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

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

http://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/news/00026165.jpg

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

http://www.terrortube.com/images/articles/killerpad2.jpg

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?

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It's Kid A.

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lolol

Paranoid Park & Milk >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Elephant. wtf ppl, get yr gvs right. (Elephant still cool tho)

"Eternal Sunshine" basically made me into a massive Kate Winslet fan, to the point where I uncritically love her in whatever movie I see her in regardless of whether the movie is any good or not (yes, I am looking at you, "The Life of David Gale" and "Little Children").

you're looking at little children?

get a late pass son

Whoops, I forgot Lost in Translation came in already at 16. Sorry, not obsessing over this thread like some of us.

(btw how does "Battle Royale" compare to the book?)

(also OMG "Pan's Labyrinth" should have been so much higher! THAT is a dark motherfucking film)

Oh, I dropped one of the remaining contenders from my ballot when 1) a third viewing revealed it to be less than I'd remembered, and 2) I knew too many of you would have it near the top. How great would it be if I decided this? :D

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

hey I like 80s zombie comedies too but that's not really grindhouse fare - its like he missed the point of the excercise by a decade and figured if he filled the movie with enough gross-out gags no one would notice

Oh, I dropped one of the remaining contenders from my ballot when 1) a third viewing revealed it to be less than I'd remembered, and 2) I knew too many of you would have it near the top. How great would it be if I decided this? :D

Who asked you?

(btw how does "Battle Royale" compare to the book?)

book is a modern Japanese masterpiece of fiction imho. waaaaaay better than the movie (and I thought the movie was pretty good)

j/k, Morbs. How was that third viewing of The Day After Tomorrow?

something to listen to while you wait

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGr7XTB5Ddc

(he's also a big Children of Men, The Prestige & Goodbye Lenin fan btw)

xp Shakey - I felt like he captured the spirit of those movies, even though it wasn't "period"

ya I fucking loved the book (Battle Royale) to pieces and I have been hesitant to see the movie because I didn't want to be disappointed (also the violence might cross my "I can deal if it's not a horror movie" boundaries)

as one of the lone CoM detractors around here, im rooting hard for mulholland.

Is the movie version of Silence any good?

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

hey I like 80s zombie comedies too but that's not really grindhouse fare - its like he missed the point of the excercise by a decade and figured if he filled the movie with enough gross-out gags no one would notice

what I did like about planet terror was how he captured the forward drive of really good b-movies - shit just starts happening fast

it started to break down towards the end but it was entertaining

http://i723.photobucket.com/albums/ww232/clobberthesaurus/dumplings.gif

way xpost to strongo yeah I get that, but it still doesn't make me want to sit through the build-up again. I think I like the short version of DUMPLINGS!! more frankly.
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DUMPLINGS!!?
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haha DUMPLINGS!! is great, but wtf
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Friday, February 5, 2010 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
actually i think the close-mic'd chewing noises in DUMPLINGS!! may have grossed me out more than anything else this decade
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why in the fuck does DUMPLINGS!! keep going to all caps? (see?)
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Yeah I had that D u m p l i n g s problem on the noms thread.
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You have a problem with Bai Ling and fetus eating?
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The (Now-Overrated) ILX Top 100 Films of the 2000s Poll Results

DUMPLINGS!
Fruit Chan
2005
Hong Kong
(3,456 Points
115 Votes
12 First Place

Oh darn my dumpling image got deleted.

fixed

hahaha

Thanx!

ya I fucking loved the book (Battle Royale) to pieces and I have been hesitant to see the movie because I didn't want to be disappointed (also the violence might cross my "I can deal if it's not a horror movie" boundaries)

I don't really recall the violence being especially hard to stomach but yr standards may vary from mine obviously... naturally the film has to compress a lot of stuff and can/t, for example, give every student a spotlighted chapter the way the book does, but it captures the tone and gets the overall structure and major plot points in there