I do! Thanks for letting me know, I'll try to watch it before the poll closes.
I do! Thanks for letting me know, I'll try to watch it before the poll closes.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
HBO Max has quite a few of our nominations:
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Alien
All the President's Men
Amarcord
American Graffiti
Autumn Sonata
Barry Lyndon
Being There
The Brood
Chinatown
Cries and Whispers
Dog Day Afternoon
Eraserhead
The Exorcist
Fantastic Planet
House
Jaws
King Kong
Lady Snowblood
Logan's Run
Love Story
Meatballs
The Omega Man
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Solaris
Soylent Green
A Star is Born
Superman
THX 1138
The Towering Inferno
Watership Down
Westworld
Willard
A Woman Under the Influence
HBO Max just released their February highlights and we have some more nominated films:
https://pressroom.warnermedia.com/ca...tent_entity=en
The Amityville Horror
Murder On The Orient Express
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Just realized something about all of these 1970s trailers. They never advertise a date the movie's coming out. At best they'll say "Coming Soon". Were trailers back then always like that? I guess adding specific dates was something studios started doing in the '80s? I wonder when exactly that started, because of all the nominated films posted thus far, not one trailer features a date.
I haven't seen it, but I came across another film I'm surprised didn't get nominated. The Yakuza. Any fans?
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I went looking to see if I could find anything and came across this. No answer, but very interesting. http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/c...dependence-day
Round 1 polls are now all closed, with a few tiebreakers still ongoing. Thank you to everyone for the great participating and voting! Round 2 will begin on Monday!
This is a lot of fun, Mae and thank you for putting it together for us. Don't know why I wasn't more engaged in the past, but I'm enjoying it now.
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I too feel more enthused with watching movies from the 70's. I think maybe part of the rationality is that for more recent decades, if I didn't already see it, it was because of a conscious decision (or it was too obscure). But with the 70's, these are movies I may have not been allowed or able to watch or even hear about at the time they were new. By the time I was old enough to see the movies were no longer popular or remembered.
At any rate, I have watched 3 movies from the 70's in this tournament so far:
Parallax View,
Black Sunday
Outlaw Josie Wales
(probably) more to come.
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What did you think of those, did you vote for them this round?
So far I have re-watched:
The Godfather Pt I & II
Jaws
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Two Mules for Sister Sara
Kelly's Heroes
Lady Snowblood (Didn't care for it, Mae. Sorry)
Alien
Blazing Saddles
It's been a hoot for sure and I think, AMD hit it pretty close that these films were kinda prohibited to me at the time and I guess they are more in my childhood "Wheelhouse" and therefore have a closer connection in my memory. Watching, "The Exorcist" next.
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Parallax view (without giving anything away), had a non-tradition ending that felt unsatisfying to me. But I think that would make it more interesting for some viewers. I did vote for it, but not sure how many more rounds I will vote for it.
Black Sunday - I loved it (even though the Stealers won the SB that was featured in the movie, but I guess in the movie the game was not completed). Will be voting for this one deep into the tournament.
Outlaw Josie Wales - Liked a lot, but hated the way the union army was portrayed, but I suppose such atrocities happened.. I didn't vote for it, because voting was ending by the time I saw it, but will be voting for it for several more rounds.
Thanks for asking Mae.
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Here are all of the 1970s nominees after the first round:
Moving on:
Eliminated:
For folks that love their westerns, it's disheartening to see one of the greatest westerns ever come in dead last.
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I have to agree with, SS. IMHO, it's not even in the top ten of western films all time. Glad you find it entertaining though and that's all that really matters in the end. Off the top of my head and in no particular order:
El Dorado
True Grit
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Unforgiven
High Plains Drifter
Two Mules for Sister Sara
The Magnificent Seven
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
Blazing Saddles
Tombstone
Dances with wolves
Cat ballou (can't recall the proper title)
etc, etc, etc.
And I'm likely missing not just a few classics. FWIW, I'm a fan of Westerns as a rule. Can't beat a good Cowboy film on a bad day!!! LOL LOL
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My Darling Clementine
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Red River
The Searchers
Unforgiven
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Winchester '73
The Magnificent Seven
The Wild Bunch
The Ox-bow Incident
Ride the High Country
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Blazing Saddles
3:10 to Yuma (both versions)
Rio Bravo
Stagecoach
Once Upon a Time in the West
Shane
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
A Fistful of Dollars
For a Few Dollar More
Tombstone
The Naked Spur
Johnny Guitar
High Plains Drifter
Giant
3 Godfathers
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Brokeback Mountain
Junior Bonner
God's Own Country
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
The Sons of Katie Elder
Hondo
Hud
The Big Country
Loads more but I'm tired and have to go through my records but these are some of my favorites.
For the longesst time I had no interest in watching westerns. I was well into my mid to late 30's before I really gave them a chance. The first I watched was Unforgiven and fell in love with it. Depending on when you ask me, I might list it as my very favorite movie.. The stange thing I have no recollection of when/where/why and with who I watched it for the first time. Since then I have watched several others (man with no name trilogy, Outlaw Josie Wales to name a few). I've got a few more on my radar to watch soon (Pale Rider, two Mules for Sister Sara to name a couple).
On a different subject ....
Been on a murder mystery kick lately, and used the keywords "murder mystery" and "agatha christy" on Amazon Prime to add some movies/series to my list. Today I just watched the '79 version of "The Lady Vanishes". I liked it, but it looks like it wasn't even nominated for the tournament. Was it just overlooked, or just not a popular movie?
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Some great lists below for westerns. How about a few more:
Bandolero
100 Rifles
Hannie Caulder
Silverado
Wyatt Earp
Back to the Future Part III
Bone Tomahawk
The Quick and the Dead
Appaloosa
Ahh yes!!! Silverado!!! Another classic western tale!!!
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