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

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

daria: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3713963008/tt0472458

well i'm not *totally* leaving, i'm just not gonna be on the reg tip. i will see you folks around.

goodbye forever omar :(

http://patdollard.com/wp-content/uploads/holygrail004.jpg

I miss him already

*pours 40 on curb*

RIP omar

shakey didn't you mean "fuck this guy"

was a Region 1 DVD of DUMPLINGS!! ever released? It'd be the ideal Valentines Day Present for my boyfriend.

short version is part of the 3 extremes omnibus

http://www.amazon.com/3-Extremes-Ling-Bai/dp/B000CRR3ME/

oh wait, full length DUMPLINGS! is on that disc so you're golden

short AND long versions together. brilliant.

man I wanna eat some pan fried DUMPLINGS! right now

made all the more attractive by Christoper Doyle

to update WmC's list above, netflix instant play has

Gosford Park
Oldboy
Best in Show
Brick
The Host
Audition
Kings and Queen
Synecdoche, New York
Together
Capturing the Friedmans
Happy-Go-Lucky
Brokeback Mountain
Rachel Getting Married
Pan's Labyrinth
4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days
Memento
Let the Right One In
In the Mood for Love
Inland Empire
The Royal Tenenbaums
Wall-e
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

and Head-On from the 25 runners up

gah, this reminds me that I need to remove Audition from my viewing queue like immediately

Hot Rod 2 pts. 2 pts 1 vote
Anatomy of Hell 2 pts 2 pts 1 vote

... ummmmm ...

don't wanna load the thread - how many did 300 get?

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

― max, Friday, February 12, 2010 12:33 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

i voted for dvp! and adventureland, clayton, marshall & inside man

or dwp w/e

poor bright star

― snoocki (s1ocki), Friday, 12 February 2010 18:31 (2 hours ago) Bookmark

;_; can't believe it got a solitary vote.

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

― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 February 2010 17:08 (3 hours ago) Bookmark

i saw it a couple of years ago. i didn't vote for it because it's crap.

fyi I called the top 10 the night before they were posted

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Huge belated thanks to Omar for the number-crunching, the nicely paced unrolling of results and the beautiful screencaps. I've never been so addicted to an ILX thread and I'm looking forward to getting more work done next week.

crap's a bit strong; it's OK

yeah yr right

you are both very wrong, but at least 3 other ppl know that.

maybe I'm the only person who like the list in ascending order? anyway...

1. Mulholland Drive
2. Children of Men
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. No Country For Old Men
5. There Will Be Blood
6. Spirited Away
7. Inglourious Basterds
8. Wall-E
9. Zodiac
10. City of God
11. The Royal Tenenbaums
12. Grizzly Man
13. Inland Empire
14. In the Mood For Love
15. Let the Right One In
16. Lost in Translation
17. Ghost World
18. Memento
19. Adaptation
20. Caché
21. The Incredibles
22. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
23. Donnie Darko
24. The Departed
25. Superbad
26. American Psycho
27. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
28. Pan's Labyrinth
29. Shaun of the Dead
30. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
31. Battle Royale
32. The New World
33. Rachel Getting Married
34. The Bourne Supremacy
35. Bad Santa
36. Brokeback Mountain
37. A History of Violence
38. 24 Hour Party People
39. A Serious Man
40. The Bourne Identity
41. The Dark Knight
42. The Hurt Locker
43. Gosford Park
44. Oldboy
45. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
46. Up
47. Best in Show
48. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
49. The 40 Year-Old Virgin
50. I'm Not There
51. Eastern Promises
52. Punch-Drunk Love
53. Before Sunset
54. Miami Vice
55. Munich
56. Yi Yi: A One and a Two
57. Brick
58. You Can Count On Me
59. Sexy Beast
60. The Host
61. Audition
62. Borat
63. Wet Hot American Summer
64. Kings and Queen
65. Kung Fu Hustle
66. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
67. Synecdoche, New York
68. Elephant
69. Far From Heaven
70. Ratatouille
71. 25th Hour
72. Amelie
73. The Triplets of Belleville
74. In Bruges
75. Y tu mamá también
76. In the Loop
77. The Squid & The Whale
78. 28 Days Later
79. Team America: World Police
80. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
81. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
82. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
83. Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
84. Finding Nemo
85. Almost Famous
86. All the Real Girls
87. Minority Report
88. Memories of Murder
89. The Lives of Others
90. Together
91. Talk to Her
92. Tropical Malady
93. Sideways
94. Napoleon Dynamite
95. Capturing the Friedmans
96. High Fidelity
97. Happy-Go-Lucky
98. Dogville
99. The Piano Teacher
100. Movern Callar

english is my first language btw

Dagon - 33 33 pts 1 vote

I thought I would've at least gotten some help from Latebloomer on this one, sheesh.

my unique votes:

The Score - 31
The Ninth Gate - 18
Red Eye - 4
Wild Zero - 3 (watch this movie, ilx)

also, about these placements:
Kung Fu Hustle - #65
Shaolin Soccer - #3xx

really??? i think of them as being about on par.

yeah I don't really get why Kung Fu Hustle is all of a sudden the best stephen chow movie either

most seen by americans.

loved Wild Zero but it didn't quite make the top 40.

in fact KFH is actually considered to be one of the weakest chow films in his oeuvre by most HK critics

just like US critics think Marnie is weak Hitchcock.

OK, so just watched CoM and I'm starting to think that maybe I watched it around the same time as I saw Signs, b/c it wasn't as big of a christ-hammer as I remember.

The choice of a barn for the pregnancy reveal was still a little annoying (mainly b/c the first shot of her pregnant belly looked like a religious painting) but I'll let it slide b/c the rant that Kee goes on against the way cows are treated sets her defense of her motherhood up pretty well before the reveal.

I also think that when I originally saw it, when Jasper got shot and the midwife said "everything happens for a reason" it really pissed me off (I definitely don't subscribe to this school of thought), and even though it seemed like Theo disagreed I wish the director had added some dialogue or something to sort of refute it. But I dunno, Caine's whole faith/chance speech was kind of half-baked(maybe the purpose of the scene was to create some sympathy for Theo re:the loss of his son?) so I couldn't tell whether or not Cuaron actually wanted to say that "everything happens for a reason".

Beyond that the thing that surprised me the most was how little actual ass-kicking Clive Owen does. For some reason I remember him doing a lot more than opening car doors and hitting a cop with a brick. But yeah, lol@a boat named "tomorrow".