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

moulin rouge is sincere, but the thing it's sincere about is dumb, so its sincerity isn't really a virtue. btw i am a musical geek and i hate that movie so much.

no you don't - everyone loves it

I bet you people hate glee too

yeah , but for different reasons (glee's musical numbers are shit, for a start).

a slightly earlier start today for a few of these...

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I have to admit the heavy use of 1970s soul (mainly the psychedelic soul tracks) were a bit out of place throughout the film. Was it Judd Apatow wanking and needing to insert more memories from his own high school experiences into a film? Future audiences will be confused as to what era the film was trying to be from and why they intentionally tried to have that soundtrack.

Funny film, but how long can this creative team milk the adolescent experience (either through stories about actual kids or just "grown men" who refuse to grow up)? I've only seen, at most, one other film from Apatow, etc. but the bathetic way characters and plots get wrapped up is already stale to me.

― Cunga

I was a little underwhelmed too. I laughed a lot, but it wasn't really as complete a movie as 40-Year-Old Virgin or Knocked Up. Most of the laughs weren't really the result of the script or the jokes but were because of the reactions and the high standard of comedic acting - Michael Cera still kicks ass. I thought Seth Rogan and Bill Heder stole the movie as the incompetent cops.

-- n/a

I just saw this in a theater packed full of students from a large state university. The Orson Wells reference got laughs from maybe three people. The line about going to a state school where the "chicks are twice as dumb and therefore twice as likely to fellate me" got massive guffaws. Hey, we are slutty!

I thought this was way better than Knocked Up, which was strangely the last movie I saw in a theater.

― joygoat

michael cera is probably one of the 5 best comic actors in the world and he's younger than me for goodness' sake. and he's so so so lovable! the other dude had believable charm; not every line worked, but the ones that mattered did.

the wish-fulfilment ending is no less than the protagonists deserved. those girls were both hot and realistic. nothing was TOO far-fetched. nothing was (particularly) overplayed. it wasn't 'the making of a legend' (see: Road Trip, American Pie etc), it was the exploration of friendship.

srsly, one of the great bildungsroman movies.

― Just got offed

Where is a serious ILXor who aims to anticipate Superbad?

#25

Superbad
Greg Mottola
2007
United States
(483.5 points, 24 votes)

*rolls eyes*

*shakes head*

*sighs loudly*

shit I need to go to sleep :|

Loved Superbad.

i hate musicals with all i can muster

― strongohulkingtonsghost, Wednesday, February 10, 2010 9:54 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

HATE them.

― strongohulkingtonsghost, Wednesday, February 10, 2010 9:55 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

i've tried to be cool w/ musicals cos of the line that they are a deeply bizarre urban american mongrel conflicted artform etc, but, i'm basically right there with you. i can take bob fosse kind of but that's about it.

wasn't v funny imo. also doesn't hold a candle to adventureland.

superbad is really bad. calculated quirkyness almost as offensive as juno's, and otherwise a standard fare american pie copy

superbad is not great but something about the way rogen says "are you familiar with yoda?" kills me every time

thought it was like american pie except not funny and I hated the characters and was basically rooting against them getting laid. maybe I should watch it again.

need to rewtch that. was kind of underwhelmed at the time compared to knocked up, which is i suppose more dramatic, but i remember more lols from it.

Superbad is the total opposite of Juno imo. The penis drawing scenes are amazing surreal insanity.

remember nothing about this movie except joyriding cops and drawing penises in notebooks (which is always funny)

superbad and adventureland are both peerless masterpieces fuiud

jonah hill's "you have my information" to cera when they part at the end is my favourite line i think

ten years from now i think i'm going to take "observe and report" over all of these movies because it depicts these men as the borderline psychotics they'd appear in real life

also the tiananmen sq. penis

ps i liked youth in revolt

not to say the apatow camp hasn't given me lolz over the last decade. superbad gets away with it more than most because they're actually underage.

Paul Blart was a better film than Observe and Report

not enough sb's in the world right now

superbad = ok teen film, would have loved it if i was in high school. only parts i really liked were the cops w/mclovin.

i kinda wanted a whole movie of just the cops minus mclovin

so what's the average wait time between posts? trying to decide when to go to sleep

lil surprised knocked up is gonna be above superbad

by the way, super troopers is better than all these apatow movies :|

McLovin is really one of my favorite supporting performances of the decade.

superbad morelike superlolz

Super Troopers is a great flick. I'm kinda curious what a top 40 comedies of the decade poll would look like.

i hope bill hader never gets a starring role because it would dilute his magic

<3 superbad, best of the apatows hands down

loved this movie but it's not gonna feel right if John C Reilly's comedic chops aren't properly recognized. so is there still room for Step Bros or what?

no

step bros is all-time but not coz of JCR

Talladega Nights>>>>>>Step Brothers

otm

no

o god can we not do this

I thought "Role Models" was pretty much the best of the 00s Hollywood "bro" comedies, maybe because besides the funny adolescent jokes it was also about the menchildren growing up. But I can't see it making this far in the poll, sadly.

they're ALL about menchildren growing up

*ponders having abortion*

cops killed the movie

<3 superbad, best of the apatows hands down

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:10 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm

Role Models you can't see making it this far in the poll, but Moulin Rouge you thought was gonna place????

SEX RUINS EVERYTHING

I dunno, maybe. But I liked the growing-up story in Role Models the best. It was nice that in the end it didn't even make LARPers look bad

(x-post to Strongo)