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

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

Is it really so certain that Inland Empire will place in the poll? I have no problem with Mulholland Drive being in the top 10, because it's a very good film (even though it's essentially a remake of Lost Highway, which is even better). But IE was a mostly a tedious, incoherent mess, even for a Lynch film, and it should've been about an hour shorter. Sure it had some good stuff (the first half an hour was very good, as was the finale), but fuck watching Laura Dern endlessy wander from one location to another. It certainly wasn't among the top 25 movies of the decade.

rated it higher than MD

should we put tuomas in the space ark too

sometimes i think tuomas arrived in a space ark but nah would miss dude tbh.

dudes i dont think you quite get the space ark idea

if we put tuomas in he'd be the only one to survive in 2012 - he'd miss US

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

jeez, I voted it something like 92nd on the Slant poll; top 40, are you outta yr freakin' mind?

Iran & China do not exist, it appears.

Well, most polls don't acknowledge the U.K. exists. So this one is a corrective in at least one respect.

iran didn't really bring the content in the 00s. 'the circle' was ok. but the EOD polls that listed 'crimson gold' were scraping the barrel, big time.

not that many uk films have polled by shaun of the dead, morvern callar, and in the loop are internationally well-liked films, far more so than any iranian film.

Latin America seems to be pretty much missing from the poll too... Which is a shame, as there were lots of great Argentinian/Brazilian/Cuban/Chilean/etc movies made in the 00s.

i mourn this poll ;_;

Latin America seems to be pretty much missing from the poll too... Which is a shame, as there were lots of great Argentinian/Brazilian/Cuban/Chilean/etc movies made in the 00s.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, February 10, 2010 2:53 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

well, city of god will poll.

but there were lots of great Argentinian/Brazilian/Cuban/Chilean/etc movies made in the 00s.

name some.

^City of God and Amores Perros may place yet.

which were the great cuban films?

la cienaga, argentina

the EOD polls that listed 'crimson gold' were scraping the barrel, big time.

Whatever, Crimson Gold is at least silver.

Surprised Amores Perros didn't place - maybe Inarritu and Arriaga pissed away all the initial goodwill by repeating the narrative trick until it made no sense whatsoever.

great or very good argentine films of the 00s

la nina santa
historias extraordinarias
nine queens & el aura (bielinsky RIP)

i could prob name more if i was less groggy

Surprised Amores Perros didn't place - maybe Inarritu and Arriaga pissed away all the initial goodwill by repeating the narrative trick until it made no sense whatsoever.

― gotanynewsstory? (Dorianlynskey), Wednesday, February 10, 2010 9:58 AM (3 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

THE POLL IS NOT OVER.

(dont think it'll place tho)

(and i do think that that's the reason why. also that movie wasn't that great)

how many French films have made this poll, just token Desplechin?

iirc like 100 (mostly american?) people voted on like 1000 films so it shouldn't be surprising that the list of winners looks like a list of films most people were able to see and thought were ok. films from iran don't come around that often ime, the couple i have seen were made in the 90s