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

Give me more food. I'LL EAT EVERYTHING!

Enormous points jump there.

yeah, the points jump from #8 to #6 is huge.

wow yeah that's pretty dramatic!

had a big onion in it, right?

lots of layers

i said i'd be happy if this at least beat all the pixars, so ... i'm happy.

i guess everyone has a different favorite miyazaki and there are great things in so many of his movies that it's a little hard to pick one, but i just felt like spirited away worked so well on so many different levels -- narratively, symbolically and just in terms of the sheer abundance of its visual imagination. it's a great movie.

I'll be honest and say I don't remember hardly anything about this film.

One of the few films I actually own.

But I voted for it anyway just cuz my impression of it eight years ago was WOWZA.

Also I really like the scene where she got the abortion.

man i remember lots of scenes and details. and i've only seen it once, when it came out.

I'm seeing why neorealism didn't do well in the '40s poll.

had a big onion in it, right?

Yes.

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xpost Sorry, rejoining the thread a little late for this but re: "could never get over the cognitive dissonance of FUCKING DISNEY selling me a movie about consumerism and over-consumption." The other day I was thinking about how many Pixar and Pixaresque movies have a similar anti-corporate message: the bastardising of the chef's brand in Ratatouille, the boardroom creep in Robots, the greedy company boss in Monsters Inc. I wonder if it's the individual filmmakers, who are v protective and, as much as you can be in animation, auteurish, grumbling about the machine - that plotline in Ratatouille is almost a preemptive attack on the film's merchandise. I wouldn't be surprised if there were some coded attacks on Michael Eisner in the mix.

5 for 5 on the top 10 list I made last night

I'll be honest and say I don't remember hardly anything about this film.

I didn't either, but rereading the Wikipedia entry on it brought back the entire film almost as if I'd seen it yesterday.

Pretty ironic that a film as anti-pollution as Spirited Away is distributed by Disney!

haw

where's the spirited away haterade

would you accept complete indifference?

that will have to do

I wish I could go back in time and reorder my ballot, I placed this way too low.

remember what happened to donnie darko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEszTzdUMcY

So what are the surprise films to not place in the top 100?

man i need to see this again. when bluray?!

Spirited Away is the best of 00s Miyazakis, but I'd still rate Totoro, Laputa, and Porco Rosso above it. That's not a particularly damning comment though, as they're all great. My favourite movies of his have this slow, meditative quality, which was somewhat missing from Sprited Away (and which was more evident in Ponyo), but it makes it up by the sheer richness of ideas and visual imagination. I definitely should rewatch SA, I haven't seen it since it came out. (It's just that I hate watching movies like that on the small screen, hopefully the local film archive will screen it some day.)

re spirited away: sorry, the most I can muster is a slightly annoyed yawn.

And yeah, it seems pretty obvious this is the movie no one will confess to hate. Can't imagine anyone doing so.

So what are the surprise films to not place in the top 100?

maybe we should ask this when it's done

calling the Fat People in Space portion BAD is just hysteria.

― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Thursday, February 11, 2010 7:28 PM (49 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it's totally pedestrian compared to the last 45 mins of nemo or monsters inc. agree with people upthread saying you shouldn't hold the great first 20 mins against the rest of the movie, but the rest of the movie is dull, and the message stuff doesn't make up for it, any more than it does in avatar.

not seen spirited away. sounds like dog shit.
re: IB, i voted for it, but not top 10. i don't think it would place that high if this poll were done in 5 years time. i guess it picked up a lot of votes form people for whom it was the last film they really enjoyed in the cinema.

re spirited away: sorry, the most I can muster is a slightly annoyed yawn.

― sarahel, Thursday, February 11, 2010 3:31 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

awesome, thanks - really changed the way i think about this movie

xp tuomas: i can confess to hating it if it makes this thread more enjoyable.

It does not.

fwiw Ponyo is the first and only movie my 3 year old neph has seen

ppl who wanted to rep for tarantino but couldn't bring themselves to vote kill bills or death proof

xp to caek

to be honest, and i realise this is only slightly less retardé than "sounds like dogshit", the title of spirited away has always put me off.

in all honesty i think IB has the sort of things in it that morbius might actually enjoy, as long as he forgets what he already thinks of it!

It wasn't in my top forty but it's the best thing QT's done all decade.

I didn't think it would either, Eric, tbh.

not seen spirited away. sounds like dog shit.

what the fuck?! based on what?

xp, aarrgh

ok well i'm going out for the next several hours, so i'd just like to pre-emptively note that all haters of mulholland drive, eternal sunshine and TWBB are rong as rong can be.

and thanks for the poll omar, it's been great fun.

the title in japanese more directly translates as "Sen and Chihiro's Spiriting Away"

What a dogshit title.

in all honesty i think IB has the sort of things in it that morbius might actually enjoy, as long as he forgets what he already thinks of it!

― ('_') (omar little), Thursday, February 11, 2010 3:35 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i've always said this... its a damn shame!

"i don't think it would place that high if this poll were done in 5 years time. i guess it picked up a lot of votes form people for whom it was the last film they really enjoyed in the cinema."

I think this is true, and a good thing. There's a tendency to disadvantage more recent releases in any kind of poll - witness most of the "albums of the 00s" lists in various publications - because it feels too early to take the plunge on something that hasn't had time to bed in, and it's refreshing to get "yay, fuck it, I loved this" instead.

One think I love about Miyazaki, and which seems to be kinda rare in Western animation (or animation in general), is how much he obviously loves the nature and how beautiful and enchanting he can make it look like without doing much cartoonish exaggeration at all. I could spend hours just watching him depict trees, grass, rain, wind, the ocean...

So what are the surprise films to not place in the top 100?

Well, for a start, I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that ILX doesn't heart Huckabees as much as I thought they might.