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

*Cue Jim Backus in an apron*

i assume my douglas sirk phase is imminent, had to abandon all that heaven allows when i attempted to watch it because it badly clashed with my mood, but i bet i would love imitation

i've never completed the 400 blows

Curious, any particular reason why?

idk i got the dvd from netflix back in the day and just never got past the first twenty minutes

i'm not much of a truffaut fan but 400 blows seems more or less flawless to me. i don't really get why it attracted so much hate in the olden days here on ilx, though some of those comments are pretty funny.

After a while I realized I don't like Mike Nichols much as a filmmaker. I get that he's good with actors, and there are good performances in his movies, but I find his affect sort of not here nor there. Boring, but not in an interesting way.

I had somehow never seen The Graduate until a few months ago and had the same experience as Brad - there's very little movie left underneath the torrent of overly familiar lines, scenes, etc. I enjoyed it but was underwhelmed as a result. Don't know if I can really fault the film for that but it wouldn't have sniffed my list (I think I had already submitted once I saw it anyway). I did throw an honorable mention to a dif Nichols

400 Blows and The Graduate are long-time favourites, may have been at the top of my ballot had it been sent 20 years before (instead of the #11 and #10 placements they got this time) - The Graduate in particular is something I have seen 20+ times but there is always something new for me, the tracking shot at the party, when he is underwater in the pool, the shot of their faces right at the end, just the wonder and despair at the possibilities of life and the constant snatching-away of their illusions of control, even Mrs Robinson is just a lost kid.

if you haven't made it all the way to the end of the 400 blows, you have to at least see the ending

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcxNHPHpcj4

... which won't mean a whole lot in isolation

Not huge on The Graduate but that beginning is really beautifully shot for a director that always gets pegged as being more about the writing and acting.

xp Eric obv you haven't seen the cut CaAL posted

lol, didn't realize Tarr was such a Truffaut stan...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ3-7C6RYOE

lol

of course, you've seen Léaud's Audition for The 400 Blows but in case you haven't:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULovABBn2ds

I don't know if this sounds weird, but Léaud was an unusually beautiful, austere young man. I find it hard squaring those virtues with the Doinel he played just a few years later. He looked hollowed out, callo.

Also: I can't recommend Mark Harris' Nichols bio more strongly.

https://cansesclasseled.files.wordpress.com/2021/10/054-jurassic-park.jpg

54. JURASSIC PARK (Steven Spielberg, 1993, USA) [786 points; 9 votes]
S&S: DNP | TSPDT: 720 | BOXD: DNP

MORBS SEZ: "you ppl are pop-proctologists nonpareil, God save you … I saw it once, and thought all the accomplishments were technical, aside from Goldblum's meta japery."

get with the millennium morbs, we like jurassic park
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Friday, January 29, 2016 4:02 PM

Has there ever been an ILX poll of Spielberg's films from Duel to Jurassic Park--before he became an artist?
― clemenza, Tuesday, January 30, 2018 5:23 PM

Jurassic Park a towering technical and marketing achievement but heartless.
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Thursday, February 1, 2018 6:07 PM

I don't actually like Jurassic Park at ALL but Jeff Goldblum dresses fantastically in it so I'll give it a little bit of a pass (THAT FINAL SHOT OF THE T-REX AND THE RAPTORS IS THE ABSOLUTE WORST SHOT IN THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF CINEMATOGRAPHY AND DIRECTION AND THAT IS A STONE COLD FACT PEOPLE).
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, July 28, 2005 9:38 AM

I think there are highlights t/o Spielberg's filmography, so i wouldn't want to press the argument too hard. IMO Jurassic Park, Catch Me if You Can, War of the Worlds... these are all peaks of one kind or another. Jurassic Park may be the most emblematic Spielberg achievement.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, February 20, 2015 3:15 PM

really enjoyed "Jurassic Park" but the whole "I know this operating system... it's a UNIX system!" thing killed me with lols and came perilously close to throwing me out of the entire movie.
― DJP, Thursday, June 30, 2011 8:56 AM

all yall complaining about bad hacking scenes in skyfall need to appreciate the master of bad hacking scenes in jurassic park
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, November 20, 2012 11:52 AM

SLJ smoking in Jurassic Park was one of the last times we saw anyone do it (a) indoors (b) in front of children
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, November 20, 2012 4:45 PM

man what a great movie.
― ethan, Tuesday, January 15, 2002 7:00 PM

love this shit
― and what, Friday, May 11, 2007 2:29 PM

ethan wtf is up with your habit of reviving your own threads just to go "yup, i still agree with myself."
― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, May 11, 2007 2:42 PM

Feel like maybe JPL grew tired of playing that particular character, but perhaps just projecting.

He was often solid (Morbs and I loved The Death of Louis XIV) but he lost the glow -- the uniqueness -- after 400 Blows.

Surprised to see this, there’s a good half dozen Spielberg films I’d rate higher and I expect a couple will definitely place.

Fair enough, but he was well used by Godard and Eustache, and then later by Assayas and Kaurismäki or Bertolucci, to name several.(xp)

Maybe someone could make a claim that all those other roles were comments upon his first character and director.

yeah this is a strange and disappointing choice

You voters were so preoccupied with whether or not you could vote for Jurassic Park...

So it was one of the sanctioned nominees? Dang!

yeah this is a strange and disappointing choice

― mens rea activist (k3vin k.), Friday, October 29, 2021 2:38 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

You voters were so preoccupied with whether or not you could vote for Jurassic Park...

― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length)

The Joe Biden of Spielberg films.

So not likely we see Munich any time soon, I suppose.

Oh, yeah. Oooh, aaah. That's how polls always start. Then later there's running and screaming.

jurassic park is a fun movie

so much fun

Never saw it until recently streamed it with a 9-year old. He was the perfect age for it I think. I find it baffling that this is considered top tier Spielberg.

I mean just in terms of soulless action and special effects wizardry I think it pales in comparison to say "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom", but that sort of thing is not really my cup of tea.

ethan wtf is up with your habit of reviving your own threads just to go "yup, i still agree with myself."
― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, May 11, 2007 2:42 PM

King shit

Chris L otm.

the people have spoken, Jurassic Park is the #1 film of all time

...and the Golden Boys (xp)

finally a good movie

There are many aspects to film mastery, and dinosaurs are one of the most neglected.

The only 90s action flick I'm rooting for is The Wrong Trousers

don't think i would have voted for jurassic park in a spielberg poll, let alone this one. it slaps though

Wouldn't vote for it, but I can't deny that it's in my DNA.

i would like to point out

raw point totals + (average points per vote x 3) + (number of votes x 10)

Prior to weighting, ballots' top 25 got from 100 points down to 76 points (or 88 points if unranked), and the honorable mentions all received 20 points.

the (number of votes x 10) part just gives every vote 10 more points, so a #1 movie = 110 points, etc.

Jurassic Park was mind-blowing when I was 9.

there are dinosaurs, they're in a park, whoa!!! perfect, five stars

the only spielberg i voted for was a.i. and i am already bitter that it won't place

don't think i would have voted for jurassic park in a spielberg poll, let alone this one. it slaps though

― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 29 October 2021 19:02 (thirty-four seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

this feels fair

how many coens do we think will place btw

The Golden Age of Film is Number Nine, Number Nine, Number Nine...

xp
2, joel and ethan

Stencil and Trife?