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

tell you what's 'heavy handed' is piling on so much over the use of 'heavy handed'

even if it is a direct reference to whatever current political situation the bag over the head etc isnt heavyhanded because thats how it really happens - oppressive governments tend to put bags over peoples heads and brutalize them irl - handwringing over subtext w/o considering the texttext is where all this close reading gets too heavyhanded

Yeah, NRQ is an asshole and I hate him about 97 percent of the time on ILX, but he is definitely not insecure.

^^ this

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nqr is a quality poster u guys need to cio w/all the heaveyhanded handwringing

hm is a stand-up dude wtf

no he h8s animes & loves goddam charlie kaufman fuck him

three votes for donnie darko director is a huge black mark tbh

have NO CLUE what this has to do with obama

Nothing, at the time of the film.'s release Now it has to do w/ the way the American antiwar movement has shut up, completely, incl about that war-defending Nobel-acceptance vomit (let's see that evoked in the next Alfonso Cuaron film).

You guys should check out Life of Brian, some intriguing Christ parallels.

oh yeah forgot abt charlie k too true lamp

Just finished watching a blitz of all three Bourne movies thx to this thread. They're so badass!! I think Ultimatum is my favorite (though what's the significance of the title? is it the ***SPOILER ALERT*** ultimatum of him having to kill some random dude as Black Briar gang inititation)

MORE SPOILERS** - I think my favorite parts were the way they tied in the ending of Supremacy in a completely different and awesome context and the reveal of Stiles as a love interest without actually making us watch them fuck or anything***END SPOILERS***

no he h8s animes & loves goddam charlie kaufman fuck him

It's NRQ's hatred of other critical apparatuses that makes me hate him.

I can't imagine hating anyone for their taste in movies or lack.

xpost I wouldn't go looking for significance in the titles of Robert Ludlum novels tbh.

Just finished watching a blitz of all three Bourne movies thx to this thread. They're so badass!! I think Ultimatum is my favorite (though what's the significance of the title? is it the ***SPOILER ALERT*** ultimatum of him having to kill some random dude as Black Briar gang inititation)

MORE SPOILERS** - I think my favorite parts were the way they tied in the ending of Supremacy in a completely different and awesome context and the reveal of Stiles as a love interest without actually making us watch them fuck or anything***END SPOILERS***

― Fetchboy, Friday, February 12, 2010 10:12 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

THUMBS UP!

guy in his 30s who looks like a high-school jock /= my kinda superspy

nqr is a quality poster u guys need to cio w/all the heaveyhanded handwringing

― ice cr?m, Friday, February 12, 2010 9:47 AM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hm is a stand-up dude wtf

― chris nibbs (cozen), Friday, February 12, 2010 9:56 AM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark

u jus h8 sexinaz xp

Also the Bournes (and Damon) rule.

what a weird thread

might end up with

/nqr is a quality poster u guys need to cio w/all the heaveyhanded handwringing

― ice cr?m, Friday, February 12, 2010 9:47 AM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hm is a stand-up dude wtf

― chris nibbs (cozen), Friday, February 12, 2010 9:56 AM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark/

no. just... no.

and fwiw as far as my limited exposure to intelligence industry types seems smart high school jock is not an unusual irl type

Oh come on! He's at his best when he's kind of a prick!

ice cr?m otm, at my high school there were quite a few of them.

(was doing my best nrq impression btw)

I can't imagine hating anyone for their taste in movies or lack.

lol i dont really h8 nrq - think hes a top 10 poster iibrr - but ppl who have different taste in movies than me are barely even human

and fwiw as far as my limited exposure to intelligence industry types seems smart high school jock is not an unusual irl type

bang

Why isn't this thread here?

no. just... no.

― dyao, Friday, February 12, 2010 3:34 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

u jus h8 sexinaz

damon for ILX actor of the decade

farrell, any fule know

clooney

wahlberg

YESSSSSSSSS

Audrey tatou

cruise

weren't there zero Clooney movies PLACING?

would love to see icey watching Gerry, Ludovico Treatment style

oh yeah, the mediocre Coens chain gang escape farce

morbs weve been through this ive seen and enjoyed gerry

i mean if gvs is yr icon of harcore unfrivolous quality i just dont know man smh

He certainly isnt

ok then why the torture fantasies!

i'm just funnin w/ you j0e, lets drink sometime eh

the abu ghraib/rendition stuff in CoM was overt, but i don't know if i'd say heavy-handed. and i didn't mind it then / don't mind it now. all good scifi is about "now" anyway.

i might have objected to it if i didn't like the larger context it was set in, but the movie was so good i thought it made it worked. "references to things" aren't objectionable on their own.

yeah i know and yes itd be my pleasure but still why did u choose gerry as yr torture delivery device

the 2000s: most consistent actor/actor with the best choice in projects

it's just the opp of Bourne kineticism -- you know, like the way you guys caricature my taste all the time.

lol ok whatevs - btw gerry is near the top of my excellent bostonisms list even if it doesn actually take place in the boston - of course those guys are like from boston so its not thaaat impressive

CoM doesn't really strike me as allegorical as basically mechanical, as in, ok, let's say female fertility left the planet, and no one knew why? what would happen? and then, with one woman, it came back? how would that go.

i mean, it's more like those alternate history nerds who wonder what would happen if rommel had a bad cold in 1936 or whatever.

i'm not saying it doesn't play around with a LOT of ideas about the makeup and current state of western society or whatev -- it totally does -- but "fertility" equalling "mary" is only there as a very rough echo imo

movies from my ballot I thought had a chance of making top 100, but didn't
9. No Man’s Land - 32pts
29. Birth - 12pts
33. Wrestler, The - 8pts
35. Secretary - 6pts

movies that might have made top 100 if more than 10 ppl had seen them

2. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (Zacharias Kunuk, 2001) - 39pts
10. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance - 31pts
21. Paprika - 20pts
24. Oasis - 17pts
30. A Tale of Two Sisters (Kim Ji-woon, 2003) - 11pts
38. Proposition, The - 3pts

movies I personally would've like to see make top 100 but had no chance tbh
5. Decasia - 36pts
6. Martyrs - 35pts
11. A Good Lawyer’s Wife (Im Sang-soo, 2003) - 30pts

i think we can all agree (well except u i guess) that there is obviously a deliberate mythical undercurrent to the movie (look at the way every animal in the movie nuzzles up to clive owen - great touch). what i think we're disagreeing on is whether that takes away from the film. imo it IS the film.