Our Top 10's of 2001 -- Time To Throw Down - Page 6

Tino · 02-09-2002, 11:10 PM

I'll start with my top 5, and add the last 5 very soon.

1. A.I Artificial Intelligence
2. Amelie
3. Moulin Rouge
4. Memento
5. Mulholland Drive

Still have to sort out the order of A Beautiful Mind, Fellowship Of The Ring, The Deep End, Black Hawk Down, The Man Who Wasn't There, The Others, The Royal Tenenbaums and perhaps a few others, including maybe Monsters Ball which I will be seeing this week.

Seth Paxton · 02-10-2002, 03:34 AM

Cripes, we have to drag Tino and Edwin kicking and screaming to a top 10 list.

I know it's hard to think in terms of lists, I know there are things you'd still like to see before making it final, but cripes a few people just added their top 10's for 2000 so maybe you guys could see fit to getting a "temporary" 10 together at least, we'll allow you to modify it later.

:p)

Seth Paxton · 02-10-2002, 10:38 PM

Here's the update just before the Oscar noms are announced:

376 Memento
290 FOTR
271 Moulin Rouge
239 A.I.
205 Muholland Drive

187 Amelie
178 Royal Tenenbaums
106 The Man Who Wasn't There
104 In the Bedroom
103 Black Hawk Down

Top 10 appearances

46 Memento
43 Moulin Rouge
41 FOTR
32 A.I.
31 Royal Tenenbaums

27 Amelie
26 Muholland Drive
20 Man Who Wasn't There
19 Beautiful Mind
19 Ghost World
19 In the Bedroom

Top 10 Average vote (10=1st 6=5th 1=10th)

8.2 Memento
7.9 Muholland Drive
7.5 A.I.
7.1 FOTR
7.0 In the Mood For Love

6.9 Amelie
6.3 Moulin Rouge
6.1 Black Hawk Down
6.1 Apoc. Now: Redux
6.0 Waking Life

So if Tuesday we don't see Memento as a nominee for Best Picture you can reflect on what a tragedy it is for that film. At least A.I. was considered flawed by many people and Muholland Drive is flat out weird.

The sudden slip of Amelie off the Best Pix radar is also disturbing.

BTW, Monsters Ball is just starting to make some lists since it's such a late wide release (25th overall in points right now).

DavidJ · 02-10-2002, 11:12 PM

1. A Beautiful Mind
2. Man Who Wasn't There
3. Memento
4. Black Hawk Down
5. FOTR
6. The Royal Tenebaums
7. Shrek
8. Ocean's 11
9. Harry Potter
10. Monster's Inc.

Gosford Park should probably be in the top ten because is an example of wonderful acting and brilliant, artistic and technically superb craft. I just didn't enjoy it that much.

Worst of 2001

Final Fantasy
Planet of the Apes
Pearl Harbor (Probably would not be in my worst list, if it had another name. Call me silly, but if a movie is called Pearl Harbor then I believe one should be able to learn something about the event by seeing it. Think of all the poor kids who don't know any better and all their knowledge of the attack will come from this movie)
Driven
Sexy Beast

Edwin Pereyra · 02-10-2002, 11:26 PM

I have managed to make only two posts in this thread - my official Top 10 list and this, my one and only update. My official list is now up for the very first time just hours before the official Oscar nominations are announced. You will find it in my sig file below.

2001 was a great year at the cinema. I'm looking forward to 2002.

~Edwin

JohnS · 02-11-2002, 04:47 AM

[font=]I AGAIN, have changed my top 10 due to seeing Monster's Ball[/font]

Joel Turpin · 02-11-2002, 12:57 PM

Just went in to edit my list on page four. Moulin Rouge comes in at number 5, knocking From Hell out of the top 10.

Just want to mention again, looking back, what a great year for movies it turned out to be. There are still a number of releases which I have yet to see (Gosford Park, In the Bedroom, etc) which I'm fully expecting to be very good. Yet, I'm completely happy with my top ten, and would have no qualms about submitting it as a list of the year's best. This from a year which started slow, then went downhill for a bit.

Of course, I've avoided most of the overtly obvious stinkers (Tomcats, Freddie, etc.)

Joel

Seth Paxton · 02-11-2002, 11:23 PM

Okay, thanks to 4 people coming in after the film started

, I went back and altered my last post to reflect these new lists or changes to lists (based on last 4 posts in this thread).

So ABM fell out of the top 10 in points and Amores Perros fell out of the top 10 in average place.

Memento's lead is bigger than ever.

Mark Pfeiffer · 02-12-2002, 12:31 PM

At Seth's behest, I'm finally posting my list. It's about as final as it's going to get, although there is a film or two that I'd still like to see (Lantana for one). Placement isn't completely final, but it may end up staying this way. (Honorable mentions are less ordered despite being numbered.) So, with no further ado...

1. Mulholland Drive
2. The Royal Tenenbaums
3. Waking Life
4. Amelie
5. Moulin Rouge
6. Ghost World
7. Monster's Ball
8. A Beautiful Mind
9. Black Hawk Down
10. In the Bedroom

Honorable Mention

11. Panic
12. In the Mood for Love
13. Under the Sand
14. Sexy Beast
15. A.I.
16. Lost and Delirious
17. The Dish
18. Memento
19. Donnie Darko
20. The Deep End

Special Mention

Maryam--a wonderful film I saw at Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival. It follows an Iranian-born, American-raised teenage girl as she struggles with the Iran hostage crisis. The kind of smart and affecting teenage movie that rarely gets made or seen. Scheduled to be more or less self-distributed this year.

Apocalypse Now Redux--a hugely ambitious and messy film that dazzles.

Seth Paxton · 02-12-2002, 12:34 PM

Thanks Mark (despite your FOTR diss

)

I'm going to go back and again edit my last listing post to reflect this added list rather than repost this week's totals.