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

Coco might be my favourite Pixar AND Disney movie. It's incredible

more than Three Colours: Blue?

thought about watching Coco before voting; too busy watching Twin Peaks

There weren't 24 better films than coco in 2017 (or 2016/18)

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24. The Death of Louis XIV
d: lbert Serra w: Albert Serra & Thierry Lounas
102 points, 4 votes

Placed at 40 last year, with 3 votes and 81 points.

GODDAMMIT if only we had strict rules that films which previously placed can't be voted for again. Let's hear from one of those feckless 2017 voters though:

Very much liked Serra's The Death of Louis XIV, both Leaud's expiring king of cinema/France and the unexpectedly clinical payoff. "We will do better next time."

― Dr Morbius, October 24, 2017

been meaning to watch a ghost story for easily a year

just saw this, also just saw Jean-Pierre Leaud in La Chinoise. such bookends

ahahahahaha im glad that was my pull quote

re: the title I remember the advertising leaned on the healthcare thing heavy & iirc the movie did too? I don’t remember

Ohh right it wasn’t really dealt with at all in the movie

Yay Coco!

Meh The Big Sick.

BTW, I'm keeping track of the countdown on Letterboxd

Liking this crazy mish-mash '18/'19 poll.

Serra was my no 2, Happy End no 4 (I called it Happy Days lol), Graduation no 3. Also voted for God's Own Country.

i forgot to vote for shape of water, that shd be higher imo

agree with AF

agree with flappy re big sick

wasnt a better movie than shape of water this year that ive seen

Kedi was shit. On Body and Soul appeared on MUBI twice and I could not be arsed. Big Sick sounds like the bollocks I'll catch on ITV 2 in a couple of years time

I'll vote for Zama next year - probably top 3.

siked for birdman placing this year tbh

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22= Baby Driver
w/d: Edgar Wright
104 points, 8 votes

the trailer for this made it look so good, but it was so lame. the script sucked, the kevin spacey twist at the end was totally unbelievable and out of place, the romance was lame (hmm yes let's drag this poor woman who you've hung out with exactly twice into your drama without asking her first), the choreography was dumb. the whole thing was just so... try-hard. it was like the director watched john wick and thought he'd try making a super slick, stylish, effortless crime caper too but ended up failing miserably.

― just1n3, Monday, July 24, 2017

re: The Square - like it just doesn't work, not least because it will only ever play at the kind of art centres its taking the piss out of. Did you all know that much art theory is imcomprehensible to ordinary people? That woman off Mad Men was in it haha omg.

Hooray for On Body and Soul! I’m not normally one for sparsity but there was so much to think about in the silence that I didn’t mind.

Ghost Story left me cold until the futuristic bit and I only decided to like it at the very end of the film, at which point it totally wiped me out iirc.

Baby Driver was tight idk why so many ppl violently hated it (Anthony Bourdain perhaps most famously?) Never saw a trailer though, and I caught it in its second week when word of mouth had just started & wasn’t saturated yet.

as nice as it is to watch Ansel Elgort, I thought Baby Driver was kind of obnoxious, but I'm generally not a fan of heist movies

Didn’t get The Square at all and I thought it was incredible. I really think the widely criticised plodding satire was a complete fake-out and it was ultimately a fragmented psychotic breakdown of a film and I liked that the allegiances were never clear. The whole thing reaked of failure, which I hope was inherent in the making process too. That shot of him in the trash was a great moment in 2017 cinema.

did you all know that the highly educated white people that run arts centres and spout Marxist art theory all day long are unable to talk to black people?

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22= The Death Of Stalin
d: Armando Ianucci w: Hellwyn Ballard, Brant, Dave Wickford, Freeform Villager
104 points, 6 votes

Laughing like a dickhead just watching the trailer.

― chap, 11 August 2017

honestly I saw it at TIFF and it was dece but certainly no IN THE LOOP. it feels weirdly slight for what's effectively framed as a huge story, whereas ITL managed to be v funny while also telling a complete story about how modern war legislation is sold. certain awful truths of the characters and period sit awkwardly with the lols. Friend and Isaacs are great and should both do more comedy

― Simon H., Sunday, 22 October 2017

Can we try communism again don't give a shit what a bunch of British comedians say

yeah but dude it condemned millions of people to death or lives of grinding poverty

I didn't live through it man it didn't kill me lets have another go.

just1ne otm

death of stalin was great imagine critiquing it as a critique of communism tho id be mortified

i should go watch this now

I str8 loathe Ianucci these days and can't be trusted to give him a fair hearing, but fwiw I thought this was complete cack.

showreel trial

Simon OTM the movie loses so much momentum after 30 minutes and you’re just left bored and pissed off such a good cast & scenario were wasted

Only Isaacs was good, but that was more ball of energy.

Not really Ianucci's fault - very hard material to make a comedy out of.

not nearly as hard as this made it seem.

not hard at all, they managed it

I laughed so hard throughout Death of Stalin and also shivered and that's exactly what the film was about, in that regard it's a complete success, basically I don't agree with you guys but I love you all nonetheless.

I thought it was very funny and surprisingly moving. I'd have preferred everyone to be British, i guess, it would have made more sense and been funnier. Isaacs was the bomb but Andrea Riseborough's performance was stunning as well.

Kedi was shit

what a strong opinion for that particular film

Baby Driver would've been better if there'd been a scene of Ansel and me making out.

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i reckon if Buscemi was a bit more shortarsed he'd make a cracking Yezhov. But the only way to improve The Death of Stalin would be to ditch Ianucci and that style of unsubtle, and unrelenting hard pummelling lol-tested zings in a non-stop manner, that makes me want to give up after 10 mins these days.

of all the posters to eschew unrelenting hard pummelling calz!

I know I'm a wanker, but at least attempt to try and keep it polite!

ha im not having a dig but your style once roused is notably uh..'direct' just sayin it struck me as a contrast to yr criticism of the movie (although yeah its a fair stick to beat DoS with, i just happened to enjoy it)

I might have even liked it myself at some earlier point of my life. I find as I get older some internal switches permanently click into the off position (including the switch marked "intelligence" some might say!) and things i used to be able to watch - i just can't tolerate much anymore.

of all the posters to eschew unrelenting hard pummelling calz!

ha ha otm

i can barely even hard pummel a clove of garlic atm fwiw!

Baby Driver would've been better if there'd been a scene of Ansel and me making out.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, July 25, 2018 4:20 PM (thirty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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