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

did someone say genre pastiche + tarantino?
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wasn't convinced of the concept but the execution is amazingly good.

xp KB1 is a thrill ride, all homage aside. KB2 is all cleverness and homage-in-exposition and like two chill fights

KB are pastiches sure, IB eh not so much - that's just a really brilliant film

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I thought it was pretty great. More, much more than a triple-length episode of Spaced.

Without lurching too far into spoiler territory, scenes that will live long in the memory - the second trip to the convenience store, the cinder path encounter with the other (doppel)gang(er), the entire speeding Jag sequence.

Watching Morons From Outer Space last night in bed (and having worked on Drop Dead Fred at work recently) it struck me that SOTD so spectacularly bucks the trend for bright Brit TV comedy falling flat on the big screen that I... I don't really know what to think. Perhaps Edgar Wright is the new Terry Gilliam, exchanging the epic for the specific.

― Michael Jones

Not much to add other than I loved it. The DVD has a plot hole section where they explain what happened to Dawn (from The Office) etc. My favorite reference was of course when they decide not to use Shaun's "Blue Monday" 12" as a zombie frisbee because it's a "first edition."

― Spencer Chow

It annoyed me hwne they did about 20 mins of no-laugh. It jarred me a bit. It was funny when they were trying to be funny (the drama class is v. funny as well) but they should have tried to be funny a bit more. I think they were going for the BAFTA in the last half hour.

― Johnney B

the crack is at the end where they're watching the tv aftermath and a report goes something like "theories that the epidemic was provoked by rage have been proven as bol-" [changes channel]. maybe i imagined it.

this flick relates to most ppl probly, electro comps and infesticons posters for... some people ahem

somehow the weird viciousness of d moran's demise made it into more of erm a proper film than a pally irony muckabout i thought, it was still a bit jokey but also something intense and purely cinematic about it

― prima fassy

Official Shaun of the Dead Thread!

#29

Shaun of the Dead
Edgar Wright
2004
United Kingdom
(435.5 points, 24 votes)

I totally thought that's where it would place.

I figured it was cruising for top 10.

a few of you may have seen that one coming ;-p

Hot Fuzz is much funnier imo.

WTF is that the Britishes contingent in effect or what...? I mean its okay, but nothing special. zombie horror comedies are a dime a dozen.

They are?

I can't think of any other besides Zombieland.

the english films on this list are approx in reverse order of quality

xp shakey: so are fast-paced action movies starring attractive men whose characters are more or less devoid of personality, but that didn't stop two of the Bourne movies from placing.

can't agree that Hot Fuzz is funnier, it seemed much more formulaic and join-the-dots for me.

pretty sure that SOTD was big in the states too, and i definitely remember the praise on the ILX thread being incontinental

"I can't think of any other besides Zombieland."

Think harder.

^^^yes really

whoa can we talk about no wes anderson yet? does that terrify anyone for the top 28?

xp - incontinental? like praise from ilxors that have embarrassing problems controlling the flow of their urine?

It could be formulaic and still be funnier. My beef with Shaun is that I didn't laugh, um, once.

tenenbaums surely top 20 ish

'shaun of the dead' is plenty funnier than every other zombie comedy i've seen (though that's faint praise imo.)

I voted for Hot Fuzz btw. I am secret britishes.

fair enough, but i wouldn't hold out any hope for Hot Fuzz placing from hereon in.

xp tenenbaums surely top 10

It's not funnier than Dead Alive.

Or grosser.

Hot Fuzz is much funnier imo.

― queen frostine (Eric H.)

I agree. I like Shaun a great deal, but absolutely love Hot Fuzz and voted accordingly.

shaun did $13mil, not really big but not bad for a british flick i guess

Or Braindead as some britishes know it as.

There was a very strange zombie comedy with Scottish? comedian Billy something and Neo's lady friend from the Matrix and the one with Sarah Polley, and I'm not sure if it counts as a zombie comedy, but there was a horror-comedy about a car that eats people for gas with the girl from My Girl who is now In the Loop?

I thought ILX was pretty critical of Anderson. Tenenbaums might make it, but can't see any other of his 00s film getting this high.

yr in for some surprises Tuomas

Everything is a surprise for Tuomas.

tenenbaums has possible usp of not being shit

also Alex OTM re: Dead Alive/Braindead, which is def the apex of the subgenre and is like 20 years old. but yeah the list of zombie comedies is pretty long

yeah, I don't think there is any doubt that Tenenbaums will place

Everything is a surprise for Tuomas.

^^^mods, new board name plz

did Wes Anderson do the sensitive bros on a train movie?

did Dead Alive introduce the powered rotating blade method of zombie-killing?

There was a very strange zombie comedy with Scottish? comedian Billy something

Fido! Odd movie but not bad. A Canadian kid has a pet zombie played by Billy Connolly. Hilarity ensues, sorta.

xposts

the car one wasn't The Cars that Ate Paris, was it?

oooh look there's a fucking WIKIPEDIA page for it

shaun did $13mil, not really big but not bad for a british flick i guess

It really found it's audience on DVD and on cable.

i bet life aquatic gets in too -- lotta people liked that a lot the second time around.

Anderson movies that should place imho

- the Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Royal Tenenbaums
- Darjeeling Limited

Darjeeling Limited: bros on a train

Mr. Fox, Tenenbaums, Darjeeling: those are all zombie comedies of sorts...

Anderson movies that should place imho

Darjeeling Ltd is like an unfunny version of Silver Streak.

i voted RTs and FMF in, and wouldnt have minded it if DL/LA had made the top 100, but dont want them all in the top 28

I wish there had been zombies in Darjeeling Limited ... or that they had been killed by snakes.