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

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*

how crappy does pixar have to make the back half of a movie for you guys to not rate it? maybe if they just arbitrarily spliced in swiss family robinson at the halfway point?

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.

Ha how are you defining "popular"?

juno top 10

*types smh*

lol just wait until all the animes i voted for place bro

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.

that wasnt a popular movie

That was a joke, guys. There has never been a popular abortion.

Btw: what will be the highest foreign-language film in this poll? My money's on Pan's Labyrinth.

Election? Spirited Away?

Cache?

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

Not only that, but even though she's an succesful, independent businesswoman who gets accidentally pregnant with a one-night stand she doesn't care about, the movie never even shows her considering an abortion. Now, it's perfectly possible a woman in her position would nevertheless keep the baby, but it would've nice if the movie would've at least explained why she didn't see abortion as an option. The only time it's brought up is when her mother suggests it, but she is clearly depicted as an Evil Feminist who's opinion doesn't matter.

In The Mood For Love?

In Bruges :p

that's not at all clear, Tuomas.

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

― Darin, Monday, February 8, 2010 4:29 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ya i think so, also the fact that it presents a traditional two-parent family as a desirable end. goofy imo

"That was a joke, guys. There has never been a popular abortion."

If it's popular enough for Terry Gross, it's popular enough for me!
(the movie, I mean)

Not only that, but even though she's an succesful, independent businesswoman who gets accidentally pregnant with a one-night stand she doesn't care about, the movie never even shows her considering an abortion. Now, it's perfectly possible a woman in her position would nevertheless keep the baby, but it would've nice if the movie would've at least explained why she didn't see abortion as an option. The only time it's brought up is when her mother suggests it, but she is clearly depicted as an Evil Feminist who's opinion doesn't matter.

― Tuomas, Monday, February 8, 2010 4:38 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

so goofy that u think this movie needed a scene like this

she's constructed as an Evil Feminist: she's constructed as an ambitious woman whose life is fucked but will make the best of it, even if it means marrying this stoner slobbo.

*NOT constructed

I think Tuomas was saying that Joanna Kerns is depicted as an Evil Feminist.

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.

Both Fast Times at Ridgemont High and The Last American Virgin feature not only abortions, but teens having them!

"That was a joke, guys. There has never been a popular abortion."

So Southland Tales wasn't popular?

still pining for haynes to do an all-star rumination on sting's multiple identities next

― da croupier, Monday, February 8, 2010 2:58 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

be still my beating heart

Eh? The Evil Feminist was the mother.

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we do this every time it comes up. there is a deleted scene where she talks about maybe doing it. it's not a good scene. it's not an issues-film and i don't think it's obliged to "explain". but if it did that'd piss off the haters even more i think. like, if she explained why, and their favourtie counterarguments weren't in there... no way to make a movie.

xposts

the mother was not a feminist lol

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the funniest bits are the ones i can't remember, it was just the way ferrell inflected certain lines and stuff. and when in rome! the "set-piece" gags weren't nearly as funny as the throwaway stuff (except maybe the dog/bear confrontation, holy shit a funny dog joke in a movie!!)

― s1ocki

the main character made practially no coherent sense, not least because of the "great beard of zeus!" exclamations, which were some of the funniest things in the film.

― amateur!st

the only part i was wasn't in hysterics over was the news teams throwdown. cameos killed it. and tim robbins as the pbs anchor is only a little funny.

there were very small children in the audience when i saw it. they freaked out when jack black kicked that dog over the bride. i thought they would be traumatized. but when the dog was shown to be alive they cheered!

― ryan

Dude, people, this movie kind of sucked hardcore. The anchorman fight was pretty funny and "Go back to your home on WHORE ISLAND" was a pretty funny line and the dude from the Daily Show was hysterical but seriously wtf. The Pleasure Island sequence was like the absolute worst thing I've seen on film in 6 months!

― Allyzay

I got a kick out of this movie (on a plane, tho, which is always different), but Tom's definitely right about Wet Hot American Summer -- same kind of WTF gags, much richer. I found the fight embarrassingly unfunny. In retrospect I can't remember what, specifically, I found funny about this film, but there was certainly something that got me, as the flight attendant kept asking me if I wanted a Sprite and I kept giggling at her.

― nabisco

This is the thread where we discuss Anchorman

#45

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Adam McKay
2004
United States
(376 points, 18 votes)

dope

most quoted comedy of the decade, easy

she's constructed as an ambitious woman whose life is fucked but will make the best of it, even if it means marrying this stoner slobbo.

Yeah, but the conservativeness comes from the fact that the movie thinks "making the best of it" = keeping the baby and marrying the stoner.

most quoted comedy of the decade, easy

― vincent gallogina (J0rdan S.), Monday, February 8, 2010 1:45 PM (5 seconds ago)

otm, and it was actually funny.

the conservativeness comes from the fact that the movie thinks "making the best of it" = keeping the baby and marrying the stoner.

― Tuomas, Monday, February 8, 2010 9:45 PM (19 seconds ago) Bookmark

it's her right to choose man

i hated 'anchorman' the first time i saw it & still hate steve carrell's character & the bald sports dude -- but will ferrell & the bit parts are so hilarious that it really doesn't matter

ew hate that movie so much, ilx u still sucking, omar u still rocking

We've done the abortion politics of Knocked Up to death. Let's accept Tuomas is the Marc Loi of ILX film threads and move on.

http://www.snorgtees.com/images/ILoveLamp_F_Fullpic_3.jpg

saying something is conservative because it lacks a certain angle ≠ saying it needs this angle to be worth watching

Haha @ everyone who saw Munich on the poll and immediately presumed no more comedies were going to rate.

this shit is going fast and furious but let me just say

• im not there is a classic, beautifully done all around, "challenging" but not in a corny way

• best in show gets less and less funny for me every time i watch it

• 40 yr old virgin is in retrospect one of my favorite apatows--the scene with romany malco and mike epps is tremendous--steve carrel, sad to say, will never make as good a movie again

• kill bill is a monster, what a stylish flick

• anchorman is will ferrels peak imo (sorry stepbros fans), the kind of movie i will make my kids rent and they wont "get" it and be all dad wtf

• knocked ups conservatism/"misogyny" is waaayyy overstated but yr crazy if you dont think a pretty decent argument can be constructed in its favor--girls hate this movie but i identified w/ it pretty hard

snorg girl still look crazy

The results should be revealed much faster.. I hate all of your opinions.

I remember laughing at Anchorman but not at anything humans were doing. Was there a subplot about intelligent animal fiefdoms I'm misremembering?

there should be a sequel to 'knocked up' where it turns out that seth rogen is tim tebow's father