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

10 a day would give the GMT and later people a better chance to take part in the discussion

would be more epic that way too

every time I think of first QT appearance I picture morbz as boiling tea kettle with cork in spout

A watched Morbs never boils.

Actually, that's the least true thing I've ever written.

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A lot of people I know saw the film after reading the book, and complained that they'd niced up Rob too much. But seeing it a second time, he is a complete bastard at times in the film, it's just that he's played by John Cusack, and everyone loves John Cusack.

― Andrew Farrell

High Fidelity
Stephen Frears
2000
United States
(214 points, 10 votes)

if the ilx api wasnt so buggy omar could schedule the results from his dedicated apple brand ipad revolutionary tablet consumer device app

uh Edw, I know it's ILX.

honestly most comments on this film were complaints about how it wasn't like a real record store and the girls were unrealistic w/r/t hooking up with a record store owner.

That's the first kinda lame movie on this list, imo.

Maybe it's because I can only remember Tim Robbins' hair in it, tho.

Impossible for a movie about a record store to not show up on the ILX list. Glad it was as low as it is.

i think i'll reveal 15 films per day (6 days for 11-90) and then the top 10 on the last day.

solid

Kinda loved HiFid but didn't come close to making my 40. Best movie on list so far tho.

would like to see it again, but at the time i was working in a record store and the Beta Band bit was OTM.

Also: the first of the bromantic comedies?

i fucking loathe john cusack

morbs otm

hf was kinda lame but brought the lolz iirc

honestly most comments on this film were complaints about how it wasn't like a real record store and the girls were unrealistic w/r/t hooking up with a record store owner.

― ('_') (omar little), Wednesday, February 3, 2010 12:33 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

haha great job everyone

what happened to Todd Louiso? v funny.

argh high fidelity no

this countdown is worth it to see what Morbs thinks about films. I would have assumed he hated High Fidelity.

Todd Louiso directed a movie called Love Liza in my hometown. But that was like 2003.

xxxxpost Yeah, much better comment than the comments would've been.

Cusack's monologues far superior to the ones in American Psycho fwiw

no

#94 American Psycho
Mary Harron
2000
Canada
(215 points, 11 votes)

Gukbe, my crush on prime-era Cusack is well-documented, and this was pretty much the end of it.

I saw Todd Louiso recently on CSI or NCIS or one of those procedural shows that's not Law & Order. Looks exactly the same 10 years on.

(I mean, all the shit JC has done since, Ice Harvest excepted) xp

xpost That's the hidden blessing of premature baldness.

yeah, u rong andrew farrell, cusack blows

eric otm

bad bad bad list

i met todd louiso at a wedding

wow. I knew cusack had a bad decade, but I didn't realize just how bad until I looked at the IMDB list. Putting them all in a row like that really hurts.

did he marry sara gilbert??? xpost

oh no wait

sara gilbert was not in attendance iirc

Todd Louiso is in an upcoming movie penned by ILX's own Shakey Mo Collier:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1509787/

Eric seeing a comedy about indie-rock geeks in which Jack Black eviscerates a guy shopping for a Stevie Wonder record is blowin' my mind

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I just watched it yesterday. I wonder how many "victims" turned down the interview requests. It's hard to feel like you are getting all sides of the story until you hear from more of them. The most damning thing towards the police seemed to be the coerced testimonials of the victims. The most damning thing towards the Friedmans, and what convinced me of their guilt, was what their lawyer had to say.

I also felt like the bond between the brothers and their father, their relationship, was obviously strong but seemed to require or only exist in a superficial form. See: their constant need to be performing while being recorded on tape and film. Were I to be all Freudian in examining their possible dysfunction, they seem to put up quite a front of happiness i.e. their need to perform really magnifies the tip of the ice-berg. Makes you think they could very easily absorb lies into their family and continue functioning/performing, and that perhaps they try so hard to have fun because were they to stop making silly jokes for 5 minutes, the ensuing silence would be horrible.

― bnw (bnw)

I slightly resent the film putting me in the position of viewer/juror because the information presented to me was inadequate to make me feel confident in any kind of decision I made about the guys' guilt - the heavy bias on all sides means you can't trust anyone's story completely (or at all). I'm wrestling with whether a responsible film maker leaves a case like that as open as he did, or if he should have helped viewers to come to a decision. I just feel like something's been left out and wonder if he deliberately interviewed victims or 'victims' who were a bit nutty to up the entertainment and/or intrigue.

― Madchen (Madchen)

Capturing the Friedmans
Andrew Jarecki
2003
United States
(215 points, 13 votes, 1 first place)

Yay, I'm glad Happy-Go-Lucky made it! It was my #2 vote. My comment up there is a bit one-sided, it's not a total anti-cynic manifesto (the Eddie Marsan character being one of the biggest reasons for that), but I can't imagine a cynic liking it. I had to put it at number #2, as I can't remember ever seeing a movie that was so perfectly suited for a person like me. It's optimistic and full of joie de vivre, yet it never feels dishonest or sugar-coated. And I think even the viewers who might disagree with the message would agree that Sally Hawkins as Poppy is incredible in it, one of the performances of the decade.

fantastic! should have been higher, but im just happy to see it place xpost

lol @ jaymc

high fidelity is fun the first time around but mostly unwatchable after that.

high fidelity the movie is way better than the shitty book

calling: apichatpong, 2 lynchs and coens in top 10

Eric seeing a comedy about indie-rock geeks in which Jack Black eviscerates a guy shopping for a Stevie Wonder record is blowin' my mind

Not "a Stevie Wonder record." "I Just Called To Say I Love You."