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

hey now that everyone is looking at this thread should I see a revival of It's a Gift tonight or watch the debate

W.C. Fields >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> American politics

Feel very out of step w/ this poll - loved Roma, didn't like Buster Scruggs or First Reformed (which I'm guessing will place v high) much at all, both of which to my mind failed as horror films - give me Dr Terrors House of Horrors or Amityville Horror 2: The Possession over either of them.

elsie fisher was incredible and her relationship with her dad was sweet. appreciated the movie but the rush of pre-teen anxiety that came back to me while watching probably ensures that i don't watch again.

both of which to my mind failed as horror films

you thought Buster Scruggs and First Reformed were horror films? ok

he's referring to citation upthread of horrors within Scruggs. two of the six are horror stories tbf

lol that's a veerrrrry big stretch imo

as a directorial debut, this placing over Boots Riley's is kinda laughable

the points are not that far apart! and they're doing very different things as directors - Burnham is creating a space for Fisher to deliver a startlingly open, emotional performance. Riley is taking loads of elements of the modern capitalist world, reducing and focusing them, collaging a heightened vision out of them like a sample-based track.

we'll talk about FR when it wins this thing but it's only horror insofar as our lives are horror [/trite]

i didn't mean they were horror genrewise (thank Christ)

lol that's a veerrrrry big stretch imo

both Meal Ticket and The Mortal Remains would fit in any pre-1960 prose horror anthology without you blinking an eye

lol I see what you did there

"if we use this completely outdated genre definition that p much nobody references anymore, it fits right in!"

i didn't mean they were horror genrewise (thank Christ)

also yeah I suspected as much

I'll wait for Ward to explain himself, maybe that post was just garbled and he was referring to Hereditary and Mandy

"if we use this completely outdated genre definition that p much nobody references anymore, it fits right in!"

it fits for when the film is set / the source material for the adaptations were published. I don't know that there's any other genre that better fits Mortal Remains in 2018 either!

although we shouldn't dwell on darkness

https://i.imgur.com/XJFRf4q.jpg

8. Un beau soleil intérieur [Let The Sunshine In]
d: Claire Denis w: Claire Denis, Christine Agnot
FR 2017 digital
278 points, 11 votes, 1 #1

I had thought Let The Sunshine In slight and unworthy of Denis and Binoche.

― j.lu, Monday, May 6, 2019

assumed this was a vampire movie

OK, four of my remaining five will make it.

I watch the Depardieu denouement frequently.

In my top five. Binoche has been marvelous the last decade.

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I really didn't think I was being 'garbled' or eccentric in describing them as horror films! Buster Scruggs is a portmanteau horror film - the supernatural/'black humour' is present in every episode to greater/lesser extent, and the last episode - group of ppl in a carriage find they are trapped in hell, or purgatory - really is identical to the ending of at least two different Amicus portmanteau horror films. The illustrated chapter headings were similar (in intent) to the illustrated chapter headings in Creepshow, another portmanteau horror film. First Reformed is most closely modelled on Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest, and Dreyer's Ordet, which ends w/ a supernatural event, and which was the key influence - acknowledged - visually etc on the Exorcist. First Reformed - with it's gory corpse shots and concluding act of bloody self-flagellation - really did feel like a mannered, slow-cinema pastiche of Taxi Driver to me - and surely it's not being wayward to think that Taxi Driver can be read/experienced as some kind of horror film - of the existential kind, at least.

LOL and I thought Let the Sunshine In was terrible too!

first one i voted for today

i was the #1

english title is a crime

Didn’t hate it but it didn’t do anything for me. The last scene was nice.

i like a good dark antiromantic comedy that delivers no hope.

found this one mostly charmless save for the very ending

if I wanted a hopeless antiromantic comedy I'd just start dating again ayooooo

was interesting to me what Denis appeared to be saying with this film about the main character’s obsession with her (self-perceived) romantic failures. also, the ending was just enigmatic enough

I hope Denis starts making a film a year from now on.

have been watching a lot of Denis films this past year, and am impressed by the wide range of milieus they are set in

High Life will make my 2019 list.

Spoiler!

mine too!

not mine

Binoche was incredible, but I also thought the writing was really great in this film

count me in on the High Life goon cru

https://i.imgur.com/T5hQ0GG.jpg

7. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
d: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman w: Phil Lord, Rodney Rothman
US 2018 computer animation
285 points, 10 votes, 1 #1

Ok in addition to being a good movie, this is undoubtedly the greatest technical achievement in computer animation to date.

― silby, Monday, December 24, 2018

GOD DAMN this was TREMENDOUS. this is EXACTLY what a comic book movie should be.

only niggle, which is common to pretty much all movies and tv now, is that everything happens so fast you forget what just came before. there's v little time to actually process anything. but my lord, the benday dots and shading and absurdly abstract climax - cars and buildings and trains and the brooklyn bridge all floating by in a swirling, howling matrix of dots and colours, all to be used as background and leverage and weapon. utterly insane.

my 7-y-o says, pausing over a burrito afterwards, "it was all about the promise he makes to peter parker." and i thought god damn, lord and miller would bottle that moment if they could and put it on their mantelpiece.

i don't think I've ever seen anything like it, outside of loony tunes. the anarchy and physical delight of it.

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, December 30, 2018

Three times in my life have I been in a movie theatre and seen something so funny that my entire body seized up in a static form of hysterical laughter. The first was age 10 when Bob Hoskins yells "Ooga Booga" at the bouncer in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". The second was Jonah Hill wiping out on a side-view mirror in Superbad. The third was the moment when Aunt May is looking around her house at the various fight scenes, and frames appear 1-2-3-4 of tussling, and the final fourth frame is of Spider-Ham smashing one of Aunt May's plates over his own head. One of the funniest gags I've ever seen tbh

― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Wait, Paddington 2 was good?

― DJP, Wednesday, February 20, 2019

'i like spider-man.' why, dude? 'he gets up'

Let the Sunshine In was my #2 and I highly recommend it for anyone that likes Curb Your Enthusiasm. Totally fucking brilliant black comedy about dating and empty gestures. One of the meanest movies I've seen this decade.

this was fun but lol at placement

:)

my #4

visually next-level. yeah the storytelling beats were abrupt, even rushed (it's a comic) - none of that matters. pure entertainment, pure gratification. and with charming characters to boot! the final set-piece was completely overwhelming in a way that live-action cgi could never, ever be

turns out that comic book movies can work if they actually look and think like comic books

there's nothing like this movie. Someday I will sit down and frame-advance through it.

god help us.

lord (and miller) have been involved in an extremely high percentage of actually-good mass-entertainment movies from the last decade

what, you voted for Aquaman? xp

Fucking hell, we're in it already

yeah this was brilliant, watched again recently and it lost nothing

lol at all the snobs

i am usually a snob about marvel movies and i avoid superhero nonsense like the plague. this was absolutely nothing like any of that stuff