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

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

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.

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.

Does she do a corny speech?

next up, two films that placed last year get their shoulders jammed together trying to get back in the door

Does she do a corny speech?

― jeremy cmbyn (wins),

She has four sentences total in the film so

https://i.imgur.com/2O11wb3.jpg

33= Certain Women
w/d: Kelly Reichardt
59 points, 3 votes

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

I'm just going to vote for Sherlock Jr. every year.

Alfred otm about GoC, except that old woman is the dude's grandmother. Put the subtitles on.

https://i.imgur.com/MnkPPT4.jpg

33= I Am Not Your Negro
d: Raoul Peck (doco)
59 points, 6 votes

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

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

Like zama will def place again next year

She has four sentences total in the film so

Lack of corny speech from accepting parent def a plus 👍

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.

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

GOC was a debut? I guess it pairs up nicely with The Levelling as much as anything else (families, young ppl, farming, Brexit, drama)

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.

Voted for CW last year.

flappy bird otm

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

don't worry, people still vote for things that screened in exactly two cities in the entire world

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

Tried to compile one but The Last Jedi made my top ten and I realized I saw way too many good-not-great movies

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.

i also voted for the Baldwin doc last year.

Groundhog Day should win the poll.

had Meyerowitz at #7; v slept-on imho

would have shortlisted Sandler for best actor too, not something i wd've ever envisioned typing

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 voting

Because of how time works

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

calzino, this one? if so, which leading actor?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4080956/

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.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TRV9i9S27VQ/UVB49vxrCuI/AAAAAAAAK_g/nBHJTYLqiOM/s320/who-gives-a-shit.jpg

xp
I'm wrong, it's Joe Cole in this one, who looks quite similar to Josh O Connor.

Actually rather agree with the late July idea

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

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 Permalink

don'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

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

and in the USA it opened pretty wide for an indie movie in the fall of 2016

like, is Moonlight going to show up next? that was the last movie I saw before the election

hello nerds, I see you funhaters placed John Wick 2 & Thor Ragnarok TOO LOW

sticking around in the hopes that Kong Skull Island cracks the top 10 :D

I mean we can hold the poll in midsummer if the pollrunner agrees, just don’t come the “huhhhh? I saw this last year I don’t understand how this could possibly have happened” shit every fucking year

https://i.imgur.com/50lXXJL.jpg

31. The Shape of Water
d: Guillermo del Toro w: Guillermo del Toro, Daníel Kraus and Vanessa Taylor
68 points, 4 votes

This was ok but there’s such a disconnect between the romantic, fanciful tone the movie aims for and the fact that it’s about a goddamn slimy fish monster.

There’s barely even a buildup to the romance! Sally Hawkins is making fuck eyes almost as soon as she sees the thing. Does she have a fetish for nicitating membranes or something?

Also can you imagine how ungodly this thing must smell?

― latebloomer, 24 December 2017

it stinks

For all of the hullabaloo over the interspecies romance, I thought it was the most underdeveloped aspect of the film. I liked it, but its a better piece of filmmaking than writing, for sure.

It's july and I still haven't seen Zama, so who's laughing now, huh?

Zama would have been my #1 if I'd voted probably

Simon!!

Vote for it next year