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

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

― brews before HOOS (s1ocki), Thursday, February 4, 2010 11:20 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark

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)

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I was going to say I thought City of God might place. I don't read ILX film threads on the whole, so I have no idea of the consensus, but Amelie? Really?

all in one take, if you will

xp2 max

681 posts/15 films

you don't just roll up on omar like that

xxxxp

I'm wondering which high-ranking film is going to uncork the biggest torrent of bile. Amelie? Lost in Translation?

wouldn't underestimate pixar stuff w/r/t the top 20

I'm wondering which high-ranking film is going to uncork the biggest torrent of bile. Amelie? Lost in Translation?

inglourious basterds obv, but the bile is all gonna be from one dude who hasn't seen it

if juno ranks i'll piss and moan about it on the internet

I'm wondering which high-ranking film is going to uncork the biggest torrent of bile. Amelie? Lost in Translation?

Forgot about Lost in Translation, would guess that'll figure highly. Thinking about it I can see LOTR struggling a bit, I think they're more admired than loved.

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.

#2 on my ballot

seeing atanarjuat in the theatre was one of the top viewing experiences of the 00s for me

unfortunately, when it got transferred to DVD they used the video master instead of film and fucked up the frame rate

I don't even recommend people seeing it unless it's on reels in a theatre

tragic

Juno - of course

I'm wondering which high-ranking film is going to uncork the biggest torrent of bile.

any film with the names lucas, spielberg, or cameron on it

didn't know that about the atanarjuat dvd, that sucks. i just saw it the one time, in the theater, and it looked great.

inglourious basterds obv, but the bile is all gonna be from one dude who hasn't seen it

― iatee, Thursday, February 4, 2010 5:46 PM (4 minutes ago)

oh no dude, ive seen it and will be primed for the hating

never read the Tolkien books, liked the first LOTR film best (wd put it maybe around #130?) bcz I could vaguely follow wtf was going on.

aside from first 35 mins of WALL-E, never found Pixar stuff remotely great... liked Monsters Inc cuz it was like an Abbott & Costello movie, if only the others were.

At this point ppl who deny Spielberg's gifts -- I don't mean ppl who have reservations about them -- are like "Beatles suck" nihilists.

inglourious basterds obv, but the bile is all gonna be from one dude who hasn't seen it

Bored.

"At this point ppl who deny Spielberg's gifts -- I don't mean ppl who have reservations about them -- are like "Beatles suck" nihilists."

I'd say the same about denying Pixar's brilliance tbh. (Admittedly I have a 3-year-old and have therefore seen their entire catalogue more than anything else from the 00s)

their stuff is good, but generally forgettable. And it's less offensive than vintage Disney, another disadvantage... :)

ok guys

s1ocki called me

gimme a couple minutes

I'm w Morbz re: Pixar. Spielbergo, not so much.

Morbz also OTM re: Fellowship, which is easily the best of the trilogy

yeah, atanarjuat was shot on digital video and transferred to film, and won the fucking camera d'or at cannes, which says something about the cinematography. but what ended up on home video (where I'm sure 95% of its audience saw it) was the video master.

the main problem IIRC is it was filmed by a collective that worked in digital video, and they saw the film transfer as some violation of their priciples? blarg

At this point ppl who deny Spielberg's gifts -- I don't mean ppl who have reservations about them -- are like "Beatles suck" nihilists

Are we including that last Indiana Jones film as an example of Spielberg's "gifts"?

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he's deep into his Wings phase now

"Beatles suck" nihilists

o hai dere

yeah, atanarjuat was shot on digital video and transferred to film, and won the fucking camera d'or at cannes, which says something about the cinematography. but what ended up on home video (where I'm sure 95% of its audience saw it) was the video master.

there's nothing wrong with this in theory or principle... but you're saying the transfer got fucked up?

some of the gifts made Indy IV as tolerable as it was!

also I can understand parents loving Pixar bcz so much else of what they gotta watch w/ the kids is waaaay worse.

video doesn't look like film

xp

it ended up looking like it was shot with a high-end camcorder

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I ended up not voting for any of the LOTR films. I think they are very well done, and in many ways better than the books, as they cut out some really tedious and/or racist parts. The first one is definitely the best, and the second the weakest, but the story is just stronger. However, the books were such a big deal for me as a kid that they just feels not relevant now, maybe.

I think I said this before here, but I actually do the movements for Golumn in one scene, though! (Friend was animator, and they changed the shot after Serkis had gone home, so while I was visiting he filmed me and used that as reference instead)

Yeah, having child makes you appreciate Pixar (and Kung Fu Panda!) while stopping you going to the cinema much (or at all).

I'm wondering which high-ranking film is going to uncork the biggest torrent of bile. Amelie? Lost in Translation?

― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Thursday, February 4, 2010 5:44 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is really t/s guns vs numbers. coz i can see 'howl's moving castle' being a consensus choice but at least one poster will go ham when it happens.

it ended up looking like it was shot with a high-end camcorder

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, February 4, 2010 1:05 PM (28 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

uh... wasn't it?

if the source is video, i dont see the problem with using it for the home video transfer.

i mean i guess it comes down to your preference for a 24p fake-film look but it doesn't sound like it was a technical screwup

"Beatles suck" nihilists

o hai dere

― 鬼の手 (Edward III)

^^^

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/almost-famous.jpg

What's the name of the song that is being played during the end credits of Almost Famous?

I just can't believe how anyone can dislike that film. It's near perfection. You would have to be EVIL to dislike it.

― Lovelace

Almost Famous
Cameron Crowe
2000
United States
(225 points, 11 votes, 1 first place)

he's deep into his Wings phase now

So unbelievably not true.

You would have to be EVIL to dislike it.

AF is way worse a muso choice than High Fidelity