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

http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=lettherightonein.htm

ya, what a shame that people are going to see foreign-language films in the theaters. xxp

LTROI, sorry :)

imagine how bad it would be for film culture if people started seeing more romanian films too

*shudder*

what a shame that people are going to see foreign-language films in the theaters

in that particular case, yeah. I guess I don't give a toot what language delivers boredom (very MIDDLE of me)

The Death of Mr. Langlois

LTROI's gender-related coyness gave it the necessary faux depth to achieve cult statud

which LTRII could've used a tad more of

read this as LOTR II and for a second was more hype??

Here's a fun, non-spoilerizing question: what are everyone's highest ranking movies that they're positive aren't going to make it into the top ten? Mine is To Be And To Have at #4.

haha thats easy, Cremaster 3 at #2

fog of war #3

although only 1 more (for a total of 2) of my top ten has any chance of making it.

my #2 has maybe a 30% chance

I'm 19/40

My #1 was The Devil & Daniel Johnston. I'm hoping it snuck into the top 200 at least.

three of my top ten didn't make the Slant 100, that's how middle I am.

ladies and gentlementalists, your top 10 will begin shortly

My number 6 was My Winnipeg.

man i wish more people had seen that movie (DiDJ). its so amazing. xxxpost

my #6 was similar to but better than Gukbe's.

"three of my top ten didn't make the Slant 100, that's how middle I am."

So edgy.

Or middle.

Femme Fatale at #3 or #4. Can't remember.

hope i didnt spoil the "Cremaster 3 takes the poll in a landslide!" surprise there omar

stoked 4 results!

I watched Saddest Music in the World recently, but still prefer Winnipeg. The DVD skipped a fair amount on the former though, so I'll have to give it another try at some point.

As mentioned before Zatoichi was #1.

do you like the older Zatoichi films less? (I've seen none)

haha i just realized that thanks to my #2 and inland empire #1 vote i dont expect to have a bunch of out of town ilxors lining up to be my houseguests when they are in town

i saw the devil & daniel johnson, touching and some good tunes but i wasn't blown away.

"he seemed like such a nice guy. quiet though, kept to himself." xpost

man i wish more people had seen that movie (DiDJ). its so amazing. xxxpost

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hmm the porn parodies are reaching pretty far out there these days

"do you like the older Zatoichi films less? (I've seen none)"

No I like them plenty (although after the 12th one they do get kind of repetitive) but I thought Kitano's version was the best. And closing credits are just amazing.

my #2 was atanarjuat: the fast runner

cue Shasta telling me that my love of trashy Japanese samurai and yakuza flicks is an insult to the entire island, etc

DONT INSULT THE ISLAND!

prob not going to get a daniel johnston porn piece until crispin glover finishes up that trilogy tbh xxposts

thought Zatoichi was really good, Brother too. better than Dolls, both.

cue Smoke Monster

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City Of God is very impressive (in a pretty flashy macho bullshit sort of way) but weaves its multiple narratives very well to build a nicely complex story. And is bloody violent too.

- Pete

Just saw "City of God." Very visceral and intense, particulary the bits when violence is inflicted by (and on) kids who appear to be the around 4 or 5 years old.

There was a thread awhile back that referred to reviews which called this a "Brazilian Goodfellas" but it's much better than that. I kind of preferred it to most recent American crime movies I've seen. There was a brutality offset with odd, comic, and very human moments between the characters.
At times I could have done without some of the stylish flourishes. Near-perfect I guess.

- theodore fogelsanger

Saw "City of God" on vid at last. It's really a very good film. Unfortunately I don't like gangster films, so I didn't actually really enjoy it. It's an odd experience to admire the direction, acting, cinematography, story structure, but not enjoy the story. Having said that the bleakness of the continual killing was very effective. Are there still people who say watching violent films = people become violent? mental.

Anyway, one point of the story structure - which was otherwise very well done - really bugged me. A lot of films, and badly-written books and comics, often start near the end, just before everything resolves, so that when the story finally gets back to that point there's a cheap sense of closure or symmetry to the story. It's rubbish. There's nothing wrong with the (also common) converging back/front story thing, but just starting at the end with a "I bet you're wondering how we got to this point" or a variation on it, bugs me. It's not justified (internally) by the story, just by a need (external) to make the story shout NOW WE"RE DONE at the right point when it should be able to do that under it's own steam - as indeed CoG would have done.

- Alan

City of God = Warner Brothers gangster movie - Cagney + ("Pixote" - balls)

- Dr Morbius

If Amores Perros was the Mexican Pulp Fiction, then City Of God is the Brazillian Goodfellas

#10

City of God
Fernando Meirelles
2002
Brazil
(777.5 points, 32 votes, 1 first place)

Nice!

loved Sonatine, never got around to watching Zatoichi on the same disc wtf?

really glad to see city of god show up

yeah good start to the top 10. l'il dice is about the scariest mf-er in a movie this decade.

City of God was the best Tarantino movie of the '00s.

I liked the Constant Gardner fine, but Meirelles (like Nolan) strikes me as one of those dudes whose never going to touch his first big feature.

not to get spoilery but this means one of two ilx favs isn't gonna place (those who care can do the math)

awzom :D deep luv for teh city of god

been meaning to check that out forever... but, um how hardcore is the violence against children cuz frankly I dunno if me or my wife could really handle that

probably not a movie to see if you <3 children