Worst Film of the top 50 of the "ILX Top 100 Films of the 2000s Poll" Poll

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Poll Results

OptionVotes
16. Lost in Translation (597.5 points, 28 votes) 13
1. Mulholland Drive (2000 points, 63 votes, 17 first place) 10
23. Donnie Darko (486 points, 24 votes, 1 first place) 9
30. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (452 points, 21 votes) 6
45. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (376 points, 18 votes) 5
7. Inglourious Basterds (982 points, 38 votes) 5
41. The Dark Knight (385.5 points, 21 votes, 1 first place) 5
20. Caché (536 points, 21 votes) 5
18. Memento (546 points, 30 votes) 4
11. The Royal Tenenbaums (730 points, 29 votes) 4
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (1348 points, 47 votes, 6 first place) 4
29. Shaun of the Dead (453.5 points, 24 votes) 4
21. The Incredibles (524.5 points, 24 votes, 1 first place) 4
33. Rachel Getting Married (442.5 points, 15 votes) 3
35. Bad Santa (433 points, 20 votes) 3
43. Gosford Park (379 points, 18 votes) 3
13. Inland Empire (696 points, 25 votes, 1 first place) 3
8. WALL·E (800.5 points, 37 votes, 1 first place) 3
49. The 40 Year-Old Virgin (362 points, 16 votes) 3
48. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (364 points, 16 votes) 3
2. Children of Men (1401 points, 50 votes, 5 first place) 2
15. Let the Right One In (627 points, 29 votes) 2
4. No Country For Old Men (1314 points, 52 votes, 1 first place) 2
5. There Will Be Blood (1187 points, 42 votes, 3 first place) 2
44. Oldboy (378 points, 18 votes, 1 first place) 2
50. I'm Not There (359 points, 14 votes, 1 first place) 2
47. Best In Show (366 points, 16 votes) 2
28. Pan's Labyrinth (456 points, 20 votes) 2
25. Superbad (483.5 points, 24 votes) 2
34. The Bourne Supremacy (437 points, 17 votes) 2
10. City of God (777.5 points, 32 votes, 1 first place) 1
38. 24 Hour Party People (418.5 points, 24 votes) 1
31. Battle Royale (450 points, 19 votes) 1
6. Spirited Away (1111.5 points, 43 votes, 3 first place) 1
9. Zodiac (781.5 points, 33 votes, 2 first place) 1
32. The New World (444.5 points, 15 votes) 1
19. Adaptation (545.5 points, 27 votes) 1
27. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (469.5 points, 21 votes) 1
24. The Departed (485.5 points, 26 votes) 1
42. The Hurt Locker (383.5 points, 20 votes) 0
40. The Bourne Identity (406.5 points, 16 votes) 0
46. Up (374 points, 18 votes) 0
39. A Serious Man (416.5 points, 18 votes) 0
12. Grizzly Man (696.5 points, 32 votes, 2 first place) 0
37. A History of Violence (423.5 points, 24 votes) 0
14. In the Mood For Love (667 points, 23 votes, 2 first place) 0
36. Brokeback Mountain (425.5 points, 20 votes) 0
17. Ghost World (554 points, 21 votes) 0
22. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (519 points, 22 votes, 1 first place) 0
26. American Psycho (473 points, 21 votes) 0


FIST FIGHT! FIST FIGHT! FIST FIGHT IN THE PARKING LOT! (milo z), Friday, 12 February 2010 04:01 (fifteen years ago)

1. Mulholland Drive (2000 points, 63 votes, 17 first place)

iatee, Friday, 12 February 2010 04:02 (fifteen years ago)

accidentally voted for the Will Ferrell one before I realized I hadn't seen it. Should have voted for I'm Not There.

blow it out your bad-taste hole (WmC), Friday, 12 February 2010 04:04 (fifteen years ago)

haven't seen i'm not there but i suspect that's a good pick

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 12 February 2010 04:05 (fifteen years ago)

fuck you

Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 February 2010 04:06 (fifteen years ago)

well i never

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 12 February 2010 04:10 (fifteen years ago)

of the ones on here i've seen, i'm gonna go with "battle royale"

birdman mumia (J0rdan S.), Friday, 12 February 2010 04:12 (fifteen years ago)

Donnie Darko!

Your body is a spiderland (polyphonic), Friday, 12 February 2010 04:13 (fifteen years ago)

went with my heart and voted wall e

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 12 February 2010 04:13 (fifteen years ago)

The Dark Nought

Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 February 2010 04:14 (fifteen years ago)

went with my heart and voted wall e

fuck you

iatee, Friday, 12 February 2010 04:15 (fifteen years ago)

Fuck me.

queen frostine (Eric H.), Friday, 12 February 2010 04:15 (fifteen years ago)

I voted for Shaun.

queen frostine (Eric H.), Friday, 12 February 2010 04:15 (fifteen years ago)

gonna use my socks to vote for all the tarantinos

velko, Friday, 12 February 2010 04:15 (fifteen years ago)

The Dark Nought

― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, February 12, 2010 4:14 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

^^^

hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Friday, 12 February 2010 04:16 (fifteen years ago)

wait, morbs is a sock?

iatee, Friday, 12 February 2010 04:16 (fifteen years ago)

; )

velko, Friday, 12 February 2010 04:17 (fifteen years ago)

These film threads have been like the end of a Waltons episode.
"Fuck you, Eric. Fuck you, Morbs."
"Fuck you, table! Fuck you, Alfred."
"Fuck you all -- good night!"

blow it out your bad-taste hole (WmC), Friday, 12 February 2010 04:18 (fifteen years ago)

mostly been fuck you karl ;_;

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 12 February 2010 04:18 (fifteen years ago)

all of these movies are wonderful expressions of the cinematic artform will treasure them always

Lamp, Friday, 12 February 2010 04:18 (fifteen years ago)

Gays be telling each other to fuck each other.

queen frostine (Eric H.), Friday, 12 February 2010 04:19 (fifteen years ago)

These film threads have been like the end of a Waltons episode.
"Fuck you, Eric. Fuck you, Morbs."
"Fuck you, table! Fuck you, Alfred."
"Fuck you all -- good night!"

Can't wait till Thanksgiving.

Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 February 2010 04:19 (fifteen years ago)

we should just do a worst film of the decade poll - i think it would actually be interesting.

sarahel, Friday, 12 February 2010 04:20 (fifteen years ago)

Fuck you, karl! Fuck you, Lamp!

^_^

blow it out your bad-taste hole (WmC), Friday, 12 February 2010 04:20 (fifteen years ago)

What Sara said.

queen frostine (Eric H.), Friday, 12 February 2010 04:20 (fifteen years ago)

hel

queen frostine (Eric H.), Friday, 12 February 2010 04:20 (fifteen years ago)

Let's do a Worst Contributor to the ILX Film Poll.

Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 February 2010 04:21 (fifteen years ago)

sarahel = first name + middle initial + last initial

sarahel, Friday, 12 February 2010 04:22 (fifteen years ago)

then everyone would have a chance to talk about how great some movies were

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 12 February 2010 04:22 (fifteen years ago)

I don't really have any issues with any of the ones I've seen (33 of them), but I'd say that the Apatow flicks are the more head-scratchy ones in the top 50. And I thought Superbad had a bigger hype-to-quality schism than 40 Y.O. Virgin. So Superbad, even though I really don't think it's super bad. Or even bad at all, really.

SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 12 February 2010 04:25 (fifteen years ago)

of the ones on here i've seen, i'm gonna go with "battle royale"

― birdman mumia (J0rdan S.), Thursday, February 11, 2010 11:12 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

fuck you

― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Thursday, February 11, 2010 11:06 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ice cr?m, Friday, 12 February 2010 04:25 (fifteen years ago)

haha

birdman mumia (J0rdan S.), Friday, 12 February 2010 04:26 (fifteen years ago)

the answer is "the incredibles" obvs

ice cr?m, Friday, 12 February 2010 04:26 (fifteen years ago)

Let's do a Worst Contributor to the ILX Film Poll.

― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, February 11, 2010 11:21 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i know ive already got a certain doctors vote wrapped up ;)

ice cr?m, Friday, 12 February 2010 04:28 (fifteen years ago)

Let's do a Worst Contributor to the ILX Film Poll.

Will there be screencaps?

sarahel, Friday, 12 February 2010 04:29 (fifteen years ago)

wdtwctilxfpll

velko, Friday, 12 February 2010 04:30 (fifteen years ago)

Yes!

Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 February 2010 04:31 (fifteen years ago)

Ones I've seen and am not thrilled with or just don't really agree are among the 50 best movies of the decade:

The 40 Year-Old Virgin
Best In Show
Superbad
Donnie Darko
Memento
Ghost World
City of God

SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 12 February 2010 04:34 (fifteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/wdtwctilxfpll0210.jpg

blow it out your bad-taste hole (WmC), Friday, 12 February 2010 04:34 (fifteen years ago)

tie for me between pan's labyrinth and inglourious basterds

dyao, Friday, 12 February 2010 04:35 (fifteen years ago)

I didn't think anyone on that thread was totally insufferable - there was a lot of good discussion, though I could have done without so much fantasy football "what will place" "how many things on my ballot got in" type of posts, but that seems to be unavoidable with big ilx poll threads.

sarahel, Friday, 12 February 2010 04:38 (fifteen years ago)

realistically this p obv o brother w/e

Lamp, Friday, 12 February 2010 04:40 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.geekologie.com/2008/05/08/volcano-lightning-1.jpg

Lamp, Friday, 12 February 2010 04:40 (fifteen years ago)

final boss^

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 12 February 2010 04:41 (fifteen years ago)

fantasy football stuff is the best part imo

iatee, Friday, 12 February 2010 04:41 (fifteen years ago)

but I really like fantasy football

iatee, Friday, 12 February 2010 04:42 (fifteen years ago)

i prefer Juggalo jokes to fantasy football.

sarahel, Friday, 12 February 2010 04:42 (fifteen years ago)

you can get both at once if you think up a good team name

iatee, Friday, 12 February 2010 04:43 (fifteen years ago)

georgia bulljuggalos

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 12 February 2010 04:44 (fifteen years ago)

wow so many choices. initial instinct is oldboy.

call all destroyer, Friday, 12 February 2010 04:47 (fifteen years ago)

i like Big Black and Shellac and a lot of other bands he recorded, i guess he doesn't like to say 'produced.' read quite a few interviews with him and he always came off as wicked smart but really hostile.

daria-g, Wednesday, 17 February 2010 04:46 (fifteen years ago)

pretty much the impression I always got too

t(o_o)t (ENBB), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 04:47 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-sun-problem-1206-dec06,0,7873762,full.column

鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 04:49 (fifteen years ago)

Donnie Darko is clearly the Moon & Antarctica of movies

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 17 February 2010 05:08 (fifteen years ago)

This thread is very ( )

queen frostine (Eric H.), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 05:14 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

pfft

('_') (omar little), Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:04 (fifteen years ago)

1. Mulholland Drive (2000 points, 63 votes, 17 first place) 10
13. Inland Empire (696 points, 25 votes, 1 first place) 3

I know this is a case of which one more people have seen. And I actually think I sort of prefer IE to MD. But ... what.

queen frostine (Eric H.), Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:12 (fifteen years ago)

i think it being voted #1 had a lot to do with that

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:22 (fifteen years ago)

26. American Psycho (473 points, 21 votes) 0

Okay, you're all mad.

DavidM, Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:24 (fifteen years ago)

How ironic, considering Mulholland Dr. is much better than INLAND EMPIRE. As mentioned above, perhaps more people have seen MD and then gave up on Lynch.

Now, Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:39 (fifteen years ago)

it's clearly A History of Violence. overrrrrrrrrrrated sledgehammer-esque movie.

Ballistic, Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:41 (fifteen years ago)

ilxors in having shitty taste shocker

i mean, y'all voted in fucking NAPOLEON DYNAMITE

autotuna fish (Tape Store), Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:41 (fifteen years ago)

wtf is The New World doing on that list, too....

Ballistic, Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:43 (fifteen years ago)

After all vetoes and holds have been applied, I believe Grizzly Man now becomes the ILX Attrition Consensus Best Film of the 00s.

M.V., Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:44 (fifteen years ago)

hahaha if warner herzog was to direct a film bout a toys 'r us employee who has lactose intolerance half the ppl here would be like OMG MOVIE OF THE DECADE

Ballistic, Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:47 (fifteen years ago)

OMG MOVIE OF THE DECADE

(▀▄▀▄) (Lamp), Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:48 (fifteen years ago)

OMG MOVIE OF THE DECADE EXCLUDING MONTHS APRIL-DECEMBER IN NONCONSECUTIVE YEARS

Ballistic, Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:49 (fifteen years ago)

lol i knew my favorite film of decade would top this list.

Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:50 (fifteen years ago)

yea wtf lost in translation was awesome

Ballistic, Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:52 (fifteen years ago)

toys 'r us employee who has lactose intolerance is a deleted scene from ^^

nakhchivan, Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:54 (fifteen years ago)

oh whatevs man warner herzog gets free passes from everyone!!1!

Ballistic, Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:55 (fifteen years ago)

oh whatevs man warner herzog gets free passes from everyone!!1!

― Ballistic, Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:55 (33 seconds ago) Bookmark

Except, of course, for the corny narration on Encounters at the End of the World.

Now, Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:57 (fifteen years ago)

no1 understands me but my girl

(▀▄▀▄) (Lamp), Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:59 (fifteen years ago)

zombie Bill Murray will eat your braaaaaains

Man or Austro-Hungarian? (Pillbox), Thursday, 18 February 2010 01:02 (fifteen years ago)

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r272/allmotorka/I_Love_Lamp.jpg

Now, Thursday, 18 February 2010 01:04 (fifteen years ago)

want my pizza. now.

Ballistic, Thursday, 18 February 2010 01:12 (fifteen years ago)

I would just invoke radio legend Tom Scharpling's quote that QT now makes hommages "to the terrible movies he likes."

Um, but Tom actually dug Inglourious Basterds a lot, so it's kinda disingenuous to use him in this context. You being aware of anything he's said, though, leads me to believe that you must be Spike, and I claim my $5.

For the record, I voted Mulholland as my top film of the decade, and I love it unreservedly, but I can wholly and completely understand why a person might hate it. It's a batshit movie with lots of scenes that go nowhere, plus lots of the usual goofball Lynchian tropes, and it was cobbled together from a television pilot. There are lots of valid arguments against it, but I still think it's brilliant and works beautifully nonetheless.

SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 18 February 2010 01:20 (fifteen years ago)

yea but the arguments often deevolve into "it dint make sense" too quickly with that one. i just hate that it's all on one track on the dvd. i mean i respect u mr. lynch on how you want people to watch teh whole movie without skipping scenes but that also means when yer goddamn cat steps on the remote and turns off the dvd player, YOU HAVE TO FAST FORWARD FOR A GODDAMN HOUR TO GET BACK

Ballistic, Thursday, 18 February 2010 01:22 (fifteen years ago)

wants to skip to lezzing^

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 18 February 2010 01:40 (fifteen years ago)

has no cat

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 18 February 2010 01:40 (fifteen years ago)

I agree w/ the results of this poll way more than the real poll

iatee, Thursday, 18 February 2010 01:50 (fifteen years ago)

I mean...assuming that someone held (f'rinstance) Kubrick up as a sort of paragon of filmmaking, someone whose work functions like an efficient, well-oiled, logical machine with no wasted parts, I can see that person being absolutely twitterpated by the unwieldy, gut-level mess that is Lynch at even his most reigned-in. Lynch is all instinct, and I understand why that might be a turn-off to someone who values intellect more.

SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 18 February 2010 03:01 (fifteen years ago)

I still don't know how to ffwd DVDs

Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 February 2010 03:11 (fifteen years ago)

i don't like either lynch (ya heard) or kubrick (much - i respect the craft a hell of a lot, but as a matter of personal taste no, except 'dr strangelove' which rules). they seem more alike than not to me. extremely controlling.

daria-g, Thursday, 18 February 2010 03:43 (fifteen years ago)

that's a bizarre criticism to make of a filmmaker.

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 18 February 2010 03:55 (fifteen years ago)

i like plenty of 'unwieldy, gut-level mess' type films, i think i just don't find lynch's artistic fixations that interesting. his later films just feel like he's repeating the same tropes from his earlier films (all that roy orbison scene in 'MD' did was remind me of the much better one in 'blue velvet') without improving on them.

on the other hand, it's way easy to caricature/overstate kubrick's 'logical' side. 'the shining' is, in a lot of ways, a far more inexplicable and extravagantly bizarre film than 'MD', but one that engages and interests me a hell of a lot more.

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 18 February 2010 08:19 (fifteen years ago)

that's a bizarre criticism to make of a filmmaker.

would you prefer i made a mundane criticism? which kind would be appropriate? please advise

daria-g, Thursday, 18 February 2010 08:29 (fifteen years ago)

19. Adaptation (545.5 points, 27 votes) 1

fuiud

dnw (cozen), Thursday, 18 February 2010 08:30 (fifteen years ago)

calling a director extremely controlling is surely a bit of a tautology? iunno, don't have any time for kubrick myself tho hi5

dnw (cozen), Thursday, 18 February 2010 08:31 (fifteen years ago)

16. Lost in Translation (597.5 points, 28 votes) 13
1. Mulholland Drive (2000 points, 63 votes, 17 first place) 10

fuck that!

dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Thursday, 18 February 2010 13:27 (fifteen years ago)

ILXors taste of music >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> their taste of film.

dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Thursday, 18 February 2010 13:29 (fifteen years ago)

it's clearly A History of Violence. overrrrrrrrrrrated sledgehammer-esque movie.

― Ballistic, Thursday, February 18, 2010 12:41 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark

if only it were more like sledge hammer!

sharter the unstoppable ilx machine (history mayne), Thursday, 18 February 2010 13:41 (fifteen years ago)

ilx's taste in hating stuff >>> ilx's taste in liking stuff

iatee, Thursday, 18 February 2010 13:45 (fifteen years ago)

Which is why I wonder why Hitchens isn't respected more.

Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 February 2010 13:51 (fifteen years ago)

Wouldn't that fuck with ILX's poor record in liking stuff?

queen frostine (Eric H.), Thursday, 18 February 2010 14:29 (fifteen years ago)

yes! good results (except that no one voted for History of Violence) (and instead voted for Anchorman).

The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 18 February 2010 14:35 (fifteen years ago)

what is ilx's taste in being ambivalent about stuff?

sharter the unstoppable ilx machine (history mayne), Thursday, 18 February 2010 14:36 (fifteen years ago)

only alright

quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Thursday, 18 February 2010 14:39 (fifteen years ago)

Self-important pricks standing around in their berets and jodhpurs, barking orders into megaphones. There should be a word for such people.

M.V., Thursday, 18 February 2010 14:40 (fifteen years ago)


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