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

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?

Or angry robots in disguise?

401-500

Marebito (Takashi Shimizu, 2004, Japan) - 36pts 36 pts 1 vote
Last Resort - 36pts 36 pts 1 vote
Junebug 24 pts 36 pts 3 votes
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room - 28 pts 36 pts 2 votes
Dark Days – 5pts 36 pts 2 votes
Broken English Zoe Cassavettes 2007 36 36 pts 1 vote
Bareback ou La guerre des sens 36 36 pts 1 vote
Tell No One 18 35 pts 3 votes
session 9 - 19 35 pts 2 votes
man on fire - 29 pts 35 pts 2 votes
Devil Wears Prada, The (David Frankel, 2006) – 15pts 35 pts 3 votes
Vanilla Sky     34 34 pts 1 vote
Smart people (Noam Murro) - 34 pts 34 pts 1 vote
Manderlay 34 34 pts 1 vote
Look at Me aka Comme une image [Agnès Jaoui, 2004] – 34 pts 34 pts 1 vote
Cafe Lumiere Hou Hsiao-Hsien 2003 34 34 pts 1 vote
Bridget Jones’s Diary   20 34 pts 2 votes
All About Lily Chou Chou, 34 34 pts 1 vote
Trouble the Water - 33pts 33 pts 1 vote
Platform 8 pts 33 pts 2 votes
Oasis, 14 pts 33 pts 3 votes
Kinsey - 33 pts 33 pts 1 vote
Isle, The aka Seom [Kim Ki-Duk, 2000] – 33 pts 33 pts 1 vote
Ils/Them (France 2006)-33 33 pts 1 vote
Friday Night - 11pts 33 pts 2 votes
Four Nights with Anna aka Cztery noce z Anna 33 33 pts 1 vote
Everything Is Illuminated - 33 33 pts 1 vote
Down with Love - 33pts 33 pts 1 vote
Dagon - 33 33 pts 1 vote
Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg, 2002) – 30pts 33 pts 3 votes
Wind That Shakes the Barley, The 32 pts 2 votes
Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 32 32 pts 1 vote
Silent Light - 8pts 32 pts 2 votes
Rookie, The – 32pts 32 pts 1 vote
Return, The - 15pts 32 pts 2 votes
Nine Queens - 32pts 32 pts 1 vote
night watch - 32 32 pts 1 vote
Mary 32 32 pts 1 vote
Innocence [Lucile Hadzihalilovic, 2004] – 32 pts 32 pts 1 vote
Dark Horse - 32pts 32 pts 1 vote
Captive, The (Akerman, 2000) - 32 pts 32 pts 1 vote
Bronson (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2009) - 32 pts 32 pts 1 vote
Where the Wild Things Are 31 31 pts 1 vote
Score, The - 31 31 pts 1 vote
Pusher II: With Blood On My Hands - 24pts 31 pts 2 votes
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist – 31pts 31 pts 1 vote
Les esprits du Koniambo 31 31 pts 1 vote
Death of Mr. Lazarescu, The - 30 31 pts 2 votes
Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, The – 31 pts 31 pts 1 vote
curious case of benjamin button, the  31 31 pts 1 vote
Case of the Grinning Cat, The 31 pts 31 pts 1 vote
Babel   31 31 pts 1 vote
Undertow 30 pts 1 vote
Them aka Ils - 30pts 30 pts 1 vote
Mind Game - 30pts 30 pts 1 vote
L’Enfant  17 30 pts 3 votes
Jesus Camp - 22 pts 30 pts 3 votes
Black Sheep - 30pts 30 pts 1 vote
Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film (2006) 30 pts 1 vote
A Good Lawyer’s Wife (Im Sang-soo, 2003) 30 pts 1 vote
White Diamond, The 29 pts 2 votes
Waiting List aka Lista de espera [Juan Carlos Tabío, 2000] – 29 pts 29 pts 1 vote
Vai E Vem 29 29 pts 1 vote
under the sand - 29 29 pts 1 vote
True Meaning of Pictures, The: Shelby Lee Adams’ Appalachia (2002) 29 pts 1 vote
Paper Heart – 29pts 29 pts 1 vote
Orphanage 10 29 pts 2 votes
La Vie en Rose - 29 29 pts 1 vote
Ju-On - 29pts 29 pts 1 vote
Grandmas Boy 29 pts 29 pts 1 vote
demonlover      29 29 pts 1 vote
Butterfly Effect, The - 7 pts 29 pts 2 votes
Ballast - 29pts 29 pts 1 vote
21 grams 29 pts 1 vote
Whatever works (Woody Allen) - 28 pts 28 pts 1 vote
Village, The-20 28 pts 2 votes
Stevie (2002) 28 pts 1 vote
Public Enemies - 21 pts 28 pts 2 votes
Palavra e Utopia 28 28 pts 1 vote
Le Fils - 28pts 28 pts 1 vote
How to draw a bunny 28 28 pts 1 vote
Esther Kahn 28 pts 28 pts 1 vote
Conversations with Other Women - 28 pts 28 pts 1 vote
A Tale of Two Sisters (Kim Ji-woon, 2003) - 8pts 28 pts 3 votes
Into the Wild 20.5 27.5 pts 2 votes
Black Hawk Down - 7 pts 27.5 pts 2 votes
Zack and Miri Make a Porno - 27pts 27 pts 1 vote
Red Road 22 27 pts 2 votes
Paradise Now    14pts 27 pts 2 votes
Paradise Lost 2: Revelations - 7pts 27 pts 2 votes
Kitchen Stories aka Salmer fra kjøkkenet [Bent Hamer, 2003] – 27 pts 27 pts 1 vote
Circle, The - 27 pts 27 pts 1 vote
Blue Crush – 27pts 27 pts 1 vote
Beaufort-27 pts 27 pts 1 vote
What Time Is It There? - 26 pts 26 pts 1 vote
Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit - 19 pts 26 pts 2 votes
Strangers, The – 26pts 26 pts 1 vote
Riding in Cars With Boys - 26 26 pts 1 vote
Ong-Bak-26 26 pts 1 vote
Ceux d'en face 34 34 pts 1 vote

Vai E Vem 29 29 pts 1 vote

pretty sure this is just the romanian translation of "wall-e"

oops, one on the bottom should be up around #416

Brazilian documentary about Steve Vai iirc

Le Fils - 28pts 28 pts 1 vote
What Time Is It There? - 26 pts 26 pts 1 vote

jeeeeeeeeeeeeez

Devil Wears Prada, The (David Frankel, 2006) – 15pts 35 pts 3 votes

guess i had a companion for every single one of my flicks

did Le Fils get votes as The Son elsewhere?

definitely got sonned

hmm....it looks like it did, would have ended up with 122 pts and not 94 (see this is why everyone needs to conform to a single title, i don't have time to research all the different titles!)

501-600

Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 (2008) 26 pts 1 vote
Friday Night Lights 26 pts 1 vote
Control - 23 pts 26 pts 3 votes
Bright Star (Jane Campion, 2009) 26 pts 1 vote
Blind Shaft - 10pts 26 pts 2 votes
Autohystoria 26 26 pts 1 vote
28 Weeks Later (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, 2007) - 26pts 26 pts 1 vote
12:08 East of Bucharest - 26pts 26 pts 1 vote
Big Bad Swim 25 pts 25 pts 1 vote
Woodsman, The - 9pts 25 pts 2 votes
Waiting for Happiness (Abderrahmane Sissako, 2002) - 25 pts 25 pts 1 vote
Time Out aka L'Emploi Du Temps 25 pts 2 votes
Spring Forward - 25pts 25 pts 1 vote
Ponyo (Gake no ue no Ponyo) (2008) - 15 pts 25 pts 2 votes
Operai, contadini 25 25 pts 1 vote
Nomi Song, The (Andrew Horn, 2004, USA) - 25pts 25 pts 1 vote
Joy of Life, The - 25 pts 25 pts 1 vote
Hills Have Eyes, The - 25 pts 25 pts 1 vote
Food Inc Robert Kenner 2008 25 25 pts 1 vote
Bloody Sunday   18 25 pts 2 votes
Before Night Falls 25 pts 1 vote
Alpha Dog – 25pts 25 pts 1 vote
X2: X-Men United - 3 pts 24 pts 2 votes
State and Main - 24pts 24 pts 1 vote
Secret Things aka Choses secrètes 19 24 pts 2 votes
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008) 24 pts 1 vote
Queen of the Damned – 24 pts 24 pts 1 vote
MAY - seventeen pts 24 pts 3 votes
Lust, Caution - 24pts 24 pts 1 vote
Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem Matsumoto Reiji 2003 24 24 pts 1 vote
Duchess of Langeais, The aka Ne touchez pas la hache 24 24 pts 1 vote
An Education - 24 pts 24 pts 1 vote
Yes Men, The - 23pts 23 pts 1 vote
Winged Migration - 23pts 23 pts 1 vote
Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, The - 22 23 pts 2 votes
Ten Canoes - 23pts 23 pts 1 vote
Step Brothers - 6 23 pts 2 votes
Seagull’s Laughter aka Mávahlátur [Ágúst Guðmundsson, 2001] – 23 pts 23 pts 1 vote
My Architect 23 pts 1 vote
La vie nouvelle 23 23 pts 1 vote
Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus - 23pts 23 pts 1 vote
Hostel II - 23pts 23 pts 1 vote
Fubar – 23pts 23 pts 1 vote
Freddy Got Fingered - 23 23 pts 1 vote
Doubt John Patrick Stanley 2008 5 23 pts 2 votes
Corpse Bride, The - 23 23 pts 1 vote
core, the 23 pts 1 vote
A League of Ordinary Gentlemen (2004) 23 pts 1 vote
Turtles Can Fly - 22pts 22 pts 1 vote
Training Day 11 22 pts 2 votes
Snakes on a Plane 3 22 pts 2 votes
Sin Nombre Cory Fukunaga 2009 22 22 pts 1 vote
La Captive-6 pts 22 pts 2 votes
Forever - 22pts 22 pts 1 vote
Deep Blue [Andy Byatt & Alastair Fothergill, 2003] – 22 pts 22 pts 1 vote
De l'origine du XXIe siècle 22 22 pts 1 vote
Company, The 15 pts 22 pts 3 votes
Bothersome Man, The - 22pts 22 pts 1 vote
Talladega Nights - 13 21 pts 2 votes
Severance (James Moran, 2006, UK) - 21pts 21 pts 1 vote
Punisher War Zone - 21pts 21 pts 1 vote
Metropolis - 21pts 21 pts 1 vote
Letters from Iwo Jima Clint Eastwood 2006 21 21 pts 1 vote
Juventude em Marcha 21 21 pts 1 vote
Graveyard of Honor (Takashi Miike, 2002) 21 pts 1 vote
Ghost Town 4 pts 21 pts 2 votes
Frownland – 21pts 21 pts 1 vote
Final Destination - 21pts 21 pts 1 vote
Cold Mountain - 21 21 pts 1 vote
Westway to the World 20.5 pts 1 vote
Shallow Hal (Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly, 2001, USA) 20.5 pts 1 vote
Rize (David LaChapelle, 2005, USA) 20.5 pts 1 vote
Quiet American, The 20.5 pts 1 vote
Pollock (Ed Harris, 2000, USA) 20.5 pts 1 vote
Me Without You (Sandra Goldbacher, 2001, UK) 20.5 pts 1 vote
Maria Full of Grace 20.5 20.5 pts 1 vote
Kung Fu Panda 20.5 pts 1 vote
Eight Mile 20.5 pts 1 vote
Wit – 20pts 20 pts 1 vote
Up in the Air - 20 20 pts 1 vote
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks 20 20 pts 1 vote
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter...And Spring - 19pts 20 pts 2 votes
REC - 20pts 20 pts 1 vote
North Country - 20pts 20 pts 1 vote
Millennium Mambo Hsiao-hsien Hou 2001 20 20 pts 1 vote
Dreamgirls - 20 pts 20 pts 1 vote
De l'autre côté - 20pts 20 pts 1 vote
Chop Shop - 20pts 20 pts 1 vote
charlie wilson's war    20 20 pts 1 vote
American Pie 2 (James B. Rogers, 2001) 20 20 pts 1 vote
Woods, The - 2 19 pts 2 votes
Slither (James Gunn, 2006, USA) - 19pts 19 pts 1 vote
Passion of the Christ, The (Mel Gibson, 2004, USA)-19 19 pts 1 vote
Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium – 19 pts 19 pts 1 vote
Mister Lonely - 19pts 19 pts 1 vote
Meet the Parents - 7 pts 19 pts 2 votes
La Ciénaga - 19 19 pts 1 vote
King Kong [Peter Jackson, 2005] – 19 pts 19 pts 1 vote
Kept and Dreamless-19 pts 19 pts 1 vote
Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai, The - 19 pts 19 pts 1 vote

Isle, The aka Seom [Kim Ki-Duk, 2000] – 33 pts 33 pts 1 vote

I was the only one to vote for this?! Whoa! I'd thought it would've had some other fans in here.

Devil Wears Prada, The (David Frankel, 2006) – 15pts 35 pts 3 votes

guess i had a companion for every single one of my flicks

was the dwp the only thing u voted for that didnt show up in the final hundo?

I thought it was 1990s...(The Isle that is)

poor bright star

Yeah, for some reason I thought that too, but then I checked IMDb and was happy to realize I could vote for it.

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