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

I don't dislike All the Real Girls, but ever since George Washington David Gordon Green has struggled to write scripts that fit his peculiar rhythms and images. I don't know, fer instance, whether the tension between Paul Schneider's warm, natural performance in ATRG and Green's abstraction produces something worthwhile.

The sauna scene was hot though.

"93. Sideways (it's about Juggalos, trust me)"
I also vouch for Sideways' Juggaloesiness.

Green has definitely had diminishing returns (Pineapple Express excluded). Only scenes of any real merit in Snow Angels were the ones with the kid and Olivia Thirlby, and even then only one or two of them.

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btw not seen Sideways since theaters and this has made me really want to watch it again.

Green has definitely had diminishing returns

i haven't seen snow angels, but i kinda liked undertow. again as much for the locales as for the story, i just really like his sense of the south, his places definitely feel like places i've been.

otoh a dgg/natalie portman suspiria sounds like an awful idea. is that really happening?

I don't think any DGG films are actually bad, they're just less than the previous. I liked a lot of Undertow, and as a Southern boy I feel a connection with the rusted out crapholes he liked to shoot in his first three films.

I didn't know about that suspiria remake, and I'm not going to look it up to confirm.

xp - jaymc - is this similar to why people disliked Winona Ryder in the 90s? I vaguely remember disliking her for narcissism-of-small-differences reasons.

George Washington better be DVG's highest ranking film...

Biggest shocker so far in the thread (in a good way!):

Kinda loved HiFid but didn't come close to making my 40. Best movie on list so far tho.

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, February 3, 2010 12:35 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

I think Napoleon Dynamite might be my favorite of those listed thus far (despite having given another film that's already placed more points on my hastily-composed ballot), which should go a long way towards cementing my status as a Film Heathen. I kinda wish that ND was one of those movies that nobody else knew about, because it seems to be a movie that nobody really gets. Like, if I'd randomly stumbled upon it as some obscure, bottom-shelf video store selection, I'd've larfed, but I doubt I would've recommended it to many people. The characters' affectless lack of interest in their fates, as they blithely lope from one meaningless misadventure to the next, is like comedy gold to me. Give me subtle, minimalist, dopey comedy like this over anything loud and self-satisfied and desperate for attention anyday.

The characters' affectless lack of interest in their fates, as they blithely lope from one meaningless misadventure to the next, is like comedy gold to me.

That's why I prefer Nacho Libre. That, and the fact that Jack Black actually does most of his acting with his face instead of his usual yelling/singing.

Deric OTM.

Omar, fantastic job, btw.

ILX, on the other hand...

^^should be the standard poll thread thanx from here on out

why do you all want 'rich daughters of hollywood' to have all the pathetic indie quirks of your quirky indie friends??!?!

― trife

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all the real girls had a nice hal hartley zoned vibe but then it was trying to be all hard truths abt lyfe 4 u - not a pleasant combo

I still really like AtRG. Mostly for the mood and the episodic nature of it. There are a ton of great scenes in that movie.

really happy together made it, was my number one

I wonder what an Apichatpong Weerasethakul movie about Juggalos would be like.

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i liked all the real girls but i remember zero, nothing, zip about it at all... i couldnt even remember that danny mcbride was in it...

I just figured out that High Fidelity snuck in as a POPULIST entry for Springsteen cameo.

amazing how you can assign completely nonsensical motives even to people that like the same things as you

<3 AtRG so very much. I like all of DGG's movies.

somedude, it was a joke, and you're an asswipe.

do you mean the political epochs in which the films were made? roughly?

no.

I wonder what day something I voted for will show up.

Two of my top 10 are in. I'm golden.

AtRG was in my top ten and Undertow was close. I can see the anti-DGG's point of view, but his aesthetics resonate with me or something.

^ AtRG made my top ten as well, and I think "his aesthetics resonate with me or something" is about as good a defense as i could really provide for why I love that movie.

man 0/15 so far, the only one i considered out of those was Morvern Callar and that didn't make the cut. Have a feeling my tastes are a little bit too askew from the ilx film massive to get any representation on this poll. :-(

2 of my votes have made it so far (Happy-Go-Lucky and Together), but I'm kinda happy about how the poll has turned out so far. Majority of my votes were for "international" (i.e. non-USA/UK) movies, and I thought few of them had a chance here, but if films like Together and Memories of Murder made it, then there might still be a chance that Songs from the Second Floor or Persepolis or The Isle or Look at Me is yet to come. I think the variety of movies in the top 85-100 is positively wide, even if I don't care for some of the individual choices.

I've been very poor these last couple of years (as many have) and don't have a local indie cinema, so I'm sad to say I've had to watch a lot of flicks via t*r*e*t, but subtitles on foreign films often don't come through on our DVD player unless hard-coded. Therefore I'm missing out on a lot of decent foreign films.

Ah, I thought The Isle was 1990's, otherwise I'd have voted for it. 2 other Kim Ki-duk films made it to my ballot, can't see them charting somehow...I'm still hoping The Werckmeister Harmonies will creep in though.

I've realised that the existence of David Gordon Green has passed me by completely before now.

More elitist, snobby comments coming soon!

I'm still hoping The Werckmeister Harmonies will creep in though.

I've realised that the existence of David Gordon Green has passed me by completely before now.

I agree with you on both of these.

man 0/15 so far

Shasta, you are aligned w/ me BRAH

0/15 here too.

2/15, but I have a feeling my list looks way different than you guys's lists.

3/15 for me

0/15

Sorry, actually I have 3/15: Happy-Go-Lucky, The Piano Teacher, and Together. I can't remember any other ILX poll with such a high convergence... In the 1970s album poll I got 3/100.

Will rep hard for Minority Report, but not on a thread where people are wanking over Von Trier.

I would read your reps.

Minority Report is tight as a drum for all but the problematic final 20 mins, looks amazing, has excellent support turns and Tom Cruise is actually watchable in it.

But just going back to design & visuals alone it delivers- performances and pacing on top make it well worth it's (low) slot on the list.

LvT dig was probably unfair, as there have probably been as many LvT haters as not on.

High Fidelity & Sideways also low placers on my ballot, so I guess any further of my pics will be met with the requisite derision also.

Just hoping Kung Fu Hustle makes top 10 tbh.

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I don't remember that bit but would have put in higher in my ballot if I did.

But just going back to design & visuals alone it delivers

yeah i wish i could think of the right word to describe the visuals....

that shit with the spiders was old hat and on some speilberg kids movie shit

oh no, it was like something from spielberg's best movies!

im 0/15 but i have an exceedingly strong suspicion that the majority of my ballot choices will make it

3/15, but they're the bottom three, and I only gave Morvern Callar around 4 points, so was never particularly invested in it getting in. The high scoring has made me give up on Songs getting in, too, as I think there are only about three of us who love it.

I had Songs From The Second Floor at around #20. 2/15 for me so far (Tropical Malady and Memories Of Murder). Um, did anyone else vote for Cremaster 3?