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

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.

ya echoing the thanks to omar. this genuinely feels like an ilx "event" in a fun way

didn't vote for any of the new addns, though WHAS almost made the cut. think they're all ok (haven't seen 'audition' or 'the host'), kinda middling, so hard to pro/con.

think im at 5/45: harold and kumar, master and commander, in the loop, in bruges, squid+whale

oic my bad

still only 1 out of 20.

10 out of 40 so far

6 so far

weirdly enough i'm 40/40

actually i cant even remember. guessing like 5?

might even be less.

looking at how many points it takes to even get on the board tho i rather doubt some of my top 10ers are gonna make it on at all

did u put ur own movie at #1

bad form bro

5 for me (today's list was friendly to my ballot): dogville, far from heaven, elephant, you can count on me, yi-yi.

7/45

8/45 for me, including WHAS and Audition from my top ten.

2/40 for me:

#2 Yi-Yi
#32 Ratatouille

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

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l8 to the sexy party here but slocki otfm - sexy beast is a masterpiece #6 on my ballot - birth is great too

one of the things i like about it is how it totally de-glamo(u)rizes all of the gangster shit, it makes it seem like a pretty horrible and kinda dull lifestyle and even the crime boss is just this guy who seems a little bored by the entire process and can't even rouse himself other than to basically be like, "look, i know what you did, i can kill you just like that and no one would care but i won't because you're not worth it, here's a tenner, head back to spain."

only minority report, nemo & borat 4 me

dont know quite how to say this and its not particularly revealing as far as what makes sexy beast good but its just a v forceful movie - totally ill, straight gangsta

everything is so close! #56 has fewer votes than #100

7 for me so fars: hpy-go-lky, harld +kumr, in bruges, kungfu hustl, borat, the host, sexy beast

haaay whoa only one of those movies is american

Just now catching up. I love Kings and Queen, voted for it highly, and I'm glad it placed (though I admit I thought it might be a little higher).

Would love to see A.I. again, as I've not seen it since the cinema. Didn't care for the ending at the time, but I was only 18 and I'd like to see if I can find the rhythm all the fans were clearly in.

Anyway, a link to the Jonathan Rosenbaum review: The Best of Both Worlds

It's mentioned in other articles around the site in passing, but I've not gone too in depth to see what they say.

64. Kings and Queen (282 points, 10 votes)

^proves that a passionate minority can lob a film pretty high into the list

have to say it's getting more interesting as it goes along

absolutely zero from my ballot so far -- i'm populist scum, though, there's at least a dozen that are a lock for the top half, probably more

wait in what world is only one of these films american?

oh you're taking about your choices

ppl who go to movies blazed, I don't particularly need to hear what you thought of anything...

Tho the broad comedy in The Host was a bit o_O

best thing about it! Lost interest after the first big attack scene.

Brick was fucking shit.

I rewatched Yi Yi last month and liked it well enough to put it 90th on my other ballot. Frankly, I'm kind of put off by how much more accessible it is that the guy's other films, even tho I was often bored by them; it's missing what made Yang Yang.

You Can Count on Me was like a first-rate TV movie or off-Broadway play. Thus, nowhere near my ballot.