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

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

― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 3 November 2021 bookmarkflaglink

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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

https://cansesclasseled.files.wordpress.com/2021/11/014-goodfellas.jpg

14. GOODFELLAS (Martin Scorsese, 1990, USA) [1,138.4 points; 20 votes; Morbs silver]
S&S: 103 | TSPDT: 68 | BOXD: 20

MORBS SEZ: "It's a movie that shows how a subculture works, so I love it for the same big reason I love Paris Is Burning."

Is GOODFELLAS your favorite movie of all time?
Poll Results
Some other movie 135
GoodFellas 21

Dudes having their favorite movie be GoodFellas seems like the most unrare thing in the world.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Friday, February 13, 2009 9:46 PM

It's a good movie, but Godfather >>>>>> Goodfellas.
― also *free* online sex personals - got any links? (libcrypt), Friday, February 13, 2009 9:53 PM

i dont know if it's my favourite, but it's probably. i mean, definitely up there. and better than either godfather imo. i've never seen a movie where every scene, every moment, stuck to the inside of my brain like glue.
― s1ocki, Friday, February 13, 2009 11:28 PM

Goodfellas does not contain the following: prescient commentary on society, post-apocalyptic scenarios, giant animals attacking people, basis in historical fact, absurdist musical numbers, Udo Kier, demonic children, zombies, cannibals, Nazis, nuclear radiation, Klaus Kinski, or Christian Bale.
― what happened? I'm confused. (sarahel), Friday, March 13, 2009 3:26 AM

i like goodfellas, but it's not weird/geeky enough to be a favorite (no outerspace monsters, no "artistic" pornography, no creepy dream sequences, no all-dwarf casting, no animation, no nine-minute static shots, no relentless zombie holocaust, no klaus kinski, no homemade WTF charm, no fourth wall in tatters, no pretentious art nonsense, etc.)
― contenderizer, Tuesday, February 17, 2009 1:06 PM

BEST. MOVIE. EVER.
― jess, Wednesday, August 18, 2004 8:07 PM (seventeen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

YES
― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, August 18, 2004 8:08 PM

"Goodfellas" is indeed a fucking masterpiece, it's true...but it's still all about "After Hours". Stop living in denial.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, August 18, 2004 9:12 PM

Alex, you know, I normally agree with you, except for about the Greenpeace people, but you are so wrong right now.
― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Wednesday, August 18, 2004 9:14 PM

ALEX IT IS A BAD SHITTY SILLY MOVIE
― adam. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, August 18, 2004 9:21 PM

this movie rules, but casino is even better.
― amateur!!st (amateurist), Wednesday, August 18, 2004 10:59 PM

Might be Pesci's finest hour. Shame he had to die so painfully.
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Wednesday, August 18, 2004 9:33 PM

man, this sucks

this run that is, this one is better than the last three at least

Not gonna front, today is filled with a lot of IMDB fanboy faves that I'm just glad didn't make it into the top 10.

Apocalypse is weirder and more interesting to me than Blade, GoodFellas and Lebowski, but guilt by association etc.

Maybe it's leftover election day vibes, but there's an insurmountable GoodFellas/Blade Runner/Strangelove/Apocalypse Now bloc that's not going anywhere, ever.

citizen kane is very beautiful and spins around your head

https://compote.slate.com/images/70103c3f-9c2d-4bf6-ade4-c42b70fd1f8a.gif

yah

Yeah it's interesting how Kane stands out among this dreck

https://i.gifer.com/Jd17.gif

what makes Goodfellas dreck

Is everyone who voted for these too shy to defend them against this wave of disdain?

Not my pick, and I agree the last few picks are IMDB-worthy, but it's Scorsese's best after The Age of Innocence.

mercy! has Blade broke the top 20 as well?

this movie rules, but casino is even better.
― amateur!!st (amateurist),

I agree.

+1

Is everyone who voted for these too shy to defend them against this wave of disdain?

of the ones that suck, i had apocalypse now, goodfellas, jurassic park in my top 25. does empire strikes back suck? that one too. i also had the big lebowski in my honorable mentions, and blade runner. does blade runner suck?

i already defended them, but since there was no way to defend the cinematic value of apocalypse now (it has absolutely zero), i was forced to make an indirect defense in which i attacked the whole act of caring about this in the first place. the last resort of a big fucking loser, in other words.

i don't know, most of the reason people don't vote in polls is because they're normcore and they don't want to deal with people whining about how their picks degraded the whole ballot and made it boring. but that's just what the world is, and since my life is now a linkin park lyric i just voted anyway

Well, to be clear, the reason these movies are so high is because they DID vote in polls, regardless of the brickabats.

Also, everyone, bear in mind these are the Morbsies, so direct personal insults are required.

Goodfellas is too low.

karl otm, the fuck is wrong with Blade? you weirdos

The only good marvel movie

Thanks Karl.

Also, everyone, bear in mind these are the Morbsies, so direct personal insults are required.

lol, this is very otm :)

i don't know, most of the reason people don't vote in polls is because they're normcore and they don't want to deal with people whining about how their picks degraded the whole ballot and made it boring. but that's just what the world is, and since my life is now a linkin park lyric i just voted anyway

― have you considered that there are 1 shades of gray (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 3 November 2021 bookmarkflaglink

Eric do you want fire up the list so far for Karl?

but really, i don't feel knowledgable enough about film history to defend those movies. to me they're like Rumours or 1999 - yes everyone knows them but they still fucking rule even though Morton Subotnick was more of a visionary

I remember back in the late 90's walking past the Parker Road council estate + this scary looking guy with bloodshot eyes (who I'd never spoken to before) in a shell tracksuit who looked like he was on speed + stank of pure B.O. come up to me aggressively grabbing my shoulder and said: "Hey mate I've just watched Blade and it's proper fucking good man I'm telling you.." he was following me for 5 minutes and I genuinely thought he was going pull a blade out on me for not reciprocating with any Blade chat.

Goodfellas is a popcorn classic.

apologies for triggering any bad recalls there calz

for those that like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they like

i've never seen blade

Blade Runner is great and was on my long list. Like Alien (the other Ridley Scott I voted for) it presents a fully conceived dystopian world and thinks at least somewhat seriously about how it works — economically, culturally, technologically. Cast is good, the plot gets a little murky, but overall just a great cinematic experience imo.

This is the part of the thread where the back half of "Layla" revs up on the soundtrack.

lol

i went to film school with insufferable people who wanted to be scorsese so it took some cajoling for me to see taxi driver (good), king of comedy (excellent), gangs of new york (yawn) and the aviator (meh) and think I may have slept through the color of money, haven't seen any others, guess I will see this one now

taxi driver (good), king of comedy (excellent), gangs of new york (yawn) and the aviator (meh)

Absolutely OTM assessments there.

fwiw, I just bought a paperback copy of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? at a charity bookshop last week and on its cover it's been prominently re-titled as Blade Runner with the original title all faded out and unnoticeable. At least they still listed the author as P.K. Dick, not Ridely Scott.

Mean Streets and Casino are very good too.

i think i'd rather watch Silence than most of his others at any given moment now