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

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.

i dont really remember much abt sexy beast but what i do remember was intense and spare the story was really well served, i think?

its cool 2 c u can count on me here. i def think of it as a 90s movie it seems more unselfconscious and thoughtful than the typical 00s american indie slice-of-lyfe dramas. its the closest film equiv i can think of to contemp realist short fiction - concerned with portraying the small moments of real clarity and empathy in ppl's 'everyday' lives.

kings and queen was #5 on my ballot tbh i didnt expect it to place at all. its uncertainty and instability felt p impt 2 me but i think im too stupid to explain why its good

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

well its sensibility is p much entirely non-visual but iirc it makes good use of silence and atmosphere. not even really sure if this is diss coming from u

Ah, meant to quote this bit of Rosenbaum's review for those who couldn't be bothered to read the whole thing (A.I. SPOILERS SPOILERS):

It sounds like typical Spielberg goo — for better and for worse — and when you’re watching the film it feels that way. But the minute you start thinking about it, it’s at least as grim as any other future in Kubrick’s work. Humankind’s final gasp belongs to a fucked-up boy robot with an Oedipus complex who’s in bed with his adopted mother and who finally becomes a real boy at the very moment that he seemingly autodestructs — assuming he vanishes along with her, though if he survives her, it could only be to look back in perpetual longing at their one day together. Real boy or dead robot? Whatever he is, his apotheosis with mommy seems to exhaust his reason for existing. As Richard Pryor once described the death of his father while having sex, “He came and went at the same time.” Like the death of 2001’s HAL, which might be regarded as David’s grandfather, it’s the film’s most sentimental moment, yet it’s questionable whether it involves any real people at all.

i didn't vote for "you can count one me" simply because i forgot. it's definitely top 10 of the decade for me. give it n extra 30 points please.

yiyi, i dunno. i left after an hour or so because i was BORED OUT OF MY SKULL.

oh fwiw im 4/45 but theres lots of stuff i didnt vote for that i like okay

also a remy rave pretty much puts me right off. he only really likes things about "childhood" though iirc.

i dare say he likes other stuff but i associate him with meaningful childhood event.

capturing the friedmans (#6), master and commander (#9) h&k (#10), WHAS (#8), borat (#1), 25th hour (#35), AI (#34), ratatouille (#24), diving bell (#32)

ps I am a shameless strategic voter and only voted for stuff that I thought was likely to place

Up to 5/45 today (WHAS and You Can Count On Me). Feelin' like a lot of my picks are gonna start showing up with the quickness on Monday. Although the results so far have been all over the place in the best possible way, so who can say?

To anyone who might balk at the idea of watching You Can Count On Me...just quit balking. Seriously. I understand your reservations, but they're misplaced in this case. There's nothing quirky or sappy about it. There isn't any hyper-stylized dialogue or ludicrous plot twists. It isn't mopey or overly-giddy. And its indie-ness is pretty beside the point. It's more akin to a '70s drama, really. A solid, small, and very real-feeling movie about familial relationships and without (as I think someone said above) lessons to be learned or a moral to drive home. I rewatched it recently and was even more moved by it than I was ten years ago. So, yes, moving, but also very relaxed and at times pretty damn funny. It's just good, and one of my favorites of the last ten years (probably definitely my fave of 2000). So no more balking.

Gukbe, thx for the JRo link. btw his very mixed, careful reading of Taxi Driver on there is well worth absorbing too.

Lamp, all I mean is the limits of YCCOM's ambitions -- and it's very good at what it chooses to do -- just don't spell a Film of the Decade for me.

u can count on me was dece, jus a heartfelt lil guy

it's really good. the acting is fantastic.