ILX All-Time Film and Morbsies Poll: Voting And Campaigning Thread (Ballots Due Like I Dunno Maybe March 1, 2021?)

Mid-March deadline pls

Oh this is definitely still open. I am going to allow people whatever time they need to get a ballot together.

Wait a minute! How were these nominations created?!?

Can someone remind this noob of the procedure with these things? Can I vote for things that aren’t on the nomination list and if so do they automatically get added to the list when I do?

― Alba, Tuesday, December 15, 2020 7:19 PM (two months ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah. The nominations phase is just to get people’s brains storming. Ballots can have anything on then

― On average, this critic grades 8.3 points lower than other critics (Eric H.), Tuesday, December 15, 2020 7:41 PM (two months ago) bookmarkflaglink

Riiiiiiight. But who the hell nominated Thanatopsis or Submit To Me Now or, er, Some Call It Loving??

all right i finished my ballot during lunch. contains a bunch of stuff not on the list and is formatted horribly, hope that's ok eric

morbs would hate everything about my list except for the prominent placement of a spielberg film and i think that's the right way to go into this. rip king

Glad this is back on.

he would also give me shit for not including any movies released before 1979 but i gotta do me

Eric if you do close this week and roll out next, we could get voting and rollout for the 2020 poll done before the Oscars.

Oh no, I’m not closing this thing until we have at least 30 to 40 ballots

Thanks, appreciate not closing this week or whatever. I need time.

ha no chance i have the time put together a ballot for this. maybe i'll just submit my flickchart list that i made when i was 20.

Will vote for sure, just got too damn much going on.

Oh no, I’m not closing this thing until we have at least 30 to 40 ballots

I don't want to start another poll while one's still running, but we've only ever reached 30 ballots once in the yearly polls, so it might take a few years' accretion to hit 40 in this one!

All polls cancelled till we do this one in five years.

idk i think all-time has more of an audience than the yearly polls, it is hard for me to keep up with movie releases over a year but i certainly know the movies i love most

The horror movie poll got like 60 ballots. Half that shouldn’t be too tough

Is the idea that these are the most important films? My favorite films? The most "Sight and Sound poll" films?

The horror movie poll got like 60 ballots. Half that shouldn’t be too tough

60 ballots in three weeks, vs three months so far here. Deadines focus the mind.

The idea is however you take the phrase “all-time movies”

Time Bandits, Modern Times, Good Time, Ashes of Time, Bad Timing, Short Time...

;)

...purple rain...

will def be sending a ballot. have a loose draft of about 150, that i will narrow down as late as possible

I started putting a ballot together a while back and let it get away from me. Bummed that, since the nominations closed, I've already seen one non-nominated film that should absolutely be on my ballot but I also wonder if there's any point in including it given the lack of nomination. I might need to pow-wow with my youth pastor on this one.

just did a haphazard sweep of the noms and got a half-decent top 25 put together, so i guess i'm gonna vote

Can I do a write-in? if so, then I can come up with a 25

if you read the above posts they will reveal that write-ins are extremely allowed and nigh-encouraged

I've sent in a ballot. If Eric could let me know he received it, that would be great!

probably futile and ridiculous to do any campaigning for such a massive and personal endeavor but i would like to encourage folks to see/revisit Peter Weir's Fearless (1993). not at the top of my list or anything but it'll be on there somewhere. a movie close to my heart and one i never hear anyone talk about ever.

It's very good, iirc. It's been a while.

I did a Facebook countdown of favourite movies with two friends a decade ago, and--I checked back--one of them had Fearless at #12.

very cool, glad to hear i'm not the only one! one of the things i like about it is that it feels like an incredibly rare example of extreme vulnerable emotion in the context of relatively slick Hollywood production values. Jeff Bridges and Rosie Perez are both excellent, among each of their best.

Is Zardoz on the list? Asking for a friend possibly putting together a very basic ballot.

Also Aronofsky's Pi, I'm hearing.

some good stuff is missing :(

As a few posts have pointed out, unless you're heavily invested in the results, and you're worried about voting for something not on the big list, you can vote for whatever you want.

afaik the list is mostly a compendium of films put forward on other threads, it's more just a reminder than a definitive nominations list

why read the posts when you can ask questions about the posts and then not read the replies

i am sort of sorry

Fearless is pretty good -- my first adult notice of Jeff Bridges as actor -- but Bridges' mullet is a hindrance.

Are we allowed to vote in this if Morbs would have sneered at our lack of filmic knowledge?

The trouble with snarking at people for not succesfully scouring every single post (when they might be text fatigued from looking through a long list of things) in search of rules that might be better placed in say the OP is that this post now might look it's criticising the poll runner(s), which it is not.

Lotta mullet-adjacent dadhair in Weir's American films - Depardieu in Green Card, sunbleached Ford in Mosquito Coast. He even tried to fake one on Ed Harris with that beret.

Stuff in my personal favorites that's not mentioned here yet:

Some kind of monster
Predator
Reanimator
Falling down
Freaked

There should be a mullet movie poll

(you only needed to look six posts up, a couple of hours before you posted tbf Noel. and half the discussion in the current revive also addresses this issue, it's not just you!)

I didn't see the post. I guess I fucked up!

My own personal issue with voting for a film that wasn't nominated is that it seems like a futile gesture in the context of a poll.

So okay well then I'll just say here: Mädchen in Uniform is beautiful and brilliant and everyone should see it and vote for it. There, I feel better now.

Eric, I just sent you my ballot. Miss you so much, Morbs!

Just a note that I can't seem to open the pastebin link at all now, it says

Error, this is a private paste or is pending moderation. If this paste belongs to you, please login to Pastebin to view it.

looking forward to a new thread

The process continues.

Can someone please repost the link to the new thread, I couldn’t find it.

ILX All-Time Film and Morbsies Poll: Killing Time And General Bellyaching While Results Are Tabulated Thread

Aw, you shouldn’t oughta have done it.