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

yeah there really isn't room for it in the top 25

i tell u

CLAYTON WILL PLACE

well i guess its settled

u guyz b real no way mike clay hits top 25 sweat stains or not sweat stains

thats right or not sweat stains

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I would have thought that Donnie Darko would be a lock. Not so sure anymore.
As far as comedies go, is there no love for Tropic Thunder?

i hav 2 say tho omar ur a bro for doing all this havent been this excited abt telling other ppl their taste in movies is shit for sum time~~~ really regaining my passion for the art form

McElwee drives me crazy though.
― Jeff

how's that, jeff?

i just watched rachel getting married because of this thread; thought it was great. now i'm sad.

I think, for all of the sadness in the movie, there's a lot of joy that makes up for it. Like Rachel and her husb seeming to be so genuinely in love. This movie is like a Stevie Wonder album: joy inside your tears and shit.

hey joy, get out of my shit

2000-4 poll top 20:

1) Mulholland Dr
2) Eternal Sunshine
3) Spirited Away
4) In The Mood For Love
5) City of God
6) The Royal Tenenbaums
7) Yi Yi
8) Amelie
9) Memento
10) Donnie Darko
11) Lost In Translation
12) 25th Hour
13) Ghost World
14) Before Sunset
15) Kill Bill 1
16) Kung Fu Hustle
17) Adaptation
18) Together
19) The Incredibles
20) Punch Drunk Love

I think some of the stuff that was released super early in the decade (City Of God, Memento, Donnie Darko) might suffer the most in this poll.

well kill bill 1 already dropped 30 spots

'Tell No One' isn't going to place now is it?

dudes Grizzly Man definitely making it in. Haven't seen enough Claire Denis (apparently missed 35 Rhums here?) but did vote Friday Night as a replacement for In The Mood For Love.

vendredi soir was rubbish

this list is barmy to me

vendredi soir did not exactly set my mind on fire.

children of men: i thought this film was way slept on by the critical establishment when it came out. it was actually on the cover of film comment though. it wasn't a great piece but still. n e way.

the timing of COM's release was shitty IIRC

everybody was jizzing over pans labyrinth instead iirc

i didn't check out children of men for ages cos i thought it was some rubbish brit sci-fi thing. then when i finally rented it i watched it straight through twice without getting up. i was like.....damn.

I'm kinda sad that Persepolis didn't make it, that was my favourite animated feature of the decade. I guess it suffered from having a very limited release. I don't see Shrek or Lilo & Stitch making it this far either, thought in my opinion they are better than any of the Pixars.

Shrek is horrible. The only animation flicks that come close to Pixar's best are Spirited Away and Waltz with Bashir.

Good Night & Good Luck have any chance of placing this high?

and have we had Iron Man.....

iron man's kind of a one trick pony - not much going on besides downey jr.

word.

x-men 2 on the other hand...

felt that paltrow's performance in IM was maybe the best of the decade

although her refusal to consider adoption obviously jars

id never found her attractive b4 so points for that but no.... just no

well if not Paltrow in Iron Man then surely Casey Affleck in Ocean's 12....powerful stuff

yup...when he responded to that one witty one-liner with another witty one-liner...I nearly cried

srsly dude's got a gift

that said, I don't suppose The Assassination of Jesse James....... has any hope at this stage? Would have liked to see it in the top 50 somewhere though, for the same kind of slow-burn 'let the visuals sink in' experience as someone mentioned wrt Malick earlier.

i should've voted for "gone baby gone"

quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Wednesday, February 10, 2010 10:02 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

that said, I don't suppose The Assassination of Jesse James....... has any hope at this stage? Would have liked to see it in the top 50 somewhere though, for the same kind of slow-burn 'let the visuals sink in' experience as someone mentioned wrt Malick earlier.

― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Wednesday, February 10, 2010 10:03 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

i don't think 96 people have even seen this

Michael Clayton will place

Disappointing showing for documentaries. My top 100 would include Dig!, Man on Wire, When the Levees Broke, Fog of War and One Day in September along with Capturing the Friedmans and the (presumably) inevitable Grizzly Man. I guess they have more limited audiences - I don't know if people who aren't especially into music would be drawn to Dig! in the first place.

think the top 10 will be all clooney flicks, he's very well liked in the business.

it's his turn, definitely

don't think so - his views on abortion are excluding him from the a-list

i voted duplicity but not clayton

i get the impression there are enough people who will put clayton in their top 10 to put it in. this could be a failure of imagination though.

really hope step bros makes the cut.

are we 15 out now?

idk where it's going coz tbqh it's gone from great to ehhh. if the trend continues then...

it's gone from horrible to great to ehhh

top 25 left, right?

Still got my fingers crossed for a passionate minority miracle with Pulse. Shocked that I'm only 8/75.

Children of men had some really great scenes (the car assassination shot was amazing) but for chrissakes, the fucking Aeon Flux movie did a smarter and better job with the whole "OH NO! Infertility!!" thing, which is not a thing that I even care about so much b/c fuck the human race anyway, imo.

fuck the human race anyway

esp after this poll

children of men: i thought this film was way slept on by the critical establishment when it came out

RottTomatoes, 92%; their 'top critics,' 90%