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

were you the 1pt for duplicity?

i hated this movie... because I hate humanity

were you the 1pt for duplicity?

― caek, Friday, February 12, 2010 10:41 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

yes.

oh shi did omar post all 800 films!?!?1?!ONE!?

can't do this 2day

no, he did the ~6 or so films that got 1pt

and 100-125

michael clayton at 110 or so

i do like michael clayton. but prefer the informant!, which is kind of an answer-film.

it was my #1 ;_;

my #1:

http://t.douban.com/lpic/s2789517.jpg

I liked The Informant! a lot. It got a savaging on the Soderbergh thread but its tone is unique and the voiceover is A+: "Haven't these guys seen The Firm?!"

Huh. Guess I really need to watch M Drive again.

films I haven't seen but am going to look into following on from this: ATP, in the bedroom, the informant, the host, memories of murder, audition (plus bonus re-screen of master & commander)

oh and gabrielle, l'intrus and wet hot american summer

Huh. Guess I really need to watch M Drive again.

nah. ppl voted for it coz of naomi watts's lez scene iirc

l'intrus is NBG imo

ppl voted for it coz of naomi watts's lez scene iirc

cf. Bill Hicks (?) on Basic Instinct

yeah. it was a quality lesbo scene for an arty flick

I haven't seen it since it first came out but tbh the scene where they lez it up is the only part of the movie that I really remember clearly. Oh and something with little tiny midget ppl in a parking lot? Maybe that's something else, idk.

wizard of oz

the scene where they lez it up is the only part of the movie that I really remember clearly.

exactly

tbh i DIDN'T remember that, and when, a year later, ppl were all, "best film of 2002, daaaaamn", and i was all UH?, they had to remind me of the lezzing.

Yeah, same. I only really remembered that bit when I saw it mentioned here.

Blasé on lezzing, blasé on the causes of lezzing.

Can't believe I forgot about the manger bullshit in ConM. Easiest way to make me hate a flick with some decent action scenes is to make it feel like Xian propaganda.

guys not all reference to a system of beliefs held by millions of ppl worldwide--the stories contained in which have influenced nearly all western art directly or indirectly--is "propaganda"

forgetting about the Jesus-y manger in CofM vs forgetting the lezzing up in Mulholland Drive

isnt totally weird that a story about an important birth would refer to the most famous story of an important birth, ever?!

shrill atheists be shrillin

I don't think it's weird, I think it's totally cheap.

come on bro, how?

i mean theres as much time spent subverting the christ-parallels as there is setting them up

things I remember about M Drive:
(max style bullet point) homeless guy with a cube
(max style bullet point) cowboy sleeping with a man's wife, then the cuckold pours paint all over her jewelry
(max style bullet point) lesbo scene
(max style bullet point) something about hollywood chewing you up and spitting you out
(max style bullet point) it was all a dream

pretty sure that no matter where you have the saviour/future of the race come from in your movie someone is gonna read some dumb shit into it. as well just to do the manger and say 'fuck em' and get on with it.

CoM is kind of "christians against god", if it's christian

If you're going to use some kind of symbolism in a film I'd prefer in not be the most obvious pandering symbolism possible (lol at this coming from the guy who loved the shit out of Pulse). CoM left me with the same rolling-my-eyes feeling that Signs did.

Xpost - that's no reason AT ALL to do the manger thing.

anyway com is HUMANIST propaganda if its propaganda for anything

xxp lol

im actually wondering what other symbolism you mean besides the 'manger' thing?

(i actually dont even know what 'manger' thing youre talking about)

smh

the end is nigh dudes get sent up, totally

the manger thing was pretty ham-fisted. I didn't automatically equate that with Christian propaganda, but it made me like the movie less.

the pink floyd symbol was pretty symbolic I thought

cmon mayng-er

kinda thought collateral was a lock

Cruise better in his high school play

Who knows, maybe it's just some catholics-anonymous shit I need to get through, but I guarantee you if I watched that film with my mom she'd think it was a bad movie and too violent until the manger scene would totally change her perspective on it.
xpost- am i really just imagining a scene in which a miracle birth takes place in a stable? did that not happen?

what is the 'manger thing' pls

haha yes you are imagining that

the black girl is first seen in a stable, yes

yr moms misreading of the film shouldnt affect yr own take on it imo

Alright, maybe I shd just CIO go watch the damn thing again. The car scene really was one of the best of the decade.