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

I'm sure few missed the 2500-screen tittytwister last summer.

i don't even know what that is

I thought Japon was great. It would have been in my top 10 if I had voted in this poll.

amelie gave me a titty-twister

in my head I just picture al pacino going "japon man...japon!" in his ridicuban accent

Amelie polished my gnome.

i love how we're already repeating arguments against arguing over the poll

this is what we talk about when we talk about polling

Fresa y chocolate & buena vista social club were both "well-regarded" in the 90s

I just realized, Moulin Rouge hasn't placed yet... That's gotta be in the top 25, right? Everyone I know loved that movie.

smh

no it's awful

yeah Tuomas, I don't really know anyone on ILX either.

moulin rouge (luckily) feels like ages ago.

oh yeah beuna vista social club by that well-known cuban wim wenders.

no way moulin rouge places and the fabulous pearl harbor doesn't

if moulin rouge places ill shake my head

Pearl Harbor? More like Pearl in Amelie's Hooahh.

i've seen some pretty ambitious adult movies but i'm not gonna talk about them in polite company

i want to believe

if moulin rouge places ill shake my head

― pro bono publico (history mayne), Wednesday, February 10, 2010 10:30 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

gonna hold u to this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_(2005_film)

wtf is all this "movies must be ADULT" nonsense anyway

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.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 14:37 (29 minutes ago) Permalink

rated it higher than MD

― jed_, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 14:39 (28 minutes ago)

jed otm

it was a highly subjective + personal choice to do so, but honestly inland empire was one of the most intense + unforgettable cinema experiences I had in the 00s. it really is built for the theater. feeling like there's no escape made it claustrophobic and larger-than-life. mulholland drive may be the more accomplished film, but it does also retains the sense of being arbitrarily bifurcated due to its TV pilot origins. inland empire completely exploited what lynch learned from completing mulholland drive, so in that sense it's the "purer" film.

wtf is all this "movies must be ADULT" nonsense anyway

― strongohulkingtonsghost, Wednesday, February 10, 2010 10:32 AM (0 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you know, like ET

inland empire works on the emotions like music imo

same thing with moulin rouge + was actually a musical iirc

What's wrong with Moulin Rouge? I thought it was excellent, sincere attempt to do a classic musical film for the 00s without any postmodern irony or "LOL musicals" moments.

are you JOKING!?

No, why?

I actually like a fair amount of Moulin Rouge, or did at the time. Wouldn't vote for it though.

Cause it sounds like you are joking.

To the layman, I mean.

mayne do u like that well-known film from england North By Northwest?

goole saw No Cunt for Old Men.

What's wrong with Moulin Rouge?

^the tragedy of ADD

Seriously, have I stumbled into some weird alternate universe where everyone hates Moulin Rouge?! What do you think was wrong with it?

would rather talk about knocked up and von trier again, tbh

because it's like the most postmodernny musical ever??

have we had pirates of the caribbean yet?

Toumas, do you know so little about ILX taste that you think their film poll would place Moulin Rouge in the top 25 films of the decade?

goole saw No Cunt for Old Men.

don't really know how to respond to this, i just wanted to see it posted again

for shame tuomas

I like where this thread is going.

have made it through inland empire several times on dvd in the last three years, liked it each time, but NOTHING is going to equal the three hours i spent (almost alone, close to midnight, on that zonked edge of being utterly exhausted and riveted) watching it in the theater, which is why it was still my no. 2. i can't think of another movie that left me as shaken/upset/elated/confused/awed when i walked back into the "adult world" (c. 2010, dr. morbius).

without any postmodern irony or "LOL musicals"

uh, this is all it was

Inland Empire's inclusion is almost as sure as Moulin Rouge's snub.

did vote for mull drive, too. think lynch is the only director to appear twice on my ballot. not something i could have predicted in the '90s.

MD is a worthy #1, but is anyone else hoping it isn't?

lol at "snub" re: moulin rouge

yeah i'm hoping my top choice gets yo number one.