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

i missed 'brick' placing, but no way am i loading the thread fully

I guess Wedding Crashers has no chance of placing? Still love it way more than any Will Ferrell or Apatow comedy.

300 was the best comedy of the 2000s.

In terms of unintentional comedy, I would say The Happening & The Room obv, tho 300 is up there.

The Room is so making this list's top 10.

morbs' votes alone

I prob loled harder at the Wahlberg/potted tree & suicide-by-jungle cat scenes in TH than I did at any specific instances in a straight comedy.

"Kinda surprised Old Boy wasn't called out on it's endlesssssssss third act"

Yeah it's definitely problematic. The movies many revelations veer from disappointing to silly to stupid. Still it's one of the things on this list I could see myself wanting to see again.

I'm up to 8/60. Three more today (The Dark Knight, Kill Bill 2, and Gosford Park). And I somehow completely failed to see Anchorman on the nominations list so I forgot to put it on my ballot. NARDS.

TDK I kinda wish I'd seen again before I voted, as I fear (having only seen it in jaw-dropping IMAX) that I may have fallen victim to Avatar-esque Spectacle Syndrome (or ASS, for short). This has happened before with such films as Jurassic Park and Independence Day, which lost pretty much all of their charm once viewed anywhere but on a big screen, and I can only imagine what all of the Avatar fans who saw the movie in 3-D Sensurround Smell-O-Vision are gonna think once the DVD is released. I feel like TDK should probably hold up relatively well on DVD, though, even despite some of its narrative weaknesses.

I've never seen The Room. Should I?

YES!!!!!!! Right now!

I'm Netflixing it.

I've seen TDK a few times on DVD - I love the way Nolan gets shit done with an emphasis on practical effects (the truck flip!) and integrates CGI well in the instances he needs it. Extra effort, I'm sure, but it pays off.

I kinda thought that The Room was just going to be dumb and not that amusing, but there's a level of gross incompetence on display that is frankly pretty mesmerizing. And, yes, often unintentionally hilarious.

I actually just saw The Room for the first time last night. I was sort of hesitant, too, because I was watching it with a group of people who had all seen it before, and I didn't want to feel bullied into liking it. But it wasn't hard to get into it: it's pretty ridiculous.

I allotted one point to The Room.

i'm at 39 right now. love this thread, & really happy that gosford park is on netflix instant....

also, i came upon this image the other day while googling 'cuddlestein mountain' and it pretty much sums up morbz' way in this thread.

http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v142/147/46/785930332/n785930332_1403129_6643.jpg

down with the old skool in joeks ova heah

hurt locker needed to lose the hunt for beckham and at night suicide bomb scenes real bad

is the host dubbed btw? ;_;

looking back on my ballot it already looks foreign to me, as well as suffering from standard arbitrary-list-weirdness. missed a lot so going to pull a max:

• Didn't have high hopes for Host when I saw it billed as scared-ppl-heavy-breathing-then-O-SHIT-MONSTER flick but was hooked. It flirted w/ and then either subverted or grossly exaggerated my expectations and managed to have a lot of effects at once. Enjoyed the vibe of light hysteria&despair.
• Wasn't much of a Dylan fan but I'm Not There was the bomb, a whole that had the pace&energy to easily weather whatever bits you found most shitty.
• Oldboy kind of ridiculous, a weird bonding movie for boys.
• Appreciate discussion of A.I.'s ending, I did vote for it but lots of david's 'quest' in the middle seemed inexplicable, dreck thrown in, could have easily been better (and shorter).
• Surprised Eastern Promises placed, was a big fan but forgot about it.
• Only seen Punch Drunk Love once but it's an exercise in sandler-usage, hater bait. emily watson was awesome, the sean gram comment about it having this blissful arbitrary core is OTM - sandler just dancing in the supermarket - it's an insanely romantic film in its way. it's got a charmed optimism, an unreal level of purity&perfection, the whole film is like one giant swoon. love that scene w/ the attack & the hawaii reunion is the only onscreen kiss that I remember caring about. I was totally charmed, good to be reminded cos I forgot about it when I voted.

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.― pro bono publico (history mayne), Monday, February 8, 2010 1:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark]

Sorry just catching up now but OTM - she's totally a mensch!

sort of shocked that jess is still around these parts.

He wasn't for a while and then he came back.

just 2 respond 2 some questions upthread

• art direction--maybe this is not what i mean?? but the 'look' of that movie is a+ terrific--great blue/brown/black color palette totally upset by the green/purple/white joker--chicago is beautifully shot

• in terms of 'not as smart': i guess i was just disappointed by that end speech that gordon gives--and also the relative moral simplicity of the 'convict turns out to be good-hearted' thing w/ the boats? i do think its a smart movie though.

it's all been done on the dedicated thread but the joker's escape from the prison, to name just one major plot device, would have been derided as moronic in most other superhero/action movies- and not even those aiming for a tone as 'realistic' as TDK.

it would have been derided as moronic if it had been handled moronically

maybe i'm not hating on the movie as a whole, though i don't think it made my 50 (which i didn't save tbh so am getting sketchy on at this stage)

Yeah, I can't even really remember what I voted for now, either. For all I know, Wet Hot American Summer fell outside my 40.

there are parts of TDK I remember as anonymous action movie (HK) and parts I remember fondly (joker as nurse blowing up hospital)

on the whole I was more forgiving of the film's "conservative" message than a lot of folks around here but it didn't make my ballot, or even my noms list

the fact that it placed outside the top 20 makes me very interested to see what's going on at the top, it will be either pleasantly surprising or arbitrarily frustrating or maybe both

I claimed Kung Fu Hustle as my #1 earlier, now must shamefully admit mightn't be true.

omar, any chance of mailing me back my list? :)

i thought it was a bit lame that you didn't even see maggie gyllenhaal's character CONSIDER getting an abortion.

the dirty hussy stringing along two guys all the way through was offensive enough to decent family values imo

xp lol

I'm gonna lol when me and u and everyone we know places in the top 10

I will lose so much faith in humanity if that happens.

TDK was pretty good but, apologies to my past self, I hate batman/wayne and dream of a film that wld address his character properly by not showing its morality from his creepy egomaniac retard perspective. The film felt like it should have fallen out of love w/ him properly and paint him as this nuts rich loser w/ no redeeming monologues from the Real Good Guys, but instead it kept it all safely w/in the bounds of GRITTY. It was sort of smart but also very narrow. Downey Robert & Jeff Bridges were more fun.

TDK would have been better if Batman didn't talk so gruff the whole time.

I think of Batman more as a premier league football player.

ok guys

it continues (shortly)

bring it on! (2000)

^^ #14 on my list

Let's Roll (2006)

switching it up a little stylistically, just w/the font

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/bourneidentity-1.jpg

Identity by a long chalk - the momentum from complete anonymity to painful revelation, while having no time to think or settle was pretty good. Each subsequent one worse. Ultimatum, Waterloo bit aside, was pretty dire.

The momentum of the first had changed into headache/fight/run/headache/fight/run/headache/jump in water in several meaninglessly different locations. Those shaky camera fight scenes and car chases don't really do it for me either.

― GamalielRatsey

The Bourne Identity - A pleasant surprise. Crackingly paced and very well-crafted.

- chap

"the bourne identity." that was like an arty blockbuster (minimally arty but still) compared to "italian job." i think they both did the job well enough, but "bourne identity" actually seems to grant its characters an intelligence that made it more satisfying to me.

- amateurist

The embassy scene in The Bourne Identity was pretty much the model of how to do that kind of thing. It's also an appealing American myth: We didn't know we were built to be this killing machine, and maybe we have a good heart inside, and can actually use our power for good, etc, if knocked on the head. The car chase onward bored me, though.

- Pete Scholtes

BOURNE - C/D

#40

The Bourne Identity
Doug Liman
2002
United States
(406.5 points, 16 votes)

I liked the second Bourne more, but both were a lot of fun. Great setpieces. I love the way some of the action scenes build organically from one avoided encounter with a cop on the street.

so does this mean all 3 bourne thingys will place?

Prefer Greengrass's direction (so voted Supremacy) but this had more Franka Potente and the element of surprise.