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

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.

(x-post)

dwp, role models, cloverfield, lotr twin towers, adventureland, wonderboyz, mike clayton, forgetting sara marshall, gomorrah, hellboy, syriana, oceans 11, inside man

xp to lamp

601-700

Box, The – 7pts 19 pts 2 votes
Ali - 19 19 pts 1 vote
Warm Water under a Red Bridge - 18 pts 18 pts 1 vote
Thank You For Smoking - 17 pts 18 pts 2 votes
Taken 12 18 pts 2 votes
Reprise - 18pts 18 pts 1 vote
Redacted 18 18 pts 1 vote
Others, The - 2 18 pts 3 votes
Not Another Teen Movie - 8 pts 18 pts 2 votes
Ninth Gate - 18 18 pts 1 vote
Kontroll 18 18 pts 1 vote
Headless Woman, The 18 pts 18 pts 1 vote
Hamlet 18 pts 1 vote
Fast Food Nation - 18pts 18 pts 1 vote
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead - 18 18 pts 1 vote
Wicker Man, The 6 17 pts 2 votes
Wedding Crashers - 1 17 pts 3 votes
Sicko – 17 pts 17 pts 1 vote
Revanche, 17 pts 17 pts 1 vote
Officer’s Ward aka La chambre des officiers [François Dupeyron, 2001] – 17 pts 17 pts 1 vote
Lagaan 4pts 17 pts 2 votes
Josie and the Pussycats - 5 pts 17 pts 2 votes
In Praise of Love, 7 pts 17 pts 2 votes
Time of the Wolf 16 pts 16 pts 1 vote
Summer Solstice, The Anh Hung Tran 2000 16 16 pts 1 vote
Signs – 16 pts 16 pts 1 vote
Ratcatcher - 16 pts 16 pts 1 vote
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - 16pts 16 pts 1 vote
Fountain, The (Darren Aronofsky, 2006) - 16pts 16 pts 1 vote
Elf - 16 pts 16 pts 1 vote
Devil's Rejects, The 3 pts 16 pts 2 votes
Avatar, 2 pts 16 pts 2 votes
A Snake of June (Shinya Tsukamoto, 2002) 16 pts 1 vote
Spartan - 3pts 15 pts 2 votes
Room, The - 1 pts 15 pts 2 votes
Le monde vivant 15 15 pts 1 vote
La Niña Santa - 15 15 pts 1 vote
custodian, the -15 pts 15 pts 1 vote
Clean 15 pts 1 vote
Boys of Baraka, The - 15pts 15 pts 1 vote
Bodysong [Simon Pummell, 2003] – 15 pts 15 pts 1 vote
Barbarian Invasions, The - 15pts 15 pts 1 vote
Ballad of Jack and Rose, The - 15pts 15 pts 1 vote
Why We Fight 14 14 pts 1 vote
Waiting - 14pts 14 pts 1 vote
Twilight Samurai - 14pts 14 pts 1 vote
Spider-man 2 (Sam Raimi, 2004, USA) 5 14 pts 2 votes
Pootie Tang - 5 14 pts 2 votes
Observe and report-14 pts 14 pts 1 vote
Merde 14 14 pts 1 vote
life and death of peter sellers, the     14 14 pts 1 vote
Leo, Playing 'In the Company of Men' (Desplechin, 2003) - 14pts 14 pts 1 vote
Hero, 14 14 pts 1 vote
Gleaners & I - 14 pts 14 pts 1 vote
Drive [Hiroyuki Tanaka, 2002] – 14 pts 14 pts 1 vote
Corporation, The - 14 14 pts 1 vote
Billy the Kid – 14pts 14 pts 1 vote
Hotel Rwanda - 13pts 13 pts 1 vote
Watchmen (US 2009)-13 13 pts 1 vote
V for Vendetta 13 13 pts 1 vote
Tokyo Gore Police - 6 pts 13 pts 2 votes
Sleeping Dogs Lie 13 pts. 13 pts 1 vote
My Summer of Love - 13pts 13 pts 1 vote
Mekhong Full Moon Party aka Sibha kham doan sib ed [Jira Maligool, 2002] – 13 pts 13 pts 1 vote
In Her Shoes - 13pts 13 pts 1 vote
District B13 - 13 pts 13 pts 1 vote
Day Night Day Night - 13pts 13 pts 1 vote
Zombieland – 12pts 12 pts 1 vote
Transporter 2 12 pts 12 pts 1 vote
Raising Victor Vargas – 12pts 12 pts 1 vote
Private Fears in Public Places aka Coeurs 12 12 pts 1 vote
Murderball H Rubin/D Shapiro 2005 12 12 pts 1 vote
Le Graine et La Mulet - 12pts 12 pts 1 vote
ivans xtc - 12pts 12 pts 1 vote
Gozu (Takashi Miike, 2003) - 12 pts 12 pts 1 vote
Frozen River, 12 pts 12 pts 1 vote
Elite Squad (Brazil 2007)-12 12 pts 1 vote
Lady and the Duke, The aka L'anglaise et le duc 11 11 pts 1 vote
Jhoom Barabar Jhoom - 11 pts 11 pts 1 vote
Goodbye Lenin 11 11 pts 1 vote
Eden Lake (James Watkins, 2008) - 11 pts 11 pts 1 vote
Constantine - 11pts 11 pts 1 vote
Baader-Meinhoff Komplex, The  6 11 pts 2 votes
All or Nothing - 11pts 11 pts 1 vote
25 Watts [Juan Pablo Rebella & Pablo Stoll, 2001] – 11 pts 11 pts 1 vote
Revolution Will Not Be Televised, The - 10pts 10 pts 1 vote
Ladykillers, The 10 10 pts 1 vote
Chocolate (2008 Thai)-10 10 pts 1 vote
Bridesmaid, The aka La demoiselle d'honneur 10 10 pts 1 vote
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints - 10pts 10 pts 1 vote
13 Tzameti (Géla Babluani, 2005) - 10pts 10 pts 1 vote
Surf's Up (2007) - 9 pts 9 pts 1 vote
Monster, 9 pts 9 pts 1 vote
Land of the Dead 9 9 pts 1 vote
Goodbye Solo - 9pts 9 pts 1 vote
Fahrenheit 9/11 9 pts 1 vote
Daratt - 9pts 9 pts 1 vote
Corto Maltese: La cour secrète des Arcanes [Pascal Morelli, 2002] – 9 pts 9 pts 1 vote
Young Adam (8 pts) 8 pts 1 vote
Year of the Dog - 8pts 8 pts 1 vote

i left a bunch of shit off my ballot so that might have been replaced

feelin like a feeb for not having enuf arty foreign type shit but im not really a cineaste so

Frownland – 21pts 21 pts 1 vote

:(

i think that's the reason it wouldn't have occurred to me to vote; i'm not a cineaste. also these lists are making me realize that i basically stopped seeing movies around 2005, i guess in order to slavishly devote all of my time to tv lol

xpost

yeah i am deffo more of a tv-aste than an cineaste

wish the tv poll had been as well-publicized and slavishly followed as this one

but ilx has fewer tv nerds than movie nerds

there was a tv poll :(

i didn't know!

and finally

701-758

Standing in the Shadows of Motown - 08pts 8 pts 1 vote
Princess Raccoon - 8 8 pts 1 vote
Mondovino, 8 pts 8 pts 1 vote
Lantana - 8pts 8 pts 1 vote
Friday Night Lights - 8 8 pts 1 vote
Cassandra's Dream 8 8 pts 1 vote
Black Dynamite (Scott Sanders, 2009)-8 8 pts 1 vote
(500)Days of Summer-8 pts 8 pts 1 vote
Tenten - 7pts 7 pts 1 vote
Son Frere - 7 pts 7 pts 1 vote
Once-7 pts 7 pts 1 vote
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (Danny Leiner, 2004) 7 7 pts 1 vote
Dancer in the Dark - 7pts 7 pts 1 vote
Bolt - 7 pts 7 pts 1 vote
Standard Operating Procedure - 6 pts  6 pts 1 vote
Queen, The - 6 pts 6 pts 1 vote
In the City of Sylvia aka En la ciudad de Sylvia 6 6 pts 1 vote
Darwin’s Nightmare – 6pts 6 pts 1 vote
Coronation aka Coronación [Silvio Caiozzi, 2000] – 6 pts 6 pts 1 vote
77Boadrum Jun Kawaguchi 2008 6 6 pts 1 vote
6ixty9ine 6 pts 6 pts 1 vote
300 6 pts 1 vote
What Is It 5 5 pts 1 vote
Rocky Balboa 5 5 pts 1 vote
Redbelt, 5 pts 5 pts 1 vote
End of the Century - 5pts 5 pts 1 vote
DUMPLINGS! - 5pts 5 pts 1 vote
Charlie's angels - 5 pts 5 pts 1 vote
Woman on the Beach - 4 pts 4 pts 1 vote
Red Eye - 4 4 pts 1 vote
Profit & Nothing But! Or Impolite Thoughts on the Class Struggle [Raoul Peck, 2001] – 4 pts 4 pts 1 vote
Manda Bala  2 4 pts 2 votes
Garden State - 4 4 pts 1 vote
Billy Elliot (Stephen Daldry, 2000) 4 4 pts 1 vote
3-Iron - 4pts 4 pts 1 vote
13 going on 30  4 4 pts 1 vote
Wild Zero - 3 3 pts 1 vote
Suzhou River [Ye Lou, 2000] – 3 pts 3 pts 1 vote
Hills of Disorder, The aka Serras da Desordem 3 3 pts 1 vote
Dreamers, The – 3pts 3 pts 1 vote
Call of Cthulhu, The - 3 3 pts 1 vote
About Schmidt 3 pts 3 pts 1 vote
Wisconsin Death Trip - 2pts 2 pts 1 vote
Unleashed - 2pts 2 pts 1 vote
Tekkonkinkreet, 2 2 pts 1 vote
O Signo do Caos 2 2 pts 1 vote
Love Me If You Dare aka Jeux d’enfants (Yann Samuell, France, 2003) 2 pts 1 vote
Live Free or Die Hard 2 2 pts 1 vote
Hot Rod 2 pts. 2 pts 1 vote
Anatomy of Hell 2 pts 2 pts 1 vote
Distant aka Uzak [Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2002] – 1 pt 1 pts 1 vote
duplicity       1 1 pts 1 vote
Infamous 1 pt 1 pts 1 vote
Klimt 1 1 pts 1 vote
Palindromes - 1 pts 1 pts 1 vote
Shotgun Stories - 1pts 1 pts 1 vote
Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance, 1 1 pts 1 vote
Tears Of The Black Tiger - 1pts 1 pts 1 vote

13 going on 30 4 4 pts 1 vote

considered voting for this

Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance, 1 1 pts 1 vote

haha not to harp on this edward but... i doooon't think the vote-splitting hurt lady v

13 going on 30 4 4 pts 1 vote

considered voting for this

― max, Friday, February 12, 2010 1:38 PM (24 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

would be awesome if it had gotten 30 pts from 13 difft voters

TV is too easy to watch, max.

how do you mean? what tv are you talking about?

I mean, participating in a TV poll, where you never have to leave the house to see stuff.

I could train you to be a cineaste. (ok, not really)

eh, i could be, its partly a $$ thing and partly a my-girlfriend-doesnt-care-so-i-dont-really-make-the-effort thing

feel like we could have a poll w/tv and movies and youtube clips and itd more realistic than all this arbitrary balkinzation

the 00s tv poll was terrible horseshoe be glad u missed it

we will repoll in five years i guess and i will vote in that one

I would be more of an arty cineaste but I don't enjoy DVDs as well as the theater experience, and there's less good foreign stuff coming through the Angelika and Landmark here.

uh no icey, they are different things. (at least cinema is)

I mean, participating in a TV poll, where you never have to leave the house to see stuff.

I could train you to be a cineaste. (ok, not really)

― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Friday, February 12, 2010 1:42 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what about netflix?

lol Morbs training straight guys.

uh no icey, they are different things. (at least cinema is)

― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Friday, February 12, 2010 1:47 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no they are all exactly the same

btw best of youth is a tv show

they're all just venues for dick jokes imo

i feel like a best animated .gifs of the 00s poll wld b ilx pinnacle of achievement

needs to happen imo

btw best of youth is a tv show

― ice cr?m, Friday, February 12, 201

Was shown theatrically here, so in it went.

OK so I was the only person to vote for DUMPLINGS! it seems

DUMPLINGS!

Last time...DUMPLINGS!

DUMPLINGS!

I agree that many of the films you like don't benefit from a lit projector bulb

What the fuck is DUMPLINGS!?!

DUMPLINGS!

Oh Christ, why did that one need comedy ILX code?

it just did

What if someone wanted to talk about actual DUMPLINGS! instead of the movie?

that actually predates this discussion of the movie

also people are pretty stoked when they talk about DUMPLINGS!, their punctuation and capitalization should match their inner joy

i think someone can have an intelligent conversation about DUMPLINGS! without worrying about the word DUMPLINGS! appearing in all caps, tuomas

its the I LOVE CRICKET: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX ethos

Thanks to the person/people who put this together. The Top 100 was generally very much in line with my mindset when I go to the movies. I know my friend Valerie would say there was too much of an English-language tilt in the results, but I have the same bias, so I had no problem with that. My own major points of departure would be these two: 1) I wish there had been many more documentaries in the Top 100 (I see a lot of them scattered throughout the lists of also-rans). My own list was dominated by them--12 out of 20 spots. I thought the seemingly endless supply of really good documentaries was the decade's biggest story, and while I realize that 12 of 20 overstates the case, I think that's closer to the truth than the three or four (I haven't counted) that made it into the Top 100. 2) I continue to be baffled by the widespread admiration for Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire. Not just here, everywhere--even Sarris had MD on his decade-end list. When I left the theatre after Inland Empire, I remember thinking that that's how people must have felt after seeing Altman's Quintet in 1979. Take this for what it's worth--and maybe I'm completely wrong--but I think Kael, an early supporter of Lynch's, would have hated both of them. I just don't get it. Anyway, here's my own list: 1. Spellbound (2002) 2. Zodiac (2007) 3. Lost in Translation (2003) 4. The Heart of the Game (2005) 5. The Squid and the Whale (2005) 6. Elephant (2003) 7. No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005) 8. No Country for Old Men (2007) 9. Ghost World (2001) 10. Wendy and Lucy (2008) 11. Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film (2006) 12. The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams’ Appalachia (2002) 13. Stevie (2002) 14. Paranoid Park (2007) 15. Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 (2008) 16. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007) 17. Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008) 18. A League of Ordinary Gentlemen (2004) 19. Man on Wire (2008) 20. Capturing the Friedmans (2003)