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

Audition is a film I got for free years ago and have never watched. I still don't know if I ever will. (Similar story- got Anti-Christ for free this week, am wondering if Gainsbourg's WSness is enough make me sit through it.)

as an ultra-confirmed horror stan, im just going to out myself here right now and say that i do not get the appeal of audition (and actually cant get into most miike stuff). happy for people that do tho xxxxpost

that nude wrestling completely upended the movie imo

― Dan S, Friday, February 5, 2010 1:07 PM (4 minutes ago)

this scene was "borrowed"* pretty much from Jackass 2 in which guest-skit-director John Waters has Wee Man on a bed and gets a 400 pound naked woman to belly flop on him, then Waters pretends he's unhappy with the take, then on the next take (unknown to Wee Man) he substitutes the equally rotund Preston Lacy for the woman to do the same belly flop.

*Jackass 2 only came out a couple months before Borat iirc, not sure this was intentional or not.

― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Friday, February 5, 2010 4:15 PM (35 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

did u know if u prefer jackass 2 to jackass 1 it means u r gay

didnt realize audition was 90s/on the list prob wouldve voted - bird people of china is way better tho

the nude wrestling in borat is so effective and unstoppable because it is just honest and goofy and straightforward. you've been thru a whole movie of queasy, second-guessed, discomforting laughs, and at the end it's just hey! naked guys! running around! fighting! it's like a breath of fresh air.

not a fan of remakes, but a shot-for-shot remake of audition with zooey deschanel and michael cera would be spitefully great.

borat was my #1 btw - seeing it in theaters was easily my favorite film experience of the 00s

I think Miike Takashi deliberately made the first half of Audition boring to sucker everyone into thinking it'd end normally.

Have seen and liked a few Miike things, but judged myself way too squeamish for this. (and I liked Ichi the Killer, but probably won't ever watch that again)

wondering if that will be the top horror qua horror placing

actually wait would guess that the ring might still place

Weird, i just stepped away from the computer to talk to my friend on the phone, and he spent a chunk of the conversation explaining who Miike was.

and no, inland empire (as much as i love it) doesnt count

it depends how many ppl Eric and I persuaded to watch Pulse

xxxxp

Fingers crossed for Let the Right One In for highest horror placement.

Does Pan's Labyrinth count as horror?

I've never enjoyed Audition more than when I rented it to watch with my girlfriend. She was not familiar with it & I did not tell her it was a horror film & really enjoyed the process of watching her watch it, esp. around the halfway point when the bottom just falls out from under it (around the scene w/ the ringing telephone & unidentified man in bag). Even tho this scared the bejeezus out of her in the short term, she was ultimately glad she knew nothing about it going in & I really wish I could say the same for when I originally saw it.

it depends how many ppl Eric and I persuaded to watch Pulse

xxxxp

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Friday, February 5, 2010 9:23 PM (1 minute ago)

fucking LOVE this movie, didnt know you dudes were into it. a high placement would be fantastic, and it deserves it.

hey omar you mind posting text of the list so far or did you just do it, thread is too long : /

This is my favourite thread in weeks

oh, one more thought on Todd Haynes' version of Sirk:
nearly all the actors are better.

that nude wrestling completely upended the movie imo

― Dan S, Friday, February 5, 2010 1:07 PM (4 minutes ago)

this scene was "borrowed"* pretty much from Jackass 2 in which guest-skit-director John Waters has Wee Man on a bed and gets a 400 pound naked woman to belly flop on him, then Waters pretends he's unhappy with the take, then on the next take (unknown to Wee Man) he substitutes the equally rotund Preston Lacy for the woman to do the same belly flop.

*Jackass 2 only came out a couple months before Borat iirc, not sure this was intentional or not.

― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Friday, February 5, 2010 4:15 PM (35 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

did u know if u prefer jackass 2 to jackass 1 it means u r gay
--ice cr?m

I like Miike, but Audition is basically three amazing scenes surrounded by not much else.

I have only seen Jackass One thus far and Two getting gayer would make for a fascinating math equation

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sexy beast is better than get carter

- mark s

"Peaches" by the Stranglers opening Sexy Beast. PERFECTION!

- Alex in NYC

For the compleat homicidal maniac look, shave outside the shower while whispering to yourself in the mirror. Eg: the unforgettable scene with Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast.

- colin s barrow

#60

Sexy Beast
Jonathan Glazer
2001
United Kingdom
(298.5 points, 15 votes, 1 first place)

okay that's kinda inexplicable

Sexy Beast isn't bad by any means but I don't recall anything special about it. middling gangster film.

yeah now we're back to ordinary goodish movies.

I like Miike, but Audition is basically three amazing scenes surrounded by not much else. - & I would argue that the "not much else" placidly setting the stage for the disruptive rip of those "three amazing scenes" (tho I would argue for 4 or 5) is part of what makes this film so brilliant.

Sexy Beast is better than the Stallone version of Get Carter.

well what's great about it are the three main performances and the structure imo (two villains who play perfectly off the protagonist's fears and paranoia: one completely virulent and hateful and terrifying, one completely unreadable and calm and spooky)

Have seen and liked a few Miike things, but judged myself way too squeamish for this. (and I liked Ichi the Killer, but probably won't ever watch that again)

morbz, you have to see audition! there isn't anything in it that's worse than what's in ichi the killer, plus I'm thinking a lot of the horror guys don't like this because it's actually a DRAMA in sheep's clothing, or maybe a psychological thriller. the gory stuff is character-driven and symbolic.

uh guess who voted it number 1

Yeah but the amazingness of those scenes doesn't make the rest of the film any more enjoyable to watch though.

really well-directed too. it's probably the only british gangster film i think is worth anything from the past 10 years or so (possibly forgetting something.)

love the scene in sexy beast of the fat old sunburnt british thugs paddling around underwater in speedos.

for me, ben kingsley ultimately renders sb unwatchable.

but i have to admit that the dream sequences w/ the black rabbit on horseback are terrifying.

Voting Sexy Beast the best movie of the past decade is pretty mind-boggling (great performances or not.)

only thing I remember about Sexy Beast is "Peaches" intro shot tbh

me too, though I haven't seen it for like 8 years

I liked Sexy Beast a lot (& it got axed from my shortlist), but it did fall apart a bit in the third act iirc. Once the tension moves from the looming presence of Kingsley over Winstone's life & gets down to the underwater bank robbery, it basically turns into a middling heist flick.

"I'm thinking a lot of the horror guys don't like this because it's actually a DRAMA in sheep's clothing"
I thought it was trenchant feminist commentary on family/gender roles!

I have only seen Jackass One thus far and Two getting gayer would make for a fascinating math equation

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Friday, February 5, 2010 1:36 PM (7 minutes ago)

John Waters, Rip Taylor, oh how about the opening scene Pontius sticks his dick (in a mouse "costume") into a glory hole*?

*leading into a snake's cage.

I thought Kingsley was better in The Wackness than in Sexy Beast.

just saw Inland Empire again, which has revived my taste for at least psychological horror if not actual horror. The Audition Sounds intriguing.

the guy(s?) who wrote Sexy Beast have a new film opening in NYC today w/ a bunch of character actors (Winstone, J Hurt etc) trying to decide what to do with a beatup kidnapee (Melvil Poupaud) in a room. Sounds like must-to-avoid.

re: audition's horrorness -- It's horror in the sense that horrifying things happen. but there's horrifying things in Rachel Getting Married, too.

iirc there isn't a general theme of dismemberment in RGM

I hope Ashley Macisaac isnt in Audition

i can't imagine watching 'audition' would be so bad if you sat through 'ichii'? i haven't seen the latter - horror films upset me a lot more than they used to - but 'audition' isn't that bad except for a few moments. the way it suddenly goes off the rails was pretty well done, i thought

"I thought it was trenchant feminist commentary on family/gender roles!

― Philip Nunez, Friday, February 5, 2010"

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