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

also, I'm sure that Mike White's least interesting project of the decade, School of Rock, will be coming up shortly.

Mike White is probably the best new (darkly) comedic American screenwriter of the decade.

i like him and that might be true, but it's also a pretty small pool you're picking from there. who are the other new darkly comedic american screenwriters of the decade?

Actor John C Reilly has reportedly quit Lars Von Trier's Manderlay in protest over the killing of a donkey. Entertainment Weekly reports that the Chicago star walked off the film's set in Trollhatten, Sweden last month. He has since been replaced by Slovenian actor Zelijko Ivanek.

trollhatten!

thanks hi dere. itr=in the room?

that is all too true, tipz.

itr = in the room, just like wag the dog, not funny

White's father is the Reverend Dr. Mel White, a former speechwriter for Religious Right figures such as Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. White is openly bisexual.[1] His father, meanwhile, came out as gay in 1994.

o_0

oh wait it gets better

According to the swirl of rumours emanating from the shoot, 38 year-old Reilly was outraged over a scene that involved the slaughter of a donkey for food. But executive producer Peter Aalbaek Jensen insists that the donkey was old and sick and that the killing was entirely humane.

Speaking from the Zentropa production office in Denmark, Aalbaek told the Ritzau news bureau: "As it was explained to me from Sweden, everything went by the book and the entire process was monitored by a veterinarian. We were very conscientious about that, because we didn't want 70,000 American animal rights groups on our back." That said, he added wryly, "We could probably kill six children for a film without anyone raising a fuss." As yet, there are no reports of children being murdered on the set of Manderlay.

yes, perhaps Chuck & Buck is less confusing now

xp

mel white and mike white were on the amazing race together, btw.

to backtrack a little, i liked squid and the whale, but i still object to nobody recognizing a goddam pink floyd song in 1986 or whenever it was set. should've picked a nick drake song or something.

Mike White's weird, no doubt about it. wrote/directed some great Freaks & Geeks episodes, which is where I first learned of him

5 of my choices so far. including dogville.

julian schnabel is the worst

his paintings suck too

i still object to nobody recognizing a goddam pink floyd song in 1986 or whenever it was set.

yeah this was really odd

Mike White's weird, no doubt about it. wrote/directed some great Freaks & Geeks episodes, which is where I first learned of him

― The Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, February 4, 2010 9:56 PM (14 seconds ago) Bookmark

most of his stuff is p bad imo. 'orange county' was him, i think.

itr = in the room, just like wag the dog, not funny

ta

you guys will happy to know that Armond White was enraged over the Pink Floyd thing

I'm 2/25 so far

mike white's OK but he never really followed thru on c&b (tho he did write a bunch of freaks & geeks iirc)

hoping american movie charts

I hope omar is desperately scouring the interwebs for a still from decasia

oh, : ( it was 1999

you guys will happy to know that Armond White was enraged over the Pink Floyd thing

<3 u armond

Something to look forward to from White:
2010 School of Rock 2: America Rocks

Just watched and greatly enjoyed Morvern Callar.

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The central story is dull as paste and has been so many times before that it just feel cliche from the get go (plus the two of the main characters--the boys--are ridiculously uninteresting--and the third--the woman--is marginalized and unexplored). That said, the vision of Mexico itself is fantastic moving from the uber-rich to the uber-poor. I wished that Mexico had been more of the movie, not the crap threesome garbage.

― Alex in SF

the sex scenes in Y Tu Mama Tambien were very good mostly for the fact that they were almost entirely in long shot and/or unbroken takes.

― ryan

For me, I suggested that my parents go to see "Y Tu Mama Tambien" after hearing glowing reviews, but before seeing it myself. I cringed in the theater when I finally saw it (takes a while for decent movies to make it to Central Florida), even though they weren't with me - they'd seen it the previous week and my mother's single comment was: "It was interesting." I probably wouldn't have felt so uncomfortable if it hadn't been for the sex being so damn arousing - I can handle the crappily acted/filmed stuff.

- LCD

Y Tu Mama Tambien: Filth or Fantastic?

#75

Y tu mamá también
Alfonso Cuarón
2001
Mexico
(250.5 points, 12 votes)

hot movie

Loved that movie when it was called Porky's.

Alex in SF otm

Alex in SF otm

hot garbage

especially those two fuckin tools. if Chuy (the fisherman) got involved and smacked the bitch with a trout that would have made the movie.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, January 21, 2003 2:46 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Well so far the list hasn't made me feel like I missed anything, which is something, I guess.

I wished that Mexico had been more of the movie, not the crap threesome garbage.

i thought the whole movie was basically a parable about mexico, wasn't it? w/her representing the fading european influence, the boys as young-mexico still enamored of the romantic old-world mythos but also aware of their separate american identity with all its complexities (economic, political, etc). or something like that, i haven't seen it in a while. don't understand the hate for it, i think it's well made.

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Apart from the blunt convergences and tie-togethers at the end (the kind of stuff that flies better in a theatrical setting, right?), I liked this. I don't get "generically post-Tarantino" at all, unless we're focusing entirely on style/genre, and not the fact that this has an entirely different kind of content (haha short version = it has content at all, which neither Tarantino nor "generic post-Tarantino" does not, and actual characters, compared to Tarantino/post-Tarantino's collections of quirks with only plot functions)

Certain middle sections, once it's passed on from Farrell being funny to Gleeson being something else -- Gleeson on the phone lying to Fiennes! -- are terrific.

― nabisco

This film was wonderful. I see the Tarantino comparisons, though I also agree that it is more substance than style (unlike Tarantino). But I think it captured the intense joy of seeing his early stuff first time around (plus the seeming digressions actually came to something). Very good.

Mind you, I'm an unashamed fan of Way of the Gun, though I think this is a much better film than that one.

― Gukbe

kinda surprised at how relatively grisly this flick was

― omar little

I thought this movie was quite enjoyable, and I fucking hate colin farrell. I will second omar re: unexpected grisliness though.

― El Tomboto

Come Anticipate Martin McDonagh's 'In Bruges'

In Bruges
Martin McDonagh
2008
United Kingdom
(251 points, 14 votes)

wondering at what point the number of voters is going to start going higher than 20% for a film

Morbs is vocal in his loathing for YTMT, which I don't get.

One of the few recent movies with effective voice-over: it complements the images, adding extra codas and filigrees instead of smothering exposition all over them.

dammit, way too low, but super image omar!

me mate's tried to kill me, i've lost me gun, and i'm still in fckng bruges...

if I could give negative points they would go to In Bruges

fyi the exact number of ballots received was 96 (just for those who like to calculate things)

Well so far the list hasn't made me feel like I missed anything, which is something, I guess.

well cool cuz this is reminded me that your a know-nothing yuppie dbag

ytmt is rad and sexy as hell fuiud

if I could give negative points they would go to In Bruges

if you could explain that then i wouldn't have to ask why, but then that's probably why you didn't explain

because I thought it was boring and stupid

"well cool cuz this is reminded me that your a know-nothing yuppie dbag"

Should I know who Lamp is? Other than a rude moron obv.

a good deal less boring and stupid than your explanation

xp obv

Man people getting mighty worked up mighty quick.

This thread's finally getting fun!