"I cannot start my day with a confrontation" The 2017 ILX Film Poll Voting Thread - Ballots Due Sunday, March 4th at 7pm EST.

how many voters, sic?

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.

of all the ppl we don't want voting twice...

Is there a ballot w/ Bear film/Dunkirk at 1/2? That should be Fred.

oh, I have his new one

It's Dunkirk/Bear, actually.

And I only changed one vote so the old one should be recognizable. It had 'Your Name' at 25.

shit i should've put that on my ballot

wtf is Bear film

The Revenant. Hey, it premiered in 2017 in Denmark. Actually the topselling film of the year.

jesus, DiCaprio w/ Marty is bad enough

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.

what's up, 3am crew. 614 valid votes cast, looking like it'll be a top 52 because of ties.

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

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.

If everyone's ready to move into the auditorium and take their seats, the results thread is about to begin.

Straw poll: who's for voting 2018 in February again, and who's for waiting until, say, June?

in on the first, happy to see it whenever it's done
PADDINGTON 2 y'all

would march be a nice compromise

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.

June was a proposed compromise against the much-loved July poll of this year

I thought June was fine esp as a counterbalance to October year end polls

Do it in Feb w/ the Oscars

i guess we won't know who made the real five-baggers unless oscar tells us

June

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.

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.

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

Actually rather agree with the late July idea

― 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.

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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

counterpoint:

thought about watching Coco before voting; too busy watching Twin Peaks

― 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

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!

April maybe?

as a compromise

Feb please. June was a one-off.

et tu Whiney

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

I think we should start April 1

That'd be fine, thanks. I'll be retired by then anyway, so really, it doesn't matter.