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

lol relax nerd, this poll won’t affect the rotten tomato score

Vinnie is correct. I only saw about 55 eligible releases from last year, and when I drew up a rough list of 25, The Last Jedi got one of the last spots. I said, "OK, obviously I need to cut it off at 20."

Good mourning!

so is the bear movie God's Own Country?

They are all the bear movie

you guys and your injokes

"ragnarok" is the sound i make when i'm tryin to cough something up btw

speaking of snobby-ass highbrow shit about aging and death by long-time auteurs that ppl voted higher than Thor: Ragnarok

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39. Logan
d: James Mangold w: James Mangold, Michael Green & Scott Frank
51 points, 5 votes

Logan taken me by surprise, it was quite stirring at points and seeing an adorable little girl brutally murder adults was thrilling. But somehow I can't say I liked it or recommend it that much.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, 28 November 2017

not a terrible movie but not a good one

the idea of Logan is hilarious.

like I have no idea how or why it exists, but someone was like "what if we made a children's movie ... for adults" and they did it. I know it's not the same, but it's almost like making a billion dollar version of a deviantart drawing where woody and buzz lightyear fuck or something

like making a billion dollar version of a deviantart drawing where woody and buzz lightyear fuck or something

This is pretty much the future of cinema.

"logan" oddly reminiscent of "children of men" in a lot of ways

https://i.imgur.com/BKWloJr.jpg

38. Free Fire
d: Ben Wheatley w: Amy Jump & Ben Wheatley
53 points, 4 votes

Free Fire being talked about anywhere? Just watched it, I actually found the first act more intresting than the fire fight, which tested my patience. Appreciated it as an exercise, but I don't think they really pulled it off. Some good lines though.

― chap, Thursday, 17 August 2017

i'm with chap

a concept so uninteresting i might never watch another Wheatley film again

Huh

This was alright, far from their best

cheers for turning into Edgar Wright tho, we really needed two of them

This was great fun. Score ANOTHER to ILX's Charlton massive

This wasn't Edgar Wright, it was Martin McDonagh, and better than most of his stuff

Logan, Ragnarok – I saw them, didn't get the praise, they ran like overlong MU films

living in a world of MU films you're bound to ascribe a bit of gravitas to the extra-long po-faced ones

i guess the genre chaff will continue most of today

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37. Happy End
w/d: Michael Haneke
54 points, 5 votes

I kinda forgot about this

I will make sure to vote for his tv show when it comes out tho

That one only premiered in 2018 in Denmark, so nobody should have been allowed to vote for it!!!

got added to my revised ballot due to coming out in the US in 2018

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36. Zama
w/d: Lucrecia Martel
56 points, 3 votes

Zama (Lucretia Martel, 2017) - a very smart adaptation of a not v filmable book where Martel is bringing in her own eye to this skeleton of a story of an utterly ordinary man who cannot go back home. Shades of Apocalypse Now (without the hippie-dom) and Coup de Torchon but its very much its own thing.

― xyzzzz__, 31 May 2018

Fucking loved this, will rank it very highly next year

Saw it at the NYFF last year, gave it a 7/10. Did not open in the US til this spring, so I did not list it.

I loved this loads, only just saw it the other night.

Zama is often inscrutable but beguilingly so.

This year's list is ... just so very strange.

free fire v inferior stuff

In a perfect world Zama is a good 50 places ahead of Free Fire. Potentially Wheatley's most underperforming film given the resources.

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35. God’s Own Country
w/d: Francis Lee
58 points, 6 votes

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

excellent movie, excellent jed quote!

the same leading actor was in an ultraviolent Thai prison/kickboxing movie, that I fell asleep watching on sat night.

Oh man Zama is amazing.

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

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.

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.

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.

I still haven’t seen this but the still is funny