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

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

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!!?
― goole, Friday, February 5, 2010 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Friday, February 5, 2010 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
why in the fuck does DUMPLINGS!! keep going to all caps? (see?)
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Friday, February 5, 2010 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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

DUMPLINGS! is from HONG KONG!

this thread is moving way too fast for me. i will never go to work on the top ten day of an ilx poll ever again.

xp I know! I forgot.

HOW COULD YOU!

also fixed

SORRY! but everything related to DUMPLINGS! should be SHOUTED!

DUMPLINGS! ACTRESS LOOKS FAMILIAR

"also fixed"

Thanks, but it's wrong on the GIF and I'm not going to fix. ;)

if dan fixed the gif I'd be really impressed

So I'm watching Synecdoche, NY for the first time because of this thread. What a trippy depressing flick.

this thread is moving way too fast for me. i will never go to work on the top ten day of an ilx poll ever again.

― strongohulkingtonsghost, Thursday, February 11, 2010 5:00 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

should have made it a holiday imo

going way back here but so so delighted that NCFOM beat TWBB at least.

Zodiac was a thursday night movie police procedural that looked good and had solid performances, incredibly confused about all the love for it since day 1 tbh. will have to watch it again

i hate the whole school of thought that describing a movie's plot vaguely is somehow a damning indictment

"it's just a movie about a guy who goes on a trip somewhere... what's the big deal?!"

is that really a school of thought? it's just message board posters who aren't necessarily good at writing about film (or haven't spent enough time thinking about a film they don't like) falling into tautology.

"It's just a movie where a lady eats DUMPLINGS! made from fetuses. . . what's the big deal?"

has no one said they hate eternal sunshine????

i dont hate it but dont love it

i didn't like eternal sunshine at the time but i will freely admit i saw it the same night i got dumped by someone so it might have cut a little too close to the bone. i wanna rescreen it someday.

im not mad at it placing cuz, you know... people seemed to really like it

yeah i don't hate it either but i am shocked at the lack of hate. i don't think it's that great. it's ok. that's all i have to say lol

i mean shocked because all the other films have been hated by *someone*

i think it suffers from the same suffocating solipsism of SNY, basically

nobody hated spirited away

looks like only 19/40 of mine will make it, including only three of my top five!