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

And the intensity -- the life -- we see in that audition scene is the same we see in the second half of the film.

is this the biggest thread in ILX history?

to me the second half of Mulholland Drive was the reality of failed success in hollywood (played as dream/nightmare) as the flip-side of the fairytale success of the first half

yeah, it was a really mindblowing moment - something i'd never seen in a movie before. xxp

failure to succeed*

105 - Songs From the Second Floor (198 points, 7 votes, 1 first place)

Hey, sorry, both me and Tuomas have said that we put this as our number one - did you just get the first place numbers wrong or have you got all the numbers wrong for this? Or is Tuomas lying?

Also, I'm well pissed off that I missed the culmination of this thread. MD is a worthy winner, though.

xpost - yes, i have no doubt. when watts changed it wasn't a shock to me, it was a relief since prior to that, the acting was painful to watch, and so bad that i could only hope lynch wasn't going to f*** with the audience by doing a whole 2+ hour film that way.

otherwise, i guess success/failure in hollywood is something i personally care nothing about & have no interest in, you know? like the dinner party, wow it's a bunch of awful people being awful to each other, that's great..
this is just a matter of personal taste

Even if you dismiss the Hollywood stuff, the dinner party sequence is painful to watch. Who hasn't hung around their ex's long after they lost interest in us?

It's summed up in that short scene with Ann Miller, her gnarled hands curling around almonds, beat box music playing in the background.

is this the biggest thread in ILX history?

― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, February 11, 2010 7:43 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Nope. Not yet, at least.

TO MOLLIFY LINGJACKSON OVERDRIVEBERT WHO IS THE SQUEAKY DESERT FIEND, POST ON THIS THREAD AND ONE OF YOUR FRIENDLY ITR MODS WILL TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE WICKED AWESOME, AND POSSIBLY OFFER AN EFFUSIVE ST
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Chicago: This Is Grand

could be the biggest thread in ILE history if we try hard enough

Why was I so convinced that LOTR: The Return of the King would show up? (This is why I thought City of God was out of the running.) Personally, I don't give a shit about any of them, but I didn't realize that the first one was supposed to be the best. Maybe I got fooled by the Oscar.

yeah i hear you alfred, but in this case my perception was that their relationship didn't seem real to begin with. it's another thing that strikes me with lynch, none of the women in his films seem like real people, honestly, they have a very limited range of behavior, they mostly react to things, they're hesitant and scared a whole lot, they're actresses, hookers, waitresses, entertainers, and sometimes pretty grotesque..

Highest-ranked movie I've never seen: Cache.

like he can't write women characters who are real people. he just can't do it. maybe he isn't trying, i don't know.

Also, bravo, Omar. ^_^

Ta very much, omar. I'm going to be suffering from post-poll withdrawal now, I'm sure.

Any chance that you could list the rest of the top 200? I'm v. curious where some stuff fell.

I've seen only 67 of these. Inglourious Basterds is the highest one I haven't seen.

fwiw his characters are generally not too real - tho i feel u on the particularities of his female types xp

I'm sensitive to your response, daria. But Lynch gets away with it because he finds actress able to make these stereotypes hum, hurt, and feel with an intensity that none of the men surpass. Even if you accept (as I do) that Dorothy Valens, Laura Palmer, Rita, and Diane/Betty represent variations on the Mystery Lady, Vamp, and Virgin, they suggest more life than the guys/women they're fucking. Plus, in a Lynch film character matters less than a human being's response to certain psychological and emotional stimuli. He reminds us that we're not men or women, but animals, and not particularly sensible ones.

*he finds actresses

damn u dudes like mulldr a whole lot

rachel maddow is interviewing quentin tarantino on tonight's show for some reason

about this?

mhd is a lock for #1 tho guys we can all agree on that rite

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, February 3, 2010 11:26 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^winner

haha xp

hey emily, actually you're right, 'songs from the second floor' did receive 2 first place votes. all the points were counted, i just neglected to put the 2nd first place vote in that column...

quentin, why do you think dr morbz hates you so bad, whats up w/that guy?

Thanks, omar. Thought that the point count looked about right from people talking about it, but I knew there was more than one first place voter. I actually thought sarahel had put it first, too, but apparently she put it second. It really should have placed, damn you all.

anyway, their responses are generally not ones that i can relate to & frequently echo to me times when i see some women behaving in ways where.. i just want to kinda shake them & say, for god's sake, don't be (or don't act!) helpless and dumb and childlike (or jealous and bitchy) because that's how some men expect you to behave. when the range of expression is limited to that.. idk, it's frustrating. still thinking about it here..

http://i47.tinypic.com/skzswz.jpg

what is his deal...

where do you even buy that shirt?

lol wu wear 95 niiiiice

going to start counting down from 126 to 200 tomorrow, will post the rest as time permits....

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y/o ol dirty cuban linx liquid swords

haha luv you quentin stay golden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igxbBa54Aaw

i am a fan of people who are always 100 percent themselves at all times

out of curiosity what are peoples' favorite screencaps

which ones did u like best, omar?

hey, omar said this was close?!? inglouriously lying basterd.

what i'll take away from the Peepul's Choice Awahds is that no one mentioned Shohei Imamura's Warm Water under a Red Bridge -- a sexy, hilarious swan song with no yakuzas and lots of geysering vaginal juice -- while you were feting Will motherfucking Ferrell, who can't even be funny on TV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9I0qP64s6w

kinda like NCFOM tbh

i liked the host a lot, and the departed got a lot of love. feel like there were subtler ones that i dug at the time.

must like dogs grab cracked me up so bad after the comment that had the dog saying "oh fuck"

out of curiosity what are peoples' favorite screencaps

― ('_') (omar little), Thursday, February 11, 2010 9:46 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wall*e got me

for the sake of list symmetry

10. City of Juggalos (777.5 points, 32 votes, 1 first place)
9. Juggalodiac (781.5 points, 33 votes, 2 first place)
8. JUGALL·E-ALO (800.5 points, 37 votes, 1 first place)
7. Inglourious Juggaloes (982 points, 38 votes)
6. Juggalos Away (1111.5 points, 43 votes, 3 first place)
5. There Will Be Juggalos (1187 points, 42 votes, 3 first place)
4. No Country For Old Juggalos (1314 points, 52 votes, 1 first place)
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Juggalo Mind (1348 points, 47 votes, 6 first place)
2. Children of Juggalos (1401 points, 50 votes, 5 first place)
1. Juggalo Drive (2000 points, 63 votes, 17 first place)

i am a fan of people who are always 100 percent themselves at all times

I appreciate it.