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FFA Movie Poll: 1955 - 1959 Countdown Monday is here! (1 Viewer)

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Here is what we will do.... 

1.  PM me a list - Please do this even if you want to post your list in the thread.  

2.  You must list a minimum of 10 movies, and a maximum of 20.

3. You have 200 points to distribute to your list. 

4.  Maximum points a movie can get is 30.  

5.  You can also simply post your top 10-20 movies in order and they will be awarded points in a descending order from 19-1.

6.  We are only doing movies that have a theater release from 1955 - 1959.  

7.  NO PORN! , but other than that, there are no genre restrictions - comedy, horror, documentary, foreign, etc..

8.  We will use Wikipedia  for release dates, and remember, this is first theater release, NOT just U.S. release.  

EXAMPLE 1 - Points Assigned:

Titanic - 30
Austin Powers - 30
The Shining - 25
Happy Gilmore - 20
Halloween 2 - 15
Death to Smoochy- 10
Cabin in the Woods - 10
Arrival - 10
Goodfellas - 10
Godfather - 10
Chinatown - 5
The Thing - 5
Blue Velvet - 5
King of Kong - 5
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - 5
Animal House - 1
Texas Chainsaw Massacre- 1
The Matrix - 1
Die Hard- 1
They Live - 1

Example 2 - Movies Ranked

1. Hoop Dreams (will be awarded 19 points)
2. Wings of Desire  (will be awarded 18 points)
3. Boogie Nights (will be awarded 17 points)
4. Kill Bill (will be awarded 16 points)
5. Predator (will be awarded 15 points)
6. The Master (will be awarded 14 points)
7. Days of Heaven (will be awarded 13 points)
8. Mallrats (will be awarded 12 points)
9. Tropic Thunder (will be awarded 11 points)
10. Psycho (will be awarded 10 points)
11. Citizen Kane  (will be awarded 10 points)
12. The Avengers (will be awarded 9 points)
13. Armageddon  (will be awarded 8 points)
14. True Lies  (will be awarded 7 points)
15. Ocean's 11  (will be awarded 6 points)
16. Magnolia (will be awarded 5 points)
17. The Love Guru (will be awarded 4 points)
18. Scream 4 (will be awarded 3 points)
19. Saw 5 (will be awarded 2 points)
20. Dunkirk (will be awarded 1 points)

 
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Previous Year Polls and the winners of that year:

2010   Inception

2005   Batman Begins

1999   Fight Club

1992   Reservoir Dogs

1989   Major League

1982   Blade Runner   

1974    The Godfather Part 2

1971   Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

 
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Running list of movies that have received 500+ pts in the polls:

The Godfather Part 2 -  711

Blade Runner -  693

Fight Club  -  615

The Matrix  -  606

Fast Times at Ridgemont High  - 595

Chinatown -  565

Blazing Saddles -  526

 
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I'll suggest some foreign films since that's my role. :)  

*The Apu Trilogy - Pather Panchali, Aparajito, and The World of Apu

*A Man Escaped

Pickpocket

*The Seventh Seal

Wild Strawberries

*Rififi

*Bob Le Flambeur

*The Red Balloon

The Hidden Fortress

*Throne of Blood

Diabolique

And, a krista4 twofer, a foreign documentary!  Night and Fog

I starred the ones I like the most.

I am not much of a fan of The 400 Blows, but everyone else is.  I saw Ordet and barely remember it so can't really recommend it either.

I'm sure I'll think of others.

 
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Still have a big pile of stuff to watch for the first time at home and I do want to get to a couple that I have seen already - Vertigo and Some Like It Hot being the top two there.  

In the last couple days I have watched a few, but purposely more on the cheesy spectrum with The Blob and The House on Haunted Hill.  Also watched An Affair to Remember and thought it was OK, and watched Hiroshima, Mon Amour.    That last one really tested my movie watching endurance, and I have to say that I really didn't enjoy the experience.   Also recently I also watched Trouble with Harry and To Catch a Thief.  Both I enjoyed, but like somebody said (I think specifically about Harry) it definitely wasn't peak Hitchcock and if people haven't seen the big ones from this era - NxNW, Vertigo, and a couple to be covered in the first part of the decade, start there. 

I think more are to be trickling in from the library, but at home currently I have:  East of Eden, Sweet Smell of Success, Throne of Blood, The Hidden Fortress, 400 Blows, The Magician, A Face in the Crowd, Bad Day at Black Rock, Bridge on the River Kwai, and Witness for the Prosecution.

 
krista4 said:
I'll suggest some foreign films since that's my role. :)  

The Apu Trilogy - Pather Panchali, Aparajito, and The World of Apu

A Man Escaped

Pickpocket

The Seventh Seal

Wild Strawberries

Rififi

Bob Le Flambeur

The Red Balloon

The Hidden Fortress

Throne of Blood

Diabolique

And, a krista4 twofer, a foreign documentary!  Night and Fog

I am not much of a fan of The 400 Blows, but everyone else is.  I saw Ordet and barely remember it so can't really recommend it either.

I'm sure I'll think of others.
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Forgot about Pickpocket, but I have the bolded at home or they are on the way.   

I just noticed that the library system has the Criterion Apu trilogy as well.  Did you list them in the order to watch them?

 
KarmaPolice said:
Forgot about Pickpocket, but I have the bolded at home or they are on the way.   

I just noticed that the library system has the Criterion Apu trilogy as well.  Did you list them in the order to watch them?
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Yes, that's the order.

I think you'll like Rififi and the Kurosawas.  Have you already seen A Man Escaped?  It's probably my favorite on the list.  

 
Wonka was my #2 but Clockwork Orange is far and away superior IMO.  If I had given Wonka 0 points, CO would have won, but I'm not that disingenuous.

 
Lady and the Tramp; Rebel Without a Cause; To Catch a Thief; Seven Year Itch; East of Eden; Guys and Dolls; Oklahoma!; The Searchers; Invasion of the Body Snatchers; The King and I; The Ten Commandments; High Society; The Man Who Knew Too Much; Around the World in 80 Days; The Bride Over the River Kwai; 12 Angry Men; An Affair to Remember; Old Yeller; Gunfight at the O.K.Corral; Jailhouse Rock; Peyton Place; A Farewell to Arms; The Sun Also Rises; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; The Blob; South Pacific; Run Silent, Run Deep; Vertigo; Damn Yankees; North by Northwest; Some Like it Hot; Ben Hur; Sleeping Beauty; The Diary of Anne Frank.

35 on first glance of the years.  I'm sure I missed a ton.  I think I got suckered into supporting breaking the 50's the way we are doing it.

"Daddy, I got cida' in my ear!" 

 
Here are what I consider must see movies for this period:

55: Night of the Hunter (gothic horror thriller), Diabolique (horror- very Hitchcockian), Rififi (French heist film), 

56: The Killing (Kubrick heist film), The Searchers (John Wayne western)

57: A Face in the Crowd (Andy Griffith as an early sort of political entertainment demagogue), The Bridge On the River Kwai (POW film), Sweet Smell of Success (film noir about the sleezy world of society reporting), 12 Angry Men (court room drama), Throne Of Blood (Macbeth told as a Samurai story)

58: Some Came Running (drama about a drunk writer returning to his hometown), Vertigo (Hitchcock psychological thriller), Touch of Evil (Orson Welles film noir about a murder in a Mexican border town), Elevator to the Gallows (French noir about a murder plot gone wrong)

59: North by Northwest (Hitchcock: imagine Don Draper thrown into a James Bond movie), The 400 Blows (French film about a troubled child), Some Like It Hot (crossdressing comedy), Anatomy of a Murder (court room drama), Rio Bravo (western)

 
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Just to re-post a few of the not quite as well known ones that I posted in another thread...

"The Ladykillers" is the last great Ealing comedy (when we do 40s/early 50s, I'll be pimping a few more Alec Guinness Ealing comedies; I own an earlier generation of this set).  Don't let the crappy Coen Brothers remake scare you away from it.  Great cast with Guinness, Herbert Lom, and Peter Sellers.

Also on Peter Sellers, "I'm All Right Jack" is his breakout role; great social satire on labor relations.  I'm not quite as high on "The Mouse That Roared," but another solid early Peter Sellers with him in multiple roles (hints of what he would do in Dr. Strangelove), with a Duck Soup-type plot.

ETA: I may use this poll as an excuse to watch a couple more Guinness movies from this era that I haven't seen... The Horse's Mouth and Our Man in Havana.

 
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I guess the time has come to watch:

The Duties

Gun Crazy

Harvey

Tokyo Story

The African Queen

A Place In The Sun

Ikiru

Monkey Business

Singin' In The Rain

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

From Here To Eternity

Roman Holiday

Shane

Stalag 17

East of Eden/Rebel Without A cause

The Man With the Golden Arm

Marty

The Wrong Man

An Affair To Remember

Throne of Blood

Witness for the Prosecution 

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 

The Defiant Ones 

Anatomy of a Murder

and re-watch

Seven Samurai

Caine Mutiny

The Night of the Hunter

The Man Who Never Was

The Bridge on the River Kwai 

Ones already locked in:

All About Eve

In a Lonely Place

Sunset Blvd 

Strangers on a Train

A Stretcar Named Desire

High Noon

The Wages of Fear

On the Waterfront

The Killing

12 Angry Men

Paths of Glory

 
Yankee23Fan said:
Good lord this is going to be hard. 
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Yankee23Fan said:
Lady and the Tramp; Rebel Without a Cause; To Catch a Thief; Seven Year Itch; East of Eden; Guys and Dolls; Oklahoma!; The Searchers; Invasion of the Body Snatchers; The King and I; The Ten Commandments; High Society; The Man Who Knew Too Much; Around the World in 80 Days; The Bride Over the River Kwai; 12 Angry Men; An Affair to Remember; Old Yeller; Gunfight at the O.K.Corral; Jailhouse Rock; Peyton Place; A Farewell to Arms; The Sun Also Rises; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; The Blob; South Pacific; Run Silent, Run Deep; Vertigo; Damn Yankees; North by Northwest; Some Like it Hot; Ben Hur; Sleeping Beauty; The Diary of Anne Frank.

35 on first glance of the years.  I'm sure I missed a ton.  I think I got suckered into supporting breaking the 50's the way we are doing it.

"Daddy, I got cida' in my ear!" 
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I get what you are saying, and I felt the same way at first glance, but just like individual years I think there is a pretty clear separation between the top movies and the OK to good movies. (at least from the ones that I have seen so far).  So for me, I crossed off the Hitchcock's that weren't Vertigo and NxNW.  For comedies I think Some Like it Hot is on another level than Seven Year Itch or Affair to Remember.  For the horror/thrillers, I think Body Snatchers is better than The Blob/Bad Seed/House on Haunted Hill.   Then I crossed off a few like 10 Commandments that I just don't think hold up that well, and my list started off with about 24 movies before watching new ones for research.  

 
Ilov80s said:
Here are what I consider must see movies for this period:

 Elevator to the Gallows (French noir about a murder plot gone wrong), 
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Added to the queue, but there was a wait, so I am not sure I will get it before the lists are due.  (I think 3-4 people were before me)

 
KarmaPolice said:
I just think you guys are making this too hard.  Just because it's old doesn't mean it's a classic and great.  ;)
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True, very true.

But out of the 35 I listed, I can make a pretty compelling (to me) argument that Guys and Dolls, Ten Commandments, Rebel Without a Cause, Bridge Over the River Kwai, 12 Angry Men, and North by Northwest all should be guaranteed 30 points.  Which is 180 right there.

 
Yankee23Fan said:
True, very true.

But out of the 35 I listed, I can make a pretty compelling (to me) argument that Guys and Dolls, Ten Commandments, Rebel Without a Cause, Bridge Over the River Kwai, 12 Angry Men, and North by Northwest all should be guaranteed 30 points.  Which is 180 right there.
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I get what you are saying here.  I am confident I can get a list of 20 or so narrowed down, but because the way we have the points set up it's going to feel very weird giving some of these movies 5 or less points when they are probably one of the best movies that came out the year they were released.  

 
KarmaPolice said:
I just think you guys are making this too hard.  Just because it's old doesn't mean it's a classic and great.  ;)
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I think my list averages 3-4 movies a year so that's fair in keeping with the trend for previous years and how many really strong movies come out each year on average. 

 
Also, this is going to be a very interesting exercise since only one that Yankee listed for his 30pt movies are being considered for my 30pt movies - 12 Angry Men.

 
Yankee23Fan said:
True, very true.

But out of the 35 I listed, I can make a pretty compelling (to me) argument that Guys and Dolls, Ten Commandments, Rebel Without a Cause, Bridge Over the River Kwai, 12 Angry Men, and North by Northwest all should be guaranteed 30 points.  Which is 180 right there.
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Ben Hur is way better than Ten Commandments. Rebel is way overrated. If you want to see a movie about a troubled kid, The 400 Blows is the one to see. 

 
Ilov80s said:
North by Northwest is on TCM this Wednesday at 5:30.
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I saw that one listed too (definitely getting high points from me).

I also saw High Society coming up on the schedule.  I know we were just talking about the awesomeness of The Philadelphia Story in the other movie thread.  Worth watching, or a bad retread?

 
Also, I am still glad we are doing it this way and not year by year.  Seems like most of my faves are every other year, and hardly anything from '56/'58.

 
Ooff when did these get expanded to the 50s? 

Can we just skip to 1984 aka the single best year for movies ever?

 
Don Quixote said:
I saw that one listed too (definitely getting high points from me).

I also saw High Society coming up on the schedule.  I know we were just talking about the awesomeness of The Philadelphia Story in the other movie thread.  Worth watching, or a bad retread?
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It's ok. It is a musical so theat is a big difference. I saw it once and would never go out of my way to see it again, but it is cool seeing Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong all together. 

 
Ilov80s said:
It's ok. It is a musical so theat is a big difference. I saw it once and would never go out of my way to see it again, but it is cool seeing Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong all together. 
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Philadelphia Story is one of my faves, so I wrote down High Society.  Then I saw that part, and immediately crossed it off.  

 
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