ILX TOP 50 FILMS OF 2000-2004 BALLOTS/VOTING - ends Jan. 3

maryland is a blue state cuz lots of black people live in it.

Fast Times At Ridgemont High?

i totally would've voted for the first final destination but the experience of seeing the second one is one of the more disturbing experiences of my life (i think i've told this story before). stoked for the 3rd! death u so crafty!

maybe it will be all comic book movies!!! elektra, x-men, x-men 2, daredevil, spiderman, spiderman 2, yeah i could totally pull it off. not to mention the blades!!!

I hope somebody nominated Cube 2 : Hypercube (or whetever its bullshit name was) 'cos I really want to put it in my worse 3 ballot.

American Wedding / American Pie 3 (Dylan, 2003)
Anchorman (McKay, 2004)
Blade II (del Toro, 2002)
The Bourne Identity (Liman, 2002)
The Bourne Supremacy (Greengrass, 2004)
Bring It On (Reed, 2000)

Charlie's Angels (McG, 2000)
Collateral (Mann, 2004)

Dude, Where's My Car (Leiner, 2000)

Elf (Favreau, 2003)
Finding Nemo (Stanton, Unkrich, 2003)
Gangs of New York (Scorsese, 2002)
Ghost World (Zwigoff, 2001)
High Fidelity (Frears, 2000)
Insomnia (Nolan, 2002)
Jackass: The Movie (Tremaine, 2002)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (Tarantino, 2003)
Kill Bill: Vol.2 (Tarantino, 2004)
The Lord Of The Rings - The Fellowship Of The Ring (Jackson, 2001)
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Jackson, 2002)
Lord Of The Rings: Return of The King (Jackson, 2003)
Lost in Translation (Coppola, 2003)

Master And Commander: The Far Side of the World (Weir, 2003)
Meet the Parents (Roach, 2000)
Minority Report (Spielberg, 2002)
Napoleon Dynamite (Hess, 2004)
Ocean's 11 (Soderbergh, 2001)
Pirates of the Caribbean (Verbinski, 2003)
Snatch (Ritchie, 2000)
Spider-Man (Raimi, 2002)
Starsky and Hutch (Phillips, 2004)
Traffic (Soderbergh, 2000)

Vanilla Sky (Crowe, 2001)

X-Men 2 / X2 (Singer, 2003)
Zoolander (Stiller, 2001)

There are several korean and japanese action/crime/comedy films that I've seen in recent years and quite enjoyed. JSA isn't one of them, really, but I think part of it comes down to this - the foreign films that come to the states come to the states to please the art house crowd; a lot of gen-y college educated people find art house cinema rather dull as of late, and would prefer something actiony, pacey, or as I would call it "well-executed" like Spider-Man 2 rather than Bad Education, by a long shot.

If they brought shit like CASSHERN and IMMORTEL to the little art house in my neighborhood I'd hella go, but mainland china epics, american indies and eurowhatever is so frequently disappointing of late I just can't be bothered.

You know what was pretty fuckin' good, that wasn't on the list, DAS EXPERIMENT.

I call "pacey, actiony, well-executed" BIGSCREEN TV

whatsamatta? didn't you LOVE kiki's delivery service?

also, guess what.

I could see a lot more foreign films through Netflix and DVDs, but I've finally broke down and admitted that I just don't like movies as much on a small screen. Even when I love something, being on my couch, with my little TV or computer, I get too many distractions. Nothing replaces a good cinema experience.

Most baffling use of "r*ckist" evah, or I'm just old.

Also foriegn films tend to play in the arthouse theaters, which are always small and uncomfortable with bad sound systems. thats no fun.

Short answer: Pauline Kael.