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

"I am fucking medical doctor" made me laugh more than anything in any movie posted so far.

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"This poll is cinematically RETARDED."

"i can remember my first beer"

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I have been watching the dvd's of guffman and best of show and guest/levy are always talking about 'i wonder if anyone got that reference' i think this is a strong point of their films - there is such a broad scale of cultural reference that there's probably something just a little too obscure for you, but will keep the just-a-bit-more-clever person in stitches too. there's a little something for everyone!

- Ron

fred willard in best in show is my favourite comic performance of the century so far, hands down.

- or something

You can't hate Best in Show! Even if it is painfully obvious @ times & Fred Willard is just jonesin' on Joe Garagiola.

- David R.

Watch the Starbucks scene again if you doubt your love: Classic movie
improv where half the joke is the fact that it's movie improv, a
homier This Is Spinal Tap with dogs panting on.

- Pete Scholtes

#47

Best In Show
Christopher Guest
2000
United States
(366 points, 16 votes)

HAHAHAHAHAHA

^^^^

Not a re-enactment of my first screening, btw.

Probably the best of the Guest mocks.

yay, love best in show

No wai. It's Guffman and then it's everything else.

How high did that rank on the '90s poll? Better have been in the top 10 if this made it to #47.

haven't liked any of the guest films so I avoided best in show

(spinal tap) > guffman > best in show > mighty wind >>>> for yr consideration

two of my top ten down!

"Probably the best of the Guest mocks."

I assume that you aren't counting Spinal Tap.

Guffman tied w/Miller's Crossing for 30th in 90s poll.

fred willard in best in show is my favourite comic performance of the century so far, hands down.

he's by far the best thing in both this and mighty wind. (not that i voted for either of them.) a quick search suggests that ilx does not have a fred willard appreciation thread, which is a travesty imo.

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im sorry but how did waynes world come in at 51

Winkie!

Possible comedies left:
Shaun Of The Dead, Knocked Up, Superbad, Best In Show... something else.

Bad Santa will place, possibly higher than any other comedy. Callin in now

100-51 as graded by Metacritic:

Ratatouille – 96
Sideways - 94
Lord of the Rings - 92
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly – 92
Yi Yi - 92
The Triplets of Belleville – 91
Capturing the Friedmans – 90
Almost Famous – 90
Before Sunset - 90
Finding Nemo – 89
Borat - 89
The Lives of Others – 89
Y tu Mama Tambien - 88
Talk to Her – 86
The Host – 85
You Can Count on Me - 85
Together – 84
Happy-Go-Lucky – 84
Far From Heaven - 84
Kings and Queen - 84
In the Loop - 83
The Squid and the Whale – 82
Memories of Murder – 82
Eastern Promises - 82
Master and Commander - 81
Minority Report - 80
The Piano Teacher – 79
Sexy Beast - 79
High Fidelity – 79
Punch Drunk Love - 78
Morvern Callar – 78
Kung Fu Hustle - 78
Tropical Malady – 78
Munich - 74
28 Days Later – 73
Brick - 72
All the Real Girls – 71
Elephant - 70
Amelie - 69
Audition - 69
In Bruges - 67
25th Hour - 67
Synecdoche, New York - 67
Miami Vice - 65
AI - 65
Napoleon Dynamite - 64
Harold and Kumar - 64
Team America - 64
Dogville – 59
Wet Hot American Summer - 42

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v happy about the kill bill 2 and best in show placings

most dog show ppl i know don't like "best in show" (to be expected?)

Other loosely defined comedies: Royal Tenenbaums, Juno, some Will Farrell movie (maybe Anchorman).

kill bill 2 didnt make my top 40, but kill bill 1 was in my top 10!

most dog show ppl i know don't like "best in show" (to be expected?)

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oh god i was working at folkways when A MIGHTY WIND came out and everyone had this annoying flattered-nerd attitude like "oh they really ZINGED us! wow gosh what a ROAST!"

Anchorman! I hope that makes it. Juno is universally hated here right?

pretty sure

spinal tap bogs down in the last half (after an incredible first half) whereas best in show is tighter and doesn't let up. ed begley jr, fred willard, katherine o'hara, guest's weirdest role to date, john michael higgins...

guys i have to apologize, i put like 10 comedies on my ballot because i didn't read the name of the poll very carefully, didn't realize this was about ~~films~~

Anchorman! I hope that makes it. Juno is universally hated here right?

j8 isnt "universal" - had both of these on my list juno top 10

Juno would probably be the 2nd most shocking Oscar movie to see place here after Crash

ok homeslice

juno top 10

*types smh*

Metacritic can go straight to hell.

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I was also somewhat frustrated by the film’s somewhat transparent philosophizing (”don’t live in the past”, “don’t let your belongings hold you down”) and ham handed psychological metaphor (Kevin the Bird as mother figure, Doug the Dog as child, hefty round boyscout evoking wife’s spirit of adventure, Muntz the bad guy as castrating father). When so much thought is clearly given to every nuance of a film, I expect more complex subtext.

That said, it’s a must see; though perhaps not as good as Wall-E. It’s half a spectacular film and half a good film.

The Miyazaki connection is pretty much only skin deep.
Most of the theater I was in was bawling at one point or another.

― forksclovetofu

The first 15 minutes - especially the dialogue-free montage - is some of the most moving (if admittedly manipulative) stuff I've ever seen, Pixar or not. The rest of the movie may have been the weakest Pixar I've seen since "Cars," even lazy at times. Not bad - this is Pixar - but pretty padded and sketchily thought out. Admittedly, I had my daughter with me asking questions in the theater the whole time, but I still have no idea what happened to Russell's parents, especially his dad. Who was the woman at the end? His mom?

Loved the short. In fact, "Up" would have made a great short film, too, minus all the fat kid/Muntz stuff/talking dogs flying planes. Talking dogs are cute and funny, but they could have been relegated to their own short.

― Josh in Chicago

Count me in the camp of loved it (though it didn't quite reach Wall-E's heights, that's a very tough standard), tears welling up in the theater and all. Even the typical kid's movie stuff that probably shouldn't have worked, like Russell and the talking dogs, just did it for me.

Really liked the short too (and that it sort of thematically tied into the film, even!). The 3D experience was nice, but not essential. Maybe other films have done it better, but a 3D-animated film is sort of already using certain tricks to make it "more 3D", so didn't feel very useful or effective. Everyone should see this in any format that's available.

― Nhex

Finally saw Up ... definitely one of their best. I liked the fact that the tone changed and you didn't know what to expect once they landed. Also how they kept the sentimental stuff kind of subtle in places - there was no scene with Carl explaining his wife's life story to Russell, for example. Talking dogs were definitely worth it. The Muntz guy was paranoid and bitter and his whole life had been affected by people not believing his greatest achievement - so his withdrawing from society, inventing great things for his own amusement rather than having a balanced view of what might make money etc was entirely believable.

― Not the real Village People

Up (Pixar's 2009 film)

#46

Up
Pete Docter and Bob Peterson
2009
United States
(374 points, 18 votes)

Straight to Hell was top-25 in my 80s ballot.

Alex Cox's Meta Critic

40 Year Old Virgin was my #16, I thought it had some great jokes, likable characters, and overall a nice humanist tone. Plus, of course, it has what is probably the funniest final scene of the 00s, a scene manages to be totally left-field and unpredictable and nevertheless in tone with the rest of the movie. 40YOV certainly better than the the following Apatow movies... Knocked Up was okay, but the conservative stuff was a bit too much for me. And Funny People dragged on waayy too long, especially the subplot with Sandler's ex-wife, yet it still didn't manage to give Rogen's character a proper character arc (I wanted too see more of his love interest and less of Sandler's triangle drama).

Nice still choice for Up btw.

h8 the final scene of 40YOV, have to kind of pretend it doesn't exist to like the rest of the movie as much as i do

Not sure why everyone labels Knocked Up as conservative. Is it just because she doesn't get an abortion?

Only liberal chicks date fat slobs who make them pregnant, Darin.

4/50 now.

knocked up: more political than Munich, even.

The last popular movie I can remember seeing someone decide not to carry to term was 4 mos, 3 wks, 2 days, and I can't think of any before that.

'blades of glory' isnt going to show is it? *shrug*