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Film Randomizer Poll #1

  • The Platform 10
  • The Watermelon Woman 16
  • Lake Mungo 7
  • Eyes Wide Shut 24
  • City of God 20
  • The People's Joker 38
  • Another Year 8
  • The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension 31
  • Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence 9
  • Universal Language 7
  • Cloud Atlas 31
  • Righting Wrongs 2
  • Titane 22
  • Vox Lux 5
  • Streets of Fire 14
  • Josie and the Pussycats 16
  • Southland Tales 8
  • Liz and the Blue Bird 9
  • Mind Game 7
  • Michael Clayton 14
  • All That Jazz 13
  • The Workers Cup 2
  • The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas 12
  • Fitzwilly 5
  • The Florida Project 30
  • 2025-08-18
  • —2025-08-25
  • 360 votes
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Content

the film recommendation post has been up for several days, submissions have wound down, and it's clear that "most liked suggestion" is a poor metric for picking films because the likes are heavily weighted towards people who posted early. so! we're doing a poll after all.

well... polls. we got a total of 116 film recs, of which I had already seen 35. that left us with 81. Patreon caps polls at 25, so I made 6 cuts (apologies) and we'll be running 3 polls to pick our 3 movies. you can cast multiple votes, so feel free to spread the love around, and I will pick the top 3 films from across all 3 polls. don't worry if two of your favs are on the same list, treat it like a single poll that's just cut into 3 pieces.

now: two concerns I have are recency bias and recognition bias. every time I'd run a poll on Twitter about games or movies, it was functionally a notoriety contest. "which of these titles have you heard the most?" so! I've gone and done something unnecessary:

here is a playlist of the trailers for all 75 films. you do not have to watch these trailers, I'm just gonna gently recommend you pop over, play it on random, or maybe just look through it for titles that look interesting. see if there's anything that looks interesting that you wanna vote for. again, not a requirement, just an opportunity to take the recs from the community seriously so it's not just the biggest names rising to the top.

here's part 1:

Comments

TPRJones

As one of the six that were cut I would like to drop a quick plug for The Milagro Beanfield War, not as a lobby for inclusion but just to give folks a chance to know it existed. It's never had a decent trailer to link, but it has a great cast (including John Heard, Christopher Walken, Sonia Braga, and Daniel Stern) and tells a story about a small-town struggle for survival in rural New Mexico. It leans into traditions of magical realism in how it tells key parts of it's story which is fitting for the setting and, I think, delightful. As someone who lived in the region for a time I'm probably biased, but it's long been one of my favorites.

Ian Danskin

not one of the 6 that was cut, it was one of the 35 I had seen!

PC Escobar

I'm finding it interesting to learn about the movies you *haven't* seen yet.

Tony Yang

Glad to see Cloud Atlas get so much love! As a kid it was the movie that really made me fall head over heels for cinema

TPRJones

Oh, wonderful! I didn't mean to assume; I missed the note about the 35.

Lula Hiigel

“I’m a pimp…and pimps…don’t commit suicide.” - Dwayne Johnson, “Southland Tales”

Harold Kingsberg

So I gotta ask: was Sex and the City 2 a cut or an already-seen?

Doctor Doggo

I'm not sure which surprises me more: that you haven't seen Buckaroo Bonzai, or that it isn't runaway-winning this poll. You need to see this movie.