you're on fire today!
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 July 2018 19:39 (five years ago) link
"I cannot start my day with a confrontation" The 2017 ILX Film Poll Voting Thread - Ballots Due Sunday, March 4th at 7pm EST.
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Thursday, 19 July 2018 20:27 (five years ago) link
well how the hell was i supposed to see that amidst all this chum and effluvia?
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 July 2018 20:29 (five years ago) link
sent, you dastardly globetrotter
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 July 2018 20:36 (five years ago) link
how many voters, sic?
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 July 2018 19:08 (five years ago) link
looks like
TWENTY old voters who didn't want to revise, or didn't see the revive, or have quit ILX forever
SEVENTEEN of us who revised their ballots
...unless Frederik completely changed his entire ballot, as I don't have an old one that looks like his choices, and can't tell from an email address that anybody is him.
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Sunday, 22 July 2018 02:55 (five years ago) link
of all the ppl we don't want voting twice...
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 July 2018 04:15 (five years ago) link
Is there a ballot w/ Bear film/Dunkirk at 1/2? That should be Fred.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 22 July 2018 06:32 (five years ago) link
oh, I have his new one
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Sunday, 22 July 2018 06:44 (five years ago) link
It's Dunkirk/Bear, actually.
And I only changed one vote so the old one should be recognizable. It had 'Your Name' at 25.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 22 July 2018 07:04 (five years ago) link
shit i should've put that on my ballot
― flappy bird, Sunday, 22 July 2018 07:11 (five years ago) link
wtf is Bear film
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 July 2018 09:00 (five years ago) link
The Revenant. Hey, it premiered in 2017 in Denmark. Actually the topselling film of the year.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 22 July 2018 09:04 (five years ago) link
jesus, DiCaprio w/ Marty is bad enough
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 July 2018 09:05 (five years ago) link
Lol, that was way off, Revenant is of course oscar bait 2016 and thr equivalent this year was La La Land. The best selling film of 2017 was of course the wookie film.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 22 July 2018 09:26 (five years ago) link
what's up, 3am crew. 614 valid votes cast, looking like it'll be a top 52 because of ties.
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Sunday, 22 July 2018 09:43 (five years ago) link
just got around to watching Ex Libris: The New York Public Library the night before last. didn't watch it in time for the vote, but hope to see it in the rollout
― Dan S, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 00:30 (five years ago) link
lol at Soto's revised ballot being exactly the same as his OG except with a different #24
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic),
Travel, etc.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 01:17 (five years ago) link
If everyone's ready to move into the auditorium and take their seats, the results thread is about to begin.
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
Straw poll: who's for voting 2018 in February again, and who's for waiting until, say, June?
― sans lep (sic), Monday, 31 December 2018 21:52 (five years ago) link
in on the first, happy to see it whenever it's donePADDINGTON 2 y'all
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 31 December 2018 22:20 (five years ago) link
would march be a nice compromise
― imago, Monday, 31 December 2018 22:24 (five years ago) link
February. I realize there's this compulsion for some to see everything before drawing up a list, but it's just a poll. If you miss something this year, you catch it next year. In general, I hate the modern tendency to rush everything--record and film reviews now, opinions now, year-end lists in early December--but February is perfectly reasonable. A year-end poll in June seems silly to me.
― clemenza, Monday, 31 December 2018 22:29 (five years ago) link
June was a proposed compromise against the much-loved July poll of this year
― sans lep (sic), Monday, 31 December 2018 22:47 (five years ago) link
I thought June was fine esp as a counterbalance to October year end polls
― Your dad's Carlos Boozer and you keep him alive (fionnland), Monday, 31 December 2018 23:04 (five years ago) link
Do it in Feb w/ the Oscars
― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 31 December 2018 23:06 (five years ago) link
i guess we won't know who made the real five-baggers unless oscar tells us
― imago, Monday, 31 December 2018 23:08 (five years ago) link
June
― Juul Haalmeyer Dancers washout (WmC), Monday, 31 December 2018 23:09 (five years ago) link
yeah June, fionnland has a good point about it breaking up the glut of lists/polls this time of year. and those movies that don't make it out of new york or la by march 2019 might be someone's favorite, it's happened to me. but oddly this is the first year ever where I've seen everything of note (except Cold War). somehow everything made it here by the end of the year. but this is the first time this has happened to me 15+ years after leaving new york.
― flappy bird, Monday, 31 December 2018 23:18 (five years ago) link
February is perfect for me, personally. It gives me time to go to Gothenburg and catch up in January, and it means I get the list-making over with as the new festival year begins in Berlin. But ok, if the rest of you want to wait until June, I guess that's what we'll do.
― Frederik B, Monday, 31 December 2018 23:30 (five years ago) link
ftr
Really, the solution is to always do the poll in late July so nearly everything that opens on one continent the previous year will have had 7 months to spread, like a social disease.― Dr Morbius
― Dr Morbius
Actually rather agree with the late July idea― imago
― imago
Yeah I was gonna say we should do this in the middle of the year every year to avoid these double placements. I live in a mid-sized city in the USA and often get less than half of the prestige/quality art house films until early the next year, often going all the way into March.[...]Certain Women came out in Europe in March 2017, and was released on home video in June. this could've been avoided & could be in the future by delaying the poll til mid-summer― flappy bird
[...]
Certain Women came out in Europe in March 2017, and was released on home video in June. this could've been avoided & could be in the future by delaying the poll til mid-summer
― flappy bird
Agreed that we should put off voting until at least July for the previous year.― WilliamC
― WilliamC
counterpoint:
thought about watching Coco before voting; too busy watching Twin Peaks― Dr Morbius, July 2017
― Dr Morbius, July 2017
Morbs hasn't finished watching Twin Peaks yet, so if we hurry we can counteract any objections bcz he's obv still too busy to have watched any 2018 releases
― sans lep (sic), Monday, 31 December 2018 23:31 (five years ago) link
I'm making a vaguely concerted effort to catch up w/ some now-on-streamings at the moment (Madeline² last night), and Shoplifters is coming to a tiny indie in late January, so I'm expecting to be happy both to vote and to run the poll in February (cutting off votes before the Oscars, rolling out a week or so after). But nobody in the delayed results thread this year argued against the expanded catch-up time!
― sans lep (sic), Monday, 31 December 2018 23:40 (five years ago) link
April maybe?
― flappy bird, Monday, 31 December 2018 23:51 (five years ago) link
as a compromise
Feb please. June was a one-off.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 18:43 (five years ago) link
et tu Whiney
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 21:16 (five years ago) link
There was a thread recently where there was some debate over when the year-end film poll should be. I thought it would have been here, but I guess not.
Anyway, I wanted to run a political-film poll this summer. Is is possible for the year-end to be over and done with before then?
ayo clemenza
maybe not over and done before the summer, given the fairly whelming opinion to wait ages, but before July?
clicks "submit post," leaves flat to go and see a movie postulating that evil monsters could take over American politics and society by infiltrating the media
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Thursday, 14 March 2019 03:04 (five years ago) link
I think we should start April 1
― flappy bird, Thursday, 14 March 2019 03:17 (five years ago) link
That'd be fine, thanks. I'll be retired by then anyway, so really, it doesn't matter.
― clemenza, Thursday, 14 March 2019 03:41 (five years ago) link