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

bird people in china is a great, great miike without an ounce of squirm or gore

sexy beast is an amazing movie and im proud to say it was in my top 10 - one of the best and most stylistically controlled debut films of the decade - glazer is an incredible craftsman - birth is amazing too - yall are fools and dismissing it as a "gangster film" is a substitute for actual thinking

The Host is everything Cloverfield wanted to be, but failed.

I don't know if that's completely true - but The Host was great, and Cloverfield was pretty craptacular.

Wait till Kill Bill if you want pissy grievances (from me)

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Assuming Kill Bill makes it

cloverfield was great hope it places

s1ocki I'm usually on board with yr film reviews but I guess I was missing something when I watched SB

the host and cloverfield aren't really similar besides the fact they both have monsters. and saying that cloverfield "wanted to be" the host ignores that their aims are about 100% different. both great tho

s1ocki I'm usually on board with yr film reviews but I guess I was missing something when I watched SB

― The Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, February 5, 2010 5:15 PM (5 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

then you're gonna GET a SB

seriously tho. watch it again. and tho i love kingsley in it, it's ray winstone who really shines for me

I didn't vote but can I enter a late ballot w/100 pts for the wackness

i think it is really fantastic storytelling.

sexy beast was in the top 20 for me

birth IS amazing; I wonder if it has a chance of charting? doubtful

I might SB the next person who talks about where things were on their ballots.

Find it hard to believe Birth could outplace Sexy Beast (even though I prefer it.)

bbbut if omar gets SB'd over a SB beef, we won't be able to finish the poll :(

no one's Sing we SB omar

I liked Cloverfield, it was maybe top 100 for me but I have not seen or heard of the The Host til now.

agree with slocki and omar here re. sexy beast

I've seen SB twice and I can't imagine watching it 50 times would make me think its anything exceptional.

so many great shots, and the kind of performance winstone deserves but rarely gets.

do you think some mod could substitute "sexy beast" for sb sitewide?

not that it's gonna kick the proposition out of my '00s winstone movie position but nonetheless

so many great shots, and the kind of performance winstone deserves but rarely gets.

― strongohulkingtonsghost, Friday, February 5, 2010 5:20 PM (32 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

not just great shots but amazingly constructed scenes built out of those shots... u know what i mean

i mean, just excellent filmmaking.

no haley joel osment tho

mcshane scares me in this film

he scares me in just about everything he's in

ya he is a REPTILE in it. way better than any of that deadwood argle-bargle.

I liked I'll Sleep When Your Dead more. Maybe even Gangster No 1 btw. If we are comparing brit gangster films I prefer to SB.

mcshane scares me in this film

"he scares me in just about everything he's in"

Terrifying in Scoop.

ach - beat to the punch (again)

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even if Linney never made a good movie ever again, I would have to love her because of You Can Count on Me.

- horseshoe

Amid a renaissance of stories about child abuse, neglect, and abandonment, this one somehow got to the heart of things by focusing on how children might grow up (or not) without any parents at all. Its
classical score was a break form indie-film indie-rock cliche, but its most musical aspect was its story, and the rushes of talk between characters.

- Pete Scholtes

There was once a great little indie film called You Can Count On Me, which was just a quiet story with two great performances by Mark Ruffalo and Laura Linney. It was a modest success, and cost feck all to make. The next two films they made after that were The Mothman Prophecies (Linney) and The Last Castle (Ruffalo). Which do both suck ass.

- Andrew Farrell

#58

You Can Count On Me
Kenneth Lonergan
2000
United States
(308 points, 12 votes)

YES!

?!?!!?

first movie i've not even heard of

really strongo?

great film btw.

are you serious?

it's a good drama.

haha

doppelgangerposts.

That's cuz Laura Linney doesn't eat fetus DUMPLINGS! in it.

laura linney looks super young in that shot

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haha of course i'm serious! i gotta be sold seriously hardcore on anything that might be described as an indie-scale american drama.

burned one too many times

ok uh... IT IS SOME HARDCORE BRO-SIS DRAMA.

I've seen it and it's seemed aggressively okay to me.

if you're gonna call something bad just do it dude

no i just meant to explain my ignorance