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

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?

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"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

c'mon that's no distinction is it?

How did it make you angry? It just seemed too dopey to generate anger.

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

― brews before HOOS (s1ocki), Friday, February 5, 2010 5:54 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha this was my experience too--i ate a brownie and after i left i wasnt even sure if my memory of the movie was right--like maybe my stoned mind had imagined the noir slang

Brick isn't fit to lick the cream-pie off Bugsy Malone's ass

I'm not gonna re-hash my problems with it, I posted plenty in that thread...

bugsy malone is one of the mose unsettling things i've ever seen. i have trouble understanding the decision making that brought that about.

it also made me think of the movie the dudes in American Movie would make if they were younger and trying to make a noir film instead of a horror movie.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/yiyiedwardyangcriterion.jpg

My favorite Edward Yang scene -- which is close to saying my favorite scene, period -- takes place about halfway through Yi Yi. It's the scene where Yang-Yang, overwhelmed by the events of his family, and kind of naively-crushing on his schoolmate (who he has learned is a good swimmer) decides he will let himself into an unsupervised city pool. To...? Beyond the verb of "swim" it's unclear what his motives are. He's only about 7 or so, I think. Now, as the film's larger events unwind around and past him, his private pursuit of The Girl has gained an eerie seriousness in his mind. And the moment he jumps into the pool -- wholly unobserved -- the stakes of his life flare super-real to us. I think it's impossible to be unaware and unaffected by his danger, by Yang-Yang's self-inflicted peril for such tiny and improbable gains. What does he stand to receive, after all? To be a little like the girl he secretly adores?

It's as he jumps in alone that he's transformed from a strange little boy into a great, symbolic thing: not just the comic ape whose antics we've come to love, but every audience member’s total heart. The silly, soft-infected child who’d risk his life to understand his (secret) girl a little better. It’s doubtful there's not another moment in cinema that's been able to evoke such a paternalistic fear and compassion. And it's all so perfectly conducted! Yang Yang ends up fine. He's just a little boy swimming, after all. And in the next scene we see him, happy as a clam, we feel a little silly for going so far into our paranoia. The best part of all, of course, as that this is all accomplished with only incidental sound, in a few seconds, and with the technical restrain for which Yang is rightly acclaimed..

― remy bean

yi-yi i liked quite a lot, though it was a while ago. it was convincingly domestic, i guess i would say. it made the twists of the family's life seem HUGE w/o making them unreal.

though i do remember what a friend of mine said afterwards: "it's true kids can be surprising, but this kid was consistently surprising."

― typo acapulco

the kid has all the best aspects of being a kid AND all the best aspects of being an adult! except sex!

and he gets all the best lines too.

― David.

and the music to yi-yi... is just... stunning. like all the best Japanese computer games melted down and molded (minus the µ-Ziq bent electronica) (plus Final Fantasy's overly-sentimental lilt).

― David.

#56

Yi Yi: A One and a Two
Edward Yang
2000
Taiwan
(313 points, 12 votes)

I remember thinking I would *love* Yi Yi, but it didn't quite click for me. Would like to see it again.

A movie I've always meant to see.

Although generally Taiwanese films are not my thing.

it's great, i need to see it again.

Watched this a coupla nites ago on an Ilx recommendation and was a little underwhelmed tbh.

I loved Yi Yi, although I haven't seen it since I saw it in the theater.

a lot of these movies I need to see again, can't remember enough about them.

never heard of it

Though I didn't love Yi-Yi on first viewing... it was my #2 vote on the polls. I don't look at this film as "Taiwanese", I see it as a chilling modern familial drama that could easily take place in the West (Yang lived in the US over 30 years until he died). It's 3 hours long but it has to be the most dense 3 hour film I've ever seen, no shot is wasted... even the most minor characters' brief lines echo larger themes on subsequent views. One of my alltime faves, can't believe I didn't appreciate it at first at all.

i saw yi yi in the theater and loved it, but now my memory is a little hazy. i feel like it's 3 hours of ppl slowly working up to screaming at each other while the dad looks on in bewilderment and disgust.

(btw this is the third of my old usernames qtd in this thread! that's... just weird to me, for some rzn)

brick is the first movie i've cared enough about to post in this thread.

also, that remy quote is great.

"I don't look at this film as "Taiwanese""

I am making wide and possibly unfair generalization about Taiwanese films now, but I think of them as being long, slow neo-realistic family dramas. That might be just what makes it here admittedly.

Loved Yi Yi. Would have been in my top 3.

jeez some good stuff today...i voted sexy beast #1 btw, s1ocki stated a lot of my reasons. funny that ppl just dismiss it as a genre heist movie, ive never thought of it that way at all.

you can count on me was #4 on my ballot, i love that movie

Yi Yi was also on my ballot..there are some incredibly indelible scenes in it, maybe a weird one 2 pinpoint but i think most abt the traffic light scene, its really beautiful

ok that's all for the week, see you folks with #41-55 on monday.....

today kinda gives me hope for the rest of the list

though come monday...u_u?

I couldn't stand Brick. I couldn't understand what they were saying half the time.

thanks, omar

yea ty omar, great job

I couldn't stand Brick. I couldn't understand what they were saying half the time.

i had the same issue but it just made me want to watch it again. if it was a problem it was a deliberate one.

yeah omar i gotta say ty too. this has been entertaining as hell in a pretty brutal work week.

ty's thirded or fourthed or w/e. lots of fun.

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Really enjoying reading this (shame I didn't vote: Piano Teacher might have been the 98th best instead of 99th)

Fantastic thread - I don't think I've ever hit refresh so many times.

list so far

100. Morvern Callar (204 pts, 13 votes)
99. The Piano Teacher (208 pts, 9 votes)
98. Dogville (208.5 pts, 8 votes)
97. Happy-Go-Lucky (210.5 pts, 11 votes)
96. High Fidelity (214 pts, 10 votes)
95. Capturing the Friedmans (215 pts, 13 votes, 1 first)
94. Napoleon Dynamite (215.5 pts, 10 votes)
93. Sideways (216 pts, 12 votes)
92. Tropical Malady (219 pts, 8 votes, 1 first)
91. Talk to Her (220 pts, 10 votes)
90. Together (220.5 pts, 9 votes, 1 first)
89. The Lives of Others (221 pts, 12 votes, 1 first)
88. Memories of Murder (222 pts, 10 votes)
87. Minority Report (223.5 pts, 14 votes)
86. All the Real Girls (224.5 pts, 12 votes)
85. Almost Famous (225 pts, 11 votes, 1 first)
84. Finding Nemo (226.5 pts, 13 votes)
83. Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle (231 pts, 13 votes)
82. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (231.5 pts, 13 votes)
81. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (236 pts, 11 votes)
80. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (237 pts, 10 votes)
79. Team America: World Police (237.5 pts, 8 votes)
78. 28 Days Later (239 pts, 12 votes)
77. The Squid and the Whale (242 pts, 13 votes, 1 first)
76. In the Loop (246.5 pts, 13 votes)
75. Y Tu Mama Tambien (250.5 pts, 12 votes)
74. In Bruges (251 pts, 14 votes)
73. The Triplets of Belleville (253 pts, 10 votes)
72. Amélie (259.5 pts, 14 votes)
71. The 25th Hour (261 pts, 12 votes, 1 first)
70. Ratatouille (263 points, 13 votes)
69. Far From Heaven (266 points, 13 votes)
68. Elephant (267 points, 12 votes, 1 first place)
67. Synecdoche, New York (267.5 points, 13 votes)
66. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (274 points, 17 votes)
65. Kung Fu Hustle (278.5 points, 16 votes, 1 first place)
64. Kings and Queen (282 points, 10 votes)
63. Wet Hot American Summer (289 points, 15 votes)
62. Borat (295 points, 16 votes, 1 first place)
61. Audition (296 points, 14 votes, 1 first place)
60. Sexy Beast (298.5 points, 15 votes, 1 first place)
59. The Host (305 points, 13 votes)
58. You Can Count On Me (308 points, 12 votes)
57. Brick (309.5 points, 12 votes, 1 first place)
56. Yi Yi: A One and a Two (313 points, 12 votes)

11/45 on my ballot. Of the latest batch: Far From Heaven, A.I., Wet Hot American Summer, and You Can Count on Me.

I'm still only at 5/45: High Fidelity, Minority Report, Harold & Kumar, Almost Famous and Wet Hot American Summer. I feel like a plebe!

wait how are u guys voting for 45 movies

only four of my 40 so far but i have high hopes for the rest of the list

5 out of the 45 movies that have placed thus far.