best films of the 21st century

ILX would have more genre films. In my sci-fi wheelhouse I think Moon and Ex Machina would find a place, maybe even Perfect Sense and Upstream Color.

xps to get further into author insertion list fanfic, if I were voting in this and allowing myself only one lynch, I'd pick inland empire because I think it's better and also because md's place at the top is obv pretty secure

The ILX list would have Stray Dogs on it. But yeah, it would also have a lot of boring stuff.

fwiw here are some films from the past 16–17 years that mean a lot to me:

Goodbye to Language
Exiled
Platform
A History of Violence
Spirited Away
Our Beloved Month of August
35 Shots of Rum
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
In the City of Sylvia
AI: Artificial Intelligence
Holy Motors
The Holy Girl
Moonrise Kingdom
Inland Empire
Gravity
Melancholia
Ratatouille
Inglourious Basterds
No Country for Old Men
Hukkle
The Iron Ministry

and lots more. ah, never mind, i can't do this.

Glad to see 12 people included Synecdoche, New York in their lists. Easily the best film of the millennium so far.

synecdoche kinda the neutral milk hotel of movies for me. i get why people like it so much but.......yeah, not for me.

or maybe it's the house of leaves of movies....

fwiw here are some films from the past 16–17 years that mean a lot to me:

Goodbye to Language
Exiled
Platform
A History of Violence
Spirited Away
Our Beloved Month of August
35 Shots of Rum
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
In the City of Sylvia
AI: Artificial Intelligence
Holy Motors
The Holy Girl
Moonrise Kingdom
Inland Empire
Gravity
Melancholia
Ratatouille
Inglourious Basterds
No Country for Old Men
Hukkle
The Iron Ministry

― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 25 August 2016 16:28 (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wtf

no kung fu for old men

Ah jaysus this guy

what about kung fu panda

I'm not hating Wall-E, but it's incredibly smug about lol fat americans, and the romancing-the-unconscious is pretty gross. Compared with the other Pixar', it's a very odd choice (particularly at 29! 67 places above Finding Nemo, 64 above Rataouille)

yeah, the second half of wall-e sucked a bunch. i thought ILX hated the whole DO YOU SEE? approach across the board.

Yeah. First half is magic but overall it's a long way short of boxtrolls

I don't mind WALL-E but I've no interest in watching it again whereas I love Ratatouille.

Yeah I never want to go too far down the road of complaining that a film for children is dumb and obvious but in the context of more than one adult professional film critic deciding it's one of the ten best films of the last 1.5 decades I'll happily add my voice to the chorus of ppl saying that wall e goes to shit once it leaves the deserted planet and gets into the trenchant consumerism stuff

wall-e is a decent attempt

we need more cartoons shaming our societies like in the olden days

Cartoons where characters literally go to hell

ctrl + f + Crash = zero votes = A+

xp

bit derivative but might work

No I was saying that that happens in cartoons from the olden days

oh ya like a modern version of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mXSNg3MeaA

I thought inside out was a better message movie, basically a film version of those facebook comics explaining how you shouldn't behave around depressed people

only possible animated choice in my Century 10 wd be Fantastic Mr Fox

Toy Story 3 is better than all the Pixar films on this list

xpost Guess that means you never got around to seeing Angry Birds.

i do actually think finding nemo is some sort of masterpiece. it's movie magic! and heck the new one isn't that far behind.

i liked ratatouille a bunch too. and boxtrolls.

Fox best, if it's animated. Otherwise....tangled

Spirited Away and Kaguya would be animated contenders for me.

Best non-animated animated: enchanted

Irked by politics of a bunch of later Pixars, Nemo and Monsters Inc are my unadulterated faves

Spirited Away better than all of them, cliche or not

Worst non-animated animated film: There Will Be Blood

Shaun The Sheep is legit brilliant fyi

I remember reading a very hyperbolic 5* P Bradshaw review of There Will Be Blood at the time, and I knew it was going to be shite.

hahaha

I definitely think it's not all that. The Master much better in retrospect

And IV!

ctrl + f + Crash = zero votes = A+

I think TWBB is v entertaining, it's the claims of depth that are silly. Kinda like yr Godfathers maybe?

I think Bradshaw described it as a "new type of movie-making" or some bs like that. I think his nonsense review poisoned me against it.

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007)
I haven't seen this one yet and have no memory of it being a Palm d'Or winner. I think his follow up movie Tales From The Golden Age was a classic, it is an anthology movie of urban myths from the Ceaucescu era. In fact, looking at his biog - I definitely need to see all the other Cristian Mungiu movies.

there will be blood is no boom town.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz_WhBN96jY

I think talking about "depth" is often a waste of time but TWBB's problem almost seems to be that it's so stylish and formally dramatic but the story/characters come across a little flat for me, as if they are illustrations of a type and not people. (granted I can probably now think of movies that do this that I like but whatever)

I gather it's part of the point of the movie--these characters could be transported to a von stroheim silent movie--but it feels academic in a bad way.

that director is all hat.

It is the feeling that it is straining to be some stilted idea of what a "great Movie" is that totally does my head in.

^^ Yep.

It also has the oddest structure: foreshortened. Just when it's developing we get the stupid milkshake scene.

but 70 mm duuuuuuude.....

i did like punch-drunk love. the only one of his i really liked. i didn't see the pynchon one though. it looked like a headache.