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

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)

i liked role models only because stifler in a minotaur costume is inherently funny

i wouldn't be surprised if Moulin Rouge was higher on my ballot than anyone else who voted, but after it didn't show up in the first couple days of results i knew it was probably a lost cause.

Superbad is one of the weakest of the Apatows imo, don't really see the bfd about it.

I have never seen role models but that descript made me lol xp

superbad and adventureland are both peerless masterpieces fuiud

― pro bono publico (history mayne), 10 February 2010 16:05 (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

seriously, fuiud

super troopers is also all time

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

Like I said, everyone I know loved Moulin Rouge, but few of my friends have even seen Role Models. I joined ILX way after Moulin Rouge came out, and I can't remember any big discussions about it here, so I guess I just assumed ILXors like it too, knowing that many people here prefer sincere, unpretentious movies over postmodern pastiches.

ehh superbad doesn't really have a heart like 40yo and knocked up do; it's just a bunch of situational comedies strung together

knowing that many people here prefer sincere, unpretentious movies over postmodern pastiches

B+

i want to believe

Did ILX really place Must Like Dogs? Can someone explain that to me? (nb, I may have hallucinated that)

it was a joek, Mordy

ehh superbad doesn't really have a heart like 40yo and knocked up do; it's just a bunch of situational comedies strung together

― 99. The Juggalo Teacher (dyao), Wednesday, February 10, 2010 4:19 PM (54 seconds ago) Bookmark

no... just no.

i like apabro but mottola is a better director and hits notes his producer can't reach

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/departed.jpg

it has a lot of teh same strengths and weaknesses i thought... although the centrepiece scene in IA (the "sting" when the two bros realize each others' existence) is nowhere near as strong. and it also has less of the "WE ARE THE SAME TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN DO U SEE DO U SEE" stuff that IA kept hitting you over the head with.

there are a couple of deviations from IA's plot but a lot of stuff plays out quite faithfully. and yeah, they beefed up the nicholson character (who was really much more understated in the original... well i guess that's obvious) and made him a lot more... demonstrative. but i dunno, it's fun to watch! why critics hate big performances so much i'll never know. i guess it's a really easy criticism to level at an actor or a movie...

― s1ocki

Scorsese's best in years: a purploid Mystic River with gay-panic and femme-baiting overtones. Nicholson's Jackness serves the material well, until he literally chews the scenery. Scorsese exploits Damon's Bourne-ish immobility and DiCaprio's callonwness for all their worth, but for all that you don't give a damn about Leo's moral quandaries (although, to Scorsese's credit, he doesn't push this too hard; I suspect he knows the material is horseshit he's gotta mess with).

Baldwin and Wahlberg's pas de deux was the most entertaining bit.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn

probz the most accurate movie set in boston that i have seen, what with the excessive coke use and racial slurs. A++ would buy from again

― Adrian Langston

goddamn i loved this movie. jesus. i hate cop movies but..man. re: music whoever did the awesome pretty guitar score hit a home run. at time sit was so fucking SUBTLE it just worked. who was it? it sounded like marc ribot or even david gilmore or something. haha i bet its ry cooder. i guess ill go imdb it. my friend at the music store i used to work at thought ry cooder was the most disgusting name.

but tonight i saw that shitty idi amin movie with all this in your face fela kuti and blues rock inappropriately loud and at the start of every scene for no reason. just really appreciated the sndtrk to the departed. ive never left a movie totally pumped and ready to knock someone in the skull. so what was your favo part!??!

ok howard shore did the music but i doubt he played the solo guitar throughout. anyone have any info?

― chaki

even tho there was some unevenness in the accents the general bostonness was spot on. there were a bunch of lines that had me cracking up that the nyc audience had no appreciation for. marky mark is officially inducted into my comedy hall of fame.

― jhoshea

come anticipate 'The Departed' with me

#24

The Departed
Martin Scorsese
2006
United States
(485.5 points, 26 votes)

xp, ok, so not total hallucination

they're ALL about menchildren growing up

― strongohulkingtonsghost, Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:14 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Sandler movie this summer - "Grown Ups" - Picking up where they left off, they discover why growing older doesn't always mean growing up.

superbad has plenty of heart, but more importantly it's funnier from word one.

now we're cooking tbh. this poll was getting saggy there for a while.

i think at the end of my life it will turn out that the departed is the movie i have seen the greatest number of times. i don't even know why, really. watchable!

I predict a lot of this poll will be trying to explain the difference between 'good film' and 'best of an entire decade's worth of cinema'