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

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cuz I think it might be

鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:17 (sixteen years ago)

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".

sarahel, Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:18 (sixteen years ago)

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

goole, Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:19 (sixteen years ago)

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

鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:19 (sixteen years ago)

be like

鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:19 (sixteen years ago)

"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!"

Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:20 (sixteen years ago)

in the loop is nothing like wag the dog

max, Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:20 (sixteen years ago)

xp - isn't that missing a star?

sarahel, Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:21 (sixteen years ago)

sounds the same

xp

鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:21 (sixteen years ago)

in/the/loop
wag/the/dog

鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:21 (sixteen years ago)

Wag the Dog is a three-star movie.

Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:21 (sixteen years ago)

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

Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:22 (sixteen years ago)

three stars embarrassing themselves

xp

鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:22 (sixteen years ago)

LOL i liked wag the dog

69, Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:23 (sixteen years ago)

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

Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:24 (sixteen years ago)

sorry, it gave me hives

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

鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:24 (sixteen years ago)

xp - isn't that missing a star?

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

Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:24 (sixteen years ago)

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

the highest per-vote vag so far (history mayne), Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:25 (sixteen years ago)

you eff, star, star CUNTS etc

the highest per-vote vag so far (history mayne), Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:25 (sixteen years ago)

srsly I totally forgot that movie even existed

鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:26 (sixteen years ago)

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

69, Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:26 (sixteen years ago)

bowled over by its facile political satire and mugging

鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:27 (sixteen years ago)

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'

max, Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:27 (sixteen years ago)

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

Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:28 (sixteen years ago)

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

The Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:29 (sixteen years ago)

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.

the highest per-vote vag so far (history mayne), Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:29 (sixteen years ago)

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

goole, Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:29 (sixteen years ago)

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.

sarahel, Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:30 (sixteen years ago)

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!

max, Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:30 (sixteen years ago)

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...

The Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:31 (sixteen years ago)

GO AWAY IM BAITIN

ice cr?m, Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:32 (sixteen years ago)

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

ITR?

do you want to be happier? (whatever), Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:33 (sixteen years ago)

"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!"

Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:33 (sixteen years ago)

congrats caek for yr film for making it! oh wait

80085 (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:34 (sixteen years ago)

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

ogmor, Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:35 (sixteen years ago)

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

Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:37 (sixteen years ago)

yay! the squid and the whale was my no.1 pick.

danzig, Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:41 (sixteen years ago)

I think Glenn probably preferred Wolverine.

sarahel, Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:41 (sixteen years ago)

28DL was a watershed moment in the evolution of zombie cinema in that it freed zombies from their characteristic rigor mortis stumblewalk & allowed them to run at their opponents, thus making them a much more formidable (& scary!) threat.

― they ate only candy canes (Pillbox), Thursday, February 4, 2010 3:40 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

RONG

RONG

RONG

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brews before HOOS (s1ocki), Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:42 (sixteen years ago)

for those curious, here is the 15K thread

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it is mostly in-jokey nonsense

PIES! PIES! PIES! PIES! PIES! (HI DERE), Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:42 (sixteen years ago)

man, I've lost all respect for glenn danzig

鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:42 (sixteen years ago)

of the handful of things on the list so far that i haven't seen, memories of murder and in the loop are the two i most want to.

hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:43 (sixteen years ago)

also lots of shitty lame movies but nothing so far is worse than dogville - truly monstrous if u liked that movie u r a terrible person
― Lamp

cozen, Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:44 (sixteen years ago)

... and dogville still the only one on the list i voted for!

-- signed, a terrible person

hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:45 (sixteen years ago)

I didn't vote for Dogville, but voted for Manderlay instead - does that make me an even more terrible person?

sarahel, Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:46 (sixteen years ago)

thought we established the only halfway decent vt film ws five obstructions

(tho I secretly think idiots is p good)

cozen, Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:46 (sixteen years ago)

user lamp is my hero on this thread <3 can't believe I ever had him killfiled

cozen, Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:47 (sixteen years ago)

I didn't vote for Dogville, but voted for Manderlay instead - does that make me an even more terrible person?

― sarahel, Thursday, February 4, 2010 9:46 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

no1's even seen this but probably. is that the one where he killed an animal?

the highest per-vote vag so far (history mayne), Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:48 (sixteen years ago)

i liked dogville so much i didn't even want to see manderlay becz i was sure it wouldn't be as good.

hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:48 (sixteen years ago)

xp - it's the one about slavery.

sarahel, Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:49 (sixteen years ago)


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