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

(Please let Match Point be next. Please let Match Point be next. Please let Match Point be next.)

stfu

some of the things I liked about Lost In Translation were things I liked about Elephant...natural movement of story without a concrete-seeming screenplay (its "writinglessness", which is common to these directors and seems very un-American, in a good way), its gorgeous visual sense, and choice of soundtrack. I don't understand the hate this seems to inspire

I think the hate it inspires comes from it being way way overrated (ie placing as the 16t best film of the last 10 years) more than from it being a BAD movie. it's just an okay movie that somehow got some people really too excited.

kinda blows my mind someone thinks the incredibles is the best movie of the decade but w/e

ayn rand voted btw

kinda blows my mind someone thinks the incredibles is the best movie of the decade but w/e

Incredible, isn't it?

i'm guessing 'marie antoinette' isn't going to place, i quite liked that..

re: LiT young, aspiring hipters and 'thinking' college students loved it because it was, like, so deep and shoegazey. that's where the h8 comes from.

Seriously, The LIT soundtrack is so perfect, I can't tell if it's any good as a film. I'll take your all's word for it though.

Wow Momento & Lost in Translations have had the highest number of votes. WTF?

dare I say it, these poll results are fucking MIDDLEBROW

oh god how I hate Marie Antoinette

not seen virgin suicides in years, so i can't attest to how it holds up (i expect dunst-on-the-field and 'come sail away' are still great), but it's funny that thinking back marie antoinette might be soficop's best work.

i didn't think it was deep at all, but it do think it's v. pretty

momento moproblems

people who only saw 40 movies last decade shouldnt really have vote - its kinda irresponsible imo

I loathed it because it was about the problems of people of a higher social status than myself, and I just felt a strong degree of contempt for them in a "do you want some cries with that waahburger?" way. It has nothing to do with how highly the movie was "rated" at all.

aspirational depression

marie antoinette was better than lost in translation

by q a long way

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marie antoinette was better than lost in translation

― vag white band (history mayne), Wednesday, February 10, 2010 8:37 PM (23 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

by q a long way

I... guess. I had fewer issues with it, but it still seem kinda slight and empty and not much deeper than "poor little rich girl is poor little rich girl". thought it was a cop-out to skip the entire revolution and just show a ransacked palace.

dare I say it, these poll results are fucking MIDDLEBROW
― mark kerfuffalo (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, February 10, 2010 2:34 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Obvious, but true. Anyone who argues otherwise is boring contrarian.

on the plus side, Schwarzmann was in it

i liked and still like LiT quite a bit. didn't vote for it though

xp That's not a plus.

lol does everyone remember CQ?!?! haha coppola's fucking kids, i tell you

LiT got a lot of flack for basically being two rich, priveleged people moping through their fuxxing awesome life, but i hate that line of thinking.

Vampire Weekend in Tokyo

the people in LIT are awfully rich, aren't they?

LiT got a lot of flack for basically being two rich, priveleged people moping through their fuxxing awesome life, but i hate that line of thinking.

Well, the thing is, it didn't really seem to have much more to it than that - apart from a few good songs on the soundtrack. There are other movies about mopey privileged white people that are more compelling and nuanced.

I... guess. I had fewer issues with it, but it still seem kinda slight and empty and not much deeper than "poor little rich girl is poor little rich girl". thought it was a cop-out to skip the entire revolution and just show a ransacked palace.

― mark kerfuffalo (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, February 10, 2010 8:39 PM (56 seconds ago) Bookmark

i think that's the point... not sure how self-aware sofcop is, but that film's attitude towards marie antoinette is not like, poor her. neither is it all what a bitch.

It got flack for portraying moping in a ham-fisted and boring way.

I would agree that there are better examples of that type of movie, but I just remember at the time people getting annoyed about 'they're rich what do they have to be bummed about!?'. that's the line of thinking I hate.

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On the plus side, odds this poll won't have anything by the Dardennes are pretty good.

truth

one of my greatest cinematic xps of the 00s was seeing a trailer for a marie antoinette movie that looked kinda like clueless set to a new order jam. starring kirsten dunst. never saw the movie cuz i didnt think itd be as good as the trailer

that was a rad trailer

I like films about sad, lonely, tortured rich people because I get to work out a little schadenfreude and remind myself that it's a good thing to not be totally loaded

i thought the cool thing going on in 'marie antoinette' was.. people are TRYING to tell poor little rich girl that she is completely oblivious and inappropriate and she just does. not. listen. and in fact gets worse, not in a malicious way, just off in her own world, naive and clueless. but she was an outsider to begin with so it is sort of understandable that she doesn't hear subtle hints being dropped that her extravagance is a problem.

one of my greatest cinematic xps

took me 20secs before i got you didn't mean 'xposts'

On the plus side, odds this poll won't have anything by the Dardennes are pretty good.

^this

like, a film about rich people suffering? SOUNDS GREAT

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one of my greatest cinematic xps of the 00s was seeing a trailer for a marie antoinette movie that looked kinda like clueless set to a new order jam. starring kirsten dunst. never saw the movie cuz i didnt think itd be as good as the trailer

― ^ now ya head is like *http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/3310/volcanoqa2* (Lamp)

i don't remember the trailer but it sounds like it encompasses the movie very well. i rly liked it, btw.

the trailer was nxt level awes

i don't get all bent out of shape over it, considering that in my current situation, a film about middle class people who have average jobs and own average cars and a nice average middle class house, may as well be about rich people for all i can relate.

lettin the days go by, lettin the water hold me down...

considering that in my current situation, a film about middle class people who have average jobs and own average cars and a nice average middle class house, may as well be about rich people for all i can relate.

I grew up in this environment, so even though my "current situation" is quite different, I can still remember what it was like and can relate.

On the plus side, odds this poll won't have anything by the Dardennes are pretty good.

― queen frostine (Eric H.)

you didn't like Rosetta (1999)? i thought that was great.

but I just remember at the time people getting annoyed about 'they're rich what do they have to be bummed about!?'. that's the line of thinking I hate.

Good God, I was so angry at a friend of mine for spouting this line about LiT. He was like, "They're in Japan! They should enjoy the vacation!"