THE TOP 100 FILMS OF THE OUGHTS NOMINATION + DISCUSSION THRED

i know what i am voting #1, but am completely lost as to what will be #2

Minority Report
Y Tu Mama

i can sort of buy hating wes anderson, until i actually watch his movies and remember that they're more complicated and ambitious than the easy knocks on him ever let on. i don't love him as a filmmaker, i think he's sort of hard to love. but i think he's talented and interesting to have around.

Sexy Beast if that was 00s

i dont think tenenbaums is any great shakes either - anderson seems to specialize in getting together great casts and then trying as hard as he can to sap all the charisma and life from them - life aquatic is just an ugly mean awful empty movie

um soo...

i cant be bothered to read every post on this thread and make sure there's no dupes so here's an info dump i've been adding to the last couple days whenever i remember a movie:

Syndromes and a Century
Historias Extraordinarias
Zodiac
Bourne Ultimatum
There Will Be Blood
No Country for Old Men
Inglourious Basterds
Superbad
Sexy Beast
Man on Wire
Rachel Getting Married
The Incredibles
Wall•E
Let the Right One in
My Winnipeg
Songs From the Second Floor
You, the Living
Election (Johnnie To)
Munich
The Squid and the Whale
La Niña Santa
The Pianist
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Shaun of the Dead
Spirited Away
In the Mood for Love
Mulholland Drive
Gosford Park
Grizzly Man
Children of Men
The Five Obstructions
Femme Fatale
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Morvern Callar
Talk to Her
Miami Vice
Before Sunset
Punch-Drunk Love
24 Hour Party Ppl

the Pianist is really good imo

xpost: i don't think any of those adjectives apply to aquatic -- if i was going to knock it i'd say its pacing has problems and it seems so mired in anderson's personal boys-own obsessions that it can be a little hard to find your way into. but it's not ugly or mean at all. ("awful" and "empty" are vague enough that they can apply to anything anyone doesn't like, so i wouldn't argue with those.)

(anyway aquatic won't even make my ballot, unless we're going to 100 or something.)

sympathy for lady vengeance

^ korean!

i dont like that dude besides oldboy

thirst more like worst

La Ciénaga
The Holy Girl
(i haven't managed to see The Headless Woman yet, but i'm tempted to nominate it on general principle)

x-post I liked sympathy for lady vengeance (and mr) but not as much as Oldboy.

oldboy more like fanboy

(i haven't managed to see The Headless Woman yet, but i'm tempted to nominate it on general principle)

― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Monday, November 30, 2009 11:05 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

need to see this

the last 20 minutes of lady vengeance was great but the rest was just a'ight.

some rock docs:

Be Here to Love Me
End of the Century

j/k I love oldboy too

lady vengeance doesn't hit the operatic highs of oldboy but I found it a more consistent film on the whole

"(i haven't managed to see The Headless Woman yet, but i'm tempted to nominate it on general principle)"

Do so. It's remarkable.

ichi the killer
graveyard of honor
a snake of june
a good lawyer's wife
the host
oasis

"(i haven't managed to see The Headless Woman yet, but i'm tempted to nominate it on general principle)"

Do so. It's remarkable.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, November 30, 2009 11:14 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

see it or nominate it?

life aquatic is just an ugly mean awful empty movie

― farting irl (cankles), Monday, November 30, 2009 7:53 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

sort of see where yr coming from in that the film attempts to paint steve zissou as a lovable and quixotically heroic rogue, but pushes his faults to the point where he eventually seems more like a heartless, selfish monster. the tension isn't resolved, the awful consequences of zissou's narcissism are brushed off, and therefore it's awfully hard to root for the guy in the manner that anderson seems to invite.

still, i think yr getting a bit carried away

i wouldnt wipe my ass with that fuckin movie

/cankles

such a character

"abstaining from this thread. I've learned."

don't be such a tease. bedbugs are easier to get rid of.

I'm pretty indifferent towards The Life Aquatic on the whole, but the 'Search And Destroy' scene is probably one of my favorite scenes this decade. It's pretty rad.

It's pretty much the cinematic equivalent of Tony getting carjacked on The Sopranos, contextually.

Tennenbaums is the only Anderson movie that I've liked unequivocally.

And that's mostly thanks to Hackman.

more...

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
Blind Shaft
Broken Sky
Charlie's Angels
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Chicken Run
The Circle
Clerks 2
The Cockettes
Les Destinees
Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Flight of the Red Balloon
Funny Ha Ha
Good Bye, Lenin!
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Hotel Rwanda
The Legend of Leigh Bowery
Maria Full of Grace
Mooladé
Mysterious Object at Noon
Rabbit-Proof Fence
The Secret Lives of Dentists
Shaolin Soccer
Shut Up and Sing
Sonatine
A Tale of Two Sisters
The Taste of Tea
The Vertical Ray of the Sun

there are too many movies now

sonatine??

there are too many movies now

There's too much of everything now. Reset Western culture.

Oh, you mean on this thread...

lol maybe he thought it "ought" 2 be nominated xpost

oops yeah, delete sonatine. i was looking at a release date that was a re-release date.

holy shit i can't believe i forgot taste of tea

amazing amazing movie

prob on my top 10 of the decco

might as well throw Zatoichi out there while i'm at it tho

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

YES

"see it or nominate it?"

Both.

Shanghai Knights
Cellular
Blade II
The Score
The Ring (2002)
The Pledge
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Panic Room
The Ninth Gate
Metropolis (2002)
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
Bowling for Columbine
Little Otik
Lilo & Stitch
In Her Shoes
Cast Away

Don't mean to be a party pooper, but is January just a little too soon to start the poll? I don't know if I'd vote for it or not, but 'Precious' isn't released in the UK until the end of January and no doubt there will be several other films not released here until next year.

Because of the crap film distribution in the UK, I won't get to see 'A Serious Man' until beginning of January, when my local cinema finally gets it.

no! jesus buttfaggin christ you can't just stop a thing when it's already a thing!

i dont like that dude besides oldboy

― T.M.I. Friday's (s1ocki), Tuesday, December 1, 2009 4:05 AM (4 hours ago)

J.S.A. is great, way outside of the Vengeance trilogy vibe, but my favorite of his (also do like oldboy btw).

you can't just stop a thing when it's already a thing

comical heresy aside, I think he's right.

what the fuck is heartfelt about life aquatic. what the fuck is wrong with you.

― farting irl (cankles), Tuesday, December 1, 2009 2:27 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

seriously.

xp, i made the point on another thread that waiting until just after the oscars is nice because it's the only time of year when film distribution in english-speaking countries is in sync. other hand, every single oscarbait December/January film due out this winter looks completely and utterly awful.

KNOCKED UP

The Fountain
Elephant
Children of Men