View Poll Results: What was the best film of 2000?
American Psycho
13
7.51%
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
6
3.47%
Gladiator
23
13.29%
In the Mood for Love
11
6.36%
Memento
43
24.86%
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
16
9.25%
Requiem for a Dream
27
15.61%
Traffic
8
4.62%
Werckmeister Harmonies
2
1.16%
Other-please specify
24
13.87%
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Best film of 2000
07-05-08, 10:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Arpeggi
In the Mood for Love and it's not even close.
at the love for Gladiator. I liked it better when it was called Braveheart.
07-06-08, 08:26 AM
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Originally Posted by NoirFan
Well, that's two of us who voted for it.
07-06-08, 08:05 PM
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Originally Posted by wendersfan
I'm betting that we're also the two people who voted in this poll who saw it.
I have it in my top 5 of the 2000's but no way it is better than In the Mood for Love.
07-07-08, 01:46 PM
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Wow lot of choices....
I loved High Fidelity, American Psycho, Traffic, O Brother Where Art Thou, and Memento.
I have probably seen each at least 20 times as well...so this choice is not easy. But High Fidelity takes the cake followed closely by Memento.
I loved High Fidelity, American Psycho, Traffic, O Brother Where Art Thou, and Memento.
I have probably seen each at least 20 times as well...so this choice is not easy. But High Fidelity takes the cake followed closely by Memento.
07-08-08, 07:27 AM
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Originally Posted by wendersfan
I'm betting that we're also the two people who voted in this poll who saw it.
07-14-08, 12:04 AM
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Originally Posted by PopcornTreeCt
Mine's still in my unwatched pile. One of these days...
07-14-08, 01:00 AM
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I'm going to reiterate my previous criticism : nobody should be voting for Memento. Not because it isn't great (I think it's fantastic), but rather because unless you went to the Venice Film Festival that year, or some of the other independent film festivals, you didn't SEE it in 2000. After being shopped unsuccessfully at several film festivals in late 2000, the movie ended up getting self released by Newmark in early 2001 since no US distributor could be found. The movie premiered March 16, 2001 and ended up on many critics' 10 best list for that year (2001). It was also up for two Oscars that year (including Best Original Screenplay which I never understood since it's an adaptation of a short story by Nolan's brother). There's no reason to included it in this list except that IMBD lists it as a 2000 film. It really isn't, not in the way we normally consider a movie's release date.
Bottom line : If you consider Casablanca a 1943 film (everyone does, it won the Oscar for best picture of that year even though it premiered in New York in Nov. 1942), then you HAVE to consider Memento a 2001 film.
Bottom line : If you consider Casablanca a 1943 film (everyone does, it won the Oscar for best picture of that year even though it premiered in New York in Nov. 1942), then you HAVE to consider Memento a 2001 film.
Last edited by Decker; 07-14-08 at 01:46 AM.