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

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

― Wrinkles, I'll see you on the other side (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, February 10, 2010 6:48 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

are you just going to post a variation of this after every movie? "what the fuck guys, i haven't seen this movie but it sounds bad!!"

haha yes!

lj says 'can you post this 2 thread and ask ilx to explain the comments stream o_O'

http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2009/07/29/unreal-movie-review-the-hurt-locker/

tell me why I should see it!

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i mean, i've posted 6 v short things on this thread and you're bitching about m,e saying that i'm repping for high fidelity, which i def am not.

"Nah, Spirited Away will be. "

of course!

xxxxp I guess I don't know, but there are only 13 movies left, and I can think of 13 movies more likely to get in than CoG. I could be wrong, of course.

also c'mon s1ocki on this thread I have praised/defended the films I liked and kept my mouth shut about films I know nothing about too

i liked 'in the mood for love' quite a lot. so stylish, wong kar wai always is.

tell me why I should see it!

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― Wrinkles, I'll see you on the other side (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, February 10, 2010 6:58 PM (29 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

because it is a beautiful and enchanting film.

tape store, he was talking about morbs re hi-fidelity not you

I've also done a fair amount of bashing films I HAVE actually seen too y'know (Lost in Translation, the Incredibles, Borat, etc)

People who hate Happy Together are people I don't want to know.

All the pretty dresses. xpost

And I know and like Shakey Mo and now I am conflicted!

has as much in common with 'chungking express' (dope film btw) as 'after hours' does with 'kundun' (directors can be surprisingly versatile!)

Guys, stop speculating and let the good times roll in.

that was a mistake, it was Chungking Express that I saw, not Happy Together (the repeated use of California Dreaming in Chungking Express = urrrrgh *vomit*)

is that a quote from somewhere

Remember how, after about four months of being an arrogant (albeit smart) jerk on those ILF threads, Jay B posted something on the underwear thread, apparently caught the eye of one of ILX's pretty girls and declared he no longer was in love with Teh Cinema?

Help me out, did I make this up in my mind?

morbs you typed "totes mcgotes" the other day!!

Pretty sure that was weeks ago, and obv it was to elicit a reaction like yours! You guys do know I like to play provocateur, right?

you're aware it's an open forum, right?

Baseball players say "Know your place, rook."

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

ha ive seen it 3 times too - def the kind of movie i can just lose myself in its atmosphere - kinda want to make this and the new world a lazy sunday afternoon double bill when rainy day in april

tell me why I should see it!

because its as emotionally wearying as anything thriller w/its unresolved tension because its smart about ppl and about desire and the power of uncertainty because its gorgeously shot and incredibly thoughtful

dude that's the exact plot of "in the mood for love" xxp

Hahaha

Baseball players say "Know your place, rook."

that was mean Morbz

"You guys do know I like to play provocateur, right?"

It's your favorite board game!

i remember jay blanchard for his unforgettable ilx exit (ilxit?)

shakey mo did u like the cranberries cover in chungking exp?

Morbs: the Tommy Lasorda of ILE film threads.

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

It's more baffling than Mulholland Dr -- tho I figured out the ending, at least to my satisfaction, 2-1/2 hrs after it was over -- and quite good. Dern's kind of amazing and has no dialogue for long stretches. Best thing I've seen so far this year. My Lynchfan friend was "confused."

If anyone spots Nastassja Kinski in it, let me know.

― Dr Morbius

Yes, while it was somewhat painful at the time, it's fun to go back and mull over the film. Also: I had a really vivid schizo dream the night after. And: that Ballad of the Upanishad music that they introduced with, did that "melody" get mirrored toward the end of the movie, because really, I felt near the end, as if it repeated and I felt like my mind was being sucked into a vortex.

― Mary

Saw in on Friday. Fucking stunning. Dunno if I'd say it's the best film Lynch has ever made, but it's right up there with Mulholland Drive and Eraserhead. Have to let things settle, see it at least one more time before I can say anything definitive about what it meant to me.

But I'm surprised that so many folks (not here, necessarily) have complained about the DV look. Thought it suited Lynch's style very well. Loved the heavy graininess on the blown-up and darker shots. Loved the bleary, blurry, supersaturated reds. The endless, swollen close-ups were great, as were the rougher, hand-held sequences. Visually, I thought it was a breakthrough for Lynch.
― verbose, bombastic, self-immolating

- Pye Poudre

Saw this yesterday. I got to the theater kinda early to get a good seat, after a while an old woman and her middle-aged daughter sat in the row behind me. I was eavesdropping as the old lady was telling her daughter about how every Thursday she and her husband go to Costco, and the first thing they do is get a $1.75 hot dog, "the best all-beef hot dog you've ever had, and they have pickle relish and all the toppings," and that gives her enough energy to spend three hours shopping in Costco, and the daughter just keeps replying "But it's just so huuuuge .... it's terrible." So of course my thought = "Huh. These people are coming to see a three-hour long David Lynch movie? Well, I guess you never know." Five minutes into the movie, I hear them whispering, "I don't think this is the right movie ... this isn't the right movie ... let's go" and they left.

― n/a

It really is some kind of achievement. Over the course of 3 hours I was rarely bored. Sure, it could be trimmed 15 or 20 minutes, but that's saying something for a 3 hour, nonsensical, shot-without-a-script headtrip. Even when the film's in the throes of random & unmoored shapeshifting, Dern's performance and Lynch's craft sustain the emotion and mood. This is pure cinema, musical in a way, flowing forward & free under its own dissipation, a piece of ice moving across a hot stove. Not only does the grubby DV cinematography do justice to the nightmare world, it throws into stark relief the total control Lynch has over his materials. The shot composition, set design, lighting, makeup, and sound are impeccable. I like how the themes resonate throughout; Hollywood & prostitution, performance & illusion, acting & role-playing, time & causality, choices & consequences. Mostly in passing details, like when the first visitor tells the story of the boy going out to play, she says something like "when he went through the door it made a reflection, and it was evil". The obvious word choice here would be "shadow" instead of "reflection", but reflection, doubling, mirroring, are all key to the film.

― Edward III

David Lynch's "Inland Empire"

#13

Inland Empire
David Lynch
2006
United States
(696 points, 25 votes, 1 first place)

Amazed it's this high thb

YESSSS

Baseball players say "Know your place, rook."

be serious. i'm commenting on your own comments, not some bullshit.

all the pretty dresses

Yes!

tbh

should be higher imho but I'm okay with Mullholland Dr placing ahead of it

really killin it with the screengrabs omar, very nice

I voted 2046.

I won't try to parse that Lasorda comment (I have a drag queen son?).

Jay Blanchard posted a photo of himself shirtless but I don't remember him renouncing cinema. Although he also posted frequently on the drunk thread, so I wouldn't be surprised.

lol @ that n/a story

2046 is even worse than the blueberry pie one

that is just crazy

the super-overt narration in 2046 just kills whatever mood dude was going for, and the scifi stuff is awful. it's like a bad sequel.

I would pay serious money if someone could pull that shirtless pic up and post it on this thread.

pretty dresses was jeff re In the Mood for Love

really killin it with the screengrabs omar, very nice

― Wrinkles, I'll see you on the other side (Shakey Mo Collier),

+1

I won't try to parse that Lasorda comment (I have a drag queen son?).

It was the only baseball reference I could come up with. I'm a rook, obv.

i thought 2046 was a failure at the time, but parts of it stay with me.

And, jaymc, I remember clearly him saying something about how he didn't care for movies anymore. I must've processed it as being part and parcel with trying to impress whoever he was trying to impress.

I just saw Inland Empire again for the other night. What a total mindfuck of a movie! I felt like I had Alzheimer's watching it, with all the weird deja vu moments