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35. God’s Own Country w/d: Francis Lee 58 points, 6 votes
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:40 (five years ago) link
God, this Country's toxic now. I had this feeling watching God's Own Country last night which is excellent and very much worth seeing. It's about Brexit and gay sex, so, something for everyone. ― jed_, 6 September 2017
in a perfect world i've seen Zama. fortunately i can go about correcting this thanks to you guys! meantime i make no apologies for wheatley fanboying; free fire was not THAT high on my ballot but i felt the need to include it. think of it as revenge for you all getting high rise wrong
ah here's another one i intend to see
― imago, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
excellent movie, excellent jed quote!
― calzino, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:42 (five years ago) link
the same leading actor was in an ultraviolent Thai prison/kickboxing movie, that I fell asleep watching on sat night.
― calzino, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
Oh man Zama is amazing.
― devops mom (silby), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
Je suis bear movie
I would love to roll around in the mud with those two actors, but GOC was 'just' a good first film
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:48 (five years ago) link
I liked God's Own Country okay, but I don't think I got as much out of it as others seemed to. I really liked the end credits photo montage of old timey photos of farmers--meant to imply that gays have always been a part of farming, I guess? If that's the point, I think the film would have been more interesting as a period piece (though, to be fair, there is little to distinguish it as belonging to 2017). I also didn't buy the ending at all. The actor who played the Romanian migrant was fantastic though; I would have vastly preferred the film to have been about him instead.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:49 (five years ago) link
There's a scene in the living room where the mom leaves them alone that is the most erotic moment among last year's crop of LGBT films.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:50 (five years ago) link
The actor who played the Romanian migrant was fantastic though; I would have vastly preferred the film to have been about him instead him to marry me.
I read grumblings in year-end retrospectives that GOC >>>> Call Me By Your Name because "authentic" and all that, but how so – cuz it has dirt and they speak in thick accents? It's as fantastical in its own way as CMBYN.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link
I still haven’t seen this but the still is funny
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link
Alfred OTM about GOC and CMBYN both being fantasies.
To be fair, I don't want tragedy from the former; just an acknowledgement that things aren't as simple as the film leaves them at the end.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link
I didn't get that sense; all the director does is lay out that the mom accepts the relationship cuz she needs the help. It's very much like a William Trevor story.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
Does she do a corny speech?
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:58 (five years ago) link
next up, two films that placed last year get their shoulders jammed together trying to get back in the door
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link
― jeremy cmbyn (wins),
She has four sentences total in the film so
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:06 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/2O11wb3.jpg
33= Certain Women w/d: Kelly Reichardt 59 points, 3 votes
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:06 (five years ago) link
Placed at #9 in 2016, with 8 votes and 223 points.
otm, I think the editing is key to her style. It lets her take those long pauses because her cuts are so good. Sometimes she can get a little on the nose with it, but usually it's surprising and interesting. And she has a good eye for deadpan, which shows up in odd places. The repeated takes of the corgi were hilarious and cute but in a totally naturalistic way -- corgis are hilarious and cute. ― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 6 November 2016
Ah shit I didn’t vote for this in either year for some reason. Easily one of my very faves of whatever year I saw it in and has stayed with me more than some stuff I did vote for
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link
I'm just going to vote for Sherlock Jr. every year.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
Alfred otm about GoC, except that old woman is the dude's grandmother. Put the subtitles on.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:13 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/MnkPPT4.jpg
33= I Am Not Your Negro d: Raoul Peck (doco) 59 points, 6 votes
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link
Placed at 18 in 2016, with 7 votes and 163 points.
I Am Not Your Negro was very good. Not a perfect movie - I think the editing of the first 20-30 minutes was trying to hard, like he didn't trust the material - but the last hour was great. I hope people see it. ― EZ Snappin, 18 February 2017
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link
Imagine if everyone had the opportunity to see these in the same year, some of this mid-countdown stuff would be top 10 I reckon
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
Like zama will def place again next year
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:17 (five years ago) link
She has four sentences total in the film soLack of corny speech from accepting parent def a plus 👍
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
I loved Certain Women, especially for the Stewart/Gladstone segment, and I only saw it this year, so I'm ok with people voting for it.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
wait a second Certain Women came out the weekend before the presidential election wtf is it doing here. i mean yeah it is a masterpiece but this thing of movies placing in two different year end lists is extremely off the money
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:23 (five years ago) link
GOC was a debut? I guess it pairs up nicely with The Levelling as much as anything else (families, young ppl, farming, Brexit, drama)
― imago, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:23 (five years ago) link
xpost
Probably had different release dates in Europe, etc.
For what it's worth, I see about 98% of the new movies I watch from library rentals, so everything's a good 6 months to a year late for me anyway. But that's why I don't vote in these things.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
Voted for CW last year.
flappy bird otm
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
Flaps I’m not explaining how time works again just search back thru all of my on the money posts in every single one of these threads
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
don't worry, people still vote for things that screened in exactly two cities in the entire world
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:27 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/H0MYkJK.jpg
32. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) w/d: Noah Baumbach 63 points, 4 votes
Sandler is a serious hurdle for me ― Οὖτις, 4 October 2017 adam sandler sucks ― marcos, 4 October 2017 Baumbach kinda sucks shit too let's be real ― kurt schwitterz, 4 October 2017
― Οὖτις, 4 October 2017
adam sandler sucks
― marcos, 4 October 2017
Baumbach kinda sucks shit too let's be real
― kurt schwitterz, 4 October 2017
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:28 (five years ago) link
Tried to compile one but The Last Jedi made my top ten and I realized I saw way too many good-not-great moviesThere's always one post like this - please vote next year, ILX needs you to push the waves of ILF back.In other news, this is a long list of things that are not better than Thor: Ragnarok.― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
There's always one post like this - please vote next year, ILX needs you to push the waves of ILF back.
In other news, this is a long list of things that are not better than Thor: Ragnarok.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
There is no need to fight it - Poptimism is dead and Brexit is happening.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:30 (five years ago) link
i also voted for the Baldwin doc last year.
Groundhog Day should win the poll.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
had Meyerowitz at #7; v slept-on imho
would have shortlisted Sandler for best actor too, not something i wd've ever envisioned typing
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:32 (five years ago) link
xp If you really don’t want things placing twice the onus was surely on you to wait a year before voting rather than on us to travel back in time from when we could see it to when you were votingBecause of how time works
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:33 (five years ago) link
calzino, this one? if so, which leading actor?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4080956/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link
Really, the solution is to always do the poll in late July so nearly everything that opens on one continent the previous year will have had 7 months to spread, like a social disease.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:36 (five years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TRV9i9S27VQ/UVB49vxrCuI/AAAAAAAAK_g/nBHJTYLqiOM/s320/who-gives-a-shit.jpg
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:36 (five years ago) link
xpI'm wrong, it's Joe Cole in this one, who looks quite similar to Josh O Connor.
― calzino, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
Actually rather agree with the late July idea
― imago, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:38 (five years ago) link
It's a time of year where I need encouragement and impetus to see more films
lol Whiney, that's a path we don't reckon with
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:40 (five years ago) link
Yeah I was gonna say we should do this in the middle of the year every year to avoid these double placements. I live in a mid-sized city in the USA and often get less than half of the prestige/quality art house films until early the next year, often going all the way into March.
Regarding Certain Women:
Flaps I’m not explaining how time works again just search back thru all of my on the money posts in every single one of these threads― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Wednesday, July 25, 2018 2:26 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkdon't worry, people still vote for things that screened in exactly two cities in the entire world― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, July 25, 2018 2:27 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Wednesday, July 25, 2018 2:26 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, July 25, 2018 2:27 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Certain Women came out in Europe in March 2017, and was released on home video in June. this could've been avoided & could be in the future by delaying the poll til mid-summer
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:41 (five years ago) link