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

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ah fuck this i've lost interest

Let's face it neither of the real choices are better than DUMPLINGS! or NUMBER 23!

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I loved this film. I have no complaints about it.

Best comic writing I've seen in a long time, great performances, and made me feel all fuzzy too.

― Hurting 2

I saw this yesterday. Had lots of laughs, but I agree that there was some weird conservatism and riding on gender stereotypes here, more so than in 40 Year Old Virgin. If you look at the main story, it's about two people who get pregnant by accident, then the woman decides to have the baby despite having all the reasons not to, then they decide to try to become a couple despite being totally mismatched, then the guy straightens up, gets a job and stops living like a stoner in order to become a proper father, and in the end they're both happier than they would've been if they hadn't kept the baby. Sounds like a conservative pro-lifer's dream story, doesn't it? Thankfully the actors are good enough and the characters fleshed out well enough that the movie gets past its own shaky premises.

I have to say though, that this movie confirmed again my theory that abortion is a total taboo in mainstream American films. No one ever has an abortion in Hollywood movies, they always decide to have the baby, and in the end are happier because of it. And I do realize that this is a movie about pregnancy, so it'd be pointless

― Tuomas

okayish first half but WHAT THE FUCK is with that second half?!
total stunned silence in the cinema for the back 45 minutes. boring too, with characters you can't believe in doing things you can't believe. and it looked like it was shot-for-tv.

the suspicion is that the only reason they have her wearing her *bra* all through the sex scene is so they can market an 'unrated! scenes you didn't see at the cinema' version where she takes it off cause that's where the money is these days.

made me feel like wanting to go to the movies *less*.

― pisces

Saw it. Have seen worse comedies, even this year. And it is, in fact, "Everybody Loves Raymond" gone pottymouthed stoner.

(Apatow calls ELR "brilliant," no lie)

also who was the "famous TV star" in this?

― Dr Morbius

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#2

Knocked Up
Judd Apatow
2006
United States
(1398 points, 55 votes, 4 first place)

Hmm

Uh

?? joek?

massive insane lols

take that, birth of man

whaaaaaa

i don't understand :(

i just almost had a heart attack when i though that was real

welp

man imagine if it was number one. i almost feel like i shoulda put it in first place just cuz now.

seriously tho, way to get the joke movie out of the way at #2 omar!

Juno was better.

lol ok guys hang on

A+

No one ever has an abortion in Hollywood movies, they always decide to have the baby,

how many times can Tuomas be totally wrong on one thread

How high can you count?

garden state #1

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I believed that Knocked Up placement. It was so believable!

also Last American Virgin, Citizen Ruth (kinda - she doesn't have an abortion, but she also doesn't "decide to keep the baby"). Fairly positive there's others

x-posts

Doesn't Baby get an abortion in Dirty Dancing?

After she gets put in the corner.

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Ridgemont High has an Abortion in it.

you can't see me crying

does every ilx movie thread have turn into a debate about abortion

if there were more abortions, we'd have been spared most ile movie threads

^^^

really makes you think

what the hell was up with the nose designs in lilo and stitch anyway

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retroactive abortions of the future

since when do all little girls look like ed asner

those noses are really cute

Killin' it old skool:

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since when do all little girls look like ed asner

― strongohulkingtonsghost, Thursday, February 11, 2010 3:34 PM (18 seconds ago)

I don't know, but that would make for an entertaining episode of To Catch a Predator.

remember when he said "do NOT go in there!" and talked with his butt

― harbl, Thursday, February 11, 2010 5:51 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^ best post on the thread

also loling hard at the adamrl post about culture

FFS OMAR I WANT TO EAT DINNER AND GO TO BED

yeah dude i need to leave for my commute

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'Children of Men', the new Alfonso Cuaron sci-fi flick

I just saw this movie. It was fucking brilliant. I loved almost every second of this movie, even the ones I saw coming (like the "twist" after the thing with JMoore, who by the way was used perfectly in this movie, Pete OTM).

Both Clive Owen and Michael Caine have this supreme EASE with whatever they're doing on screen, it's kind of terrifying. And God, SO FUCKING HARROWING.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry

Dan and everyone else OTM. "Harrowing" is the best word to describe those action sequences. Plus, I love how arbitrary the series of events are: companions you think are going to help Owen are rubbed off sudddenly, wrenchingly, while characters you assume are peripheral suddenly step in. I also admire how Owen isn't given any cute character tags other than that he once had a kid who died young: he's a smarter-than-average guy suddenly thrust into a situation beyond his control.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn

First impression: This movie was the best movie I've seen all year, new or old.

Second thoughts: Well, yes, there are certain flaws.

Resolution: Grafts everything I liked about War of the Worlds (panic, confusion, brutality, relentlessness) with practically everything I liked about Titanic (same as above, only with unapologetic sentimentality), and it's a goddamned miracle that something of that sort could be so widely and rightly beloved.

My worst fears about it (i.e. the cinematography being so ostentatious that it grabs you by the lapels and shouts "I. AM. CINEMALANGUAGE.") were wiped away once I'd realized one shot had been going on for five, six minutes without my knowing it. Which certainly puts it above the one epic shot in The Black Dahlia.

― Eric H.

the long tracking shots are unreal. the action sequences are great because, while they owe a slight debt to Saving Private Ryan, they aren't indulgent; they aren't Michael Bay'd to death. ― don weinerI liked it fine, but based on all the rave reviews I was expecting something a little "smarter"/science fictionier. I wish there had been more focus on the infertility plot line, instead it was just a red herring to set up the one pregnant woman as the Macguffin, the treasure/secret code/whatever that has to be protected. Basically it was a fairly well-made action movie, and not much more. And that's ok.

Why was Julianne Moore so clean while everyone else was so grubby?

― n/a

Because she's Julianne Moore. I think it's in all her contracts.

― tracerhand

I'm eager to see it again.

― Dr Morbius

This film is incredible.

One of the things I loved was how unobtrosive the long uncut scenes were. They weren't showy so they managed to bring a sense of immediacy and naturalness to the film. I was increasingly drawn into this film. It was so physical and the narrative was a simple alegory, but the details were beautiful.

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows

i just saw it tonight and can't wait to see it again; to me it felt like an action version of an octavia butler novel or something. i also LOVE dystopic/ apocalytpic films, even bad ones, so i'm just really happy when one comes out and it's like pretty subtle (i.e. any other filmmaker would have focused on the drunken owen pouring his bottle into his hands to sterilize them like ten times more, made it obv. that this was a big choice for him).

arguments upthread about the religious symbolism seem bunk for the most part, though the more i chew on it the more they might be true, at least a *little* bit (this isn't frickin 'stephen king's the stand' by any means which i watched on sci-fi channel last night thinking it was a bio-disaster film until i realized it was basically a 'left behind' movie) when i read on imdb where the title comes from:

"Lord, thou hast been our refuge: from one generation to another. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made: thou art God from everlasting, and world without end. Thou turnest man to destruction: again thou sayest, Come again, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday: Seeing that is past as a watch in the night."

― Michael J McGonigal

I thought it made complete sense that the annoying Ballard/Moorcock/prog-loving guy you knew in college would grow up to be a self-styled Last Man On Earth who barricaded himself in Battersea with whatever art he could pillage. The only way that scene could have been improved was if he was blasting King Crimson all over London and not just inside his lair.

― Elvis Telecom

#2

Children of Men
Alfonso Cuarón
2006
United States/United Kingdom
(1401 points, 50 votes, 5 first place)

fucked up

i think COM is great. is it loved everywhere else, or does it join zodiac in the "ilx canon"?

wow y'all really liked this huh...to netflix i'ma goin