Dude, go back to school, hey? That's because Christ's birth did not launch the 0th century, man! There is no such thing! You must count centuries starting from the first century, which started on Jan 1, (000)1. The rule of thumb to number the century right is simply to add one unit to the prefix common to all years in a given century. If you write the years as I just did, that prefix is formed by the first two digits of the year (e.g. when writing the first year of each century - which incidentally is always that whose last two digits are 01 since there is no year 0 in our Gregorian calendar - (0001, 0101, 0201, ... 1001, 1101,..., 2001, 2101,etc.). As you see, by adding 1 to the digits shown in bold, you get the right century that begins on each of those years. Everybody older than 25 (at least) here remembers all the fuss that was made when we reached the new millenium. It was wrongly thought as beginning on January 1, 2000 (and all computers of the world were supposed to implode in one gigantic catastrophic digital chaos because a lot of them were not programmed to switch to a new millenium). No global shutdown happened apart from rare cases of people caught in elevators (or so say urban legends) of course, but the psychological effect of changing the first two digits of the new years to come made everybody celebrate the new millenium ... one year in advance as our current third millenium (yep dude, don't correct me, there is no millenium 0!!) started only on Jan 1, 2001 !! This shows how stupid such celebrations really are. Simple minds are struck and fascinated by the effect of raw numbers. These are the same people who buy lottery tickets and believe in astrology or numerology - they're just substitute religions that make even less sense. Our OP correctly listed films of the 21st century from 2001 onward but kuzya-23-477484 blurted "umm, 20th century?". Duh. As Confucius once said: "Worse than a troll is a headless chicken running around in the poultry."
.... Everybody knows that and I should not even lose my time explaining this in a world that makes any sense!!! And the worst is that for a short while (fortunately!), the next messages were retitled "best movies of the 20th century".
Oh, I see... You are a young fella who was born after year 2000, so the world started to exist in a century whose years are numbered 20xx. And you're probably too young to have studied much history, so you've not heard much the term 20th century, which resonates very clearly and distinctly to old geezers who were born, according to your system, in the 19th century (the years, duh, they begins with 19, like, so that's the sentry number 19, like).
OMG, OMG, OMG !!! Stop playing with your Gameboy for a while and read something for a change, dude!
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