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

ONE of the films I voted for shows up eventually? Damn I feel like Morbs on Oscar night.

Mullholland or Inland Empire will place, I'd be amazed if they don't

I love J+J! I meant that Amelie's that kind of touchstone.

xxpost I remember it puking creme brulee up right through the screen and all over my lap.

amelie, it was a bit personal at the time, i was in paris when that thing came out and it was a HUGE hit and all the american students i was friends with went to see it & were all <3<3<3<3. i was mystified (and annoyed) because it's like YOU LIVE HERE, PARIS IS NOT LIKE THIS, why do you enjoy this twee fantasy in which idealized paris = no immigrants?

Amelie is twee I can handle. Didn't vote for it, but not bad.

idealized paris = no immigrants

See, this is a bullshit reading of the film.

Amelie is the Notting Hill of Paris. Still fine though.

really tho, fantasy, idealized paris in the movie = basically no people at all, not just no immigrants

i disagree jaymc- just because a director puts something in there don't mean you have to pick it out from your viewing. essentially, 'i don't read the lyrics' is as valid an option for movies.

Sure, but it's more difficult to "tune out" elements of a movie. Maybe this has to do with how movies and music are used (or at least, how I use them): it's rare that I'm listening to music and not doing something else at the same time, whereas I'm pretty much always watching a movie in the dark with my eyes glued to the screen or TV set.

And, sorry, the expression on this face is the kind of horror no human being should mimic:

http://diaryofahalfandhalf.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/amelie.jpg

well, that's not the only thing, but the city is better and more interesting the way it is. just a general disgust on my part with idealized/twee versions of cities, when the real city is better and more interesting.

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if you love dogs you'll love this movie

― lauren

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Only vaguely interesting comedy of the '00s, next to "Eternal Sunshine."

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—Alfred, Lord Sotosyn

#71

Must Love Dogs
Gary David Goldberg
2005
USA
(240 points, 6 votes)

u_u all of this

and there are a lot of films where i recognize they have a style and are well crafted and of interest to a lot of people whose POV i respect, and yet my personal taste is, i hate them! (MULHOLLAND DRIVE)

I am entirely sympathetic to this. I love things like Mulholland Drive, but I can completely see why someone might hate. My ballot is probably quite heavy with stuff that I might never recommend to most people. Praise be to the beauty of subjectivity.

haha

oh and amelie has voice overs, doesn't it? HATE (99% of the time)

but then of course slocki has to get in there ahead of me and make it :)

it's rare that I'm listening to music and not doing something else at the same time, whereas I'm pretty much always watching a movie in the dark with my eyes glued to the screen or TV set.

it's rare that i'm watching a movie with my brain engaged!

wtf must love dogs america's sweethearts better place higher

well, that's not the only thing, but the city is better and more interesting the way it is. just a general disgust on my part with idealized/twee versions of cities, when the real city is better and more interesting.

this is true, except w/r/t montmartre, which actually much better in the movie version than it is irl

Hands up. How many have a fake #1 .jpg locked and loaded already?

okay slocks, funny but NO

seriously who in the hell VOTED in this thing? 96 votes and 75 percent of the comments on this thread (made by decidedly less than 96 posters) are pure bile.

No don't tell me. Let me be surprised.

i was wondering who was gonna be the first to make a joke .jpg

all the dogs voted

I will say that films really bring out the most combative aspect of commenters as opposed to music on the ILM polls, where disagreements occur but seem much less like personal offenses.

this is true, except w/r/t montmartre, which actually much better in the movie version than it is irl

― iatee, Thursday, February 4, 2010 7:53 PM (24 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

so not true. real montmartre is way more interesting (and the area around it has a much higher immigrant population than amelie was willing to concede)

seriously who in the hell VOTED in this thing? 96 votes and 75 percent of the comments on this thread (made by decidedly less than 96 posters) are pure bile.

― strongohulkingtonsghost, Thursday, February 4, 2010 7:54 PM (48 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this was what i was trying to get at way back up there

this thread is dedicated to all the dead dogs

I don't mean the area around it, I mean the parts in the movie

amelie lives in abbesses, the neighbourhood at the foot of montmartre.

A PUPPY got his vote in anyway

yes, and it is not the immigranty area, it is the touristy area

It's all good, dawg.

Amelie needed some Vampire Weekend on the soundtrack. wonder if it would work like Dark Side of Oz?

i think the parts of montmartre that were in the film, are the parts that are tourist traps irl, yes?

i mean i can respect the bulk of ilx's silent majority coming together and voting in a bunch of shitty movies to fuck with us on some level.

basically the movie didn't omit african french people, it omitted thousands of american tourists (and a few african french people tying strings on their fingers)

I for one am indignant that omar little's non-ILXor fiancee voted in this poll.

well she *used* to post here

u should do an analagous results thread without her impact imo

Aja?

I for one am indignant that jaymc's film critic friend doctored these results.

i think its okay b/c omar made up all the scores anyway

Some of these movies aren't real anyway.

Re: Master and Commander not being muddled, you're probably right. I've seen, enjoyed, and completely forgotten it twice.

xpost much needed LOL on Must Love Dogs

perfect screenshot too, the dog looks like he's in on it

just layin there thinkin ah fuck

amelie lives in abbesses, the neighbourhood at the foot of montmartre.

― brews before HOOS (s1ocki), Thursday, February 4, 2010 4:55 PM (1 minute ago)

great pizza place (made by immigrants do u c?) on the main drag of this hood iirc

at what point did my life become projecting how I feel at the moment onto screenshots from must love dogs holy shit this day's been horrible