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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Zama was high on my ballot this year but after seeing how low it placed I'm definitely voting for it again next year

I never vote in these cause I only see like 30 movies a year

(I used to see, like, 300)

That’s a poor excuse, mordy sees three a year and even he takes the time to put together a top 3 ffs

Mordy did a top ten and half of them have placed already. this satisfaction could be yours too!

I don't really get the arguments over something like Certain Women (which I liked better the second time and voted for). It played in Toronto at TIFF, and then I'm almost positive opened for a short run in early 2017. I don't go to TIFF. Voting for it seemed perfectly reasonable.

I'm definitely voting in the next ILM album poll as i hear at least two per year these days

after seeing how low it placed I'm definitely voting for it again next year

assuming this poll is roughly based on Pazz & Jop, this should not be permitted

true, but if the poll were based on Pazz & Jop wouldn't we also be adding last year's votes into this year's, with Toni Erdmann would win two years in a row?

*winning

Is it me or is this shit worse than usual this year?

as i remember it, Dan, there was an asterisk for those albums, saying "received (x) votes last year" -- but they were not added

but i could be wrong

the points totals start taking some bigger leaps from here

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30. The Square
w/d: Ruben Östlund
78 points, 5 votes

a dark satire of the people atop the institutions of high contemporary art that won the palme d'or this year, for some reason. a couple great scenes and some quality dry LOLs, but overall i found it underwhelming and solidly an hour too long. claes bang is extremely handsome.

― flopson, Wednesday, 22 November 2017

wow

The good parts of this are really good tho

didn't like the trailer, reviews were mixed, and i thought Östlund's avalanche comedy was overrated

As someone said on the thread (& I said about I think wiener-dog) there is no surer sign of bankruptcy than going for the low-hanging fruit of “a satire of the contemporary art scene!”

that extended performance art scene at the fancy museum dinner started out feeling embarrassing but by the end was so brutal I had to look away