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

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.

Darjeeling Ltd is like an unfunny version of Silver Streak.

lol you know Silver Streak isn't actually funny either

Technically true.

the working title of darjeeling limited had to be changed when they found out adrien brody is afraid of cobras, also causing intensive rewrites

original title was "look at these assholes" iirc

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

I loved especially that the fantastical & real elements contributed towards a shared/focused tension (as opposed to those elements contributing to split narratives, as is often the case in films like this where not all the characters are privy to the fantasy goings-on). The labyrinth being a real place with a real center, the mandrake root having real effects on Ofelia's mother, etc...I guess what I'm getting at is the unity of the story elements was very impressive.

Also this was an incredibly VISCERAL film, it's been a long time since I've seen violence in a film that really ROCKED me like this did, and again, both the fantasy and reality elements delivered with this (the fairies being eaten alive, the wine bottle face crushing).

― nickalicious

a great film, very well done,(camera and lightning is magnificent) maybe the best fantasy movie ever (maybe because its not really a straight fantasy movie, more a surrealistic one) BUT i have to say, that theres not much of meat to put yr teeth on here, the symbolism and political "meanings" is quite simple to make it a masterpiece of nuances, like,for example, "the spirit of the beehive" of Victor Erice, another spanish political fantasy that is more abstract and delicate, kinda like Terrance Mallick directed "pan's labyrinth" or something.

― emekarsyes

this film also struck me as being a crudely mechanistic and obvious riff on Spirit of the Beehive

― Ward Fowler

my criticism was not that Pan's Labyrinth is or isn't 'original' (and pl. to tell me where I ever used that word) but that the film that it most closely resembles is subtler, more nuanced and more provocative than del Torro's rather one-dimensional, facile, generic take on the same subject matter (the monstrosity of fascism vs. the power of childhood imagination blahdiblah)

― Ward Fowler

I think the ending of PL works fine, ie myths or even an afterlife doesn't make death any less real.

― Dr Morbius

The Pan's Labyrinth thread, with spoilers

#28

Pan's Labyrinth
Guillermo del Toro
2006
Spain
(456 points, 20 votes)

hm. were there any samuel l jackson movies to place (other than cameo in kill bill)?

"original title was "look at these assholes" iirc"

That should be the new board title!