THE FUTURE IS FILMIC EJACULATIONS: The ILX Film Poll (for 2018 viewings) Voting Thread - Ballots Due Friday June 21st

At least half of forks' Amazon picks are also on Kanopy, for general reference, as is the Grace Jones doco

2) It was shot on film and looks like cinema. Personal Problems was shot on low-grade video and looks it.

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24 Frames and Claire’s Camera are available on the Criterion Channel. Vice, Mission Impossible: Fallout, Searching, and Thoroughbreds are available on netflix dvd for those who have a subscription. Hale County and Under the Silver Lake will be released to netflix dvd on 6/18

glad to hear on the criterion channel notes; wasn't aware they were posting stuff so quick these days.

i doun't get the Tadpole thing, sic, but one is aesthetically a long film, the other is not

Eight Hours is a TV show at the end of the day though, I don't know why CC banded the episodes together on their release, it is not a long film. Aesthetically it is cinematic but you could say the same for, idk, Atlanta or something. Even Girls. But Eight Hours was made for television and the 5 episodes aired separately in Germany. anyway I know it was new to USA in 2018 and it did screen in marathon sessions here. But this is slippy territory, no?

yes, so everyone make up their own rules, like everyone here always does.

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omg morbs gets it 😀

oh i've "gotten" this place for awhile

and as Chico Marx said, "I abject."

(voting Duck Soup)

i rarely see movies in their year of release but... i might be able to vote in this?

Do it!

well, I'm voting for Grand Illusion and The Tenant, Brad, so go or it.

maybe i'll vote for the emoji movie

yes, so everyone make up their own rules, like everyone here always does.

can't tell if this is approval or disapproval -- lol, never mind, idgaf

i rarely see movies in their year of release but... i might be able to vote in this?

― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, May 30, 2019 10:28 AM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah go for it, I found that there were 10 valid movies I liked, who cares if I haven't seen 90 more of them

a few people here usually

i keep forgetting to vote in ILM year-end polls just to fuck with them

If you're participating in a poll of the year's best films and you've seen only a handful of that year's movies, you shouldn't vote -- that's my argument fuiud

sic has set fair limits - stricter than I would have tbh - anyone who meets those limits is welcome imo

Emoji movie not eligible

😔

as far as worst films of 2018 go, for your consideration:

22 July
Blaze
Disobedience
Boy Erased
Beautiful Boy

I had these on my list.

my least fave nods from last year would go to:
Sorry To Bother You
Damsel
Mary and the Witch’s Flower
Bernard and Huey
Shirkers
If Beale Street Could Talk
Annihilation
Oscar Nominated Short Drama

fucked if i'm gonna watch green book in this life

it's honestly not bad if you watch it with the rest of the Farrelly Brothers oeuvre in mind

I thought Sorry to Bother You was the most overrated movie of the year but I loved the first half hour, totally fell apart after that

It never played here
Green book, beautiful boy, life itself were in a particular category of unseen 18 films that not only looked terrible but actually looked like joke movies, made up for a sketch or something

Really just talking about the trailers but green book was legit simple Jack-esque

Life Itself, like The Happening and The Wicker Man remake, was so unbelievably bad that it crossed over and became immensely enjoyable for me.

more of a 2019 release but i found hansen-love's maya excruciating

Blaze sucked? That’s too bad

Yeah, I was just about to watch that one.

my worst of '18 is probably the Norwegian-German Gavagai... a fave of both Richard Brody and the Danish Troll, as if I wasn't warned.

I'd like to be a contrarian and say that You Were Never Really Here was the worst movie I saw last year, but I somehow sat through all of Ready Player One.

Which is on the lower reaches of my top 24 list because I live to shove Spielberg down ILX's throat.

i'm with you on Sorry 2 Bother flappy

I generally only go and see films I think I'll like, but Suspiria, 3 Billboards and Downsizing were all big 2018 misses for me

Just the thought of a guadagnino 3 hour suspiria makes me crave an early night so I didn’t see it

I bet two of Ward's would have been strong contenders to place on a Worst list last year, due to US release dates

i will absolutely be voting for The Humanity Bureau as well as several other Cage movies (yeah spiderman and mandy aren't unpopular) and I urge you all to watch it and do the same (unless you truly have no stomach for a trainwreck, because it is one of those)

i've yet to watch his movie Between Worlds but I will and I doubt it won't make my list at this point too

I have at least three, maybe four 2018 Cage releases on my ballot

Sorry To Bother You was no 5 Million Ways To Kill A CEO, but I love its fifty-year-old debut-filmmaker GO FOR IT energy

i doun't get the Tadpole thing, sic, but one is aesthetically a long film, the other is not

shot on turn-of-the-century DV, looks like VHS

Eight Hours is a TV show at the end of the day though, I don't know why CC banded the episodes together on their release, it is not a long film. Aesthetically it is cinematic but you could say the same for, idk, Atlanta or something. Even Girls. But Eight Hours was made for television and the 5 episodes aired separately in Germany.

you'll never convince me that this wasn't a cinematic film that I saw in a university lecture hall as school holiday babysitting programming theatre

anyway I know it was new to USA in 2018 and it did screen in marathon sessions here. But this is slippy territory, no?

Twin Peaks didn't just leap into the high ranks of the poll last year bcz Gukbe made an exception for it: it was because lots of people thought it was wonderful, filmic, one of the best-realised expressions of its main creator's auteuric vision through his whole career, genuinely one of the best viewing experiences of the year, and worth voting for despite in no way being intended to watch in one 18-hour stretch.*

People who saw them might vote for Eight Hours Don't Make or Personal Problems this year, or they might not. I strongly doubt that there will be enough of them that we need to, say, handwring over the fact that one episode of the new Twilight Zone is having a single festival screening this week in a converted-to-B&W version, and therefore we're opening a floodgate that will fill next year's poll with CBS All Access streaming episodes.

As someone who gets ludicrously pissy legitimately frustrated with Americans people starting single-choice button polls about musical albums without the correct tracklisting, I'm fine saying that the looseness of ballot polls is a feature not a bug, consensus surprises in results are enormous fun, yes you'll be throwing your vote away, but it's preferential ballots, so you still have 34 more, and we're just a handful of dickheads pissing about on a message board. There are no grand standards being threatened even if one person votes for a Breaking Bad episode with good cinematography.

If you're participating in a poll of the year's best films and you've seen only a handful of that year's movies, you shouldn't vote -- that's my argument fuiud

I never used to vote because not enough good / foreign / arthouse films get released in Australia at all in the C21st; now that I know how impossible it is to even vaguely keep up with what's available in the US, I'm all for anyone who really liked ten movies out of what they saw in a year backing their own judgement.



as far as worst films of 2018 go, for your consideration:

reminder that "worst" covers Netflix as well as cinema releases

* respect knux to anyone who did shotgun the whole thing on DVD in 2018. knux withdrawn if you took toilet breaks during the Roadhouse songs: pissing between disc changeover ONLY

I enjoy that I trolled morbs into watching Gavagai, because I have no idea what it is. Sorry Morbs. Unless by 'Danish troll' you mean LvT.

xp the roadhouse songs were among the best scenes!

i'm with you on Sorry 2 Bother flappy

it was better than Spike Lee's mysteriously Oscared cop show

haven't seen KKKlansman yet.
I'm a big fan of Boots; the movie just got away from him and fell apart in the second act then REALLY fell apart in the third act.

the equines were fine with me. even in the first act, the jokes weren't landing consistently.

I really liked the scene from Roma that you showed in the first post

then you wake up and see drool on your T-shirt.

lol

I know you guys aren't enamored with it but I think it was a lovely film and it's going to be high on my list

I still haven't seen Ash Is Purest White or Transit. It looks like both were put into limited release in the US in March 2019