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

come *on

haha sorry, but it really did mostly bore me

Jaws gets better every time i watch it tbh, although every time i look forward more & more to when they get on the boat and it just becomes a loosey-goosey hangout movie

I dunno I find Jaws still resonates pretty strongly politically and culturally plus it's entertaining as hell xp

again, a.i. >>>>>>>>>>

i love jaws though, saw it for the first time in a theater about six years ago and found it so gripping

The humor in this film is like GEDDIT GEDDIT GEDDIT *digs elbows into ribs*

cant argue w/this but its a feature not a bug in this case imo. definitely fun to watch in a post-Tim Robinson world and see George C Scott inventing that whole deal in it

sorry to morbs for another film thread turning into ppl debating the merits of jaws

xps to CaAL, makes sense i guess. I still think of E.T. and Close Encounters as exceptional, if not singular, depictions of a very familiar messy day-to-day suburban life - both in terms of the sets and the way the family members interact with each other. There is something in that, and the supernatural plots overlaid onto it, that I think of as the quintessential Spielberg signature that I so connected with as a kid. But I can see where both pieces of that equation are dated in different ways. We shall see...

"A lonely shark comes to terms with his isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation."

i first saw jaws when i was six and cried at the end because i was sad they blew up the shark

the humor in this film is like GEDDIT GEDDIT GEDDIT *digs elbows into ribs*

Mary Ellen Moffat? The crushed styrofoam cup? Chief Brody suddenly telling his son to get out of the water? A++ humour!

o my gawd theyre on a boat and theyre trying to kill a FISH

― imago, Wednesday, November 3, 2021 11:54 AM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

and there is BAD MAYOR

― imago, Wednesday, November 3, 2021 11:54 AM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is where the thread jumped the shark.

I'm with Alfred, Strangelove is pretty lame. Doesn't help that I've seldom found Sellers funny.

Jaws II imo

I don't find it lame, it's not a film I want to watch often.

yeah a lot of the feedback was "why don't they leave the poor shark alone? they can just go to another beach"

a: bad mayor

would like to see a film about a group of sharks taking down a finning boat

HULLS

that sounds like Avatar

Wait did jaws appear on todays countdown or are we talking about it just because

This thread has reached the size where zing starts randomly disappearing posts instead of showing you the last 50 or whatever so I keep missing when films show up

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19. CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles, 1941, USA) [1,050.32 points; 19 votes; Morbs silver]
S&S: 2 | TSPDT: 1 | BOXD: 160

MORBS SEZ: "it's kind of impossible for me to think of it as anything but Welles' best both as entertainment and unsullied, unfucked-with tour de force. I see a certain greatness in Lady from Shanghai, Touch of Evil and especially Othello, but only prefer them to CK in fleeting moments … It's great no matter how much people want to rearrange the canonical furniture."

Not that this is a surprise, but o' course I lurv it, though I had the ending ruined when I was small thanks to all the references to it in _Peanuts_, Charles Schulz being another fanatic. And like Schulz's work, CK impresses me over time because it works on different levels, different lines jump out at you over the moons. The acting is brilliant, the script isn't afraid of humor, the cinematography, the lighting...astonishing.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, September 27, 2001 7:00 PM

I still haven't gone back to finish this, and I'm not usually put off by hype about the 'classics'. Just feel no compunction to go through with the rest of it on what I've seen so far (Young dude gets old and crusty at a dinner table montage)
― Black IP's (darraghmac), Wednesday, May 12, 2010 10:07 AM

This film actually lives up to its reputation!
― Tape Store, Sunday, December 16, 2007 1:36 AM

this film has a lot more going on than most top-ten all-time classic snoozefests.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Saturday, December 15, 2007 12:29 PM

just watch citizen kane, it really is awesome, you will love it, the end.
― s1ocki, Saturday, December 15, 2007 1:57 PM

The Ambersons Welles made might have been better than Kane, but the one that survives? No way. (I think I like The Lady from Shanghai and Othello better than either.)
― Dr Morbius, Saturday, December 15, 2007 4:11 PM

Madness! I saw [Lady from Shanghai] again recently and it gets my vote as his worst: mannered, coy.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, December 15, 2007

look who's talking!
― s1ocki, Saturday, December 15, 2007 8:04 PM

This thread has reached the size where zing starts randomly disappearing posts instead of showing you the last 50 or whatever so I keep missing when films show up

Yeah, this thread's moving way too fast for me today to do anything more than just drop slots 11-20.

This film actually lives up to its reputation!

― Tape Store, Sunday, December 16, 2007 1:36 AM

yeah it kinda rly does. vegetables, but really tasty, well-seasoned and grilled

It's really fucking entertaining.

My students didn't like it much last month until Kane got shouty at Boss Gettis.

and my god the three-shots and tracking shot and deep focus in the Charlie-Thatcher-Mrs.Kane sequence.

I went from a young, arrogant "eh, what's the fuss" stance to admiring its formal qualities after having seen so many films of that era that I could really notice the difference to now actually finding it emotionally resonant as well.

If Morbz was still with us I would ask him why Touch Of Evil is shallow but Lady From Shanghai is better than CK and MA.

xpost Welles is never veggies c'mon

Now this is the good shit - Vertigo next, please

really, really, really tasty veggies. battered courgette flowers

apologies for the jaws derail.

usually-unmentioned aspect to Citzen Kane which always grabs me: the sound design & editing. the bit where he takes her for the "picnic" on the beach, "you never get me what I really want" - just stunning.

Welles is ice cream and hot dogs and bitchy lunches with Henry Jaglom.

nah you're right welles is 5-course

Anyone saying: "too low"?

If Morbz was still with us I would ask him why Touch Of Evil is shallow but Lady From Shanghai is better than CK and MA.

iirc, he answered "mirrors"

19 is about right.

Yo check out what's on Susan's dresser at the left!
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always remember that 80's news clip with anchor going "Death came to Orson Welles today as it must to all men...".

getting quoted in the announcement of your own death is king shit

Kane: #1 '40s film in that poll

I like the ridiculously huge hall in Xanadu

Welles may be the most entertainingly erudite American filmmaker who ever lived. To read an interview is to see allusions to Conrad and Velazquez, this sculptor he was chums with and that poet he befriended. I try to find the bullshit and can't. The guy read everything.

As much as Iggy Pop?

Anyone saying: "too low"?

Only if Casablanca beats it.

likely would have been top 5 on my ballot, im happy its at least in the top 20.

I was never under the impression that ILX was all that big on Casablanca, but I could be wrong. Only 19/60 ballots had Kane on it, so anything's possible.

i liked LS's Strangelove description about pinballs

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18. THE APARTMENT (Billy Wilder, 1960, USA) [1,064.07 points; 14 votes]
S&S: 86 | TSPDT: 59 | BOXD: 63

MORBS SEZ: "that shot is kind of stolen from the ol' silent The Crowd"

i think it might be my favorite movie.
― ethan, Thursday, December 6, 2001 7:00 PM

Assorted new items on task list for the rest of 2014: tapping hesitant dogs, taking the hat off in crowded elevators, buying sock stretchers, trying to recreate a Martini petal.
― the european nikon is here (grauschleier), Monday, December 8, 2014 7:20 PM

The Apartment is a damn near perfect movie. Even the unlikely ending is unexpectedly touching. "That's the way it crumbles, cookie-wise..."
It's easy to say "They don't make 'em like that anymore," but they didn't often make 'em like that even back then.
― Justyn Dillingham, Thursday, December 6, 2001 7:00 PM

Good movie. Shirl = rowr. Unlikely ending: IRL she wd stick as best fwends and break his feckin heart as she twirled thru endless rubbish boyfs (21st-century update: girlfs), before she suddenly lost her looks'n'figure WACK at 41.
― mark s, Thursday, December 6, 2001 7:00 PM

the best soul-price in movie history may be 'the executive washroom'
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, January 1, 2014 11:54 PM

I don't remember it super-well but I think I'd still like Annie Hall more.
― sund4r subramanian, Thursday, December 6, 2001 7:00 PM

Classic example of director who made three or four indelible things, burn the rest.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, January 19, 2018 8:48 AM

The "wildly overrated" designation, but with Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, The Seven Year itch, Some Like It Hot and The Apartment in his filmography: I suspect Wilder could probably live with that.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, December 9, 2008 3:43 AM

I had never seen this. Wow. I used to watch 'My Three Sons' on Nick-at-Nite; Fred MacMurray is a cold motherfucker.
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Sunday, July 16, 2006 11:33 PM

As someone pointed out in the comments, The Apartment opened in the same week as Psycho, and it beat it to the Best Picture Oscar.
― Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Thursday, June 30, 2016 2:37 PM

The Apartment opened in the same week as Psycho, and it beat it to the Best Picture Oscar.

And in this poll.

Not on Farrell's list...

Oh, and apologies for not giving Strangelove and Kane their fullest due...

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