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

Nothing wrong with super-overt politics in movies.

loved the super 8 stuff, the salmon & the road and all that, and the portrayal of the hustler lifestyle and the riotous funeral, but surely keanu was too wooden and the whole Henry IV thing didn't come off.

but BBM is the wrong movie to condemn, Tuomas. I mean, the short story on which it's based is no polemic.

glad to see 'a serious man' and 'bad santa' -- the best things the coens were involved in all decade.

'24HPP' is great, kind of surprised to see it so high, but no complaints.

'brokeback mountain' is mediocre and oscary imo, don't hate it but ehh; 'history of violence' just generally mediocre, and i doubt the superior 'spider' will beat it.

Nothing wrong with super-overt politics in movies.

― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, February 9, 2010 3:37 PM (26 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

not always. but i don't need movies to reassure me we're on the same page either.

ugh fuck brokeback mountain.

Ha ha. Bad Santa! I was begining to wonder whether it was gonna show. I'm glad that it did. It's one of the few solid comedies from the past decade that still delivers after multiple viewings.

bbm, which I like, should really be measured against The Notebook instead of Idaho

bad santa is a coen bro movie? cool.

bbm was aiight. Anne Hathaway and Jen were the best things in it though and I feel like I don't need to see again for another 20 years.

bbm, which I like, should really be measured against The Notebook instead of Idaho

Yeah, and that's how I think it'll be regarded in the future.

Idaho: $6,401,336
BBM: $178,062,759

I don't give a shit; by that standard "Will & Grace" is more important.

Never bought Jake & Heath as anything more than fuckbuddies, and the funny mustaches didn't help.

That's where the movie cheapens the story.

I really feel like Brokeback's virtues are being taken for granted. It made gay romance death and tragedy safe for straight audiences, but wasn't and was neutered pandering like something like Will & Grace, and featured two huge stars in the lead roles. That is a big deal, and it's a damned good movie on top of all that. fucking shame.

no, philadelphia made gay death and tragedy safe for straight audiences

I prefer the gay romance btwn Julie Andrews & James Garner in Victor/Victoria. LE JAZZ HOT!

hasnt gay death and tragedy always been safe for straight audiences

nothing breeders like more than a couple sad and/or dying homos

however, Philadelphia also showed a healthy, loving relationship between two men, one of whom happened to be dying and fighting a major court battle.

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Let’s mangle Pauline Kael: No one else can lend each quick glancing scene its proper weight before cutting away like Paul Greengrass can, but if anyone else should learn to, kill him.

- Alfred Soto

damon plays it lean, comes a helluva lot closer to being delon here than he did in ripley, joan allen is good, brian cox actually somewhat disappointing - less interesting replay of william stryker, i kept waiting for anna paquin and iceman to pop up during the confrontation scene. julia stiles gorgeous per usual, but when she was terrified (and that scene was kinda harrowing cuz it did seem very possible bourne would off her) she looked like an angry baby. the deaths actually felt like they mattered, i'd rathered it'd ended with him walking away in the snow in moscow after asking the girl to forgive him instead to the relatively glib ending that tacked on, but i guess they felt this made the better dooropener for the sequel (which i will see).

― James Blount

YES! Everything was wonderful except the handheld camera. We got seats close to the screen, and the camera made it impossible to follow the action at times, because it was impossible to focus on anything. Buy a Stedicam, goddamnit!

That said, I loved this one like I loved the first one; cold, european locations, no CGI jizz, and reality(Bourne hurts his leg, and he limps the rest of the way!). Yay for a real spy movie without superhuman heroics!

― derrick

the tussle w/the other former assassin was definitely in the "tussle" mode as opposed to the intricate fight choreography mode, but i think it was really good example of the tussle mode. that fight was fucking mean.

― amateurist

you need to see the bourne supremecy right now...like right fucking now

#34

The Bourne Supremacy
Paul Greengrass
2004
United States
(437 points, 17 votes, 1 first place)

max, you're right, that doesn't make it something that people shld accept.

Guys, A Single Man is far more offensive than BBM.

i didnt see brokeback mountain anyway, i hate sad movies

bourne supremacy is my favorite of the 3. everything an action movie should be.

Is "sad homo" a film trope on par with "magic nigger"? This is a genuine question; I pay more attention when the latter appears because it has a non-negligible impact on my interactions with people who don't know me so I have no idea if the former is as prevalent.

bbm was aiight. Anne Hathaway and Jen were the best things in it though and I feel like I don't need to see again for another 20 years.

― 80085 (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, February 9, 2010 8:42 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

i hear you brah! up top!

as someone said of Banderas and Hanks' lack of onscreen intimacy in Philadelphia, "Were they cousins?"

Back to ignoring the multiplex mystery meat this poll is churning out...

you're not very good at ignoring things.

ignoreous basterds

The Tragic Homosexual:

The sissy is something that can be signaled immediately, in the flick of a wrist or a rapid sashay. The other predominant image in mainstream movies is a little more elusive. If the sissy belongs to the domain of farce and comedy, the tragic figure haunts the genres of crime, melodrama, and horror. As a stereotype, the tragic homosexual is to be found wherever Hollywood is required to signal shady bars on the wrong side of town, bohemian decadence, or the ill-effects of same-sex proximity.

As with the sissy, so much is signaled by certain visual conventions. With Gloria Holden in Dracula's Daughter (1936), Judith Anderson in Rebecca (1940), and, later, Sal Mineo in Rebel without a Cause (1955) and Robert Walker in Strangers on a Train (1951), the tragic homosexual's torture is concentrated in the eyes--sunken, searching out love, or, in the thrillers, young prey.

His or her most common profession is in roles of minor authority (schoolteacher, warden, housekeeper), or some equally small part in the criminal world (blackmailer, get-away car driver), or merely as devoted mother's boy or best friend. Often the male characters were pictured in a bohemian context--this is what writer and critic Richard Dyer has identified as the image of "the sad young man."

will say my least favorite part of brokeback was the whole "jake gyllenhaal walks down dark alley oh noes he's having teh casual gay sex" part, but i've heard people who'd know say that shit can actually be scary so it didn't get in the way of appreciating film as a Brief Encounter update.

I thought that was a blog name, jaymc.

(brief encounter is actually good)

i found it to be actually boring, myself

Casual sex can be scary, especially if -- to give the movie credit -- your partner just kissed you off, but a Dark Alley full of ugly Mexicans it ain't. Ang Lee is a literalist of astounding proportions.

Ang Lee, literalist:

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ehh. brief encounter moves fast as hell: lean was an editor, and the thing has a verve ang lee's films usually lack. (liked 'the ice storm'.)

xp

bbm, which I like, should really be measured against The Notebook instead of Idaho

― da croupier, Tuesday, February 9, 2010 3:42 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

totes

Morbz, somewhat agreed (tho i haven't seen it in a couple years) re: Philadelphia, but i dunno, there was that nice moment at the party where they're dancing all close. also, the whole scene where Banderas gets pissed at the hospital, etc. maybe physical intimacy is a bit off, yeah, but the emotional intimacy was there. i'd rather have THAT than some spitlube buttfuck scene, tragic unrequited love bs.

you should see the birdcage, that was a big happy hit

The overt homoerotics in Apatow movies have probably done more for man-love than BBM (sorry, queer theorists).

I've seen Bad Santa about 3 times all the way through and it just gets better each time. BBT is great, but the show's stolen by that kid.

you should see the birdcage, that was a big happy hit

― da croupier, Tuesday, February 9, 2010 4:01 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

true dat

The best criticism I've still ever read about BBM is that its true radicalism is embodied in its completely reactionary form. In other words, it smuggles radical content into a totally conservative style of filmmaking. I guess I don't buy it 100 percent, but I want to buy it.

Ang Lee is NOT Sirk.

I just wanted to say... THURMOND MERMAN

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During the toast at the rehearsal dinner I cringed and looked away like I was watching a horror movie or No Country for Old Men. Hathaway is irritating, dramatic and self-absorbed in such a perfect way.

― Spencer Chow

The dishwasher scene might be my favorite moment, where it's so unclear who is being serious and who is funneling their seriousness through levity and who is just joking around in a rough and playful way. I love how the film captured so many moments where the characters themselves weren't aware of their own behavior or intentions.

― Eazy

Really enjoyed this, by the way -- and, reviewing this thread, it's apparently turning out to be the sort of thing where the stuff some people didn't like about it is just mystifying to me: father seems like he's in a comedy? His "leave me alone I am repressing terrible emotions" arm-flapping in that one scene just killed me. (Especially given its similarity to his daughter-is-pregnant girlish arm-flap.)

― nabisco

I don't know what it says about me, but in the last couple years I never settled into a movie as comfortably as I did into this one.

― Eric H.

Any anticipation for "Rachel Getting Married"?

#33

Rachel Getting Married
Jonathan Demme
2008
United States
(442.5 points, 15 votes, 1 first place)

I think In & Out was more radical than Humpback, esp the Spartacus parody at the end fulfilling Cobain's "Everyone is gay"

really loved rachel getting married

Ang Lee is NOT Sirk.

By which I think the critic meant to say "BBM wasn't made for you, but its existence could enlighten a few people you should want enlightened."

That's a pretty surprising (and, obviously, concentrated) RGM voting bloc there.