The (Now-Overrated) ILX Top 100 Films of the 2000s Poll Results

Funny that I was quoted there, since I don't remember much about the movie and didn't vote for it.

thanks omar for running the numbers! (and taking the time to cook up these natty images)

The list format looks great, omar.

― maciej recognizing trill, Wednesday, February 3, 2010 1:00 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

kudos to omar for beautifully designed results thread btw.

― the highest per-vote vag so far (history mayne), Wednesday, February 3, 2010 1:01 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yah bro

shg, there's more than one kind?

own dogville, have never watched it. video stores going belly up do wonders for the "might as well buy this i'll probably watch it some day" collection

hah just occurred to me tho that you should also put the title and stats in text for those who have images turned off and also for the inevitable eventual disappearance of the images from the internet

yeah i'll be putting in the first place votes...none quite yet...

i have had dogville for six months now and still can't face it. it sounds just awful.

probably a good idea......i will add that at the end of the reveal posts.

nicole kidman is still lookin' good as of 'dogville', iirc.

like lye being shoveled into my eyes

2nd nominee for new thread title

havent seen any of them so far - am a haneke and von trier fan tho :/

I've been intrigued and burned by so many von trier movies that I've just given up

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/happygolucky.jpg

Happy-Go-Lucky was one of the most daring, moving films I've seen in ages, and it has an incredible lead performance by Sally Hawkins, so I gotta got for that. I'm probably exactly the kind of viewer it was targeted for, though, because the whole movie is a big anti-cynicist manifesto, and I'm a big anti-cynic.

- Tuomas

t-dawg idk how u feel about this but when i was watching this it was pretty much exact like how i picture your lyfe just less fighting for the rights of ppl on internet msg boards. also that driving instructor is how i picture ilx poster whiney g weingarten right down to assaulting attractive dark haired yung women

um that sd dope movie ~~ chilling on the balcony wearnin t shirts and underwear just u no glowing and shit ~~ thats real lyfe

― nutrional socialist (Lamp)

watched happy go lucky last night - really enjoyed it and <3 mike leigh generally - ws all this wite girls def

i personally related to how poppys frustration w/the world manifested as passive aggressive discursive joking - its trying to make people relax and be natural w/o recognizing that this desire has control freak roots of its own

so yeah she was an optimist who believes in the goodness of people - and she was pretty good at connecting when shit got real - but she was also quite willfully personally unexamined - there was a whole lot of ignorance and projection going on

― ice cr?m

#97
Happy-Go-Lucky
Mike Leigh
2008
United Kingdom
210.5 pts, 11 votes

actually did watch the beginning of dogville once

falled asleep

I also own but have never watched dogville, bought DVD for $2 at ocean state job lot lol

I've been intrigued and burned by so many von trier movies that I've just given up

i wonder if on his deathbed von trier will reveal that his entire output was designed to treat the viewer like one of the abused women in his shitty films. always going back for more, he says.

loool @ lamp

happy go lucky just snuck onto my ballot - pretty good one imo

Thought his three '00s features were OK to good, but Leigh's lost a step. Driving instructor was best HGL character, but then he had to go and ruin him w/ bathos at the end.

the words "yeah you like that doncha" should flash on the screen at the end of every von trier movie

Yay for "Happy Go Lucky" - I would've voted for that had I got around to voting.

Maybe I should watch Happy Go Lucky tonight, it's in the have-but-not-seen category for me.

flamenco instructor was even better IMO xxp

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just a suggestion omar but maybe post 10 films a day? give ppl some time to marinate and discuss

dogville's good, but too long. and nk looks fine.

Gah, Dogville far too fucking low!

the words "yeah you like that doncha" should flash on the screen at the end of every von trier movie

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, February 3, 2010 1:24 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol

Also, the bar is very high for vote/point totals required to get on the list! Good job!

20 a day!

Eddie Marsan was great in HGL. It also made me appreciate him more in Miami Vice. 'it could come back on me baby!'

just a suggestion omar but maybe post 10 films a day? give ppl some time to marinate and discuss

can you torrent a pirated version of the lot for those of us who can't wait for the release date?

These 4 are all rather sadistic experiences, but two of them are good.

Eddie Marsan is a good John Houseman in Me and Orson Welles

o god I can't wait till the kill bills show up

Eddie Marsan was great in HGL. It also made me appreciate him more in Miami Vice. 'it could come back on me baby!'

― Freddy 'The Wonder Chicken' (Gukbe), Wednesday, February 3, 2010 1:27 PM (57 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

omg same guy mind blown *_*

10 a day would give the GMT and later people a better chance to take part in the discussion

would be more epic that way too

every time I think of first QT appearance I picture morbz as boiling tea kettle with cork in spout

A watched Morbs never boils.

Actually, that's the least true thing I've ever written.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/hifidelity.jpg

A lot of people I know saw the film after reading the book, and complained that they'd niced up Rob too much. But seeing it a second time, he is a complete bastard at times in the film, it's just that he's played by John Cusack, and everyone loves John Cusack.

― Andrew Farrell

High Fidelity
Stephen Frears
2000
United States
(214 points, 10 votes)

if the ilx api wasnt so buggy omar could schedule the results from his dedicated apple brand ipad revolutionary tablet consumer device app

uh Edw, I know it's ILX.

honestly most comments on this film were complaints about how it wasn't like a real record store and the girls were unrealistic w/r/t hooking up with a record store owner.

That's the first kinda lame movie on this list, imo.

Maybe it's because I can only remember Tim Robbins' hair in it, tho.

Impossible for a movie about a record store to not show up on the ILX list. Glad it was as low as it is.

i think i'll reveal 15 films per day (6 days for 11-90) and then the top 10 on the last day.

Mulholland Drive, Caché, Synecdoche, Tropical Malady and Inland Empire are 5 of my favorites from this list, but right now I think I love In the Mood for Love more than all of them

Were the brackets for this 2000-2009? I also thought Russian Ark, The White Ribbon, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, 35 Shots of Rum, Platform, 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Werckmeister Harmonies, Colossal Youth, La Ciénaga and Silent Light from that time period were all incredible. Haven’t seen Yi Yi or Eternal Sunshine in a long while. Never saw Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks

I see that hardly any of those figured in the ilx list

love all 3 of the Lucrecia Martel films from the 2000s - La Ciénaga, The Holy Girl, and The Headless Woman

not the ideal way to watch it but tie xi qu: west of the tracks is on youtube

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/24/movies/shyamalan-tom-cruise.html