criticizing this movie for being non-canonical is p weird. as with it's predecessor it conforms to a "kid plays with toys" logic that has no bearing on continuity or reality.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 18:55 (five years ago) link
I watched Double King just now on the basis of this poll and I didn't enjoy it all. It's done in that flash style that I associate with faux-edgy early/mid 2000s animation, and it isn't really any fun. Good for two of you for managing to sneak something so obscure into the year-end countdown, though, I guess.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link
yeah it was garbage
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 18:59 (five years ago) link
w: Bill Finger
also lol
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 19:00 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/uA6pD8h.jpg
48. Raw w/d: Julia Ducournau 41 points, 4 votes
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 19:03 (five years ago) link
look on the bright side: there'll be no tarantino film
xp
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link
damn a four way tie to kick things off?
xxp ah yeah Raw, I liked it, my brother loved it though, saw it 3 or 4 times in theaters I think
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link
Raw is vg, I appreciate that its big punchline is a direct lift from teen wolf
― Centipedes? In this economy? (wins), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 19:06 (five years ago) link
Raw is great
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 19:10 (five years ago) link
we have the first #1 vote to place coming up next
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 19:16 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/qz39gQ4.jpg
47. John Wick: Chapter 2 d: Chad Stahelski w: Derek Kolstad 43 points, 3 votes, 1 #1
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
also, i finally saw JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2 and i didn't love it. but i didn't hate it. but i do kinda get why people like the idea of a fancy world-wide secret society of bad people who follow certain RULES. people are drawn to rules for some reason. and protocol. and ceremony. just ask game of thrones. ― scott seward, 6 February 2018
I've liked every Mungiu film. Graduation least. I removed it from my ballot at the last minute.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
I absolutely loved Tales from the Golden Age, wasn't so mad about graduation.
― calzino, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link
please stop making zombie things.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 19:37 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/XmVUImO.jpg
46. Thor Ragnarok d: Taika Waititi w: Crusty Bunkers 44 points, 5 votes
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 19:39 (five years ago) link
gah
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link
This was good, not great. The humor sometimes fought with the stakes of the plot - I thought the GotG movies integrated humor better. This would have been a better movie if they just kept it on the junkyard planet and had more Goldblum, but I say that about every movie ― Vinnie, 26 October 2017
whats fucking right with you people!
― calzino, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link
let us know when the kiddie shows are done
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
And the kitty shows.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 19:45 (five years ago) link
it's a doggo in John Wick, not a kitty.
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 19:48 (five years ago) link
pleased to have gotten Double King and Kedi into this
― imago, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
can't fucking stand cats, but it looks a worthwhile film.
― calzino, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
Double King esp is some staggering animation (AND sound design) imo and fuiud. there will always be space for an animated short on my ballot as long as it isn't by that hertzfeldt dullard
― imago, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
y'all are lucky i didn't vote. woulda put ragnarok in my top 5
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 19:57 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/1dSqzmw.jpg
45. Ingrid Goes West d: Matt Spicer w: Matt Spicer & David Branson Smith 45 points, 3 votes
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 20:00 (five years ago) link
Ingrid Goes West over Columbus for best first feature is some bullshit. (Not as much as magically promoting Get Out beyond the category, of course.) ― Dr Morbius, 4 March 2018
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 20:01 (five years ago) link
Aubrey Plaza and Elizabeth Olsen gave two of my favorite performances of the year (the movie's okay to pretty good).
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 20:04 (five years ago) link
Ingrid Goes West wasn’t doing anything particularly unexpected, but I love it when the protagonist of a film is a genuine creep (a role Aubrey Plaza was born to play). It was much funnier than I expected too.
― tangenttangent, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 20:05 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/M4oWbkF.jpg
42= The Levelling w/d: Hope Dickson Leach 46 points, 3 votes
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
Ragnarok is the best Marvel movie (low bar)
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
on pace for a record number of films i've never heard of. at least that one is cuz it's British
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 20:17 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/GRW1vB1.png
42= The Disaster Artist d: James Franco w: Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber 46 points, 3 votes
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 20:23 (five years ago) link
I thought "the disaster artist" was disappointing. Wiseau is just far too strange a dude to be portrayed as a loveable eccentric dreamer. Seems like a missed opportunity and the biggest laughs were just stuff taken from the movie itself. Although I didnt know the guy was so loaded before I saw the movie. Where did all Wiseau's money come from?! ― Michael B, 29 March 2018
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link
this has got to get better soon
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
"Disaster" indeed
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/BTUWyUF.jpg
42= Western w/d: Valeska Grisebach 46 points, 3 votes
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 20:35 (five years ago) link
Voting for that next year.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 20:36 (five years ago) link
great film, didn't vote for it this year
― devvvine, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 20:37 (five years ago) link
First of my votes to place :)
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 20:37 (five years ago) link
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 20:37 (five years ago) link
I was curious about that one but at the same time I felt like I'd seen the entire thing in the trailer
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 20:38 (five years ago) link
xp Although I disagree that it wasn’t doing anything unexpected - so few movies (esp. wide release comedies) feature completely insane and repulsive characters who are given no reprieve.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 20:39 (five years ago) link
i have no idea if a good social-media monster movie has been made. trying Unfriended next maybe.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 20:41 (five years ago) link
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 20:41 (five years ago) link
Western is currently #1 on my 2018 ballot
― i know kore-eda (or something), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link
The Levelling was understated at the time but has grown on me in retrospect and it feels very Necessary and Of Its Time in a UK spirit-of-the-age way - it has a memorable ambience. Score another one to the imago/tt household
― imago, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 20:51 (five years ago) link
Also, it's a debut feature that's actually good, which is always exciting
― imago, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 20:52 (five years ago) link
was talking to my son and his girlfriend earlier tonight about Unfriended - they didn't think much of it and said it only made visual sense if watch it on a laptop, i'm guessing it's not for you Morbs.
― the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
Atomic Blonde, Kingsman 2, Mutafukaz, Zombilennium and The Death Of Stalin.
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Saturday, 28 July 2018 08:13 (five years ago) link
golf clap
― the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 28 July 2018 09:59 (five years ago) link
Thanks sic.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 28 July 2018 17:05 (five years ago) link
Behind the scenes secret! I preferred this Phantom Thread still, but couldn't pass up the duelling grimaces of Root and Manville in one post.
https://i.imgur.com/Nm10axt.jpg
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Saturday, 28 July 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
this is such a trite morbsian false dichotomy, but even so, to engage it as if it were in fact the thrust of the matter: the disregard for whether a movie was a well or badly executed effort of or against its obvious genre classification in order to lobby for the right *type* of movie is a large element of these results
tactical voting is of course the other disgrace. amazing thing for an adult to be doing in ths context.
for an ILE poll on ILF subject matter, its all very ILM
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Friday, July 27, 2018 12:42 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
uh talk about windbags
― macropuente (map), Saturday, 28 July 2018 22:09 (five years ago) link
"One other person would have had to put my #1 as their #15 or higher for it to place."
sic, what was your #1? don't remember seeing it in the results thread. (and thank you so much for doing this!)
― Dan S, Saturday, 28 July 2018 22:44 (five years ago) link
xp 😘
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Saturday, 28 July 2018 23:35 (five years ago) link
wow no one else voted for Wonderstruck?
― flappy bird, Monday, 30 July 2018 16:44 (five years ago) link
I was put off by the reviews!
― Alba, Monday, 30 July 2018 17:05 (five years ago) link
I did
― Dan S, Monday, 30 July 2018 17:07 (five years ago) link
I think I have loved every Todd Haynes film! I was disappointed he didn't make it on the 101 directors poll list
― Dan S, Monday, 30 July 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
i did not love Carol, and i unloved Wonderstruck even more (the b&w silent scenes with the girl mostly excepted_
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 July 2018 17:40 (five years ago) link
I loved Carol, easily one of my favorite movies of the decade so far. Wonderstruck was slight in comparison, but that final sequence with the stop motion animation and the model of NYC was really beautiful. I think it was my #24.
― flappy bird, Monday, 30 July 2018 17:58 (five years ago) link
I thought Carol was great too, for me it was right up there with Velvet Goldmine and Safe
― Dan S, Monday, 30 July 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link
Safe > Superstar > Poison >>> Carol > Mildred Pierce > Velvet Goldmine >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Far From Heaven
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Monday, 30 July 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
closer to backwards than not...
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 July 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
I’ve been finally watching Twin Peaks: The Return and have been reading the excellent spoiler thread along the way. I haven’t seen the whole thing yet but I’m pretty sure if I had seen it in time I would have included it on my list of favorite 2017 films! I’m glad I rewatched S1/2 and Fire Walk With Me before seeing this, it made it that much more of a thing to enjoy obsessing over
― Dan S, Monday, 30 July 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link
Colossal, by Nacho Vigalondo. I was startled that this completely disappeared from cultural conversation, especially for the world of 2017. A film about medium-town America values, and a feeling of helplessness in the face of personal and world events, and especially about man-to-woman emotional manipulation and gaslighting, that also has big special effects and things being smashed. All built on a very tenuous metaphor that is nevertheless kept simple and unadorned enough to support the weight laden on it.
I had the fortune of going in knowing almost nothing about it, which really helped.
(You're welcome, Dan, and everyone else. It probably wasn't really worth staying up til 4am a couple of nights preparing, but the rollout was lots of fun, and I've got a bunch of new films to maybe watch on a television screen one day.)
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 23:07 (five years ago) link
Just saw Raw and The Levelling because of this thread. Loved both, especially the latter!
― Cherish, Saturday, 4 August 2018 19:51 (five years ago) link
Finally saw Wind River. I assumed it would be on here--it was either that, or post to an Olsen Twins thread. Anyway, thought it was good. I liked Jeremy Renner in American Hustle, but I think this is the best performance I've seen by him. Elizabeth Olsen has been good in all three films I've seen her in.
― clemenza, Sunday, 24 February 2019 16:37 (five years ago) link
There was a thread recently where there was some debate over when the year-end film poll should be. I thought it would have been here, but I guess not.
Anyway, I wanted to run a political-film poll this summer. Is is possible for the year-end to be over and done with before then?
― clemenza, Thursday, 14 March 2019 02:40 (five years ago) link