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

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

isn't this the second time in this thread the posts have foreshadowed the results?

featuring Peter O'Toole as s1ocki

At least that laborious Looney Tunes Back in Action won't show up.

suggest-ban animation.

You can always predict how a good ratatouille will taste.

Linguini is going to be the Dimitri from Anastasia for the younger sisters of a generation that sees sexual potential in Michael Cera, I don't mind predicting that right now

Peter O'Toole was much better here than in that pedo Oscar bait in which he starred the year before.

if only Carlos Reygadas had animated Japon

Ha ha! The timing!

I'm kind of fascinated (fascinated =/= enamoured, btw) with Disney on a number of levels and kinda keep up with news and trivia about the goings-on within the company...while not actually experiencing much of their product at all. I think I've only seen...four Pixar movies, maybe (Toy Story 1 & 2, Finding Nemo, and Up)? Up was the first one I saw in a theater. I've heard enough good things that I'll see the rest eventually.

suggest-ban animation.

as long as miyazaki ranks higher than any pixar i won't complain too much. not betting on that, tho. i'd guess spirited away could make top 20, but wall-e and incredibles could both be top 10.

Hey I have this theory about Ratatouille/Pixar, but to back it up, can you guys try this experiment?
without looking at them, try and draw from memory some characters from Toy Story. Then try and draw Ratatouille.

Can't do the Maxperiment here. Rat remains the only Pixar I skipped this decade, except for most of The Incredibles.

I'm fine with WALL-E and Spirited Away, othwise I think these others can't even touch the better Wallace & Gromit shorts of the '90s. And I'd forgotten all about the chef stereotype in this.

Morbz otm

Increidble Mr. Fox>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>every Pixar movie of the 00s

Increidble Mr. Fox is rabishing

I liked Fantastic Mr. Fox okay and all but there were moments when I was like omg this is what John Kricfalusi feels like all the time

Funniest gag in Ratatouille was making the critic look like Will Self but other than that I hardly remember a thing about it and don't feel the urge to see it again.

Although actually there was never a static, shitty-looking close-up of one of the puppets' faces that actually made me develop a fetish for cute CalArts sophomore girls and racist BUT FLUID old-timey animation so N.V.M.

From toy story I remember the cowboy, buzz lightyear, mr potato head and that psyco kid. And the Martians and the claw. From ratatouille remy, the kid chef, the French girlfriend, the fat rat brother, the critic...

mr. potato head is not from Toy Story FYI

god I fucking hate Disney

Pales a bit upon repeat viewing but awe-inspiring in its maniacal perfectionism. I like that he got Thomas Keller from the French Laundry to design the dishes.

Looney Tunes: Back in Action was a surprisingly solid film. Moving, even. It had the gritty, realistic feel and the leisurely pace common to some of my favorite films of the 1970s (it personally reminded me most of The Sugarland Express and Five Easy Pieces). I can't remember the last movie that felt so alive and also lived-in, in the best sense of the term. And Steve Martin's performance in it was easily one of the best and most intense of the past decade. Wasn't it nominated for best original screenplay the year it came out? I'm frankly surprised there hasn't been more discussion about it on this thread.

There is something kind of ghoulish about Mr. Fox. It is a Badalamenti soundtrack away from Inland Empire.

re: toy story v. ratatouille -- try drawing them. not to jinx it, but the few people i asked could readily draw toy story characters, but couldn't draw a single one from ratatouille despite having seen it more recently.

Pretty sure he is from toy story?

shit, how could I forget Mr Fox, that's the only anim I voted for here.

As a kid of the '70s, don't misunderstand, all the Pixars I've seen are better than the "Disney slump" of that era. But features are much harder to do than shorts.

Bugs Bunny & co did not need a gritty, realistic feel. I understand they needed to do something different but it didn't work for me.

Nothing says "French girlfriend" like Janeane Garofalo.