Cinemarch Madness: Conference Polls
Submitted by Sarah D. Bunting on March 7, 2013 – 2:46 PM13 Comments
This is the master list of Cinemarch Madness polls for the conference-play round. If it’s open, you can vote in it; if it’s closed, either it ended or you have to wait for the poll’s dedicated page to go up. This page is primarily for you to get a sense of the divisions and see how the competition might go.
The Cinemarch Madness FAQ is here.
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The banner picture says “bleakest” but the top of the polls themselves say “harshest.” What is our rubric? Because there are plenty of films that have passages – even very long ones – that are difficult to sit through, while ultimately being hopeful in the end. It ain’t my poll, so obviously feel free to disregard. Just asking.
Sidenote: HOW THE HELL DID I NOT THINK OF BLOWOUT? Derp.
@Jack: MY rubric is the net effect on my psyche. I.e., did I have any hope in humanity at the end? But I think generally people are interpreting it more variably — not just depressing but difficult/discomfiting to watch, heartbreaking, etc. For instance, I actually would not have nominated SCHINDLER’S LIST; despite the setting, and a few truly raw sequences, this is a Spielberg film and that ONE story in the midst of the horror is uplifting. But a lot of folks found it a battle to get through, so, there it is.
I started with a narrower definition, but it’s so subjective anyway…and most civilians do not see the volume of harrowing documentaries I do…so, you know, I didn’t want to be talking to myself all “see ‘Life With Murder,’ you’ll wish you were dead!”, so here we are. Heh. Sorry I’m not more definitive!
UGH! So many movies on here that I cannot ever watch again! :(( I really am not a fan of bleak movies, even if I think they were amazing – they will never have a place on my shelves. Except for Dancer in the Dark, which a friend gave me because he knows I love musicals, but it’s too bad that I CAN NEVER LISTEN or WATCH IT AGAIN because I don’t want to spend an even curled up under a desk, sobbing and holding a bottle of wine!
@SDB: Okay. I feel like we’re coming from the same place then.
Oops. It wasn’t until I read “Cinemarch Madness,” that I remembered “The Madness of King George.” GOD, did that stupid movie break my stupid heart.
making me feel sympathy for GEORGE III, for crap’s sake.
There’s some damned messed up movies on this list, tho. Sheesh.
I’m going to have to vote more on “movies I know I will never be able to handle seeing” more than “movies I was devastated by.” I’m a wuss, and when I know a movie is going to feature rape, vomit, prolonged illness or grief or some combo of all of those I know that I am going to skip it. Sometimes I’ve stumbled into a movie that has one or more of those things by accident, and guarantee that it will get my vote if I come across it here.
Would be interesting to know actually. Which of the nominees include the rape/vomit/prolonged illness or grief trifecta?
Oh man. This is rough. My personal final four would be a dual-Swank affair: Boys Don’t Cry, Million Dollar Baby, Amour, and Brokeback Mountain.
Going just on a movie I know I will never ever ever be able to get through again, because the devastation was THAT complete and I sobbed the entire way home to the point of nearly crashing my car? I would have Amour winning the whole thing.
I haven’t seen enough of these films to vote, honestly, but I still had to vote for Pan’s Labryinth, because that’s one of the worst films I’ve seen. I had an intense discussion with a friend, who couldn’t understand why I hated it so, because she saw the ending as happy, but I saw it as just a dream or hallucination… And the torture scene is revolting.
Hang on… Where’s The Last Picture Show? Sarah, I’m sorry if you’ve already expressed outrage at its exclusion, but that most likely would have been my number 1 if I hadn’t missed the nominations.
Also just realized The Road is on here and No Country isn’t. Hmm…
@Cappy, TLPS wasn’t nominated. I’ll throw it in the challengers’ category. No Country I cut because it didn’t get any seconds and I didn’t find it that bleak. Nasty, violent, yes; did I want to move into a cave, no.
Oooohhhhh Remains of the Day, I’d FORGOTTEN about that one. ON PURPOSE. Glad to see it’s in the running somewhere because my GOD did I want to smack every character in that movie upside the head and yell “You don’t have to be THAT miserable! I know it’s in your genes or something but GEEZ.”
Another one that didn’t make the list but that I can hardly think about without suffering movie PTSD: Amores Perros. Death and pain and DOGFIGHTING to boot. I think I had my eyes covered for most of that movie, but I can’t honestly remember, due to the aforementioned PTSD.
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