glad to hear on the criterion channel notes; wasn't aware they were posting stuff so quick these days.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 30 May 2019 15:23 (four years ago) link
i doun't get the Tadpole thing, sic, but one is aesthetically a long film, the other is not
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 May 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
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?
― flappy bird, Thursday, 30 May 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link
yes, so everyone make up their own rules, like everyone here always does.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 May 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
https://comeheretome.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/witt.jpg
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Thursday, 30 May 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
omg morbs gets it 😀
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Thursday, 30 May 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
oh i've "gotten" this place for awhile
and as Chico Marx said, "I abject."
(voting Duck Soup)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 May 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
i rarely see movies in their year of release but... i might be able to vote in this?
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 30 May 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
Do it!
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Thursday, 30 May 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
well, I'm voting for Grand Illusion and The Tenant, Brad, so go or it.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 May 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
maybe i'll vote for the emoji movie
― flappy bird, Thursday, 30 May 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
can't tell if this is approval or disapproval -- lol, never mind, idgaf
― The Bite Game with Jim Lamprey (WmC), Thursday, 30 May 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link
― 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
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Thursday, 30 May 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
a few people here usually
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 30 May 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
i keep forgetting to vote in ILM year-end polls just to fuck with them
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 May 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
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
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 May 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link
sic has set fair limits - stricter than I would have tbh - anyone who meets those limits is welcome imoEmoji movie not eligible
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Thursday, 30 May 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
😔
― flappy bird, Thursday, 30 May 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
as far as worst films of 2018 go, for your consideration:
22 JulyBlazeDisobedienceBoy ErasedBeautiful Boy
― flappy bird, Thursday, 30 May 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
I had these on my list.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 May 2019 18:03 (four years ago) link
my least fave nods from last year would go to:Sorry To Bother YouDamsel Mary and the Witch’s FlowerBernard and HueyShirkersIf Beale Street Could TalkAnnihilationOscar Nominated Short Drama
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 30 May 2019 18:03 (four years ago) link
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
― flappy bird, Thursday, 30 May 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link
It never played hereGreen 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
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Thursday, 30 May 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link
Really just talking about the trailers but green book was legit simple Jack-esque
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Thursday, 30 May 2019 18:14 (four years ago) link
Life Itself, like The Happening and The Wicker Man remake, was so unbelievably bad that it crossed over and became immensely enjoyable for me.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 30 May 2019 18:18 (four years ago) link
more of a 2019 release but i found hansen-love's maya excruciating
― devvvine, Thursday, 30 May 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
Blaze sucked? That’s too bad
― Heez, Thursday, 30 May 2019 18:46 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I was just about to watch that one.
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Thursday, 30 May 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
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.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 May 2019 19:02 (four years ago) link
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.
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Thursday, 30 May 2019 19:06 (four years ago) link
Which is on the lower reaches of my top 24 list because I live to shove Spielberg down ILX's throat.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Thursday, 30 May 2019 19:19 (four years ago) link
i'm with you on Sorry 2 Bother flappy
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 30 May 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link
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
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 30 May 2019 19:25 (four years ago) link
Just the thought of a guadagnino 3 hour suspiria makes me crave an early night so I didn’t see it
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Thursday, 30 May 2019 19:28 (four years ago) link
I bet two of Ward's would have been strong contenders to place on a Worst list last year, due to US release dates
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 30 May 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
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
― km not doin typos anymore (Will M.), Thursday, 30 May 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
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
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.
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
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 30 May 2019 20:12 (four years ago) link
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.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 30 May 2019 20:20 (four years ago) link
xp the roadhouse songs were among the best scenes!
― Dan S, Thursday, 30 May 2019 20:25 (four years ago) link
it was better than Spike Lee's mysteriously Oscared cop show
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 May 2019 20:36 (four years ago) link
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.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 30 May 2019 21:40 (four years ago) link
the equines were fine with me. even in the first act, the jokes weren't landing consistently.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 May 2019 00:25 (four years ago) link
I really liked the scene from Roma that you showed in the first post
― Dan S, Friday, 31 May 2019 01:04 (four years ago) link
then you wake up and see drool on your T-shirt.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 May 2019 01:06 (four years ago) link
lol
― Dan S, Friday, 31 May 2019 01:09 (four years ago) link
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
― Dan S, Friday, 31 May 2019 01:11 (four years ago) link
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
― Dan S, Friday, 31 May 2019 01:29 (four years ago) link
also The Wild Pear Tree didn't released in the US until 2019
― Dan S, Friday, 31 May 2019 01:36 (four years ago) link
didn't = wasn't
― Dan S, Friday, 31 May 2019 01:40 (four years ago) link