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FFA Movie Poll - 1984 Lists Due 7/29 (1 Viewer)

I did it!

PS. Am I the only one who gave points to Dune? That movie was genius.

HE WHO CONTROLS THE SPICE CONTROLS THE UNIVERSE!!!!!!!!!

 
I guess what I am saying is that while it's a great idea, I think the 500pt club is looking more like a function of having a ton of lists for a year (The Matrix), or years people can't go as deep with but have a clear cut stud or two (Godfather), than it is a comment on the quality of the movie.  

Not that I am willing to do more math, but I am wondering if a criteria should have been set of at least being on X number of lists and averaging 20pts/vote, which Tap and Terminator would have qualified for.  

 
KarmaPolice said:
I guess what I am saying is that while it's a great idea, I think the 500pt club is looking more like a function of having a ton of lists for a year (The Matrix), or years people can't go as deep with but have a clear cut stud or two (Godfather), than it is a comment on the quality of the movie.  

Not that I am willing to do more math, but I am wondering if a criteria should have been set of at least being on X number of lists and averaging 20pts/vote, which Tap and Terminator would have qualified for.  
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A start would be dividing the top vote getters' points by number of lists submitted. Maybe that ratio would be more indicative of their relative popularity. Perhaps that wouldn't quite do it, but some refinement of the approach might work.  @wikkidpissah or someone could come up with a jazzy name for this metric.

 
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I mean, how fun would have it had been just to sit in and listen to the creative meeting where they're trying to figure out how to riff on the "no brown M&Ms" ridiculousness and then end up with ill fitting mini-sandwich components?

 
KarmaPolice said:
I guess what I am saying is that while it's a great idea, I think the 500pt club is looking more like a function of having a ton of lists for a year (The Matrix), or years people can't go as deep with but have a clear cut stud or two (Godfather), than it is a comment on the quality of the movie.  

Not that I am willing to do more math, but I am wondering if a criteria should have been set of at least being on X number of lists and averaging 20pts/vote, which Tap and Terminator would have qualified for.  
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No I get it.  

 
Todem said:
Got 3 points from me. 

"And how can this be?"

Forward to the 1:32 mark for the answer!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVx6bXoCnC0
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Lynch did such a great job making me root for the Harkonnens, his movie comes off as more of a tragedy. A tragedy that makes me laugh throughout. I can't imagine what the DeLaurentises were thinking when they decided Lynch was the guy for this, but I love his treatment - I wonder if they got what they were hoping for. If nothing else it began the association of Lynch with MacLachlan, which (for me) culminated in the genius of Blue Velvet.

 
Gr00vus said:
Lynch did such a great job making me root for the Harkonnens, his movie comes off as more of a tragedy. A tragedy that makes me laugh throughout. I can't imagine what the DeLaurentises were thinking when they decided Lynch was the guy for this, but I love his treatment - I wonder if they got what they were hoping for. If nothing else it began the association of Lynch with MacLachlan, which (for me) culminated in the genius of Blue Velvet.
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Isnt somebody doing a remake or a Netflix series or something of it now?

 
Gr00vus said:
Lynch did such a great job making me root for the Harkonnens, his movie comes off as more of a tragedy. A tragedy that makes me laugh throughout. I can't imagine what the DeLaurentises were thinking when they decided Lynch was the guy for this, but I love his treatment - I wonder if they got what they were hoping for. If nothing else it began the association of Lynch with MacLachlan, which (for me) culminated in the genius of Blue Velvet.
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Did the movie make sense if you were familiar with the book?

 
Gr00vus said:
Lynch did such a great job making me root for the Harkonnens, his movie comes off as more of a tragedy. A tragedy that makes me laugh throughout. I can't imagine what the DeLaurentises were thinking when they decided Lynch was the guy for this, but I love his treatment - I wonder if they got what they were hoping for. If nothing else it began the association of Lynch with MacLachlan, which (for me) culminated in the genius of Blue Velvet.
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They cut 1 hour off the original version!! LOL. Lynch was like.."this is a nightmare". 

I want to now see a directors cut. Make a directors cut!!! LOL.

 
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Eephus said:
Did the movie make sense if you were familiar with the book?
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Yes. It was basically a psuedo-dadaist interpretation of Herbert's book. I pitied anyone who wasn't familiar with the original text and tried to make sense of the movie.

 
Todem said:
They cut 1 hour off the original version!! LOL. Lynch was like.."this is a nightmare". 

I want to now see a directors cut. Make a directors cut!!! LOL.
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I believe a full cut is available. It's really long. Not sure if that is Lynch's cut though.

 
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The rest of the votes:

40-49:

Top Secret!

Dune

Bachelor Party

Repo Man

Broadway Danny Rose

30-39:

The Last Starfighter

Starman

Paris, Texas

20-29

Footloose

Soldier's Story

Birdy

The Flamingo Kid

Places in the Heart

The Pope of Greenwich Village

All of Me

10-19:

2010

Dreamscape

Body Heat

The Bounty

The Hotel New Hampshire

Streets of Fire

Hardbodies

Splash

Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai

Stranger than Paradise

28 UP

Under the Volcano

Children of the Corn

Return of Godzilla

The Hit

Choose Me

The Muppets Take Manhattan

Single Digits:

The Gods Must Be Crazy

Firestarter

Night of the Comet

Hot Dog the Movie

Missing in Action

The Woman in Red

Breakin' 2

Racing with the Moon

Crimes of Passion

Runaway

Brother from Another Planet

The Bounty

Passage to India

1984

Razorback

A Private Function

The Cotton Club

Conan The Destroyer

Iceman

The Lonely Guy

 
Why is Body Heat listed? That movie came out in '81. Maybe someone meant to write Body Double.

 
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Binky The Doormat said:
So glad "Tap" is #1.  Has to be one of the movies across all of the years that holds up.  

TAP INTO AMERICA!!
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What other movie are you going to find with Dana Carvey and Billy Crystal playing bit roles as mime food servers? I mean, in an alternate universe, they make a whole film out of that by itself.

 
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KarmaPolice said:
:lol:   I don't know.  It wouldn't be the first time a mistake happened.   Maybe it was a goof and I robbed Body Double of some points?
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Body Double was robbed! Both are good movies, and I especially like Body Heat. Just save the points for '81.

 
Breakin 2 and Conan The Destroyer got votes.....LOL!!!!! 

Guilty pleasures for someone here (not mine).

That belonged to Night of The Comet (which I had to leave off). I own the freaking scream factory deluxe edition of that cinematic classic.

 
Todem said:
Breakin 2 and Conan The Destroyer got votes.....LOL!!!!! 

Guilty pleasures for someone here (not mine).

That belonged to Night of The Comet (which I had to leave off). I own the freaking scream factory deluxe edition of that cinematic classic.
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I didn't vote for those but I may have been the only one who voted for Crimes of Passion.  Kathleen Turner as a prostitute and Anthony Perkins as a psycho reverend for starters.

 
Gr00vus said:
What other movie are you going to find with Dana Carvey and Billy Crystal playing bit roles as mime food servers? I mean, in an alternate universe, they make a whole film out of that by itself.
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Great googly moogly... Tap is one of my favorite movies and I've seen it so many times I can pretty much quote or paraphease the entire thing. Never realized that was Carvey until now.

 
KarmaPolice said:
:lol:   I don't know.  It wouldn't be the first time a mistake happened.   Maybe it was a goof and I robbed Body Double of some points?
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Like you did with the Bounty which got single digits AND multiple digit votes?

 
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The rest of the votes:

40-49:

Bachelor Party

Repo Man

Broadway Danny Rose

30-39:

Paris, Texas

20-29

10-19:

The Bounty

Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai

Stranger than Paradise

Single Digits:

The Gods Must Be Crazy

Brother from Another Planet

The Bounty
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Voted for all of these

 
looks like about a quarter of my 20 selections didn't make the top - no problem, I like doing these to get some ideas for movies I haven't seen.  

 
I'm probably the only person that saw the genius in Scotty Palmer laying down the BBD. And I'm ok with that. 

 
Broadway Danny Rose was part of the greatest five film string of Woody Allen's career.  The movies from 1983's Zelig to Radio Days in 1987 are all among his best

 
KarmaPolice said:
#1  386pts

15 votes

This is final crap!

Oh! My God! This movie is awful. Almost as bad as "the hangover". Some people find this movie to be funny. Some dare to call this kind of filming: Humor! Obviously in my opinion they are seriously wrong. There's no humor in here. No laughs. Nothing is funny about the movie. It can be really annoying at times. It's the same empty, humor, over and over again. So annoying. I couldn't watch it till the end. I think no one has ever finished viewing the movie. It's impossible. Hum...maybe if someone forced me to watch it the way they did in clockwork orange; but then I'd had to throw up. 8.0? Is it possible? Utter crap!

THIS IS SPINAL TAP
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If I hadn’t submitted my list after all, this wouldn’t have won. :coffee:  

 
Totally missed countdown somehow. I am happy with #1. As for comparing the movies, we almost need to base it on % of votes or something just because the number of years varies so much. 

 
I'm glad with the top 5 but one of Karate Kid/Ghostbusters/Terminator should have been number 1.  I'll take it though considering all you old geezers who are voting in this thing.  

 
Eephus said:
I watched "The Hit" last week and highly recommend it.  It's a black comedy about the kidnapping and planned murder of an informant who turned on his bosses ten years earlier.   The film casts against type with Terrence Stamp playing the philosophical informant  and John Hurt as the more malevolent of the two hitmen.  Both are terrific as is a very young Tim Roth. 

It's extremely dark and almost everyone ends up dead in the end but there's still a fair bit of humor.

I started watching "Once Upon a Time in America" but man it is long. 
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@Eephus  I watched The Hit tonight, and I think if anything you've downplayed how great it is.  It was fan-freaking-tastic and would have received top points from me if I'd watched it in time.  I want to encourage anyone in this thread to watch it, as I think it would be appealing to a broad audience.  There are the stunning performances (when John Hurt is only the third-best performance in your movie, you've got something) and amazing directing and cinematography, but also what I thought was pretty much non-stop action, but in a smart way.  I don't see how anyone wouldn't like this movie.  Stephen Frears had a great two-year run with this and My Beautiful Laundrette as his first two features.  Sheesh.

Oh, and minor spoiler:

 Terence Stamp is positively dreamy.
 
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