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

Most of these films coming up today are just... meh.

I don't think this was a great zombie decade, bcz Patricia Arquette worked less. BA DUM BUM

Think I liked Land of the Dead (?) a shade more than 28DL.

vice magazine >>>>>>>>>>>>> south park

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/squidwhale.jpg

to me, the squid and the whale is the curb your enthusiasm to the royal tenenbaums' seinfeld -- darker, naughtier, less reliant on "stock" characters, less shy about showing awkwardness and conflict. doesn't mean i don't love both movies. i see tenenbaums as a tableau piece, a family portrait with action. this is closer to being a movie movie.

― mimi in st. louis (Jody Beth Rosen)

The real strength for me, though, was the unrelenting ambiguity of all the four principal characters. They were soooo horrible. Wretched people. Just barely enough decency creeping through occasionally to justify their continuing to live. Awful people. So thoroughly second-rate.

Thankfully no deus ex machina self awareness at the end. Jeff Daniels is still the jerk he always was, even in the hospital.

Great movie.

― EComplex

i don't think the characters were particularly wretched or horrible. they weren't super-morally-pure movie heroes but i liked that about them. nobody was selfless or above reproach. they were just real-seeming, messy people.

― s1ocki

#77

The Squid and the Whale
Noah Baumbach
2005
United States
(242 points, 13 votes, 1 first place)

28 weeks later was better than 28 days later i thought

hey omar dunno how much work youre doing for the individual posts already but since youre snagging comments would it be hard to also include a link to the biggest ilx thread about each movie when you do the post?

thing that struck me about 28 Days later on DVD was the shittiness of the ungraded footage compared to the print! like magic! this could tie in with the video transfer issue upthread, i didn't follow that to resolution

nice pun

code unknown is pretty beautiful imo

for you, max?

i can do that.

hehe thx

28 days later is pretty awesome but i think it's canon status helps to overshadow 28 weeks later, which might be better in some ways (though i don't like the ending as much.)

i think both have p weak endings all told - although the v last sequence in 28 weeks was really good - and the action stuff (particularly the opening of 28 weeks) is much better. but i prefer the lone survivor/immediate aftermath set-up of the 1st one esp in a british context (<3 u john wyndham) i think the world-building and sense of uncertainty is cooler than whats mostly a chase flick.

both are dope movies tho & i'm glad at least 1 placed

i mean u dont have to bro... i dont want to owe u anything

28WL >>>> 28DL

the secret ingredient is rose byrne

i think i voted for TSQTW

The film made me glad I had philistine parents.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, December 12, 2005

damn these poll results are way more POP than the TRAX poll, i'm still an 0-for...

the shots of a deserted london after dude wakes up in 28 days l8r a+++++ - Any given GBYBE 20+ minute dirge will have very few practical applications, but that scene in 28DL is the best use of such a thing the world will probably ever see.

Still seems like few 2006-09 films? My hypothesis on the tailoff being confirmed?

ayo shasta did u put riding giants on your list??

no i did put DT+ZB tho...

xxxp agreed about GYBE's utility and LOLOL @ how sales of that album surged at my college CD store job after 28dl

I think there is still only 4 or 5 films from the second half of the decade at this point.

(better story, better anthropology, just amazing footage of then SanMo/Venice as such a dilapidated, single parent, drug/alcohol ghetto compared to what it is today). xxxp

Results kinda heavy on films that look cool / don't say much.

almost famous is probably my least favorite movie of the decade right after nick & norah's infinite playlist

maybe not least favorite, but one that made me angriest while watching

but dude high fidelity

wait are u british

pete, do you not laugh at ranty Jack Black?

69 otm re: HF

Haneke at his best is prolly Time of the Wolf or Code Unknown, for me.

xp to morbz yeah yeah i love jack black but i HAAAAAATE nick hornby, and i think this role is the one that made me feel horrible retroactively about everything john cusack has ever done

its weird i totally remember everyone hating 28 weeks later so i didnt see it - perhaps i got the wrong impression

I only like Jack Black when he works in a store (a little when he teaches).

h8 jak blak

can I call michael haneke michelle hannukah for the reminder of the thread?

jack black was awesome in bob roberts

career's been downhill since then

The Squid and the Whale holds up very well.

j0e, u hate comedy that is funny

http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/gallery/1041211/photo_01_hires.jpg

(better story, better anthropology, just amazing footage of then SanMo/Venice as such a dilapidated, single parent, drug/alcohol ghetto compared to what it is today)

dt+zb is rad probably should have voted 4 it sry bro :/ i think your right but i really liked riding giants too but i guess surfing > skating for me

S&W was pretty great - very uncomfortable all the way through to the end, and no cheap-o weepy redemptive ending either

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/in-the-loop-x-26824_9.jpg

just saw In The Loop here @ Tribeca fest; we don't know the show over here. Capaldi = genius.

good angry -- one might say enraged -- comedy.

(also one of the best Iraq war films. of course the scenario could be in the future, w/ Obama & Brown invading Pakistan)

― Dr Morbius

slight qualm with what Matt said, though; it was fucking hilarious from start until about 5-10 minutes from the end, where SORTA SPOILER BUT ONLY SORTA it suddenly became devastatingly bleak, almost tearjerking, which was probably necessary and certainly effective

― Young Chizzy (country matters)

yeah the ending is massively depressing

I like how it was a sort of logical extension of the Thick of It, ie here's what happens when this kind of petty venal politics is applied to something really life or death, and not a government injoke ministry of no obvious purpose

enjoyed Tucker's climactic swearing suckerpunch at the American guy. Jamie also properly demonic

― EMPIRE STATE HYMEN (MPx4A)

it was basically subplot, but Capaldi vs Gandolfini was short, sweet and as awesome as any verbal duel I've seen on screen this decade

they really should have just shaken hands at the end or something

and yeah basically so glad they kept on the Jamie character

― Young Chizzy (country matters)

A thread for 'The Thick Of It' (and 'In The Loop' as well)

In the Loop
Armando Iannucci
2009
United Kingdom
(246.5 points, 13 votes)

britisher voting bloc?

love that fuckin movie

weird that my 2 fave movies this year were both iraq flicks

school of rock is alltime shit to me, beats the crap outta the music movies itt, also like him a lot in hf, jesus' son

ITL is not all-britishes, mfing sledge hammer is in it.

yeah, black's good in jesus' son... sneakers!

Love School of Rock