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

i love how the kids in city of god dress - style icons imo

ya see...

fincher aversion overcame my zodiac killer fascination, guess I will have to rectify

TRT isn't bad, it's mostly just a weird movie w/r/t tone and i'm not feeling it since the lols in that one are pretty harsh and painful and it's really a drama with occasional sad comedy more than anything else. i'm willing to think my reaction has to do with post-rushmore expectations more than anything. 'zodiac' is simply a great film, though.

Yeah I hate Fincher for the most part, but Zodiac was tops.

I forget -- Did they end up pointing the finger at the right dude?

everyone i know IRL thought this film owned

I'm sure our social circles are different but I don't know anyone who loveeddd it. and I mean the reviews are sorta what I'd imagine: http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/zodiac?q=zodiac

(not that reviews matter, but there isn't gonna be another film in this poll that was in the 70s in metacritic)

My feelings about Zodiac haven't changed. And I don't like anything else Fincher has done.

"I forget -- Did they end up pointing the finger at the right dude?"

No.

admittedly TRT isn't "bad" but if its highly idiosyncratic style is anathema to you it becomes a tough haul

now that is a rabishing film

I really hope somebody makes an exciting Sudanese child-soldier film this decade to provide you guys w/ new style icons.

i love how the kids in city of god dress - style icons imo

ya see...

see what? brazilian kids have good fashion sense? point taken

'"I forget -- Did they end up pointing the finger at the right dude?"

No.'

Ha, now i feel bad for that character in the movie. was he the stamp painting husband in fargo?

I really hope the Mets win the World Series again for u.

don't worry morbs, my frat is working on it for our initiation ceremony

the movie is "slow" (in a very, very good way) and doesn't resolve anything and it's a bit of a downer, i know why people didn't like it i guess but they're wrong (metacritic would probably rate most of the best films on this poll in the 60s tbh.)

This is the only Fincher I like, and has my favorite RDJ performance of the last five years (love how he shows his claws and teeth in his last scene).

I really hope somebody makes an exciting Sudanese child-soldier film this decade to provide you guys w/ new style icons.

― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Thursday, February 11, 2010 12:46 PM (35 seconds ago) Bookmark

nick kristoff is gonna be the anna wintour of the 2010s

"ha, now i feel bad for that character in the movie. was he the stamp painting husband in fargo?"

He was.

He was no saint tho so don't feel too bad. Plus he's long dead.

morbz exposes film lies! photogenic ppl be making good movies shockah!

totally feel like the one hand look will be big in '11

are the kids in city of god dressing inaccurately w/r/t how such kids might dress irl? if so, are they supposed to "dress down" for the movie? serious question.

they are supposed to be decked out in Fila gear

gangsters wear sweatsuits dontchaknow

the whole thing with zodiac is that there are hints of "maybe it was him" but then the postscript quickly provides more questions, which is the point. it kinda gets around the usual weakness of such films, where this vast unknowable truth out there is eventually revealed and the story becomes less interesting. the fact that it's never convincingly revealed makes it all the more interesting and tbh spookier.

planning an outing to tell the youths of east ny to tone down the sex appeal, care to come along morbzy

It's pretty easy to care about human rights and think a favela kid dresses fly at the same time.

so memories of murder retread is what ur telling me

xxp

MoM is better, but both films strike a very similar tone, yes.

there isn't gonna be another film in this poll that was in the 70s in metacritic

Not sure what that means, exactly? How bout 69?

http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/inglouriousbasterds?q=inglourious

How bout 69?

― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Thursday, February 11, 2010 12:53 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

^controversial mod edit plz

i like the mirroring in zodiac, the way the most dangerous game is a symbol both of what zodiac is doing and of what his pursuers are doing -- they're all in it for the thrill, in different ways. and then of course so is fincher, and so is the audience. it manages to be a kind of meta-movie without any tricks or charlie kaufman loopiness, by being as just-the-facts as it can be and taking this very spare, tough-minded approach.

ive argued with a friend of mine about zodiac. i like it a lot (although didnt vote for it). he thinks the police are incompetent to the point of incredulity.

I only 69 w/ sexxy favela youth

69 is in 70's?

zodiac has a more trad tone than MoM (i prefer it but both were top 10 for me if i recall MoM's placement correctly) and zodiac isn't a retread, it's just similar.

the police are incompetent to the point of incredulity.

That NEVER happens in real life!

he thinks the police are incompetent to the point of incredulity.

not spent a lot of time around cops, has he? (2nd guess: he is a cop.)

lolz

i know thats what i say

"he thinks the police are incompetent to the point of incredulity"

?!

i preferred to Zodiac to Memories of Murder, though i saw Zodiac on the big screen which helped it a lot. plus i heard about Memories of Murder in the new horror to shit your pants to thread (very misleading place for it imo) so i was disappointed.

this is the SFPD the movie is about.

I quite like Fincher but thought Zodiac was one long dowdy apology for having made Se7en.

Didn't Spike Lee have a Zodiac movie too? How was that?

How middlebrow or whatever would it be to say that I preferred Dirty Harry to Zodiac?

Didn't Spike Lee have a Zodiac movie too? How was that?

That was about the Son of Sam.

i don't think the cops are incompetent, they were dealing with a motiveless series of crimes that suddenly started and then suddenly stopped (this was pre-dna technology and pre-computer tracing so there were no btk-style re-emergences that led directly to someone, etc...) they probably made mistakes but it may have been unsolvable.

whoever that person was should probably watch The Wire

i think his real beef was that it didnt tie everything up in the end and is using that an excuse for disliking the movie

the cops IRL would've provided the closure I desperately need in a movie