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

i do love mark ruffalo that lovable schlub

really, as i get older, and my free time dwindles ever more, if there's not a dead body in the first 20 minutes you've probably lost me

― strongohulkingtonsghost, Friday, February 5, 2010 5:31 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ya but what about the movies u watch

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

It's not bad. . . it's just not a film I can imagine thinking as I was making my best flicks of any decade (or year) "damn that was amazing, can't forget that touching little indie drama."

the ruffian is really good in this, prob my favourite ruff rider role (next to zodiac)

i love movies with that kinda touch. i tend to hate family dramas that end on a note of unexpected death or gloom, like punishment-for-sins kinda shit like in the ice storm or american beauty.

Maybe it's just cuz I've seen it more recently, but not much separates this and the Savages in my mind.

It's not bad. . . it's just not a film I can imagine thinking as I was making my best flicks of any decade (or year)

Yeah - that's how I felt about sexy beast.

haha i was just gonna make a reference to the savages as my most recent "what am i doing...i could be watching ufc" moment.

yeah, i love that the structure of the film is delimited by a certain arbitrary amount of time, not some kind of crisis-resolution-growth plot bullshit. we join this family when ruffalo arrives, we stick with them while he's around whether they figure anything out or not, and it ends when he leaves.

sorry, spoiler i guess

actually that might have been skinheadoche, ny </ dr. morbius>

So many great little naturalistic details in that movie: The way Laura Linney giddily waves at Mark Ruffalo from inside the restaurant window as he approaches. The way he off-handedly swats at a fly in that long heart-to-heart between them on the back porch. An emotionally honest movie with real, lived-in characters, and my favorite of 2000.

You Can Count On Me placing makes me like ILx a little bit more.

never even heard of this movie. might watch for the Ruff tho - love that guy

ruffa-LO, not rufftho

I tend not to like movies with a lot of "little naturalistic details," but I trust there's more going on in YCCOM than that. Still haven't seen it.

is the ruff the rudd of dramas for universal love?

ruff love

he should do a movie with McG

eric, you seem to be watching different miike films than I am, although they appear to have the same names

"box" from three is soooooo much more than a ghost story, it's a surreal masterpiece, unconscious filmmaking in the best sense of the word

(fwiw my Ruff love based almost entirely on Eternal Sunshine and Zodiac I'm sure he's in some shitty movies too haha)

would u describe urself as a ruffalo soldier

the real question obviously--is morbs enough of a fan to be called 'ruffalo bill'

i'm in my ruffalo stance

slightly hunched over to accentuate my paunch

lol

2 more movies to go for the day....

You Can Count On Me definitely benefits from its modesty and from the presence of Linney and Ruffalo. I could relate to it because I grew up in exactly that kind of small working class upstate new york town

ruffalo stance (J0rdan S.) wrote this on thread CHRIS BROWN on board I Love Music on Jul 7, 2009

yeah sorry man i don't read chris brown threads

but more power to you

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I loved it (score was annoying at times though...). Not an updated noir at all, just a noir. Or more acurately, probably the most literal translation of Hammet/Chandler I've ever seen, so what if they're teenagers in modern day california? Very much Red Harvest/Glass Key, would make a nice double feature with Miller's Crossing, which shares much of it's slang, and quite a bit more. I found the dialogue a bit distracting, though wonderful, while I could handle the teenagers experiance paralleling the Continental Ops, and respect all the modern slang, found it weird to hear everyone talk like a 30s gangster. But everything about it is 100% the books in a way no film noir movie I've ever seen totally is. All those scenes of getting beat up, getting knocked out, waking up disoriented and so on...I like how it was handled here better then Murder, My Sweet.

― Dan Selzer

C'MON YOU KNOW THIS MOVIE SUCKS.

― chaki

did anyone else think The Pin looked like Momus?

― DV

Finally got round to seeing this tonight. Along with most people that aren't Chaki, I really enjoyed it, but struggled with the dialogue. This didn't spoil my enjoyment one little bit, but I think I may like to watch again in more conducive circumstances (i.e. on my own) and concentrate more.

I liked some of the little touches like the blurred view when Brendan wasn't wearing his glasses. I liked the mother - reminded you that the kids were actually still kids.

― ailsa

This is weird to me, since so much of the obvious surface-level fun and recognition of the thing comes from the way the high-school setting is already noir. Someone's already mentioned the "where have you been eating lunch" slang, which is a good example of that -- but it goes beyond the slang, really, into the idea of high schools as microcosms where there really is an importance to where you're eating lunch, with complex heirarchies and subterranean groups and social scheming that's as noir as anything from the get-go. Most of the great moments of crossover and recognition come from that, with the assistant principal scene probably chief among them -- the ass VP is the police of the high school world, the disciplinarian, the one adult who's actually (in the real world!) trying to keep track of how a high school's worlds operate (they have informants and shit!), and so it turns out to be a rather narrow exaggeration to have one taking on that role, right?

― nabisco

come anticipate 'Brick' with me!

#57

Brick
Rian Johnson
2005
United States
(309.5 points, 12 votes, 1 first place)

<3 you can count on me

great little role for broderick too.

also this is true for me too:

I could relate to it because I grew up in exactly that kind of small working class upstate new york town

i remember seeing this one in the movie theater super blazed and having NO idea what to think of it

""box" from three is soooooo much more than a ghost story, it's a surreal masterpiece, unconscious filmmaking in the best sense of the word"

Meaning you have to be unconscious to enjoy it, I guess.

brick would have gotten my anti-vote if i had one

<3 brick. the evil girl who would later be rubbish in heroes for like 2 episodes was soooooo cute as well. if i wasn't busy i'd gis and post to ws.

what was that gangster movie but with all the parts played by kids - Bugsy Malone? Brick reminded me of that.

You will have a chance. After this wraps I'll start the worst film of ILX Top 100 films of the 2000s Poll poll

definite comfort movie for me.

i have brick in my netflix queue but i keep bumping it down cuz i'm afraid i'll hate it.

i like bugsy malone tho, so maybe.

You will have a chance. After this wraps I'll start the worst film of ILX Top 100 films of the 2000s Poll poll

― smashing aspirant (milo z), Friday, February 5, 2010 2:56 PM (33 seconds ago)

Awesome!

yeah that'll be a blast

w/ abanana and sarahel re: Brick

second movie i've not even heard of

geez I forgot brick and the lookout :(((( both are great. was the lookout even nominated? I would probably have put that in my top 10 for personal baggage reasons.

Great, I'll get the chance to watch Kill Bill 2, unless we're allowed to nominate films we haven't seen?

xpost

"No, but I read the thread"

i'd be more willing to go along w/ the conceit if the noir plot element was more worthwhile. the cute chick turned out to be the killer? you don't say.

the evil girl who would later be rubbish in heroes for like 2 episodes was soooooo cute as well. if i wasn't busy i'd gis and post to ws.

Nora Zehetner. She was cute as Young Helena Boham Carter in Conversations with Other Women, too.

I think we should totally be allowed to nominate films we haven't seen, especially if we haven't read the thread.

arrrgh Brick fuck that movie. made me really angry