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

Primer 3pts 107.5 pts 7 votes
Ten 18 pts 107 pts 4 votes
Jackass Number Two – 24 pts 107 pts 6 votes
Crank 2: High Voltage - 20 pts 107 pts 4 votes

I like this spread.

Mystic River 16 104 pts 4 votes

4 ppl really ought to be ashamed of themselves (unless they are just massive Tim Robbins fans)

301-400

Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan 2000) - 11 54.5 pts 4 votes
Last King of Scotland 16 54 pts 3 votes
I Like Killing Flies 33 pts 54 pts 2 votes
Inside aka À l’intérieur 20.5 53.5 pts 2 votes
Three Times - 27pts 53 pts 2 votes
Shortbus - 24 53 pts 2 votes
Revolutionary Road - 24 53 pts 2 votes
Machinist 22 53 pts 2 votes
Order of Myths, The – 32pts 52 pts 2 votes
Happiness of the Katakuris - 34 52 pts 2 votes
Black Snake Moan - 24 pts 52 pts 4 votes
Pledge, The - 29 51.5 pts 3 votes
Solaris 25 51 pts 3 votes
House of Mirth 51 pts 2 votes
Dave Chappelle's Block Party 24 pts 51 pts 2 votes
Burn After Reading - 16 pts 51 pts 4 votes
Spider - 3pts 50 pts 3 votes
Idiocracy - 23 pts 50 pts 6 votes
Good Night, and Good Luck - 19 50 pts 3 votes
Hard Candy (David Slade, 2006) 49.5 pts 2 votes
No Man's Land (2001) - 17 pts 49 pts 2 votes
A Prairie Home Companion-35 pts 49 pts 2 votes
Keane - 33pts 48 pts 2 votes
Star Trek - 26pts 47.5 pts 3 votes
Visitor Q - 32pts 47 pts 2 votes
Paprika - 26 47 pts 3 votes
Les Destinees - 26 47 pts 2 votes
I'm not Scared 47 pts 2 votes
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen - 30 pts 46 pts 4 votes
Kingdom of Heaven - 32pts 46 pts 2 votes
Joint Security Area (JSA) - 9pts 46 pts 3 votes
Dude, Where’s My Car? (Danny Leiner, 2000) 46 pts 2 votes
Serenity - 25pts 45.5 pts 2 votes
Finisterre 10 pts 45.5 pts 3 votes
Hallam Foe (David Mackenzie, 2007) 23 45 pts 2 votes
Southland Tales – 13pts 45 pts 3 votes
Role Models    11pts 45 pts 3 votes
Panic Room - 22 44 pts 3 votes
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2008) - 21 pts 44 pts 3 votes
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army 9 43 pts 3 votes
Cellular - 32 43 pts 2 votes
Son of Rambow (Garth Jennings, 2007, UK) - 16 pts 42 pts 3 votes
Ring, The 8 42 pts 3 votes
Man Without A Past. The - 37pts 42 pts 2 votes
Gabrielle (Patrice Chéreau, 2005) 42 pts 2 votes
crazy/beautiful – 19pts 42 pts 2 votes
Requiem For A Dream - 1 41 pts 5 votes
Good Thief, The 41 pts 2 votes
Bend It Like Beckham (Gurinder Chadha, 2002) 41 pts 2 votes
A Beautiful Mind        27 41 pts 2 votes
Shaolin Soccer - 15 40.5 pts 3 votes
Tropic Thunder - 4 pts 40 pts 2 votes
Spiderman 40 pts 2 votes
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies - 40 pts 40 pts 1 vote
No End in Sight 40 pts 2 votes
Igby Goes Down - 33 pts 40 pts 2 votes
Historias Extraordinarias - 40 p 40 pts 1 vote
Dream Work (Peter Tscherkassky) - 40 40 pts 1 vote
Blissfully Yours - 35 40 pts 2 votes
all tomorrow's parties/mingri tianya    40 40 pts 1 vote
After the Wedding (40 pts) 40 pts 1 vote
Searching For the Wrong-Eyed Jesus (Andrew Douglas, 2003, USA) 39.5 pts 2 votes
Wind Will Carry Us, The - 39 pts 39 pts 1 vote
Two Drifters - 39pts 39 pts 1 vote
Planet Terror - 39pts 39 pts 1 vote
Last Days 16 39 pts 2 votes
L'Ora di Religione 39 39 pts 1 vote
Gerry 12 pts 39 pts 3 votes
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Nicholas Stoller, 2008) 39 pts 3 votes
edge of heaven - 39 39 pts 1 vote
Code Unknown (Michael Haneke, 2000) 39 pts 1 vote
Beat That My Heart Skipped, The - 39pts 39 pts 1 vote
Aristocrats, The  - 39 pts 39 pts 1 vote
Syriana – 1pts 38.5 pts 4 votes
Z32 38 38 pts 1 vote
transporter - 38 38 pts 1 vote
Princess And The Warrior - 38 pts 38 pts 1 vote
Phantom aka O Fantasma 7 38 pts 2 votes
In the Bedroom (Todd Field, 2001) 38 pts 1 vote
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) - 6 pts 38 pts 3 votes
Death Proof 34 38 pts 2 votes
Curse of the Golden Flower - 38pts 38 pts 1 vote
Candy - 38pts 38 pts 1 vote
A Prophet aka Un prophète (Jacques Audiard, 2009, France)-38 38 pts 1 vote
Vicky Cristina Barcelona 1 37 pts 4 votes
Two Lovers 4 pts 37 pts 3 votes
Tomorrow We move-37 pts 37 pts 1 vote
Riding With Giants - 37pts 37 pts 1 vote
Old Joy 37 37 pts 1 vote
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple - 17 pts 37 pts 2 votes
Iraq in Fragments – 10pts 37 pts 2 votes
Heart of the Game, The (2005) 37 pts 1 vote
Ghosts of Mars 37 37 pts 1 vote
Fall, The - 32 pts 37 pts 3 votes
Elizabethtown - 37 37 pts 1 vote
Cabin Fever 9 37 pts 2 votes
Year of the Devil aka Rok dábla [Petr Zelenka, 2002] – 36 pts 36 pts 1 vote
Witnesses 36 pts 2 votes
vers le sud/heading south       36 36 pts 1 vote
Save The Green Planet! - 36 pts 36 pts 1 vote

Ghosts of Mars 37 37 pts 1 vote

My hero.

WOW at the low placing of Paprika! Did only 3 people see it?

part of the problem w/ paprika was it didn't get on the nom thread until the last week I think

Mystic River 16 104 pts 4 votes

4 ppl really ought to be ashamed of themselves (unless they are just massive Tim Robbins fans)

― Michael Steele, the first black Superman (HI DERE), 12 February 2010 16:45 (5 minutes ago)

what, with Lost In Trnalsation top 10? As if.

saw it, liked it a lot, didn't think to vote it (paps)

I don't know, for me it was memorable enough to put it on my ballot before it was in the noms list.

I Like Killing Flies 33 pts 54 pts 2 votes

ilu whomever else voted this

vers le sud/heading south 36 36 pts 1 vote

this was me

wtf guys this is a gr8 movie

not going to look for my Eureka vote in there (assume it's around 410th)

Haha, who voted for crazy/beautiful with me?

xp about 180? 132 points, 4 votes

I LIKE KILLING FLIES is awesome. But voting for the best documentaries of the decade was pointless, as it was inevitable that less than ten non-fiction films had a chance of playing (and only a few of them actually deserved that status)

I voted crazy/beautiful!

and blue crush!

also, stockwell's best is MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, which still doesn't have distribution

btw, THANK U THANK U THANK U omar, this was wonderful, incredible job

oh thx darraghmac!

noticed it because of pretty high points per vote

afaict the only movie i voted for where i was the only voter is the devil wears prada

who are the other 3 Eureka voters, and have you seen it recently? (I had to watch a wobbly VHS.)

max, were you channelling surmounter?

what, with Lost In Trnalsation top 10? As if.

Thing is, "Lost in Translation" didn't wring all of its drama out of a plot twist that was obvious to everyone Paying attention within the first 15 minutes of the murder. LIT does a very good job of mixing self-centeredness and xenophobia into a surprisingly affecting romance, plus the music is a bazillion times better.

great movie, only gets better the more u watch it imo xp

if the best movies are the ones i am most compelled to watch repeatedly, i would have to vote for devil wears prada, too

what can i say dp i'm a sucker for strong male performances

/double entendres

if the best movies are the ones i am most compelled to watch repeatedly, i would have to vote for devil wears prada, too

― horseshoe, Friday, February 12, 2010 12:10 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha yeah i think there was a lot of this in my choices--since i didnt really have any other metric to go by--which movies do i watch whenever theyre on

which is why like... "wonder boys" was on my list

waitress - 31 64 pts 2 votes
edge of heaven - 39 39 pts 1 vote

:((((((((

I think that, had I not figured out the murder and had half the cast not had the worst, most laughable Boston accents this side of Julianne Moore, I would have been more willing to sink into the story "Mystic River" was trying to tell. As it was, I spent most of the movie thinking "oh ffs just get to the reveal, all you're doing is killing time in the most irritating way possible".

also re LiT, Japanese people be funny

I thought I had covered that with the word "xenophobia"

WOW at the low placing of Paprika! Did only 3 people see it?

I saw it and thought it was beautiful, but otherwise it didn't do anything for me. Sorry.

oh I thought you were talking about the characters' xenophobia, Dan; I mean Sofia C's.

Given how each film she's done has brought diminishing returns, I'm not looking forward to the next one being even more pointless than Marie Antoinette.

gotta be honest, unless your bawston accent is as bad as the average american actor's irish one it's not gonna jar me out of the movie any.

kind of enjoy actors doing bad boston accents tbh

i voted for 'eureka'
and no, saw it in the theater, in paris, 2000 or early 2001

yeah, you remembered it better than I did.

oh I thought you were talking about the characters' xenophobia, Dan; I mean Sofia C's.

Yeah, I was talking about the characters. I still think the jury is out on SC's xenophobia, at least because I thought the movie did an effective job of painting the characters as the assholes as opposed to the Japanese people they encountered (also my personal experiences there as a bewildered American who couldn't speak or read the language made me identify very, very strongly with the isolation and disorientation that contributed to the main characters' disconnection with the ppl around them; the fact that I was there with a bunch of other Ivy League guys, some of whom were SCREAMINGLY "ugly American" the whole time also helped me buy into ScarJo's performance).

Erin Brockovich – 16pts 94.5 pts 4 votes

omar, did you get my ballot? put this 14th so wondering. quixotically had michael clayton at #1 which might ring bells.

not that i care about that film, just expected to see it in the top 100 since i know it has a couple of fans

ah nerds, i thought it got 16pts, not 94.5. ignore me.

figured if i remembered it 10 years later 'eureka' must be worth a vote. i'm pretty sure i wrote a short paper about it at the time though if i found it, would no doubt have embarrassingly bad grammar so.. not going to look
iirc it was quite well regarded by french critics

Erin Brockovich made my ballot.

I didnt realize this poll was a satire until you got to the top 10. nice one - i laughed a lot.

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

more like smashing my preconceptions in half

thread needs more Statham.

Do these previously unheralded challop bombers represent angry lurkers or angry regs in disguise? Or angry indie directors in disguise?