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

I did not vote in this poll, but I hope the following films place:

Yi Yi
Japon
Grizzly Man
300

I'm 4/30 now, and I honestly have no idea how many more might show.

So I only have three movies placing so far (Napoleon, High Fidelity, and 28 Days), with another two that were chopped off the bottom of my ballot (25th Hour and Minority Report). And I think I'm up to three from my ballot which I've decided don't stand a chance of placing at this point and which I feel safe spoilerizing (The Company, Sleeping Dogs Lie, and Hot Rod).

pfft, you people think i'm going to spend my weekend doing this? i only do this on company time.

15 more tomorrow, then 15 each day mon-wed and the top 10 on thursday.

Gonna miss the conclusion. ;_;

I actually voted for The Company as well, Deric, but you're right, it has no chance. (I think it was my #40, so my vote's not going to do a lot of good, anyway.)

Yeah, it was 35th on my ballot, but I liked it a whole, whole heckuva lot more than about half of the movies I've seen that have placed thus far.

Yeah, Shaun top 25 easily. Heavy Britishes element to these results so far.

I'm sure The Company was on my ballot too. So maybe it landed somewhere around #217.

most things i voted for probably won't place, but the ones i'm absolutely sure won't:

La Ciénaga
Blind Shaft
The World
Princess Raccoon
Southland Tales
May
Oasis

I hope Southland Tales doesn't place because it was a piece of shit.

sorry just trying to get in the spirit of the day!

No, spirit of the day: Southland Tales is a sure bet, because it was a piece of shit.

Can't see how So0tD won't score. Not funny enough to be a comedy, not brutal enough to be a horror movie, pretty much the perfect Brit Flick.

xpost yeah i am aware southland tales is not widely beloved.

i also expect a paroxysm of loathing to greet donnie darko, which i also voted for and i expect will be on here somewhere.

instead of sitting around moping and hating southland tales, ppl should really go watch princess raccoon imo

(it's the southland tales of japanese folklore rock musicals)

who's moping? we're bouncing up and down in our seats loathing southland tales with the utmost glee!

i ~think~ i voted for princess raccoon although it may be one of those that i meant 2 but didnt

3/30 so far but there are a # of things i like on the list but didnt vote for and two movies (in the loop and m&c) that i hope to watch this wknd

As long as neither Crash nor Me And You And All Of The Other Creepy Twee Sociopaths We Know don't place, I'm sure I'll be fine with all of the results of this poll.

don't place

I am faintly aware of how English grammar works...

2/30 right here (capturing the friedmans and 28 days later if u care)

i would list the no chance of placing stuff from my list but it would be most of the rest of my ballot i think so -_-

i prob wont be around to follow the roll out on this tomorrow so in advance, if inglorious basterds places you all suck

lol

considering how well Spaced did on BOTH the '00s and '90s TV polls (way too well imo) yeah sky's the limit for SOTD

tbh todays list has left me a little low on the haterade, mostly didnt see it or didnt care about it after i did

notable exceptions:

In Bruges is pretty fantastic and only keeled over on the last cut on my ballot, mostly because i kind of think the ending sucks. rest is great tho - also i had a similar film that im still hoping to see place, and i couldnt have both.

Amelie - didnt like it enough to vote for it, but i think the hate-pile is weird, my main problem is that it was the first in a brutal decline for the director, esp after city of lost children and delicatessen, which are both genius imo

Y Tu Mama Tambien - horrifying awful worthless piece of shit

theres no way any movie on the final list can be worse that 25th hour - not even amelie

apart from park chan-wook stuff, the only korean movie i can bring to mind from this decade is Take Care of My Cat, which i remember as really charming but don't actually remember too well. besides the green planet, am i missing lots of awesome stuff?

The results so far are surreal as in totally unexpected and mixed-up. The images from the movies look great, congrats omar.

err and bong joon-ho, obv, was the context this came up in xp

A Tale of Two Sisters is fantastic

I'm a little surprised there isn't more commentary about what people like about these movies instead of what they hate

Man Who Enjoys Thing Informed He Is Wrong

― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Friday, February 5, 2010 12:26 AM (1 hour ago)

lolz

Peter and Shakey (and others) thanks for taking the time to post your lists of thoughts about the movies you liked

Sometimes I worry that when I like movies that other people dislike, it's because I wasn't smart enough to dislike them, too.

(Btw, this never happens to me when it comes to music, because I recognize that my enjoyment of music exists almost entirely on an aesthetic level, and aesthetic disagreements are understandable. But movies are more complicated: all sorts of politics and meta-narratives get mixed up with aesthetic appreciation. With movies I can no longer say "oh, I don't pay attention to the lyrics.")

― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Friday, February 5, 2010 12:41 AM (1 hour ago)

I have friends who are passionate about movies, and it's through watching and discussing films with them that I better understand my own opinions, so I feel I have something to say. With music, on the other hand, NOBODY I know is much interested in the stuff talked about on ILM. It's an age thing, I think. I feel like I'm living in a vacuum, trying to discover stuff on my own. Since I don't have any conversations outside of ILM, my opinions aren't as well formed and I feel like I'm on much less solid footing arguing my points, even though music is more important to me.

happy-go lucky / harold n kumar / in bruges 4 me so far

So far for me (so mainstream it hurts)

High Fidelity
Minority Report
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
Almost Famous

Sometimes I worry that when I like movies that other people dislike, it's because I wasn't smart enough to dislike them, too.

Eh, I used to worry about this (more "not well-educated enough" than "not smart enough"), but whatevs. You like what you like because it resonates with you on some level. That should be enough. Life's too short to get all hung up on what other people think of your tastes. You're the one who has to live with those tastes, so they might as well suit you.

That said, my real favorite movie of the decade might be that one YouTube clip with the baby laughing hysterically. That thing has brightened my day so many times.

1/30, Tropical Malady. Not a particularly passionate vote, just saw it recently and I'm usually a sucker for films with a really palpable sense of place. Only other film to show up that I really like is Triplets of Belleville, but I don't remember it that well so I didn't vote for it. I want to see Happy-Go-Lucky and maybe In The Loop and maaaayyybe Master & Commander.

master & commander has a pretty palpable sense of boat (not joking)

Sometimes I worry that when I like movies that other people dislike, it's because I wasn't smart enough to dislike them, too.

no no no. it's because they don't understand them.

take southland tales, for example...

xpost yeah, i get that sense, that's what made me wanna see it despite also sensing blandness ahead

happy-go lucky is a good film imo, kinda surprised it doesn't seem to be for everyone. the blurb for it here on this list is gold.

So far for me (so mainstream it hurts)

High Fidelity
Minority Report
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
Almost Famous

― Johnny Fever

I feel like Johnny Jr. over here:

High Fidelity
Almost Famous
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
The Triplets of Belleville

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle was the last movie cut from my ballot.

25th Hour - 25 points (no lol intended) #71
The Triplets of Belleville - 16 #73
Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle - 14 #83
Tropical Malady - 10 #92

voted for Morvern Callar (10th on my list), The Piano Teacher (32nd), Team America: World Police (23rd), 25th Hour (38th)

eh. tbh i was ambivalent about at least 1/3 of the films i actually voted for!

there's so much i haven't seen, and then over half the time when i watch something that's been well regarded by very smart critics, i don't like it. is there like an infuriating contrarian armond white kind of critic out there who is a feminist? or should i just do that myself.

you could try, but you'd probs have to like The Hottie and the Nottie or something

i mean one who is actually feminist, thus likely to be contrarian to what a lot of critics think, i don't mean being an anti-feminist contrarian. i figure the former would infuriate most people.

Be realistic: feminism is the opposite of cinema. It's a kiss kiss bang bang art, remember? But you should read Camille Paglia's booklet on The Birds regardless. She says interesting things about Suzanne Pleshette's character.

if you were the Armond White of feminist criticism, you'd find a way to make The Hottie and the Nottie a feminist treatise. xpost.

this film doesn't exist.

k i'm about to watch the rest of election which i hope shows up on this list, i love johnny to