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

'fav vs best' has never been an issue for me bc the movies that i like are objectively the best

it's never fav vs best, the choice is always fav vs "carefully edited list to boost moderately popular favs, avoid boosting consensus favs and abandon favs which nobody else will vote for" - I have gone for the first option, fairly sure that I will be the sole voter for 4 of the films in my top 5.

Is it cool if I fill every slot with Citizen Kane

I'm going to self-indulgently predict the rankings for my top 10 here

1. #85
2. DNP
3. DNP
4. DNP
5. DNP
6. #98
7. #17
8. DNP
9. #55
10. #26

That would balance out all the #1 votes for Mank.

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So out curiosity, what criteria are people using in putting ballots together? There's the old "favorite" vs. "best" conundrum, but also are folks deliberately aiming for, say, diversity across decades, nationalities, etc, or just, like, listing every Judd Apatow movie?

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 bookmarkflaglink

Its a mix: There has got to be one from France, Japan, Iran then I go to continents. I'll get an extra Euro, one from East Asia and China/India, one from Latin America, one from Africa. There isn't one that's good enough from Oceania.

US will get one but its the 'joker in the pack' (proper good but people might wince at it), one doc, one experimental film. No silents because I've not seen enough.

That's 11.

Shit gender balance rn.

its the 'joker in the pack' (proper good but people might wince at it)

joker (2019) in the pack

Actually haven't seen it lol

The optimal prerequisite for being in a position to actually vote for it.

'fav vs best' has never been an issue for me bc the movies that i like are objectively the best

But I also like CaAL’s approach

Oh Morbs, if you could have only lived to see this...
https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0zeyhcsH21qf1yxjo1_500.jpg

so

Still accepting ballots fwiw!

👍

Still have some fantasy I am going to participate in this. Inspired by your personal rollout on social media.

I'm not going to vote, but very much looking forward to the roll out.

I *think* I can do this weekend.

in honor of Dr. Morbius, who was ILX's biggest fan of ballot polls and ILX movie taste
indeed

it's your personal favourites, don't stress over it too much.

Wouldn’t describe it as stress, exactly

More like a fugue/rupture in which I couldn't actually recall what my favorites were anymore.

Which I finally emerged from a few days ago.

ill vote next week if this is still open

Sent. The ranked part, at least.

Unbelievable the kind of stuff I had to leave out to get it down to 25.

Don't forget you can list up to 100 runners-up (all equal weight).

I didn't forget, but thanks for the reminder. Just didn't want to let that distract me from getting the top 25 in. Which I still want to tinker with, but won't :)

i've never put a film list together and i don't know very much, but i'll send a ballot! somebody's gotta represent the doofus vote

also, RE: "no, I don't know why pastebin flagged the list as NSFW", is it because of Warhol's Blow Job?

I had a pastebin list of songs flagged as NSFW and it turned out it was due to the presence of "You're a Queer One" from the Carousel soundtrack.

Almost got to my hundred unranked.

ballot submitted! so weird (but fun) to compare the virtues of Stalker vs Jurassic Park

the zone: when you gotta go, you gotta go

I have seen some jurassic park fan theories which go some way to bridging this gap

a couple of things i would have voted for weren't nominated, but that's my fault!

house (Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, 1977)
downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2004)

House is there as Hausu, it'll be in my unranked 100

oh shit! thank you! I will send an update to Eric and hope that it can count. I saw it for the first time recently and was blown away

you can also vote for stuff that wasn't nominated

and I don't know if it's inappropriate or unethical, but an illegal late voting-period shoutout to Hausu/House (1977), which is so cool

I did email Eric to add Hausu/House, but not Downfall. tbh i'm in the middle of watching it today and i've got "i'm currently watching this and loving it" goggles on

I just finished Ian Kershaw's Hitler biography and it (unsurprisingly) has all the scenes from Downfall in the penultimate chapter.

do you know if the movie is supposed to be historically accurate? or does it take artistic liberties?

I am thrilled this is still open! I thought I missed it months ago and was too scared to look. Will submit my ballot by the end of the weekend I hope.

how many ballots are there so far? if that info is declassified that is

I have to double check but I think it's in the 20-25 range.

Assuming you received my top 25.

I did.

Cool, thanks