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

I usually hate Ben Foster's mannered twitching, but he suppressed that here.

ir's McKenzie's movie, she kindly lets Foster stay onscreen with her sometimes

Apart from one overly heartwarming scene of singing around the campfire near the end, I thought the script did an admirable job of addressing the problems its characters were coping with. It condensed without oversimplification, told a coherent story, and portrayed characters you could believe in. As a bonus, it was a film very much about violence, where the physical violence was both ever-present and unimaginably remote. Impressive.

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12. Hereditary
w/d: Ari Aster
US 2018 digital 2.8K
250 points, 10 votes

idk, i still think it's a metaphor -- it was comforting to movie viewers to know [spoiler about the certain point] because it got them through the harrowing nature of the situation, but i don't think of it as "a story" as much as a distillation of the horrors of heredity, which we all grapple with to some degree
i certainly felt massive lingering horror as i looked at boxes of personal/family ephemera the morning after i saw it

like A Quiet Place was family-centered horror of a narrow scope with one family and clear monsters; Hereditary seemed to be a more all-encompassing look at the horror of family and things that are hereditary

...or just a witch story with bonus family horror content
whichever you prefer

― La Lechera, Sunday, 10 June 2018

I loved this, especially the Oscar-winning performance from Collette

fantastic film

this was an excellent horror movie to read the plot of on Wikipedia. A classic of the genre of someone transcribing the events of the film in such a way that they seem to succeed one another with no cause and effect whatsoever.

hereditary still pops up in my mind, particularly when i'm home alone at night and can't be bothered to turn on a light to move around the house and see out of the corner of my eye what appears to be a fat naked man smiling at me

also the only film i've been in which a CLUCK caused an entire audience to scream

I've dulled on it now but yay on Collette.

nope, didn't see any horror this year

I guess John Krasinski's appears soon

I’ve heard this does what it does quite well, but it just sounded too yucky for me.

incredible film

I’m the fat naked man

figured someone was going to volunteer to be

I guess John Krasinski's appears soon

lol no

Mandy might

Mandy will

Top 13 will be all Marvel and Star Wars movies I assume

Or just #1

Hereditary thread: It's a mystery to me how that man gets any work

Mandy? the Cage cult around here is tragic

I haven't seen it yet and don't care about Cage but Cosmatos is an interesting director. was thinking of watching it tonight honestly

Morbs, that's a beautiful strawman you've constructed, but there is no Cage cult around here because Cage makes mostly hot trash, but you're doing yourself a grave disservice rn dismissing Mandy so blithely.

It’s hardly as though everyone’s voting for the humanity bureau

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11. The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs
w/d: Joel & Ethan Coen b: v/a
US 2018 digital 2.8K
252 points, 10 votes, 1 #1

It’s absolutely terrible. Like a joke they decided to play on Netflix.

― Chris L, Saturday, November 17, 2018

I kind of loved it

― Simon H, Saturday, November 17, 2018

what does that mean?

you're too smart to make a post like that, Simon.

― jed, Saturday, November 17, 2018

I'm through the first three tales right now and will resume later this weekend, but I... love it too?

I'm dumb I guess.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, November 17, 2018

this is brilliant. get fucked, ilx

― Michael B, Monday, November 19, 2018

Need to finish watching this

Assumed this wasn't going to place at this point. My #1.

I extended my ballot, had it around #16? Glad it outpointed some horror movie (it has quite a few horrors).

"First time?"

Great line. Temporarily redeemed Franco (as an actor) for me.

with Tom Waits as Walter Huston

I'd put Waits just behind Regina Hall and Ethan Hawke on my list of performances of the year.

wins, start again from the beginning. The cumulative effect of the stories is essential.

Absolutely. This works as a piece, no matter what anyone says.

alternatively, finish where you left off but then watch again

I'm grateful the sedateness of this rollout thread means we're not getting tons of top 10 predictions rn.

six of my votes are locks but i'm intrigued as to what the other four are

I was enjoying it but was legit interrupted. If it had a theatrical release I would definitely have watched it in full months ago ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Top 10'ers on my ballot that have already shown up:

24 Frames (Abbas Kiarostami)
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (RaMell Ross)
Monrovia, Indiana (Frederick Wiseman)
BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee)
Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski)

I think three of the remaining five are locks.

there is a small chance that my entire ballot will end up placing. i have seven unaccounted for. let's see if i've dilettanted myself to the centre of the hivemind

4 of my top 10 have placed, Blackkklansman, Other Side of the Wind, First Man and Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Certain three more will place and likely a fourth too.

thanks to you, the deeper viewers, more than any other year I really want to see basically everything that's placed. won't be short of recommendations for a good while

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10. Sorry To Bother You
w/d: Boots Riley
US 2018 digital 2.8K
270 points, 10 votes

agreed about the shonky world-building (it is really hard to connect a world with Worry Free to a world with 2018-style labor struggles in a telemarketing office - wouldn't they just fire everybody and replace them with Worry Free? if this company is also in the kind of business we ultimately see upstairs, why would it even care about the normal telemarketing downstairs?). would add as a gripe that the gender politics are pathetic --- it fails the bechdel test outright, and the detroit-squeeze pairing raises shades of "male character loses sexual fidelity of woman, marking his low point." (also distracting given what we've been told about squeeze's sex life, in the film's worst and most tonally off joke.) buttttttttttttttttt i am glad this movie exists. the good kind of shaggy and unfocused i'd say. putting tons of stuff on the table. new metaphors and images that people are hungry for, for a bunch of different pressing issues. big, bold, eager. i wish i'd had this to chew on as a high school junior instead of just bulworth and wag the dog.

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, July 17, 2018

another promising movie derailed by America's obsession with race

The directorial debut of the year, no?

I expect a little mess with directorial debuts.

xps lol that's not what that thread's called