Delayed Due To Projection Issues - the 2017 ILX Film Poll Results Thread

I've liked every Mungiu film. Graduation least. I removed it from my ballot at the last minute.

I absolutely loved Tales from the Golden Age, wasn't so mad about graduation.

please stop making zombie things.

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46. Thor Ragnarok
d: Taika Waititi w: Crusty Bunkers
44 points, 5 votes

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gah

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!

let us know when the kiddie shows are done

And the kitty shows.

it's a doggo in John Wick, not a kitty.

pleased to have gotten Double King and Kedi into this

can't fucking stand cats, but it looks a worthwhile film.

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

y'all are lucky i didn't vote. woulda put ragnarok in my top 5

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45. Ingrid Goes West
d: Matt Spicer w: Matt Spicer & David Branson Smith
45 points, 3 votes

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

Aubrey Plaza and Elizabeth Olsen gave two of my favorite performances of the year (the movie's okay to pretty good).

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.

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42= The Levelling
w/d: Hope Dickson Leach
46 points, 3 votes

Ragnarok is the best Marvel movie (low bar)

xp

on pace for a record number of films i've never heard of. at least that one is cuz it's British

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42= The Disaster Artist
d: James Franco w: Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber
46 points, 3 votes

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

this has got to get better soon

"Disaster" indeed

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42= Western
w/d: Valeska Grisebach
46 points, 3 votes

Voting for that next year.

great film, didn't vote for it this year

First of my votes to place :)

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.

I was curious about that one but at the same time I felt like I'd seen the entire thing in the trailer

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.

i have no idea if a good social-media monster movie has been made. trying Unfriended next maybe.

I was curious about that one but at the same time I felt like I'd seen the entire thing in the trailer

Western is currently #1 on my 2018 ballot

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

Also, it's a debut feature that's actually good, which is always exciting

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.

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40= Detroit
d: Kathryn Bigelow w: Mark Boal
49 points, 3 votes

We were going to see Detroit but i read a few things like this http://thegrapevine.theroot.com/i-walked-out-of-detroit-because-wtf-man-1797338083 and we decided not to and then didn't even go to the movies after all.

― El Tomboto, 18 August 2017

I forgot that movie existed.

enjoying these pull quotes sic

Well made, not that well thought out.

And yeah, the quotes are great, lol.

Detroit shook me right up. That and The Levelling the only two I've voted for so far.

Oh, and Western, of course.

what we're gonna do right here is go back

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40= Toni Erdmann
w/d: Maren Ade
49 points, 2 votes 1 #1

Placed at #1 in 2016, with 18 votes, 475 points, and 2 #1 votes.

I really need to give it another shot because I do think it has enough going for it that it deserves as much but after all the rapturous acclaim, I found this movie kind of a letdown. Humor-wise, I didn't find it all that funny beside those two scenes (Whitney and nudity), but that being said, those two scenes are the funniest scenes I've seen in movies in years.

― Murgatroid, Wednesday, 4 January 2017

Just realised that all three I've voted for so far are directed by women and I would have probably voted for Toni Erdmann too if it wasn't so old.

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.

I thought Carol was great too, for me it was right up there with Velvet Goldmine and Safe

Safe > Superstar > Poison >>> Carol > Mildred Pierce > Velvet Goldmine >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Far From Heaven

closer to backwards than not...

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

sic, what was your #1? don't remember seeing it in the results thread. (and thank you so much for doing this!)

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.)

Just saw Raw and The Levelling because of this thread. Loved both, especially the latter!

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.

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?