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

(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

I totally missed In The Loop. Thanks, ILE.

Oscar for Best Cursing

it looked insanely annoying, might reconsider tho

can I call ITL the first truly interesting result of the poll?

cuz I think it might be

xp to Morbs way upthread: Land of the Dead was the one with Asia Argento, Dennis Hopper and John Leguizamo and the zombies learn and it's somewhat a parable for class struggle. I really liked that movie. If you were to watch it with close-captions, you would see a description of a zombie's vocal call as "ululating".

still have not seen ITL! i've wanted to forever cos uh spencer ackerman bragged about being an advisor on it.

I avoid any film that looks like it might kinda like wag the dog, so I didn't see in the loop

be like

"Y'know, I've come across a lot of psychos, but none as fucking boring as you. You are a real boring fuck. Sorry, sorry, I know you disapprove of swearing so I'll sort that out. You are a boring F, star, star, CUNT!"

in the loop is nothing like wag the dog

xp - isn't that missing a star?

sounds the same

xp

in/the/loop
wag/the/dog

Wag the Dog is a three-star movie.

pretty sure this one broke Oscar-nominated screenplay profanity record.

three stars embarrassing themselves

xp

LOL i liked wag the dog

Today's films are mostly three-star movies, an improvement over yesterday

sorry, it gave me hives

if I need a benchmark for bad 90s filmmaking, I'm like "wag the dog!"

xp - isn't that missing a star?

I thought the joke was that you think he's going to say "F star star K."

im completely amazed how ignant you all are about the oscar-nominated 'in the loop'

you eff, star, star CUNTS etc

srsly I totally forgot that movie even existed

lets all go back and watch wag the dog. i think we'll be pleasantly surprised!

bowled over by its facile political satire and mugging

wag the dog is funny at parts but in the loop is better, and theyre not really anything alike except for being about 'manufacturing a war'

Wag the Dog is typical Old Man Mamet smuggery. At least there was none of his insane Zionist bullshit in it tho.

Wag the Dog has Pops Staples and Willie Nelson playing together so it is not all bad

the chick from 'my girl' is funny in ITL.

there are also lots of funny british people.

it's the funniest film of last year n e way.

his wife isn't named "insane zionist bullshit" morbs

I felt similarly to Wag the Dog as I did to Idiocracy - they think they are more insightful, scathing, and clever than they actually are, but there are some parts that are hilarious.

Simon Foster: Hi, Jamie, this is Toby.
Toby Wright: Oh, um... Toby Rice, I'm Simon's aide.
Jamie MacDonald: Hi, Toby, Toby. Very pleased to meet you. Please sit down. Now, right, that's enough of all the fucking Oxbridge pleasantries.
Toby Wright: What's Oxbridge about saying hello?
Jamie MacDonald: Shut it, Love Actually! Do you want me to hole punch your face?
Malcolm Tucker: Right, I'm off to deal with the fate of the planet. Be gentle with them.
Jamie MacDonald: Oh, you know me, Malc. Kid gloves... but made from real kids. Right, Butch and Gaydance, this wall story is playing badly. There's a cartoon of you in here as a walrus.
Simon Foster: A walrus? I'm not fat, I don't even have a moustache. Fuck, they've given me tusks.
Jamie MacDonald: Wal-rus. You get it? Wal-rus, wal-rus.
Toby Wright: We called some builders. They didn't turn up when they said they would.
Jamie MacDonald: What did you expect? They're builders! Have you ever seen a film where the hero is a builder? No, no, because they never fucking turn up in the nick of time. Bat-builder? Spider-builder? Huh? That's why you never see a superhero with a hod!

I felt similarly to Wag the Dog as I did to Idiocracy - they think they are more insightful, scathing, and clever than they actually are, but there are some parts that are hilarious.

I must've missed the part where De Niro got kicked in the nuts...

GO AWAY IM BAITIN

There's an ITR thread with 15,000 posts on it

ITR?

"Does that not fit within your purview, Marie Antoinette? Why don't you just scuttle off back to fucking Cranford and play around with your tea and your cakes and your fucking horse cocks. Let them eat cock!"

congrats caek for yr film for making it! oh wait

stop talking about wag the dog, fools. ITL is easy to love&my second pick to place, the uninitiated should definitely get on board.

Late to echo the sentiment, Omar, but these graphics are really cool, especially (for some reason) on the ones I haven't seen.