Comments on: The Freaky Trigger Movie Poll 2019: #10 – #1 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2020/02/the-freaky-trigger-movie-poll-2019-10-1 Lollards in the high church of low culture Mon, 20 Apr 2020 21:10:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: lonepilgrim https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2020/02/the-freaky-trigger-movie-poll-2019-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-2402127 Mon, 20 Apr 2020 21:10:04 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=32349#comment-2402127 Any chance of posting the results of the TV poll?

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By: lonepilgrim https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2020/02/the-freaky-trigger-movie-poll-2019-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-2381791 Thu, 13 Feb 2020 00:13:23 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=32349#comment-2381791 Thanks for this Pete. I voted for several of these – with Pain & Glory my top choice but as I said in the previous post I saw so few films at the cinema that I had a very limited selection to choose from. I still put Ad Astra at 20 because despite some wonderful special effects and a reserved performance from Brad Pitt the plot was bobbins.

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By: Phil https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2020/02/the-freaky-trigger-movie-poll-2019-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-2381758 Wed, 12 Feb 2020 17:30:44 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=32349#comment-2381758 Didn’t vote, not a huge filmgoer these days; I probably saw 10 films in 2019 but I’m not sure I could remember them all. But I’m surprised at the low (non-?) showing of Joker – I really loved that film. I’ve been on an Oscars-related binge recently & seen Parasite, Little Women, Knives Out, Marriage Story and Bait – oh, and the Irishman, which I probably wouldn’t have voted for even to make up the numbers. Great films as at least three of those are, I wouldn’t rank any of them above Joker.

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By: Mark M https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2020/02/the-freaky-trigger-movie-poll-2019-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-2381751 Wed, 12 Feb 2020 15:20:50 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=32349#comment-2381751 Thanks for doing this, Pete – much appreciated by some of us.

Right, so, I voted for:
The Irishman – After the tedium and cliches of The Departed, I was pretty emphatic that I never wanted to see another Scorsese gangster flick, and maybe not even another Scorsese movie at all. I had so many misgivings about The Irishman: the subject matter, the cast, the CG nonsense. But it worked for me, it really did, and I’m glad – despite being massively hungry for much of the time I was watching – that I saw it on the big screen.

The Favourite – It turns out I wasn’t the only person who saw it in 2019 not 2018.

Marriage Story – The laughs, as you say, are crucial.

Little Women – For me, the rearranged storyline and the emphasis on the sort-of-Henry-James-with-feminism*-in-Paris stuff to the detriment of (I assume) more scenes of the sisters when younger messing around in the house was what made this an appealing proposition. Obviously, some superfans – and I’ve spoken to a few – are much less taken with all of that. (Which I get, having fumed at the TV version of Catch-22 because of the reverse – non-linear to linear – swap).
(*Not that there aren’t feminists in Henry James, I’m learning).

Booksmart – I thought this might win. It’s a film that I started off by really liking and have steadily grown fonder over the year – I enjoy seeing clips from it and references to it, and have listened a lot to Dan the Automator’s soundtrack album, which incorporates dialogue loops from the movie.

Knives Out – A film I indeed saw because Pete assured me it wasn’t the movie that the trailer suggested, and he was right.

Saw but didn’t vote for:
Avengers: Endgame – Very happy with the bits with Chris Hemsworth playing Thor as a comedy version of his James Hunt, Paul Rudd and Mark Ruffalo. Not happy with: the amount of time spent with charisma-vacuum Jeremy Renner, and the final big battle, which I found painfully dull. Overall, it was fine and seem satisfy the punters.

Hustlers – Deeply puzzled by the love for this one.

Pain And Glory – Absolutely loved the first two-thirds or so, and then – when he starts actively trying to reconcil himself with the past – it completely lost me. Banderas is excellent and Asier Etxendia is even better.

Very surprised by the non-appearance of: Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood (which I liked a lot), The Farewell and The Joker (which I haven’t seen). I would have voted for Bait if I had seen it in time.

My list is here.

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By: Pete Baran https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2020/02/the-freaky-trigger-movie-poll-2019-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-2381738 Wed, 12 Feb 2020 12:36:10 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=32349#comment-2381738 Same initials… I did for a second too.

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By: Steve Mannion https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2020/02/the-freaky-trigger-movie-poll-2019-10-1/comment-page-1#comment-2381735 Wed, 12 Feb 2020 12:20:47 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=32349#comment-2381735 “Don’t let Chris Evans wear old man make-up again though.”

Genuinely thought it was Clint Eastwood at first.

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