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

Unless you're Ozu, I don't know how else to render moral quandaries in film – a kinetic medium – without resorting to taut, well-edited action scenes.

Uh ... Eric Rohmer?

Ahahahaha. Oh, that's rich.

This is Eric's Inglourious Basterds.

I came around the 2nd time on Ledger-Gainsbourg; could be HL's best performance.

c'mon, Beatles' cameo is hilarious.

So we're halfway through and this is still like 65% hatorade.

Different movies, different haters.

yeah the ledger part seemed drab to me first time through, but it was also one of the parts i remembered most clearly. second time through made it make more sense to me. i think.

Thank you for that list of movies you like, Kevin. If there was a point there, it slipped by me.

I think his point is that your statement about moral quandaries requiring taut action sequences was total bullshit.

Preminger... never resorted period but that's another matter

I could use a different verb for Skidoo!
love ya KJB

Anyway, tipz is right; I'm Not There is about America, maybe in 'folky' ways nothing else was in the '00s except Deadwood.

shit's about to get real imo

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/40-year-old-virgin.jpg

This wasn't great, though not at all terrible. The timing of everything was slightly off, like it hadn't been edited quite correctly. The volume of the dialog was too high relative to the music (though of course this could be the theater's fault). It included a couple of the lamest and least funny comedic cliches, foul-mouthed/horny middle easterners and elderly people. Makes you wonder if the studios require them to be in every comedy, because Jud Apatow seems like he's way too talented to rely on tired crap like that.

― Chris H.

saw this yesterday - hilariously satisfying. I didn't detect any bum notes/or "unnevenness" of tone until the verrrrrry end and that "I was saving it for you" groaner. Otherwise a practically perfect comedy. Funny to see Keener in a non-totally loathsome role.

― Shakey Mo Collier

this was the funniest thing i've seen in a long time (bar the Aristrocrats, which doesn't really count. Uneven tone? Well it has a tender side to it certainly, it's a Judd Apatow production (that may not mean anything to some people I guess). Lately comedies have been so much all about the joke (Anchorman, I'm looking at you) that when one comes along that has a real plot and actual characters and a good story, I suppose it's easy to think the tone is uneven when all it really is is a good movie with a lot of funny stuff in it (I'd put Elf and Bad Santa in there as well).

― kyle

Anticipate: 40 Year-Old Virgin (Better late than never)!

#49

The 40 Year-Old Virgin
Judd Apatow
2005
United States
(362 points, 16 votes)

lol no hatorade here!

^^^I'm Not There (and Velvet Goldmine) are both awesome, both playing with the same kinds of ideas (albeit via different sets of mythologies) and I love Dylan AND glamrock and yes I think plenty of both films was meant to be funny. certainly there are a LOT of jokes in I'm Not There ("look, its Allen Ginsberg on a motorcycle!")

lolz

best juxtaposition of the thread so far

i'm sure a good quarter of my ballot would have just been apatow/state goofballs riffing on shit

damn I forgot to vote for 40 year-old virgin

I think we're already running outta comedies that have a decent shot at placing.

omar's right, shit's gettin shit now

Wow - I'm really glad I don't have an opinion on this latest one, because now I can ignore or skim this thread for a while and do real things.

sarahel is correct, Eric. But sarahel, soto made the statement, not Eric. P.s. OTM re: Rohmer

Also, you don't even need humans (in front of the camera) to render moral quandaries without resorting to taut, well-edited action scenes:

La Région Centrale (Michael Snow 1967)

haha, rogen looks so gross

'40 year old virgin' is def my least favorite of the rogen/apatow clan comedies

Wow - I'm really glad I don't have an opinion on this latest one, because now I can ignore or skim this thread for a while and do real things.

it's quite possible to do this even when you do have opinions on things

xposts morbs, much love to you AND Skidoo! (sorry - I adore the shit outta the thing!)

It's also possible to spend hours reading and posting on threads when you don't have an opinion on its subject.

Ha, easily my FAVE of the Apatow movies. The funny outweighs the creepy conservative factor.

40yov is the first thing i saw rogen in (hadn't watched Freaks and Geeks yet) and i was seriously shocked to learn he was like 21 or something when he made it

didn't vote for it though. xp

40-y-o virgin is cute enough. my personal ratings system awards an extra star for significant catherine keener screentime.

Oh wait, I forgot Superbad. That's both the best and will be highest-placing.

is knocked up too pussyified for ilx?

ILX Film Faves: Might As Well Be TV

40 Year Old Virgin is Apatow's best, but not worth voting for.

oh so that's why morbz liked the simpsons movie. its exploration of the cinematic medium.

ILX Film Faves: Might As Well Be TV

― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Monday, February 8, 2010 12:18 PM (1 minute ago)

The Wire >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Brick

it's the best apatow movie (and the least woman-hating!)

so other than knocked up and superbad, what other comedies even have a shot? zoolander? that's basically it, innit?

as far as I did like it (say 3 stars), YES

xxxp

it's the supporting performances in 40 Year Old Virgin that are most memorable for me: Gerry Bednob, Jane Lynch.

xp iatee - I think American Psycho might place - I think both J0rdan and I put it in our top 5.

bad santa & anchorman, maybe

please, no

oh yeah bad santa's an ilx fav
anchorman I dunno

Anchorman should be there - would be a travesty if that one doesn't make it.

i got really high before Miami Vice, and the minute my friends and i left the theatre, we looked at each other, then agreed that that movie was SO FUCKING EMBARASSINGLY BAD that we had to get high again and then go to the bar.

that is really the first shocker on this list for me.

jeez i make tea and come back to this?

re comedies: jackass (1/2) has a chance to make it right?

also 'bourne supremacy'

don't forget I Killed Hitler with My Funny Accents

was bourne supremacy a comedy?

so other than knocked up and superbad, what other comedies even have a shot? zoolander? that's basically it, innit?

You are forgetting the Wes Anderson films.

jackass in the top 50 seems pretty unlikely, but who knows

I mean comedy-comedy

Shawn of the Dead?