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

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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
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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

Good thing I am not nearly as uptight about these things as I was several years ago.

Shot past one hundred now

when I really started thinking about it I had a hard time limiting it even to 25 + 100

Karl - Kershaw says the film is very accurate, see here- https://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/sep/17/germany

when I really started thinking about it I had a hard time limiting it even to 25 + 100

25 challenging because of course you are forced to leave something out but in addition may actually forget some favorite, +100 hard because want to get in some of the missing favorites from the 25 as well as cover Everything Else: other films by favorite directors, more obscure stuff, or even stuff by all the big directors you couldn’t single out any films for to make the top 25 etc.

To Catch a Thief no nominated?

You can vote for it, nominations were just suggestions.

gah I should do this eh

I saw it recently and got more out it than before. Still don’t think it is top-tier but it’s got some great things in it and some amusing backstory, especially the one about the highly regarded French actor who who couldn’t speak English and how they worked around this

gah I should do this eh

OK, I'm working on this today. It took me an hour just to delete the ones I hadn't seen. I got to Showgirls and said a silent apology to Eric as I hit the Delete key.

I tried not to look at that list at all if I could help it.

In any case, I am usually much more motivated to vote in a poll with this kind of turnout.

Ok i wasn't planning to do this (Morbius thought I didn't have the intellectual capacity to appreciate "The Master" because I said the Terrible Film Bridge Of Spies was a Terrible Film) but I might do it tomorrow just cus rewatching Svankmajer's Alice this deserves a number one vote from somebody, actually if I do this I'll put Stalker at 1, Alice at 2, fuck it I can definitely hit 25 with Lynch & Lynne Ramsey! Midnight Run top 10, Pain & Gain 23, Billy Liar 24, Georgy Girl 25. Kes 11. Fuck I'll prolly forget to do this. Manhunter 4ish. Dammit I'll do 25 tomorrow I promise but not the 100

("The Master" there being Spielberg, not "The Master" the film which dammit just occured to me is the 14th best film of all time, Georgy Girl getting bumped off the bottom)