FFA Movie Poll - 1974 Countdown Monday is here. (1 Viewer)

[Ilov80s]

I actually use The Remains of the Day as my primary example of doing a film adaptation right, so I guess I'm in that group you mention.  The book is a favorite of mine, and unlike most adaptations I thought the movie might even be better.  A lot of that has to do with just how phenomenal the acting is, though.

Thanks to @otb_lifer and @wikkidpissah for thoughts on TCM.  I'm going to watch it. 

I probably need to rewatch it. And reread  it. How good is that book too! 

 

[Ilov80s]

Having just watched Chinatown and Vertigo back to back, I think I need to watch The Big Sleep next.

 

[Hov34]

Having just watched Chinatown and Vertigo back to back, I think I need to watch The Big Sleep next.

Are you stalking me?  I just watched The Big Sleep a week ago.  Got it in my Vudu Library for $2.

 

[otb_lifer]

Thanks to @otb_lifer and @wikkidpissah for thoughts on TCM.  I'm going to watch it. 

 

[KarmaPolice]

   

 

[otb_lifer]

   

ALL my likes, and a ton ofReddit gold for you, good sir (oh, wait)

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and, not for nuttin' but ... even KP's brief emoji synopsis of the Kirk kill is better than 90% of what's been released in TCM's wake 

 

[Don Quixote]

I'm scuffling to get to 10 I'd feel o.k. about giving points to. Like, The Great Gatsby is in my list and I don't think it should be.

I'm in the same boat.  Hoping to find some time to watch a couple of others.  Started watching The Towering Inferno, but I'm not sure what drove someone to make a 2 hour 45 min long disaster movie.

 

[Hov34]

Young Frankenstein is criminally underrated.

I absolutely love Madeline Kahn and think she steals just about this whole movie.

#Poo poo Undies.

 

[Ilov80s]

I'm in the same boat.  Hoping to find some time to watch a couple of others.  Started watching The Towering Inferno, but I'm not sure what drove someone to make a 2 hour 45 min long disaster movie.

I recorded that from TCM and then I saw how long it was. I don't know if I can do it. It has to be pretty bad, right?

 

[Ilov80s]

Young Frankenstein is criminally underrated.

I absolutely love Madeline Kahn and think she steals just about this whole movie.

#Poo poo Undies.

It's much much much better than Saddles IMO. 

 

[wikkidpissah]

Young Frankenstein is criminally underrated.

I absolutely love Madeline Kahn and think she steals just about this whole movie.

#Poo poo Undies.

As a comedy writer (and therefore excusing films that rely on great comic talents such as Marx Bros, Python, Zero Mostel for their success), i'm pretty sure either Young Frankenstein or Groundhog Day is the comic film i would most want to have written. For humor, structure & classic memorability, YF's pretty hard to top.

 

[ProstheticRGK]

Well, there's a 74 movie that will be in my Top 5 that i estimate less than 10% of FFAppers to have seen. Do i pimp it so folks'll watch it or let it be my secret garden?

I’d say, “make your case, please!” I already added the Cassavettes movie to the top of my list, just because of simey’s write-up. Never had heard of it before, but, now, i really want to see it. This is exactly why i’m in these threads.

 

[Don Quixote]

I'm in the same boat.  Hoping to find some time to watch a couple of others.  Started watching The Towering Inferno, but I'm not sure what drove someone to make a 2 hour 45 min long disaster movie.

I recorded that from TCM and then I saw how long it was. I don't know if I can do it. It has to be pretty bad, right?

I started it On Demand the other night before bed before realizing what I getting myself into.  In looking at 1974 films, I was a bit surprised there was a film with that strong of a cast, and which received a Best Picture nomination, that wasn't really even on my radar.  I'm not sure if I can find time to finish it though.

 

[wikkidpissah]

I’d say, “make your case, please!” I already added the Cassavettes movie to the top of my list, just because of simey’s write-up. Never had heard of it before, but, now, i really want to see it. This is exactly why i’m in these threads.

Spoiler

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. It made the careers of Dreyfus & Quaid and pretty much established the Canadian Film Board, without which we wouldnt have had Egoyan, Arcand (Barabarian Invasions), maybe even Cronenberg

 

[Ilov80s]

I started it On Demand the other night before bed before realizing what I getting myself into.  In looking at 1974 films, I was a bit surprised there was a film with that strong of a cast, and which received a Best Picture nomination, that wasn't really even on my radar.  I'm not sure if I can find time to finish it though.

OMG it got nominated for Best Picture?  I am most curious to see Astaire who got an Oscar nomination for his performance. I am just really hesitant about these disaster films. 

 

[ProstheticRGK]

The early 70s were a golden age of made for TV movies.  QB VII was another 1974 non-theatrical release that was very good. 

Leon Uris book? I think i read that, but can’t remember.

 

[wikkidpissah]

OMG it got nominated for Best Picture?  I am most curious to see Astaire who got an Oscar nomination for his performance. I am just really hesitant about these disaster films. 

Have to remember this was before Jaws established the blockbuster formula. Til the 70s, the only way to 'guarantee' asses in the seats was with epics (CBDeMille, David Lean, etc). Irwin Allen busted that bubble with his disaster pix (Inferno, Poseidon) and wowed the movie world for half a decade

ETA: Dont waste your time - they're Love Boat with explosions

 

[otb_lifer]

OMG it got nominated for Best Picture?  I am most curious to see Astaire who got an Oscar nomination for his performance. I am just really hesitant about these disaster films. 

he sure danced around those flames ... disaster shtick chops extraordinaire - right up there with Shelley Winters' facacta asthmatic yenta turn in "Poseidon"  ?

 

[wikkidpissah]

Leon Uris book? I think i read that, but can’t remember.

My favorite of the early mini-series. Anthony Hopkins was fantastic

 

[ProstheticRGK]

Young Frankenstein is criminally underrated.

I absolutely love Madeline Kahn and think she steals just about this whole movie.

#Poo poo Undies.

I had a huge boycrush on Madeline Kahn. Thanks, for the mammaries. Funny and smoking hot. 

 

[Andy Dufresne]

PUTTIN' ONNA RIIIIHHHHTTTZZZ!!!

 

[otb_lifer]

I had a huge boycrush on Madeline Kahn. Thanks, for the mammaries. Funny and smoking hot. 

i used to confuse here and Bernadette Peters back when mammeries were still new to me - toss in Karen Black (especially after "Trilogy of Terror"), and ya got my triumvirate of (age) 10.

 

[otb_lifer]

Have to remember this was before Jaws established the blockbuster formula. Til the 70s, the only way to 'guarantee' asses in the seats was with epics (CBDeMille, David Lean, etc). Irwin Allen busted that bubble with his disaster pix (Inferno, Poseidon) and wowed the movie world for half a decade

ETA: Dont waste your time - they're Love Boat with explosions

all were a treatsie on our increasing paranoia as the country emerged from it's 60s hangover ...

Airport - "####, i ain't flying!!"

TCM - "#### that bucolic road trip ####!"

Poseidon - "ain't goin' on no ####### boat!"

Inferno - "why the #### we gotta be so ostentatious with our height here??!? no way i go in one of those!!1!"

Black Sunday - "see, we cant even enjoy the ####### Super Bowl anymore!!1!"

Jaws - "forever landlocked!!1!"

Mr. Saturday Night - "burn that ####### Borscht Belt!!1!"

 

[Eephus]

he sure danced around those flames ... disaster shtick chops extraordinaire - right up there with Shelley Winters' facacta asthmatic yenta turn in "Poseidon"  ?

OJ Simpson tried stabbing the fire

 

[wikkidpissah]

all were a treatsie on our increasing paranoia as the country emerged from it's 60s hangover ...

Airport - "####, i ain't flying!!"

TCM - "#### that bucolic road trip ####!"

Poseidon - "ain't goin' on no ####### boat!"

Inferno - "why the #### we gotta be so ostentatious with our height here??!? no way i go in one of those!!1!"

Black Sunday - "see, we cant even enjoy the ####### Super Bowl anymore!!1!"

Jaws - "forever landlocked!!1!"

Mr. Saturday Night - "burn that ####### Borscht Belt!!1!"

I was really hoping you'd quote from Kristine DeBell's Alice in Wonderland for that excellent diarrhama

 

[Eephus]

all were a treatsie on our increasing paranoia as the country emerged from it's 60s hangover ...

Airport - "####, i ain't flying!!"

TCM - "#### that bucolic road trip ####!"

Poseidon - "ain't goin' on no ####### boat!"

Inferno - "why the #### we gotta be so ostentatious with our height here??!? no way i go in one of those!!1!"

Black Sunday - "see, we cant even enjoy the ####### Super Bowl anymore!!1!"

Jaws - "forever landlocked!!1!"

Mr. Saturday Night - "burn that ####### Borscht Belt!!1!"

Rollercoaster:      in Sensurround

 

[otb_lifer]

Rollercoaster:      in Sensurround

ohhh, hellz yeah - you talkin' Ohio Players version, amirite? 

but, yeah, a glaring omission from my previous post ... Hollywood was fixin' it so the only place ya felt safe was the theater 

 

[Yankee23Fan]

List sent.  I thought way too long and hard about how to structure that list.  

 

[simey]

OMG it got nominated for Best Picture?  I am most curious to see Astaire who got an Oscar nomination for his performance. I am just really hesitant about these disaster films. 

I'm a fan of The Towering Inferno. I saw it in the theater with the family back in '74.  It isn't some deep profound movie, but I found it entertaining, and it is my favorite of the disaster flicks from the 70s. I'd want Paul Newman and Steve McQueen to save me from a burning building. 

 

[Yankee23Fan]

I'm a fan of The Towering Inferno. I saw in the theater with the family back in '74.  It isn't some deep profound movie, but I found it entertaining, and it is my favorite of the disaster flicks from the 70s. I'd want Paul Newman and Steve McQueen to save me from a burning building. 

70's disaster porn is a genre all onto itself and is glorious if you just let it take you away.

 

[Hov34]

I'm a fan of The Towering Inferno. I saw in the theater with the family back in '74.  It isn't some deep profound movie, but I found it entertaining, and it is my favorite of the disaster flicks from the 70s. I'd want Paul Newman and Steve McQueen to save me from a burning building. 

Um, I've got some bad news for you.

 

[simey]

OJ Simpson tried stabbing the fire

Let's not forget, he did save a kitty from the inferno. 

 

[otb_lifer]

I'd want Paul Newman and Steve McQueen to save me from a burning building. 

Jimmy Brolin and Randy Mantooth down? 

 

[simey]

Um, I've got some bad news for you.

Don't crush my dream!

 

[El Floppo]

Day for Night... 73?

 

[Eephus]

Day for Night... 73?

Oui

 

[wikkidpissah]

Day for Night... 73?

Jacqueline Bisset & DfN are 73

 

[El Floppo]

Oui

Murky buckups.

 

[otb_lifer]

Jacqueline Bisset

as per our 'perky' PM ... "The Deep"

 

[Gr00vus]

Rented Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and watched it last night. A mostly sweet movie with episodes of violent misogyny mixed in. It'll make my list but I don't think it'll be getting a ton of points (or a rewatch). I did like how Burstyn played the role, and the way the role was written, very realistic in a way you wouldn't see today (where every single friggng line of dialogue is so on the nose).  The cast around her gave a mixed bag of performances. Jodie Foster was great, Dianne Ladd and Vic Tayback were good (in roles they'd play again later in the T.V. show). Everyone else was meh or worse.

 

[El Floppo]

here we go. 

pm to be sent as well. to somebody.

Spoiler

1.    A Woman Under the Influence

2.    Chinatown

3.    The Godfather Part II

4.    The Conversation

5.    Blazing Saddles

6.    Young Frankenstein

7.    Dark Star

8.    The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

9.    F for Fake

10.  Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

11.  Lacombe, Lucien

12.   Female Trouble

13.  Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

14.   Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

15.   The Parallax View

16.  The Lords of Flatbush

17.   The Groove Tube

18.   Murder on the Orient Express

19.   The Cars that ate Paris

20.   The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

almost....

21.   The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat

22.   Phantom of the Paradise

23.  It's Alive

24.   McQ

25.   The little prince

 

[otb_lifer]

Rented Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and watched it last night. A mostly sweet movie with episodes of violent misogyny mixed in. It'll make my list but I don't think it'll be getting a ton of points (or a rewatch). I did like how Burstyn played the role, and the way the role was written, very realistic in a way you wouldn't see today (where every single friggng line of dialogue is so on the nose).  The cast around her gave a mixed bag of performances. Jodie Foster was great, Dianne Ladd and Vic Tayback were good (in roles they'd play again later in the T.V. show). Everyone else was meh or worse.

I'd say for circa 2018, on a first ever watch basis, this is a fair assessment. 

flick grabbed me many years ago, and i last revisited a few months ago ... still tugs at me, especially in retrospect of the now deceased family friend who it always reminded me of. 

 

[El Floppo]

I'd say for circa 2018, on a first ever watch basis, this is a fair assessment. 

flick grabbed me many years ago, and i last revisited a few months ago ... still tugs at me, especially in retrospect of the now deceased family friend who it always reminded me of. 

Plus it gave us the seminal NYC band, Alice Donut Liver Henry Moore.

I have a feeling with many of these, rewatches would change my rankings. But for now I'm going with memory.

 

[otb_lifer]

Plus it gave us the seminal NYC band, Alice Donut Liver Henry Moore.

I have a feeling with many of these, rewatches would change my rankings. But for now I'm going with memory.

i see you bucked the chalk up top on your list ... was hard leaving WUTI off my submission, but i wanna stay at 10 per  :(

i saw ADLHM once during a coke binge - not in concert, but at Siberia 

 

[El Floppo]

i see you bucked the chalk up top on your list ... was hard leaving WUTI off my submission, but i wanna stay at 10 per  :(

i saw ADLHM once during a coke binge - not in concert, but at Siberia 

Saw them a couple times up at CU. Iirc, with Too Skinny Js

 

[wikkidpissah]

Plus it gave us the seminal NYC band, Alice Donut Liver Henry Moore.

I have a feeling with many of these, rewatches would change my rankings. But for now I'm going with memory.

do you like ANY bands without semen all over em?!

 

[otb_lifer]

Saw them a couple times up at CU. Iirc, with Too Skinny Js

last time up there was during the Julia Stiles years    (2000 ish?) didja ever run into her up there?  she used to traipse around Morningside all hours of the day/night with coffee/beverage in hand - very down to earth young lady. 

 

[Raging weasel]

List sent. I didn't realize Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles came out the same year-what a great year for Brooks and company.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

I probably have a few that did not make any other lists - some for the nostalgia aspect:

Spoiler

The Godfather Part II30

Chinatown 29

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre20

Young Frankenstein20

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three18

Blazing Saddles18

Murder on the Orient Express14

Death Wish14

The Longest Yard10

Ladies and Genlemen: The Rolling Stones 8

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad7

The Towering Inferno6

Godzilla v. MechaGodzilla 5

Animals Are Beautiful People1

 

[El Floppo]

last time up there was during the Julia Stiles years    (2000 ish?) didja ever run into her up there?  she used to traipse around Morningside all hours of the day/night with coffee/beverage in hand - very down to earth young lady. 

After my time. Lauryn Hill, Famke Jahnsen, the actress in Whole None Yards... and Gorsuch. A class mate managed Blues Traveller, so saw them way too much. Another classmate had something to do with Yo La Tengo, who played a house party where I lived- saw them way too little.