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

i'm skeptical about inventing a very new form of narrative, how so?

the relationships between sound and image, dialogue and plot, are more abstract than they seem, for one thing. his movies have a tendency to seem naturalistic until suddenly they don't and you wonder where they turned off the road, but the thing is that there's nothing really naturalistic going on at all. the scenes that seem quotidian are really pretty symbolically loaded, they just don't look like it until you go back to them in light of what comes later.

Also, In the Loop making this list is just really really weird.

i have no idea why u think this eric!

sure sure it's a "britishes thing" but only up to a point. shit is oscar-nominated! it won glowing reviews in sight and sound and was subject of a major feature article in canada's famous cinema scope magazine!

I totally forgot about In the Loop, so I didn't vote for it. I would have if I'd remembered about it, it had the sort of political insight you rarely see in a movie, plus it was funny as hell.

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Agreed, didn't really understand that comment. I remember checking out the reviews when it came out in the US and although it wasn't wall to wall press there was plenty of coverage, Iannucci and Capaldi doing the circuit. I really expected ITL to be higher, it's not like it's a piece of crap like Sex Lives of the Potato Men or Magicians.

I kinda really want to see this movie, actually - In the Loop, though Sex Lives of the Potato Men sounds good, if it's actually about men that are really potatoes and when they exhibit degraded hygiene, they grow eyes and tendrils, much to the horror of their partners.

So far I'm only 1/30 and pretty surprised to find that it's All the Real Girls.

Though it's sad to see AF and HiFidelity even placing, I'm still v.v. proud of y'all for keeping Amelie so low on the list. I was expecting it to be top 10.

Heavy Britishes element to these results so far.

― queen frostine (Eric H.), Friday, February 5, 2010 1:49 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

How so? In The Loop (which as nrq says, really isn't that surprising)? If britishes voted, they're not posting on this thread and I don't remember seeing many of them on the noms thread either.

I voted, just this thread is tl;dr.

I think I voted for Finding Nemo. Apart from Monsters Inc., which I like marginally less for no particular reason, it's the only Pixar that I've seen that doesn't go off the rails in some frustrating way. And I'm not going to say it's a profound film or something, but I do like the message.

Have voted for H&K go to white castle, nemo and ITL so far, I think.

I had Master and Commander at like 3 or 4 in my Ballot. Love love love it. So atmospheric and a completely insane structureless plot that broke nabisco.

I think the Fellowship was my token LOTR vote.

Squid and the Whale was too close to home for me. I'm sure it's good but I just couldn't enjoy it.

caek u just summed up my feelings about the 2 best Pixar movies.

I love Master & Commander too - it's so odd in pretty much every way compared to every other film I've seen that even stuff that'd normally be a criticism (e.g. the complete absence of women) becomes another weird virtue.

Where can I find proof of this broken Nabisco brain?

master and commander: oh how I enjoyed this movie

not a whole lot of women in the royal navy back then

xp i think that actually spilled over into some other threads, too, but i can't remember which

the alternative is 1) they meet hot island chick or 2) flashbacks of the girl they left behind. prefer the way they did it, ie NO GURLS.

girls and parrots in the trading scene iirc

If anything, expected to see M&C come a little higher. Seems like ILX canon.

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).

― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, February 5, 2010 1:42 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

lol even i didn't vote for 'hot rod'. doubt more than five ilxors have seen it alas.

i voted for all three richard kelly films.

Can we have a moratorium on Almost Famous now btw? I think everyone's had their say.

Wasn't Citizen Ruth an HBO Original Movie? It had a verrrry limited theatrical release if it had one at all.

― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, February 5, 2010 4:51 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

nah im p sure it was miramax, but they got spooked and basically dumped it.

"If britishes voted, they're not posting on this thread"

Really? That's a weird (and false) generalisation

obviously there are a few, but i'm just saying this list so far and this thread are not very british, which a couple of people have claimed.

Oh, I see. You're right - not an especially British thread, but that's because there haven't been that many great British films this decade - I only voted for two.

Checked out the Master & Commander thread to see nabisco's alleged brainrong and read this:

"(Fox Chairman Tom) Rothman wooed (Weir) by laying a mock captain's sword on his lap and asking him to take command of the HMS Surprise."

That's an heroically cheesy negotiating tactic which I intend to use myself at the earliest opportunity.

Morvern Callar - actually british, but kinda international hipster
The Piano Teacher - none less british
Dogville - paul bettany is in this. kidman is aussie, which is kinda british when u think abt it.
Happy-Go-Lucky - regrettably british, but i sweartagod, americans like this more than us
High Fidelity - p british really
Capturing the Friedmans - as american as it gets
Napoleon Dynamite - nothing to do with us
Sideways - fairly british
Tropical Malady - nup
Talk to Her - nooo
Together - reasonably british
The Lives of Others - forget the stasi, we had thatcher, so much worse
Memories of Murder - no
Minority Report - samantha morton is british, and spielberg leans that way imo
All the Real Girls - if only zooey were british
Almost Famous - on your own with this one
Finding Nemo - we don't animate
Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle - wish this were british. guess the battleshits chicks are.
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World - as british as it gets
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - new zealander garbage
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - schnabel could only be american
Team America: World Police - ???
Days Later - nothing to be ashamed of
The Squid and the Whale - honorary british
In the Loop - "we burnt this tight-arsed city to the ground in 1814"
Y Tu Mama Tambien - quite enough of that
In Bruges - more british than not
The Triplets of Belleville - wouldn't have thought so
Amélie - no
The 25th Hour - gtfo this film sucks

In Bruges is about as british as india.

India's quite British yeah?

was gonna say

well then it's less british than india.

india still do the commonwealth games? in bruges wouldn't

The British Are Coming! (Obliquely)

In Bruges- cast drunk, fighting at awards ceremony- 'Irish' movie

Finding Nemo - we don't animate

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Were-rabbit was on my extended list but i think i dropped it in the end ;_;

ey guys come back i promise i'm not going to plant c4 under shaun of the dead.

How is Together "reasonably British"? It's as Swedish as a movie can get!

british = european

the brits are backsliding

only colonise places we can impose our language on tbh

the swedes and dutch (maybe the danes too) are sorta british rly.

works better as the britishes are sort of dutch and danish and to a slightly lesser extent swedey.

No, actually I think Songs from the Second Floor is even more Swedish... I was surprised to find out that many American/British ILXors like it, I thought its particular critique was aimed so strongly towards the Swedish society and the Nordic welfare state that it might not make much sense outside this area.

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i voted for all three richard kelly films.
― the highest per-vote vag so far (history mayne), Friday, February 5, 2010 10:52 AM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

:O

didn't vote btw so will try keep it posi

not sure that historians have properly figured out what "Jutland" was supposed to be yet tho

Guys, youre only making this thread more British than even before.

Sorry for that, we'll be off for lunch soon

tuomas we have a welfare state too!

i didn't like SFTSF but it was pretty british.

i wonder how this thread is meant to stay us-centric during GMT AM tbh.