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

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%

don't want to curse it but i'm guessing Chereau's Gabrielle isn't going to place...

Guys, someone posted the list of the 35 movies the next 25 are going to be culled from. It's probably pretty accurate.

i wasn't serious about the chereu, E.

(although before the 100th place was announced i thought that 50-60 points may be enough to hit the lower end of the poll)

I think I'm almost as disappointed about Dude, Where's My Car? not placing as Morbz is.

And maybe even almost as mad about the prospect of Knocked Up AND Superbad being in the top 25! I had a ton of mainstream comedies on my ballot but those 2 got nowhere near it.

i like this poll cuz it's fun to talk about movies from the last 10 years and see what people thought of them when they were fresh... seriously dudes i wouldn't really worry about movies i like making it or not. or the poll's general "quality." i mean it's a freakin poll, not a list of cultural relics to be loaded into the space ark.

it's a good poll and a great thread regardless of the results.

I will remember when this thread was rabishing with great fondmess.

I mean it's a freakin poll, not a list of cultural relics to be loaded into the space ark.

― wall•egina (s1ocki), Wednesday, February 10, 2010 2:23 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Harrumph. It seems I was misinformed.

yeah great thread and well organized poll all the way

100-26 loaded in space ark and ready 2 go