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

"(Is anyone in any suspense whatsoever about the top three, at this point?)"

Only if they haven't been paying attention.

cf scene where Chigurh goes back to the bank that hired him and kills his "employer" (lolz Mr. Swingline from Office Space) - and then he turns to the low-level flunky. Low-level flunky asks if he's going to kill him and Chigurh says "that depends. Do you see me?"

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he gives brolin a chance to sacrifice himself and save his wife during that phone call and brolin just keeps on running.

film version of this in the works, right? agreed though. 90% of the power of the book is in the apocalyptic, Old Testament prose. plus shit would need to be NC-17++.

yeah. this is a terrible idea. looking forward to the scene where the Judge smashes a newborn baby's head against a rock btw

i dunno, so many great films are based around the notion of someone attempting to escape an exceptionally tenacious pursuer (horror, sci fi, cop films, and so on) that i'm not sure chigurh's superhuman skill is a negative. it's totally thrilling how inventive and batshit he is.

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This goes much further than Adaptation or even Malkovich, in that it's sustained, and Kaufman even makes the ending stick. He's still as much of a smart-ass as Pope, but now he's also channelling Abelard directly, which makes all the difference. Gondry gets close enough to the right tone - after the insanely pretty opening, it has to keep moving. The cast help of course - thankfully Winslet has something to work with for the first time since, what, Hamlet?; I'd almost forgotten that she's the greatest actress of her generation (so far). But it's Kaufman's movie.

It's great. Probably not La Jetee great. Definitely Blade Runner great.

― B*R*A*D

Yeah, I loved it. One of the very few movies where I've geeked about the head-trippiness (narrative experimentation, sci-fi logic) and was simultaneously close to tears several times.

― jaymc

I saw 'Adaptation' and absolutely adored it, moreso than 'John Malcovich', it left me actually inspired, which felt like a really big thing for me. Usually when i go to see a film in the big theaters i go because it's with friends and i don't really care about it. Most big movies these days feel like they are going through pre-scripted motions, according to a system that i don't find interesting in any way. Obviously there is a head-trip feel to all his movies and a dada/surreal/hipster approach so i almost feel like it's a guilty pleasure, but then again i think he's getting better and better at them and by the time i saw 'Sunshine' i was completely taken over by it.

It didn't help that i was in tears for almost the entire second half. I figured maybe Kaufman knows his demographic too well (the sweater, the Eskimo boots, the Tom Waits and Beck) but most of the similarities between this movie and my life circa a month ago were scarily similar. If you go to this movie with a heavy heart, it's going to shatter you!

― Adam Bruneau

i fucking LOVED this movie btw - emotional wallop, smart enough, good acting, PANTIES, even mopey beck sounded good!

― James Blount

it's metafiction transplanted to film; it's an okay movie, but the device is so far from original it's kind of stale. See every single John Barth novel ever written.

― anthony kyle monday

very clever, sweet, scary and funny in places. didn't actually like the two main characters that much (not that relevant in a way). thought Tom Wilkinson was great, Dunst fine, Elijah OK tho he had little to do.

pretentious? mais naturellement!

would be surprised at anyone who loved BJM (i did) and Adaptation (still not seen) but hated this. other haters, not sure what you wanted (you so rarely explain...).

― stevem

wow. i don't think i've ever cried so much at a film (and i went there completely happy (and i'm happy now) - i don't think it'd be a good film to see if you'd had a recent breakup, as people have said upthread).

but yeah, it's a masterpiece. i think i need a little time away from it before i comment any further, though.

― toby

Absolutely loved this film to the fucking maximum. Totally changed my perspective on Gondry and confirms CK for me as one of *the* great screenwriters (a small band). Can't praise it too highly.

― Enrique

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

#3

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Michel Gondry
2004
United States
(1348 points, 47 votes, 6 first place)

i like the way the film handles chigurhs racial... vagueness. i think hes supposed to be from the balkans? but hes played by a spanish actor in a movie set in the southwest? with a totally indeterminate accent

I thought it was Mononoke that did this? I remember it being the first Miyazaki movie even my non-anime-loving friends were talking about. But if SA was the real breakthrough, that's great, because it's clearly better than Mononoke.

Maybe Mononoke helped but I hadn't heard anything about ghibli til Spirited Away was released, that's when all the dvds started showing up in the shops. I think both are great and interesting for different reasons and leave it at that.

if this were Lost, we'd be all "why'd brolin go back to give that dude water? so stupid! now he deserves to die! Smokey, finish him!"

also you guys are basically saying this was terminator gone western noir

remove the messiah story and replace it with greed and yes, I agree, and it was fucking aweseome

he gives brolin a chance to sacrifice himself and save his wife during that phone call and brolin just keeps on running.

And in sticking with his principles, does exactly what he promises to do. And makes it clear to the wife that it's Brolin's fault!

Also yay to "Eternal Sunshine", kind of glad I've seen and liked all of these movies since #6

ok guys, i'm off for lunch....please try to not debate the final two and what they are or who will finish where, but i will say that coming down to the end of the ballots rolling in it was a pretty close race....leads were switched....

watch this space. continue to trash talk the other films.

lol yeah loved that, pancakes

'eternal shitshine of the shitless shit' is going to stay w/ me.

ISotSM had a good beginning and ending, but the middle section where they go through the fantasyland was waayy too long. I wanted to see more of Kate Winslet's character in real life, not just Jim Carrey's dream version of her.

Wow. So Children of Men may actually go #1.

looks like it's "dude wheres my car" vs "vicky cristina barcelona"

glad it's not #1

esosm: booming movie A+

please get your comedy jpgs ready for the #1, i expect to see some vv good ones.

No Country & There Will Be Blood - gag

IB is the worst Tarantino of the decade, but still pretty good. I would have voted for Death Proof if it had a spot separate from Grindhouse (Planet Terror suuuuuucked)

see you folks in about an hour and some change.

i think we should prepare prediction jpgs, like can we predict both the film and the scene omar will use

so many great films are based around the notion of someone attempting to escape an exceptionally tenacious pursuer (horror, sci fi, cop films, and so on)

I think a lot of good, entertaining films are based around this, not necessarily great ones.

no country for old men arbitrarily mixed heavy-hitting 70s style gritty realism and comic book noir at the same time and the tension didn't sit completely right with me.

that said, it was on my ballot - there's a lot to like there - but its high ranking by so many is kind of baffling.

knew this would make it, very gratifying. more Ruff love from me for this film

Wow. So Children of Men may actually go #1.

lol

no prediction or speculative jpgs, just comedy ones!

#1 The Blind Side

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would have voted for Death Proof if it had a spot separate from Grindhouse (Planet Terror suuuuuucked)

glad someone agrees with me on this, I was def in the minority on the Grindhouse thread iirc

oh yeah - this is #2

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I wanted to see more of Kate Winslet's character in real life, not just Jim Carrey's dream version of her.

b-b-but she was equally real, and frankly less of a horrorshow.

re: Blood Meridian

The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that Ashton Kutcher is in talks to play the sinister Judge Holden in "Blood Meridian", director Todd Field's adaptation of the widely hailed novel written by Cormac McCarthy, author of "The Road" and "No Country For Old Men". Kutcher's agent was quoted as saying that Kutcher is "super-duper pumped for the role. This is going to do for Ashton what The Dark Knight did for Heath Ledger!"

super-duper pumped, guys.

super-duper

I still haven't seen "Planet Terror" but I love "Death Proof" to bits(the show the latter on cable a lot).

So is this basically Lost in Translation vs. Mulholland Drive for #1?

'eternal shitshine of the shitless shit' is going to stay w/ me.
--ogmor

It's Kid A.

This is going to do for Ashton what The Dark Knight did for Heath Ledger!

Give him fame-related anxiety attacks that lead to a fatal overdose?

I liked ESotSM a lot but the most amazing thing about it was kate winslet's american accent

yeah pretty much, LiT has so many votes that it's gonna place twice

Ashton Kutcher as Heath in Heath Ledger!

So is this basically Lost in Translation vs. Mulholland Drive for #1?

get a late pass son

so this is basically There Will Be Blood vs Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind for #1?

Is someone gonna come up with a "cuet" acronym for the inevitable top 5?

YARG

3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. No Country For Old Men
5. There Will Be Blood
6. Spirited Away
7. Inglourious Basterds
8. Wall-E
9. Zodiac
10. City of God
11. The Royal Tenenbaums
12. Grizzly Man
13. Inland Empire
14. In the Mood For Love
15. Let the Right One In
16. Lost in Translation
17. Ghost World
18. Memento
19. Adaptation
20. Caché
21. The Incredibles
22. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
23. Donnie Darko
24. The Departed
25. Superbad
26. American Psycho
27. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
28. Pan's Labyrinth
29. Shaun of the Dead
30. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
31. Battle Royale
32. The New World
33. Rachel Getting Married
34. The Bourne Supremacy
35. Bad Santa
36. Brokeback Mountain
37. A History of Violence
38. 24 Hour Party People
39. A Serious Man
40. The Bourne Identity
41. The Dark Knight
42. The Hurt Locker
43. Gosford Park
44. Oldboy
45. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
46. Up
47. Best in Show
48. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
49. The 40 Year-Old Virgin
50. I'm Not There
51. Eastern Promises
52. Punch-Drunk Love
53. Before Sunset
54. Miami Vice
55. Munich
56. Yi Yi: A One and a Two
57. Brick
58. You Can Count On Me
59. Sexy Beast
60. The Host
61. Audition
62. Borat
63. Wet Hot American Summer
64. Kings and Queen
65. Kung Fu Hustle
66. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
67. Synecdoche, New York
68. Elephant
69. Far From Heaven
70. Ratatouille
71. 25th Hour
72. Amelie
73. The Triplets of Belleville
74. In Bruges
75. Y tu mamá también
76. In the Loop
77. The Squid & The Whale
78. 28 Days Later
79. Team America: World Police
80. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
81. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
82. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
83. Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
84. Finding Nemo
85. Almost Famous
86. All the Real Girls
87. Minority Report
88. Memories of Murder
89. The Lives of Others
90. Together
91. Talk to Her
92. Tropical Malady
93. Sideways
94. Napoleon Dynamite
95. Capturing the Friedmans
96. High Fidelity
97. Happy-Go-Lucky
98. Dogville
99. The Piano Teacher
100. Movern Callar

<3 u latebloomer

Planet Terror is like an 80s zombie comedy, the tone is all wrong imho and the gags are uniformly weak.

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Dude, I like 80s zombie comedies and I thought Planet Terror was thoroughly entertaining.

So is this basically Lost in Translation vs. Mulholland Drive for #1?

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, February 11, 2010 9:44 PM (55 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It's Kid A.

― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, February 11, 2010 9:45 PM (32 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lolol