if you look at the online top 100 movies of the 21st century it seems to always be up there so its interesting to see it so low on here. I have either never seen it or have seen it and it wasn't memorable to me.
Our system isn't perfect, but I think it's fun because I usually agree on movies with 80s, and when I don't I at least appreciate the opinions and passions. It being this low only means it was on one of our lists, and on the lower end. This time it was mine, and I had it at #88. I'm not sure if he has seen it or not, or maybe didn't like it like Krista. It is not a movie I revisit all the time, but it was a key movie in generating an interest in watching more and more foreign language movies. If I have 13-15 foreign movies on my list, it feels right to me that it's #12 or so. We didn't combine and decide together on our 164 movies. We each did a list of 100, had 36 the same, which instead of 200 movies total gave us the 164 for the countdown.
I watched a lot of movies in HS and college, but my taste was a bit different and not a lot of variety. I basically refused to watch a foreign language movie around that time as well. When I bought the video store, I took the stance that I probably should try to branch out and watch different stuff so I could recommend movies to whoever came in the doors, and the old guy we bought it from had a small section of decent foreign movies. The one that really triggered my passion for foreign language movies is way up the list and is my highest ranked foreign language movie because of that door it opened. One of the next ones was Audition (no spoilers, that was a 90s movie). That blew my mind and opened the flood gates to expand into foreign horror movies. Y Tu is similar in that it was an early one that really stuck with me, but it's not one I revisit like I do others.
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