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

Yeah, I almost posted about how awesome today's selections are until I remembered we're still in the bottom half. Boo on that, et al.

i love how it just kinda drops you into the middle of everything and then cuts out at the end. it moves really fast for a film that is 140 minutes long and i like a lot of the very deliberate dialogue for the most part. wasn't feeling yero as a villain when i first saw it, but i like how he's this super-jealous and studious plugged-in technogeek, which is something that C&T don't anticipate.

not really an excellent action movie actually xposts

probably the best interracial buddy movie since 'the last boy scout'

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/before-sunset.jpg

I saw this movie at the Seattle Film Festival and thought it was pretty intolerable. Like most of Linklatter's stuff, it's just so smug that I felt uncomfortable watching it. If you liked before sunrise, I suppose you will enjoy this, as it is a slightly more mature form of the smugness that permeated that film. There are passages with some pretty interesting dialogue, but in general the movie is not nearly skeptical enough of its characters; it is just too in love with the solipsistic neuroses of the leads.

― Scott CE

okay this film is fucking amazing. i'm shocked it's tanking, but also shocked it got so much attention in the first place. julie delpy is a fucking DUDE.

― Enrique

this was excellent. I watched it immediately after watching before sunrise for the first time; before sunrise annoyed me a lot, in a slightly embarrassed "god people in their early 20's in the mid-90's are so cliched" way, but I can imagine, had I seen it when it came out, it could have meant a lot to me. But Before Sunset is extraordinary. It's much more natural, for one thing. And even though you know exactly how it will end, maybe that's part of the charm of the thing. One of the best movies of last year, of course.

― kyle

I loved the film and it's one of maybe three or four movies (that I've seen) that have come out in the past fifteen years that have genuinely touched me. Incidentally, Julie Delpy's in another film like that -- Trois Couleurs: Blanc. Whoever was complaining about her acting way upthread must have never seen it -- she's pretty ferocious and wild and hot and intimidating and sultry and seductive and catty and kittenish and... *bites pillow* Mmmm...

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit!

I'm watching this again for the first time since I saw it in the theater. God damn this is a great movie. It resonates with me so strongly on so many levels and yeah . . . I fucking love this movie.

― ENBB

before sunset

#53

Before Sunset
Richard Linklater
2004
United States
(343 points, 13 votes)

Yeah, I almost posted about how awesome today's selections are until I remembered we're still in the bottom half. Boo on that, et al.

― queen frostine (Eric H.), Monday, February 8, 2010 1:40 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

chillax im sure there'll be good movies in the top 50

you guys are such debbie downers

before sunset has got to be the best unexpected sequel ever.

would be lying if i said i wasn't distracted by daniel craig's attempt at a south african accent in munich.

Superbad is okay and all but come on its not ALL TIME AWESOME or anything

that is vintage I R-M, good grab

munich->miami vice->before sunset triple threat all amazing, all way way too low.

julie delpy is a fucking DUDE.

no avoiding the awful proto-jaggerness of this, but iirc it is ref to me seeing her interviewed (not to her perf or whatever) and... being, uh, a dude, i guess. a mensch.

miami vice my favourite to poll so far. way too low.

*bites pillow*

Is Miami Vice better than Terminator 2? (This is all I could come up with as an example of a great interracial action movie)

chillax im sure there'll be good movies in the top 50

Maybe. It's the top 10 I'm concerned about. It needs Vice!

Love this. It retrospectively improves Before Sunrise too. Part of my enjoyment must be down to being roughly the same age as the characters so when I rewatched Sunrise after Sunset instead of hating Hawke's character as a posturing, pretentious dick I felt quite fond of him, for all his gaucheness. A great pair of movies about youth and the loss of youth.

Miami Vice isn't great because it is an action movie, as it's really not much of one tbh. It's great for other reasons.

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I loved that Hawke's character was a posturing, pretentious dick in Sunrise, mostly because it felt incredibly real to me, and he is exactly the sort of dude who would try to chat up some French girl on his train, with fucking Siddhartha in his backpack or etc. However, the only part of Sunset that bothered me was the idea that this schmuck became a celebrated author.

if youre looking for 'beyond' miami vice isnt really yr movie imo xxxp

trepidation 1-10 will be tweemo japanese cartoon shit.

that wld be awesome!!!!

its like michael mann aggressively trying to NOT 'transcend' anything

'minor celebrated author' might be more accurate. makes sense that his first and only book is about that one night, as he seems the type to obsessively go over one night in his life. xxxpost

miami vice is p enjoyable but i like(d) collateral better it felt more focused and memorable

OK you guys have convinced me to watch Miami Vice without any clue to what its possible charms could be. Hope this works out! Fingers crossed.

I'm not a huge MV fan like some around here, but goddamn it's gorgeous. I even like that Mogwai song at the end. somehow the sensibilities seem similar. it achieves what I think Collateral was going for (in terms of theme and look) but integrates it into the story much more seamlessly, so that there's really no big philosophical speeches or anything. they're just livin it bro.

wondering now if 'grizzly man' will even make the list

OK you guys have convinced me to watch Miami Vice without any clue to what its possible charms could be

Yeah, I bumped it up in my queue.

miami vice is p enjoyable but i like(d) collateral better it felt more focused and memorable

for me collateral plot was more predictable. vice played far more with expectations.

I'll watch Grizzly Man, too, if you guys can vouch that it's better than Miami Vice.

It's better than Miami Vice.

collateral is dece and i wish the ruff had been in MV somehow. it's just not quite there.

Grizzly Man is amazing

grizzly man is super amazing

i wish the ruff had been in MV somehow

this is why Zodiac is so good!

wondering now if 'grizzly man' will even make the list

― do you want to be happier? (whatever), Monday, February 8, 2010 10:56 AM (2 minutes ago)

I hope so: it is one of my three favorite comedies of the decade - the other two being Some Kind of Monster and American Psycho

xpost. "I loved that Hawke's character was a posturing, pretentious dick in Sunrise, mostly because it felt incredibly real to me, and he is exactly the sort of dude who would try to chat up some French girl on his train, with fucking Siddhartha in his backpack or etc."

It's the narcissism of small differences. When I was watching Sunrise as a student I thought I was nothing like Hawke. When I rewatched it in my 30s I thought, oh, actually I was posturing and pretentious in my own, less bearded, more English way so I gave him a lot more slack.

My wife and I still do the Werner Herzog Grizzly Man voice quite frequently.

eddie marsan is pretty dire in miami vice, ruff could have taken his place

someone made this point on the miami vice thread, but the cold open in the theatrical version is the coolest thing ever.

eddie marsan is pretty dire in miami vice

nah wrong.

i liked all the british people in miami vice.

he's great! 'it could come back on me baby!' like he's playing a Miami Vice stooge character in a Starsky and Hutch style parody remake. and it works!

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Collateral was amazing; Miami Vice was a snooze.

yay, some stinkers showing up way earlier than I expected

i liked miami vice and before sunset enough that i just had to recheck my ballot to see if i voted for them (no). but i could have!

i wrote this on the movies thread about miami vice, which is still pretty much what i think (and miami vice gets close):

the perfect michael mann movie would be just boats and planes and cars and sex, with lots of urban landscapes and synth-rock and no talking at all.

the cold open in the theatrical version is the coolest thing

i bought the dir-cut first time out, recently got the theatrical dvd just because.

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

adam sandler's character in the movie lives on MY STREET on MY BLOCK (he says his addy to the phone sex op)

― chaki

i think the movie captured a feeling of craziness - sandler being struck with a barrage of insanity and bullshit. can someone remind me what set off his 'episode' in the restaurant bathroom??'

biggest part i've seen mary-lynn rajskub in so far... i hope she continues to act more!

― ron

I loved this movie so much. It's hella simple, sweet, the music, in it's gratingness, does very well to sorta put you in Barry's mind. Luis Guzman is like ALWAYS the shit in every movie he's ever in, too, even when he's got a really basic supporting role like in this. I think this is PTA's subtlest and easiest-on-the-mind film, I mean, it's like pretty much just a really twee lovely and just-slightly-fucked-up love story that manages to avoid a lot of love story cliches. Ah, I dunno, to each their own...

― nickalicious

I just think this is such a great movie, so beautiful and tender, and emotionally startling, and arbitrary and strange. i love so much the way it takes a romantic comedy and reduces the romcom plot elements to their most basic form, to the point of outright absurdity, and the only throughline of strength and clarity and sense in the whole film is the certainty in the end that I LOVE HER. and it revels in the arbitrariness of this, the unjustifiedness of this, the inexplicableness of this - and it resonates in me as a romantic but also as a hopeless pomo pessimist. it's the idea that a love, no matter how weird or accidental or arbitrary that (or any other love) is, can be grabbed with both hands, and you can forget the rest, and just try to feel fully that pleasure, and all colour and sound and light, its warmth hot enough to feel on your face.

― sean gramophone

Punch Drunk Love

#52

Punch-Drunk Love
Paul Thomas Anderson
2002
United States
(347 points, 13 votes)

xp ok, dire is a bit much (although the accent bothered me). just trying to find a place for ruffalo.

fuck this being ahead of miami vice.

fuck this being on the list at all tbh