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

The fightback begins. This thread has been batshit at times: sneering down at Memento, full of hate for Napoleon Dynamite, but then celebrating the likes of 40-year-old Virgin like it's a masterpiece.

step outside the completely random aesthetic boundaries morbs has drawn

Nah, the boundaries were set by Jay Blanchard and BabyBuddha back when Morbs only posted on I Love Baseball.

― Lusty Mo Frazier (jaymc), Wednesday, February 10, 2010 5:49 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

there are plenty of ppl on ilm who are loud about their random aesthetic boundaries; its just that ilf doesnt have enough other passionate posters to drown out the noise

i feel like i see less aggro name-calling and shit on ILM but maybe i dont read it that much

eh you guys, i am a hardcore horror stan and i dont think let the right one in was really a horror movie, but that doesnt mean its bad. i mean i guess some peeps out there are going to think its a betrayal of our inner sanctum or something (not ref to anyone on this thread btw) but if you get all hung up on its genre acceptability issues you are watching movies for the wrong reasons

theres an unfortunate snowball effect to the negative dickwadery of polls

all the horror stans i know love that movie so i dont know where the backlash is coming from tbh.

yeah that's the part I thought was rong. obviously its not a traditional horror flick.

despite its music elitist paradise rep, what i love about ILM is that people feel free to bring up and discuss whatever kind of music they like, from the super-obscure to the #1iest of the charts—if ILF was like that, it'd be great, but step outside the completely random aesthetic boundaries morbs has drawn and you gotta put up with all this fuckin' groaning and harrumphing

haha the one thread i started on ilf - about neo-neo-realism lol - got 0 replies so... idk. i think ilx's film commentary is kinda balkanized really there are some dope genre-specific threads abt horror and anime that are useful, blockbuster specific threads w/p good discussions, rolling film bloggers threads. i think mostly ilf just isnt necessary since there is so much film discussion on ile already

and i didnt vote for it, but i dig it showing up. looking over my ballot, i am predicting i am going to finish this one out at 10/40, so ill take whatever i can get at this point

xpostss

i agree about the middlebrow thing going on here. how to say.. it's like.. there are narrow limits to the way you can think about cinema if these films are the best films.

that sounds real snobby i know, and tbh frequently watching something on my list of films to see, feels like doing homework, if i am going to go with people to the theater i'm cool with watching 'michael clayton' which is v well crafted and fun

That's kind of condescending. For one, I'm pretty sure people are just voting for movies they like, rather than Innovative Cinematic Achievements. For another, I'm sure a lot of people have more "interesting" films on their individual ballots. No one's ballot is going to look exactly like the top 40 finishers in this poll, which by its nature privileges widely seen movies.

(Sorry, that was directed at your first post, not your second.)

I have ideas for movies

one idea was to have a generic action movie script written in english and then translate the script so that every character speaks a different language

and have no subtitles

theres a thread for movie pitches

another was to shoot a war movie where everyone who dies actually dies

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that's cool. i often voted for films i thought were innovative, over films i just happened to like. i enjoyed the hell out of 'superbad' but didn't vote for it.

I #1'd DARKO!!!!!!!!
its only competition was INLAND EMPIRE

in any case, I didn't vote for many documentaries because I knew they would be wasted (as I've explained many times, most of the decade's greatest documentaries didn't receive distribution or didn't receive v much attention, etc. etc.)

Tape Store, I went to see American Teen because you were championing it as the Great High School Doc of our times.

Damn you, damn you to hell.

Did you see Paper Heart, too?

I did, but that wasn't his fault.

I'm at 10/86 right now

half of them are azn

a lot this comes down to the narcissism of (middlebrow) differences.

it's just rich to see a guy who goes to bat for ET, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, crazy heart and the simpsons movie railing against us middlebrow dilletantes. sorry dude, but you're as "middle" as they come.

Cherrypicking Iz Us

another was to shoot a war movie where everyone who dies actually dies

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, February 10, 2010 6:17 PM (14 minutes ago)

this is a really good idea

i loved 4m/3h/2d today btw, i will add it to my would-vote list

another was to shoot a war movie where everyone who dies actually dies

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, February 10, 2010 6:17 PM (14 minutes ago)

this is a really good idea

this is called a documentary and most don't get made on the battlefield

if i ever declared AMERICAN TEEN the greatest high school doc of all-time, i was super naive! i do still behind it as a dope, entertaining MTV documentary! Greatest high school doc is SEVENTEEN, duhhhhh

"Cherrypicking Iz Us"

You make it pretty easy.

still stand behind it*

Also DUMPLINGS!

dude is repping for donnie darko & frears' high fidelity

behold the fuckin' highbrow

"Greatest high school doc is SEVENTEEN, duhhhhh"

Greatest high school doc is Frederic Wiseman's High School.

just used my SB for 2010.

i'm lost, you're not talking about me, right? def not repping for HIGH FIDELITY, i'm not 15 anymore

love high school but seventeen is def better

I'm skeptical, Wiseman doc is pretty amazing...

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

6 years ago, a friend had acess to a threatre at U.T. and told me to be there at 8p.m. He said I could bring one friend, but not to tell anyone else. When I got there, he had beer and popcorn, and In The Mood For Love. Watching it, alomst alone in that theatre, and not knowing anything about the movie; it was amazing. We screen movies all summer in that theatre, but none was as breathtaking as ITMFL.

― Jacob Sanders

In the mood for love's a beautiful film, though. see it at a cinema if you can. the surface (dis)connects well with the substance, if that makes sense.

- stevie

the first thing that came to mind was 'In the Mood for Love' when he's whispering his secret to a hole in Angkor Wat and then covers it with earth; this has me ready to cry again right now.

- Spencer Chow

for scores in general, i find it like it best when the same short piece of music is used as a kind of leitmotif that is used again and again. it builds a relationship to the story and characters that goes beyond just background music.

In the Mood for Love did this really well i think.

- ryan

Finally, "In the Mood for Love" by Wong Kar Wei was a wonderfully melancholy moodfilm of quiet lives and missed opportunities, as visually *rich* a movie as any I've seen since the Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Even a twilight gale-blasted Tottenham Court Road seemed romantic after seeing it.

-- Stevie T

Wong Kar Wai - Feature Films, 1988-2007

#14

In the Mood For Love
Wong Kar-Wai
2000
Hong Kong
(667 points, 23 votes, 2 first place)

WTF

Loved this movie

http://www.sf360.org/features/seventeen-reasons-why-seventeen-might-be-the-greatest-movie-about-teenagers-ever-made

lol didn't vote for IN THE MOOD but awesome!

i don't rewatch a lot of things but this i've seen at least 3 times by choice

One of the best cinema experiences of my life.

never given him a second chance after Happy Together, don't really understand his cult status

repping for, repping for, repping for ... talk like 15-year-olds, watch like 15-year-olds.

You guys cite things I "rep for" from stuff I think is great popular art (ET, EtSunshine) to stuff I just like whose virtues aren't hip enough for you.