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

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

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

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."

optimistic with respect to Apichatpong, I think xp

tuomas i know we already had this discussion and it is reprinted upthread but i really didnt see the film as an endorsement of poppys worldview - it wasnt any sort of manifesto - it was however a story w/some v well rendered characters

If you treat High Fidelity (the book) and High Fidelity (the film) as entirely separate entities, one doesn't color the other. It took me a while to get to that place, though.

Yeah, I see Tropical Malady landing somewhere in the 70s, maybe, and that's it.

high fidelity the movie is way better than the shitty book

― max, Wednesday, February 3, 2010 6:48 PM (1 minute ago)

don't see apichatpong making the top 10

xpsssss

I also own but have never watched dogville, bought DVD for I also own but have never watched dogville, bought DVD for $2 at ocean state job lot lol
lol @ job lot! i never thought to look at dvds (but would not want to own von trier film tbh)

don't see apichatpong making the top 100

capturing the friedmans, major bummer

don't see apichatpong

srsly the lowest polled got 204 points brah

two of his film will make the top 100 but won't place highly.

i'm guessing

tuomas i know we already had this discussion and it is reprinted upthread but i really didnt see the film as an endorsement of poppys worldview - it wasnt any sort of manifesto - it was however a story w/some v well rendered characters

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, February 3, 2010 1:50 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

tuomas sees every movie as either for or against something or another

guys i see apichatpong as getting all three top spots

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/napoleon-dynamite-8-1.jpg

I checked it out last night with some friends and thought it was pretty great. I was a little confused about how to take it since despite it being hilarious, the characters are pretty one dimensional and basically wear the same expressions on their faces for the entire movie. You can also tell the movie was made by a bunch of kids from byu because there was no swearing, no sex humor, no raunch.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins)

No wonder Fox Pictures snapped this Sundance crowd-pleaser up!

'Napoleon Dynamite' is a hysterical comedy about and awkward teen growing up in Idaho. With a chatroom-addicted older brother, a dune buggying grandmother, an uncle trying to recapture his past, a Mexico-born new (and only) best friend Pedro, and a llama, first-time director/writer Jared Hess has created a gem!

Did I forget to mention a great 80s soundtrack featuring Alphaville and When In Rome? Don't miss this film if you enjoy offbeat, quirky comedies... And don't forget to Vote For Pedro.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry)

#94
Napoleon Dynamite
Jared Hess
2004
United States
(215.5 points, 10 votes)

Friedmans is one of many I mean to rescr**n someday. The compulsive self-documenting was amazing.

nappy dynamite? fuk u ilx

don't see apichatpong

You meant this as a command, right ice?

haha that deangulberry quote.

awful, awful, awful film btw.

given the best years of my life to this shitheap and it votes napoleon dynamite the xth best film of the aughts.

dean gulberry was so effusive in his praise of napoleon dynamite

Plz, let Miami Vice creep up into the top 20 to make up for some of these low-ranking choices.

Fuck Napoleon Dynamite!

tuomas i know we already had this discussion and it is reprinted upthread but i really didnt see the film as an endorsement of poppys worldview - it wasnt any sort of manifesto - it was however a story w/some v well rendered characters

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, February 3, 2010 1:50 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

tuomas sees every movie as either for or against something or another

in this case he's right