I Just Wanted To Take Another Look At You - the 2018 ILX Film Poll Results Thread

Let the Sunshine In was my #2 and I highly recommend it for anyone that likes Curb Your Enthusiasm. Totally fucking brilliant black comedy about dating and empty gestures. One of the meanest movies I've seen this decade.

this was fun but lol at placement

:)

my #4

visually next-level. yeah the storytelling beats were abrupt, even rushed (it's a comic) - none of that matters. pure entertainment, pure gratification. and with charming characters to boot! the final set-piece was completely overwhelming in a way that live-action cgi could never, ever be

turns out that comic book movies can work if they actually look and think like comic books

there's nothing like this movie. Someday I will sit down and frame-advance through it.

god help us.

lord (and miller) have been involved in an extremely high percentage of actually-good mass-entertainment movies from the last decade

what, you voted for Aquaman? xp

Fucking hell, we're in it already

yeah this was brilliant, watched again recently and it lost nothing

lol at all the snobs

i am usually a snob about marvel movies and i avoid superhero nonsense like the plague. this was absolutely nothing like any of that stuff

Imagine being a snob about marvel movies. Make sense, for once

I liked it well enough. Peter Parker was cuuuuuute.

xp keep your powder dry for the top five imo

storytelling beats were abrupt, even rushed (it's a comic)

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turns out that comic book movies can work if they actually look and think like comic books

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Tracer made a good case for it. I'll catch it on TV sometime.

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xxp lol

i meant superhero comics, not alison bechdel fgs

oh so this is nsfw now eh

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6. The Favourite
d: Yorgos Lanthimos w: Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara
UK 2018 35mm
329 points, 14 votes

I enjoyed this but it wasnt amazing or anything. Not as good as Dogtooth or The Lobster but much better than Sacred Deer (which I hated)

The dialogue could have been a bit sharper though. It leaned a bit too heavily on actors in aristocratic clothing saying "cunt" for comic effect

― Michael B, Thursday, January 10, 2019

This was what I was hoping Phantom Thread would be, the difference being that I actually wanted to hang around these characters. Loved the economy of the screenwriting within the lavish setting.

― Eazy, Sunday, March 3, 2019

Absolutely vile era for men's periwigs and makeup

I haven't thought about it since Olivia Colman's unexpected Oscar win tbh but I suspect it'll hold up well.

I don't understand wanting to hang out with any movie characters, though

eh this was fine, don't think yorgos is for me

blah blah cautionary tale about power blah nice to have women as the powerful ones blah nicholas hoult blah

i voted for it haha

The dialogue could have been a bit sharper though. It leaned a bit too heavily on actors in aristocratic clothing saying "cunt" for comic effect

― Michael B, Thursday, January 10, 2019

tbf this is hilarious, why not lean on it

thought the closing shot of coleman's face was great and then yr man had to go overboard with the rabbits

not trying to controp but I thought Weisz put in the best shift in this movie.

she was good in this and of course paradoxically(?) the most humane of the central trio

a tip o' the cup to Mark Gatiss' cheerful turn as the witless Lord Marlborough

not sure if "a tip o' the cup" is an expression or not

if the cup is coming off your head it seems to make sense :p

why would you tip a cup, are you trying to spill it all over somebody

listen I'm at work

then you should definitely take the cup off your head

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5. Mandy
d: Panos Cosmatos w: Panos Cosmatos, Aaron Stewart-Ahn
US 2018 digital
384 points, 14 votes, 2 #1s

my review: exudes a cosmic darkness 10/10

― BradNelson, Monday, October 8, 2018

i think this is my favorite movie of the year. is it insane to hope that it gets oscar consideration? cage, Riseborough, director, cinematographer....all deserve some recognition.

― akm, Monday, October 15, 2018

Mandy herself was the highlight and I loved the scenes of their dull domestic life before everything went haywire
the soundtrack elevated everything, like a fancy beer can make a sandwich taste better

also i really want a mandy tshirt

― La Lechera, Tuesday, October 30, 2018

I kinda feel other films might have had at least one line of dialogue earlier to set up that he has access to a forge, an interest in crafting weapons or something...

The fact that he wordlessly feels he has to craft his own weapon pulls this deep into some Joseph Cambell/Odysseus/Descent into the underworld headspace.

― Hamildan, Tuesday, October 30, 2018

thread of mandy (2018), melted psychedelic drone directed by panos cosmatos

this had no right being two hours long

too low! a sumptuous delight to the senses. as i just said on its own thread, "it's a movie about music, art, fiction and movies and how they save us". cosmatos is a genius of cultural reappropriation

hell yeah #7 and #5 nicolas cage joints. fully expect 1-4 to also be. 211, humanity bureau, between worlds, teen titans go to the movies all 1-4 in some sort of order i imagine

this had no right being two hours long

― devvvine, Thursday, June 27, 2019 6

that's my line

sic you gotta put TRTs in the posts next year, it's all we ever want to talk about

could have been timestretched to 3 and I'd have still loved the hell out of it

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

- wins, Wednesday, 25 July 2018

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4. Zama
w/d: Lucrecia Martel
AR 2017 digital
462 points, 15 votes, 3 #1s

Placed at #36 in 2017, with 56 points and 3 votes.

Zama is often inscrutable but beguilingly so.

- Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 25 July 2018

thanks to my pal who asked me to go see this with him, what a picture. He deserved everything he got tbh

"¿Quieres vivir?"

12 on my ballot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjwfunNyBZ0

woulda been my #1 or 2 if I'd voted