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

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)

Great work Omar!

man, watching Stevie is about the most depressed i've ever been

oh yeah i forgot about stevie being in this period even though i saw it twice!

lolz Quintet, that movie sucks

xp

http://i723.photobucket.com/albums/ww232/clobberthesaurus/dumplings.gif

what movie title is that word replacing??

Great work Omar!

Yeah, can't be said enough. Really superb job.

DUMPLINGS!!

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

― snoocki (s1ocki), Friday, 12 February 2010 18:39 (1 hour ago)

lol I wouldn't expect anything less from U

thanks for the thanks, and thanks to everyone who voted. i got more ballots than the village voice film poll!

anyway, this is my last day on the day job i've had for four years, so the timing is right since i'm not sure how often i'll be posting from this point forward. good to get this one finished just before that day arrived. kinda just wanted to do this to get folks psyched about seeing some flicks tbh and to get some ideas for my netflix queue.

this has def reminded me about a bunch of films I've been meaning to see, as well as made me reconsider others I had previously avoided

like Munich!

best to you, omar.

like Munich!

nah

I won't be watching There Will Be Blood either sorry guys

good luck omar

see you on the other side