https://i.imgur.com/PRsPBBr.jpg
6. The Florida Project d: Sean Baker w: Sean Baker & Chris Bergoch 264 points, 17 votes
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:24 (five years ago) link
For awhile, yes, Alfred is right that the movie takes for granted that "these horrifying children are charming little dears" and, left-field quips aside, not remotely convincing. Eventually, it settles into truly expert "everyone has their reasons" territory -- many moments of unforced efficiency. (Am thinking of the interlude with Willem Dafoe's son, I think, saying he doesn't want to "do this anymore," and also clearly understanding why Dafoe's character feels compelled to continue. And how the sudden pattern of bathtime play interludes gently invites the audience into a new and unpleasant plot point.)And it has a knack for portraying squalor in a way that makes it clear how adults can see their environment one way and kids another way entirely. But one of the movie's most obvious but well-realized examples -- the birthday fireworks a half-mile away from the real show -- just underscored how the abrupt ending didn't fucking work. After Tangerine, which had one of my favorite endings in recent years, this was a damp squib. Even taking into consideration how it brings "reality" crashing into a 6-year-old girl's life so violently she has nowhere to turn to but desperate fantasy. But the movie's a lot stronger when it sticks to things like the tourists' helicopter endlessly taking off: exciting to kids, a slap in the face to the destitute adults.Still, I'll refrain from calling any filmmaker willing to devote serious career energies into depicting the American underclass condescending until we actually have anything remotely like an appropriate proportion of filmmakers devoting serious career energies into depicting the American underclass.― Eric H., Monday, October 23, 2017
― Eric H., Monday, October 23, 2017
Watched this a week after Happy End and thought Haneke would get the mom to go on a killing spree at the nicer hotel - I suppose that would follow Morbs' they were just a bunch of shits hot take. Me and the friend I was with thought it would be a better ending.― xyzzzz__, December 7, 2017
― xyzzzz__, December 7, 2017
oh good -- my most hated movie of 2017, yay!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:24 (five years ago) link
awful movie.. bad work ilx.
― calzino, Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:25 (five years ago) link
this is another fakeout?
― imago, Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:25 (five years ago) link
Cmbyn was my #6, but struggling to remember what I particularly liked about it. fgti's post seems completely otm.
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link
fgti's post is otm if you're viewing it as a gay movie but it's a holiday movie
― imago, Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link
<3 Florida project, screenshot speaks for itself imo
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:27 (five years ago) link
frfr
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link
even when fgti is otm in that post, he's still wrong
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:30 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/MPQoowb.jpg
5. Personal Shopper w/d: Olivier Assayas 275 points, 14 votes, 4 #1s
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
I would say this is minor but it's not not top-drawer. His movies offer such unique pleasures it's hard for me to be too objective about them. I savor/anticipate them so. The crowd I saw it with was terrible and didn't seem to enjoy or even "get" the movie. I would love for him to widen his scope a bit more next time. Stewart is a great muse though.― MFB, 20 March 2017
― MFB, 20 March 2017
<3
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
CMBYN tied in well with reading The Line Of Beauty recently too - especially that book's wonderful France segment. now there's something due a proper film treatment
― imago, Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
I feel like this came out 3 years ago and I still haven’t seen it
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
there's definitely been a poll screwup btw - money is on sic basically looking at tt and i's #1 and #2 (which were the same, in opposite order) and just disqualifying them
― imago, Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:34 (five years ago) link
I liked it, but 4 #1's?
― Chris L, Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:35 (five years ago) link
Ah jeez is Jedi in the top 5
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:36 (five years ago) link
Oh wait no I think I know the top 4
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:37 (five years ago) link
Kristen's jumpers in this are a dream. Assayas does loneliness very well.
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:37 (five years ago) link
I can't imagine one person enjoying The Florida Project that much, let alone 17.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:37 (five years ago) link
3 of the top 4 are obvious. unless PT Threaderson is 2018, in which case....???...
Florida Project is a total fakeout
― imago, Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link
surely the obvious three and the other pattinson
― devvvine, Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:40 (five years ago) link
the other pattinson IS one of the three
― imago, Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
loved PS
as for TFP There has been a 8th birthday party next door today, that never seemed to end. if only someone could have filmed it with oodles of class condescension and edited it into an unrelenting load of headache inducing shite that plays on single parent benefits scum cliches. sorry, but I hated it.
― calzino, Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
tt's votes were counted, everything above your 9 minute youtube video was disqualified on karmic grounds
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:42 (five years ago) link
personal shopper probably the high water mark for shooting people on their phones
― devvvine, Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:43 (five years ago) link
except for maybe a bride for rip van winkle
― devvvine, Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:45 (five years ago) link
hang on
― imago, Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:45 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/5zq6HXZ.jpg
4. Lady Bird w/d: Greta Gerwig 295 points, 17 votes (2 #2s)
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:46 (five years ago) link
Damn even Armond White liked this― omar little, November 20, 2017
― omar little, November 20, 2017
Chalamet is resourceful enough an actor (and Gerwig gives him the space) to remind us why we found selfish dicks hot as fuck.― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, November 20, 2017
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, November 20, 2017
Saw this tonight. I liked the last third better than the first hour--which is good, I'd rather have a film end strong. Favourite two things were the scene where Lois Smith suggested love = attention, and also Lady Bird's voiceover about driving around Sacramento (and the matching shots of her and her mom behind the wheel). I'm always moved by scenes where someone gets an acceptance letter in the mail for university--think I could name a half-dozen other good ones. And proms, I guess because I didn't go my own. I kind of wish Laurie Metcalf hadn't been given a milder version of the Mary Tyler Moore role from Ordinary People. She's just so funny on Roseanne; I missed that.― clemenza, Monday, November 20, 2017
― clemenza, Monday, November 20, 2017
my favorite screamo song of the year is the last minute or so this all-screaming version of the Lady Bird trailer
I now present to you, the Lady Bird trailer, but I scream every word... pic.twitter.com/4W0BfwTZz9— toni (@chalametweekes) January 26, 2018
― Simon H., Sunday, 28 January 2018 15:37 (five months ago)
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:51 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/TTLZiC3.jpg 3. Good Time d: The Safdie Brothers w: One Safdie Brother & Ron Bronstein 333 points, 20 votes, 1 #1
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:57 (five years ago) link
they were big fans of using the n word in college so this really feels like their moment― etaeoe, 25 August 2017 they were obsessed with the wire and one of them (b4n iirc) needed to be talked out of dressing up as omar for halloween― etaeoe, 25 August 2017 also big fans of slam poetry― etaeoe, 25 August 2017Dick Gregory said you shd never call it "the N word"― Dr Morbius, 25 August 2017
― etaeoe, 25 August 2017
they were obsessed with the wire and one of them (b4n iirc) needed to be talked out of dressing up as omar for halloween
also big fans of slam poetry
Dick Gregory said you shd never call it "the N word"
― Dr Morbius, 25 August 2017
First year when my picks + ILX's top ten almost line up
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:59 (five years ago) link
this managed to be kinetic, idiotic and sweet all at once. might not be great but it worked
― imago, Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:59 (five years ago) link
also the end is tearjerking out of nowhere
:o I'll make sure this never happens again
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 26 July 2018 22:00 (five years ago) link
i am saving my big grump-out at sic for later btw but be assured it is coming
― imago, Thursday, 26 July 2018 22:01 (five years ago) link
Did you guys vote for the dyson video or something
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Thursday, 26 July 2018 22:01 (five years ago) link
my #2, loved this
― devvvine, Thursday, 26 July 2018 22:01 (five years ago) link
no, it's that double king thing
which wouldn't have even made the poll if sic had not disqualified the two things above it ok ok i'll stop
― imago, Thursday, 26 July 2018 22:02 (five years ago) link
I voted for that lawn chairs thing
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 26 July 2018 22:02 (five years ago) link
True story I got good time Berlin syndrome and Detroit from the library and I didn’t watch Detroit because I was already too tense from the other two
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Thursday, 26 July 2018 22:03 (five years ago) link
The only other safdie film I’ve seen is the pleasure of being robbed which also follows a charismatic sociopath who takes advantage of ppl’s better nature, but it’s nicer and less thrilling
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Thursday, 26 July 2018 22:06 (five years ago) link
came out of Good Time in a daze and as soon as i got on the tube a guy next to me started throwing up in his backpack, felt very on theme
― devvvine, Thursday, 26 July 2018 22:06 (five years ago) link
lol
― imago, Thursday, 26 July 2018 22:06 (five years ago) link
what's the lawn chairs thing?
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 26 July 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link
I can't find it, but it was one of those endless polls about best lawn chairs from a guy's collection as displayed on Youtube. It had more charm and intrigue than many films
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 26 July 2018 22:21 (five years ago) link
I am still holding out that this will be The Last Jedi rather than Phantom Thread.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 26 July 2018 22:23 (five years ago) link