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

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!

that Mad Max movie is such a pile o' fucking shite, watch who shot liberty valance followed by a random bunuel pic picked by a random number generator to honour Morbz!

I've always been skeptical of animation, but have been recently watching Miyazaki films and they are amazing. agree with the voters that My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away are his best

Inexplicably, Cinemark do a Studio Ghibli fest of sorts every year. So the only movie theater particularly close to where I live, which normally has little of interest, is going to be showing Totoro the first weekend in December, and I am thinking it will line up perfectly to when my kids (in the 5-11 age bracket) are going to be fully vaxxed so I can take them without qualms. Very excited.

that sounds really nice

Is that us done for the day?

out of 60 films, only two women directors have shown up so far

Yeah, no more titles today, five more tomorrow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ2d00D7Gzg

I love the way Miyazaki movies unfold and let characters who start out seeming like villains shift and morph into more complex and ambiguous roles. Spirited Away has a lot of that. (As did Alice in Wonderland, its most obvious touchstone.)

Kevin, interesting you point to comedy and romance, two genres that I feel have been pretty much sidelined in current mainstream cinema - the death of the romantic comedy outside of outliers like The Big Sick and a few Netflix productions is something I've seen discussed a lot lately. And yeah, Barb & Starr rulz!

to Alfred, gotcha, all good. Like I said I'm pretty ignorant on the history of the critical conversation. I may be conflating the retrospective reevaluation of ppl like Hitchcock and Sirk and Capra as auteurs with the original Sanneh critique.

Sorry for the pedantry but my many years as an ILX lurker make it impossible for me to not "well, actually" that the Sanneh article was by no means the ground zero of this line of thought and was indeed received on here at the time as a considerable dumbing down of the concept.

out of 60 films, only two women directors have shown up so far

Not to be glib, but that puts us ahead of most "best films of all time" lists already.

At least I get Mad Max placing but The Graduate? Such a nothing film released a long time ago.

Watched about 80% of the list and the only one I'm bummed out about not having watched is Possession. I do want to see it at the cinema.

out of 60 films, only two women directors have shown up so far

I had 14 films by women on my list (out of 75), but they were all my quirkiest, most personal favorites. I don’t know what I was thinking! I made sure I didn’t help a single director get into the consensus, while maintaining the ability to say, “I had 14 films…” To be fair, that was my strategy for male directors also. Very stupid of me.

Nah, I think you did good. Tactical voting for representation might be a worthwhile strategy on a list with some cultural clout but on ILX vote for films by the female directors you love most for God's sake.

There won't be one experimental short film in the top 100. But there is Anime here.

Worry about that.

There is already one experimental short film in the top 100

One of the 2 women directors so far in fact

Too low.

Doesn't La Jetée fit that description also?

Not to me.

Comrade alphie's definition is purely films made by people that we would have to ring up and apologise to if their experimental short films made it into a "top 100 films ever"

If by “anime” you mean Miyazaki, that’s … an awfully reductive way to talk about arguably the greatest feature-length animator ever. It’s basically writing off animation altogether.

Never connected with any of it.

Have you met our friend xyzzzz__ before, tipsy?

the death of the romantic comedy outside of outliers like The Big Sick and a few Netflix productions is something I've seen discussed a lot lately.

Just adding to that, but most Hallmark productions qualify as RomComs too. It does seem like the genre--outside of odd exceptions like Crazy Rich Asians*--has been totally been surrendered to streamers and cable.

*Which was a best-selling book

*Which was a best-selling book

And a not especially good movie.

And the Halloween weekend hits continue ...

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45. THE THING (John Carpenter, 1982, USA) [815 points; 10 votes]
S&S: 418 | TSPDT: 244 | BOXD: 75

MORBS SEZ: "I probably read Kael in '82, so I've never seen this. how many of you saw the '51 Thing?"

I'm sure Kael's review had something to do with me never having seen it; next time I see a used copy, I'll give it try.
― clemenza, Thursday, May 24, 2012 4:49 PM

love kael, but that review misses the stoic, western-style appeal of the thing's plotting and characters
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, May 24, 2012 4:52 PM

if the thing wins this poll too i swear to god
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, May 24, 2012 4:02 PM

basically at this point I assume that 80% of the board has masturbated while watching The Thing
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Thursday, May 24, 2012 3:21 PM

Wilford Brimley's awesome in The Thing -- NOBODY GETS IN OR OUT OF HERE! {GUNSHOT} NOBODY! {CRASH}
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, May 24, 2012 4:55 PM

Spider- head followed by "You've got to be fockin kiddin me?" line one of the great scene's in cinematic history.
― Omar, Wednesday, October 31, 2001 7:00 PM

Every time I hear about Sarah Palin shooting wolves I think of the first scene of this movie.
― cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Tuesday, May 26, 2009 10:08 PM

The Thing is so damn manly with all those guys & their beards. Fans of this need to see the 80s The Blob, which deserves much more love than it gets.
― The Thnig, Thursday, May 24, 2012 4:53 PM

It is totally a sausage party.
― carl agatha, Thursday, May 24, 2012 4:55 PM

Yeah, me too.

Thought this would be higher tbh given previous genre polls

I mean it’s awesome

I am on the Carpenter bandwagon, but this is like sixth or seventh for me.

I would rank this very highly in the monster movie canon for sure.

Watching the o.g Halloween last night and I'd forgotten the kids watch the o.g. Thing in it

I'd have Halloween and Prince of Darkness at least ahead of this but forgot to vote for any of them

I'm starting to worry that there aren't enough spots left for all the good movies.

fondly remembering when i was compiling my ballot and wondering if there would be a consensus straub-huillet pick

one very bad take of wrongness I saw earlier was In The Mouth of Madness is Carpenter's best movie.. no it isn't!

Feel like this poll might turn out exactly the way Morbius would have thought it would, if I may indulge myself with such a speculation.

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44. BLUE VELVET (David Lynch, 1986, USA) [822 points; 15 votes]
S&S: 61 | TSPDT: 89 | BOXD: DNP

MORBS SEZ: "Inland Empire is his most relentlessly daring feature, much more mature than Blue Velvet … never a big Blue Velvet fan."

Blue Velvet, only slightly better than The Blues Brothers because of Dennis Hopper.
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, June 25, 2004 8:42 AM

I watched blue velvet this week and it was thoroughly meh
― Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ (dyao), Wednesday, February 24, 2010 10:43 AM

Blue Velvet (made by a Reagan fan, don't forget) is all the bullshit of '80s Americana, not just exposed (that's easy) but celebrated. Wallowed in. Lynch wants it both ways, the robins AND the beetles, Laura Dern's simpering blondie by day AND Isabella's fuck-me-hit-me brunette by night. And it lets its hero have both. It is a stupendously fucked-up movie, hypocritical and callow, like a Disneyland S&M weekend tour package. And like America, its hypocrisy is what makes it work. It's what makes it honest. I like to imagine Frank Capra emerging from a screening of Blue Velvet, horrified and blinking into the Hollywood sun, and Lynch hollering in his ear, "It's great, isn't it? Just like one of yours!" (Also, on a technical level, the colors and sound and blah blah blah, Lynch is a genius but you already knew that.)
-- gypsy mothra

Blue Velvet was the first movie that made me want to make movies. Do the Right Thing was the second.
― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, August 2, 2005 5:21 PM

I hated Blue Velvet.
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, January 24, 2003 4:25 AM

BV is expertly paced. My problem with IE is he seems to have lost -- temporarily, on the evidence of the new Twin Peaks -- the ability to know when a scene runs too long.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, August 16, 2017 9:06 PM

How cuet was MacLachlan in BV tho??!
― W4LTER, Monday, August 20, 2007 6:18 PM