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

And so it begins...

I'm presenting them a little slowly, which will give folks more time to talk about each film, I don't want to rush past one film to get to the next one.

Are you ready?

yes

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

oh yuck. really?

britishes ruined another poll

I saw this movie alone on my second to last night in London last year in NOvember when it was freezing cold after all my friends had flown back to the states and I was stuck there knowing no-body for the next day. I didn't know anything about it but I kept seeing the ads around and was obsessed with them. It was the most heartbreaking film I'd ever seen, I was almost numb when I walked out of there parts of it were so beautiful.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday)

glad i could start this off w/the appropriate "gah you are all idiots" vibe btw

omar you are a king thx for doing this

also only on ilx would people complain about the movie that came in LAST PLACE

o what horror awaits us in the 99th position

Love this reveal idea, though it won't work on my phone. That's OK, some results were meant to be seen on the big monitor.

thinking there are maybe a few other movies that came in laster place dude, like #101-948

oh enough already.

lol j/k

it's such a sadness that you think you've seen a poll on your fucking telephone, get real

^ suggest new thread title BTW

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

I don't think the film-maker was trying to shock for shock's sake. (But then, how can you tell?)

I thought the dark aspects of the film were introduced very well - there was a great 'rhythm' to the film that the it plays with internally. I also love the bit when she goes out onto the ice and the way the shot is framed makes it look like she's falling into nothingness. It's an obvious thing to say but visually it reminded me of 'White'.

― Will

I thought that the Piano Teacher was one of the most moving and honest films I've ever seen abt loneliness - Isabelle Huppert's face all by itself 'said' so much about the fear of rejection, the terror of being alone, that terrible need to speak abt yourself and yet not wanting to reveal anything, the way that love and hatred and envy and desire can literally make you mad. Is it too obvious to say that the S/M stuff is part an overall metaphor of ENSLAVEMENT - to talent, to one's family, to the art life, or the bourgeois life, to our lovers, our needs, our daily lives.

― Andrew L (Andrew L)

What don't you like about Morvern Callar, jjjusten?

(might have to take the font up a size or two...)

#100: Good, liked her first one a bit better. (As on my list of 100 ballot, I limited myself to one per filmmaker unless I felt very strongly otherwise.)

#99: OK, bye

lol i di'in even vote for morvern callar. but i did vote it #1 of 2002 in my EOY for london's once-great time out magazine. heady days.

btw fuck haneke.

The list format looks great, omar.

kudos to omar for beautifully designed results thread btw.

I never saw this, but I remember all my IDM-netpals getting very excited about the soundtrack when it came out.

poll will prolly be lousy with haneke so let's get it all out now guyz

haaaa i voted for morvern <3 u indie british chix

xxpost i meant morvern callar

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

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

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

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

excited. only posted my ballot last night.

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

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

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

one can only hope

if only!

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

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

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra)

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

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

― jaymc (jaymc)

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

― Momus (Momus)

booooooo

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

Dogville placing so low is a victory imo.

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

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

ewwww

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

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

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

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

The list format looks great, omar.

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

kudos to omar for beautifully designed results thread btw.

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

yah bro

shg, there's more than one kind?

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

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

lol

i am prepared to take a loss in characterisation for interesting visuals and general mood/ambience etc

but then i liked mary antoinette

that was a better movie!

But yeah, all the characters are pretty much cutouts and the absence of actual connection between the actors is substituted with repetition to make you "get" the themes

All of which I would have been much more forgiving towards if it had been 80 minutes or so. The length was punishing and for every fantastic visual there'd be some dialogue that came along and ruined it. Like a Michael Bay film.

I liked Marie Antoinette! And I think it had a lot more interesting characters.

things I liked about the film:
- general premise, the exploration of dying through this particular character
- most of the visuals
- the first person nature
- some of the speculative narrative bits, including remembrances in different contexts

things I disliked:
- overused flyover ambiance that I thought would play better when I saw a HD version but still looked fuzzy and indistinct
- flat characters
- overstylizing in supposedly unstyled scenes. understylizing in scenes that were supposed to be highly stylized
- repetition of themes as DO YOU SEE-style revelations. if he said to his sister one more time that he'd never leave her, or if that truck ran into a car one more time...
- crazy sex, death, and birth themes just to make a point that this movie is about ~life~

Meh. I was told the credit sequence and wasn't really impressed by THOSE...

I don't have time to make it thru the whole thread right now; did Mysterious Skin make it?

No, unless I scrolled past it in the screencaps thread.

It's a shame. Damn shame.

I still liked this list though.

Xxp LOL my above post was supposed to read "...the credit sequnce was the best part and wasn't really etc etc"

Hype Williams would disagree with you there.

never understood when ppl say they dont like a film as the characters were unlikeable. that doesnt mean its a bad film! everyone in the last fast and furious was more worthy of contempt than this lot. and in a mainstream film i expect them, in fact i think they SHOULD be likeable, in a film like enter the void, its a bit more permissable for them to be morally questionable

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, November 1, 2011 3:29 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

whoa, dont drag fast five into this. those were some cool lovable bros and broettes

i know no one likes the cinema vs dvd argument (or do they?) but ETV really is a film i think that works so much better in the cinema than at home. i cant imagine watching it at home actually and dont want to in case it spoils my memory of it. and the length is a bit much, but its part of the appeal for me, making it purposely difficult/annoying.

worst film of the 00s is miranda julys me you and everyone we know.

too bad Midnight in Paris couldn't qualify for worst.

i like MIP

its bad woody allen, but even bad woody allen is still woody allen so...

Bad Woody is unwatchable!

you ppl need to see some actual BAD fucking movies

even uninspired, autopilot woody allen isnt actually that bad. plus owen wilson is actually the perfect actor for his films. they should def work together more.

you ppl need to see some actual BAD fucking movies

― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius),

I watch almost as many as you do, old man.

i wonder what al thinks of midnight in paris

This, to my knowledge, is the worst film of the 2000s:

http://slantmagazine.com/film/review/tony-n-tinas-wedding/3256

lol They made that into a movie? With Joey McIntyre? HA!

ahahaha

Upon its release, Slant Magazine gave the film ("no stars"), calling it a "relentlessly unfunny detonation" of the play, and a "tin-eared disaster" featuring "profanity delivered at a Mamet-like rate."[9]

Despite the eventual appearance of fire, the fatal car accident from Robert Altman's A Wedding is regrettably not expanded into a 20-car pileup here.

Much less amusing than any wedding, bris, or autopsy you've ever attended

couldnt have been that bad, if you had this much fun panning it

Yes, I had all the fun after.

loool Morbs OTM

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Sex_Lives_of_the_Potato_Men_DVD_cover.jpg/220px-Sex_Lives_of_the_Potato_Men_DVD_cover.jpg

Think this is the worst movie I saw in the 00s.

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

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

only if there's enough interest from potential voters.

I'll vote in that.

i think you mean 2010-2015

I vote to wait four years

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

I think you mean 2010-2019.

I'll vote

2100-2910

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

best films of 2010-2019

Certainly vote.

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

bump

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

https://boxd.it/2bIZ4

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

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

up to 87/100

i have come to hate lists

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

https://boxd.it/2bIZ4

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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