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

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

am kind of surprised to hear that anyone thinks a LOTR movie will make it into the top 20.

magic writes shitty scripts

I think I would've maybe voted for The Departed if a) I'd remembered to (whoops) and b) I could get over the shock of having deeply enjoyed a Scorcese film.

also, it doesn't matter if everybody put the phantom menace on their ballots, what matters is how many ppl ended up putting the phantom menace in their top 10

a passionate minority for a film could lob it pretty high in the list but I should leave the statistics to caek

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

^agree on this. was just thinking abt if say u flipped when antichrist and dogville came out, antichrist wld place im pretty sure. granted, im not saying its worthy.

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

Haha, okay, update my concern to be: 'Am worried that this poll is going to be overrun by the big dumb US blockbusters and semi-indie drivel'. Although, of course, it's only semi-indie drivel when I don't like it, it's wonderful film-making when I do.

ya but didnt u read what morbs said, we only like NEW THINGS

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

Absolutely true in my case, as I've seen way more films from the first half of the decade than the latter half. Pretty sure my ballot reflects that, for the most part.

link to noms thread tbh

~~~~The Top 100 films/movies of the 2000s/oughties VOTING THREAD~~~~ BALLOTS DUE FEBRUARY 2 (POLLS CLOSED, PREPARE FOR GALA EVENT)

noms list

http://ilx2000sfilm.wordpress.com/

I will say that the lack of harry potter films on that list gives me hope

if LOTR was counted as one film I think it could go high but vote-splitting will probably hurt it as is, dunno if consensus is strong around any one of them in particular -- I put Two Towers high on my ballot, ROTK down low and then lost Fellowship in the final cut.

Assuming my ballot was counted--I think I mailed it about 20 minutes before deadline--I filled 12 of 20 slots with documentaries. That's what I'm most interested in: which documentary places the highest. I'm going to guess either Fog of War (not one of mine) or Man on Wire (low on my list). I hope it's not one of Moore's films, most of which I think are in the okay range. Is it bad form to post your list here? I don't see anybody doing it.

nobody's doing it until after the big reveal i think

omar's asked that nobody post ballots until after the results have been revealed

yeah what darraghmac said

has anyone sb'd someone for revealing they've voted for something yet?

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

past polls demonstrate that ILX follows the second-film-of-a-trilogy rule (aliens, empire strikes back)

two examples of the second movie actually being any good there tho

i can see accessible arthouse shit like idk "russian ark" or "the beat that my heart skipped" placing just as high as blockbuster shit like lotr. again really based on the results and the no. of ppl that voted i think results may be hard 2 predict. although the departed is probably top 10 imo

no way

does anyone have omar little's #, can u just call him and wake him up and we can move on to the next 15

i saw one of the LOTR films. i didn't find it very interesting. i don't really get why people like it so much. (i read and liked the books when i was in middle school!)

you hate magic too

I dunno, I have a distinct memory of seeing two towers in the theatre and feeling like I was 10 again, and I normally hate that kind of stuff (e.g. don't like matrix, star wars, etc)

the combined budget of every other film on my ballot probably doesn't equal LOTR's

no way

enh idk i guess movie nerd dudes are more contentious but there are a bunch of them (i think??) + i bet even the most populist voters threw votes at sum 'artier' stuff. i can see a consensus gathering around something like russian ark which is amazing looking and easy 2 like

biggest consensus pix may be comedies tho - i think the range of what most ilxers find funny is p narrow

number of comedies on my ballot = 1

obv I hate teh funny

i hope it gets a bit weirder as it goes on tbqh

which comedies do you think, Lamp?

i only voted for three apatow productions.

walk hard, year one, and fun with dick and jane

lol

yeah caek that doesn't really engage with the problem of taking the aesthetic of yr kids movie and shoehorning em into yr dark thriller. better to be silent than a retarded smart ass sometimes imo

xpostarama

If we're playing the top 20 predictions game I'd go for,

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
Mulholland drive
Inland empire
No country for old men
Pan's labyrinth
A history of violence
Superbad
LOTR 1-2-3
Let the right one in
Shaun of the dead
Cache
In the mood for love
City of God
Munich
Royal Tenenbaums
Amelie
Wall-e
In Bruges

Wild card prediction, Bad Santa in the top 20

I hope they're replaced with stuff like atanarjuat

dammit! i think i'm the one who put atanarjuat on the noms list and i totally forgot it on my ballot! gah. would've easily placed in the 20-25 range for me. sonuvabitch.

(not that that probably would've gotten it into the 100, but i would've felt better.)

does anyone have omar little's #, can u just call him and wake him up and we can move on to the next 15

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was kind of hoping these would all be revealed one per hour during a marathon 4-day posting session

superbad? really? I wouldn't be surprised if that doesn't even place. (possibly a biased opinion cause I thought it was lame)