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

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

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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.

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― 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

Crouching Tiger is still the highest-grossing foreign-language film in the U.S. by a long shot. Like twice as much $$$ as the number two.

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That movie rocked in so many ways. Part of it was seeing a level of lunacy that I noticed during my undergrad years placed on the widescreen for all to see and marvel at. (1995 wasn't a good year for Harvard; 6 suicides, 2 of them with murders attached.)

― Dan Perry

American Psycho is improbable! The movie was a gas and the novel was a bloated corpse. Why are we debating the probability? Patrick Bateman is not probable.

- Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows

I think the film version of American Psycho is infinitely superior to the book -- much more sly and mocking. I know Ellis intended AP to be a satire, but from the book you get a sense that Ellis is a little bit in love with his character, whereas the movie doesn't show him any sympathy.

- Nicole

"American Psycho" is a dreadful book, and LOOOONG. The movie's no classic, but does a better job at establishing a macabre tone than the novel (which some of my college professors treat as A Great American Novel).

- Alfred Soto

American Psycho actually gets better with repeat viewings

#26

American Psycho
Mary Harron
2000
United States
(473 points, 21 votes)

Wow. Surprising!

glad this made it!

I had a feeling. Thanks ILX.

raad we should all hit up a high end sw restaurant to celebrate

maybe get some sweet business cards

fuck - i have to return some videotapes

75 films, only the 3rd female director

^^^I really think we should talk about this

most movies are not chickmade

i'd forgotten this was a 00s movie but would have voted for it. could not get through the book and wish i could unread the part of it that i did finish, but the movie is so interesting! poor bateman goes completely insane due to constant insecurity about knowing exactly all the trivial little rules of good taste

or does he...

well, if he did all that stuff, he's crazy, and if he hallucinated it, he's also crazy

nancy meyers only made like 3 movies this decade bro (looooool xxxp)

the book is soooo much better than the movie u guyz are crazy

or maybe its the world thats crazy just sayin

Shaun of the Dead is great. I think there are moments that are very particularly British ('Second Coming?' 'I like it...'), but I think it really cares about the zombie genre in ways that (certainly) Zombieland didn't. Dead Alive and whatnot treat it as farce and are pretty lolsome in their over-the-topness, but Shaun eventually treats it with a great deal of respect and the scenes with the mother in the pub are properly devastating. It also does the slowly-encroaching doom about as well as anyone since Romero's hey-day.

• pans labyrinth--im not going to go into the whole thing that i was thinking about the movie & the way it engages w/ fascism & myth & blood & paternity & so forth (mostly because its a half-formed thought and not that intelligent)--but what i really love about the movie (besides how beautiful it is) is how steadfastly and determinedly it refuses to 'take sides' on the reality of the faun and the other fantastical elements. this is not an uncommon thing i suppose but the movie handles it so well i think.

• shaun of the dead--this is one of those movies i find funny but dont really get its rep. seems like a bunch of pretty funny bros got together and made a movie

ty for bulleting that max

I should rewatch O Brother, which I liked well enough in the cinema but it was somewhat tainted by the type of people who bought the soundtrack en masse.