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FFA Movie Poll - 1974 Countdown Monday is here. (1 Viewer)
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Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
thanks will send KP a noterolling stones movie ruled '73 (I had originally had it on my list as well)
Sullie
Footballguy
Dammit, I totally forgot about The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, good call, Walter Matthau was excellent in that and Robert Shaw was always excellent in everything he ever did, great movie!
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
Sullie
Footballguy
Agreed and I meant give you kudos for The Towering Inferno on your list, had it on mine as well. That one will always be special to me, it's the first movie I remember seeing. I saw it when I was 6 years old in 1974 with my family at the drive in movie theater. We would load up the car (5 of us kids, Dad and Mom) we would take a couple of roaster pans full of popcorn and a old fashioned coca cola (metal) cooler filled with ice and sodas and of course our brown paper bags full of candy. Good times and I can't help but smile and think of that day every time I see that movie!
Eephus
Footballguy
Yeah, I should have ranked that one too. It has a great cast of character actors and a gritty feel that the remake totally missed on.
Sullie
Footballguy
Agreed 100% man, the remake was a total swing and a miss, very disappointing. It was one of those that I really wanted to love it, hell even like it but it just missed everything that made the original so good.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
My parents took me and my sister to see Jaws at a Drive in theater when we were 6 and 5. That's the one I remember most, but there were a few others.Agreed and I meant give you kudos for The Towering Inferno on your list, had it on mine as well. That one will always be special to me, it's the first movie I remember seeing. I saw it when I was 6 years old in 1974 with my family at the drive in movie theater. We would load up the car (5 of us kids, Dad and Mom) we would take a couple of roaster pans full of popcorn and a old fashioned coca cola (metal) cooler filled with ice and sodas and of course our brown paper bags full of candy. Good times and I can't help but smile and think of that day every time I see that movie!
Sullie
Footballguy
Man, my Dad took me and my brother to see Jaws when I was a kid, it is so very special to me, I have the movie on every format ever made and I only have ever purchased a handful of movies. So here's the setup : my Dad had two full time jobs, he was always working, always busy. He planned this outing - boys night out to go see Jaws except we didn't know. So he says "hey boys, your Mom needs us to get some things from the department store, lets go." We get in the car and head out and as we're driving along I notice that he's going the wrong way. I said "Dad, you missed the exit for the store." My Dad yells at me and says "Dammit why didn't you say something, now I'm going to have to take the next exit and turn around!" And then he passed the next exit and the next exit, etc. I am like 8 or 9 years old, my little 8 or 9 year old mind is running wild and I'm thinking "okay, the old man has gone off the deep end, when the car stops, I'm going to throw the door open and run like hell because the old man has gone nuts, God only knows what he's going to do us!" The car pulls up right in front of the movie theater. This was a brand new movie theater in a different city with Dolby Sound and the whole nine yards. Anyway, he looks at us and smiles and says "okay, we're here!" and when I saw it was Jaws, I swear to God I was both excited and relieved, mainly happy my Dad didn't snap and lose his mind! But I loved that movie and I think he knew my brother and I would love it too because that's all we talked about after that. We had the Jaws t-shirts, posters. . . until Star Wars came along and we went Star Wars crazy!
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otb_lifer
Footballguy
cool .... just wondering because i know she hit a ton of shows, and would hang with my buddy Mike and his crew after some of them - i never had the pleasure of hanging pre or post show with her, though he pestered me a great deal about making an effort to do so
used to run into Ira every now and then when i made my Hoboken rounds - been quite a few years now, though - guy would walk Washington St. in virtual anonymity - those kids had zero clue.
landrys hat
Footballguy
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Sorry - keeping with the 2 week cycle, I guess lists will be due on Easter Sunday with the countdown firing up on the 2nd.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Is there going to be a list that The Godfather II DOESN'T show up on?
Keith R
The Don
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I could see it making a clean sweep, but I could also see somebody not fully digging it either.
I was thinking about it and wondering if we did end up doing the 70s by the decade, if the Godfather movies would be on my final list.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I have only gotten 10 added up so far, but it looks like I have 17 lists so far, and of course the top 5 is not looking how I thought it would.
Keith R
The Don
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
Love em both but, though the original might squeak into a 70s Ten Best (quality & impact putting it in the same ballpark as Jaws, Star Wars, Annie Hall, Cabaret vying for the the bottom of that 10) for me, but not my 10 favorite (Chinatown, Man Who Would Be King, Clockwork Orange, Last Tango in Paris, Apocalypse Now, Cuckoo's Nest, The Long Goodbye, Network, Holy Grail, Being There all ahead). Both in top 20 for sure, though.
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Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I guess this is what I am getting at. If we are talking just quality and impact, sure, but my lists are more on the desert island/favorites lists - What 20 movies would I be taking with me, and just a quick glance through the list I don't think either would make it for me. It's in my top 5 for this poll, but on the bottom end of that.
The bolded I would have plus Alien, 2 Malick movies, Taxi Driver, Halloween, Carrie, another Python movie, The Conversation, and a group of about 10-12 others that would be fighting for those last few spots before I would get to the Godfather movies. They just aren't favorites of mine or ones that I have the desire to watch multiple times.
krista4
Footballguy
I'm going to try to watch Texas Chainsaw Massacre, that wikkid thing about Dudley Do Right or whatever, and Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (which I might have seen before but don't remember) before that. Although I did pull up TCM on Amazon and just the DVD cover picture terrified me. 
Yankee23Fan
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You need to watch TCM in complete dark with the sound cranked. The sounds more than almost any other movie of that genre, are frightening.
otb_lifer
Footballguy
excellent point
had the pleasure of doing so a few months ago when the girls were away for the weekend - ran across an amazing copy/feed on Covenant (Kodi) - the sound and visual clarity were as crisp as one could hope for ... like seeing it for the first time all over again. volume was on 11teen.
the score, the ambient sounds - immense players here - devastating in their effectiveness due to the economic use ... you're never hit over the head, more like punched in the gut.
thing is, one is so wrapped in the stark visuals that the brilliance of the "sound" tends to be overlooked, so kudos for accentuating another prime aspect of this masterpiece.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I wish I still had the book here, because my memory is hazy on details - but I remember being surprised by just how famous the tracking shot following Pam through the swingset to the house was with the filmmakers around the time (along with the other setups and camera movements).excellent point
had the pleasure of doing so a few months ago when the girls were away for the weekend - ran across an amazing copy/feed on Covenant (Kodi) - the sound and visual clarity were as crisp as one could hope for ... like seeing it for the first time all over again. volume was on 11teen.
the score, the ambient sounds - immense players here - devastating in their effectiveness due to the economic use ... you're never hit over the head, more like punched in the gut.
thing is, one is so wrapped in the stark visuals that the brilliance of the "sound" tends to be overlooked, so kudos for accentuating another prime aspect of this masterpiece.
To tie it into the 1982 draft we just did - I didn't know until just now, but Daniel Pearl went on to be the DP for Zapped!
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Your list is accounted for. Just going forward please.Scoresman said:
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Don Quixote
Footballguy
I noticed this one only has 9 films. Is that legal? Not trying to throw it out -- asking for myself, in case I can't get to 10 worthy. Struggling to find some streaming that are on my watchlist (I had started Towering Inferno, but it looks like that got pulled off On Demand in the day or two that I had paused it).Hov34 said:
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
The Apprenticeship of Dudley Do Right might actually have been a better picture & would have kept with the Canadian theme. The Film Board would only bankroll three non-Canadian actors, so, lessee......Malcolm McDowell as Dudley, Karen Allen as Nell and a star turn from Peter Sellers as Snidely Whiplash. Canadians Leslie Nielsen & Donald Sutherland as the good cop/bad cop of Mountiedomkrista4 said:
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I am allowing these, as long as the #s are proportional. I would say something if somebody sent a list of 8 movies but they still had 200pts total. This one is 9 and 170pts, so that's cool. I have gotten a couple others similar 6-7 movies, but maybe only totaling 120pts or so.
I was going to propose letting people do a 5 movie/100pt list in the future if they are struggling, but I guess the math here is keeping the average at 20pts/movie on the lists max. So if we are allowing a 10 movie list for 200pts, I see no reason somebody can't give me a 7 movie list for a 140pt max.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
In the end, I would rather have people interested in each thread and sending partial lists. I just don't want some lists to have more weight than others.
Hov34
Eephus's Great Great Great Love Child
I mean, one of the only other movies I've seen from '74 is Benji. I can put it on the list and it will make it 10, but I don't consider it worthy of the list...
otb_lifer
Footballguy
Incursion addon (Kodi) - 100s of movies from any year you can think of - combed through '74 last night for spits and giggles ... had no idea the 'lesbian vampire' genre flourished so much that year - seriously, lotta sexualized horror/thriller was being churned out
Mr. Mojo
Footballguy
Eephus
Footballguy
I haven't seen it for 40 years
and it didn't make much of an impression other than it looked great for such a low budget production.Looks like there's a decent print of it available on YouTube so I might give it another whirl
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Anybody doing some weekend research? I thought I had my 1974 stuff done and have been watching some '10 flicks, but now that F for Fake was ruled a 1974 I have that to watch in the next few days.
Gr00vus
Footballguy
i'm going to try but it looks like I'm going to have to suffer through youtube versions of some of this stuff. Ideally I see harry and tonto, duddy kravitz and taking of pelham 1,2,3. I don't think I can handle a woman under the influence, and the mixed reviews on lords of flatbush are making me think I can skip it.
Anyone bothering with The Life And Times Of Grizzly Adams?
El Floppo
Footballguy
It's been that long at least for me too.I haven't seen it for 40 years
Looks like there's a decent print of it available on YouTube so I might give it another whirl
I remember really enjoying it-very dead pan, beach ball alien impatiently clicking it's toes, and a somewhat iconic and imitated (awfully similar to strangelove, iirc) surfing scene. Could be one that doesn't hold up on a repeat viewing... but that's not how I'm doing these.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I am the opposite. I had about 26 movies I was narrowing it down from.
ETA: sadly, I am more excited about talking about 2010 than a year people consider one one of the best ever in 74.
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KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Gr00vus
Footballguy
Gracias. The production quality on these 1974s isn't really going to suffer much due to the youtube treatment I don't think.I haven't checked to see if this is indeed the whole movie, but it appears to be.
Starting up Texas Chainsaw Massacre right now (with NCAA bball in the background) - I want to finish before it starts to get dark.
Gr00vus
Footballguy
A combination. I can't stand many of the "big hits" of that year (some sounding like "pinseption" and "the special fleshtwerk" for example) that I've seen, and many of the others I have no interest in seeing.
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