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87080, Thanks sponge
Posted by chief1284, Thu Mar-04-10 06:44 AM
Incredible effort and well worthwhile.

What I take exception to:

>1. No Country for Old Men (237 points, 16 votes, 2 first place
>votes)
>2. City of God (153 / 11 / 1)
>3. There Will Be Blood (143 / 13 / 0) (No)
>4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (131 / 11 / 1) (Too high)
>5. In the Mood for Love (128 / 8 / 3)
>6. Children of Men (118 / 10 / 0) (Hell, fucking no!)
>7. Pan’s Labyrinth (109 / 9 / 0)
>8. Memento (98 / 9 / 1)
>9. 25th Hour (97 / 7 / 0) (too high)
>10. Spirited Away (88 / 6 / 0)
>11. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
>(85 / 7 / 0)
>12. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (82 / 8 / 0)
>13. Wall-E (79 / 9 / 0) (no)
>14. The Dark Knight (76 / 9 / 0)
>15. The Royal Tenenbaums (74 / 8 / 0)
>16. Punch-Drunk Love (72 / 7 / 0)
>17. Zodiac (69 / 7 / 1)
>18. Yi Yi (66 / 3 / 3) (I have to watch this again, saw it like 9-10 years ago and found it boring - I was obviously too young and idiotic given its praise)
>19. 2046 (65 / 6 / 0)
>20. The Incredibles (64/ 7 / 0) (Nah)
>21. Requiem for a Dream (57 / 6 / 1)
>22. Oldboy (55 / 6 / 0)
>23. Amores perros (54 / 3 / 1)
>24. Amelie (54 / 5 / 0)
>25. The Pianist (52 / 5 / 0)
>26. The 40 Year Old Virgin (48 / 7 / 0) (Nah)
>27. Before Sunset (46 / 4 / 0)
>28. X2 (46 / 6 / 0) (No!)
>29. The Wrestler (46 / 9 / 0)
>30. Half Nelson (45 / 6 / 0; two top ten votes)
>31. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (45 / 6 / 0; one top
>ten vote)
>32. Mulholland Drive (44 / 6 / 0)
>33. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (43 / 4 / 0)
>34. The Departed (43 / 7 / 0) (no!)
>35. United 93 (41 / 5 / 0)
>36. Werckmeister Harmonies (40 / 3 / 1)
>37. Adaptation (40 / 5 / 0)
>38. Almost Famous (39 / 4 / 0) (no)
>39. Letters from Iwo Jima (39 / 5 / 0)
>40. Primer (38 / 3 / 0; 3rd and 4th on two lists)
>41. Bus 174 (38 / 3 / 0); 5th and 7th on two lists)
>42. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (38 / 5 / 0)
>43. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
>44. Cache
>45. Good Night, and Good Luck
>46. Hero (what?)
>47. Gladiator
>48. The Proposition
>49. High Fidelity
>50. Finding Nemo
>51. Traffic
>52. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (of all of them? really? was the first too early or something?)
>53. Ratatouille
>54. Batman Begins
>55. Michael Clayton (Pah? A joke)
>56. Chop Shop (Bahrani, 2007)
>57. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
>58. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (No)
>59. Brokeback Mountain
>60. Ghost World (no)

Still it turned out better overall than I expected. I'm mad The White Ribbon didn't make a mark. And A Prophet (even people probably didn't think it counted - I checked and it is 2009 officially).

Actually quite a lot of my list didn't have much impact, which is kinda frustrating, but that's how it works I suppose. There's a good 10-15 films I haven't seen off that list anyhow, so I look forward to catching up on them.