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

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Patton Oswalt does an AMAZING joke about the halloween merchandising for ratatouille but i cant do it justice here

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― Moreno, Thursday, February 11, 2010 2:48 PM (31 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

just cant do it sry

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this was partly ok but mostly terrible.

+ his dialogue for the brits was very good

- all of the stuff involving the americans was very poor

+ the french girl was very beautiful

- the ending in the cinema was a disaster

+ the first scene was excellent

- most of the other long dialogue scenes were less than excellent

― history mayne

i mean in all honestly you couldn't really dream up a movie designed to appeal to me more than this—tough-as-nails jewish commandos scalping nazis, a beautiful jewish survivor who assumes a new identity and runs an art house theater in paris... a film critic turned war hero!you know what this film reminded me of? bertrand tavernier's totally slept-on 2002 laissez-passer, set in the occupied french film industry.

- s1ocki

I think the film pretty explicitly elides the moral quandary involved through all the meta-references to film and its uses. It continually hits the audience over the head with how UNREAL it is, that this is a fairytale, a fantasy writ large via film - but also that this is precisely the kind of defeat that would have driven actual, real-life Nazis nuts. That they would be the butt of jokes, that their propaganda films would pale in comparison to the propaganda films of "Jewish" Hollywood, that Jews would make a movie where they not only kill a bunch of Nazis, but also do it with an aesthetic flair that shames Leni Riefenstahl and Goebbels - this is the real revenge, and the way that subtext is integrated into the plot and characters of the movie itself is great. At every turn Tarantino's pointing out that beating the Nazis with film is the ultimate triumph, one that's more fun and more meaningful than any purely military victory, because its beating them with ideas and images.

― Shakey Mo Collier

To put it plainly though for a movie that everyone (including the Director!) was making out to be this glorious cheerleading session for the massacre of Nazis, it goes awfully far out it's way for me to present those being massacred in a strangely sympathetic light, explicitly identify the audience with those being massacred/tortured, and present the titular characters (when they are being shown at all--for a movie called Inglourius Basterds there isn't a lot of Basterding in it) as being sadistic terrorist thugs. That people are still cheering seems more an example of their choosing not to observe these "frictions" or whatever, not of the film's supposed sympathies.

― Alex in SF

Perhaps what Tarantino intended is not the most relevant thing here. What goes on in his mind might be of interest or it might not. But for me, wondering about his intent is kind of a proxy for wondering about the overall effect of the film. So the question is whether the net effect is to glamorize violence or to discourage it, and whether we should care. I guess I'm on the side that says we should care, and that it glamorizes violence more than it discourages it. I'm not sure what if anything we should try to do about that.

― o. nate

I'm like a hundred years late to the thread, but I finally saw this last night. QT didn't disappoint. I liked the slower pace, and the careful focus on the character development in those long exchanges. Landa was incredible...so varied and creepily likeable.

I didn't see this discussed anywhere yet, did anyone else feel that Landa knew who Shoshanna was in the restaurant? My husband and I discussed this; I felt that him ordering the glass of milk for her was signal enough; but my husband said that if he had recognized her surely he would have ended the cat and mouse by having her killed somehow, since that's how he operates. But I got the feeling that he was torturing her enough by making her think he knew her, and that her feeling hunted would get him the result he wanted in the end. i'm probably reading WAY too much into it. But damn, QT gave you so much character this time! I loved it. Will definitely see it again.

― VegemiteGrrrl

his was the first american ww2 movie since patton that had nazis actually speaking 100% pitch-perfect prussian/nazi german, kudos to whoever counseled qt on that. even recent movies like pvt ryan and valkyrie have nazis go 'jawoll schnitzel glauten globen mein führer' so its nice to see someone get it right for a change.

― ☆

Anticipating Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds"...

#7

Inglourious Basterds
Quentin Tarantino
2009
United States
(982 points, 38 votes)

FUUUUUUUUUCK YOU ALL

morbs, DON'T

hahahaha

If it wants to keep ice cr?am awake, it does.

The funny thing about this argument is that my opposition to wall-to-wall action isn't borne out of a distaste for vulgarity or anything like that but from the fact that it actually makes my attention drift rather than perk up. The great thing about The Hurt Locker, for instance, is that it's a series of set pieces where you know exactly what's happening and who's involved and what the stakes are, and the lack of anything extraneous to that makes it gripping. When there's an endless series of explosions and chases and gunfire, it's hard for me to follow what's going on (even in WALL-E, I couldn't figure out for a long time who had the flower), and I start tuning out.

Is IB really that good?

the moment weve all been waiting for

no xpost

it's dope

yes

its v good but not quite that good

it's awesome, i liked 'death proof' better tho

fantastic movie, probably his best

Inglourious Basterds is pretty awesome, but it's probably too high in this poll.

so much better on the second viewing, easily tarantino's best of the decade, but i have to say i'm pretty shocked at how high this is.

my opposition to wall-to-wall action isn't borne out of a distaste for vulgarity or anything like that but from the fact that it actually makes my attention drift rather than perk up

^^^totally feelin you on this, I am the same

I didn't vote for any Tarantinos but I thought IB was pretty enjoyable for the most part.

I wish I hadn't been thoroughly trashed on mojitos when I tried to watch this movie because the 40 minutes I saw before I passed out were great; although a lot of my entertainment came from attempting to decipher the German (we were watching a pirated copy from Puerto Rico, so the subtitles... were all in Spanish).

ill just sit here quietly and say that opinions differ on the quality of this film (hint: its fucking crap)

agree that IB came in that high but yeah it's good, his best since jackie brown

38 people voted for this just to make Morbs mad.

I wasn't stanning for Kill Bill and found Death Proof just downright creepy (ok tarentino, take it to the whorehouse), so I just didn't bother. Maybe I'll add it to my lovefilm queue.

I wish I hadn't been thoroughly trashed on mojitos when I tried to watch this movie because the 40 minutes I saw before I passed out were great; although a lot of my entertainment came from attempting to decipher the German (we were watching a pirated copy from Puerto Rico, so the subtitles... were all in Spanish).

You cosmopolitan trash you.

question to voters: how much of your voting was strategic, and was your strategy to piss off Morbs?

lol xp

attempting to decipher the German (we were watching a pirated copy from Puerto Rico, so the subtitles... were all in Spanish).

lolololz

morbs actually voted for this film. yeah, i was surprised too.

misread Dan's post as saying "I wish I had been thoroughly trashed on mojitos when I tried to watch this movie"

no #1s!

I'm with John on this one - the opening scene was great, then it just went on and on and on and on and I wished I had walked out.

morbs actually voted for this film. yeah, i was surprised too.

this is a joke rite

saw this piece the other day http://www.mstrmnd.com/log/1394 It's like a fanboy sitting down with the dvd, a little dense and difficult and off in tone but i liked the bit about Donowitz making his first appearance coming out of CINEMA ITSELF

This was my highest ranking American film (#9).

I don't know if I'd rank this as best-of-decade based on what I saw; I'm not even sure if I'd say it's Tarantino's best film considering how much I love "Kill Bill" and "Jackie Brown"

the opening scene is like twenty minutes long tho right? it's amazing

I like IB a lot, but want to give it a few years to percolate in my head before I put it on any best-of-decade.

one thing little part in IB that i think exemplifies QT's greatness is how in the first scene, landa pulling out the super large pipe is such a big laugh moment (tons of laughter in both showings i saw) and yet it didn't take away from the tension of the scene -- i never find his whimsy distracting

Can't BELIEVE you didn't quote Morbs there, omar.

xpost that scene was amazing, filled with dread

Okay, I'm totally confused now. I still have 8 movies that I was sure were going to place in the top ten, as it made no sense that they would've gotten few enough votes to fall outside of the top 100. WTH?

his negative quotes were contradicted by its #3 showing on his ballot. i emailed him back to ask if this was correct, and he replied, "Yes. What a joy it brought to me!"

then he sent me a second email with just a smiley face.

i think the only thing i disliked in the entire movie was eli roth's line delivery

IB is such an incredible film. It's obviously hard to predict how it'll feel 3-4 years from now but it made an immediate and powerful impression on me. It was #8 on my ballot, one slot below Munich, which are really interesting films to read against each other imo.

omar, are you finishing this today?

i basically think of this movie as an intensely meditative, personal film by a dude whose inner life is kind of warped and totally out in the open. it's like in 30 rock when kenneth only sees muppets.

lol at morbs, trolling even in his ballot.