I liked The prestige , Trailer Park boys , Oldboy , and The Departed. There are decent movies out there but almost anything designed by the studios to make money is going to suck because they are written by focus groups. They show the original movie to either men under 30 or woman under 25 and change it based on how they score it. It was woman under 25 who were responsible for all the changes to 300.
That whole stupid subplot where it seemed like there was no support for the war
IN SPARTA was to give the queen a more central role and appeal to young woman.