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

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.

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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

is zvookster anybody?

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

― strongohulkingtonsghost, Wednesday, February 10, 2010 10:51 PM

Plus for some of us really into that sort of thing.

That kind of attitude would be repulsive if it was common -- "it's covering some new ground so obviously it's no good as a horror movie (and obviously pretensious)". Luckily most horror fans actually took it for what it was, a superb re-invention of a sub-genre that still had the right elements of that particular genre to be a 'cake and eat it too' kind of film. I'm glad it broke up the stream of 'my first favorite movie' picks we had going with Ghost World, Memento, etc.

did not like this movie

how in christ's name did this film cover any new ground?

is zvookster anybody?

contenderizer discovered rap music

i don't write for slant if that's what you mean

people said the same thing about crouching tiger hidden dragon w/r/t chinese wuxia movies too. i get it as a criticism, but, i kind of never care about that. middlebrow dilletantism 4eva!!

If most of us disliked this selections today, who voted in this poll -- trollers?

*these

zvookster is a thousand times less irritating than contenderizer

middlebrow dilletantism 4eva!!

lol (w/you on that)

yeah i can't understand why i'm the only person here who has a good word to say for Lost in Translation and i didn't even vote for it.

would love it if ppl would post one concrete reason they did not like a film besides "this is crap! that was shit!"

that was re alfred's point

edward i'm pretty sure "compendium of vampire cliches shoved clunkily through brooding euro filter" pretty neatly summarized my distaste for ltroi.

For me, Let The Right One In was just *outstanding*, but it's too recent to tell if it can be compared to Cache, Adaptation, 35 Shots of Rum, Jesse James or Miami Vice (my other favs).

Ed3, there is a lengthy thread on most every one of these pikshas.

i feel confident but have no proof that LTROI wouldnt have placed at all if it had been released anytime before 2008

There are a lot of movies that I voted for because I loved them when I first saw them but don't necessarily remember enough about why to mount a defense years later. Everything in the top 20 from my 2000-04 list made my 2000-09 list by default.

naturally i don't get your little in-joke, Lamp. i'll just presume it's douchey for now.

I thought Let The Right One In was fine, but not particularly interesting. Though kudos to the visuals - I really liked the way it looked. Excellent lighting.