THE TOP 100 FILMS OF THE OUGHTS NOMINATION + DISCUSSION THRED

"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

SUGAR (2009)

pineapple express

hot fuzz

walk hard

13 going on 30

the class

La Chatte à deux têtes (Porn Theater) (Jacques Nolot 2002)
Women of the Night (Zalman King 2000)
L'Emploi du temps (Time Out) (Laurent Cantet 2002)
Les chansons d'amour (Christophe Honoré 2007)
Down With Love (Peyton Reed 2003)
Masked and Anonymous (Larry Charles 2003)
The Target Shoots First (Christopher Wilcha 2000)
A Chronicle of Corpses (Andrew Repasky McElhinney 2000)
The Five Senses (Jeremy Podeswa 2000)
War Story (John Baumgartner 2001)
Reflections of Evil (Damon Packard 2002)
Homecoming (Joe Dante 2005 - from Showtime's "Masters of Horror" series)
Tearoom (William Jones 2007)
De l'autre côté (Chantal Akerman 2002)
In the Cut (Jane Campion 2003)
Urbania (Jon Matthews 2000)
Marci X (Richard Benjamin 2003)
Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood 2008)
The Box (Richard Kelly 2009)
Cafe Lumiere (Hou Hsiao-Hsien 2003)
Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan 2000)
The Village (M. Night Shyamalan 2004)
Lady in the Water (M. Night Shyamalan 2006)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas 2000)
La mujer sin cabeza (The Headles Woman) (Lucrecia Martel 2008)
Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke 2008)

That woman is headlesS

Oh
Esther Kahn (Arnaud Desplechin 2000)

Don't think any of these have been mentioned yet, all would possibly make my top 50 of the decade :

The Werckmeister Harmonies
Cremaster 3
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter...And Spring
3-Iron
Tropical Malady
Hunger
Katalin Varga
DUMPLINGS!
Ju-On aka The Grudge
Sileni
The Bothersome Man

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.

― go in go hard brother (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 08:22 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

oh man is this when it comes out? i had a go at the dude at my local cinema because they didn't have it even though the paper said it was out now and its not like the coen bros are some incredibly obscure directors. (when i say had a go, i mean asked politely.)

The Wicker Man Remake

^^^serious nomination- don't think a film has been more entertaining this decade.

The Village (M. Night Shyamalan 2004)
Lady in the Water (M. Night Shyamalan 2006)

shine on you contrarian diamond

DUMPLINGS!!

Sorry, I meant...DUMPLINGS!. How did that happen?
A Serious Man is out in London now, I guess the prints have to slowly wend their way around the country.

???? DUMPLINGS! without any capitals or exclamation points, am I going mad?

Candy (Neil Armfield, 2006)
Sideways (Alex Payne, 2004)
Ten Canoes (Rolf de Heer, 2006)
Birth (Jonathan Glazer, 2004)
Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000)

Ah.

Also, Howl's Moving Castle. Even a lesser Ghibli may make my list.

I LOVE CRICKET: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX

how many spots will there be on the ballot?

50 spots! i think the point system will be 50 pts for first, 49 for second, and so on. iirc that was how the '50s poll was done (albeit with 40 spots.)

yeah having done the '40s poll i wouldn't recommend going over 50 for reasons of your own sanity. (especially because this one will get a lot more ballots than that one.) 50's a nice number.

La Chatte à deux têtes (Porn Theater) (Jacques Nolot 2002)
Women of the Night (Zalman King 2000)
L'Emploi du temps (Time Out) (Laurent Cantet 2002)
Les chansons d'amour (Christophe Honoré 2007)
Down With Love (Peyton Reed 2003)
Masked and Anonymous (Larry Charles 2003)
The Target Shoots First (Christopher Wilcha 2000)
A Chronicle of Corpses (Andrew Repasky McElhinney 2000)
The Five Senses (Jeremy Podeswa 2000)
War Story (John Baumgartner 2001)
Reflections of Evil (Damon Packard 2002)
Homecoming (Joe Dante 2005 - from Showtime's "Masters of Horror" series)
Tearoom (William Jones 2007)
De l'autre côté (Chantal Akerman 2002)
In the Cut (Jane Campion 2003)
Urbania (Jon Matthews 2000)
Marci X (Richard Benjamin 2003)
Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood 2008)
The Box (Richard Kelly 2009)
Cafe Lumiere (Hou Hsiao-Hsien 2003)
Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan 2000)
The Village (M. Night Shyamalan 2004)
Lady in the Water (M. Night Shyamalan 2006)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas 2000)
La mujer sin cabeza (The Headles Woman) (Lucrecia Martel 2008)
Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke 2008)

― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, December 1, 2009 5:04 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

someones gunning for the armond white memorial award

speaking of armond, shouldn't we nominate the entire transporter series out of respect?

xpost haha

Speed Racer
Hallam Foe
Son of Rambow
Moon
Thank You For Smoking
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Kung Fu Panda
Quantum of Solace
The Simpsons Movie
Serenity
The War of the Worlds
The Baader-Meinhoff Komplex
Bronson
An Education
Bright Star
Gladiator
Closer
Control
The Others
District 9

9th Company

really max, you must forgive Kevin for liking stuff besides the 4 dozen comedy masterpieces by Ap*t*w and his acolytes that you love so damn much. However, I will have to check Marci X out.

Tearoom (William Jones 2007)

Is this viewable anywhere?

haha i forgive kevin john bozelka, he knows not what he does

speaking of armond, shouldn't we nominate the entire transporter series out of respect?

i think we already have?????

nom: stick it! (2006)

Brick

good call

i think we already have?????

only the first 2! and as any armond stan knows, it’s been a long time since a new movie has been as spiritually and aesthetically exhilarating as transporter 3.

transporter recalls the moral uplift of spielberg's 'always' and the aesthetic daring of godard's made in usa. it literally transports us into a new form of cinema.

Shotgun Stories

well then:

transporter 3 (2008)

the dancer upstairs
i like killing flies
hannah takes the stairs
ghost town
unknown white male
district b13
infamous
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
mutual appreciation

I think at this point that it might be easier to just copy and paste all of the movies released this decade directly from IMDB. Except I guess it'd be hard to filter out of the Tittays of Passion IVs and CB Radio Hero (VG)s.

don't let's filter out the passion tittays

it's way too soon.. nominations should be extended until february IMO

Don't you know, billstevejim, that anything unlucky enough to get released towards the end of a given year always gets the shaft on year/decade/century-end polls? It is as Darwin would have it.