I Just Wanted To Take Another Look At You - the 2018 ILX Film Poll Results Thread

A Bear Film Wes Anderson Rip
- Chris L, Thursday, 26 July 2018

I gotta retract this, actually. All the production photos made it look annoyingly beholden to Anderson but my wife got me to watch it and I enjoyed it. It might not exist without that aesthetic but it was charming enough I was able to put it out of my mind.

Still have no idea what people saw in that nothing of a movie. Regina King is a good actress but she had nothing to work with, utterly unremarkable... I didn't dislike it but don't understand the praise at all.

I gotta retract this, actually

ha ha, glad / sorry I pulled it

https://i.imgur.com/v2FWOqj.jpg

21. Madeline's Madeline
w/d: Josephine Decker
US 2018 digital
168 points, 7 votes, 1 #1

Madeline's Madeline? Holy shit! Stunningly great, great images, great ideas, great rhythm to it all. Loved the use of Caroline Shaw.

There's just nobody else around delving into these aspects of performativity and empathetic storytelling the way she does.

― Frederik B, Monday, October 1, 2018

Wanna see, but not on any of my streaming services yet.

Morbs called it “diverting”, or something like that

My choice for Worst Film!

Can't get over that title

with morbs on this one

I'm sure thousands of worse films were made, but not that i saw.

My #1 and possibly the best movie I’ve ever seen though I’ve not seen very many relatively speaking.

made me certain bresson had the right idea re actors

mad's mad is on us amazon prime

Molly Parker is good, and she was terrible in this

I understand casting Miranda July as an annoying mom, but not one who kids would've murdered as soon as they could walk

it's on Kanopy too

I didn't have any expectations going into this, and thought it was unique and surprisingly moving in the end. Voted for it

https://i.imgur.com/3s8m9Bs.jpg

20. Annihilation
w/d: Alex Garland b: Jeff VanderMeer
UK 2018 digital 8K, digital 6K
182 points, 8 votes, 1 #1

I don't necessarily expect that much from the Garland adaptation of Annihilation, but I am interested to see how he handles the Biologist's perspective and some of the moments in which visuality seems to break down (like the encounters with the Crawler).

― one way street, Monday, April 27, 2015

this was pretty good. I think it might be an unfilmable book, though. too bad all of the creeper stuff was removed, and the mind control stuff taken out. I kept expecting JJL's character to snap her fingers and say a code-word. otherwise, what was her motivation? hand-wave, hand-wave terminal illness? my biggest overall complaint is that the psychedelia after the floaty alien thing (which was way cool) was droney and overlong. the homunculus was overdone, and the burning went on too long, and the plot could've been served better by more spacing at the beginning of the picture. oh well. maybe extended edition will have more of the initial disorientation stuff. it could also have less of Natalie Portman's back mid-affair.

― remy, Monday, March 12, 2018

At least we got mad's mad out of the way.

I don't often care for this sort of sci-fi, but it was well done.

gtfo this film was garbage

This feels like it came out forever ago. I thought the idea of "the shimmer" was interesting (and some of the fungal visuals were effectively icky) but Portman's backstory was underdeveloped, and the 2001 head-trip conclusion was a cop-out.

I'm struggling to even remember what this was about

Saw it a few weeks ago and it had an idea or two that never came off. xps

I supported the Girls.

I'm struggling to even remember what this was about

ripping off the Thing (and Solaris), mostly

some of the movies in this rundown tonight need running down!

At this point I'm guessing 3 of my votes didn't make the top 50 but if any of those three are in the top 20 I'll be pretty pleased

spoilers for silby only: lbh jrer gur bayl crefba gb ibgr sbe guerr bs lbhe pubvprf

a few that i've seen today. i watched annihilation on an airplane screen on a groggy flight, which was probably not the ideal state for the film, but i wish it leaned in a bit more into the existential horror. the scene with the screaming bear was by far the most effective in the movie, though i appreciated the balletic choreography of portman's final showdown.

support the girls was very good! i agree with whoever said it suffered in the last third (and whenever regina hall wasn't on screen).

pretty sure I know which three! I look forward to yelling about them later. xp

https://i.imgur.com/BU9ThCB.jpg

19. Roma
w/d: Alfonso Cuarón
MX 2018 digital 6.5K
186 points, 7 votes, 1 #1

A terrible disappointment, an example of nostalgia porn. No reason to be black and white, no reason to make the maid a poor, wronged creature. Yet it's going to clean up year end.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, November 15, 2018

I liked this. I think it's always kind of hard when someone makes more popular commercial movies and then makes something self-consciously arty. It can feel like an act of imposture. There's a nice myth that arty directors make arty movies because that's the only kind they can make, because that's who they are. We are resistant to the idea that "serious" is just another genre. Especially when someone pulls out all the obvious signifiers: like black-and-white, lack of soundtrack, slow-pacing, long takes, etc. There's something a bit too eager to please, a bit too A-student, about it. On the other hand, it is "just" another genre, but so what. I guess I would have had a lot fewer hurdles to get over if this was made by some European director I'd never heard of before. But none of that really matters. It's hard not to notice that this movie is pretty interesting to look at. The story is fairly simple and affecting. You could summarize pretty much all the plot in a few sentences. But it's mostly everything that would be left out of those few sentences that makes this a good movie.

― o. nate, Sunday, February 3, 2019

Worst part of my movie year was realizing, maybe a third or a half of the way through this one, that I agreed with Alfred.

avoided these last two

I'm also in Alfred's corner on this one. The B&W photography didn't even look good.

Worst part of my movie year was realizing, maybe a third or a half of the way through this one, that I agreed with Alfred.

― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Wednesday, June 26, 2019 3:14 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

avoided these last two

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius),

Lovely juxtaposition

How nice for you, how nice for Morbs, how nice for everybody.

haha i was comin back to do that joke

no reason to make the maid a poor, wronged creature

damn this story about alfonso cuarón's memories of his actual upbringing wasn't suffienctly manipulated to be woke

i love Alfred and Eric more than... Josephine Decker

it wasn't sufficiently manipulated to be art; if he's got memories to share and no way to make'em compelling, keep them in a scrapbook

xp Not surprising. Josephine Decker doesn't know who Alfred or I even are.

pretty sure Cuaron's real life maid was more fascinating (even when wronged) than what we see onscreen

that's what she says xp

INTERIOR: LIVING ROOM

Sofía: Cleo, can you clean up the dog shit in the garage?

Cleo: Yes, señora

CLEO LEAVES ROOM WITH BUCKET AND MOP

Sofía: Cleo, before you go out there, do you like the blue dress or the yellow dress for tonight's party?

Cleo: Señora, I'm afraid that is unpaid emotional labor.

Sofi: Slay.

TWENTY MINUTES OF MOPPING CLOSE-UPS TO RACHEL PLATTEN'S "FIGHT SONG"

would watch

Same!

Roma is my Number One, I loved it, but I'm a middle brow noob