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

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

loved it when i saw it, never felt the urge to see it again. Constant Gardener and Blindness being as awful as they were, I worried that City would suffer if I revisited.

eh its a really lively movie, sad but not too dire or gross

"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"

There is one pretty grizzly scene actually. Most of the rest of violence is perpetrated by children though if that makes you feel better.

Shakey, follow my awsum quote and see Pixote; Brazilian child miserabilism not cranked up and made palatable for fratboys

Far from terrible, but no Pixote or Los olvidados. I can't escape how these films eroticizes male street tuffs.

dr morbs w/movie equations 4 u

fratboy child miserabilism is my favourite genre no lie

criminals are hella sexy, thats a universal truth

Only to fratboys apparently.

yeah, I imagine that one scene is pretty hard to watch for everybody really (I mean who besides a sadist like seeing little kids get hurt?) but worth it for what the film delivers in toto

< /fratboy>

just glad enough of the old ILX fratboy contingent were on hand to vote this in top 10 good work guys.

Fratboys do love their child miserabilism too.

That and Pabst Blue Ribbon make a night great.

you guys are being really sexist btw
sorority girls can appreciate this movie too

we should do some keg stands to celebrate

this won't be highest ranking exploitation film, however

a film you haven't seen will be

If only fratboys could be more Morbsy and watch You The Living and focus on Scandinavian miserabilism instead. Oh what a world then, eh.

Yay for exploitation films!

3 women voted for city of god

Fratgirls.