ILX All-Time Film and Morbsies Poll: RESULTS Thread for ILX's Favorite Movies, Films, Cinema, Flicks & Moving Pictures

I went with a Morbs pick here: I Know Where I'm Going!

― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.),

my favorite too

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, October 28, 2021 1:32 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Me three! Tho I also voted for the crazy racist sexy nun movie.

Nuns On The Run?

Fox on the Nun

Nuns On The Buns

the shots showing the gradual devolution of charles crumb's art in his sketchbooks are some of the most haunting in cinema for me, i think about them all the time

My Blue Nun

can i get a translation of the Morbs Sez? cant tell if he was being sarcastic there. can just as easily imagine him liking it or thinking it was nerd-culture trash

The context is that he was reacting to Crumb winning the ILX documentaries poll.

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67. PULP FICTION (Quentin Tarantino, 1994, USA) [717.5 points; 10 votes; 1 first-place vote]
S&S: 120 | TSPDT: 64 | BOXD: 54

MORBS SEZ: "I LIKE GOOD MOVIES"

Yeah, still a great film. It's a crazy-quilt patchwork of all the stuff he geeked out on that became its own self-contained bit of brilliance, and there's not one thing wrong with that. And I was amused to realize Tarantino's foot fetish for Uma T. was already in full effect.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, January 27, 2007 11:08 AM

It was a long hot summer, my parents were splitting up, life was dull, and then BOOM surf-rock Miserlou took me away from all of that and I could watch the lives of people who were even more of a loser than I but it was all so much more exciting. It did have a huge influence, can we think of any of the songs on the soundtrack without thinking of this movie? And it was a "cool" movie about people who were very bad at being good criminals.
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:56 PM

A truly impressive "look at me wank, I learned how to wank in color by looking at pretty old movies" exercise by Tarantino. Could have been improved by excising the entire Bruce Willis sub-plot. It was just so self-referentially "aren't I clever" that I found it almost unwatchable. Your mileage may vary.
― Hey Jude, Tuesday, February 22, 2005 4:33 PM

"real movies" aren't tarantino's specialty, it's not what he's actually good at. it's obvious, but i think pulp fiction best got what he does. it's the "if you only see one quentin tarantino movie" movie.
― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Monday, February 9, 2009 4:38 PM

Watched this last year - it still moves, but time has not been kind to the effect of the "5-dollar milkshake".
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, April 20, 2016 5:13 AM

honestly i don't have that much fondness in my heart for PF, hard to tell if that's just because i'm so sick of everything to do with it tho
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Thursday, December 16, 2010 11:01 AM

*~*~*this is how i rate*~*~*
1. kill bill 1
2. kill bill 2
3. death proof (this shit is hella underrate - new york chick in that movie is my boo 4 all time - also the shot in the second part of this where the girls walk into the convenience store and it switches into color and there are all BRIGHT SODAS AND COLORFUL CHIP BAGS is one of my favorite things ever)
4. reservoir dogs
5. pulp fiction
havent seen jackie brown
― nascar jesus (J0rdan S.), Monday, February 9, 2009 4:18 PM

upon considered reflection, Pulp Fiction is totally his WORST movie. wtf ILX
― insert your favorite discriminatory practice here (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, June 25, 2010 6:46 PM

reminds me of ppl claiming Nevermind is Nirvana's worst album
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, December 16, 2010 11:21 AM

it kind of is...?
― from the lowly milligeir to the mighty gigahongro (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, December 16, 2010 11:22 AM

figured you'd be one of em
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, December 16, 2010 11:24 AM

when you're 17 this film rules

i have nothing much against this film that doesn't belong anywhere near this list

Gauche lol @ ‘that chick from new york’

Judging from everything I've read on this board, Jackie Brown will be much, much higher.

MORBS SEZ: "I LIKE GOOD MOVIES"

That's right

Just in passing I'll note that I a) voted for Crumb fairly high, and b) haven't bought a comic book since I was younger than 10.

Definitely some elements to PF that would now be called "cringe" (or worse) but I can't front: it came out right at the exact age for it to blow my mind and it did.

has sarge seen Jackie Brown yet

My MORBS SEZ there is def tongue-in-cheek, but he's on the record multiple places on ILX in saying that he thinks Pulp is the best Tarantino had to offer.

Settle down kids, and let me tell you a story of how one film resurrected Bruce Willis's career...

xp I mean, Morbs is also making clear the subtext that Tarantino is laying on us.

Shoulda been Mickey Rourke like Tarantino wanted.

I'm in the "Jackie Brown is his incontestable masterpiece" gang, but Once Upon a Time... has me backing off that mindset.

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Designating Mandy as the "Drive circa early 2010s slot" entry is so devastatingly true.

― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 October 2021 10:20 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is a lamentable misreading of mandy's merits obv

― imago, Thursday, 28 October 2021 bookmarkflaglink

when you're 17 this film rules

― imago, Thursday, 28 October 2021 bookmarkflaglink

when you're 17 this film rules

yes. This blew my mind when I first saw it (around the time I turned 18). Maybe it helps that I hadn't seen any of the films it references, barely knew any of the music it featured, but this just really expanded in my mind the idea of what movies could do.

I think it holds up and I'm pretty sure I'd enjoy it if I saw it for the first time right now, but there's definitely something to seeing a movie like that at that age that can't be captured later in life.

think i saw Solaris for the first time at 17

Jackie Brown was my only QT pick, but I don't mind Pulp Fiction's place in the canon. It does have a lot of great stuff. It just also has some eye-rolling cringey stuff, mostly circling around the Bruce Willis storyline. (Which, granted, does give us the great Christopher Walken flashback.)

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66. TOUCH OF EVIL (Orson Welles, 1958, USA) [719.33 points; 9 votes; 1 first-place vote]
S&S: 47 | TSPDT: 31 | BOXD: DNP

MORBS SEZ: "Dennis Weaver's lunatic 'night man' is really a marvel, and his interactions with the hoodlums at the motel have a big proto-Lynch vibe. Always forget that Heston's primary cop ally (Schwartz) is played by Mort Mills, who was the cop with the dark shades in Psycho … ToE is the one I'd call the shallow masterpiece; brilliantly executed, and still 'just' a tarted-up dirty-cop grinder. At least Welles never made a horror film."

Touch of Evil in 35 is one of the purest cinematic pleasures what can be got
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, September 19, 2015 12:48 PM

I was watching Touch of Evil the other day. Mag-ni-fee-cent, all the way. I'll bet the Coen Brothers must have watched it a thousand times.
― Joe, Thursday, February 7, 2002 7:00 PM

This is possibly my favorite movie ever made.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, April 7, 2008 1:08 PM

it's not that good.
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, August 6, 2008 6:03 PM

Touch of Evil = extremely overrated
― Vichitravirya_XI, Wednesday, August 6, 2008 10:14 PM

alright touch of evil fucking ruled. the opening long shot, wow, I need to find that and watch it again. some incredible performances in this — welles especially, heston, andthat fortune-teller lady. a really unnervingly charming blend of camp and menace.
― k3vin k., Sunday, June 23, 2019 5:30 PM

i remember seeing the restored version in theaters back in 98, and there were a couple of gay dudes in the row behind me laughing really hard at the scene where janet leigh was lying in bed wearing this (negligée). i guess thats when i learned what camp is
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Friday, August 16, 2013 3:53 PM

Welles was even fatter and better in Chimes at Midnight.
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, April 27, 2004 11:16 PM

In my religion the words "Heston" and "Mexican" go together like "Strawberries" and "Cream".
― PVC (peeveecee), Tuesday, June 15, 2004 5:27 AM

You realize I haven't kissed you in over an hour?

don't remember if i voted for pulp fiction, but the dj in me still loves the transition from "misirlou" to "jungle boogie" in the opening titles lol

Touch of Evil misquotes: in one of the Cinematheque Ontario programme guides, Dietrich's "You should lay off those candy bars" became "You've been eating too much chocolate".

"You've been eating too many nun buns."

Today's very much a "great director, I voted for a different film tho this one's obviously fantastic" day.

Anyone else prefer the cut with the Mancini music over the opening credits?

Not with the additional scenes, though.

I honestly think I haven't seen that version. I think I've only seen the '98 restoration.

i dont really mind the extra scenes but yeah that opening mancini music slaps

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65. 3 WOMEN (Robert Altman, 1977, USA) [725.3 points; 10 votes]
S&S: 807 | TSPDT: 968 | BOXD: DNP

MORBS SEZ: "3 Women is p great until that last 10 mins"

watched this for the first time this morning. awesome. i love it when surrealist leanings are put into relief by sharply-observed concrete details...
― pax raggetta (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, May 26, 2011 3:26 PM

3 Women is one of the strangest, most fascinating films I've ever seen.
― groovemaaan, Friday, November 27, 2009 9:29 AM

finally watched 3 women the other day, rly natural+confident homegrown u.s. surrealism-- made me think of persona of course but not because it felt made after studying it. (also so deeply a california movie, without having to openly stress it as much as the long goodbye or the player or p.t. anderson.) duvall rly great, as pretty much always. maybe too much of the murals shot thru water i guess.
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, February 20, 2018 2:59 AM

I loved 3 Women on my first viewing, but I can probably credit that to my having already seen both Persona and Mulholland Dr.
― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Wednesday, February 28, 2018 9:55 PM

M*A*S*H, as I said before, is overrated, and I'm not the biggest fan of 3 Women.
― Pooping And Crying (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, December 6, 2009 6:05 PM

For a heavy psychological drama (and despite its dysphoric 1970s score) 3 Women seemed almost light in a really appealing way until the end. It was very strange and unlike any other Altman film I’ve seen. Shelley Duvall won the Cannes best actress award for it but Sissy Spacek was equally amazing
― Dan S, Thursday, August 6, 2020 7:11 PM

definitely took several left turns I was not expecting that took the "identity-swapping" trope into territory I really enjoyed, particularly the dream-montage with all the multi-layered, watery imagery. Really beautiful...
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, April 22, 2005 5:26 PM

I knew I was home when ILX seemed to prefer 3 Women to Nashville.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, October 27, 2021 8:42 AM

(Unless I'm mistaken, Altman's the first confirmed multi-appearance director here.)

Can't remember what did and did not make my ballot at this point, but 3 Women feels correctly placed: I could see a legitimate argument being made that it is in fact the 65th best film ever made.

Touch of Evil, meanwhile, is too low. My fave Welles.

This is my favourite Altman, Shelley Duvall is something else here, otherworldly

3 Women was most definitely in my top 5.

was is

A goofy, infuriating, horse shit, awesome film.

lol was that a set photo or is there a colorized version of Touch Of Evil? Hideous!

very, very nearly voted for this in my main 25, it is absolutely great and leaves the other altman i've seen for dead

Colorized films: the original Photoshop filter.

Lol was thinking of how to say that, good job

(Taken from a lobby card.)

I feel like the first thing people unfamiliar with 3 Women need to know about it is the trivia that Altman dreamed the title, the actresses, and the opening shot and then made a movie around them.

That's the way to make a movie!

Conversely ...

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64. BACK TO THE FUTURE (Robert Zemeckis, 1985, USA) [728.55 points; 11 votes]
S&S: 490 | TSPDT: 290 | BOXD: 166

MORBS SEZ: "the hyperbolic hosannas for Back to the Future above are fucking insane. I do like Back to the Future. I also know it's imperfect and conservative, because I'm not 11 years old. The incest angle is the extraordinary thing about it besides, of course, Crispin Glover."

Doc Brown = biggest stoner IN THE WORLD.
― Johnney B (Johnney B), Sunday, April 11, 2004 2:01 AM

I love when he asks for a Tab and the guys like "You have to order something first!" That's such a small thing but always kills me mostly because I really like Tab.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, March 30, 2012 2:21 PM

only movie that is oedipal in both a funny way and a discomfortingly sexy way?
― Eisbaerg Slim (some dude), Friday, March 30, 2012 2:24 PM

The triumphalism at the end of the movie creeps me out; it's the nerd's version of Rambo.
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, October 12, 2010 6:27 PM

The city is a crappy cesspool with a bunch of closed-up stores and garbage in the streets and homeless dudes asleep on park benches (oh and BTW a black mayor who used to be a janitor) unlike in the 50s when everything was perfect?
― not Morbius old, but still (Phil D.), Tuesday, October 12, 2010 6:43 PM

the 50s had racism underage drinking drugs violence peeping tomism incestful lust albeit innocent incestful lust and manure
― conrad, Tuesday, October 12, 2010 6:48 PM

oh c'mon this film is totally silly and self-conscious about the nostalgic stuff. the porn theater is a gag,. there are two movie theaters at either end of downtown hill valley in the 1950s. in the 1980s they have become, respectively, a porn theater and a storefront church. which were two very common fates for single-screen theaters in that period. it's more a cinephilic gag than a political one.
― by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, October 12, 2010 8:54 PM

Needed more backstory on the Libyans... them back at the motel on the interstate, rolling up their prayer rugs, gnashing in anger at the Honeymooners rerun everyone's watching. What's their motivation?
― pplains, Friday, August 9, 2013 9:32 AM

I watched some of this classic today, and was wondering, is it ever explained how exactly Marty knows Doc and why he is like an errand boy for the crazy scientist?
― Nik (Nik), Friday, April 9, 2004 4:10 PM

Marty's clearly Doc Browns's bitch.
― hstencil, Friday, April 9, 2004 4:12 PM

Doc Brown made a huge fucking amplifier for Marty. It's not a one-way thing, he's not the Doc's MonkeyBoy. they're a motherfuckin' team, yo.
― g-kit (g-kit), Saturday, April 10, 2004 2:26 AM