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

only duplicates from mine - 2 tarentino, 2 zwigoff

if there was a killing in the name ish pile-in vote for one leftfield nomination, what should it have been?

Aoyama's Eureka or Maddin's The Saddest Music in the World

(fantasyland)

The way you guys are using the verb "place" is dubious

It's a poll, not a horse race.

Knocked Up is surely the one to miss out - I assume most people who don't think Apatow is some vile conservative propagandist prefer 40-Year-Old Virgin.

Two a piece from Tarantino, Bird and Linklater.

does anyone have omar little's #, can u just call him and wake him up and we can move on to the next 1510

if there was a killing in the name ish pile-in vote for one leftfield nomination, what should it have been?

― nakhchivan, 11 February 2010 14:19 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

we had these and they all placed.

(opinions vary as to what they were, mind)

2 each from Lynch, Spielberg, Haynes, Tsai.

Aoyama's Eureka

that wd have been my #1 had i voted
not really offensive enough just for a lol fuck dem vote though

id p much guarantee none of yall even saw my #1

^ (not that i would endorse such a sentiment, naturally)

In no way suggesting that Omar should cook up any more screencaps, but I'd be interested to see 101-150 just in list form. I'd imagine that's where you'd get many more mainstream comedies, foreign-language movies, documentaries, etc bumping up against each other with the kind of unpredictability that the upper reaches of a poll like this is never going to enjoy. I want to be turned on to some of the more obscure stuff that certain people put in their top 10.

Holy shit, Eureka is another movie I totally forgot about. Somehow I thought it was a 90s movie, but IMDb says 2000. It definitely would've made my top 10, now I feel bad for missing it.

id p much guarantee none of yall even saw my #1

then why would you vote for it?

everyone will prefer 150-101 to 50-1 i'm guessing

xp because he liked it better than anything else!

ha what kind of question is that

this isn't some ILM poll where people w/ brass knuckles are standing sternly looking at the booth entrance

this isn't eastenders, it's politics

'i hated this but just wanted it to place higher on the list' wtf tactical voting on a film poll is criminal sad

I dunno, the point of voting in a poll is to get stuff you liked on that poll. voting for something that you can guarantee nobody has ever seen = what's the point

tactical voting on a film poll is criminal sad

not tactical voting is silly! esp if you're gonna complain about the results after.

Only voting for movies you think others have seen is the surest way to make stuff like Lost in Translation or Royal Tenenbaums dominate the whole poll, not just the top 20.

the point of voting in a poll is to get stuff you liked on that poll

the point for me was to vote for stuff i liked, and to see out of interest where that tallies and what everyone else liked. i really don't 'get' the other POV

i don't either but it does explain like all of these results

only voting for movies that you are sure nobody else has seen is a pretty good way to do that too

xp

pretty sure people are going to complain no matter what happens

Holy shit, Eureka is another movie I totally forgot about.

Me too. I didn't even see it, but I remember really wanting to and then it wasn't available on video for a really long time.

i'm already printing up the 'Not MY No.1' t-shirts for the inevitable teaparty protests.

You should see it, it's really spellbinding.

(x-post to jaymc)

i don't either but it does explain like all of these results

when 96 people vote in anythingggg the results are gonna be a bunch of sorta-agreeable stuff like tenenbaums. but you can also be sure that nothing truly obscure has a numerical shot at making it. the #100th movie had 13 different people voting for it!

id p much guarantee none of yall even saw my #1

then why would you vote for it?

― iatee, Thursday, February 11, 2010 2:33 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

morbius had called my Serious Film Guy credentials into question iirc

well -- pshaw, basically

ppl forgot about Eureka bcz no vampires or Jonah Hill.

voting for something that you can guarantee nobody has ever seen = what's the point

as A. Elk said about her theory in a Python sketch, "it's mine."

now up to 12/90 for me -- the ones on my ballot from yesterday were darko, lynch, werner and wong. (LLC)

yes, i made a post saying the exact same thing up thread. but if people do that on purpose it does it even worse. i'm not complaining because the results of this poll are not important to my life so had i voted i would have voted for stuff i actually thought was good posts

who cares though

WHY DO ANYTHING EVER

a.k.a. plz stop

omar should just not post the top 10 imo

yes, i made a post saying the exact same thing up thread. but if people do that on purpose it does it even worse. i'm not complaining because the results of this poll are not important to my life so had i voted i would have voted for stuff i actually thought was good posts

I voted for stuff that I thought was good (?? duh?) I just also ordered my ballot so that my favorite stuff that might be slightly outside of the top 100 might manage to make it. (as happened w/ harold and kumar.)

ok cool

i really don't 'get' the other POV

the one you just invented?
probably nobody just writes in random stuff for shit and giggles but these things often contain an element of negotiation (cf keynesian beauty contest) especially among people with less usual choices, or probably a lot of people for whom the notion of a 34th favourite film is absurd

or probably a lot of people for whom the notion of a 34th favourite film is absurd

lol exactly

omar should just not post the top 10 imo

― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Thursday, February 11, 2010 10:50 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

a subtle comment on the ambiguous ending that movies seem to favor nowadays

After you get out of the top 10 of your personal list, doesn't the ranking become rather arbitrary anyway? I'm damned if I can say why my number 32 is better than my number 33 and probably if I lost my ballot and had to do it again from memory they'd be in slightly different positions. So sure, why not be a little tactical on that level.

exactly why i stopped at 20

I sort of wish I had as well. Most films in my 21-40 have some kind of significant flaw. I only see a couple of films a year that I think are close to faultless.

volcano was the last film I watched that was faultless