting the crime. This money, however, has another suitor. Psychotic killer, Anton Chigurh, has been on pursuit of this money and has murdered anyone remotely related to obtaining it. Sherif Bell is also looking for the two million dollars, but to protect Moss from Chigurh. Moss dies in a hotel at the hand of Chigurh.
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Frank W. Abagnale, played by Leonardo DiCaprio in this 2002 film, is a doctor, lawyer a co-pilot for a major airline company. This is all obtained before Abagnale's 21st birthday. Despite these "do good" professions, Abagnale is a master of deception and a successful con-artist. He's been able to get himself millions of dollars though fraudulent checks. An FBI agent, Carl Hanratty, played by Tom Hanks, is determined to bring Abagnale to justice. However, Abagnale is always one step ahead.
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A young man, who grew up poor in India, finds himself on the game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Although he is one question away from winning the big prize, at the end of the filming day, he is arrested and accused of cheating for doing so well on the show, No one could believe that such a young, and poor, man could know the answers. To prove his innocence, Jamal tells his life story, which is his source of knowledge for the game show questions.
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Working at a greeting card company, Tom Hansen meets his dream girl, a whimsical girl who likes The Smiths, played by Zooey Deschanel. Tom gets major crush on Summer, and although she's not ready to meet the love of her life yet, they start dating. Things start off well, but after the honeymoon phase, Summer realizes they want different things and that is not fair for her to continue her relationship with Tom. Tom is completely torn up, but eventually makes peace with the situation, and decides to follow his dream to become an architect.
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A Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class robot has been doing its intended job for years after the disintegration of Earth. With no human, or any lifeforms for that matter, around, this robot fills its time by collecting the leftovers of what life used to be. Upon finding a small green plant, a different robot is sent to Earth to collect the sample, to prove that life exists. Our small Waste Allocation robot falls in love with the sleek white robot, Eve.
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This 2006 James Bond movie is about 007's first mission. Bond is sent to the island country of Madagascar to spy on a terrorist. After things don't go to plan, Bond decides to take matters into his own hands, and investigate the terrorist ring independently of his spy agency. In the Bahamas, Bond meets a man, and his girlfriend, associated with big money handler to most of the World's terrorist organizations. This man plans a high stakes poker game, and Bond is assigned to play poker against him.
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A retired balloon salesman loses the love of his life to old age. To add insult to injury, the city is trying to buy the house he and and wife spent their whole lives together in. To avoid the city from taking his house, Carl Fredricksen creates a plan to elevate his house with balloons to his wife's dream destination. While trying to execute his plan, Carl learns he is not alone and that a Wilderness Explorer was on his front porch.
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An Ogre lives in solitude in a swamp, and he is perfectly content until Lord Farquaad wants to purchase his land. The ogre goes to the castle and makes a deal with Lord, that if he rescues a princess from a tower guarded by a dragon. With an "annoying" donkey the ogre meets along the way, the two set out to rescue Princess Fiona. She is resentful to leave the tower because after sundown, she herself turns into an Ogre.
What movie is this?
This 2006 movie is about a chubby, non-conventional looking, seven year old girl who wants to take home a specific award in a beauty pageant. Her dysfunctional family takes a road trip in a yellow Volkswagen T2 Microbus to help her achieve her dream. The movie first appeared at the Sun dance Film Festival in 2006, before Fox bought the rights to the film. The New Mexican family decides to never enter a California beauty pageant again after their experience.
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This 2002 film was written by Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson, and directed by Anderson. A father and mother explain to their three genius children, Chas, Margot, and Richie, that they are separating. Thee three have created great success for themselves from a young age. The daughter, Margo is adopted, and her brother Richie has a crush on her. After the mother gets proposed to by their accountant, the father claims he has cancer of the stomach to win back his wife and children.
What movie is this?
A paraplegic veteran enters a different world,Pandora, with the use of human hybrid technology. This movie set in the future identifies Earth as being in an energy crisis, and scientists believe that the energy source on Pandora could be a new resource for Earth. Jake Sully can walk in this alternative dimension, and he interacts with the native creatures of Pandora, the Na'vi. Learning that intention is to wipe out the natives of Pandora, Jake helps to protect the Na'vi and the Tree of Souls.
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With a sequel coming to theaters June of 2018 this Disney-Pixar animated film released in 2004. A husband and wife team of super humans are forced to stop fighting crime due to a government mandate. They quit crime fighting and start a family, however the children develop super powers from their parents. The children are taught to keep their powers under wraps, and the family pretend that they are normal. However, the father secretly returns to the superhero business after a new super criminal comes to light.
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An elite 22-year-old college graduate decides to abandon his successful future, and financial backing from his family, to find adventure in the wilderness. This 2007 movie is based off a non-fictional novel from 1997 by Jon Krakauer. The novel is a expansion of an article written by Krakauer called "Death of an Innocent" written in 1993 about Christopher McCandless, an American adventure seeker. The Oxford graduate donates his savings and starts his adventure to Alaska without telling his family where he is going.
What movie is this?
A father, who always has a tall tale to tell, becomes sick and his estranged son, William travels to be with him. William and his father do not have the best relationship because of the exaggerated stories his father, Edward Bloom, would tell about himself. Edward was also gone for most of William's childhood and William assumed his father didn't care about his family. William, who works as a journalist, looks into the tales his father would tell, and finds that there is fact within the fiction.
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In this 2007 movie, two high school losers hook up and experience an unexpected pregnancy. After deciding against abortion on the way to the clinic, the teenager girl decides to give her child up for adoption. The movie is about her finding a suitable family for her unborn child, and the struggle of a pregnant high school girl. Her father and step mom and very supportive and together, they find a family to adopt her baby, who have been unable to conceive a child themselves.
What movie is this?
This Steven Spielberg film starring Tom Cruise is based on a short story by Philip K. Dick. Tom Cruise's character is an detective living in Washington D.C. in the year 2054. In the future, crime can be predicted, and John Anderton works for the task force called "pre-crime". Anderton finds out that he is the future murderer of a man he hasn't met yet. He becomes a fugitive and works on a theory that he is being framed by his own colleagues.
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In a world powered by the terror of children, this energy source is collected by monsters that enter the human world though door portals at a factory. The biggest screams earn the biggest recognition in the company. However, not every monster in this world scares children, the less scary monsters do operational work of the factory. Although the monsters scare children, humans themselves are considered toxic. Mike and Sulley live their lives working at the factory normally until a human girl follows Sulley out of the door portal.
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Based on the long running television show of the same likeness, this movie was released in 2007. Punk band Green Day performs a concert on Springfield Lake. However, the heavily polluted body of water consumes the concert, and the front man starts a conversation about protecting the environment. Homer adopts a pig, known as Spider Pig or Harry Plopper, and keeps the pig waste in a silo. However, the silo becomes full and he needs to dispose of the waste, which causes a stir in the town.
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This 2000 movie is based on the 1978 novel, of the same name, by Hubert Selby Jr.. The story is about four New Yorkers and their addictions. Retired widow, Sara Goldfarb, lives alone in a small apartment and has dreams of being on a self-help show she regularly watches. She has a son, played by Jared Leto, who is a junkie, and his best friend wants to make it big by becoming a drug dealer. Jared Leto's character has a girlfriend that he drags down with him.
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Based on real events of a serious of murders that, to this day, still have not been solved - this movie tells the story of a man obsessed with tracking down the killer. The crimes occurred in the San Fransisco Bay Area from the 1960s to the 1970s. This movie is also based on a book written by the main character, Robert Graysmith, whom is the man obsessed. Graysmith puts his own life on hold to investigate the murders, and he is portrayed by actor Jake Gyllenhaal.
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Dewey Finn is kicked out of his own band, and needs to find a way to pay his share of the rent to his friend and short-tempered girlfriend. While at home in the middle of the day, Finn takes a call on behalf of his roommate, and decides to accept a long term substitute teaching job as not, Dewey Finn, but Ned Schneebly. After seeing the kids in a music class, Finn decides to teach the private school kids rock and roll to enter them in a contest for money.
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This 2000 movie starring Tom Hanks, tells the story of an FedEx engineer that gets stranded on an island while on his way to an assignment. Chuck Noland survives on the island with the contents of the plane, which were FedEx packages. After leaving a bloody handprint on a volleyball, Chuck appropriately calls his new friend, Wilson. Chuck survives four years on the island, but after a bunch of debris washes up on shore, Chuck builds a raft and eventually finds his way home.
What movie is this?
During a zombie apocalypse, a shy loser named Columbus joins Tallahassee, an experienced zombie slayer, to find the last Twinkies. Two others also join Columbus and Tallahassee, but the girls turn out to be con artists. Wichita and her little sister take Tallahassee's car and guns, but the four needs to team up together against the zombies. Once reaching Hollywood, the group go to Bill Murray's mansion, where Columbus mistakes him for a zombie. Tallahassee finds a fried Twinkie stand.
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Adapted from an autobiography of a Polish and Jewish man that survived World War II. Władysław Szpilman is a piano player, and his family gets taken into the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940. Two years later, the family is taken to a concentration camp, but Władysław Szpilman is spared because a friend in the Jewish Ghetto Police recognizes him. After becoming a slave, Władysław Szpilman eventually escapes, and hides in refuge with a non-Jewish friend and his family. The apartment is eventually destroyed in the war, but Władysław Szpilman saves himself by telling a German officer that he is a professional piano player.
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This 2005 movie tells the story of a geeky middle aged guy, played by Steve Carell, who is found out to be a virgin by his group of friends. The bulk of the movie is the friends, played by Paul Rudd and Seth Rogan, trying to make Steve Carell's character more appealing to women and setting him up on a date. There's finally hope when Trish comes into the picture, however, she tells Steve Carell's character that she is not ready for an intimate relationship.
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Daughter of two zoologists, Cady Heron, has lived on the continent of Africa most of her life. After her parents are done with their research, they move to the Midwest and Cady goes to public school. From her first day, Cady has a hard time fitting in until two other losers take her under their wings. The three decide to sabotage the leader of "The Plastics", a small clique of popular girls. Cady throws her morals and values out the window after becoming too close to the The Plastics.
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Four best friends go on a trip to Las Vegas for a bachelor party. Things get out of hand, and the groomsmen wake up to find a tiger, a six month old baby, and the groom to be missing The wedding is in two days, and the three groomsmen star retracing their steps to find the groom. This 2009 comedy staring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis became a cult favorite and two sequels have followed the original film.
What movie is this?
Two awkward high school seniors are on the quest to purchase alcohol for a party, with hopes of making an impression on the ladies. Even and Seth have a friend, Fogell, who has a fake ID. Although the ID is from Hawaii and lists Fogell's name as just "McLovin", the boys are able to buy alcohol. However, at the same time, the liquor store is robbed which puts the boys in an awkward situation when police arrive on the scene.