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

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

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

But Anne Elk (Miss)'s theory that she had was a theory anyone could've had.

darko, lynch, werner and wong

would like to see the offices of this law firm tbh

the one you just invented?

I didn't invent the quote in that post- it was a direct quote from iatee?

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

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.

pretty sure he's planning to do this IIRC, mentioned on the noms thread maybe?

right but you're assuming that doesn't overlap with your pov

right but you're assuming that tactical voting =

'i hated this but just wanted it to place higher on the list'

when really tactical voting (for me) was voting for a bunch of movies I liked, only skipping the ones that had 0 chance of making it and giving preference to stuff that might not get enough support from ilx cause everyone is busy voting for david lynch. I dunno, the difference between tactical voting and not tactical voting isn't actually that big.

how long does it take to get honey nut cornflakes

like why the f would somebody vote for a movie they hated?

xp

I wrote some software to decide my voting. It asked me a bunch of y/n questions about which film was better than which other film, and then ranked the films accordingly.

Tactical voting on a film poll? Wha? It's a poll, not a contest.

oops, delete the second 'right but'

It's a poll, not a contest.

haha call it what you want

s'ok, i kinda forgot that i'd written 'i hated this but just wanted it to place higher on the list'

I only voted for stuff that I knew would annoy people on this thread.

how long does it take to get honey nut cornflakes

― nakhchivan, Thursday, February 11, 2010 11:17 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

honey nut cheerios, man, honey nut cheerios

tbh I would be more interested in a poll where people only voted for stuff that they hated but they wanted to place high on the list

i just voted for the 40 movies i liked the best for the nominations list, and tried to do that in order of how much i liked them. other people's opinions of them, or speculation of where they'd finish on the list didn't enter into it.

I wrote some software to decide my voting. It asked me a bunch of y/n questions about which film was better than which other film, and then ranked the films accordingly.

Tactical voting on a film poll? Wha? It's a poll, not a contest.

― NotEnough, Thursday, February 11, 2010 11:18 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

hot or not: film edition?

honey nut cheerios

no accounting for taste

and tried to do that in order of how much i liked them.

which is where the absurdity comes in, as someone mentioned earlier, cause how much did you really prefer #34 to #35? might as well get the most out of your ballot imo.

'which of these would i prefer to watch again right now' i guess? it was thrown together tbh.

i agree with whoever said tactical voting is as silly as getting upset at the results.

but like history mayne, i think at most maybe 1 or 2 people on this board have seen my #1, and i'm positive that a couple others in my top 10 aren't going to "place" at all.

Looks like the only movie from my top 10 to place is Happy-Go-Lucky. Somehow I kinda doubt Innocence or The Isle or Lilo & Stitch would've made it this far.

no don't worry tuomas, I tactical voted lilo & stitch into the top 10

Great!

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― V-E-R-Y (history mayne), Thursday, February 11, 2010 8:18 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

but during yr stay, you will obey protocol.

i tactically voted it OUT

just voted for 40 movies i couldn't care less about to block lilo & stitch iirc

i know that morbs has seen my number one and maybe a couple of others have. i thought there was a slim chance of it making the list, in the very lowest reaches, until i saw the number of votes that the 100th place film garnered.