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

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

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

saw this tonight, liked it a lot. the filmmaking was imaginatively low-key (big scene at the end is the obvious example, but all the way through the choice of what's shown and how, plus really terrific sound design -- a lot of the movie happens on the soundtrack). kids were great. i didn't read the ending as exactly deterministic. obviously oskar could end up like the previous keeper, but i don't think the movie is cynical about eli's affection for him.

anyway after watching 30 days of night and i am legend last month i was bitching about how there were no new angles left in vampire movies, so it's nice to be proven wrong.

― tipsy mothra

saw this yesterday. not a masterpiece but really really good. i loved how it was part vampire/part bully revenge/part teen romance. my heart almost sank in that scene at the end and even tho i knew what was gonna happen i liked how they filmed it from a slightly unusual POV. i loved how sweet/kinda cherubic oskar looked too. really good film. prob only 2nd to the wrestler for films i liked the most this year.

― titchy

I'd never even heard of the book before seeing the film, so approached these in the reverse order. Leaving aside the possibility that the english translation could be partly to blame for the clumsiness of some of the book (and I think it probably is), it seems to me that Lindqvist's own screenplay is so much more elegant and focused; maybe the process of having to review, and edit and strip down his book and turn it into a script helped to unlock its potential.

― Bill A

I can hardly be the first to say that this is The Hunger remade by Lukas Moodysson - from the former, the sense of the vampires as being a little bit sad and lonely, while from the later all the stuff about children in Sweden. It seemed like at least some of the dialogue between Eli and Oskar was straight out of Together.

Great film though.

― The Real Dirty Vicar

i liked how the blood sucking was this intensely private act. for all the vampires it's this uncontrollable urge that demands some privacy. when oskar's blood drips onto the floor eli is like "go AWAY!!" and when lacke's wife first smells her own blood, it's like she loses herself for a second.

otm about it feeling "scandinavian" at least if wallander episodes are anything to go by. all is calm and deliberate. the characters were often made tiny against these giant landscapes.

― Tracer Hand

Lat den ratte komma in / Let The Right One In (Swedish Vampire Film)

#15

Let the Right One In
Tomas Alfredson
2008
Sweden
(627 points, 29 votes)

possibly lengthy meeting in a few minutes, don't expect more updates for a little while...

nearly fell asleep on this one. Liked the climax in the pool tho, mostly for one shot.

rules

dislike intensely

this is absolute crap.

awesome to see that place!

xposts for some of us more than others obv

horror flick for people "not usually into that sort of thing" = PASS

i gotta say, the entire horror film contingent in l.a. seemed to get behind this one, which was unusual to me seeing as how they're more ready to slobber over super-twisted french or japanese horror than anything this comparatively subtle or quiet.

i'm not usually into that sort of this and i definitely wasn't into this. it doesn't make a lick of sense.

neither does yr post!

i was under the impression that "horror film for those not into" didn't really stick as a criticism of this, cos it wasn't really meant to be a horror film in the 1st place?

(still have not seen, btw)

makes far too MUCH sense. compendium of vampire cliches shoved clunkily through brooding euro filter.

sign me up!

pool sequence really was all that, though. maybe i'm just bitter it was wasted on the preceding hour-plus.

Boring.

i didn't finish it, not remotely scary or interesting. maybe i should've stuck it out for the "pool sequence."

really, what does a Pulse need to do to satisfy horrorwise?

lol "likely", a rare moment of uncertainty from this guy