"I cannot start my day with a confrontation" The 2017 ILX Film Poll Voting Thread - Ballots Due Sunday, March 4th at 7pm EST.

HEY GUYS

I have the old ballots, so if you don't want to change anything, just sit tight.

Anyone who wants to revise their ballot due to seeing more '17 releases in the last few months, belated embarrassment at your choices, or fury at The Discourse, please send me something by WEDNESDAY 18th July, 20:00 PDT / Thursday 19th 04:00 BST / Thursday 13:00 AEST.

nice work sic. I'm not changing owt, that's cheating!

btw reminder to Americans that Paddington 2 is a 2017 release

Where do we send revised ballots? Same gmail as prev ballot?

just ILXmail 'em to me, it's going to make it easier to tell the old from the new.

sent

btw reminder to Americans that Paddington 2 is a 2017 release

― kelp, clam and carrion (sic)

thank you :)

It's tempting to resubmit so I could not vote for Phantom Thread a second time, but go with what I have--went through my last-x-movies posts since January and couldn't see anything I'd want to add.

deadline at least a week OK?

I still haven't seen enough good movies from 2017 to feel confident about submitting a ballot, but I just checked out the title that I imagine will end up winning the poll from the library, so we'll see?

btw reminder to Americans that Paddington 2 is a 2017 release

― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), 14. juli 2018 23:47 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ugh, I wasn't going to change my ballot, but I kinda want to vote for Paddington...

I think 120 BPM is the only one I might add to my list.

Sent mine

is there any point in resubmitting to vote for Western or is everyone voting for it next year?

I can't find my ballot, but I think I voted for it this year.

If I finally get round to seeing it and like it, it’ll be on next year’s. I do have some standards (although I can never remember what they are)

I will be voting for Western in the poll of films we saw in 2018

Oh, thank you for reminding me of Western. It will be high on my list.

Western is quite emphatically a 2018 film here but I ignore that criterion all the time for films that come out in the early months of the year and that I know our stateside friends will be voting for because they saw it 9 months before we did. Obv I also vote for stuff that came out here that didn’t make it there yet, as an honest snapshot of my viewing and a corrective to the America-is-the-world chauvinism that leads to thread titles like THE LOBSTER (2016) - but I’m pretty sure at least once I have voted for the same film again in its year of global impact lol. & I vote for festival films fucking whenever cause I don’t give a shit

Staggered release dates continue to suck in the DCP era not least because of this annual conversation itt

Western did not receive a US theatrical release until this year.

Haha so only Fred saw it last year? I changed my mind then, we should all vote for it now

It thought it got released over most of Europe in 2017, so I'll doubt I was the only one who saw it in 17.

Btw, is there any chance I could get my ballot sent to me? I have no idea where I put it, and no idea what I voted for, and I really really really want to help Paddington.

a gravely miscalculated revive on my part

Paddington will win

Look what you did

Aw, come on. You know it's right.
https://media.giphy.com/media/3o7btUy4M3XaoZZATS/giphy.gif

I haven’t seen either of them! I’ve heard good things. Won’t speak for morbius but I have nothing against kid movies, just get peeved by the amount of cultural real estate they commandeer these days. We’re all having fun here

Oh, wait, found my ballot. Yeah, I voted for Western.

Western was in the 2017 Sight and Sound top ten, fwiw.

elitists

Re-submitted! Mostly just to re-order, because some wore better over time.

thread titles like THE LOBSTER (2016)

wow I saw this on a plane (that took off from US soil) in 2015

I haven’t seen either of them! I’ve heard good things. Won’t speak for morbius but I have nothing against kid movies, just get peeved by the amount of cultural real estate they commandeer these days. We’re all having fun here

The Paddingtons are absolutely "family" films, not kid films, and the balance is tipped much further toward adult viewers and film nerds in #2

btw USA, it's screening again in Regal theatres on Tuesday Aug 14 and Weds Aug 15, for $1

elitists

will vote Western then to stop Paddington winning

Probably too obscure. Try Dunkirk.

lemme tell you about a little film called Darkest Hour

Meh. Their Finest! Lone Scherfig, one of the great.

sent my revised ballot! also mostly to re-order

I redid mine from scratch before looking at my old one; discovered that the first four were the same with one order flipped. After two days I decided I was right before and flipped them again. (A whole bunch were dropped altogether.)

will send it along in a couple days

Me too

Wait, who are we sending ballots to this time?

sic, via ILX mail, apparently. Is it reliable?

A reminder that the shamefully overlooked The Other Side of Hope is available from the Criterion Collection.

That was one of the main reasons I wanted to send a revised ballot.

i applaud you

I wasn’t going to revise mine, did so to include The Other Side of Hope, and was surprised to realize it was in my top 3.

Is it reliable?

I've received five revised ballots so far

Wait, if I include Western then I should really include Jeune Femme. This whole thing is falling apart.

My general rule is that I'd rather vote for things I like in the year I think other people will vote for them if there's a choice. There doesn't seem to be anything to be gained from sticking to the year I saw them in an exercise like this, and I usually don't bother voting for something if it's already appeared prominently the year before because of a much earlier US release date.

think Western will probs do better next year, will be revising for The Other Side of Hope though

On the one hand, I really think we're overestimating how well Western would be doing, even if we all coordinated our votes. On the other, removing it would leave me space for Paddington. Hmmmm...