MC Yearly Consensus -- 1980

[Spinal]

Submit your five favorite films from this year and in a week I will give you a top ten. IMDb dates will be used.

The point system is as follows

1st Place-5 points
2nd Place-4 points
3rd Place-3.5 points
4th Place-3 points
5th Place-2.5 points

There will be no restrictions on short films. A minimum of three films must be listed. You may edit your post freely up until the time that I lock the thread, which will be in about a week. I will give at least 24 hours warning before locking the thread.

You may begin now.

IMDb power search (http://www.imdb.com/list)

[Spinal]

1. The Elephant Man
2. Raging Bull
3. The Falls
4. The Empire Strikes Back
5. The Shining

[soitgoes...]

1. The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
2. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
3. Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker)
4. Talking Heads (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
5. The Elephant Man (David Lynch)

[origami_mustache]

1. Raging Bull
2. The Elephant Man
3. The Shining
4. Stardust Memories
5. Airplane!

need to see Kagemusha

[soitgoes...]

need to see Kagemusha
Eh, its second tier Kurosawa. He has a lot more in his filmography better than this one.

[soitgoes...]

I have a feeling there's going to be a lot of Airplane!, ESB, Raging Bull, Elephant Man, Shining combinations for this year. Those are my guesses for the top 5. Not in that order though.

[Spinal]

Fun Facts about 1980:

* The United States Olympic Hockey Team defeats the Soviet Union in the semifinals of the Winter Olympics, in the "Miracle on Ice".

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* U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

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* Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, killing 57 and causing $3 billion in damage.

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* Millions of viewers tune into the U.S. TV soap opera Dallas to learn who shot lead character J.R. Ewing.

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* Former Beatle John Lennon dies after being shot outside his New York City apartment by Mark David Chapman, a deranged fan who had received his signature earlier in the day.

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[Sycophant]

Those are the funnest fun facts EVER!!

I need to do more research and figure out if I've seen more than two films from 1980...

[Spinal]

Those are the funnest fun facts EVER!!

Yeah, maybe if 'fun facts' are about people dying, they might not be so fun. But 'fun and/or sobering facts' just isn't as catchy.

[origami_mustache]

Eh, its second tier Kurosawa. He has a lot more in his filmography better than this one.

Yeah, I've mostly stuck with the older stuff, although I eventually want to complete his filmography.

This is what I've seen:
Ikiru (1952)
Rashômon (1950)
Stray Dog (1949)
The Seven Samurai (1954)
Throne of Blood (1957)
Hidden Fortress (1958)
The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Yojimbo (1961)
Sanjuro (1962)
High and Low (1963)
Ran (1985)

From here I was going to go with Red Beard and the Lower Depths ...any other suggestions for prioritizing?

[soitgoes...]

From here I was going to go with Red Beard and the Lower Depths ...any other suggestions for prioritizing?
Red Beard's my 2nd favorite Kurosawa. I Live in Fear is a favorite of some on this site, though it didn't jive with me. Still its good, not great. Drunken Angel and The Lower Depths are also in that good not great category. I'm excited to start tackling that Kurosawa box that came out last week. There are 4 films there I've been waiting to see.

[origami_mustache]

Red Beard's my 2nd favorite Kurosawa. I Live in Fear is a favorite of some on this site, though it didn't jive with me. Still its good, not great. Drunken Angel and The Lower Depths are also in that good not great category. I'm excited to start tackling that Kurosawa box that came out last week. There are 4 films there I've been waiting to see.

Thanks for the input. I should definitely see Red Beard soon. I've put it off too for long, and it seems pretty essential.

[Russ]

1. The Stunt Man
2. Raging Bull
3. 'Breaker' Morant
4. Melvin and Howard
5. Babylon

[Lazlo]

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. The Elephant Man
3. The Shining
4. Raging Bull
5. The Blues Brothers

[Yxklyx]

1. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Talking Heads (Krzysztof Kieslowski) [short]
3. The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
4. The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
5. Ordinary People (Robert Redford)

[Mr. Valentine]

1. The Shining
2. Raging Bull
3. The Elephant Man

those are the only films i've seen from 1980 that i feel worthy enough to include.

[Dukefrukem]

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. The Elephant Man
3. Raging Bull
4. The Blues Brothers
5. Caddyshack

[Mysterious Dude]

1. The Elephant Man
2. Breaker Morant
3. Ordinary People
4. Raging Bull
5. Stardust Memories

[Boner M]

1. Raging Bull (Scorsese)
2. Loulou (Pialat)
3. The Shining (Kubrick)
4. The Big Red One (Fuller)
5. Stardust Memories (Allen)

[Benny Profane]

1. Raging Bull
2. Ordinary People
3. Caddyshack
4. Empire Strikes Back
5. Airplane!

[Velocipedist]

1. The Falls (Peter Greenaway)
2. Stardust Memories (Woody Allen)
3. The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
4. Altered States (Ken Russell) :)
5. Mon oncle d'Amérique (Alain Resnais)

Honorable mentions:

6. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
7. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) :pritch: sorry, purists
8. God's Angry Man (Werner Herzog)
9. The Ninth Configuration (William Peter Blatty)

[Ezee E]

1. The Shining
2. Raging Bull
3. The Empire Strikes Back
4. Dressed to Kill
5. The Elephant Man

Pretty good year actually.

[Ezee E]

I'm surprised to see no Caddyshack or Altered States.

[Raiders]

1. The Big Red One
2. The Ninth Configuration
3. Raging Bull
4. Stardust Memories
5. The Long Riders

There needs to be so much more Fuller and Blatty love in this thread.

I'll also be watching Melvin and Howard tonight for my Demme thread, so we'll see if that makes the top 5.

[bac0n]

1) The Empire Strikes Back
2) Kagemusha
3) The Shining
4) The Blues Brothers
5) Caddyshack

Honorable Mentions:
The Nude Bomb
Gong Show: The Movie

[Llopin]

1. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder)
2. El Crimen de Cuenca (Miró)
3. The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner)
4. Zigeunerweisen (Suzuki)
5. The Blues Brothers (Landis)

[ledfloyd]

1. Stardust Memories
2. The Shining
3. The Empire Strikes Back
4. Raging Bull
5. The Blues Brothers

[Grouchy]

1. Raging Bull
2. The Shining
3. Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
4. The Big Red One
5. Dressed to Kill

[Watashi]

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. The Elephant Man
3. Raging Bull
4. Stardust Memories
5. Dressed to Kill

[Eleven]

I'll also be watching Melvin and Howard tonight for my Demme thread, so we'll see if that makes the top 5.

Here's hoping.

1. Airplane!
2. Melvin and Howard
3. The Empire Strikes Back
4. The Shining
5. Dressed to Kill

5 HM: Return of the Secaucus 7, Blues Brothers, Raging Bull, Stunt Man, Gates of Heaven

[Sycophant]

1. Stardust Memories
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. Airplane!

[Gizmo]

1. Empire Strikes Back
2. The Shining
3. Raging Bull
4. Airplane!
5. The Elephant Man

Just adding the ones I'm sure few of you have heard of... you know, to give them some points. :|

[MadMan]

Once I break out the 1990s the number of films I've seen for each year starts to drop drastically. Well I've seen at least 10 films for 1980 though, with 4 of them being horror movies. The bottom half should be interesting....

1. Airplane!
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. Caddyshack
4. The Blues Brothers
5. The Fog

[Spinal]

Top Ten Songs of 1980:

1. "Call Me" - Blondie
2. "Celebration" - Kool & The Gang
3. "Another One Bites the Dust" - Queen
4. "You Shook Me All Night Long" - AC/DC
5. "Love Will Tear Us Apart" - Joy Division
6. "Whip It" - Devo
7. "Upside Down" - Diana Ross
8. "Fame" - Irene Cara
9. "Back In Black" - AC/DC
10. "(Just Like) Starting Over" - John Lennon

source: digitaldreamdoor.com

[Spinal]

Time Man of the Year for 1980: Ronald Reagan

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[Llopin]

Some Kool 1980 Albums
AC/DC:Back In Black
Angry Samoans:Inside My Brain
Circle Jerks: Group Sex
D.O.A.:Something Better Change
Dead Kennedy's:Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Echo & The Bunnymen:Crocodiles
Joy Division:Closer
Killing Joke:Killing Joke
Lydia Lunch:Queen of Siam
Minutemen: Paranoid Time
Motorhead:Ace of Spades
Negativland:Negativland
Pere Ubu:The Art of Walking
Pretenders: Pretenders
Talking Heads:Remain In Light
The Cure:Boys Don't Cry
The Damned:The Black Album
The Durutti Column:The Return of the Durutti Column
The Fall:Grotesque (After the Gramme)
The Feelies:Crazy Rhythms
The Only Ones:Baby's Got A Gun
The Teardrop Explodes:Kilimanjaro
Tom Waits:Heartattack And Vine
Toy Love:Toy Love
Wipers: Is This Real?
Young Marble Giants:Colossal Youth

[Weeping_Guitar]

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Stardust Memories
3. Raging Bull
4. The Shining
5. The Blues Brothers

[Rowland]

1. Dressed to Kill
2. The Shining
3. The Empire Strikes Back
4. The Fog
5. Inferno

Runner-Up: Raging Bull :lol:
Greatest WTF special effects in an otherwise meh-ovie: Altered States
Guilty Pleasure: City of the Living Dead
Overrated slashers: Prom Night, Terror Train
Need to See Again: The Elephant Man
Need to See Period: plenty

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

1. The Ninth Configuration ("I'm afraid the end of the world came for that bag of Fritos I had in my back pocket...")
2. God's Angry Man (what a great film, too bad the edition in the Herzog Doc Box has Herzog translating the Pastor's words into German, thus blocking out the crazy things the Pastor is saying)
3. Heaven's Gate
4. Stardust Memories (great homage to Fellini)
5. Kagemusha (not minor Kurosawa at all; I find it better than Ran)

(6-10)
6. Lightning Over Water
7. The Shining
8. Elephant Man
9. Out of the Blue
10. Cruising (Imagine if Spielberg had made this as originally was intended...)

I still don't know what to make of "Out of the Blue". Ialso dig Popeye

[Derek]

Time Man of the Year for 1980: Ronald Reagan

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Ronnie's too ssssexy for an undershirt!

1. Airplane! (Jim Abrahams)
2. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
3. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
4. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
5. The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
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6. The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
7. Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma)
8. Caddyshack (Harold Ramis)
9. The Falls (Peter Greenaway)
10. Loulou (Maurice Pialat)

[Spinal]

Ronnie's too ssssexy for an undershirt!


But not too sexy for a big ol' belt buckle.

[Stay Puft]

1. Kagemusha
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. Raging Bull
4. The Elephant Man

[Velocipedist]

1. The Ninth Configuration ("I'm afraid the end of the world came for that bag of Fritos I had in my back pocket...")
2. God's Angry Man (what a great film, too bad the edition in the Herzog Doc Box has Herzog translating the Pastor's words into German, thus blocking out the crazy things the Pastor is saying)

Can I rep yet?

[MadMan]

Can I rep yet?Well you can but you don't have any rep points so it won't boost his overall rep total. Instead it will be neutral rep. But hey yah know what they say: its the thought that counts ;)

[Philosophe_rouge]

I almost don't want to vote for this year because I haven't seen much and am not too enthousiastic about my choices.

1. Raging Bull
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. Stardust Memories
4. The Stunt Man
5. Airplane!

[Robby P]

1. The Big Red One
2. Raging Bull
3. 'Breaker' Morant
4. Airplane!
5. Stir Crazy

[Spinal]

The following television programs debuted in 1980:

3-2-1 Contact
The Facts of Life
That's Incredible!
Fridays
Cosmos
Too Close for Comfort
Bosom Buddies
Magnum P.I.
Shogun

The top-rated television program of 1980:

60 Minutes

[DSNT]

1. Raging Bull
2. The Elephant Man
3. The Shining
4. The Empire Strikes Back
5. Stardust Memories

[Kurosawa Fan]

1. Kagemusha
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. Airplane!
4. Stardust Memories
5. Return of the Secaucus Seven

[monolith94]

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Stardust Memories
3. The Shining
4. The Blues Brothers
5. Raging Bull

[Melville]

1. Stardust Memories
2. Raging Bull
3. The Empire Strikes Back

[Duncan]

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Raging Bull
3. Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession
4. The Shining
5. The Big Red One

I assume other countries were making films in 1980, but I'm not convinced I've seen one.

edit: I added in Bad Timing, removed Caddyshack from the 5 spot. Sorry if you happened to have already counted it, Spinal.

[baby doll]

1. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Loulou (Maurice Pialat)
3. The Falls (Peter Greenaway)
4. Popeye (Robert Altman)
5. Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession (Nicolas Roeg)

6. Mon oncle d'Amerique (Alain Resnais)
7. Stardust Memories (Woody Allen)
8. Around and About (Gary Hill) [video]
9. Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma)
10. Swiss Army Knife With Rats and Pigeons (Robert Breer)

[koji]

1. Raging Bull (Scorsese)
2. The Ninth Configuration (William Peter Blattely)
3. The Big Red One (Fuller)
4. Airplane (Abrahams, Zucker, & Zucker)
5. Kagemusha (Kurosawa)
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
6. Stardust Memories (Allen)
7. Caddyshack (Harold Ramis)
8. The Long Good Friday (Mackenzie)
9. Breaker Morant (Bruce Beresford)
10. Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)

[Yum-Yum]

1. Forbidden Zone
2. Xanadu
3. The Apple
4. Used Cars
5. Motel Hell

[Spinal]

One more day.

Note: I locked this a little early, but if you want to make any adjustments over the next few hours before the results go up, send me a PM.

[Spinal]

#10

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Dressed to Kill

Director: Brian De Palma

Country: USA

A sexually frustrated New York housewife, dissatisfied with her husband's sexual performance, has an affair with a stranger. A high-priced call girl is the only witness to a murder and becomes the prime suspect and the murderess's next target.

Earned three Razzie nominations including Worst Director, Worst Actor (Michael Caine) and Worst Actress (Nancy Allen). As a young man, De Palma, at his mother's urging, actually followed his father and used recording equipment to try and catch him with another woman. That incident inspired this film.

"The pleasures of Dressed to Kill flat out do not translate to print, but for what it's worth it is the most perfectly-directed film ever, provided you, like me, bust into orgasmic laughter when De Palma's double-shuffling editing makes it seem like the only threat Nancy Allen and a wooden cop can see boarding the subway is a 250-pound bag lady." -- Eric Henderson

[Spinal]

#9

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Kagemusha

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Country: Japan

When a powerful warlord in medieval Japan dies, a poor thief recruited to impersonate him finds difficulty living up to his role and clashes with the spirit of the warlord during turbulent times in the kingdom.

Earned Academy Award nominations for Best Foreign Film and Best Art Direction. Won the Golden Palm at Cannes.

"Though the story's Shakespearean underpinnings give Kagemusha the weight of classic tragedy ... the film astonishes mostly as pure spectacle. Kurosawa conjures some spectacular imagery ..." -- Scott Tobias

[Eleven]

Even though it's just short of my top ten of the year, I have a soft spot for that flick, for a similar reason to Kehr's.

[Spinal]

#7 (tie)

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The Blues Brothers

Director: John Landis

Country: USA

Jake Blues, just out from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and brother Elwood were raised.

Jake and Elwood Blues originated as characters on Saturday Night Live. In the final car chase scene, the production dropped a Ford Pinto from a helicopter at an altitude of more than a mile

"There are incredible, sensational chase sequences under [Chicago's] elevated train tracks, on overpasses, in subway tunnels under the Loop, and literally through Daley Center. One crash in particular, a pileup involving maybe a dozen police cars, has to be seen to be believed: I've never seen stunt coordination like this before." -- Roger Ebert

[Winston*]

I remember literally nothing about Kagemusha

[Llopin]

I remember some things about Kagemusha. The ending shot with Nakadai desolated and destroyed, in particular.

I want to see that film again.

[Spinal]

#7 (tie)

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The Big Red One

Director: Sam Fuller

Country: USA

A US Army sergeant who participated in WWI now leads a WWII rifle squad. The squad participates in combat action from storming Vichy French Africa into the long seige of Sicily and Italy, into D-Day at Omaha Beach and onward through the push to Germany.

Director Sam Fuller served in World War II and many of the moments in the film are based upon his own experiences. As the film was shot in Israel, many of the actors hired to play SS troops were actually Jews who would sit around the set between takes reading the Torah dressed in Nazi garb.

"The moral of the story - introduced as 'fictional life based on factual death' - is that 'the only glory in war is surviving.' In both of these statements, the emphasis falls, almost in spite of itself, on life. And The Big Red One, for all its uncompromising brutality, is viscerally, angrily alive." -- A.O. Scott

[Spinal]

Gotta be away for a bit. Small delay, but the final six will arrive before too long.

[Ezee E]

I shall see this Ninth Configuration.

[Spinal]

#6

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Airplane!

Director: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker

Country: USA

What kind of film is it? Oh, well, it's typically cut into strips 35 millimeters wide, has four perforations per frame and exactly 16 frames per foot, but that's not important right now.

Airplane! is a virtual remake of the 1957 disaster film Zero Hour!. Indeed, the producers purchased the rights to the earlier film, making any legal issues moot. It was named Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium by the Writers' Guild of America.

"Airplane! is, without question, a comedic masterpiece that takes a timeless tradition and mocks it to the heavens. Simple to the bone, but gut-wrenchingly funny." -- Ed Gonzalez

[Spinal]

#5

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The Elephant Man

Director: David Lynch

Country: UK/USA

Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick, a 19th-century Englishman afflicted with a disfiguring congenital disease. With the help of kindly Dr. Frederick Treves, Merrick attempts to regain the dignity he lost after years spent as a side-show freak.

Was nominated for eight Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor (John Hurt) but did not win any. The film's executive producer, Mel Brooks, left his name off the credits, fearing it would give viewers the wrong idea.

"Despite the tragedy of Merrick’s life, the story is uplifting, as it shows how nobility and dignity can rise among the bleakest of environments. Merrick accepts everything in life as a gift, no matter how revolting ... " -- Alan Bacchus

[Spinal]

#4

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Stardust Memories

Director: Woody Allen

Country: USA

Sandy Bates, a successful filmmaker, attends a festival conducted to honor his work. During the course of the weekend he reconsiders his cinematic accomplishments as well as his past relationships.

Nominated for a Writers' Guild Award for Best Original Screenplay. The feature film debut of both Sharon Stone and Brent Spiner.

"Stardust Memories is [Allen's] most provocative film thus far and perhaps his most revealing. Certainly it is the one that will inspire the most heated debate, though the film makes fun of those who take these things too seriously." -- Janet Maslin

[Spinal]

#3

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The Shining

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Country: UK/USA

A man, his son and wife become the winter caretakers of an isolated hotel where Danny, the son, sees disturbing visions of the hotel's past using telepathy. The father slowly slips into insanity.

Kubrick reportedly had Shelly Duvall perform 127 takes of a single scene. For their efforts, Duvall and Kubrick both earned nominations at the first Razzie Awards. Duvall 'lost' to Brooke Shields (The Blue Lagoon), while Kubrick was edged out by Robert Greenwald (Xanadu).

"Stanley Kubrick's indelible take on both the horror genre and the popular fiction of Stephen King, is both a radical distillation of its source novel's densely stuffed ghosts-and-gore imagery as well as a conflation of its hidden central theme of the true-life horrors of domestic abuse. The result is a film that ... enhances everything that's legitimately unnerving about King's book ..." -- Eric Henderson

[Spinal]

#2

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Raging Bull

Director: Martin Scorsese

Country: USA

An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring, destroys his life outside it.

Earned Academy Awards for Best Actor (Robert De Niro) and Best Editing. When De Niro accepted his Oscar, he thanked Joey La Motta, "even though he is suing us." Placed #4 on AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies 10th Anniversary list.

"Raging Bull is the most painful and heartrending portrait of jealousy in the cinema -- an Othello for our times. It's the best film I've seen about the low self-esteem, sexual inadequacy and fear that lead some men to abuse women." -- Roger Ebert

[Ezee E]

Scorsese with two best movies already.

[Spinal]

#1

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The Empire Strikes Back

Director: Irvin Kershner

Country: USA

After receiving a vision from Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke Skywalker travels to the marsh planet of Dagobah, where he is instructed in the ways of the Force by the Jedi master Yoda.

Earned a Special Achievement Academy Award honoring its use of visual effects. Also won the Oscar for Best Sound. Was the top grossing film of 1980.

"[Yoda] teaches Luke the all-important Imperial-defeating trick of moving small rocks with his mind. Supposedly, when Luke attacks the fleet single-handedly, they will all run away once he shows them the floating rock trick." -- Mr. Cranky

[Spinal]

1. The Empire Strikes Back (104.5)
2. Raging Bull (102.5)
3. The Shining (72)
4. Stardust Memories (53)
5. The Elephant Man (50.5)
6. Airplane! (42)
7t. The Big Red One (22)
7t. The Blues Brothers (22)
9. Kagemusha (19)
10. Dressed to Kill (15.5)

Near misses:
The Ninth Configuration (13)
The Falls (12)
Caddyshack (12)
Breaker Morant (11)
Ordinary People (10)

[Spinal]

Results of these polls will be collected on the website in my signature so that you can view them together at once or easily print them out for rental suggestions, etc.

[MadMan]

Results of these polls will be collected on the website in my signature so that you can view them together at once or easily print them out for rental suggestions, etc.Awesome sauce.

PS: So far I've seen the most from the Top 10 1980 list than the other years' lists presented so far. Interesting.

[Spinal]

I shall see this Ninth Configuration.

Ditto. The premise sounds great.

[Raiders]

Yay for more people seeing Blatty's ridiculously awesome film, though I suspect just as many will dislike it as like it.

[MadMan]

Ditto. The premise sounds great.Same here, provided I can find a copy of it. I have a feeling I'll enjoy the hell out of it.

[Grouchy]

Kubrick reportedly had Shelly Duvall perform 127 takes of a single scene. For their efforts, Duvall and Kubrick both earned nominations at the first Razzie Awards. Duvall 'lost' to Brooke Shields (The Blue Lagoon), while Kubrick was edged out by Robert Greenwald (Xanadu).
I didn't know that. About the Razzies, I mean. Happened with every Kubrick movie after A Clockwork Orange - it's like he's always a couple of years ahead of his time.

[Velocipedist]

Kubrick reportedly had Shelly Duvall perform 127 takes of a single scene. For their efforts, Duvall and Kubrick both earned nominations at the first Razzie Awards. Duvall 'lost' to Brooke Shields (The Blue Lagoon), while Kubrick was edged out by Robert Greenwald (Xanadu).

A travesty!

[Spinal]

A travesty!

Rumor has it that a drunk Jack Palance read the wrong name.

[Velocipedist]

Rumor has it that a drunk Jack Palance read the wrong name.

Suspension of disbelief!

[Kurosawa Fan]

Results of these polls will be collected on the website in my signature so that you can view them together at once or easily print them out for rental suggestions, etc.

Your dedication knows no bounds. Thanks for this.

[MadMan]

Rumor has it that a drunk Jack Palance read the wrong name.No one's gonna tell a guy who can do one handed push ups that he read the wrong name. ;)

[origami_mustache]

Good to see Stardust Memories at #4, but I didn't realize it was so well regarded.

[Grouchy]

Rumor has it that a drunk Jack Palance read the wrong name.
I bet Jack Palance has to send 30% of USA's alcohol reserves down the hatch to get drunk. Just for being so friggin' tall.

[Spinal]

I screwed up.

As I began to count the last consensus poll, I caught myself using an improper scoring system (5-4-3-2-1) rather than the proper one (5-4-3.5-3-2.5). Once that happened, I wondered to myself whether I had mistakenly done that in the past and not caught myself. Sure enough, I looked back over the polls and found that two of them had been counted improperly.

As I recounted the 1960 poll, the resulting changes were fortunately not major. Peeping Tom and Shoot the Piano Player have swapped places.

However, after recounting this one, the changes are fairly significant, so I am bumping it. As you can now see, we have a different film at the top spot and a new entry onto the list altogether. My apologies for the screw-up. All should be well now.

[MadMan]

So Spinal is like those Florida voter counters back in 2000? Glad to know we're in good hands :P


Waits for teh banning.

[Spinal]

So Spinal is like those Florida voter counters back in 2000? Glad to know we're in good hands :P

Hey, nobody else caught it either. It was easy to tell which ones were screw-ups because the results had no half-points.

I'm bracing for the moment that Raiders discovers that Ninth Configuration has dropped from the top ten. :sad:

[MadMan]

Hey, nobody else caught it either. It was easy to tell which ones were screw-ups because the results had no half-points.

I'm bracing for the moment that Raiders discovers that Ninth Configuration has dropped from the top ten. :sad:We're all oblivious and unaware! Just like the typical American voter!

Yeah I've pretty much beaten the voting jokes into the ground.

Raiders once he finds out will duel you. To the death. Mod style. It'll be epic. Probably in a cage match.

[Yxklyx]

So your blog has been updated as well? Empire Strikes Back is #1?

How about linking to these matchcut threads from your blog?

[Spinal]

How about linking to these matchcut threads from your blog?

Done.