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

Watching VT films these days is very similar to watching Neveldine/Taylor's Gamer in that at some point they can only really be appreciated as academic exercises. And that grates.

I would be stunned if Werkmeister Harmonies doesn't make it.

doesn't fixed

I've not seen it, but from threads and elsewhere I think it's got the momentum. Just depends on the silent voters. Probably in the same boat as Miami Vice or even The New World.

Of course, if neither of those three make it, what types of films would the silent voter block be going for? Crash? Will there be a LOTR vote split?

i sorta liked 'werkmeister'. wouldn't vot for it. why so gloomy, europeans? you have it easy.

I really don't see Decasia having 230 pts either. I'll live.

Decasia and Werkmeister are massive blindspots for me.

I think we'll get a better idea of the direction the poll is going if we start seeing oddball films pop up in the next couple of rounds. if even one non-consensus film show up, stuff like birth, martyrs, songs from second floor, etc, there's hope that a passionate minority could lift a film.

for instance, if 10 people rated decasia in their top ten it would get at least 310 pts which would still get it ranked. I'm not expecting that to happen, but it's within the realm of possibility.

i'm mostly expecting to start seeing things like apatow movies showing up. but maybe i'm expecting too little.

also, awesomely funny movies about oilmen and Natzis

syriana, the good german

the lols!

2/15 (happy-go-lucky and movern callar) but i totally wouldve voted for memories of murder if id tht abt my list at all

Yes. 100+ ballots? Most film threads are like 4 people yelling at each other.

lol those are only the shitty ones abt blog posts plenty of ppl post abt good movies

I'm pretty sure this will be the top 20, but everything else is probably fair game

there will be blood
mystic river
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
mulholland drive
inland empire
pan's labyrinth
children of men
superbad
kill bills
LOTR 1-2-3
let the right one in
the wrestler
brokeback mountain
cache
in the mood for love
royal tennebaums
wall-e

if some of these show up in bottom 100 we'll be in for an interesting list

I voted for exactly 4 of those (but meant to vote for a 5th).

should a mod add a link to the noms thread in the first post?

mystified why u think 'mystic river' is gonna chart

Voted for 6 or 7 of those, and can't see them not placing - not sure about the others

maybe it won't? I'm not kreskin

IB will outrank KB 1 & 2, newer is better per ice cr?am.

you prefer KB, i take it?

my assumption is that the longer a movie has been around, the more of a chance 100 ppl on ILX have seen it

yeah i voted for 6 of those too (although CoM was very bottom of my ranked ballot, so i don't know how much good that's going to do it). i'll also be surprised/appalled if mystic river is top 20. (if it appears at all, really...)

if there was just one bourne movie i'd say it'd be a lock for the top 20, but with vote-splitting between the 3, who knows?

yeah, that's why I have ppl asking why I've waited SO LONG to see Avatar!

xp

okay, replace mystic river with the departed

I voted for 9 of my theoretical 20

I voted for 3, surprise surprise.

Oops, make that 4.

so many of those are gonna fall so far outside the top 20, probably at least half of them

3, after I dropped Children of Men upon downgrading it after third viewing

so what time does omar wake up

xpost I downgrade your ballot after one viewing.

lol

so many of those are gonna fall so far outside the top 20, probably at least half of them

I hope you're right

voted for 4 of edward's list, if u include 'the departed'

voted for 7 of those

can't we just break bread over Munich, E?

I hope they're replaced with stuff like atanarjuat, decasia, and martyrs but that's neither here not there

will be surprised if the top 10 isn't basically star wars, pixar and american pie spinoffs tbh

Yeah, I think I voted for 8 on Edward's list? Some of those I don't see happening.

I think the ones I'm most 'meh, it's okay, but nowhere near GRATE' about that I see placing highly are the LOTRs and the Apatows.

I'm in the silent majority, and I voted for 7 of those, including The Departed, and 2/15 of those that have placed.

Great poll, by the way.

will be surprised if the top 10 isn't basically star wars, pixar and american pie spinoffs tbh

I think omar would've called the whole thing off were that the case

I voted for four of Edward's list. Am worried that this poll is going to be overrun by the big dumb US blockbusters.

omar is a servant of the people and will do his duty

Like, I enjoy the LOTR films well enough that I can imagine revisiting them every 5 to 10 years as a fun way to waste a Sunday, but for all of the obvious love and care and craft that went into making them, they're pretty perfunctory and workmanlike at the end of the day. Nowhere near capital K Klassicks.

i voted for 3 on that list if you include the departed. i don't think much of what i liked is going to place tbh..

One LOTR movie will make it into top 20, I hope it's Fellowship but suspect like the academy ILX will plump for ROTK.

I agree with DWH- it's perfunctory film-making under a beautiful hood.

Am worried that this poll is going to be overrun by the big dumb US blockbusters.

i think the silent majority is more about semi-indie ish than spider-man 3.

and the semi-indies will receive as much scorn if not more

silent majority factor will shockingly reveal ILX loves Pedro Costa and Claire Denis instead of famous Hollywood films!

I agree with DWH- it's perfunctory film-making under a beautiful hood.

you guys hate magic