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

avoiding delaware is also how I live my life fwiw

have to say I was a little worried about poll results 20-16, list was headed in a mediocre indie fare direction

but 15-11 is really solid (my tenenbaums revulsion notwithstanding)

hate tenenbaums, still love rushmore. perhaps because, like superbad, it's a story about kids.

and has a good soundtrack.

i have to admit as a young film student i was pretty smitten with the creation-led scene in rushmore

rushmore still stands imo

i remember many of the key laffs from rushmore. all that lingers from tenenbaums is a bunch of gaunt and/or ill-looking wasps standing around looking happysad.

Paltrow's Sylvia Plath routine in Tenenbaums >>>>>>>> playing Sylvia Plath in a biopic.

i'd like to see a movie that focuses on bill murray's sons, ten years later.

the sons of every bill murray character maybe

bill murray's sons from rushmore reliving the same day over and over

scarlett johansson is actually bill murray's son...alive only because jake gylenhal sacrificed himself

i'd also like to see a max fischer players version of inland empire.

i'd like to see inland empire

to rephrase strongo, comedy for people who dont like comedy films

― SMALL BONES, SMALL BODIES (jjjusten), Wednesday, February 10, 2010 7:59 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

I'll get behind this. I love Wes Anderson, and loathe all the SNL Will Ferrell crap. I make no apologies for it.

voted Mr Fox #13, no other W.A. in contention (liked em all tho)

still kind of hilarious imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzkkzDEaBak

Max Fischer: I like your nurse's uniform, guy.
Dr. Peter Flynn: These are O.R. scrubs.
Max Fischer: O, R they?

still gets me

inland empire is boring as hell. lifeless, turgid, miserable. i've just been watching half of it thinking ok, maybe THIS time lynch will be different, but no...... i mean, i find no compelling reason for the pacing to be soooo slooooowwwww, people staring intensely at the camera and delivering lines with flat affect =/ creepy, it is just BORING.

not creepy at all?

i find flat affects super creepy

no. trying too hard. i mean laura dern's character is constantly looking at people who don't blink much and deliver cryptic dialogue with flat affect as if it is creepy and strange, but actually it is annoying and boring.

if inland empire isn't creepy and strange I'd like to know some films that are

also I have my top 10 predictions ready but will honor omar's desire to avoid speculation and/or prognostication

it's so one-note! if from beginning to end it is creepy people staring at you saying cryptic things with dramatic music.. enough already, why should i care? i mean, it's not strange if it's the same way of being strange you've seen in a ton of other films. the dialogue is also terrible.

NAME THEM NAME THE FILMS

i am not sure one goes to a lynch film for the repartee.

was just watching it earlier again tonight, too, and there are moments in the first 1.5 hours or so that still give me hellafied jolts.

dude made me jump with a lightbulb going from pinkish to blue. hats off, dave.

i'm not sure why one goes at all. i'm not trying to be an asshole here i sincerely don't get what is so interesting chez lynch.

people who call shit "dreamlike" should be bludgeoned 99 times out of whatever, but i don't think i've ever seen another film that works like my dreams actually work. ymmv of course if you mostly dream of ice cream of bill murray's sons.

cronenberg is hell of creepy, of course to do this he films things actually happening besides staring & flat affect dialogue, but the camera is quite detached and clinical somehow. i haven't seen some of his recent films but generally find him very uncomfortable to watch.

the desperate search for connection between the big holes the next morning for shit that seemed so crucially narrative as it was happening.

xpost: oh cronenberg as a whole > d. lynch, no doubt

i have no opinion on bill murray, i liked ghostbusters when i was a kid

think it could be nice if omar wants to do more threads of kinda random kinda fantastically poignant screencaps with sans serif annotations
maybe a series of youtube.jp kitten videos?

cronenberg prolly g.o.a.t. for me, really, on a very personal/non-critical level.

best friend?

If I had voted, Grizzly Man probably would have been my #2. Loved it.

slocki he saved my sister from drowning one summer.

cronenberg's alright. provokes interesting audience reactions, such as lols @ 'existenz' which is definitely super funny, friday night movie crowd having no idea 'history of violence' was a lot more weird and plain creepy than you'd think a rather trite crime story could ever be. i find bruno dumont v creepy and difficult to watch for that reason, same deal as far as the camera seeming to be at a very detached and clinical distance & how that affects perception of what takes place onscreen.

oh let's not bring dumont into this

he's so wrong! SO wrong. i'm not saying i recommend it. but if what you're going for is to really unsettle somebody, there you go. see if i'm understanding the appeal of lynch it is that he is unsettling but i honestly can hardly stay awake.

i'm curious how much people loaded up multiple movies by the same directors on their ballots -- i only did it w/ 2 LOTR movies, otherwise a lot of times if i really liked more than one movie by a director i'd end up only including the one i liked more which was usually also the one less likely to place

one of the things that i liked about humanite is that dumont's camera makes everyone seems legitimately deranged enough to have been the killer. kept waiting for the big reveal that it was the sad-sack repression case cop through the whole movie.

i have seen like two of these movies.

if i'd voted for the full forty i'd probably have voted for two cronenbergs, two miikes, and two joon-hos, along with the two lynchs. but i think that's more about my pet obsessions than any sort of strategery.

haha also maybe two eli roths :/

and by "two" i mean "almost all"

had 6 2x directors on mine

i'm curious how much people loaded up multiple movies by the same directors on their ballots -- i only did it w/ 2 LOTR movies

Assayas got two mentions in my top forty, but c'est tout.