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

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

Now that looks like a Wes Anderson thing.

Who's the foxy young new teacher on the left?

Who's the foxy young new faculty member on the left?

(d'oh, didn't catch the first send in time)

I doubt Short Cuts will make it on this list but that would mean two Huey Lewis appearances.

at the end of the movie Marty McFly, it's obvious, grows up to be Win Butler.

Like the shot of the music judges who say Marty's band are "too darn loud" - the other band lurking around in the scene appear to be the Manic Street Preachers circa 1991, who frankly are unlikely to get a better reception

subtle fakeout or...

Huey looks so good.

i've only seen 2 and 3 :D

tbh there were far more quotables on Part II than the first one

i even saw 3 before 2. doin' it right imo

anyway this placement augurs badly

Altman dreamed the title, the actresses, and the opening shot

...and got funding from 20th Century Fox later that morning!

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

― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, October 28, 2021 2:58 PM (three hours ago)

same!

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

Think this came up on a thread long ago--I definitely prefer the Mancini opening. That music is perfect, and it was jarring when I saw the re-release without. The opening credits aren't that intrusive; give me the music.

I forgot about that, but yeah it was intense.
xp

like Silent Night Deadly Night, if you've seen the second one you've seen the first one

not even the best Zemeckis movie ffs

at least it isn't forrest gump

Not much is

not even the best Zemeckis movie ffs

― maybe these baps are legends (Noodle Vague), Thursday, October 28, 2021 12:21 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

which is of course death becomes her

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Nope, Brad's right.

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63. ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974, West Germany) [729.2 points; 10 votes; Morbs silver]
S&S: 86 | TSPDT: 142 | BOXD: DNP

MORBS SEZ: "make Fear Eats the Soul your next RWF film, can't go wrong with that"

It's nowhere near my favorite Fassbinder, but Fassbinder is the best.
― Cherish, Wednesday, September 11, 2013 9:36 AM

i once watched Fear Eats the Soul with my rather conservative, not aesthetically adventurous parents--don't ask why i picked that movie--and found out a few weeks later that my dad was still consumed in thought over it, to the point of telling his golf buddies about it.
― ryan, Tuesday, October 1, 2013 7:10 PM

i've seen ali: fear eats the soul a few times but embarrassingly it only really shook me when i watched it a few weeks ago. the emotions are just so searing and he shows how they fill up the politics and influence the politics. "starts with emotion and goes from there" otm. it's also specific to queer desire. all the brilliant little ways it flips all that heaven alows.
― crystal-brained yogahead (map), Tuesday, June 16, 2020 11:37 AM

Watched Fear Eats the Soul fairly recently and found it a bit - obvious?
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, September 10, 2013 8:41 AM

i always feel so alone in not really liking fear eats the soul. it felt so schematic, like once you 'get' the mirrored structure of the film and the point about racism and ignorance that there's nothing left to get out of it. except for that last scene in the hospital, which is one the best movie endings ever. so for that alone i guess i'd vote for it.
― slam dunk, Tuesday, March 18, 2014 12:46 AM

Fear Eats the Soul is teh classic. What makes him special to me is how he always managed to combine a very critical eye on human nature, while still working in a popular/accessible register. I don't think there are many of this kind around these days.
― The Emancipation of Baaderonixx (KERERU 4 LIFE!) (Fabfunk), Tuesday, May 31, 2005 1:43 AM

Missed thread title opportunity: Fear Eats the POLL!
― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, September 11, 2013 8:21 AM

the guy from fear eats the soul is totes mcgrotes hot
― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Thursday, September 10, 2009 12:17 PM