ILX Top Films of 2000-04 RESULTS (yes, really)

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image choices resisted: Paltrow-Nico/random-girl makeout from Tenenbaums, those scenes from Mulholland, Kate Winslet from Titanic rather than Sunshine.

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 26 January 2007 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link

mulholland dr is the only film from the last twenty years in my favorite 20 or so films.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Friday, 26 January 2007 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link

it was my number one but i'm not sure i would put it there now.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 26 January 2007 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

#1s I can't argue against: this one and 70s. #1s I have reservations about but probably still wouldn't really argue against: 90s and 80s.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 26 January 2007 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

do people in relationships go to the movies on v-day?

Oh, I meant single people's VIEW of romance. I don't give a damn what ppl in relationships do.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 January 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

This list is woefully anti-climactic. It's probably too much to ask for Oliver Assayas or Hou, but even Swordfish would have been welcome. Gwyneth Paltrow in kohl makeup = indie cred.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 26 January 2007 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

her indie cred? because it seems clear that ppl think that one has less indie cred than his others (which is why it's better)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 26 January 2007 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

The '70s winner was improved via remake 7 years later.

http://uashome.alaska.edu/~jndfg20/website/pupkin.jpg

I think the best film of all 4 decades was likely made outside America.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 January 2007 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

90s is the only one i agree with

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 26 January 2007 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Gwyneth Paltrow in kohl makeup may not equal indie cred, but it did equal hot. (nb: I liked RT but didn't vote for it, even with Nico)

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 26 January 2007 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

The heart of Tenenbaums is Hackman-Stiller; remove that, it's easily his worst movie.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 January 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

There's no possible way to make Tenenbaums worse than A Life Aquatic.

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 26 January 2007 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

actually, i lied. i would rank a kiarostami film in my top twenty

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Friday, 26 January 2007 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

If you replace Wes Anderson with Hal Hartley, The Royal Tenenbaums would have been his best film.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 26 January 2007 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

http://web.dsc.unibo.it/~fpalmisa/ig/images/rerunX.gif

― roger goodell (gear), Friday, 26 January 2007 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Here we go again?

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 26 January 2007 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

only 3 years til Eric and I can propel Munich to the top of the '00s.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 January 2007 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Be prepared for competition from Robert Rodriguez and Richard Eyre.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 26 January 2007 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Provided the same cast of characters is here at ILX, I think Munich will land on precisely one more ballot than Crash.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 26 January 2007 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link

But the lurkers! The silent Kushnerites!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 January 2007 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I think that was my top two (Eternal... & Mulholland Drive) but it's so long ago now I'm not sure.

― Sir Tehrance HoBB (the pirate king), Friday, 26 January 2007 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I looked in my old emails to see if I broke down and voted in this poll, but I see I didn't.

I did find, however, that I gave a point to Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise in the 80s poll.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 26 January 2007 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link

That and Sans soleil.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 26 January 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Speaking of the 1980s poll... two of the biggest snubs coming soon with SEs.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 26 January 2007 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I was gonna add, "but we repeat ourselves," but I thought that would be, you know, surplusage.

http://www.everyticket.com/images/nascar/bristol.gif

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 26 January 2007 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Does this mean people can start posting their lists, because I'd like to see them. I generally find them more interesting than the consensus-fest that is the final results.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 26 January 2007 22:19 (seventeen years ago) link

who besides Eric has their list from 2 years ago?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 January 2007 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't remember if I voted in this poll. Can you send me my ballot?

I would have voted Yi Yi #1

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 26 January 2007 22:30 (seventeen years ago) link

who besides Eric has their list from 2 years ago?

The list-maker, I would imagine.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 26 January 2007 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I think that was my top two (Eternal... & Mulholland Drive) but it's so long ago now I'm not sure.

I've just trawled through my computer and found my votes. Apparently I had The Pianist as my no.1, and Memento no.3 with Eternal & Mulholland at 2 and 4. Just in case anyone was troulbed by my earlier lack of certainty - you will sleep easy now.

― Sir Tehrance HoBB (the pirate king), Friday, 26 January 2007 22:36 (seventeen years ago) link

but even Swordfish would have been welcome.

What the hell is Swordfish?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 January 2007 22:38 (seventeen years ago) link

you know, travolta + technology + oakenfold soundtrack

― roger goodell (gear), Friday, 26 January 2007 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link

who besides Eric has their list from 2 years ago?

I just am bad about cleaning out my old sent mail. Especially since I like reading what I wrote years ago far more than I like reading what others wrote to me.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 26 January 2007 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean, look what I wrote you last November:

You must know by now how bad I am about e-mail. Like that crazy woman with her telephone in Sisters, I never call and I never answer.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 26 January 2007 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link

One year and change ago.

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 26 January 2007 22:44 (seventeen years ago) link

This was my ballot, submitted Dec. 15, 2005:

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. All the Real Girls
3. You Can Count on Me
4. 25th Hour
5. Mulholland Dr.
6. Talk to Her
7. Together
8. Spirited Away
9. Lost in Translation
10. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
11. Collateral
12. Before Sunset
13. Far From Heaven
14. Y Tu Mama Tambien
15. Spellbound

WORST
About Schmidt
Igby Goes Down
Waking Life

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 January 2007 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Is there a thread about "Together"? I've never heard of it.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 26 January 2007 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Try this: Lukas Moodysson

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 January 2007 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Although upon re-reading that thread, I don't see much about Together specifically.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 January 2007 22:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, what happened to those worst results on the sidebar poll?

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 26 January 2007 23:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I didn't feel like counting them, there wasn't going to be enough consensus to matter.

Besides, we already have Morbius to tell us the worst of The Best.

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 26 January 2007 23:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm kind of surprised You Can Count on Me didn't place.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 January 2007 23:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I never call and I never answer.

HARDLY ever.

What about the orphan votes? Where did A.I. finish with all these Uma Thurman foot fetishists?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 January 2007 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

http://web.dsc.unibo.it/~fpalmisa/ig/images/rerunX.gif

― roger goodell (gear), Saturday, 27 January 2007 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

i voted "You Can Count on Me" fairly high too.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 27 January 2007 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I have seen maybe two of these movies.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 27 January 2007 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Mulholland Drive was great, but the fact that it had the same exact plot as Lost Highway kinda took something away from the viewing pleasure.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 28 January 2007 11:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Tuomas, yr silly.

Also, MD at least didn't exploit Richard Pryor.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 January 2007 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

No, I really do think Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive have the same story, except that MD tells it in reverse order. I tried to explain it on this thread, so I won't bother to repeat the whole debate.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 29 January 2007 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link

four months pass...

Is the "Ratcatcher" here the same as the one in the 90's poll??

― billstevejim, Thursday, 28 June 2007 00:46 (sixteen years ago) link

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