Comments on: The Freaky Trigger Movie Poll 2018: #10 – #1 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2019/02/the-freaky-trigger-movie-poll-2018-10-1 Lollards in the high church of low culture Tue, 05 Feb 2019 18:11:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: dollymix https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2019/02/the-freaky-trigger-movie-poll-2018-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-2326032 Tue, 05 Feb 2019 18:11:36 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=31823#comment-2326032 I saw Leave No Trace and Spider-Verse after the deadline but would have put both on my list, for what it’s worth.

Anyway, I think everything I voted for made it except for Incredibles 2 and the fairly lightweight Netflix movies Set It Up and To All The Boys I’ve Love Before. I don’t know if anything I saw this year will go down as an all-time favorite, but it seems like there was a lot of stuff in the good to very good range.

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By: Mark M https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2019/02/the-freaky-trigger-movie-poll-2018-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-2325882 Mon, 04 Feb 2019 21:11:01 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=31823#comment-2325882 Hooray! Thanks, Pete, and it doesn’t seem particularly late…

I’m also extremely happy with the top 10, as the only ones I didn’t vote for were:
The Rider – which I haven’t seen.

The Favourite – which I didn’t see until about 6 January, and therefore will have to remember not to vote for next time around.

Phantom Thread – like Pete, am not a fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. Unlike Pete, I am a fan of Paul Thomas Anderson’s movies. The Day-Lewis effect was strong here, while PTA seemed (deliberately) somewhat out of his comfort zone. I did think it clicked into place about two-thirds of the way in, but that was a little too late for me. (I very much hope that the dresses were indeed meant to be hideous). More thoughts on it here.

Everything else in that top 10 I loved – it feels very unlike me to say this, but I feel that it’s important to celebrate films like Shoplifters and Leave No Trace and their humanity. It would be easy from a clumsy description to mistake them for issue movies, which I insist they are not.

At the same time, it’s great that we have movies as wildly imaginative as Sorry To Bother You and Into The Spider-Verse.

Here’s my list (strictly speaking, it’s very slightly different from my ballot for this poll).

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