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

but holy crap the audience usually sucks. Talking, kicking my seat, babies crying.

I hardly ever have this experience. Maybe it's the kind of movies and theaters I go to, though.

I rarely go at night anymore. As friends become domesticated, they lose interest in movies, so I end up going alone on Saturday mornings.

I have a cinema card that allows me to see as many films for a set monthly price. The downside it is a multiplex (though it does get films like A Prophet, etc...). My rule of thumb is to never go on a Friday night or a Saturday or Sunday (save for the occasional one-off revival film on a Sunday afternoon). This usually works pretty well.

I hardly ever have this experience. Maybe it's the kind of movies and theaters I go to, though.

― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Friday, February 5, 2010 11:19 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

he was saying that's what happened at his house - joeks

hiyo!

There was a bad theater behavior thread where some of you revealed you have friends who badly need gagging.

I generally go to movies alone; it's too hard to coordinate w/ my few cineaste friends' schedules.

i enjoy going to teh movez alone and with others

I saw Citizen Ruth in the theater! its a great, weird movie. Election is a bit stronger tho, imho. Would easily be in my best of the 90s list

So any guesses on where Step Brothers is going to place

wheres omar, this productivity at work is exhausting

down in san juan, eating his honey nut cheerios

ha ha, love that i've rankled the Wall-E fans, but realize that it is your fandom that makes me never want to see the film.

i've seen five films in theaters in the past year.
1) Rembrandt's J'accuse
2) some movie in Ohio that i was blacked-out drunk for, sorry.
3) District 9
4) 2012
5) The White Ribbon

all were enjoyable experiences. only recently, when i came into some more disposable $, have i been goin to the movies again. i forgot how much i like it!!

realize that it is your fandom that makes me never want to see the film

Oh no. I really should temper my enthusiasm.

lol ppl liking things

jokes on u

hey table have you seen the wire coz it's amazing like you'll never watch anything the same way again

lolololol

judging by the results, others are blacked-out drunk at the movies amirite

Hey, table, have you seen the films of Ewe Boll? People don't have many good things to say about them, so they might be up your alley...

if you havent seen the disneys and pixars u are not a human being imho

(My brain is still seizing up at the thought of actively avoiding stuff because people like it have said that it's good.)

I hardly ever have this experience. Maybe it's the kind of movies and theaters I go to, though.

― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Friday, February 5, 2010 10:19 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Probably. If I go to a theater, most likely it is to see a major studio blockbuster where I think the special effects will be worth it on the big screen. Of course these are most likely to have the seat kicking masses in them. Also I'm extremely sensitive to this type of behavior.

NONE OF YOU HAVE EVER LIVED WITH A 23 YEAR OLD WHO QUOTES EXTENSIVELY FROM DISNEY AND PIXAR MOVIES AND GOES TO DISNEYLAND FOR HER BIRTHDAY EVERY YEAR SO YOU CAN SHUT THE FUCKING HELL UP.

lol I feel you table

I love Pixar but I don't think I wd ever go see one of their movies without taking the kids.

Ha ha. Well, thank you for providing context.

if you havent seen the disneys and pixars u are not a human being imho

WALL-E was the first one I'd seen since Toy Story 2. Am I a cyborg?

nah but you missed the best ones

tabes did you quote Fassbinder back at her?

It's a whole new world.

no, i just sort of looked at her with sad, hungover eyes, and went back to posting on ilx.

tombstone material

Don't you dare close your eyes.

disney nerds are one of my favo weird subsets of humanity which i have never actually encountered irl. like pin collectors, club 33 visitors and shit

plus there was the time i applauded at the end of ratatouille????

hahaha, this thread finally got good

ABC-- they can be perfectly nice and otherwise awesome people— i mean, girl was fluent in ASL, hella queer, and read interesting books....but she also just would not STFU about disney and pixar movies. it was like her 'childhood happy space,' whereas mine is masturbating to stills of John Stamos.

agh omar save us

haha

You think I'm an ignorant savage
And you've been so many places
I guess it must be so
But still I cannot see
If the savage one is me
How can there be so much that you don't know?
You don't know ...

I used to live in an all-girls dorm at a liberal arts college so I understand how that shit can play out

ILX's A B C I have a super creepy question for you:

Are you a woman? For some reason I thought you were a guy.

Les poissons, les poissons
How I love les poissons
Love to chop and to serve little fish
First I cut off their heads
Then I pull out their bones
Ah mes oui, savez toujours delice

morning~

my roommate senior year was a big fan of disney and had disney stuff all over her side of the room. idk exactly what was on my wall, i think there was a nick cave poster and some stuff from touch & go records (BRAINIAC). she hated me. showed this by passive-aggressively slamming shut every drawer/door in the room when she was getting ready for class @ 8am (when i had usually just gone to bed 3 hours earlier.) it was a delight

this one is for table

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/ratatouille_007.jpg

We saw "Ratatouille," which was great! It pisses me off that there's no way it would even be considered for any of the serious Oscars, when it's like 9,000 times better visually than whatever shitty drama will win. Not even just the awesomeness of the technology and animation, but even things like the way the shots are "framed" and the way the "camera" moves is really exciting and innovative. I agree with the critical consensus that it's not as ambitious and wide-ranging as some of the other Pixar movies, but I think it gains something from that. It feels a little more ... adult? in a good way. More focused. It doesn't blow you away like "The Incredibles" but it's more relatable and personal.

― n/a

saw it last night. it was good - this is coming from someone who suffered ho-hum reactions to toy story/nemo/cars. agree that it was oddly mature. surprised that more ilxors weren't amused by it - the villain's a CRITIC after all.

animation was fantastic - action scene with the rats in the river / sewer was breathtaking. water + grass + fur are 3 things hard to get right animation-wise.

and I don't think I've ever heard edward iv laugh as loud as he did at lifted, the opening short.

― Edward III

It's good. Technically brilliant and energetic as usual. Better than The Incredibles, if not anywhere near The Iron Giant.

Caveats: not cray about Linguini as a character (why plop in an American-seeming dork as the central human?), and...

Chef Skinner. Ulp.

Is he French-Algerian? That's some mega old-style Disney racial caricature there. Really bothered me whenever he was onscreen.

― Dr Morbius

#70

Ratatouille
Brad Bird
2007
United States
(263 points, 13 votes)

ha

LOL

Ratatouille (the film, not the dish)

xposts yes I am a woman. I realize that in the past I have touched on levels of haunted internet weirdness usually associated with male anime pillow fetishists but I like to consider myself an envelope-pushing feminist pioneer in the mold of Aileen Wuornos