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FFA Movie Poll - 1978 Lists due 8/26 (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 2007.  

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

2007   No Country for Old Men

2005   Batman Begins

1999   Fight Club

1992   Reservoir Dogs

1989   Major League

1984  This is Spinal Tap

1982   Blade Runner   

1974    The Godfather Part 2

1971   Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

1955-1959   12 Angry Men

 
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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

 
This one seems to have a good mix of classics in a variety of genres: Days of Heaven (a no doubt 30 pointer for me), Deer Hunter, Animal House, The Last Waltz, Superman, Halloween, Dawn of the Dead, and Grease stick out.

I've watched a couple for research the past couple of weeks.  Loved "Blue Collar" -- Richard Pryor and Harvey Keitel as a couple of workers in an auto plant caught between labor and plant management. Not your typical Richard Pryor comedy.  

I started "The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith" last night.  Not one that I'd say that I enjoy, but good movie so far.  Kind of Django-like, involving an Australian aboriginal set around 1900.

Also watched "Heaven Can Wait."  It was an okay movie, and will probably get some points, but not much depth to it.

 
Deer Hunter is one of my favorites. This will be a good excuse to watch it again- haven't likely seen it in 15 years. 

 
I am a little more excited about this one than the other 70s that we covered.  Days of Heaven might be one of the most beautifully shot movies ever, and is an easy 30pt movie.  I also love the top horror movies on the year with Halloween and Dawn, Deer Hunter  and Midnight Express are great too.  Couple others I really like as well - Grease for example.  

I still have never seen The Last Waltz, and probably don't even know more than 1-2 songs from The Band

No way Superman or Animal House get points from me.  

 
KarmaPolice said:
I am a little more excited about this one than the other 70s that we covered.  Days of Heaven might be one of the most beautifully shot movies ever, and is an easy 30pt movie.  I also love the top horror movies on the year with Halloween and Dawn, Deer Hunter  and Midnight Express are great too.  Couple others I really like as well - Grease for example.  

I still have never seen The Last Waltz, and probably don't even know more than 1-2 songs from The Band

No way Superman or Animal House get points from me.  
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Days of Heaven is one of those I wish I could have seen on the big screen.  I've definitely got to figure out a way to see it I ever see it at the local AFI Theatre or something.

I've probably overplayed The Basement Tapes in my life, but The Last Waltz is a lot more than the Band. Lots of special guests show up.  If you love blues or blusier rock music from the 60s/70s, there's plenty there to enjoy.  Throw in Scorsese as a director to boot.  It has been awhile since I've seen it; going to have to do a re-watch over the next couple of weeks.

 
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Days of Heaven is gorgeous but the story is pretty light. I do appreciate the look and it is short so they at least recognized there wasn't much to cover. I preferred Badlands a lot more.

 
Ilov80s said:
Days of Heaven is gorgeous but the story is pretty light. I do appreciate the look and it is short so they at least recognized there wasn't much to cover. I preferred Badlands a lot more.
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I will fully admit that I probably wouldn't like it nearly as much if it was A Thin Red Line-length movie.  

 
The two 1978 semi-obscurities I'd highly recommend are "Big Wednesday", John Milius' surfer epic and "Who'll Stop the Rain", a movie that's about Vietnam even though it's not set there.  I'll write them up sometime this week.

 
Eephus said:
The two 1978 semi-obscurities I'd highly recommend are "Big Wednesday", 
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I remember this surf movie. It is too bad that Jan-Micheal Vincent messed his life up with drugs and alcohol.

 
The Great Train Robbery - Sean Connery performed most of his own stunts in the film, including the extended sequence on top of the moving train.[7] The train was composed of J-15 class 0-6-0 No 184 of 1880, with its wheels and side rods covered and roof removed, leaving only spectacle plate for protection to give it a look more akin to the 1850s and coaches that were made for the film from modern railway flat wagons. Connery was told that the train would travel at only 20 miles per hour during his time on top of the cars. However, the train crew used an inaccurate means of judging the train's speed. The train was actually doing speeds of 40 to 50 miles per hour. Connery wore soft rubber soled shoes and the roofs of the carriages were covered with a sandy, gritty surface. Connery actually slipped and nearly fell off the train during one jump between two carriages, and had difficulty keeping his eyes free of smoke and cinders from the locomotive.

 
Ilov80s said:
Days of Heaven is gorgeous but the story is pretty light. I do appreciate the look and it is short so they at least recognized there wasn't much to cover. I preferred Badlands a lot more.
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Tbh, I barely remember the plot and it's still one of my faves.

 
simey said:
I remember this surf movie. It is too bad that Jan-Micheal Vincent messed his life up with drugs and alcohol.
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Yankee23Fan said:
You serious Clark?
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:yes:

I don't like Superman as a character, and don't think those movies hold up.  It's been discussed before, but I was late to the game on the 70s "comedy" movies (most I didn't get to until in my 30s at the earliest) and find most of them painfully unfunny.  

 
Digging through lists, and wrote some down.  Any of these need to be seen for the poll?

Interiors

Goin' South

Coming Home

The Ascent

Drunken Master

The Fury

Boys from Brazil

Killer of Sheep

 
I was looking up "Autumn Sonata".  Never seen it, but it seems worthy of research to watch -- Ingmar Bergman. Ingrid Bergman. All the Bergmans.

According to Justwatch, it is only available on Filmstruck.  Was someone saying that they subscribed to that?

 
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IMDB has The Ascent as 1977.

Interiors is poor Woody Allen

The Fury is mediocre De Palma

I didn't care for Goin' South when I saw it years ago but I'd be willing to give it a re-watch

 
did anybody see Northern Lights? 

seems really familar, but I can't recall if I saw it or not... I think not.

 
I'm not going to argue too much.  I've never seen Scarface or The Untouchables.    I think Carrie is one of my favorite horror movies, and really like Blow Out as well.  But that's about it.  

 
KarmaPolice said:
I'm not going to argue too much.  I've never seen Scarface or The Untouchables.    I think Carrie is one of my favorite horror movies, and really like Blow Out as well.  But that's about it.  
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The Fury is early De Palma before his bag of tricks was played out.  I remember it as being kind of dull and uninteresting compared to his other films of this era (e.g. Carrie, Blow Out, Dressed to Kill) that were cheesy fun.

 
Yankee23Fan said:
What in the holy eff is this eff?
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:shrug:

Mostly due to my finding very little interest in gangster/mob movies, so I tend to put them off.   Probably would try Untouchables before Scarface, but that's what these polls are for- getting me and others to catch up on these movies they've missed.  

 
Rewatched “The Last Waltz.”  I’m not really the concert film type, but still pretty outstanding. As I wasn’t aware of this Easter egg the last time I watched — looking for traces of Neil Young’s cocaine booger during “Helpless” added a new dimension to it.

 
Big Wednesday tries to be the Great American Movie but falls short.  It still manages to be the best surf movie ever.  John Milius (with his co-writer Dennis Aaberg) throws everything into his movie:  stories of his surf buddies, samurai philosophy, a coming of age story, social commentary and the history of Southern California surfing.  It somehow ends up as less than the sum of its parts.

It starts off as a comedy with elements of slapstick but veers off in a different direction as the characters age and in some cases, mature.  A lot of movies from 1978 grappled with how to portray Vietnam.  Milius uses it mostly as a device to shift the tone of his movie.  It's done kind of awkwardly but it moves the plot forward.  Milius seems more at home staging action scenes than in directing actors but Jan Michael Vincent, William Katt and Gary Busey do the best they can with occasionally sappy dialog. 

It sounds like I don't like it but I'd highly recommend Big Wednesday if you've never seen it.  It's kind of a frustrating film because it promises so much but when it works, it's a wonderful thing. My surfing life consists of about 15 seconds up on a board and a couple hours of paddling but it's impossible to have grown up in America during the 60s and 70s without being influenced by surf culture.  Hell, I moved to California as soon as I could.  Big Wednesday captures that moment and feeling better than any other film.

 
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