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

not to spoil it, but there's implied body mayhem in RGM.

visitor Q to me, seemed like a Mary Poppins remake with lactation.

[SPOILER]no[/SPOILER]

it's not really a miike film til someone starts lactating

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.

See, now you're just making it sound like another dose of Alfred's "gay panic."

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

maybe if you're not into good screenwriting.... but the dialogue in the "down parts" of audition is always on-point and serving the bigger themes of the film. I'm just delighted by little bits in the film, like when shigeharu is watching a video clip of kids slamdancing with his editor....

Shigeharu: It's like a ceremony for worshipers.
Editor: They're pretty much the same, lonely.
Shigeharu: Happy people wouldn't go to that kind of concert.
Editor: The whole of Japan's lonely.
Shigeharu: Are you?
Editor: (grinning knowingly) You too, right?

or when he and his friend are posing as casting directors, interviewing actresses as potential girlfriends for shigeharu, and one of the questions they ask is "do you like tarkovsky?"

or the restaurant date with asami and shigeharu where he willfully misinterprets every single thing she says

the script is also really smart about what it reveals, and when it reveals it

f'kn love that movie

"two or three amazing scenes" that wouldn't mean jack without the build up.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/host-1.jpg

I'm going to start throwing out everything in our apartment that's dusty. Layer of dust = of no use to me. Saw the movie last night and loved it. I've never laughed so hard at a grieving family.

Wes Anderson was sitting behind us in the theater. I resisted the urge to turn around afterwards and say, "I think The Life Aquatic could've really benefited from one of those things."

― lindseykai

This movie would have freaked me out pretty badly at age 7. Don't bring the kids unless you want them to watch a lobotomy or see a monster vomit corpses and skeletons.

This movie doesn't drag for a second. It has a little bit of everything. It isn't action-packed all the way through but neither is, say, Jaws. If you like characters and acting and plot, you won't get bored. I can't imagine I'll see a better movie in 2007.

― Hatch

great movie. i love how the grieving scene starts out pretty serious if melodramatic and then just gets more and more absurd until you realize with relief it's supposed to be funny!

― ryan

Hey, I saw this, it was kick the fuck ass!

My only real disappointment was when Gang-Du was chasing the beast (he on the bridge, it in the water) towards the Agent Yellow protest crowd, I wanted to see the creature fuck up a bunch of protestors like earlier in the movie; I loved the tragicomic vengeance sequence a lot, but it just felt so action front-loaded. Still I will absolutely watch this movie again and shit my pants over it all over again.

― nickalicious

Hey you guys! South Korea's THE HOST is getting a US release starting this weekend!

#59

The Host
Bong Joon-Ho
2006
South Korea
(305 points, 13 votes)

I find the pace hypnotic

lynch, cronenberg, or herzog movies can be slow in the same way

how high's the wackness going to place?

also, YES

XP

YESSSSSSSSSS

only film's I haven't seen so far are the korean ones; look interesting

i mean yeah 75 percent of miike's films* are set-pieces with surreal/wacky connective tissue between them, but audition's pacing is just masterful.

*of the ones i've seen, naturally.

also BOOOOOOOOO at the host placing so low.

The Host = better genre film than Sexy Beast

xxxxxp
Ok, haven't seen this, but the screen capture has sold it to me.

The Host is pretty cute.

Edward III OTM RE: Audition

way xpost to strongo yeah I get that, but it still doesn't make me want to sit through the build-up again. I think I like the short version of DUMPLINGS! more frankly.

but i mean yay that it's here at all.

you philistines.

DUMPLINGS!?

The Host was my #10 film.

okay that's kinda inexplicable

Uh, this. Just saw Sexy Beast recently, and the movie was fine and Kingsley was undeniably good in it, buuuut...really nothing special about it. I mean, why this and not Layer Cake? I dunno. I guess I'm less surprised that people voted for it than I am that it showed up so high in the results.

haha DUMPLINGS! is great, but wtf

Well, and there you go again. The Host was fine but it didn't exactly thrill me. Whatever, though. Y'all dig whatcha dig, and that's cool.

Love the way The Host starts as a monster movie and ends as a political satire.

actually i think the close-mic'd chewing noises in DUMPLINGS! may have grossed me out more than anything else this decade

why in the fuck does DUMPLINGS! keep going to all caps? (see?)

Yeah I had that D u m p l i n g s problem on the noms thread.

You have a problem with Bai Ling and fetus eating?

I can't be the only one who thinks Ben Kingsley badly overacted ("YES! YES! YES!"). There's great overacting, but this isn't it.

more movies i didn't vote for but like a lot: audition, the host. i love how long audition takes to really build up to full-crazy level. if the whole movie was like the last 30-45 minutes, it would be too much. (it still is too much, but in a good way.)

I've never actually seen the full version of DUMPLINGS!. The short in Three Extremes is great though. Way more entertaining than the other two (and Audition).

d u m p l i n g's was easily the best part of three extremes for sure

xpost

DUMPLINGS!!

woah

park's short there was the moment the korean "we can't stick to one emotional note for more than 30 seconds" thing started to bug me

Okay this ALL CAPS plus ! is hilarious.

DUMPLINGS!! is better than Audition just cuz of that!

dump-LINGS!

HOW DID IT DO THAT?

I don't remember Park's short except that it felt very Clive Barker-y. And Miike's was just a dull ghost thing, right?

LOLOLOL

dumpl-ings

i'm hungry now.

DUMPLINGS! text substitutions courtesy superboard I LOVE CRICKET: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX

c-man
l0u1s jagg3r
[nabisco]
DUMPLINGS!
I LOVE CRICKET: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX

fetuses all around!

Sexy Beast: YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! Thought it would be higher, as it deserved to be. Fackin ilxors prefer the fackin Wackness. Fackin ilxors.

Never knew the Host existed but that picture and the lolwesanderson story made me add it to my lovefilm list.

I don't know if The Host qualifies as horror, because it wasn't gory at all, but it was genuinely thrilling, I thought. It had such enthusiastic pacing, hurtling from one scene to the next. I loved the slob hero at the center of it all, too, and the way you didn't really get more than a few glimpses of the monster for what seemed like half the movie