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

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

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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!

somewhere in London, a self-banned user is breathing a sigh of relief that this didn't place in the top 10.

oh man i really dug pans labyrinth

I'm wondering how Inland Empire places on more than 20 ballots, but I guess that's how it's gonna happen?

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

Incredibles? Iron Man?

movies i voted for:

the new world (#15 on my ballot) - i wish i had the language to describe how visually impressive this movie was to me but i think it was by a decent margin the best looking movie i saw all decade. it has the power to force you to look i think - its arresting - and the whole thing hangs together really well

battle royale (#20 on my ballot) - rad movie fuiud

fluid?

fu if u d

i wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people thought about putting Inland Empire on their ballots but decided they didn't need to vote for it AND Mulholland Drive and cut it

dude inland empire is 100% still to come

i bet top ten for it and mullholland's opus

i like pan's labyrinth but voted for the devil's backbone simply because i think the latter works better as a movie and its fantastic elements are better executed. both are really lovely to look at tho

i have ~~thotz~~ about pans labyrinth but i cant articulate them rn since i havent seen the movie in a minute

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O Brother towers over everything else they done in the last 10 years. At least it's a good Christmas Day family movie and has a great soundtrack.

― milo z

o brother was so lovely to look at on the big screen. so beautiful.

― scott seward

I suspect that if you don't enjoy the humor or if you suffer from an irrational hatred of george clooney then o brother is likely to be a chore. but the hanging/flood scene towards the end is a moment which kills all that "Coens lacking a heart" noise. it's a touching and totally human sequence that seems tacked on at first, coming after the rally scene. but it carries the film out of mere slapstick and ties together a bunch of serious themes the movie's been touching on throughout. it really captures something about the american south, about what a weird, mysterious old place it is, something way beyond the "stay out the woolsworth" yuck yuck yuck stuff that's come before. oddly enough (or not?) it's the movie that makes me miss living in the south the most. maybe I'm deluded, but I think there's a lot of affection in o brother, not something people say about their movies generally.

― Edward III

Best Coen Brothers movie

#27

O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Joel and Ethan Coen
2000
United States
(469.5 points, 21 votes)

I thought Spirit of the Beehive was better than Pan's Labyrinth.

Top 20s basically gonna be all Coens/Tarantino/Lynch/Anderson isn't it

eh I take that back I forgot that most of the other 00s Coen movies sucked and we already hit 2 of Tarantino's 4

man who wasnt there >>>>>>>> o brother but i have my doubts about it placing

you crazy

No, I agree w/that, too.

Guess I'm wrong about Pan's Labyrinth being the top-placing foreign-language film, since Crouching Tiger hasn't shown up yet.

was crouching tiger like 1jan2000? it seems like fuckin forEVER ago

will barf all over my computer if crouching tiger makes it

it would be really great to see Songs from the Second Floor place.

fell asleep during crouching tiger, did not feel compelled to finish watching it at a later date

i have ~~thotz~~ about pans labyrinth but i cant articulate them rn since i havent seen the movie in a minute

haha i debated writing (and deleted a half-written) long post on the new world but i havent seen it for a couple of yrs and didnt want 2 come off like a fool

shaun of the dead placing so high is crazy 2 me i mean really? also i voted for a bunch of stuff i was almost certain wld place but cant see being top 25 ~~ guessing a lot of is maybe 101-115 or w/e...

jaymc highest placing foreign-language film is almost certainly toki wo kakeru shoujo. well either that or spirited away.

don't recall anyone here rhapsodizing about Crouching Tiger, can't imagine that topped anyone's list

i will say this--the comment omar quoted about how this movie is like... "fascism vs. the power of imagination"--not how i read the movie at all

Re Anderson: Tenenbaums will definitely make it. I wouldn't have been surprised to see Mr. Fox earlier on the list, but it seems too high now. I can't imagine Darjeeling and Life Aquatic making the list at all.

NYT named CTHD a MOVIE OF INFLUENCE and, like, it was chill, but like it feels very distant now

NYT also regular publishes cringe-worthy trend pieces that result in hundreds of derisive ilx posts.

well either that or spirited away.

Oh yeah, Spirited Away probably stands a better chance than Crouching Tiger. But I guess I thought people liked Crouching Tiger? I dunno, it came out before ILE existed, so I have no idea whether it's an "ILX favorite," but it seems like the kind of movie ILXors would like.

i liked crouching tiger a lot, not enough to vote for it, but still was pretty rad irrc

i demand these thotz that everyone seems to be withholding.

one more film for the day to be revealed shortly, and then 11-25 tomorrow.

ha i used to have thotz about pan's labyrinth, too, but i'm afraid to rewatch it for fear i'll like it less. i totally loved it at the time.

NYT also regular publishes cringe-worthy trend pieces that result in hundreds of derisive ilx posts.

― sarahel, Wednesday, February 10, 2010 12:52 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

just cause morbz knocks it doesnt mean 10 more slightly quieter dudes didnt bump it

shocked election still has not shown up yet. That one does have its rabid fans. wrt Crouching Tiger, it's a bit old hat since other wuxia films seem to have surpassed it. I'm more surprised that House of Flying Daggers has not got any mentions or ILX love as I've seen on quite a few 2000s films lists.

i liked that one

I would have voted for it (Daggers) but i didnt vote in this poll because i am too lazy to compile a list.

so what's number 26?

Daggers is at least one of a handful of movies from the decade that i got obsessed with and watched over and over. (zodiac being the one i obsessed over the most probably)

I guess I thought people liked Crouching Tiger? I dunno, it came out before ILE existed, so I have no idea whether it's an "ILX favorite," but it seems like the kind of movie ILXors would like.

p much all the foreign stuff that has placed so far is the result of small group really loving the film rather than more widespread goodwill. i just dont think cthd was that beloved its more a movie that lots of ppl like okay - but those def arent the movies that are placing. if anything i can see something like martyrs which has a narrow appeal but wld probably be p highly-rated by those who liked it placing over cthd