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

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

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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'

we ah doolee appointed feduhrull mahshulls

overrated. it was his turn.

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!

― horseshoe, Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:22 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah this is one of those movies like the first indiana jones and the second bourne movie that you can just watch whenever even if you just saw it like the day before

I'm cool with this one too.

I figured departed would be top 10

hate to admit it but this was more entertaining than IA

I don't hate to admit it. IA was crazy overrated.

someone post the .gif of wahlberg walkin by givin the finger pls

i don't even know why, really. watchable

great supporting cast/performances.

overrated. it was his turn.

― sofatruck, Wednesday, February 10, 2010 4:24 PM (46 seconds ago) Bookmark

it was his turn to get into this poll?

election, though, that's another story

wtf is IA?

I spent the beginning of "The Departed" hating all kinds of holy fuck out of it and wanting to die so that I could escape all possibility of watching it ever again, then it hit the scene in the alleyway where Leo and Matt are stalking each other and it magically transformed from then on into one of the most enjoyable films I've ever watched. Pretty fucking mean of the movie to be that emotionally-whiplashish.

Infernal Affairs

my private iowa, sequel to my private idaho

infernal affairs 2 was better than infernal affairs (both good, the departed much better)

dullish remake w/ blond bodybuilders

even nicholson in high-ham mode and leo's weepy switch being broken can't ruin the departed for me

wtf cant believe it took me that long to officially induct marky mark into my comedy hall of fame

also best possible graphic up there

i keep forgetting how many people are in this movie! it feels a little lumpy (some of the back and forth plotting stuff is handled sort of clumsily) but man i don't know if anyone could have found so much room in a movie for so many ppl. nicholson AND baldwin AND marky mark AND etc etc. i like its over-stuffed-ness

cast is great, ropey love story enhanced by inclusion of roger waters' 'comfortably numb', which is doubly enhanced by being included in the soparanos bcuz of the departed.

bah. infernal affairs is jazzy, trashy fun. departed adds an hour and dollops of catholic angst, to no good effect.

yup

i think i love catholic angst

maybe because of buffalo?

i keep forgetting how many people are in this movie! it feels a little lumpy (some of the back and forth plotting stuff is handled sort of clumsily) but man i don't know if anyone could have found so much room in a movie for so many ppl. nicholson AND baldwin AND marky mark AND etc etc. i like its over-stuffed-ness

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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!

― horseshoe, Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:22 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah this is one of those movies like the first indiana jones and the second bourne movie that you can just watch whenever even if you just saw it like the day before

― max, Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:24 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

watched it 3 times on a 20 hour flight once

also best possible graphic up there

That entire sequence of events is just breathtaking to watch.

Worth watching for Wahlberg and Baldwin.

wahlberg/damon chemistry is the best thing about this movie

lamp how many of those ppl get thrown off a building?

overrated. it was his turn.

― sofatruck, Wednesday, February 10, 2010 4:24 PM (46 seconds ago) Bookmark

it was his turn to get into this poll?

― pro bono publico (history mayne), Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:26 AM (4 minutes ago)

i mean the general love for it and the Oscar win.

catholic angst = you have my heart forever

this is practically marty's entire filmography obvs

departed owns infernal affairs completely

forgot what role baldwin had and just youtubed a scene - 30 rock has ruined my ability to appreciate him in anything anymore

Patriot Act! PATRIOT ACT!!!!!!!

also some of the nicholson scenes border on the surreal. not only their staging/readings, but how they're inserted into the overall film.

oh come on, baldwin's performance worth it for this alone:

"Marriage is an important part of getting ahead: lets people know you're not a homo"