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The noughties was a great decade era for movies as some of the biggest and most successful blockbusters have come in the last ten years.
But it has not all been about the CGI driven movie as we have been privileged to see some hard hitting movies with outstanding performances.
So we have taken a look at just a handful of the movie that defined the noughties.
- The Lord of the Rings
There has been no greater film trilogy in the last ten years that Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings - a novel that was widely considered unfilmable.
But Jackson has other ideas as he brought J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth to life in three stunning films that had the world gripped.
Jackson blended well experienced talent such as Ian McKellan and Christopher Lee with young stars such as Orlando Bloom and Dominic Monaghan.
But the real star of this trilogy was Jackson himself as he brought a world and much loved characters to life - winning over many of the hardcore Tolkien fans.
The movie dominated the box office for the three consecutive Christmases that they were released - The Return of the King broke the $1 billion barrier and is the sixth biggest film of all time.
The Return of the King was nominated for eleven Oscars including Best Picture and won every award - it was the first fantasy film to win the top award.
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- Avatar
But if there is one movie that defined the movies of the noughties that you don't have to look any further than Avatar as James Cameron pushed the boat out even further.
Cameron showed just what was possible with 3D cinema with the release of this movie - and it remains the best 3D movie ever to be released.
The movie was a mix between live action and computer generated characters while Cameron and Vince Pace developed the 3-D Fusion Camera System especially for this project.
And it was a movie that was to capture the imagination of audiences around the world as cinema go-ers and critics fell in love with the it when it was released at the end of 2009.
It took the film just nineteen days to break the $1 billion barrier and it went on to take in excess of $2.7 billion - the biggest grossing movie of all time.
However there has not been the 3D boom that was expected as other filmmakers have been unable to capture what made this movie so special.
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- Pan's Labyrinth
Guillermo Del Toro has always been a visionary filmmaker but 2006's Pan's Labyrinth is the greatest movie that he has made as a director.
This movie fused a war film with a fairy tale as well as a family drama pull all these elements together and you have a visually stunning movie that is powerful and emotional.
Some of the effects were computer generated but most of the effects were done using complicated make-up and animatronics - and this gives the movie a really fresh and real feel.
Not fantasy movie of the decade hit the dizzy heights of Pan's Labyrinth as this was a dark fairy tale that was purely for adults.
And having said that there is no movie since that has matched Pan's Labyrinth - as this is a type of movie that only comes around once in a generation.
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- Brokeback Mountain
There was no movie that was more talked about in 2005 than Brokeback Mountain as Ang Lee returned to the director's chair.
From start to finish Brokeback Mountain is a beautifully crafted movie that was done with intelligence and a level of frankness.
What Ang Lee did with the story of gay love was place it in the mainstream for really the very first time - as well as delivering a movie that lingers long in the mind after you have seen in.
At it's very core Brokeback Mountain is not a gay love story it is just a simple love story and by telling this story in this way Lee broke through barriers that had existed in film for years.
There were also brave performances from Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as they both took a leap of faith with this movie and their roles - both of them deliver devastating performances; especially Ledger.
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- The Hurt Locker
We have had a whole host of war of Iraq movies since 2001 and the vast majority have them have been way off the mark.
But in 2009 director Kathryn Bigelow came along and delivered a fresh look on this genre with The Hurt Locker.
This was a movie that was all about soldiers in the bomb squad unit and the challenges they face on a daily basis.
This was not about the Taliban being the enemy and the American military being heroes it purely focused on the experiences of the solider's and the relationship between them.
Bigelow and writer Mark Boal delivered a completely different take and it was the breathe of fresh air that this genre needed.
The Hurt Locker was the best movie of the year and Bigelow went on to become the first woman to win Best Director at the Oscars.
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Other movies that defined the noughties were District 9, Slumdog Millionaire, The Dark Knight and An Inconvenient Truth.
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