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

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"?

xpost

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

xposts

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

I think "Almost Famous" is a result of ILM-music-geekery seepage like "High Fidelity." Didn't like or really understand either film, both seemed pretty male-fantasy-oriented in a subtle way but strong enough to alienate me.

haven't seen it but it probably sucks.

Almost Famous is an abomination

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 think this is actually a good comparison, as spielberg is gifted in the same way paul mccartney is - and equally capable of using that gift to create cheesy nonsense. (= mccartney's spotty solo career)

"High Fidelity" gave me a new self-consciousness about the rhetoric of my underwear choices, which is a trouble I didn't appreciate.

AF is way worse a muso choice than High Fidelity

Yes. Stevie Wonder > Zeppelin

he's deep into his Wings phase now

xposted but yeah, this

Watched 20 mins of AF on TV, thought "hold on that's the guy from Red House Painters wtf", turned off.

i don't think spielberg is much like the beatles guyz

yeah, a bunch of '74 rocker dudes are going to sing "Tiny Dancer" on the tourbus.

EdwIII and e.mil.y, get thee behind me.

Can we just change the poll title to Silent Majority Report?

was gonna mention almost famous as a good choice for 'most ilx bile' bait

AF gets the music scene/industry/actual music COMPLETELY WRONG its kinda mindblowing

Yes. Stevie Wonder > Zeppelin

iirc there is no actual Zeppelin in AF

oops, I meant Elton John. I always mix those two up.

Did anyone else see it thinking it wld be like "Lester Bangs: The Movie" bcz like me they are an idiot who got served some hot disappointment: y/n

yeah, a bunch of '74 rocker dudes are going to sing "Tiny Dancer" on the tourbus.

^^^exactly the kinda thing that grated on me so hard. so wrong.

almost famous >>>>>> high fidelity

hahahahahahahahaha

It's going to be such a disappointment when a movie shows up on this poll that everyone either likes or loves.

My muso choices were documentaries, for the most part. I didn't think that the main character in High Fidelity was at all believable as a music fan. And yeah, both films are fairly misogynistic, though I think HF is worse for that. After that, surprisingly, I don't really find either film repellent as simplistic entertainment.

Want to meet someone who hates 100%, every minute, of Wall-E, just kind of as a Nuatural Curiositie.

Does anyone hate Spirited Away?

im sure somebody can find something grumpy to say about it

he's deep into his Wings phase now

you can read what I have to say about Munich in a week or so (TEASE), but yeah, the greatest political film of the last decade is like Back to the Egg.

Also, I like the way you guys blithely ignore the diff btwn Spielberg films written by Tony Kushner or those written by Lucasfilm drones.

p3t3, u dope ;)

I didn't vote in this poll either but I don't really remember "Almost Famous" and I remember staring lovingly at Lisa Bonet during "High Fidelity", so at the very least I have more positive associations with HF than I do with AF.

Is it worth loading the thread to look for a list of what's placed so far?

Want to meet someone who hates 100%, every minute, of Wall-E, just kind of as a Nuatural Curiositie.

I could see very fat people hating it

"haven't seen it but it probably sucks."

I think someone should post this after every single entry.