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

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.

The Lives of Others - forget the stasi, we had thatcher, so much worse

waht

ha covering irish seperatism, ethnic britishness and now thatcher this is gonna be awesome

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

I apologize for my country's people being generally too lazy to get up before 5:30 a.m.

I think Eric finds In the Loop 'surprising' in part bcz I'm the only Sl*nt writer who put it in his top 20 for this year? Too funny, not "cinematic" at all.

Alfred, you mentioned Musil -- how is Young Torless?

i think i'm 6 or 7 for 30 so far.

I mostly just think it's odd that very few movies from the last five years have posted at all yet, and that's one of the few.

(Granted, the There Will Be No Zodiac Blood For Old Children of Men glut is obv still forthcoming.)

i think that today, for each movie, everyone should post 1 thing they liked about it, and 1 thing they disliked!!!!

maybe i'm overestimating the kiarostami bloc. it helps that it's his only movie in contention

Pretty sure The Wind Will Carry Us wasn't released in Europe (and certainly America) til 2000. So it counts.

btw, You the Living > Songs from the Second Floor

i think that today, for each movie, everyone should post 1 thing they liked about it, and 1 thing they disliked!!!!

― max, 05 February 2010 12:24 (1 minute ago)

real talk

The Lives of Others - forget the stasi, we had thatcher, so much worse

waht

― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, February 5, 2010 12:07 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark

a lil english joke. it's a commonplace that thatcher RUINED EVERYTHING.

without her we'd have a booming coal industry and other great things.

waht a bitch

best supporting actress in hunger

ireland's coal industry hadn't even really gotten off the ground when she invaded in 1603 ;_;

I'm taking up Max's challenge. Let's see what today's selections bring.

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Pretty sure The Wind Will Carry Us wasn't released in Europe (and certainly America) til 2000. So it counts.

ah ok. missed that on the noms list. everything online about it says '99 so i had it mentally as a '90s movie. (those of us who mostly see these things on video don't pay attention to niceties like theatrical releases.)