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

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"

also the supreme awkwardness of damon's "oh yeah, my dick's working...overtime!" response

why is jack donaghy in this movie and why is he speaking in such a ridiculous accent?

nicholson's 'rat' scene is .... something else

the colors/lighting in this film are really beautiful by the way, feels like a sunny day in the northeast

Favorite Jack is when he's playing with the severed hands

love kevin corrigan's performance too

love the Departed screengrab

i love departed, but it is almost so crazy and ... demonstrative that it ends up feeling to me like a movie of "moments" and performances rather than something that really hangs together. would watch again though.

*~~~If they knew shit, they wouldn't be Puerto Ricaaan~~~*

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Wonderful acting from the family (especially Mary McDonell) and an impressively audacious debut for the director. But I gag when people tell me this is one of the greatest movies of the year. Far too unpleasant and mismanaged for such a ranking. Not to mention the director's filmschoolish obsession with interminable speed-up-slow-down musical sequences.

― Anthony Miccio

There's something very much "of its time" about this movie, don't you think? I saw it a couple of months ago and the smurf jokes a la Clerks/Tarantino/etc REALLY stuck out like sore thumbs. Brooding-geek-in-love is a constant movie theme I guess but seems particularly late 90s to me; like some grunge-to-Hollywood trickle-up theory. DD feels akin to Memento, too, but the latter pulled off all the time-switcheroo twist-ending nonsense with such dazzlingly confusing aplomb it's tough to see anyone tackling the flashback as their main mode of storytelling with any more formal daring. It's this guessing-game treasure hunt which often seems to be the only point of such hugely explicit formal devices, a muscle-flexing and a challenge, and I generally hate the "serious" movies that employ it: YES you are an all-powerful director-god and I will worship your editing skillZor. With the light ones, though, it's fantastic: Go and Pulp Fiction come to mind.

― Tracer Hand

Funny, clever, weird, disturbing, brilliantly acted, great concept, thought-provoking, touching, confusing, just totally enjoyable. I wont reveal the plot in case anyone else hans't seen it, but I can't recommend it enough. Anything that manages to shoehorn emotional problems, teen-romance, giant bunny rabbits, timetravel, existentialism, air-disasters and the rest into one little independant (is it?) film is alright by me. Fantastic. Loved it. Can't wait to see it again.

― Nick Southall

I liked it for exactly the reasons Nick lists -- the sheer packing-in of many things, and the fact that they work. There has been a weird flavor of hype to it, and I think teenagers are responding to it in a way that I can't -- I really don't see it as a movie about adolescence, per se, adolescence is just the setting. But forget the hype, enjoy the film on its own merits -- it will probably be discussed to death ten years from now when many of the people involved have become much higher-profile.

The soundtrack isn't just great, it's so well-handled ... the two scenes which look like music videos -- not coincidentally, I think, the two scenes which use Tears for Fears, although the second of them is a cover -- those are fucking brilliant.

― Tep

Donnie Darko?

#23

Donnie Darko
Richard Kelly
2001
United States
(486 points, 24 votes, 1 first place)

love kevin corrigan's performance too

― ('_') (omar little), Wednesday, February 10, 2010 10:40 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

fuck forgot about him, too. see what i mean?!?!

boo boo a thousand times boo

FUCK THAT FUCKING MOVIE

xxp

My most hated film of the decade.

haha oh man

i had high school angst too

yeah don't get DD

sigh, ~it truly is a mad world~

Donnie Darko was okay, I guess. I liked the dark comedy, didn't much care about the sci-fi/time travel puzzle, which was kinda silly. I wish it hadn't had that element at all.

Get on here and explain your votes people

my feelings about Departed summarized: "the rat symbolizes obvious"

hooray Donnie Darko so awesome

haha i voted donnie darko fth

i liked it. the director's cut was horrible horrible horrible.