Re: The MoFo Millenium Top 100
If LotR counts as one I would say Kill Bill would also. That may be an arguement against it though. It becomes "where do you draw the line?"
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Originally Posted by Sexy Celebrity (Post 785006)
1. Ghost World
2. Adaptation 3. Kill Bill (can both volumes count as one movie?) 4. The Town 5. Black Swan 6. Brothers 7. No Country for Old Men 8. Brokeback Mountain 9. Observe & Report 10. Little Miss Sunshine 11. Cloverfield 12. The Dark Knight 13. Synecdoche, New York 14. Superbad 15. Source Code 16. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 17. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events 18. Spiderman 2 19. Signs 20. The Matrix Reloaded 21. Bruno 22. Precious 23. Up 24. Wonder Boys 25. The Help I didn't know you were so fond of Ghost World. Excellent movie. Just rewatched it the other day in fact. Not sure if it'll make my top 25 though. |
Re: The MoFo Millenium Top 100
I like Joaquin, but I'm a Jake Gyllenhaal man. And Up is largely boring, but it manages to have some strong parts. Some of the films I listed I'm not even totally sure about (Lemony Snicket, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) -- I know I've seen them a lot and I have good memories of them, but it's been years since I saw them.
Ghost World, to me, is the millenium. I would love for it to win, but I'm pretty sure it won't. |
Re: The MoFo Millenium Top 100
Kill Bill was one film split into two, whereas the Rings are three seperate films which tell one story. Kill Bill could be one choice, but the Rings should one each.
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Re: The MoFo Millenium Top 100
Personally, I'd say we should be separating movies in a series. It really does end up being a question of where you can draw the line.
I mean, I happen to much prefer the first Kill Bill over the second, and I'd prefer to differentiate the two. Just an example. |
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i'm looking forward to this, but gosh, we have to wait six months? what if this thread gets lost in the shuffle between now and then and some of the regs who haven't been around lately (Caitlyn, Destiny, etc) miss it?
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Re: The MoFo Millenium Top 100
On the subject of film series: I think it's fine to lump them all together (provided that all films in the series were released during or after 2000) or to list them individually. However, I think a decision needs to be made one way or the other and be applied to all film series, not just a select few. Otherwise I think it could make voting for and arranging the list rather confusing.
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in case anyone wanted an official 'best of' list as a starting point of what they haven't seen, here's IMDB's Top 50 movies of the 00's (that's 2000-2009, specifically), for starters.
IMDB'S Best "2000s" Titles |
Re: The MoFo Millenium Top 100
Oh yeah, for some reason I thought Fight Club was released later than that.
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Re: The MoFo Millenium Top 100
Mulholland Drive wins or I leave.
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Originally Posted by MadMikeyD (Post 785007)
If LotR counts as one I would say Kill Bill would also. That may be an arguement against it though. It becomes "where do you draw the line?"
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You gotta pick each film separately, not lump a series or trilogy or even a duo together. If you want to list all three LOTR movies, more power to you, but one at a time. You like Harry Potter? Great, there are eight potential slots for you.
Turned in my list: two Lars von Triers, two David Finchers, three scripted by Charlie Kaufman, and seven that primarily use a language other than English. And Sexy and I only have four overlaps. |
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Shouldnt we all post our lists on some other thread? i dont want to wait till July before the mystery is revealed.
Originally Posted by Holden Pike (Post 785056)
and seven that primarily use a language other than English. |
Re: The MoFo Millenium Top 100
My argument on LOTR being lumped together is twofold. Ya'll can tell me what you think:
1) It was filmed as one and only released separately. It is one "production," which sets it apart from, say, the Harry Potter series. 2) The point of these lists is to produce an accurate representation of what people think of the films of this decade. Splitting LOTR up will almost certainly lead to it being lower than is truly indicative of how beloved it is by most of us. And indicating how beloved the films on this list are is the entire point. I think that second point is really all that matters. Which will place it in a ranking more in line with how much most of us like it: by splitting its vote, or consolidating it? Seems like it'd definitely be the latter. And I think the first point provides us with a good way of drawing the line. |
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I can agree with Lord of the Rings being counted as one entity. However, I think the same argument then applies also to Kill Bill and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, since it's my understanding they were also filmed as one but split up for release. Those three would be all I can think it can be applied to, though. Of course there may be others I'm not aware of, and if there are, it certainly diminishes the argument.
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Re: The MoFo Millenium Top 100
Yeah, I'd agree about those other two examples, as well.
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I've sent mine in. 9 non-English movies, and 5-6 more British or international English-language productions. 2 that I've seen for the first time in the last 6 months. The bottom 5 or so were all surprises to me and might have changed several times between now and the deadline. 7 are on my top-100 (+12) of all time, and a few others will likely be added to it eventually.
I have 4 overlaps with Holden's Top 25 of 2000-2009 with a couple others that almost made mine. No overlaps with Sexy Celebrity but he also has 2 or 3 that I almost picked. |
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Frankly, I don't rate all three of the LOTR films equally. I think Fellowship is superior to the other two, and I would have The Two Towers down much further than the first and third installments. So by averaging them together and combining them as one, you're also disallowing geeks to, well...be geeks. I think it's much more interesting to find out, at least among the MoFo contingent, which of the three is The Empire Strikes Back, to see if there is one true film that places above the others.
And perhaps mostly, it just feels like a way to cheat and get two extra slots. I say if you love all three parts of LOTR, use three precious places on your list. And yes, "precious" was intentional. :D |
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I guess it comes down to what you feel the list is "for," then: is it "for" the process of submitting our entries (hence the emphasis on slots as a precious commodity), or is it "for" the creation of a list that best summarizes the best films of the decade? For me, it's the latter, so that's why I prefer combining them. If someone else thinks it's more about the former, then it makes sense that they'd rather break them up.
Obviously, it's not my game and not my call. That's how I'd roll if it was, but whatever's decided, I'll naturally go with. |
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I say don't waste a slot on something you know will never win. If the film is really, really, really that important to you, maybe, but if it's something you know nobody else is gonna vote for and you can live without including it -- ditch the bitch.
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