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

xxpost i meant morvern callar

also omar font size is perfect (would actually go smaller!)

lol i can't tell on this firefox here, it looks pretty small

even Haneke fan tabes agrees w/ me that TPT is lousy. As I've said, John Waters shoulda done it.

Lynne Ramsay will have a 9-year drought before her next feature comes out, poor gal.

excited. only posted my ballot last night.

ehh, it was just such a maudlin empty exercise in telegraphed boohoo mopeyness, and the main character is so utterly unsympathetic and boring and stupid. also, a movie where nothing happens, which is fine if it is entertaining on the way, but this isn't. xpost to jaymc

hate 2 namedrop but my ex's ex had a bit-part in morvern callar.

I guess most of the non-English lang films are going to feature genital slashing

one can only hope

if only!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/dogville3-1.jpg

I love this movie even more from the distance of 9 months than I did at the time. A great movie. I was glad the VV film poll accorded it some respect, since it was so conspicuously absent from most mainstream media best-of lists. I even like that so many people hate it, and that it severely unnerved and repulsed my gory-video-game-playing little brother.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra)

I think I mostly agree with Adam on this thread, having just seen the film. There was a lot that I liked about the film -- the performances especially, and the staging/lighting. I even like the idea of the film as parable -- but crucially more for its formal elements (narration, fairy-tale-ish classical score, division of chapters) than anything else. I enjoyed watching it (to a point), but if I dwell too much on the allegorical elements, it starts to bother me. Allegories rarely sit well with me, anyway.

I thought it was interesting, in light of what happens immediately thereafter, that Paul Bettany's final monologue is basically the voice of von Trier -- or maybe von Trier mocking himself? -- "Didn't you find this illustration edifying?"

― jaymc (jaymc)

Best film of the year for me, along with 'Howl's Moving Castle'.

― Momus (Momus)

booooooo

Piano Teacher had great things in it but by the end I was really annoyed. Callar pretty great. Wish Ramsey could have done the Lovely Bones.

Dogville placing so low is a victory imo.

two in a row like lye being shoveled into my eyes -- but I thought they'd be higher! yes, xp

loving the way this is turning out. hoping for an ilx cinephile stroke-out before no. 75.

ewwww

are you listing # of first place votes when they have any?

i believe you're thinking of a different sort of stroke-out, doctor.

Funny that I was quoted there, since I don't remember much about the movie and didn't vote for it.

thanks omar for running the numbers! (and taking the time to cook up these natty images)

The list format looks great, omar.

― maciej recognizing trill, Wednesday, February 3, 2010 1:00 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

kudos to omar for beautifully designed results thread btw.

― the highest per-vote vag so far (history mayne), Wednesday, February 3, 2010 1:01 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yah bro

shg, there's more than one kind?

own dogville, have never watched it. video stores going belly up do wonders for the "might as well buy this i'll probably watch it some day" collection

hah just occurred to me tho that you should also put the title and stats in text for those who have images turned off and also for the inevitable eventual disappearance of the images from the internet

yeah i'll be putting in the first place votes...none quite yet...

i have had dogville for six months now and still can't face it. it sounds just awful.

probably a good idea......i will add that at the end of the reveal posts.

nicole kidman is still lookin' good as of 'dogville', iirc.

like lye being shoveled into my eyes

2nd nominee for new thread title

havent seen any of them so far - am a haneke and von trier fan tho :/

I've been intrigued and burned by so many von trier movies that I've just given up

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/happygolucky.jpg

Happy-Go-Lucky was one of the most daring, moving films I've seen in ages, and it has an incredible lead performance by Sally Hawkins, so I gotta got for that. I'm probably exactly the kind of viewer it was targeted for, though, because the whole movie is a big anti-cynicist manifesto, and I'm a big anti-cynic.

- Tuomas

t-dawg idk how u feel about this but when i was watching this it was pretty much exact like how i picture your lyfe just less fighting for the rights of ppl on internet msg boards. also that driving instructor is how i picture ilx poster whiney g weingarten right down to assaulting attractive dark haired yung women

um that sd dope movie ~~ chilling on the balcony wearnin t shirts and underwear just u no glowing and shit ~~ thats real lyfe

― nutrional socialist (Lamp)

watched happy go lucky last night - really enjoyed it and <3 mike leigh generally - ws all this wite girls def

i personally related to how poppys frustration w/the world manifested as passive aggressive discursive joking - its trying to make people relax and be natural w/o recognizing that this desire has control freak roots of its own

so yeah she was an optimist who believes in the goodness of people - and she was pretty good at connecting when shit got real - but she was also quite willfully personally unexamined - there was a whole lot of ignorance and projection going on

― ice cr?m

#97
Happy-Go-Lucky
Mike Leigh
2008
United Kingdom
210.5 pts, 11 votes

actually did watch the beginning of dogville once

falled asleep

I also own but have never watched dogville, bought DVD for $2 at ocean state job lot lol

I've been intrigued and burned by so many von trier movies that I've just given up

i wonder if on his deathbed von trier will reveal that his entire output was designed to treat the viewer like one of the abused women in his shitty films. always going back for more, he says.

loool @ lamp

happy go lucky just snuck onto my ballot - pretty good one imo

Thought his three '00s features were OK to good, but Leigh's lost a step. Driving instructor was best HGL character, but then he had to go and ruin him w/ bathos at the end.

the words "yeah you like that doncha" should flash on the screen at the end of every von trier movie

Yay for "Happy Go Lucky" - I would've voted for that had I got around to voting.

Maybe I should watch Happy Go Lucky tonight, it's in the have-but-not-seen category for me.

flamenco instructor was even better IMO xxp

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just a suggestion omar but maybe post 10 films a day? give ppl some time to marinate and discuss

dogville's good, but too long. and nk looks fine.

Gah, Dogville far too fucking low!

the words "yeah you like that doncha" should flash on the screen at the end of every von trier movie

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, February 3, 2010 1:24 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol

Also, the bar is very high for vote/point totals required to get on the list! Good job!

20 a day!

Eddie Marsan was great in HGL. It also made me appreciate him more in Miami Vice. 'it could come back on me baby!'

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after the shattering, unprecedented success of two previous polls i ran (this one and Movies That Were Probably Made By a Spasm of Six Year-Olds on Acid: The Top 75 Action Films Poll Results Thread) i was thinking (maybe) of running a 2011-2015 poll, maybe in a couple of months when folks have had a chance to catch up on tail-end 2015 films. and also for the dust to settle and the survivors to recover from the ILM 2015 tracks and albums poll.

also, i would demand the return of s1ocki, cankles, & eric h to at least submit a ballot.

only if there's enough interest from potential voters.

I'll vote in that.

i think you mean 2010-2015

I vote to wait four years

But then how could we compare the ever-changing tastes of both ILX and Popular Opinion in 5 years' time?

I think you mean 2010-2019.

I'll vote

2100-2910

Morbs pleading with us all to do this here last week:

best films of 2010-2019

Certainly vote.

Uh, that is a tough list to make! I'll begin the mandatory hype of Tsai Ming-liang right away, though.

bump

Hey, if anyone else is on Letterboxd, I compiled this best-of list into a top 100 on the Letterboxd site... I've seen 47 of these and I still need to see many others. By the way, feel free to add/follow/friend me on Letterboxd if that's your thing.

https://boxd.it/2bIZ4

only one more year to go til the 2010s poll, start compiling those lists now. Morbs, I'm looking at you. Alfred, I know you're on it. Eric, looking forward to yours. s1ocki, come back.

Still shocked In the Mood for Love missed the top 10.

up to 87/100

i have come to hate lists

Hey, if anyone else is on Letterboxd, I compiled this best-of list into a top 100 on the Letterboxd site... I've seen 47 of these and I still need to see many others. By the way, feel free to add/follow/friend me on Letterboxd if that's your thing.

https://boxd.it/2bIZ4

― ilxor, Saturday, November 17, 2018 6:48 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I "liked" that list and all the other countdowns, cheers! I refrained from voting (or posting) in any of these as I felt I hadn't seen enough movies, so letterboxd is a good way to track what I need to catch up on. My % viewed increases steadily by decade, from just 8% of the 40s list to 77/100 in this one.

the only disappointing thing about this poll so far was omar's decision to not use a helicopter shot of nighttime miami for the 'miami vice' blurb -- i think the screen cap he used is actually from 'austin powers' >:(

― vincent gallogina (J0rdan S.), Monday, February 8, 2010 11:05 AM (eight years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i liked my action films poll screencap for this film better tbqf.

Mulholland Drive, Caché, Synecdoche, Tropical Malady and Inland Empire are 5 of my favorites from this list, but right now I think I love In the Mood for Love more than all of them

Were the brackets for this 2000-2009? I also thought Russian Ark, The White Ribbon, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, 35 Shots of Rum, Platform, 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Werckmeister Harmonies, Colossal Youth, La Ciénaga and Silent Light from that time period were all incredible. Haven’t seen Yi Yi or Eternal Sunshine in a long while. Never saw Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks

I see that hardly any of those figured in the ilx list

love all 3 of the Lucrecia Martel films from the 2000s - La Ciénaga, The Holy Girl, and The Headless Woman

not the ideal way to watch it but tie xi qu: west of the tracks is on youtube

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/24/movies/shyamalan-tom-cruise.html