THE TOP 100 FILMS OF THE OUGHTS NOMINATION + DISCUSSION THRED

nominations and discussions through the end of December, voting starting in January! nominate as many as you want!! get to it!!!

• Lost In Translation
• Nine Lives

hahahahahaha this is end days about to happen

(Because I've promised more nominations?)

j/k.

NOMINATIONS CLOSED

loooooooool

i'll nominate the best picture winners that i liked:

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Departed
No Country for Old Men

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• There Will Be Blood
• Ghost World
• The Fog of War
• Pootie Tang

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Gosford Park
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Gangs of New York
The Pianist
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
The Aviator
Munich
Michael Clayton
Eastern Promises
A History of Violence
Mulholland Dr

I guess Killer Of Sheep doesn't count? It was produced in, like, 1967, but unreleased on a wide-scale until a few years ago.

(One of the most powerful, sad films I've ever seen).

right now imma nominate

Oldboy
In The Loop
Irreversible
Roger Dodger
A Scanner Darkly
A Cock And Bull Story
The Princess And The Warrior

Wall-E

American Splendor
Let the Right One In
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
La Vie en Rose
Into the Wild
The King of Kong
This Is England
The Lives of Others
Pan's Labyrinth
The Squid and the Whale
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Grizzly Man
DiG!

Baraka
Before Sunset
Caché
Elephant
Far From Heaven
Inland Empire
Primer
The Incredibles
The Piano Teacher
Waking Life

and

The Room

Fat Girl
You Can Count on Me
Jesus' Son
The Five Obstructions
Yi-Yi
American Splendor
Capturing the Friedmans
Gomorrah
The Man Without a Past
The Proposition
Jesus Camp
Rivers and Tides

*dons protective gear*

Dogville
Southland Tales
There Will Be Blood

The Good Thief
In the Mood For Love
2046

Goodbye Dragon Inn
What Time Is It There?
Marie Antoinette
Zodiac
Princess Raccoon

My Winnipeg
Children of Men
The Royal Tenenbaums
George Washington
The New World
Miami Vice
Collateral

Unknown Pleasures
Election
Triad Election
Memories of Murder

Gukbe's first two are films I could have nominated myself - My Winnipeg was a cracking little doc which approximately nobody I know has seen

Anchorman
Zoolander
Harold & Kumar- both of them.
In The Loop
Superbad
Paranoid Park
Milk
Shaun of the dead

is there a limit to how many a person can nominate?

no limit!

Riding With Giants
Ratatouille

My Winnipeg isn't a doc, technically.

Miami Vice
Rachel Getting Married
Erin Brockovich
Master and Commander
Elephant
In Bruges
Bad Santa
New World

finding nemo
up

Rachel Getting Married

omg yes

Election was 1999

ok a doc with fictional realisations including frozen horses - a sequence that basically tripped me out

dead man's shoes
40 year old virgin
my summer of love

Dogtown and Z-Boys

The Saddest Music In The World

Can't wait for morbs to find this thread

when did 24hr party people come out?

The Dark Knight

Crank
Crank 2: High Voltage

encounters at the end of the world
x-men 2
bourne identity
bourne supremacy
bourne ultimatum

xp, 2002 if you want to nom it

Spirited Away
Adaptation

The Devil's Backbone

May
Donnie Darko
Undertow
Spellbound

I've never understood why there has to be nominations. Can't everyone just vote for their favorite films and then the poll creator simply tally the votes?

Cloverfield (someone else beat me to In Bruges)

xp, if you want to run a poll like that then by all means

Mulholland Drive
The Witnesses
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
Kings and Queen
Clean
Still Life
Downfall
Erin Brockovich
No End in Sight
Capturing the Friedmans
Marie Antoinette

Swimming Pool

Casino Royale

:sigh:

Election (Johnnie To, 2005)

Sexy Beast

I'm counting on noms here. I started my log in 2007, so I only have notes on 2000-2007 stuff I rescreened or happend to see for the first time in past couple of years.

Not enough Foreign Cinema here, people. Step it up.

Battle Royale

Came back to nom Kings and Queen, but I see it is done already.

Spider-man 2
A Christmas Tale

Are we counting Army of Shadows?

We can nom it, but Foreign Cinema is not ILX canon and won't stand a chance in the poll.

Sin City
The Aristocrats
Man On Wire
In Bruges
Death Proof
Persepolis
all 3 Bourne movies
The Dark Knight

lol, lots of xposts while I was making notes, so there are repeats

The Devil and Daniel Johnson

Inside aka À l'intérieur
Them aka Ils
Martyrs

^^french!

Bully
Secretary
Punch-Drunk Love
The Station Agent
Tarnation
Tropical Malady
Amores Perros
The Descent
The Darjeeling Limited
Junebug
Lilya 4-Ever
The Triplets of Belleville
Y Tu Mamá También
Broken Flowers

^^^ that post took care of 6 others I had taken the time to type out

Wolf Creek
Wind That Shakes the Barley

I'll rep for Moulin Rouge, even if no-one else is with me.

I'll rep for

About a Boy
The Cooler

i like moulin rouge

4 (russian film, little seen, worth seeking out)
Pusher
Pusher II: With Blood On My Hands
Pusher III: I'm the Angel of Death

if you want to run a poll like that then by all means

Can't see how it'd be more difficult to do a poll w/o nominations but okay.

SNAKES ON A PLANE!

Wet Hot American Summer
American Psycho
United 93
Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Silent Light
I Heart Huckabees
Synecdoche, New York
the Hills Have Eyes (2006)
the Hurt Locker

Jackass
Jackass Number Two
The Werckmeister Harmonies

Kill Bill vols I & II
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army

Der Untergang

Inglourious Basterds

if you want to run a poll like that then by all means

Can't see how it'd be more difficult to do a poll w/o nominations but okay.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 00:11 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i do like other people reminding me of films i saw in the early part of the decade i forgot the name of.

Borat
The Man Who Wasn't There

The Life Acquatic

(sp)

really?

i mean, it's your journey and i respect that, and this is just the noms thread, but that is one of the worst films of the generation and that is an objective fact.

Ha, it's my favourite Wes Anderson film (I'm not a massive fan of his). Something about men in boats chasing after sea monsters really resonates with me; it creates a world I'd really like to inhabit. Also I think it's funny.

it's a total mess, but it never fails to get me. It's where the definitive Anderson schism happened that truly defined a generation's movie-going experience for the latter half of the decade.

Starting to think that no one will leave this poll alive.

It's where the definitive Anderson schism happened that truly defined a generation's movie-going experience for the latter half of the decade.

Please expand on this point if you don't mind.

I know a couple of other Anderson agnostics whose favourite it is too.

xxpost

It's where the definitive Anderson schism happened that truly defined a generation's movie-going experience for the latter half of the decade.

what the fuck?!

Cloudy With a Chance of Meat-a-balls
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Doubt
Slumdog Millionaire
Tokyo Gore Police
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
The Woods
The Wayward Cloud
Kung-Fu Hustle
Seed of Chucky
The Weeping Camel
Finding Nemo
Gozu
The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai
Kill Bill vol. 1
The Cat Returns
Russian Ark
Visitor Q
Dagon
Happiness of the Katakuris
Amelie
Bad Guy
Trouble Every Day
Wild Zero

black book
city of god
i'm not there
role models

noms goin fast - at least half my list of 00s favorites had been mentioned already (guy maddin, lynch, children of men, pan's labyrinth, spirited away, werckmeister, etc.)

Bubba Ho-Tep

grandma's boy
last life in the universe
6ixty9ine
the big bad swim
the transporter
transporter 2
a serious man
revanche

and hey, i like the life aquatic just fine! though the it doesn't quite hang together, it's a lot of fun to watch, the performances are great, and i agree w chap that it's a creates a very inviting fantasy world.

darjeeling limited is anderson's only truly awful film, imo.

All the Real Girls
25th Hour
Talk to Her
Together [Lukas Moodysson]
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Half Nelson
Conversations with Other Women

bring it on (2000)
night watch (2004)

the edge of heaven (2007)
city of god (2002)

la captive (2000)
role models (2008)
howl's moving castle (2004)
sobibor, oct. 14, 1943, 4P.M (2005)
transporter (2002)

the girl who leapt through time (2006)

Brokeback Mountain
The Orphanage

xp Sorry, I missed the previous mention of "Y Tu Mama," since I Ctrl-F'd "Tambien" instead of "También."

Sunshine
Syriana
Kingdom of Heaven

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

SUPER TROOPERS

shattered glass

nomination thread made worth it 4 bring it on

Last King of Scotland
Memento

Seconded:
City of God
25th Hour
The Fog of War
Paranoid Park
Mulholland Dr.
Grizzly Man

Nobody saw it and even fewer liked it, but hear me now and believe me later: Gus Van Sant will be remembered for Paranoid Park, even if all of his other movies are destroyed in the apocalypse.

when will people start to like it?

i think it is my favourite 00s filim kenan

oh i loved paranoid park

So did I. But in a way, it's like touching a sore tooth.

did you once accidentally chop a dude in half?

""This was a particularly bad case of somebody being cut in half. "

That's a quote from the doctor in Walk Hard, btw. This decade gave us TWO people-cut-in-half movies. What a time to be alive.

i'm gonna go ahead and predict that Mulholland Dr takes this (which would be fine by me)

other people cut in half movies of the 00s: black dahlia

o tru

Diving Bell and the Butterfly
24 Hour Party People
Barbarian Invasions
Children of Men
High Fidelity

Los Angeles Plays Itself
Platform
Police Beat
Final Destination

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

^might be useful

Paranoid Park made my top ten last year.

Power of Nightmares
Beau travail

Être et avoir (To Be And To Have)

Colossal Youth
Kings and Queen

Best In Show
Waitress
Grindhouse (or just Planet Terror, since Death Proof was already nominated, but I think of them as 1 unit)
Josie and the Pussycats
Black Sheep
Iron Man
Mean Girls
The Prestige
Ocean's Eleven
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Constantine
Inside Man

Coraline
Drag Me to Hell

The Rape Of Europa
13 Tzameti
Save The Green Planet!
Eden Lake
REC
The Machinist
Bloody Sunday
Infernal Affairs
13: Game Of Death
Marebito
American Astronaut
Hard Candy
Severance
Tears Of The Black Tiger
Session 9
Chopper
Joint Security Area (JSA)
The Devil And Daniel Johnston
Lucky Number Slevin
Slither
Gangster No. 1

prob more choices that no one else will vote for later

I feel like I've seen maybe ten movies that were released in the last five years.

Most of my faves have already been nominated, but here are some others that I liked/loved:

Hot Rod
The Company
A Prairie Home Companion
Hot Fuzz
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
28 Days Later
Freddy Got Fingered
Catch Me If You Can
Dreamgirls
Igby Goes Down
Sleeping Dogs Lie
Minority Report
Signs (prolly the last dece Shyamalan)
Million Dollar Baby
Napoleon Dynamite
The Shape Of Things

Gabrielle - Patrice Chéreau.
Entre les murs (aka The Class)- Laurent Cantet.
Syndromes and a Century - Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Code Unknown - Haneke.

Josie and the Pussycats
Iron Man
Mean Girls

thank you to some dude for nominating these

Eureka
The Return (Russian movie, I think there was another one by that name)
The White Diamond
Burn After Reading
Punisher War Zone

The Filth And The Fury

Black Hawk Down

No Man's Land

The Quiet American

do documentaries count

oh yeah, or if they dont i nommed several and am a dick

Which reminds me: Anvil! The Story of Anvil

i think i like life aquatic better than tenenbaums -- it's looser, not so airless, and the characterizations are more heartfelt. i really like the interplay between owen wilson and bill murray, it's sweet. and the loopy adventures-at-sea parts with the pirates and so forth are like a full realization of max's plays in rushmore.

Black Hawk Down

― farting irl (cankles)

yesss

what the fuck is heartfelt about life aquatic. what the fuck is wrong with you.

I couldn't make it through Life Aquatic. Bored and angry I walked out.

http://blogs.fayobserver.com/faytoz/files/2008/08/yoda.jpg

life aquatic made me as angry as any movie ever

me too

i liked that movie but i don't really argue with folks who hated it

I've walked out of three movies - Field Of Dreams, Life Aquatic and some Marquis De Sade thing from the early 90s that involved him being sodomized by a large lobster.

weird that people who are not cankles were enraged by the life aquatic. requiem for a dream did that for me. mostly dug the life aquatic. cool boat, weird fishes, funny people, smoothed-out bowie tunes - what's not to like?

In America

Ok I retract my statement, bringing out the dead made me more furious

That or 300

ome Marquis De Sade thing from the early 90s that involved him being sodomized by a large lobster.

screaming lobster of hope?

anyway, chris l. mentioned the return (russian flick), and someone else mentioned another russian flick called 4 a while back. both excellent films/nominations.

i preferred 4 for the absolutely mind-blowing & nausea-inducing drunken pork orgy towards the end - well, for a lot of other reasons too, but the pork factors large - but the return was pretty great too. maybe a little too obvious in the tarkovsky hat-tipping, but the story's super primal and ultimately as suspenseful as the best hitchcock.

both films present modern russia as this bombed-out, post-industrial moonscape populated by humanoid zombies - which it very well might be for all i know. totally alien to my experience of the world though, and thus has a horrible fascination.

More like screaming lobster of no hope. They were puppets, by the way, and I seem to remember one of the main characters was the Marquis' giant talking penis. It was somewhere between Meet The Feebles and GWAR's Phallus In Wonderland, only just the worst bits.

x-post

New York Doll

^^Forgot about that - it's outstanding.

historias extraordinarias

the call of cthulhu

abstaining from this thread. I've learned.

nooooo

morbius ;_;

please i beg of u... no....

Not liek you haven't already done half the work in the 2000-2004 threads.

I was so much older then.

bradyface

whoops, wrong thread

but while i'm here, i'm serious morbs i really would love to know what you'd list for the best of the decade, i bet you've seen all kinds of shit i havent even heard of

I didn't read the whole thread so these have probably all been nominated. All of a sudden I feel like I haven't seen any movies in the past 10 years but I'm p sure that's not true. Anyway:

24 Hour Party People
Before Sunset
The Departed
Bad Santa
In Bruges

Yeah I'd love to see Morb's list.

look elsewhere on the interwebs in late January.

(same w/ Eric)

city of god

all 3 Bourne movies

^^ yes.

abstaining from this thread. I've learned.

Then you have learned nothing. We need you here.

Seconding History of Violence and Spirited Away

(same w/ Eric)

Yeah, but I'll double up here because I'm older now than I was in 2005.

what the fuck is heartfelt about life aquatic.

bill murray's arrested-development shtick is played less for laughs than in rushmore, there's more weight to the performance (and not just because there's maybe more weight on the performer). the awkward pseudo-paternal relationship with owen wilson is nicely rendered, including their romantic competition. i think it's the best performance of murray's aging-roué roles -- not as self-pitying as lost in translation or as clueless as broken flowers. i don't understand people who like any wes anderson movie but hate that one, i think it does well all the things he does well. but i am given to understand it is the wes anderson movie to hate, so ok.

I fell asleep during LA.

Everyone I know told me LA was trash so I skipped it.

"i don't understand people who like any wes anderson movie but hate that one, i think it does well all the things he does well. but i am given to understand it is the wes anderson movie to hate, so ok."

i think you're pretending not to understand and that you actually do know why, you just want to be a dickhead about your dumb gay movie

Way to sling a slur. Hats off, sir.

Plus there's no longer such a thing as people who like any wes anderson movie, apparently.

the world
ten (the one by abbas kiarostami)

xpost:

no i actually like the movie -- i think it's better than tenenbaums -- and i think it's weird it's such an object of scorn. there's nothing obviously hate-able about it. but i don't really care, i didn't make it or anything. you can hate anything you want.

Lost in Translation
Oldboy
The Wrestler
Collateral
O Brother, Where Art Thou?

i know what i am voting #1, but am completely lost as to what will be #2

Minority Report
Y Tu Mama

i can sort of buy hating wes anderson, until i actually watch his movies and remember that they're more complicated and ambitious than the easy knocks on him ever let on. i don't love him as a filmmaker, i think he's sort of hard to love. but i think he's talented and interesting to have around.

Sexy Beast if that was 00s

i dont think tenenbaums is any great shakes either - anderson seems to specialize in getting together great casts and then trying as hard as he can to sap all the charisma and life from them - life aquatic is just an ugly mean awful empty movie

um soo...

i cant be bothered to read every post on this thread and make sure there's no dupes so here's an info dump i've been adding to the last couple days whenever i remember a movie:

Syndromes and a Century
Historias Extraordinarias
Zodiac
Bourne Ultimatum
There Will Be Blood
No Country for Old Men
Inglourious Basterds
Superbad
Sexy Beast
Man on Wire
Rachel Getting Married
The Incredibles
Wall•E
Let the Right One in
My Winnipeg
Songs From the Second Floor
You, the Living
Election (Johnnie To)
Munich
The Squid and the Whale
La Niña Santa
The Pianist
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Shaun of the Dead
Spirited Away
In the Mood for Love
Mulholland Drive
Gosford Park
Grizzly Man
Children of Men
The Five Obstructions
Femme Fatale
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Morvern Callar
Talk to Her
Miami Vice
Before Sunset
Punch-Drunk Love
24 Hour Party Ppl

the Pianist is really good imo

xpost: i don't think any of those adjectives apply to aquatic -- if i was going to knock it i'd say its pacing has problems and it seems so mired in anderson's personal boys-own obsessions that it can be a little hard to find your way into. but it's not ugly or mean at all. ("awful" and "empty" are vague enough that they can apply to anything anyone doesn't like, so i wouldn't argue with those.)

(anyway aquatic won't even make my ballot, unless we're going to 100 or something.)

sympathy for lady vengeance

^ korean!

i dont like that dude besides oldboy

thirst more like worst

La Ciénaga
The Holy Girl
(i haven't managed to see The Headless Woman yet, but i'm tempted to nominate it on general principle)

x-post I liked sympathy for lady vengeance (and mr) but not as much as Oldboy.

oldboy more like fanboy

(i haven't managed to see The Headless Woman yet, but i'm tempted to nominate it on general principle)

― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Monday, November 30, 2009 11:05 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

need to see this

the last 20 minutes of lady vengeance was great but the rest was just a'ight.

some rock docs:

Be Here to Love Me
End of the Century

j/k I love oldboy too

lady vengeance doesn't hit the operatic highs of oldboy but I found it a more consistent film on the whole

"(i haven't managed to see The Headless Woman yet, but i'm tempted to nominate it on general principle)"

Do so. It's remarkable.

ichi the killer
graveyard of honor
a snake of june
a good lawyer's wife
the host
oasis

"(i haven't managed to see The Headless Woman yet, but i'm tempted to nominate it on general principle)"

Do so. It's remarkable.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, November 30, 2009 11:14 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

see it or nominate it?

life aquatic is just an ugly mean awful empty movie

― farting irl (cankles), Monday, November 30, 2009 7:53 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

sort of see where yr coming from in that the film attempts to paint steve zissou as a lovable and quixotically heroic rogue, but pushes his faults to the point where he eventually seems more like a heartless, selfish monster. the tension isn't resolved, the awful consequences of zissou's narcissism are brushed off, and therefore it's awfully hard to root for the guy in the manner that anderson seems to invite.

still, i think yr getting a bit carried away

i wouldnt wipe my ass with that fuckin movie

/cankles

such a character

"abstaining from this thread. I've learned."

don't be such a tease. bedbugs are easier to get rid of.

I'm pretty indifferent towards The Life Aquatic on the whole, but the 'Search And Destroy' scene is probably one of my favorite scenes this decade. It's pretty rad.

It's pretty much the cinematic equivalent of Tony getting carjacked on The Sopranos, contextually.

Tennenbaums is the only Anderson movie that I've liked unequivocally.

And that's mostly thanks to Hackman.

more...

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
Blind Shaft
Broken Sky
Charlie's Angels
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Chicken Run
The Circle
Clerks 2
The Cockettes
Les Destinees
Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Flight of the Red Balloon
Funny Ha Ha
Good Bye, Lenin!
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Hotel Rwanda
The Legend of Leigh Bowery
Maria Full of Grace
Mooladé
Mysterious Object at Noon
Rabbit-Proof Fence
The Secret Lives of Dentists
Shaolin Soccer
Shut Up and Sing
Sonatine
A Tale of Two Sisters
The Taste of Tea
The Vertical Ray of the Sun

there are too many movies now

sonatine??

there are too many movies now

There's too much of everything now. Reset Western culture.

Oh, you mean on this thread...

lol maybe he thought it "ought" 2 be nominated xpost

oops yeah, delete sonatine. i was looking at a release date that was a re-release date.

holy shit i can't believe i forgot taste of tea

amazing amazing movie

prob on my top 10 of the decco

might as well throw Zatoichi out there while i'm at it tho

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

YES

"see it or nominate it?"

Both.

Shanghai Knights
Cellular
Blade II
The Score
The Ring (2002)
The Pledge
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Panic Room
The Ninth Gate
Metropolis (2002)
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
Bowling for Columbine
Little Otik
Lilo & Stitch
In Her Shoes
Cast Away

Don't mean to be a party pooper, but is January just a little too soon to start the poll? I don't know if I'd vote for it or not, but 'Precious' isn't released in the UK until the end of January and no doubt there will be several other films not released here until next year.

Because of the crap film distribution in the UK, I won't get to see 'A Serious Man' until beginning of January, when my local cinema finally gets it.

no! jesus buttfaggin christ you can't just stop a thing when it's already a thing!

i dont like that dude besides oldboy

― T.M.I. Friday's (s1ocki), Tuesday, December 1, 2009 4:05 AM (4 hours ago)

J.S.A. is great, way outside of the Vengeance trilogy vibe, but my favorite of his (also do like oldboy btw).

you can't just stop a thing when it's already a thing

comical heresy aside, I think he's right.

what the fuck is heartfelt about life aquatic. what the fuck is wrong with you.

― farting irl (cankles), Tuesday, December 1, 2009 2:27 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

seriously.

xp, i made the point on another thread that waiting until just after the oscars is nice because it's the only time of year when film distribution in english-speaking countries is in sync. other hand, every single oscarbait December/January film due out this winter looks completely and utterly awful.

KNOCKED UP

The Fountain
Elephant
Children of Men

SUGAR (2009)

pineapple express

hot fuzz

walk hard

13 going on 30

the class

La Chatte à deux têtes (Porn Theater) (Jacques Nolot 2002)
Women of the Night (Zalman King 2000)
L'Emploi du temps (Time Out) (Laurent Cantet 2002)
Les chansons d'amour (Christophe Honoré 2007)
Down With Love (Peyton Reed 2003)
Masked and Anonymous (Larry Charles 2003)
The Target Shoots First (Christopher Wilcha 2000)
A Chronicle of Corpses (Andrew Repasky McElhinney 2000)
The Five Senses (Jeremy Podeswa 2000)
War Story (John Baumgartner 2001)
Reflections of Evil (Damon Packard 2002)
Homecoming (Joe Dante 2005 - from Showtime's "Masters of Horror" series)
Tearoom (William Jones 2007)
De l'autre côté (Chantal Akerman 2002)
In the Cut (Jane Campion 2003)
Urbania (Jon Matthews 2000)
Marci X (Richard Benjamin 2003)
Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood 2008)
The Box (Richard Kelly 2009)
Cafe Lumiere (Hou Hsiao-Hsien 2003)
Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan 2000)
The Village (M. Night Shyamalan 2004)
Lady in the Water (M. Night Shyamalan 2006)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas 2000)
La mujer sin cabeza (The Headles Woman) (Lucrecia Martel 2008)
Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke 2008)

That woman is headlesS

Oh
Esther Kahn (Arnaud Desplechin 2000)

Don't think any of these have been mentioned yet, all would possibly make my top 50 of the decade :

The Werckmeister Harmonies
Cremaster 3
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter...And Spring
3-Iron
Tropical Malady
Hunger
Katalin Varga
DUMPLINGS!
Ju-On aka The Grudge
Sileni
The Bothersome Man

Because of the crap film distribution in the UK, I won't get to see 'A Serious Man' until beginning of January, when my local cinema finally gets it.

― go in go hard brother (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 08:22 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

oh man is this when it comes out? i had a go at the dude at my local cinema because they didn't have it even though the paper said it was out now and its not like the coen bros are some incredibly obscure directors. (when i say had a go, i mean asked politely.)

The Wicker Man Remake

^^^serious nomination- don't think a film has been more entertaining this decade.

The Village (M. Night Shyamalan 2004)
Lady in the Water (M. Night Shyamalan 2006)

shine on you contrarian diamond

DUMPLINGS!!

Sorry, I meant...DUMPLINGS!. How did that happen?
A Serious Man is out in London now, I guess the prints have to slowly wend their way around the country.

???? DUMPLINGS! without any capitals or exclamation points, am I going mad?

Candy (Neil Armfield, 2006)
Sideways (Alex Payne, 2004)
Ten Canoes (Rolf de Heer, 2006)
Birth (Jonathan Glazer, 2004)
Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000)

Ah.

Also, Howl's Moving Castle. Even a lesser Ghibli may make my list.

I LOVE CRICKET: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX

how many spots will there be on the ballot?

50 spots! i think the point system will be 50 pts for first, 49 for second, and so on. iirc that was how the '50s poll was done (albeit with 40 spots.)

yeah having done the '40s poll i wouldn't recommend going over 50 for reasons of your own sanity. (especially because this one will get a lot more ballots than that one.) 50's a nice number.

La Chatte à deux têtes (Porn Theater) (Jacques Nolot 2002)
Women of the Night (Zalman King 2000)
L'Emploi du temps (Time Out) (Laurent Cantet 2002)
Les chansons d'amour (Christophe Honoré 2007)
Down With Love (Peyton Reed 2003)
Masked and Anonymous (Larry Charles 2003)
The Target Shoots First (Christopher Wilcha 2000)
A Chronicle of Corpses (Andrew Repasky McElhinney 2000)
The Five Senses (Jeremy Podeswa 2000)
War Story (John Baumgartner 2001)
Reflections of Evil (Damon Packard 2002)
Homecoming (Joe Dante 2005 - from Showtime's "Masters of Horror" series)
Tearoom (William Jones 2007)
De l'autre côté (Chantal Akerman 2002)
In the Cut (Jane Campion 2003)
Urbania (Jon Matthews 2000)
Marci X (Richard Benjamin 2003)
Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood 2008)
The Box (Richard Kelly 2009)
Cafe Lumiere (Hou Hsiao-Hsien 2003)
Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan 2000)
The Village (M. Night Shyamalan 2004)
Lady in the Water (M. Night Shyamalan 2006)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas 2000)
La mujer sin cabeza (The Headles Woman) (Lucrecia Martel 2008)
Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke 2008)

― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, December 1, 2009 5:04 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

someones gunning for the armond white memorial award

speaking of armond, shouldn't we nominate the entire transporter series out of respect?

xpost haha

Speed Racer
Hallam Foe
Son of Rambow
Moon
Thank You For Smoking
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Kung Fu Panda
Quantum of Solace
The Simpsons Movie
Serenity
The War of the Worlds
The Baader-Meinhoff Komplex
Bronson
An Education
Bright Star
Gladiator
Closer
Control
The Others
District 9

9th Company

really max, you must forgive Kevin for liking stuff besides the 4 dozen comedy masterpieces by Ap*t*w and his acolytes that you love so damn much. However, I will have to check Marci X out.

Tearoom (William Jones 2007)

Is this viewable anywhere?

haha i forgive kevin john bozelka, he knows not what he does

speaking of armond, shouldn't we nominate the entire transporter series out of respect?

i think we already have?????

nom: stick it! (2006)

Brick

good call

i think we already have?????

only the first 2! and as any armond stan knows, it’s been a long time since a new movie has been as spiritually and aesthetically exhilarating as transporter 3.

transporter recalls the moral uplift of spielberg's 'always' and the aesthetic daring of godard's made in usa. it literally transports us into a new form of cinema.

Shotgun Stories

well then:

transporter 3 (2008)

the dancer upstairs
i like killing flies
hannah takes the stairs
ghost town
unknown white male
district b13
infamous
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
mutual appreciation

I think at this point that it might be easier to just copy and paste all of the movies released this decade directly from IMDB. Except I guess it'd be hard to filter out of the Tittays of Passion IVs and CB Radio Hero (VG)s.

don't let's filter out the passion tittays

it's way too soon.. nominations should be extended until february IMO

Don't you know, billstevejim, that anything unlucky enough to get released towards the end of a given year always gets the shaft on year/decade/century-end polls? It is as Darwin would have it.

you convinced me.

I find it so hard to believe I'm one of few people who liked "2 Days in Paris" that I'm forced to assume I was just one of few people who saw it.

Everything I would've nominated is here already.. except for these..

Palindromes
Requiem For A Dream
Ken Park
The Fall
Paradise Lost 2

Grindhouse

What Is It

forgetting sarah marshall
talladega nights (i am apatow stan yes)

I find it so hard to believe I'm one of few people who liked "2 Days in Paris" that I'm forced to assume I was just one of few people who saw it.

I'm a fan.

i would like to nominate TEAM AMERICA please

My favourites are already here, but here's a few others:

Babel
Little Miss Sunshine
Vanilla Sky (well, I liked it)

yeah, you ppl like anything that moves on a screen.

that is certainly my criteria

Snatch

another important criteria

the nomi song

^^^^ yes yes yes that movie is incredible

and totally heartbreaking

you could tell how guilty everyone felt with their recollections about the end of his life.

infernal affairs
infernal affairs II
infernal affairs III

i was just thinking about 'triad election' (election 2)....that scene with the dogs is gonna bug me out for all time.

Running Scared
The Devil's Rejects
The Core

i got your back on infernal affairs upthread, but i have not seen II or III. assuming i should rectify this

21 grams

that was a terrible move i denominate it

came across the last 90 minutes or so of gangs of new york on tv tonight, and i still love it. yes, it's not "good," but it's got enough energy to make up for it.

that was a terrible move i denominate it

― Lamp, Thursday, December 3, 2009 3:16 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

gangs is the only movie since goodfellas if not earlier where scorsese let himself be crazy. the man was not born to make biopics (much less bloated remakes). and just because someone else made mad max before him doesn't mean he shouldn't make it too.

also, the twin-towers nod at the end of gangs feels way more justified to me than it does at the end of munich.

it's like a pantomime that thinks it's a serious film. or maybe it doesn't think it's serious. i dunno....but it sucks.

Stay The Same Never Change
Black Dynamite
Drag Me To Hell

morvern callar (2002)

Snakes On A Mothafuckin' Plane
Grandma’s Boy
The Believer

it's like a pantomime that thinks it's a serious film. or maybe it doesn't think it's serious. i dunno....but it sucks.

this is otm up til the "it sucks" part. the first time i saw it i remember about 10 minutes in thinking 'omg how am i supposed to believe anything in this movie,' and then i realized i didn't need to believe any of it, and after that it was pretty much wall-to-wall entertainment. cameron diaz is terrible, leo is sort of just acceptable and ddl eats everything around him like pac-man, but there's some kind of core reactor at the center of the film that just rolls it straight through all of that and feeds off it. scorsese really gets off on the whole thing. the climax is totally bananas, and it has some half-cocked/fully-loaded ideas about america kicking around in it that seem visceral and intuited to me, despite or because of their incoherence.

Morvern Callar is a good call. I don't know that it would be high on my list, but it might be on it.

in general i dig big sprawling entertaining messes! but i think i took the incoherence for clumsiness, not visceral intuition. and the characters & revenge plot were just too corny to stomach. you almost make me want to give it another go though..

Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2004)

gangs is the only movie since goodfellas if not earlier where scorsese let himself be crazy.

Disagreed! Scorsese-craziness is part of the reason I love the much-maligned Bringing Out The Dead.

i guess we can all have a favorite "bad" scorsese. i'd gladly take either over the departed or the aviator.

...
hannah takes the stairs
...

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, December 1, 2009 11:56 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

you gotta be fucking kidding me.

yes u have picked up on my elaborate ruse on u

idk, it's pretty much the worst film i saw in 2008, have no idea how you got there.

ah now come on. you saw the oxford murders and son of rambow, right?

i would maybe like the scorsese craziness in gony if it didn't feel so distracted and hacked up in the editing room... it's just in tatters that movie

oxford murders was shit, yeah, i had forgotten that, but i appreciated the slightly nostalgia-inducing long take across broad street. i saw a film that starred adam sander's entourage that really was bad, but i've forgotten the title. 'hannah' really was the pits though. the girl in it is in the new noah baumbach thingy with ben stiller. hopefully she'll have a script this time.

xpost

films I gave 1/5 in 2008:

oxford murders, son of rambow, persepolis, the happening

i would maybe like the scorsese craziness in gony if it didn't feel so distracted and hacked up in the editing room

i remember the first time i saw it there was some point in the middle where i actually thought, "wait, did i fall asleep? what's going on?" on the other hand, the character arcs and revenge plot and so forth are sort of secondary to its whole creation of this imaginary baptized-in-blood new york, so in some ways the narrative confusion doesn't bother me. especially if part of what got cut was more cameron diaz...

i browsed thru 1 of the 00-04 threads, do we want to cast votes for 3 most hated films? i think it'd be kinda interesting

also gangs felt really... CGI in an unpleasant way. plus that u2 song at the beginning. MOVIE SUCKS

every time i see it i do have to try to scrub that u2 song from my mind.

Innocence
Hellboy (I)

probably not going to watch GONY or aviator a second time, but at least the latter had cate blanchett in it, and had some funny bits (wave of the future wave of the future wave of the future -- dats a solid meme right there).

So as not to miss anything, these were the films I loved, with the ones not appearing above in bold.

Guizi lai le/Devils on the Doorstep (2000)
Memento (2000)
Sånger från andra våningen/Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
Thomas est amoureux/Thomas in Love (2000)
Werckmeister harmóniák/Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
Lucía y el sexo/Sex and Lucia (2001)
24 Hour Party People (2002)
Adaptation. (2002)
Decasia (2002)
Irréversible (2002)
Naqoyqatsi (2002)
Russkiy kovcheg/Russian Ark (2002)
Secretary (2002)
Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom/Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003)
Kontroll (2003)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
Ruang rak noi nid mahasan/Last Life in the Universe (2003)
The Dreamers (2003)
Cha no aji/The Taste of Tea (2004)
Der Untergang/Downfall (2004)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Primer (2004)
Survive Style 5+ (2004)
Lord of War (2005)
Paradise Now (2005)
Syriana (2005)
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
Children of Men (2006)
Das Leben der Anderen/The Lives of Others (2006)
El laberinto del fauno'/Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
Taxidermia (2006)
The Fall (2006)
The Last King of Scotland (2006)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Låt den rätte komma in/Let the Right One In (2008)
Synecdoche, New York (2008)

Have we had Batman Begins yet?

i guess my 10 is:

zodiac
children of men
demonlover (completely token non-US film)
before sunset
adaptation
i'm not there
zoolander (could be anchorman on another day)
eternal sunshine
punch drunk love
superbad

Morvern Callar is a good call.

If you are including late '90s films that didn't reach America til the 2000s, I'd put the same director's Ratcatcher ahead of MC.

i like 'the aviator' slightly more than gangs of new york and 'the departed' a lot more, but i dig gony b/c it's got quite a lot of energy and it moves by pretty quickly despite it being a mess.

i think the most ridiculous scorsese movie might be coming out shortly w/'shutter island'.

If you are including late '90s films that didn't reach America til the 2000s, I'd put the same director's Ratcatcher ahead of MC.

i cant find a screening before 2002 for mc morbz???? but yes ratcatcher is better, sure

zodiac
children of men
demonlover (completely token non-US film)
before sunset
adaptation
i'm not there
zoolander (could be anchorman on another day)
eternal sunshine
punch drunk love
superbad

f pta but never change dude

pdl is the pta it's ok to like

h8d that movie iirc it looked like a pretentious car ad

fu morvern callar sucked so we're evens

how was 'warm water under a red bridge'?

ginger snaps
teeth

keane

do we want to cast votes for 3 most hated films?

I'd be down with that. I can think of two very easy choices off the top of my head (neither of which, it's worth noting, have shown up on this verrrry long list of nominees, despite having garnered some critical accolades).

how was 'warm water under a red bridge'?

Marvelous, a fitting swan song for a great director.

I didn't mean Morvern Callar was a late '90s film, only that Ratcatcher was. Anyway, have fun.

ok, the nominations thus far (did a quick sort and scan, please note any errors you may spot since i'll be using this from this point forward and just adding to it)

4
2046
13 going on 30
13 Tzameti
13: Game Of Death
21 grams
24 Hour Party People
24hr party people
25th Hour
28 Days Later
3-Iron
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
40 year old virgin
6ixty9ine
9th Company
A Christmas Tale
A Chronicle of Corpses (Andrew Repasky McElhinney 2000)
A Cock And Bull Story
a good lawyer's wife
A History of Violence
A Prairie Home Companion
A Scanner Darkly
a serious man
a snake of june
A Tale of Two Sisters
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
About a Boy
Adaptation
All the Real Girls
Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000)
Amelie
American Astronaut
American Psycho
American Splendor
Amores Perros
An Education
Anchorman
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas 2000)
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
Babel
Bad Guy
Bad Santa
Baraka
Barbarian Invasions
Battle Royale
Be Here to Love Me
Beau travail
Before Sunset
Best In Show
Birth (Jonathan Glazer, 2004)
Black Dynamite
Black Hawk Down
Black Sheep
Blade II
Blind Shaft
Bloody Sunday
Borat
bourne identity
bourne supremacy
bourne ultimatum
Bowling for Columbine
Brick
Bright Star
bring it on (2000)
Brokeback Mountain
Broken Flowers
Broken Sky
Bronson
Bubba Ho-Tep
Bully
Burn After Reading
Caché
Cafe Lumiere (Hou Hsiao-Hsien 2003)
Candy (Neil Armfield, 2006)
Capturing the Friedmans
Casino Royale
Cast Away
Catch Me If You Can
Cellular
Charlie's Angels
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Chicken Run
Children of Men
Chopper
city of god
Clean
Clerks 2
Closer
Cloudy With a Chance of Meat-a-balls
Cloverfield
Code Unknown - Haneke.Eureka
Collateral
Colossal Youth
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Constantine
Control
Conversations with Other Women
Coraline
Crank
Crank 2: High Voltage
Cremaster 3
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Dagon
De l'autre côté (Chantal Akerman 2002)
dead man's shoes
Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Der Untergang
DiG!
District 9
district b13
Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Dogtown and Z-Boys
Dogville
Donnie Darko
Doubt
Down With Love (Peyton Reed 2003)
Downfall
Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary
Drag Me to Hell
Dreamgirls
DUMPLINGS!!
Eastern Promises
Eden Lake
Election (Johnnie To)
Elephant
encounters at the end of the world
End of the Century
Entre les murs (aka The Class)- Laurent Cantet.
Erin Brockovich
Esther Kahn (Arnaud Desplechin 2000)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Être et avoir (To Be And To Have)
Far From Heaven
Fat Girl
Femme Fatale
Final Destination
Finding Nemo
Flight of the Red Balloon
forgetting sarah marshall
Freddy Got Fingered
Funny Ha Ha
Gabrielle - Patrice Chéreau.
Gangs of New York
Gangster No. 1
George Washington
ghost town
Ghost World
ginger snaps
Gladiator
Gomorrah
Good Bye, Lenin!
Goodbye Dragon Inn
Gosford Park
Gozu
Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood 2008)
Grandma’s Boy
graveyard of honor
Grindhouse
Grizzly Man
Guizi lai le/Devils on the Doorstep (2000)
Half Nelson
Hallam Foe
hannah takes the stairs
Happiness of the Katakuris
Hard Candy
Harold & Kumar- both of them.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Hellboy
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
High Fidelity
historias extraordinarias
Homecoming (Joe Dante 2005 - from Showtime's "Masters of Horror" series)
Hot Fuzz
Hot Rod
Hotel Rwanda
howl's moving castle (2004)
Hunger
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
I Heart Huckabees
i like killing flies
ichi the killer
Igby Goes Down
i'm not there
In America
In Bruges
In Her Shoes
In the Cut (Jane Campion 2003)
In The Loop
In the Mood for Love
infamous
Infernal Affairs
infernal affairs II
infernal affairs III
Inglourious Basterds
Inland Empire
Innocence
Inside aka À l'intérieur
Inside Man
Into the Wild
Iron Man
Irreversible
Jackass
Jackass Number Two
Jesus Camp
Jesus' Son
Joint Security Area (JSA)
Josie and the Pussycats
Junebug
Ju-On aka The Grudge
Katalin Varga
keane
Ken Park
Kill Bill vol. 1
Kill Bill vol. 2
Kingdom of Heaven
Kings and Queen
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
KNOCKED UP
Kontroll (2003)
Kung Fu Panda
Kung-Fu Hustle
la captive (2000)
La Chatte à deux têtes (Porn Theater) (Jacques Nolot 2002)
La Ciénaga
La mujer sin cabeza (The Headles Woman) (Lucrecia Martel 2008)
La Niña Santa
La Vie en Rose
Lady in the Water (M. Night Shyamalan 2006)
Last King of Scotland
last life in the universe
L'Emploi du temps (Time Out) (Laurent Cantet 2002)
Les chansons d'amour (Christophe Honoré 2007)
Les Destinees
Let the Right One in
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
Lilo & Stitch
Lilya 4-Ever
Little Miss Sunshine
Little Otik
Lord of War (2005)
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Lost in Translation
Lucky Number Slevin
Man on Wire
Marci X (Richard Benjamin 2003)
Marebito
Maria Full of Grace
Marie Antoinette
Martyrs
Masked and Anonymous (Larry Charles 2003)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
May
Mean Girls
Memento
Memories of Murder
Metropolis (2002)
Miami Vice
Michael Clayton
Milk
Million Dollar Baby
Minority Report
Mooladé
Moon
morvern callar (2002)
Moulin Rouge
Mulholland Dr
Munich
mutual appreciation
my summer of love
My Winnipeg
Mysterious Object at Noon
Napoleon Dynamite
New World
New York Doll
night watch (2004)
Nine Lives
No Country for Old Men
No End in Sight
No Man's Land
Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2004)
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
oasis
Ocean's Eleven
Oldboy
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
oxford murders
Palindromes
Panic Room
Pan's Labyrinth
Paradise Lost 2
Paradise Now (2005)
Paranoid Park
Persepolis
pineapple express
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Platform
Police Beat
Pootie Tang
Power of Nightmares
Primer
Princess Raccoon
Punch-Drunk Love
Punisher War Zone
Pusher
Pusher II: With Blood On My Hands
Pusher III: I'm the Angel of Death
Quantum of Solace
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Rachel Getting Married
Ratatouille
REC
Reflections of Evil (Damon Packard 2002)
Requiem For A Dream
revanche
Riding With Giants
Rivers and Tides
Roger Dodger
role models
Running Scared
Russian Ark
Save The Green Planet!
Seconded:
Secretary
Seed of Chucky
Serenity
Session 9
Severance
Sexy Beast
Shanghai Knights
Shaolin Soccer
shattered glass
Shaun of the Dead
Shotgun Stories
Shut Up and Sing
Sideways (Alex Payne, 2004)
Signs (prolly the last dece Shyamalan)
Sileni
Silent Light
Sin City
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Sleeping Dogs Lie
Slither
Slumdog Millionaire
Snakes On A Mothafuckin' Plane
Snatch
sobibor, oct. 14, 1943, 4P.M (2005)
Son of Rambow
Sonatine
Songs From the Second Floor
Southland Tales
Speed Racer
Spellbound
Spider-man 2
Spirited Away
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter...And Spring
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
Stay The Same Never Change
Still Life
SUGAR
Sunshine
SUPER TROOPERS
Superbad
Survive Style 5+ (2004)
Swimming Pool
sympathy for lady vengeance
Syndromes and a Century
Synecdoche, New York
Syriana
Talk to Her
talladega nights
Tarnation
Taxidermia (2006)
TEAM AMERICA
Tearoom (William Jones 2007)
Tears Of The Black Tiger
teeth
ten
Ten Canoes (Rolf de Heer, 2006)
Thank You For Smoking
The Aristocrats
The Aviator
The Baader-Meinhoff Komplex
The Believer
the big bad swim
The Bothersome Man
The Box (Richard Kelly 2009)
the call of cthulhu
The Cat Returns
The Circle
the class
The Cockettes
The Company
The Cooler
The Core
the dancer upstairs
The Darjeeling Limited
The Dark Knight
The Departed
The Descent
The Devil And Daniel Johnston
The Devil's Backbone
The Devil's Rejects
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
the edge of heaven (2007)
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
The Fall
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Filth And The Fury
The Five Obstructions
The Five Senses (Jeremy Podeswa 2000)
The Fog of War
The Fountain
the girl who leapt through time (2006)
The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai
The Good Thief
the happening
The Headless Woman
the Hills Have Eyes (2006)
The Holy Girl
the host
the Hurt Locker
The Incredibles
The King of Kong
The Legend of Leigh Bowery
The Life Acquatic
The Lives of Others
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Machinist
The Man Who Wasn't There
The Man Without a Past
The New World
The Ninth Gate
the nomi song
The Orphanage
The Others
The Pianist
The Piano Teacher
The Pledge
The Prestige
The Princess And The Warrior
The Proposition
The Quiet American
The Rape Of Europa
The Return (Russian movie, I think there was another one by that name)
The Ring (2002)
The Room
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Saddest Music In The World
The Score
The Secret Lives of Dentists
The Shape Of Things
The Simpsons Movie
The Squid and the Whale
The Station Agent
The Target Shoots First (Christopher Wilcha 2000)
The Taste of Tea
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
the transporter
The Triplets of Belleville
The Vertical Ray of the Sun
The Village (M. Night Shyamalan 2004)
The War of the Worlds
The Wayward Cloud
The Weeping Camel
The Werckmeister Harmonies
The White Diamond
The Wicker Man
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
The Witnesses
The Woods
the world
The Wrestler
Them aka Ils
There Will Be Blood
thirst
This Is England
Thomas est amoureux/Thomas in Love
Together [Lukas Moodysson]
Tokyo Gore Police
transporter (2002)
transporter 2
transporter 3 (2008)
Triad Election
Tropical Malady
Trouble Every Day
Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke 2008)
Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan 2000)
Undertow
United 93
Unknown Pleasures
unknown white male
up
Urbania (Jon Matthews 2000)
Vanilla Sky
Visitor Q
Waitress
Waking Life
walk hard
Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Wall-E
War Story (John Baumgartner 2001)
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
Wet Hot American Summer
What Is It
What Time Is It There?
Wild Zeroblack book
Wind That Shakes the Barley
Wolf Creek
Women of the Night (Zalman King 2000)
x-men 2
Y Tu Mamá También
Yi-Yi
You Can Count on Me
You, the Living
Zatoichi
Zodiac
Zoolander

is it me or is that pretty much EVERY movie that came out in the 00s

i know not everyone has seen 'DUMPLINGS!!' yet but it's one to watch before you vote

is DUMPLINGS! the one from the three extremes collection whatever?

The Last Samurai
28 Weeks Later

crazy/beautiful

xposts That one had way more crotch bleeding than I could handle iirc

24 Hour Party People
24hr party people

dupes

Also, I want to nominate Shortbus

speaking of crotch bleeding: Cabin Fever

Wendy and Lucy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DUMPLINGS!_%28film%29

no Twilight Samurai, no cred

no Dude, Where's My Car? Figures you'd miss the one good dumbass comedy of the decade!

Ten
Crimson Gold
Bad Education
Volver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ63t7Kaa2Y

idk, it's pretty much the worst film i saw in 2008, have no idea how you got there.

― history mayne, Thursday, December 3, 2009 2:01 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ah now come on. you saw the oxford murders and son of rambow, right?

― caek, Thursday, December 3, 2009 2:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

to be clear, this wasn't a nomination of those films.

lolol at two crimson gold mentions in two days

twilight samurai was great

films I gave 1/5 in 2008:

oxford murders, son of rambow, persepolis, the happening

― caek, Thursday, December 3, 2009 3:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

and that wasn't a nom for the happening ; )

no Twilight Samurai, no cred

Fuck Tom Cruise, etc..

never did see the follow up

Pieces of April
The Station Agent

crimson gold was kinda ok but um hello we don't even have man of fire or the hangover yet.

Domino

crimson gold was kinda ok but um hello we don't even have man of fire or the hangover yet.

This post is all-time.

man ON fire i meant.

Audition
Batman Begins

Some Kind of Monster

crimson gold was just so slight is the thing, why is it even a consideration for a best of 00s poll

exactly.

of the iranian films i saw, i guess maybe i'd rate 'the circle' highest. but that's based on pretty sketchy memory of what i've seen.

morbz is right that all the films people oscarbated over like 'crouching tiger' are pretty much forgotten, but it's true also, isn't it, of things like the dardennes brothers or almodovar

$5 for baiting, plz

i own in the bedroom on dvd and still think its p good but i dont have a blog so

I Own In The Bedroom is finally out on DVD? Sweet.

away from her

so sad how pedro almodovar has just completely forgotten

just been, i mean

Oops, a couple omissions I made:

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
in parts, the most wretched looking period film ever, in parts the most beautiful
The Man from Earth (2007)
low-budget conceptual sci-fi conversation piece, sorta My Dinner with Andre the Immortal

And I watched Devils on the Door Step (2000), a banned Chinese movie about the Japanese occupation, again tonight. Still sharp, still funny, still deserving of a lot more eyeballs.

El Custodio
Tony Manero.

So many of the films listed I have felt to have been so mediocre that I would consider nominating Half Nelson, which has great performances but is so indie-by-numbers I would never rate it as one of the best films of the 00s. Perhaps it should be in contention just to be acknowledged then ignored, an 'honoured just to be nominated' sort of thing.

With more conviction, I'd throw Friday Night Lights into the mix, a film which has the unique difficulty of being bettered by it's television adaptation, but is pretty great nonetheless.

Actually, I see that Half Nelson has already been nominated anyway. Still, my point stands.

Also:

Adventureland
Waltz With Bashire

Bashir*

The White Ribbon.

The Heart of the Game, the documentary on high-school basketball player Darnellia Russell, will be in my top 10.

My top 50 favorites of the past nine years. Presented by an educated, artistic, liberal, but not monocled movie twee, ordinary moviegoer.

13 Going on 30
A Beautiful Mind
A History of Violence
A.I.
Alatriste
Best in Show
Brokeback Mountain
Burn After Reading
Cast Away
Children of Men
City of God
Dan in Real Life
Dark Knight
Donnie Darko
Elf
Finding Nemo
Frozen River
Gladiator
Good Night, and Good Luck
Hidalgo
Hotel Rwanda
I Am Legend
In the Valley of Elah
Juno
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship
Michael Clayton
Minority Report
Mystic River
No Country for Old Men
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Ocean’s 11
Pan’s Labyrinth
Pirates of the Caribbean
Shrek
Spirited Away
Stop-Loss
Syriana
The Fountain
The Perfect Storm
The School of Rock
The Visitor
Tropic Thunder
Up
V for Vendetta
Wall-E
War of the Worlds
Whale Rider
When the Levees Broke
Where the Wild Things Are
Why We Fight

And a great big hearty "I'll never get these hours of my life back" vote of Absolute No Confidence for:
The Passion of the Christ
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
There Will Be Blood
The Royal Tenenbaums
Lost in Translation
The Wrestler
300 (does it count if I've never gotten more than a half-hour into it before having to find something more interesting? Like a lint collection?)

In the Valley of Elah means disqualification, right?

Baraka was released in the early 90s. maybe kclu meant The Boys of Baraka?

jeez you guys didn't list Bad Education

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A Very Long Engagement
The Ladykillers
Red Road
Tell No One
Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Winged Migration

finisterre

hey jude did you really nominate "dan in real life" and "a beautiful mind" and spit on "there will be blood"... did that really just happen

Nine Queens

Yep, slocki, I really did do that. I found Dan in Real Life to be unexpectedly charming and A Beautiful Mind to be well made and performed - and a bit surprising, on first viewing. Bottom line: I liked them both very much, and this is a list of My Favorites.

As for There Will Be Blood - I found it boring and interminable, totally lacking in any character with a shred of likeability/identifiability, and as much as I like Daniel Day-Lewis, I'm about tired of his scenery chewing. Bottom line: I found it tedious and distasteful and immediately regretted the time I'd spent subjecting myself to it.

And to The Devil's Advocate... Why would In the Valley of Elah suggest disqualification? Inquiring minds would like to know.

Dan in Real Life was so fucking terrible.

So was A Beautiful Mind, and I like Ron Howard and maths!

a beautiful mind, more like, a beautiful piece of shit which is not even beautiful, except jennifer connelley

ya burnt

sb'd dr casino for winged migration

Interesting. Clearly our opinions differ. However what makes your opinions more important or "true" than mine? They are all simply opinions, right?

Pretty sure mine are true, actually. Sorry.

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Caek, I challenge you to prove your opinion to be true and mine false, using evidence other than your own... opinions.

max says my opinions are correct.

All of my opinions are false, I'm pretty sure.

And I say mine are my opinions, and therefore not provably correct or incorrect. So express your own opinions clearly rather than just slagging someone else's. Or be quiet.

whose sock is this?

going to the trouble of drawing up a top 50 like that. bravo.

sock 50

I am no one's sock puppet. I'm my own self, and have been posting here for four years or so - very sporadically. As to going to the trouble to make up the list, I saw this thread, thought it looked interesting, and decided to make my own list of favorites, just for fun. To do this, I looked up all the links of "Best of" included in this thread and also checked the year-by-year releases from Wikipedia.

I didn't include any movies that have opened since Thanksgiving, since I've seen none of them. I fully expect to appreciate The Road and Up in the Air, and I'm looking forward to The Princess and the Frog.

And I laughed all the way through The Men Who Stare at Goats, for what it's worth.

I don't denigrate your opinions, and I'm just intrigued that you seem to enjoy harshing on mine. THat's all.

caek doesn't like chris morris u don't have to him ~seriously~

Correction: The lists of Best Of are in a different but quite similar thread. Sorry for the misinformation.

hey jude i just think u r missing one impt fact: caeks opinions are facts, proved using astrophysics, on a transaltantic flight

Baraka was released in the early 90s. maybe kclu meant The Boys of Baraka?

BARAKA NOM RESCINDED

I suspect I'd best retire from this lack of discussion.

nominations thread, dude! relax.

dont make it bad

take a sad thread, make it better

if that wasn't a real nomination for The Boys of Baraka then I'd like to nominate it

i guess i'll nominate Match Point

And to The Devil's Advocate... Why would In the Valley of Elah suggest disqualification? Inquiring minds would like to know.

I was only joking, but it is kind of terrible. Serviceable enough as a tv-procedural-grade detective story, but ooooh, that ending with the flag. I wanted to destroy things.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

According to what I can find online, When the Levees Broke screened in New Orleans before it aired on HBO, so that counts as a movie, right? Paradise Lose 2: Revelations, however, premiered on TV, and only later screened at fests. I'm all for counting both.

is it me or is that pretty much EVERY movie that came out in the 00s

Seems true of all the best-of decade nomination threads. Works out okay, I guess.

ppl will still show up once noms close and be like wtf 'the flower that drank the moon' wasnt nominated

well i mean at least we have a beautiful mind

Right. I meant to say, "Works out okay so long as my preferred choice wins the resulting poll."

And so opinions differ. The ending of In the Valley of Elah, with the flag, seemed perfect too me. So much lost.

Only including films with US Distribution, so a good handful of my fav docs are screwed:
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Mysterious Skin
Manda Bala (To Send a Bullet)
Billy The Kid
American Teen
The Monastery
Alpha Dog
Forbidden Lies
Summercamp!
Order of Myths
The Pool (Chris Smith)
Iraq In Fragments
Paper Heart
Frownland
35 Shots of Rum
Up the Yangtze
Workingman's Death
Wit (Mike Nichols)
Gerry
The Brown Bunny
The Girl Next Door
Blue Crush
Darwin's Nightmare
The Strangers

Agreed with upthread, When the Levees Broke is some difficult and amazing stuff. I saw it after I put together my original list (thanks, Netflix).

Manda Bala (To Send a Bullet)

this is a cool movie

Took a break from studying to throw this together:

Best love story:
Before Sunset (2004)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Sweet Land (2005)
Secretary (2002)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

Best demystification of love:
Cast Away (2000)
Solaris (2002) (remake)

Best romantic comedy:
Two Weeks Notice (2002)
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
Down with Love (2003)
Dan in Real Life (2008)

Best buddies:
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Sideways (2004)
Made (2001)
Wedding Crashers (2005)
The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)
Knocked Up (2006)

Best Christmas:
Elf (2003)
Bad Santa (2003)
Love, Actually (2003)

Best family comedy:
The Royal Tenenbaums (2002)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)

Best movies about child abuse, neglect, or growing up wrong:
You Can Count On Me (2000)
The Woodsman (2004)
Mystic River (2003)
The Squid and the Whale (2005)
Sherrybaby (2006)
My Architect (2003)
Big Fish (2003)

Best movies about adults caring about kids:
About a Boy (2002)
School of Rock (2003) [a.k.a. The School of Rock]
Martian Child (2007)
Half Nelson (2006)
Role Models (2008)
Freedom Writers (2007)

Best case for benign authority:
Black Snake Moan (2007)

Best movies about addiction:
Rachel Getting Married (2008)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2003)

Best high school movies:
Superbad (2007)
Juno (2007)
American Pie 2 (2001)
Bring It On (2000)
Crazy/Beautiful (2001)
You Got Served (2004)
Get Over It (2001)
Strangers With Candy (2005)
Real Women Have Curves (2002)

Best detective-of-self stories:
Broken Flowers (2005)
I Heart Huckabees (2004)
The Human Stain (2003)

Best WWII:
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
U-571 (2000)

Best movie about the Holocaust:
The Pianist (2002)

Best socialism:
The Take (2004)
Sicko (2007)

Best anti-communism:
North Korea: A Day in the Life (2004)
K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)

Best post-Soviet capitalist blues:
Eastern Promises (2007)
Everything Is Illuminated (2005)
Power Trip (2003)

Best anti-anti-communism:
Good Night and Good Luck (2005)

Best anti-war/anti-Vietnam War:
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003)
Tigerland (2000)
Sir! No Sir! (2005) (subtitle: The Suppressed Story Of The GI Movement To End The Vietnam War)
Why We Fight (2005)
Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)
What American Needs: From Sea to Shining Sea (2003)
Red Barn (2003) [short documentary in progress]

Best movies about violence, for and against:
A History of Violence (2005)
Bowling for Columbine (2002)
In the Bedroom (2001)
Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees (2002)
Rambo (2008)

Best costume epic/Western:
Gladiator (2000)
The Last Samurai (2003)
Open Range (2003)
Cold Mountain (2003)
The New World (2005)
Shanghai Noon (2000)

Best ship opera:
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

Best wishful metaphor for American power:
The Bourne Identity (2002)
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)

Best movies about American power and the right in Latin America and the Caribbean:
The Agronomist (2003)
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (2002) (a.k.a. Chavez: Inside the Coup)
The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002)
Quantum of Solace (2008)
Machuca (2004)

Best movies about immigrants/internationals:
Fast Food Nation (2006)
The Visitor (2007)
Gran Torino (2008)
Babel (2006)
Spellbound (2002)
Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
Al Otro Lado (2004) (a.k.a. To the Other Side)

Best drug war:
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Training Day (2001)
Traffic (2000)
City of God (2002)
Narc (2002)

Best movies about the "conflict of our time":
No End in Sight (2007)
Gaza Strip (2002)
Munich (2005)
Syrianna (2005)
W. (2008)
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)
Good Kurds, Bad Kurds: No Friends But the Mountains (2000)
Asurot ("Detained") (2001)
The Manchurian Candidate (2004) (remake)
Burn After Reading (2008)

Best anti-Bond:
Casino Royale (2006)

Best Africa:
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Stander (2003)
The Constant Gardener (2005)
Lumumba (2000)
Red Dust (2004)

Best India:
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai (2000)

Best Ireland:
Billy Elliot (2000)
Bloody Sunday (2002)
The Boys from County Clare (2003)

Best greed/obsession:
There Will Be Blood (2007)
The White Diamond (2004)

Best anti-corporate:
The Yes Men (2003)
The Corporation (2004)
In Good Company (2005)
Mondovino (2004)
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
Sunshine State (2002)

Best legal:
Legally Blonde (2001)
Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (2000)
Michael Clayton (2007)
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003)
Monster (2003) (really should see those two together)
Erin Brockovich (2000)
Runaway Jury (2003)
Longford (2006)
Fracture (2007)

Best movies against the gender double standard:
North Country (2005)
Personal Velocity (2002) (a.k.a. Personal Velocity: Three Portraits)
Far From Heaven (2002)
Whale Rider (2003)
Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
The Contender (2000)
Charlie's Angels (2000)
Chicago (2002)

Best movie about gender transition:
Venus of Mars (2004)

Best movies about looksism:
Shrek (2001)
Zoolander (2001)
Shallow Hal (2001)

Best electoral politics:
The Green Bus vs. the White House (2004)
Head of State (2003)

Best Katrina documentaries:
Trouble the Water (2008)
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006)
Tim's Island (2006)

Best evocative epochal worst-case-scenario/end-of-world/dystopia/alien invasion:
Children of Men (2006)
War of the Worlds (2005) (remake)
Dawn of the Dead (2004) (remake)
Idiocracy (2006)
The Core (2003)
The Invasion (2007)

Best monster horror:
The Host (2006) (a.k.a. Gwoemul)
30 Days of Night (2007)
Slither (2006)
28 Days Later (2002)

Best ghosts:
The Ring (2002)
The Others (2001)

Best Star Trek:
Serenity (2005)
Star Trek (2009)

Best sports:
The Wrestler (2008)
Run Fatboy Run (2007)
Seabiscuit (2003)
The Rookie (2002)
The King of Kong (2007)
Go Tigers! (2001)
Leatherheads (2008)
Remember the Titans (2000)
Miracle (2004)

Best boxing:
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Girlfight (2000)
Cinderella Man (2005)
Rocky Balboa (2006)

Best going off the grid:
Into the Wild (2007)
Grizzly Man (2005)
Dark Days (2000)

Best subculture:
A Mighty Wind (2003)
Best in Show (2000)
Krumped (2004, short documentary) (precursor to Rize)
24 Hour Party People (2002)
Dogtown and Z-Boys (2002)
Rize (2005)

Best stand-up:
The Original Kings of Comedy (2000)
Comedian (2002)

Best metal:
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2008)
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)
The Atlas Moth (2003)

Best non-metal music:
Westway to the World (2000)
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007)
The Filth and the Fury (2000) [a.k.a. The Filth and the Fury - A Sex Pistols Film]
Biggie & Tupac (2002)
Eight Mile (2002)
If I Should Fall From Grace (2001)
Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002)
Dig! (2004)
Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback (2006)
Cuba Feliz (2000)
Lost in Translation (2003)
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (2005)

Best movies about radio:
The Ladies Man (2000)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

Best movies about journalism:
Shattered Glass (2003)
Robert Christgau: Rock 'n' Roll Animal (2000, short documentary)
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Veronica Guerin (2003)

Best movies about writing:
American Splendor (2003)
Adaptation (2002)
Starting Out in the Evening (2007)

Best movies about artists::
Pollock (2000)
How to Draw a Bunny (2002)

Best super-heroes:
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Batman Begins (2005)
Iron Man (2008)
X2: X-Men United (2003)
Unbreakable (2000)

Best suspension-of-disbelief-at-movies-as-faith:
A Serious Man (2009)
The Village (2004)
The Night Listener (2006)
The Prestige (2006)
Doubt (2009)

Best back-to-the-future horror:
Memento (2000)
The Butterfly Effect (2004)
Donnie Darko (2001)

Best movies about movies:
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)

Best movies about pornography:
Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)
Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy (2001)
Auto Focus (2002)
The Notorious Betty Page (2005)
Indie Sex (2007) (a.k.a. Indie Sex: Censored)
The Fashionistas (2002)

Best sex:
Team America: World Police (2004)
Kinsey (2004)
Where the Truth Lies (2005)
Young Adam (2003)
Libertine (2004)

Best raunchy comedies:
Waiting (2005)
Clerks II (2006)
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)
How High (2001)
Not Another Teen Movie (2001)

Best new-awkward:
Meet the Parents (2000)
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)
The Heartbreak Kid (2007) (remake)
Blades of Glory (2007)
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)

Best dreamy/meta-action:
Shoot 'Em Up (2007)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
The Way of the Gun (2000)
Hot Fuzz (2007)
Bad Boys II (2003)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Crank (2006)

Best action/suspense/thriller:
Cellular (2004)
Red Eye (2005)
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Taken (2008)
Vantage Point (2008)
What Lies Beneath (2000)

Best heists:
Inside Man (2006)
Ocean's 11 (2001)
Flawless (2007)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

Best catch-the-killer/threatening other:
Grindhouse (2007) (released separately on DVD as Planet Terror and Death Proof)
Zodiac (2007)
The Pledge (2001)
Insomnia (2002)
Cache (2005)

Best movies about living closer to the end of life:
Iris (2001)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
Savages (2007)
Synecdoche, New York (2008)

Best movies about mourning:
Forever (2006) (documentary)
Garden State (2004)

Bonus:

Best '00s movies disqualified because they opened in the '90s:
Office Space (1999)
Galaxy Quest (1999) (December 25 release; international release in 2000)
Spring Forward (1999) (2000 general U.S. release)
Crazy (1999) (Heddy Honigmann doc)

Don't want to be snarky but what does Billy Elliott have to do with Ireland?

No, it's not snarky at all to point out a mistake that dumb. That's what I get for listing a movie I haven't seen for nine years! Make that "Best UK" or some other face-saving correction.

are you nominating _all_ of those?

Best action/suspense/thriller:
Cellular (2004)
Red Eye (2005)
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Taken (2008)
Vantage Point (2008)
What Lies Beneath (2000)

dude, this is just a list of action/suspense/thrillers. 'vantage point' probably wasn't even the best action/suspense/thriller released that week.

yeah, that list genuinely seemed more like: list of all movies released this decade, put into catagories.

king of kong: a fistful of quarters
battle royale

Nah, Cellular and Red Eye really are two of the best meat&potatoes thrillers.

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Actually, this took some honest self reflection at various points over a long period of time--I've been keeping all-time recommendation/fave lists in categories for years now, and just grabbed the '00s ones and reordered them a bit (which is why the mistake). I mixed together the top tier and the "also recommend" movies to give some categories a few more choices, but kept them ranked. So yeah, probably the entire non-meta action movie category is relatively weak, and the bottom three are infinitely weaker than those in, say, "movies about child abuse," where there were literally a dozen more films to choose from that I didn't like (hated Fat Girl, wasn't crazy about Mysterious Skin).

I thought Vantage Point was surprisingly clever, while something like Taken was silly but effective for what it was. They won't make my Top 50, but I hoped looking at all these movies in categories might stimulate reflection and memory, and none of these is a waste of time (IMO) or rental money. Cellular is awesome. Red Eye and Die Hard are as entertaining as advertised. What action movies you would list instead, history mayne? I'm betting I probably didn't see them or would disagree, but that's cool.

Vantage Point was ruined by Matthew Fox's terrible acting. I really liked Cellular as well, was expecting Phone Booth pt 2, but it went off in a much more entertaining direction.

(I should give Mysterious Skin another chance: Mood is everything, which is probably why I liked Die Hard.)

ya that was such a hauntingly brooding thriller

Mysterious Skin was great; perfect for the novel anyway.

So yeah, probably the entire non-meta action movie category is relatively weak, and the bottom three are infinitely weaker than those in, say, "movies about child abuse," where there were literally a dozen more films to choose from that I didn't like (hated Fat Girl, wasn't crazy about Mysterious Skin).

this is my point. are you really nominating all 70-odd of those of those films? (this is the nominations thread.)

how many votes will we get? i nommed about 10 films and will most probably be able to vote for 50 films i really liked/loved this decade (ok, still not seen a lot of the canon/things i most probz will like) but that list does seem ott.

50 votes! 50-49-48-47 etc sliding scale w/points.

lol at me guessing 70-odd. that list is the best part of 400 movies.

who cares how many nominations there are? i don't understand the nomination restrictions on polls anyway. i understand nominating -- i like the lists as a way of finding things i don't know or being reminded of things i've forgotten -- but in terms of what you can vote for, it seems to me you should just be able to vote for any movie (or album or song on the music polls) that came out in the designated years. the whole concern about "oh but then everything will just get 2 votes," first of all probably isn't true, and secondly in the results of the polls there's always this inevitable moaning about how consensus coalesces around predictable things. anyway. nobody's put any restrictions on this nominations list, which is nice. i just don't understand people complaining about having too many movies on it. nobody's forcing you to vote for vantage point.

people can vote for whatever they want, call them "write-ins." i'll post the list of nominations when it's time to vote but people can campaign for films not on the list within that thread.

i'm going to stick my neck out and guess that "Red Barn (2003) [short documentary in progress]" isn't going to poll.

i have no problem with someone nominating 286 films if that's what they want to do. i'm just checking that is actually what he intended with that post, because it sounds like he doesn't actually like quite a lot of those films and just did it to fill up some categories.

Hello, caek. I like all those films and never said otherwise. Red Barn is an amazing documentary in progress about the protests against the Red Barn restaurant chain coming to the U of M Minneapolis campus neighborhood in the Vietnam War era. I didn't mean to be anti-social by including it, but it did screen at festivals, establishing its release date in the '00s according to imdb rules, so I thought I'd throw it onto the big list. Why not?

I was just checking you actually intended to nominate all 300 films or however many you've got there. Like I say, this is fine with me, why not?, but saying some are "infinitely weaker" suggests to me perhaps you were just dumping a list of almost all the films you saw in the 2000s, and didn't realise this was a nomination thread.

No, those are all movies I liked and remembered well enough to recommend--each one is at least a B+ in my memory. Lost in Translation was beautifully shot and acted, but pretty alienating to me outside of that night-on-the-town sequence, so that and Vantage Point probably mark the low end of B+ for me. There are probably another 300 B or B- films where I don't remember them well enough to recommend, or just loved certain things about them (like all the Scorsese, though I suppose The Gangs of New York should be B+ for the action and Day Lewis alone). And there were probably another 300 C films with some fleeting merit, and another 300 D or F films without any for me.

Also nominating:

Mary and Max (2009)
A stop-motion animated tale of pen pal between 8 year old Melbourne girl (Toni Collette) and a 44 year old morbidly obese New Yorker (Philip Seymour Hoffman).

Retracting my previous nomination for The Man from Earth (2007). A wretched film of interest only to fans fo Zeitgeist and the like, and I must have been drunk when I appraised it.

i'm going on holiday in 2 days time for 3 weeks. am i too early/late to nominate?

whichever is the answer i'd like to nominate 'smart people'

I'm Not Scared
Happy-Go-Lucky
Day Night Day Night
Spider

bump

State and Main
Spartan

ivans xtc
Ping Pong

Hello, caek. I like all those films and never said otherwise. Red Barn is an amazing documentary in progress about the protests against the Red Barn restaurant chain coming to the U of M Minneapolis campus neighborhood in the Vietnam War era. I didn't mean to be anti-social by including it, but it did screen at festivals, establishing its release date in the '00s according to imdb rules, so I thought I'd throw it onto the big list. Why not?

― Pete Scholtes, Sunday, 6 December 2009 19:18 (6 days ago) Permalink

I am so confused. Did it play at, like, the Hoboken International Film Festival or something? Why is 'red barn documentary' bringing nothing up on google?

Wonder Boys

Why is it confusing that a short documentary film that played one or two festivals doesn't turn up on Google? Red Barn screened in 2003 as a short before the Minneapolis premiere of The Fog of War at Get Reel: The City Pages Documentary Film Festival. Is this genuine interest?

well, if you're going to say it should be in consideration for a best-of-the-decade poll, yes

maybe we should start nominating our favorite youtube videos?

I'm not going to nominate a short, but everyone should check out Motodrom
http://www.sundancechannel.com/videos/230296616

sort of needs to be seen in a theater imo :/

what is your problem with pete liking this particular obscure documentary

can't tell if you're joking or not but i have no problem with him liking it, i just don't see the point in nominating an undistributed short documentary that played two minneapolis festivals in 2003

how many festivals should a film be seen at in order to get nominated and what population should the city (in which these festivals take place) have in order for the screenings to matter. also, what if the filmmakers were googleproofing their film's name in order to avoid being found.

can't tell if you're joking or not but i have no problem with him liking it, i just don't see the point in nominating an undistributed short documentary that played two minneapolis festivals in 2003

― avatar brothers (Tape Store), Sunday, December 13, 2009 2:03 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the point is he liked it and wants to vote for it iirc

googled: "red barn" minneapolis film festival

on first page of results summeries: "The eight-minute film "Red Barn" by Al Milgrom will be shown prior to the ...."

I couldn't find anything when I hit the link though. city pages must be the only people to put it on the web, and have taken it off since 2003.

then if you google: "Al Milgrom" "red barn," you'll hit the motherload.

red barn owns, you goddamn philistines.

Milgrom temporarily left Marvel in 2000 after insulting just-departed editor-in-chief Bob Harras with a phrase hidden in a comic he inked.[4][5]

Al Milgrom is better known in the Twin Cities as the program director of MSP Int'l Film Festival. Haven't seen the doc, but strongly suspect a vote for it is a vote for the man behind it.

it's a conspiracy

Xpost Eric: Ha, I don't know about that, just kidding, and (x-xpost) yeah, not the Marvel guy.

Tape Store, I love lists and use lists all the time, and I often go back to these ILX nominations lists later for reference, sometimes for rental ideas, sometimes to check off things I've seen, sometimes to track down things I haven't. On the off chance there is anybody else who uses these nominations lists in a similar way, I offered up a list of the films I remember liking and still do. I organized them by themes (which you'll notice tell a kind of story, from love to death) and ranked them within themes.

These categories helped me think about the films in a fresh way, and I shared it on the off chance it would help others do the same, even if they disagree with the specific choices. On the all-time list I have at home, yeah, I include TV and music videos, though I haven't seen any Youtube-only work that would rank. I'm not hung up on length or medium.

If you view the nominations list as a checklist of what everyone should watch (of what they haven't seen) before voting time, and I'm sorry if I messed with this scheme, but I still think none of these is a waste of time.

Me Without You - slept on Michelle Williams movie

Trailer made me remember Wendy and Lucy, which I see you also nominated: Definitely on my ballot now.

Shattered Glass

...it's already on

Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis)
Three Times (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)

The Woods

The Woods has been nommed. Quite rightly. Not a bad film, that.

Pete I thought you lists were cool, although honestly with the amount of effort you put into them you might as well have made them their own thread, since they obviously kinda stand out in a way that irritates people in this thread.

Three Times (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)

Adored the 'silent' segment of this, the rest not much.

Brand Upon The Brain

AND!!

Apocalypto

Black Balled 5

Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006)
No Direction Home (2005)

i've decided that in the end i won't force people to vote for only nominated films, though i assume anyone who is voting will end up nominating something they wish to vote for. but i still suggest mentioning the films here, because i will post a list of the nominees on the poll thread starting next month (polls will be open til around groundhog day)

Groundhog Day is an annual holiday celebrated on February 2[1] in the United States and Canada. According to folklore, if a groundhog emerging from its burrow on this day fails to see its shadow, it will leave the burrow, signifying that winter will soon end. If on the other hand, the groundhog sees its shadow, the groundhog will supposedly retreat into its burrow, and winter will continue for six more weeks.[2] The holiday, which began as a Pennsylvania German custom in southeastern and central Pennsylvania in the 18th and 19th centuries, has its origins in ancient European weather lore, wherein a badger or sacred bear is the prognosticator as opposed to a groundhog.[1] The holiday also bears some similarities to the medieval Catholic holiday of Candlemas[3] It also bears similarities to the Pagan festival of Imbolc, the seasonal turning point of the Celtic calendar, which is celebrated on February 1 and also involves weather prognostication.[4]

xxp saw that Jonestown doc a few wks back, its pretty great...the footage nbc, i think?, got the night before everything went down is phenomenal

groundhog day came out in 1993, u might want to take it off the list

given the likely results I'd go for April Fools Day

i'd go for valentine's day because i assume it will be ilx's love letter to cinema

i'd go for labor day because tallying the results will be a heckuva lotta work!

Yeah, I remember tuning into that Jonestown doc kind of randomly when it aired on PBS and just becoming more and more uneasily fascinated as it went on and ended up watching the whole thing.

i'd go for 4th of july because there's sure to be fireworks!

ID GO FOR ARBOR DAY CAUSE IM SPORTIN WOOD

Red Belt
Punch Drunk Love
Synecdoche, New York
'cause I dint see'em.

*Campaigning for, in order of preference, INLAND EMPIRE,State And Main, Mulholland Dr., There Will Be Blood
**Campaigning against The New World( total shit)

***I wondered where the film disussion was. Well, I'm a lumper, myself.

heres some crap that nobody nom'd

Shadow of the Vampire
Space Cowboys
Ripley's Game
Gone Baby Gone
The Hulk
Dark Blue
The Fast and the Furious
2 Fast 2 Furious
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (personal fav)
Fast & Furious
The Replacements
Heist
Matchstick Men
Unleashed

AVATAR

any notable bollywood movies this decade?

not sure I saw any besides Lagaan, which certainly qualifies imo

there's jhoom barabar jhoom which i was an extra in, but yeah lagaan is gonna be your best shout

just recently finally watched blissfully yours, and it should at least be nominated.

Never had time to give this thread the once over, so disregard any of the following noms if somebody already called 'em

Tomorrow We Move
La Captive
The Custodian
Beaufort
(500)Days of Summer
Kept and Dreamless
24-Hour Party People
Chicken Run
35 Shots of Rum

ctrl-f

voting to start this week

btw are you going by iMdB years (which are oft meaningless for non-US films' seeability in America)?

I can't see how I missed La Captive, Sylvie Testud is in it.

i'm just gonna trust folks' judgment of release dates but if anyone can catch any flicks from '99 or whatever slipping in go ahead and let me know and they will be taken out.