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

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!"

I think I liked CQ more than I liked any of Sofia's movies.

i can relate more to the setting/atmosphere of george washington than LiT, but my annoyance was always that people seemed to think that because they were rich they couldn't be sad and their story shouldn't be told (same people who probs revel in Haneke/Girl Cut In Two bourg-slams). If they had said it should be better told than LiT, I would have agreed.

I know I saw CQ but I can't remember a thing about it.

It was the making of Danger Diabolik basically.

that movie had one great scene, in the airport when he meets his dad

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

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, February 10, 2010 3:35 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is that even possible, seeing 1 new movie every 3 months for the whole decade? i mean i know it is but still. i'm probably one of the least movie buff-ish people here and i've seen almost 200 movies just out of the nominations list.

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

Well, I can think of at least one reason why that shouldn't be on this poll.

docs i voted for (in no order):

muderball
grizzly man
man on wire
dogtown & z-boys
jackass
sin nombre
77Boadrum

docs i voted for:

grizzly man
blades of glory

I actually thought all the sequences when he's arguing with his girlfriend were good too. It's a silly movie, but I'd still watch it again before I re-watched any of his sis's films.

duh, not the q eric

i gotta say, my response to a lot of these was, this is an ok movie but...watch more movies?

just realised that ocean's eleven won't chart.

i watched a lot of movies in the past decade but very many of them weren't new, it was when i first got sort of nerdy about cinema so going to the video store, it felt like there was a lot of homework to catch up on before i could feel ok with watching 'bourne identity' or some such. i guess i still feel that way! (not hating on 'bourne,' haven't see it yet - different priorities)

hey what the hell is CQ that yall keep talking about

i don't count how many movies i see but i only go to ones i think i will like so i might have seen only 50-100 from the nominations list, and i think i would trust my own vote more than someone who saw hundreds of mediocre or shitty movies. i watch a lot of older stuff though. i think i would have voted for like 5 of those that have placed so far.

congressional quarterly, the movie

i don't count how many movies i see but i only go to ones i think i will like so i might have seen only 50-100 from the nominations list, and i think i would trust my own vote more than someone who saw hundreds of mediocre or shitty movies. i watch a lot of older stuff though. i think i would have voted for like 5 of those that have placed so far.

― harbl, Wednesday, February 10, 2010 9:05 PM (19 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^
same here but have seen fewer from the noms list, quite easy to ditch the 10 needed to have a shortlist, then odd to think some here have seen a great deal more and me be ordering a whole lotta shit that they don't have time for.

closer to 50 than 100 i think, just guessing

also watched at festivals a fair amount of stuff that was new, but didn't get much/any release otherwise, no one was going to vote for it - african films, french films, hong kong films at the smithsonian, etc.

looking at the poll so far the bottom quarter looks far more interesting than some of the shite in the 40-25. whole thing still missing some better ferrell than burgundy though.

hey what the hell is CQ that yall keep talking about

― SMALL BONES, SMALL BODIES (jjjusten), Wednesday, February 10, 2010 9:04 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

congressional quarterly, the movie

― harbl, Wednesday, February 10, 2010 9:05 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah this is definitely what i keep imagining

i watched a lot of movies in the past decade but very many of them weren't new, it was when i first got sort of nerdy about cinema

^ This. Although I'm not terribly nerdy about cinema, I probably did (for example) see as many '70s movies in the past decade as I did '00s movies. Many of which overshadowed any number of movies in my '00s ballot by some degree.

Probably also worth noting that I felt kinda compelled to use all 40 of my slots, even though I'd probably never count some of the movies in the bottom half of my ballot among my favorites of the last decade under other circumstances.

marie antoinette was better than lost in translation
― vag white band (history mayne), Wednesday, February 10, 2010 8:37 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

by miles; adaptation sux tho sorry

u suck

everyone sucks

mainly because it's more much vivien westwood than it is roman coppola

adaptation is a film for ppl who like charlier brooker

charlie*

*charlier

vivienne
(sorry, spelling nazi)

and charlier brooker is a person for ppl who don't like ppl

thank you for explaining your insult as i am american

can someone explain history mayne to me, as i am american?

He's a british.

you gotta go here:

http://www.freefoto.com/images/1214/03/1214_03_65---Center-for-Maine-History-Museum--Portland--Maine--USA_web.jpg

CQ - isn't this roman coppola's film?

also, finally got around to reading upthread, wish there was more discussion of o brother + battle royale, but thx for quoting me on the former omar, not too many passionate defenders of it on ILX

o brother is probably my favourite film to place here that i didn't vote for. great ending esp.

were in a tight spot fellas

and v. quotable indeed

looking forward to this western they're doing next year

lol yes CQ is one case where it's the title itself rather than ppl using initials of a longer title

still 2 matrices & 3 spider men to place rite

Trying to catch up with this thread, really surprised about LiT considering how much hate it got from the get-go. I found it ok, would never have voted for it tho.

http://szwayabrown.com/BeerAndMud/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/airplane-lloyd-bridges-sniff-glue.jpg
looks like i picked a bad time to still be waiting on the Tonetta777 oeuvre to show up...

I only remember one thing from CQ tbh

http://ferdyonfilms.com/CQ14.jpg

hey, I see I didnt miss nuthin.

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

I'm glad they won't be sullied by an appearance (not an Avatar ref).

Rosetta is likely their worst film tho