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

lemmon cheerfully opening maclaine’s compact and seeing himself in the cracked glass is like a payoff on page 500 of a henry james

I've steadfastly refused to let the cult ruin Big Lebowski for me.

Was just thinking the other day about how they switched the post-WWII hangover that looms in noir for the comically lopsided first Gulf War.

if this is a fakeout it's had the effect of making everyone too depressed to respond

lemmon cheerfully opening maclaine’s compact and seeing himself in the cracked glass is like a payoff on page 500 of a henry james

― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, November 3, 2021

The Golden Duh

xpost Eric de facto yelled at us for posting too much so...

I don't do fakeouts.

im a big coen apologist but ive never been able to get on board with lebowski, has always felt like a lazy collection of sketches strung together. plus turturro is just excruciating.

Nice marmot, ILX

But I DO do passive-aggressive non-images on occasion.

apart from that Star Wars fakeout that you let run on for a week ... lol that was a classic

Milm & Foovies (Eric H.) at 5:55 3 Nov 21
I don't do fakeouts.

lmao at lebowski placing over long goodbye, wtf

Okay, I don't want to hear any more about ILXors hating fun.

We need more Marienbads and we need them now. Scurvy impends!

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16. APOCALYPSE NOW (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979, USA) [1,107.60 points; 15 votes; 1 first-place vote]
S&S: 9 | TSPDT: 11 | BOXD: 39

MORBS SEZ: "I am boggled that anyone could find this film 'flawless' -- I didn't even fall for that hype as a teen in '79. It's close to great up through Duvall's departure, a very mixed bag after that, and mostly a disaster once Brando waddles on. The French plantation addition is atrocious; and people accuse Spielberg of being sledgehammer-obvious?"

I like the original version better, but it's not like any of the versions are "great" due to the ludicrous last 30 minutes of the film.
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, March 8, 2006 12:49 PM

so ponderous and boring and ultimately pointless. it has nothing to say
― flappy bird, Thursday, July 27, 2017 12:07 AM

In my teens I lurved this and 'Taxi Driver,' but there is something 'masculinist' which I don't like about it, which it has in common with so many of the great US movies of the '70s. I would have loved it if the film could perceive the war as a greater tragedy for the Vietnamese than for the US soldiers. But it has some fantastic imagery.
― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, January 21, 2004 4:23 AM

Apocalypse Now is borderline unwatchable (like almost everything else from the Raging Bulls generation).
― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, October 3, 2006 11:11 AM

'Heart of Darkness' just isn't as good as 'Apocalypse Now' when you're on acid.
― tarden, Monday, July 2, 2001 7:00 PM

Apocalypse Now! is simply untouchable for me. I can watch it over and over.
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:46 AM

always unsure about the effectiveness of the ending, there's too much build up for a quiet trailing off like that to gel. and this film does not ever transport me, it's never transparent, it remains a total fantasy construction, but a construction in which so much unbelievable work has gone in that it becomes a marvel, you almost can't believe it was physically accomplished, it's that kind of masterpiece
― Milton Parker, Friday, June 8, 2007 2:05 PM

Full Metal Me So Horny>Apocalypse Now
― don weiner (don weiner), Tuesday, October 3, 2006 7:47 AM

REIGNS O'ER ALL!
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, February 23, 2005 9:55 AM

zzzzz

also not as good as dracula

Even I'm a little taken aback that this one's so much higher than Godfather here.

Exterminate them all imo

I don't think I've ever seen the normal version of this. Just the Redux version in about 2005.

Things have taken quite the turn

lol wow

Turkingtons amongst us

can't wait for the all-Nolan top 10

The extra scenes in the Redux version are good at explaining what is supposed to be happening in the film, but not so good as an actual viewing experience.

I told you all this was going to be bad.

amusing that both the older comments quoted above and the newer reactions are preponderantly critical and dismissive, but somehow the film placed #16 anyway.

This is very likely to be in someone's top 100 movies if they have not seen a shit ton of movies.

It’s in someone’s top 1!

Extended fakeout?

Real worried about what remains.

That said, come on - Apocalypse Now is like the Blockbuster! It's so ambling and heatstroked. All the simmering insanity.

i love apocalypse now

In this poll things get... confused out there

love you all, but on another level, you're all fucking crazy lol

to care about it so much i mean

but life blows, i get it. this is about as good as it gets

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Morbs pulling the plug on this whole operation.

Didn't vote for this, but I do like it better than The Godfather movies; I think Coppola's strength is unusual spectacle rather than "interpersonal" character-centred scenes (which may be why this goes downhill at the end).

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15. BLADE RUNNER (Ridley Scott, 1982, USA) [1,137.06 points; 17 votes]
S&S: 67 | TSPDT: 38 | BOXD: DNP

MORBS SEZ: "Ridley Scott is max's cinematic Obama (both excelled at making TV commercials)"

arguably the best sci-fi score of all time and a career peak for the Greek God of the Synthesizer, Vangelis
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, August 14, 2007 8:31 PM

god so beautiful
― corpse pose (missingNO), Tuesday, May 31, 2011 9:46 AM

Absolutely essential.
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, August 14, 2007 9:17 PM

Classic. Always takes me to, well, another world when I listen to it. Timeless in a retro-futuristic way, both in 1982 and now.
― Mr. Odd, Tuesday, August 14, 2007 8:49 PM

I highly recommend listening to this while driving around Los Angeles at night!
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, August 15, 2007 1:57 AM

Best soundtrack ever.
― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, August 14, 2007 8:59 PM

When the end credits started I could barely move.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, November 4, 2007 1:07 PM

the scene of the unicorn galloping through just gets me every time
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Wednesday, November 25, 2009 5:40 PM

man as much as i love this record i am recently way more into the escape from new york soundtrack
― r1o natsume, Tuesday, August 14, 2007 11:37 PM

"time to die"
― ILX All-Time Film and Morbsies Poll: RESULTS Thread for ILX's Favorite Movies, Films, Cinema, Flicks & Moving Pictures, Wednesday, November 3, 2021 2:29 PM

thought it would be higher if I'm honest.

(yes, I got all my quotes from the ILM thread about the soundtrack)

lol @ a highly rare instance of morbs throwing shade at obama into unrelated film commentary

I like Blade Runner but I don't like this top 20 so far

i like apocalypse now well enough but definitely didnt think its 2021 rep was such that it would crack the top 20 here

Whoa totally forgot Harrison Ford was in Apocalypse Now. What a hottie!

oh, that's who that is!

A hottie bo bottie even!

lol @ a highly rare instance of morbs throwing shade at obama into unrelated film commentary

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I don't get this one in any of its forms except the most recent one that was as okay as the recent Dune