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

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.

ws all three of those chicks </fratboy>

gangsta bitches

great flick, favorite part is the bit of romance on the beach

2 girls and 1 cup voted for City of God.

(777.5 points, 32 votes, 1 first place)

777

.5

comparing this to stuff like Los olvidados is weird, i mean this has loud music and high-octane action sequences (shot with real flair, i'm not putting it down). plus the whole decade in film is gonna suffer by comparisons like that.

my old record store boss took like 15 of us to see this in the theater. totally beautiful movie.

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

okay well I can probably handle that - is it any more graphic than, say, the child disfigruement stuff in Slumdog Millionaire?

Los Olvidados is great

man this movie was frightening. all those kids, barely dressed, and all of them armed. that's my memory of this film: kids in pool clothes with a shiny smith&wesson. i know it's climate & poverty that has whole neighborhoods wearing just shorts and flip flops, and i know a goodfellas-style sharkskin suit isn't going to stop bullets anyway, but something about how nobody looked really dressed for the combat they were in gave this movie a crazy layer of extra vulnerability

city of god has inherent problems when it comes to glamorization of gangsters but not anymore than scorsese or coppola did - almost a natural byproduct of being a gangster flick imo

reminded me a lot of menace II society

Third World poverty goin' down easy

CHUG CHUG CHUG

+ the slow creeping intensity of the slum as it grows upward around them throughout the film is really well done. you know intellectually it's shot in different locations, but it does feel like the same place slowly changing over the years.

is it any more graphic than, say, the child disfigruement stuff in Slumdog Millionaire?

not really graphic but more wrenching IIRC

are there any fiction films which by their nature do not make IRL issues go down a little easier? by nature of turning those issues into drama that "makes you think", isn't it diminishing it in every single case? (/ devil's advocate)

gangsters are glamorous, has to do w/transgression, power etc; dont blame movies