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

Surely in this analogy Marveletc is equivalent to imagobait widdlywiddlywoo soulless microtonal rubbish, like "look at the technique involved in this CGI bullshit" to what purpose, I ask ye?

fie upon thee

I kinda play film snob for laughs a bit but tbh the choices on this poll that I roll my eyes at I'm not eye rolling because they're popular movies or whatever

xxp if idk poppy was a cultural phenomenon with as much time, money, attention and reach as marvel, then, no sorry that still doesn't work at all.

But my pop canon would have Legally Blonde and Mean Girls and The Hidden and stuff that is fun not like big steamrollery spectacle movies that are like theme park rides and just slide straight off me without any engagement whatsoever

Ten Things I Hate About You would make my list today.

Like it's fine summer blockbusters exist and we all like different stuff just a lot of that is increasingly not my thing as I get old and curmudgeonly

I have a feeling I completely neglected comedy in my ballot

Those of you not exposed to Film4 and Empire magazine may not appreciate the murderous ennui they stoke in me

Oh gods Clueless better turn up on this list ffs

I'm pretty sure >20 of my 25 are funny at points, definitely >15. There's one Kim Ki-Duk film I put at 13 that I have no specific memory of but I'm assuming it wasn't a barrel of laughs

I have quite a few comedies on my ballot, but none made in my lifetime.

Actually maybe 18

I think using Comedy as a genre label maybe poses unique problems, lots of films are funny but evoking laughter isn't their primary goal maybe? Lots of laughs in Hitchcock or Bunuel for example

Like out of the ones that have placed, mind the motel guy in Touch Of Evil? and the way the others start imitating his Autistic bouncing? (haven't actually watched in years so maybe I misremember) maybe ableist bullying decades on but that is definitely improved attempt at humour

Not having to decide whether I could include Problem Child 2 with a clear conscience was one excuse for not putting a ballot together

Sorry for my rambling but as well this thread as another

Fury Road and Persona both on my long list. I think Fury Road is an astonishing piece of filmmaking and myth-making both. Persona I haven't seen in years so I'm mostly going on how much it affected me 20 years ago, but I know it was mesmerizing then.

Had no Coens on my list. Fargo was my favorite of theirs for a good while, it's very entertaining and Frances McDormand is great. But these days I'd take Inside Llewyn Davis, A Serious Man and True Grit over it. (NOT No Country for Old Men, which I'm sure is ahead somewhere.)

Actually it's just occurred to me that my elegy for Morbs would be Dietrichs's line at the end of of TOE: "he was some kind of man... what does it matter what people say?", maybe that's why I put it high?

(or maybe I just watched it the night I wrote the ballot, I dunno)

*hurls himself into fetid river*

awwww

Actually it's just occurred to me that my elegy for Morbs would be Dietrichs's line at the end of of TOE: "he was some kind of man... what does it matter what people say?", maybe that's why I put it high?

*hurls himself into fetid river*

I think using Comedy as a genre label maybe poses unique problems

I have just the thread for you: TOP 100 COMEDY FILMS OF ALL TIME NOMINATIONS AND DISCUSSION THREAD

Here's another bullet I took for you, pardner.

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46. SPIRITED AWAY (Miyazaki Hayao, 2001, Japan) [811.27 points; 11 votes]
S&S: 222 | TSPDT: 159 | BOXD: 10

MORBS SEZ: "I've only seen Spirited Away before [The Wind Rises]."

this might be controversial but I find his movies pretty hit-or-miss, tho obv the greats are outstanding
― Simon H., Wednesday, January 17, 2018 12:19 PM

I might go for Miyazaki as best living director. He feels like the kind of artist who will stay timeless.
― jmm, Wednesday, January 17, 2018 12:21 PM

Miyazaki does nothing for me. I've tried many times. Probably should again. Never been able to make it thru any of his films.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, January 17, 2018 12:40 PM

I saw Spirited Away in the theater, and it was my first Miyazaki, so it's hard not to love it - especially since it felt like one of the first truly immersive animated films I'd seen yet. I didn't want it to end, and it felt like I had spent days inside it.
― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, August 31, 2008 6:19 PM

Am I the only one who's intensely annoyed by the music of Spirited Away?
― Turangalila, Sunday, August 9, 2009 7:43 PM

he's so careful w/ antagonists, at least in his more recent period. either they have good reasons or they're honest within fairy-tale-style rules or they don't exist at all. i love how spirited away is mostly a movie about a girl who gets a job: dealing with weird customers, bitching with co-workers after hours, hating the boss but eventually understanding she has a business to run.
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Sunday, July 3, 2011 1:51 PM

If you try to describe the plot of Spirited Away to someone, they will think you're smoking crack.
― Ernest P. (ernestp), Wednesday, July 2, 2003 8:37 PM

I love this film so much and fuiud

This isn't one of the three animated films I toplisted, but I'm glad we have animated representation, and this movie really does bang iirc (I was about...lol, 17)

(Disney excluded from all the above obv #rockism)

SPIRITED AWAY is a boring, bad movie.
― .ada.m. (nordicskilla)

It is so rich, so inventive, so beautiful and full of wonders

Yes. And makes no sense. It's bat shit in the best way.

Also: most poignant evocation of Edward Hopper ethos.

No way I was gunna actually vote for this cus it is PAINFUL, like literally hurts my heart to think about it. Family shit and such, can we not just move on?

if you mean personal bad connotations, sorry

if you're questioning it as a movie, not at all sorry

Afraid to think what Grave of the Fireflies would do to you.

uh yeah to both of those, too much shit that hurts my chest

Actually GOTF no, I love that it is heartwarming and I think I've forced it on my extended family at Christmas, which one am I thinking of, the one where they all die in a nuke, that one upsets me Watership Down/ Plague Dogs level

Dammit that is the one I was thinking fucksake

Barefoot Jin?

What's the one with the homeless thruple at Christmas? that was great

xps that'd be When The Wind Blows, although I haven't seen it. Watership Down, full disclosure, in my 25

Three Godfathers?

Nah the nuke one I was thinking of was Grave Of The Fireflies, but I'm an 80s kid, WTWB did indeed fuck me up but it was the BOOK, never saw the film cus fuck no

GOTF was Kobe firebombing, not nukes.

So for clarification:
Sprited Away: amazing shit, but it somehow hit me the wrong way re: my parents
Grave Of The Fireflies: also fucked me up, severely but I thought you were referring to
Three Godfathers: a lovely heartwarming Christmas film
Watership Down: greatest novel ever written but severely traumatic film
When The Wind Blows: read the comic as a small child, if you try to force any animated version on me I will stab you in the fucken face

Spirited Away is magic, yes

Basically NV my parents left me to run wild in the [checks up] THIRD MOST MOST POLLUTED TOWN IN THE WORLD and all my hair fell out, yeah I now I realise may have conflated every Ghibli film into one but yeah whatever my life now is horrific, but whatever that animated shit was where your parents are statutes and everything is terrible with ghosts and such yesh I'd rather not rewatch

(sorry I've been drinking today)

No worries buddy I'm mildly tripping myself

And sorry that shit happened

I don't want to fuck up this thread further but when sober I might start a thread about WHAT THE FUCK UP IS GOING ON WITH TARANTOAND CAN WE DO ANYTHING TO HELP BECAUSE MY CHILDHOOD FRIENDS ARE DYING but this really isn't the platform, sorry everyone. anyway, films!