Pitch your ideas for possible film polls here

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Is there a thread like this for all the various movie polls? I know the detritus thread each year has links to all the other ones, but I meant the genre and decade polls.

― clemenza, Thursday, February 6, 2020 10:24 PM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I realize the movie polls don't follow back-to-back like the artist ones do, but it would be nice if there were some place where we could float ideas about movie polls and gauge interest (and let folks know they're going on). There's one I've been thinking about for a while, and it will be some time before I can even entertain the idea, but I wouldn't currently know how I would even go about seeing if people would be into it.

― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Thursday, February 6, 2020 10:32 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Great idea--start a thread. Anyone with an idea can test it out there--hopefully limited to whether there's interest or not, saving the this-belongs-no-it-doesn't arguments for the actual poll. I think a cumulative results thread would be useful too; some of those movie threads, like the comedy and horror, are really hard to load when you want to check something.

― clemenza, Thursday, February 6, 2020 10:40 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

The idea I was interested in eventually floating is a Teen/High School movie poll, but I'm completing-a-dissertation away from having the time to do that now. Would still be open to hearing thoughts on it, though.

There was a decent documentary on the genre a few years ago (can't remember the title)...At least a couple of my favourite films ever fit, so sure. There'd have to be school scenes, though, to keep eligibility manageable.

Yeah, I feel like I'd be willing to open it up to anything with an adolescent protagonist. This would cover not only the usual picks--Rebel Without a Cause, John Hughes, Clueless--but also things like The 400 Blows, The Last Picture Show, Halloween or the Little Women of someone's choice. Lotsa recent quality films fit the bill here, too.

Take a couple of nights, finish the dissertation, start the poll.

My supervisor wishes.

Best horror movies!

Best directorial debuts

Best depictions of (city) on film. We could start with NYC maybe since there's such a wealth of material there.

Nah, let's say Copenhagen?

Best Westerns

xps I'm down to start anywhere, NYC is just the first thing I thought of because there's so dang much of it

Best horror movies!

we did this already iirc

oh god if you do a teen movies poll tt will force me to watch literally 100 teen movies

like, soooooo laaaame oh em gee

(I'm in favour!)

xps I'm down to start anywhere, NYC is just the first thing I thought of because there's so dang much of it

― may the force leave us alone (zchyrs), 7. februar 2020 14:34 (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Sorry, I was joking :) NYC is a very good place to start.

There was a decent documentary on the genre a few years ago (can't remember the title)...At least a couple of my favourite films ever fit, so sure. There'd have to be school scenes, though, to keep eligibility manageable.

I'd love to see maybe like a more restrictive 'sci-fi/horror from the advent of cinema through the 1950s' poll but I feel like it might suffer from lack of interest.

I'm going to start pitching polls like they do in The Player: "It'll be like the horror poll meets the road-movie poll, but funny, and with flying saucers."

Just gonna throw these out there (I don't wanna run any of them):

Fantasy/sword n sorcery
Teen sex comedies
Political thrillers
Stoner comedies
Erotic thrillers
Heist films

Post-apocalyptic fillums

I guess we haven't done a Musicals poll.

ooh that would be a good one

Would Marx Bros. comedies count as musicals?

I don't see why not

I'd say any fictional film where members of the cast perform two or more songs would qualify.

Green Room? Total musical.

(I knew it would take me like thirty seconds to think of examples that nullified my criteria.)

Musicals, yes please! That would be a great combo of old and new stuff to discover or rep for. And tbh I don't mind including things that are a bit looser in it.

Political thrillers

I'd have to check, but I'm guessing at least a third of the films that placed in the political-films poll could be classified as such--not sure the results would be appreciably different (and it was a struggle to get 20 voters).

movie stars.

political-films poll

ah sorry I forgot about this one. I didn't participate cuz it felt like too broad a category to me

It was...maybe narrowing would actually generate more interest.

I'd love a musicals poll.

write-in vote for Lipstick on Your Collar (i know it was a tv show so probably disqualified)

National polls, happy to be a pollrunner for a British films poll.

Silent films?

I would also second a musicals one.

Also: cinematographers.

Individual directors' filmographies? (A brief search turns up previous George Cukor and Orson Welles polls.)

First things first:

Best 2019
Best films of the '10s

Silent films?

How many regular ilxors besides the two of us have seen more than 20-25 silents, j.lu? Maybe six or eight?

Film noir.

i was gonna run a crime film poll but i just sort of dropped it.

How many regular ilxors besides the two of us have seen more than 20-25 silents, j.lu? Maybe six or eight?

Me, but sadly almost none recently :(

Noir is a good one

The three I'm most interested in are cryptsicko's high-school poll, omar's film noir/crime poll, and Eric's cinematographer poll (most interested in individual films, rather than individual bodies of work, which I'd have a hard time weighing). Objectively, musicals seems to be the most popular (no feel for them at all, I'd have to sit that one out).

I'm confused as to how a cinematographer poll would work - best cinematographers, or a films with best cinematography?

musicals yes!
and please revive the crime poll, there was good energy in the noms thread!

Something. Anything. (Although I'd have to skip musicals.)

(At least two people I can think of: "Musicals it is!")

Is there a noir poll? That'd be cool.

Just realized there actually is a film poll going on right now, the year-end poll. I sent my ballot in two-plus weeks ago, so I forgot about that.

Not film, and yet another thing I currently in no position to run myself, but the current Modern Family poll just made me wonder if ILX has ever done a sitcom poll.

There was a big playoff-style one done a few years ago, with brackets and the like.

What's on TV, ILX? It's the American Sitcom Tournament Round 1/Group 1

We never did get our musicals poll, did we?

The Simpsons beat Arrested Development in the final. (The link I posted above was from the first attempt; there were revisions, and it was re-launched.)

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT vs. THE SIMPSONS What's on TV, ILX? It's the American Sitcom Tournament FINAL MATCH