The Great Movie Tournament: Overall Event Overview

[Heather19]

I do! Thanks for letting me know, I'll try to watch it before the poll closes.

[Tommy]

Yes, that always happens with me. Personally, I consider Barry Lyndon not just the best movie of the 1970s, but the best movie ever made. But I'm sure it will not go far, sadly.

Barry Lyndon is one of the few remaining Kubrick films I still have yet to see. I'll see if I can find it streaming somewhere and watch it.

Mae have you seen Filmworker, I believe it's on Netflix. It's about Leon Vitali who starred in Barry Lyndon, but then quit acting and became an assistant to Kubrick. It was really interesting.

+1

[mae]

I do! Thanks for letting me know, I'll try to watch it before the poll closes.

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

[mae]

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

[mae]

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.

[Still Servant]

I haven't seen it, but I came across another film I'm surprised didn't get nominated. The Yakuza. Any fans?

[DoctorZaius]

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 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

[mae]

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!

[Merlin1958]

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.

[mae]

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.

I'm very glad, Bill! Hope you have fun, it will only get tougher as we go on!

[amd013]

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.

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.

[mae]

What did you think of those, did you vote for them this round?

[Merlin1958]

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.

[amd013]

What did you think of those, did you vote for them this round?

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.

[fernandito]

Outlaw Josie Wales - Liked a lot ...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.

That's wassup

[mae]

Here are all of the 1970s nominees after the first round:

Moving on:

1. Alien 100.00%
2. Close Encounters of the Third Kind 96.15%
3. Halloween 95.45%
4. Rocky 95.00%
5. Jaws 92.00%
6. The Exorcist 92.00%
7. Carrie 91.67%
8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 91.67%
9. Taxi Driver 91.67%
10. Dawn of the Dead 90.48%
11. Apocalypse Now 90.00%
12. A Clockwork Orange 88.00%
13. Deliverance 87.50%
14. Mad Max 87.50%
15. Star Wars 87.50%
16. The Godfather 87.50%
17. Young Frankenstein 86.96%
18. Westworld 85.00%
19. The Omen 83.33%
20. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 83.33%
21. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 82.61%
22. The Godfather: Part II 81.82%
23. Dog Day Afternoon 80.95%
24. Invasion of the Body Snatchers 80.95%
25. Serpico 80.95%
26. The Deer Hunter 80.95%
27. All the President's Men 80.00%
28. Diamonds Are Forever 80.00%
29. Enter the Dragon 80.00%
30. Escape from Alcatraz 80.00%
31. Animal House 79.17%
32. Dirty Harry 79.17%
33. Monty Python's Life of Brian 78.26%
34. The French Connection 78.26%
35. Blazing Saddles 76.19%
36. American Graffiti 75.00%
37. Shaft 75.00%
38. Rocky II 73.91%
39. The Bad News Bears 73.91%
40. The Sting 73.08%
41. Three Days of the Condor 71.43%
42. Patton 70.83%
43. Smokey and the Bandit 70.83%
44. The Andromeda Strain 70.83%
45. The Jerk 70.83%
46. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 70.83%
47. Magnum Force 70.00%
48. Superman 69.57%
49. The Return of the Pink Panther 69.57%
50. Assault on Precinct 13 66.67%
51. Freaky Friday 66.67%
52. Logan's Run 66.67%
53. Chinatown 65.22%
54. Death Wish 65.22%
55. King Kong 65.22%
56. Live and Let Die 65.22%
57. The Gauntlet 65.22%
58. The Rocky Horror Picture Show 65.22%
59. The Towering Inferno 65.00%
60. The Muppet Movie 64.00%
61. Straw Dogs 63.64%
62. Annie Hall 62.50%
63. Charlotte's Web 62.50%
64. Duel 62.50%
65. Marathon Man 62.50%
66. Network 62.50%
67. Papillon 62.50%
68. The Outlaw Josey Wales 62.50%
69. The Warriors 62.50%
70. Play Misty for Me 61.90%
71. Star Trek: The Motion Picture 61.90%
72. Catch-22 60.87%
73. Escape from the Planet of the Apes 60.87%
74. Soylent Green 60.87%
75. 10 60.00%
76. Meatballs 60.00%
77. The Day of the Jackal 60.00%
78. Tora! Tora! Tora! 60.00%
79. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 59.09%
80. Grease 58.33%
81. Kramer vs. Kramer 58.33%
82. MASH 58.33%
83. Murder on the Orient Express 58.33%
84. THX 1138 58.33%
85. Up in Smoke 58.33%
86. Suspiria 57.14%
87. The Last Picture Show 56.52%
88. The Spy Who Loved Me 56.00%
89. The Hills Have Eyes 55.00%
90. Kelly's Heroes 54.55%
91. Silver Streak 54.55%
92. Eraserhead 54.17%
93. High Plains Drifter 54.17%
94. The China Syndrome 54.17%
95. The Omega Man 54.17%
96. The Pink Panther Strikes Again 54.17%
97. The Poseidon Adventure 54.17%
98. Walking Tall 54.17%
99. Airport 52.38%
100. Barry Lyndon 52.38%
101. High Anxiety 52.38%
102. Family Plot 52.17%
103. Last Tango in Paris 52.17%
104. Saturday Night Fever 52.00%
105. The Enforcer 52.00%
106. And Justice for All 50.00%
107. Coma 50.00%
108. Every Which Way But Loose 50.00%
109. Five Easy Pieces 50.00%
110. Frenzy 50.00%
111. Midnight Express 50.00%
112. The Amityville Horror 50.00%
113. The Conversation 50.00%
114. Oh, God! 48.00%
115. Midway 47.83%
116. Two Mules for Sister Sara 47.83%
117. Cabaret 47.62%
118. Drunken Master 47.62%
119. Hair 47.62%
120. The Last House on the Left 47.62%
121. A Bridge Too Far 45.83%
122. The Deep 45.83%
123. The Wicker Man 45.83%
124. Being There 45.45%
125. Death Race 2000 45.45%
126. Deep Red 45.00%
127. Slap Shot 45.00%
128. The Tenant 45.00%
129. Phantasm 44.00%
130. A Star is Born 43.48%
131. The Boys in Company C 43.48%
132. What's Up, Doc? 43.48%
133. Black Sunday 42.86%
134. I Spit on Your Grave 42.86%
135. Klute 42.86%
136. Let's Scare Jessica to Death 42.86%
137. Picnic at Hanging Rock 42.86%
138. The Mechanic 42.86%
139. All That Jazz 41.67%
140. Mean Streets 41.67%
141. Rollerball 41.67%
142. The Aristocats 41.67%
143. Watership Down 41.67%
144. Tommy 40.91%
145. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 40.00%
146. Convoy 40.00%
147. Time After Time 40.00%
148. Dark Star 38.10%
149. Foxy Brown 38.10%
150. Robin Hood 38.10%
151. The Abominable Dr. Phibes 38.10%
152. The Eiger Sanction 38.10%
153. Jeremiah Johnson 36.36%
154. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) 35.00%
155. Fiddler on the Roof 35.00%
156. Lenny 35.00%
157. Thunderbolt and Lightfoot 34.78%
158. Breaking Away 33.33%
159. Car Wash 33.33%
160. Carnal Knowledge 33.33%
161. Cross of Iron 33.33%
162. Orca 33.33%
163. Paper Moon 33.33%
164. Force 10 from Navarone 32.00%
165. Days of Heaven 30.77%
166. The Brood 30.77%
167. Fantastic Planet 30.43%
168. The Seven-Ups 30.43%
169. The Getaway 30.00%
170. The Last Detail 30.00%
171. Coming Home 29.17%
172. Don’t Look Now 29.17%
173. Manhattan 29.17%
174. Pink Flamingos 29.17%
175. Piranha 29.17%
176. The In-Laws 29.17%
177. The Shootist 29.17%
178. The Kentucky Fried Movie 28.57%
179. Badlands 28.00%
180. Nashville 27.27%
181. Fritz the Cat 26.09%
182. The Parallax View 26.09%
183. Daughters of Darkness 25.00%
184. Interiors 25.00%
185. Rolling Thunder 25.00%
186. Scarecrow 25.00%
187. The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane 25.00%
188. The Golden Voyage of Sinbad 23.08%
189. The Beguiled 20.00%
190. El Topo 19.05%
191. Aguirre, the Wrath of God 14.29%
192. Stalker 14.29%

Eliminated:

1. Caligula 45.45%
2. Heaven Can Wait 37.50%
3. Sleuth 33.33%
4. The Rescuers 33.33%
5. Black Christmas 31.82%
6. The Odessa File 30.43%
7. Sleeper 30.00%
8. Benji 29.17%
9. The Long Goodbye 29.17%
10. An Unmarried Woman 28.57%
11. Norma Rae 28.57%
12. The Boys from Brazil 28.57%
13. Johnny Got His Gun 28.00%
14. 1776 26.09%
15. Mother, Jugs & Speed 25.00%
16. Pete's Dragon 25.00%
17. Pretty Baby 25.00%
18. Solaris 25.00%
19. The Man Who Would Be King 25.00%
20. Willard 25.00%
21. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes 24.00%
22. The Cowboys 23.08%
23. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls 21.74%
24. Mr. Majestyk 21.74%
25. House 20.83%
26. The Crazies 20.83%
27. Vengeance is Mine 20.83%
28. Scenes from a Marriage 20.00%
29. The Castle of Cagliostro 20.00%
30. The Holy Mountain 20.00%
31. Love Story 19.05%
32. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 19.05%
33. Cries and Whispers 17.39%
34. A Woman Under the Influence 16.67%
35. Don't Torture a Duckling 16.67%
36. Five Deadly Venoms 16.67%
37. Harold and Maude 16.67%
38. Le Cercle Rouge 16.67%
39. Mirror 16.67%
40. Sorcerer 16.67%
41. The Devils 16.67%
42. Lady Snowblood 15.38%
43. A Bay of Blood 15.00%
44. In the Realm of the Senses 15.00%
45. On a Clear Day You Can See Forever 15.00%
46. Female Trouble 14.29%
47. Squirm 14.29%
48. Ben 13.64%
49. That Obscure Object of Desire 13.04%
50. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin 13.04%
51. The Duellists 13.04%
52. The Spirit of the Beehive 13.04%
53. Autumn Sonata 12.50%
54. Who Can Kill a Child? 12.50%
55. The Conformist 12.00%
56. Amarcord 10.00%
57. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 10.00%
58. 3 Women 9.52%
59. Allegro Non Troppo 9.52%
60. The Telephone Book 9.52%
61. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 9.09%
62. Sounder 8.70%
63. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion 8.33%
64. McCabe & Mrs. Miller 8.00%

[Tommy]

For folks that love their westerns, it's disheartening to see one of the greatest westerns ever come in dead last.

[Still Servant]

For folks that love their westerns, it's disheartening to see one of the greatest westerns ever come in dead last.

McCabe & Mrs. Miller isn't the best Western ever.

[Tommy]

For folks that love their westerns, it's disheartening to see one of the greatest westerns ever come in dead last.

McCabe & Mrs. Miller isn't the best Western ever.

I did not say it was, I said it was ONE OF THE greatest westerns ever.

[Still Servant]

For folks that love their westerns, it's disheartening to see one of the greatest westerns ever come in dead last.

McCabe & Mrs. Miller isn't the best Western ever.

I did not say it was, I said it was ONE OF THE greatest westerns ever.

I read it too fast. I'd still disagree though.

It's just not how I prefer my Westerns, I guess.

[Merlin1958]

For folks that love their westerns, it's disheartening to see one of the greatest westerns ever come in dead last.

McCabe & Mrs. Miller isn't the best Western ever.

I did not say it was, I said it was ONE OF THE greatest westerns ever.

I read it too fast. I'd still disagree though.

It's just not how I prefer my Westerns, I guess.

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

[Tommy]

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.

[amd013]

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?

[DoctorZaius]

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

[Merlin1958]

Ahh yes!!! Silverado!!! Another classic western tale!!!