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

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!

it's a little sentimental compared to Kaufman's other films, I think, but still amazing.

i know it's only ~7 years, but it's really stood up well

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

I think this is subverted by the more or less happy ending and the fact that Winslet actually is a well-developed character - its as much about her as it is about Carey

"nobody hated spirited away"

well that one guys said it looked like dog shit.

i think you're right on that probably--maybe more the force of her performance than what the script/direction allowed her tho.

haha seriously NOBODY hates spirited away. it's kind of eerie.

nobody hated spirited away

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, February 11, 2010 5:25 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

someone claimed to have yawned when thinking of it

i'm sorry about the spirited away comment btw. my one moment of shakeyness. i'mma watch it for you guys.

does the fact that nobody hated ESotSM make it the ultimate "middle" film?

i have never seen eternal sunshine but i bet i'd haaaaaaaaaate it.

hahaha

we'll take it!

it seems calculated to make me hate it, almost.

oh i think there'd have been hate for a 'middle film'

i will say one thing - it's definitely one of jim carrey's top 10 movies, easy

Some accomplishment.

EASY.

it is the only film Jim Carey has been in that is remotely watchable

i swear there was a contrarian review of spirited away on salon at one point but can't find it.

kinda amazing that he was cast in it at all tbh

xp

there is something hateable about it (kirsten dunst is reciting john donne, do i have that right?) but the whole thing is just damn impressive

Number 23 is really underrated.

spirited away was my number one but i still think stuff he did in the '80s/'90s > anything he's done in the '00s

no "pope alexander" xxp