People, they love blood. They love action. Not this talky, depressing, philosophical ILX 2014 Film Poll Thread - Voting closes Friday, Feb. 21st at Midnight EST.

Still reeling from seeing Vic + Flo a few days ago... Made my top 20 nonetheless.

Ah, Frank! Might be semi-responsible for this placing so high (my number 4). Going into it I had my reservations (namely that I could be assaulted by a vapid quirk-fest for two hours), but ultimately found it great fun and a very sensitive portrayal of extreme dissociative paranoia. Thought the soundtrack was kind of excellently parodic too.

Hooray! Facepalme D'Or forever! (My number 5 - a far, far more agreeable movie about music than I expected - on balance one of the best I've seen, with a genuinely devastating denouement and a genuinely terrifying & repulsive monster, who also happened to be the narrator)

imo 15 then 15 then 10 is a good battle plan

run the table cuz i need to know the other 7 pieces of shit the Multiplex Macher liked

Xxp

High five!

Also, more rollout tomorrow sounds great! I need this excitement in my working days.

Yours Britishly...

^irl 5

what a full life eh

26. Snowpiercer (101 pts. 4 votes)

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Definitely going to 21 tonight. Will do 10 tomorrow and then maybe 10 on Wednesday if I have a better idea of my schedule.

25. The One I Love (106 pts. 5 votes)

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whoops!

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oh damn i could've voted for snowpiercer but i forgot about it

my ballot did not adequately represent all the films i saw this year mea culpa guys my bad

fuck you

i think i've seen 82 new films from '14, and Snowpiercer is among the ten worst.

i'm finding yr rockism oppressive bro

Snowpiercer just about killed my love for Tilda Swinton and thinking about Chris Evans nude.

ilx is really into the Sundance landfill as well as the geekbait, it seems

generaLOLizations itt

/Snowpiercer/ just about killed my love for Tilda Swinton and thinking about Chris Evans nude.
--guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

but what about them both simultaneously

One I Love is really good for about 50 minutes. Better than the Sundance landfill I assumed it would be.

so that was in the theater and not on the To Watch pile

Re: Snowpiercer: I'll vouch for a highlight reel of Tilda Swinton hamming it up, but on the whole, too blunt.

1IL looks way too yawn*str8s for me

Yeah, The One I Love came to theaters in DC.

24. The Babadook (110 pts. 6 votes)

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a genuinely terrifying & repulsive monster, who also happened to be the narrator

That's what I liked as well! In the end, it doesn't even matter about motives; the music's what's important. Frank just missed my list.

Final music scene in Frank was all time.

The last five seconds almost killed me with joy

good performances in Babadook, entirely rote last 30 mins when it turns into just a horror film

what I liked best about The Babadook: kids are the scariest monsters

Yeah, didn't shrink at all from how annoying that child was. Felt the frustration.

i get people not liking gone girl for various filmmaking-related reasons, or questions over the plausibility of the plot but do people really think that gillian flynn created a woman psychopath bc she has politics that'd make her like, the fuckin camille lapaglia of crime writers?

...that said, if the main argument is that the dangers of the potential interpretation by the audience - especially the dumber and unenlightened-male portions of the audience, which are certainly sizable - trumps the intent of the writer, i get that.

― slothroprhymes, Monday, February 23, 2015 12:23 PM (4 hours ago)

well we all know that

can't approach Village of the Damned

xxp

Best horror film about bereavement? Didn't quite make my list but enjoyed it a lot and felt like the last thirty minutes was the most relatable part...

It's probably challops to say that the film's depiction of annoying kid driving parent crazy is better than in The Shining, to which it's indebted obv.

23. National Gallery (126 pts. 5 votes)

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yay, dug frank and the babadook, though i only voted for the former. it overdoes the quirk at times (field exercises), but the music & fassbender are excellent. i probably should have voted for the babadook, but i tend to like my horror a bit wilder, and i'm glad the rest of you took up the slack.

I could've watched an eight-hour cut of NG.

I adored it. Maybe could have done with more meetings.

if I have the chance I'd ask students to watch it and F is for Fake for essay assignment.

one of many i missed :(

had NG 17th; a hair less compelling than At Berkeley for me

I listed it pretty high, but three was fine. I liked At Berkeley better.

i think i've seen 82 about new films from '14, and Snowpiercer is among the ten worst.

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, February 23, 2015 5:53 PM (17 minutes ago)

count yourself lucky. i've seen just north of 70, and it's among the better half. just barely though.

Alright, realised that there is no 21 because 20 is a two way tie, so I'll hold off on those until tomorrow. Here's the final one for the evening.

22. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (130 pts. 6 votes)

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too high

aka the voters