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

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

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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

Imagine being a snob about marvel movies. Make sense, for once

I liked it well enough. Peter Parker was cuuuuuute.

xp keep your powder dry for the top five imo

storytelling beats were abrupt, even rushed (it's a comic)

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

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Tracer made a good case for it. I'll catch it on TV sometime.

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xxp lol

i meant superhero comics, not alison bechdel fgs

oh so this is nsfw now eh

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6. The Favourite
d: Yorgos Lanthimos w: Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara
UK 2018 35mm
329 points, 14 votes

I enjoyed this but it wasnt amazing or anything. Not as good as Dogtooth or The Lobster but much better than Sacred Deer (which I hated)

The dialogue could have been a bit sharper though. It leaned a bit too heavily on actors in aristocratic clothing saying "cunt" for comic effect

― Michael B, Thursday, January 10, 2019

This was what I was hoping Phantom Thread would be, the difference being that I actually wanted to hang around these characters. Loved the economy of the screenwriting within the lavish setting.

― Eazy, Sunday, March 3, 2019

Absolutely vile era for men's periwigs and makeup

I haven't thought about it since Olivia Colman's unexpected Oscar win tbh but I suspect it'll hold up well.

I don't understand wanting to hang out with any movie characters, though

eh this was fine, don't think yorgos is for me

blah blah cautionary tale about power blah nice to have women as the powerful ones blah nicholas hoult blah

i voted for it haha

The dialogue could have been a bit sharper though. It leaned a bit too heavily on actors in aristocratic clothing saying "cunt" for comic effect

― Michael B, Thursday, January 10, 2019

tbf this is hilarious, why not lean on it

thought the closing shot of coleman's face was great and then yr man had to go overboard with the rabbits

not trying to controp but I thought Weisz put in the best shift in this movie.

she was good in this and of course paradoxically(?) the most humane of the central trio