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

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~~~*

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

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.

when this is all over i demand omar post the list of voters so we can shame the people who haven't bothered replying to the thread to defend some of this nonsense

haha xpost

Seriously "Donnie Darko" is like the worst most unforgivable piece of shit trash that ever existed and if you like it you are actually a mopey goth girl with a shenis

i hear people find this jake fellow quite pretty

i like darko, was under the impression it was in the ilx scorn-cannon tho

(NOTE: I've only seen the director's cut)

i must admit i was damn impressed when i saw DD in the theater tho. that was in the heady "this has not really been released x-treem limited run" phase, long before our current dreaded "dorm room poster" phase. plus, lol swayze.

wait wait is donnie darko the one where swazye plays the pedo? fuck you people.

Really wasn't expecting DD to place. The Swayze stuff, Jenna Malone, and Sparkle Motion kinda redeem it overall, but I'd never vote for it. xxxxxxxxxxxpost

i partly voted for it coz it felt wrong only voting for 'the box' and 'southland tales' -- completist i guess.

liked it, didn't vote for it

I keep forgetting that President Roslyn was in Donnie Darko.

this watered-beyond-belief "dark underbelly of suburbia" shit is what we should REALLY be holding against lynch

Darko is better than ILX gives it credit for, but it didn't come within miles of my ballot.

Donnie Darko posters are in dorm rooms?

(NOTE: I've only seen the director's cut)

From what I've gathered (I haven't seen it) the director's cut enhances the sci-fi side of the movie, which I thought was its weakest element. So maybe you should try the regular cut?

Director's cut is an entirely different (and terrible) movie that retroactively ruins the original entirely as well.

I guess one good film today was inevitable

(94th for me)

Richard Kelly's subsequent career has been a disaster and an embarassment but DD is composed of such a wild range of tropes and subgenres - sci-fi thriller, adolescent coming-of-age story, social satire - and then nails them all with a wonderful emotional resonance. all the acting is top-notch, tons of great throwaway jokes, unique imagery. such a strange movie, so glad it was made.

x-posts

jeezus, what's next, inglourious basterds?!

if yr film's premise is here be monsters, too, in the land of strip malls, i think i hate you a priori

morbs do u ever say anything like it's your opinion rather than objective fact?

the DC basically "explains" and makes explicit everything that was somewhat elliptical and mysterious about the original (which was essentially a mood piece to my mind--not any masterpiece of course). I wouldn't have voted for either.

Oh yeah, I didn't vote for DD either, but I didn't think it was complete shit or anything.

the director's cut is terrible

idk, ppl getting upset about this but 'inglorious basterds' is going to poll higher so

xposts lol

From what I've gathered (I haven't seen it) the director's cut enhances the sci-fi side of the movie, which I thought was its weakest element. So maybe you should try the regular cut?

i don't think you can unlearn that this sorta-ambiguous-i-guess-if-you're-in-high-school film is actually a belabored piece of sci-fi shit.

Director's cut is an entirely different (and terrible) movie that retroactively ruins the original entirely as well.

^^^this.

also lol Dan you liked Crash

director's cut is so awful that's if it's the first version you saw, i'm not sure it's going back to the theatrical release is going to help

i liked it in the cinema btw!

yeah it's too late if you saw DC. you can't unlearn the context it provides.

I'll watch The Box again when it's on cable tho.

Still blown away by the idea that Donnie Darko is popular with college kid dorm walls.