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

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

ok i have one more film and then i'm done for the day....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/25thhour.jpg

I finally watched it last night and was seriously moved. Even though some of the usual Lee heavy handedness popped up in places (the "fuck NY" speech going on waaay too long, the extended shots of the Ground Zero cleanup with the BOOMING ORCHESTRAL SCORE, ...) and Anna Paquin's performance was a bit over the top all was forgiven by the film's end. I thought Norton's character was played perfectly : angry at himself, confused and frightened.

― Jay Vee

My favorite ten minutes of film. God, no matter how many times I watch that ending it still devastates me. The unconditional love of the father, certainly, but that vision of 'America.'

― ice cr?m paint job (milo z)

there is a lot of 9/11 imagery in this, yeah, but it was also, if I'm not mistaken, the first movie made in NYC after 9/11, and I think that point is really important. I guess you can be all rockist about it and only evaluate the film on it's own merits but I find the movie impossible to divorce from the culture in which it was made.

― akm

It's too late for me to argue why I loved 25th Hour -- but there are so many small moments in that film that are captured really perfectly. Like when Philip Seymour Hoffman meets Barry Pepper at his apartment and the way they try to interact as friends, even though they haven't kept in touch for years and it's clear they were only really friends inasmuch as both were friends with Ed Norton. The dialogue and acting are both superb.

- jaymc

Did anybody else cry at the end of the 25th hour?

#71

25th Hour
Spike Lee
2002
United States
(261 points, 12 votes, 1 first place)

that fucking bucket of ice just layin there thinkin ah fuck

25th hour is just aight *shrug*

So much wrong with The 25th Hour (introducing it to skeptics is a major pain in the ass, and cause for embarrassment) but it still works.

slolcki jpg.

Still nothing I voted for here has appeared. Amelie and Y Tu Dying Puta would make my 100 Worst of the decade.

On my 100 poll, I had 25th Hour in 98th, probably bcz of Norton's mirror scene.

when i scrolled back up to screengrab after fantasy's comments...personally, i died

Wow, I actually am pretty shocked at how low this one placed. Not that I voted for it or anything.

25th hour may be my least favorite movie of the decade.

i agree w/alfred. i like spike lee. that monologue at the end was so movie-ish though!

loved it at the time. not seen it since but i imagine it would hold up well.

can we get morbs to write a fake title of every movie on this list?

If this poll were scenes instead of movies, 25th Hour's two obvious candidates would be, well, obvious candidates for my ballot.

But, yeah, the movie didn't hold together when I watched it last and it wasn't just one year since 9/11.

The gay panic in The 25th Hour -- prevalent in all Spike's work -- is totally revolting and unnecessary.

morbs if that's how you roll w/r/t titles of films you hate, might i suggest calling it "le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Putain" (not that i advocate calling women whores, now)

are these gonna get better or worse as they go along, do you think?

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.

Maybe cuz people who haven't hardly listened to new music in the last few years {like me) would abstain from an ILM decade poll? But these are just, y'know, dumb movies: everyone can be an expert cuz they're so simple.

oh, no. i haven't see all of 25th hour truthfully, only excerpts, and that wouldn't be one of them. that's terrible.

Once is enough, but when Edward Norton's "pretty" white face is spoken of as great jailbait several times I wanted to go all Midnight Express on Spike and ask him why he thought Ed was so damn hot.

i remember liking 25th hour but very little about why...

haven't seen. excuse me!

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.

Ha ha. To the point where I thought this was intentional on omar's part. And maybe it is!

solid flick. agree that the monologue felt forced. random ilx fact: i saw that with the schef ha ha and we had to sit in the very front row.

Gay panic in Do the Right Thing? Memory doesn't serve.

Spike figured Norton would bulk up and go skinhead again (he was a hot Nazi).