GMD Social Poll: Top Ten Films of 1976

[no country for old wainds]

Clearly Pretty Woman is going to win.

i am actually curious about how all the various sequels and threequels and fivequels are gonna fare this time, seems like it was a banner year for that shit: the godfather III, predator 2, the exorcist III, die hard 2, back to the future III, gremlins 2, robocop 2, rocky V, child's play 2 and, of course, troll 2.

 

[challenge_everything]

i am actually curious about how all the various sequels and threequels and fivequels are gonna fare this time, seems like it was a banner year for that shit: the godfather III, predator 2, the exorcist III, die hard 2, back to the future III, gremlins 2, robocop 2, rocky V, child's play 2 and, of course, troll 2.

Ha Troll 2 is on my watchlist, good reason for me to organise a boozy bad movie night.

Godfather 3 is seriously under-rated though, will be in my list for sure.

 

[CiG]

predator 2

Likely will be in my list.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i would unironically recommend troll 2 to everyone here, and consider the bad movie tag pretty misguided in this case. one of my acquaintances on another site said it best: "Ok, first off the worst-movie-ever-made reputation is stupid and most of the fanbase just isn't 'getting it'. Anyone who has had years of sifting through bargain basement DVDs and watching hours of pure dreck knows that Troll 2 is something special. Well-paced, lovingly filmed trash completely lost in its own warped little world with dialogue and performances you wouldn't find in ANY other movie. Don't confuse its surreal Italian flavour with simple 'badness'. This is next level."

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Troll 2 is legitimately great. No lie, when I first discovered it I would rent it, return the tape and then rent it out again. I did this until the lady at the video store said "Why don't you just buy it?" From a technical filmmaking standpoint, it's objectively good. I can't really find fault in the direction. It's everything else that makes it special. The first-time actors and their delivery, the fact that the screenwriter intended it to be a criticism of pretentious vegetarians, the look of the goblin's (by the legendary Black Emmanuelle Laura Gemser!), ect… Call it a misfire if you must but more than anything it's sincere. And the soundtrack is fucking slamming.

 

[no country for old wainds]

amen.

sorry to hijack the wrong thread for 1990 talk, but has anyone seen this?:

first paragraph of a review i just read:
"There's a scene near the beginning of the film when a man goes to visit a prostitute. He is nude save for a propeller hat on his head. The sex worker strips and brandishes a whip. The man pulls a large dildo out of his bag. The sex worker cracks her whip at the dildo, ensnaring it like Indiana Jones would. She flicks her wrist and the dildo flies perfectly from the man's hand into hers. He bends over; she inserts it to the sound of a plane divebombing; the propellor inexplicably begins turning. Some seconds later, she removes the dildo with an cartoonish pop noise and the man winces in relief(?). What the fuck is this scene about? What does it mean? Why is it in the film at all?"

 

[CiG]

10th) Family Plot directed by Alfred Hitchcock



Voted for by:
@Bloopy (2nd place)
@Oblivious Maximus (4th place)

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Main cast:

Bruce Dern


Barbara Harris


William Devane


Karen Black

TOTAL POINTS: 16

 

[CiG]

9th) The Man Who Fell to Earth directed by Nicolas Roeg



In memoriam Nicolas Jack Roeg, 15 August 1928 – 23 November 2018.

Voted for by:
@Oblivious Maximus (3rd place)
@Einherjar86 (3rd place)
@no country for old wainds (10th place)

Spoiler

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Main cast:

David Bowie


Rip Torn


Candy Clark


Buck Henry

TOTAL POINTS: 17

 

[CiG]

8th) Cannonball! (a.k.a. Carquake) directed by Paul Bartel



Voted for by:
@Slammed (3rd place)
@TechnicalBarbarity (5th place)
@Bloopy (5th place)

Spoiler

IMDB
Main cast:

David Carradine


Bill McKinney


Veronica Hamel

TOTAL POINTS: 20

 

[CiG]

Cannonball looks bad ass, need to see that one asap.

 

[Slammed]

And Cannonball sounds so much better than Carquake.

 

[CiG]

7th) The Killing of a Chinese Bookie directed by John Cassavetes



Voted for by:
@no country for old wainds (1st place)
@Anom@nder Rake (5th place)
@rms (5th place)
@challenge_everything (9th place)

Spoiler

IMDB
Main cast:

Ben Gazzara


Timothy Carey


Seymour Cassel

TOTAL POINTS: 24

 

[CiG]

And Cannonball sounds so much better than Carquake.

They're both pretty terrible names, but I think I might prefer Carquake because it sounds more cheesy.

 

[Slammed]

But it's not a cheesy movie

 

[CiG]

6th) The Tenant directed by Roman Polanski



Voted for by:
@Oblivious Maximus (5th place)
@Anom@nder Rake (6th place)
@challenge_everything (7th place)
@Einherjar86 (7th place)
@no country for old wainds (8th place)

Spoiler

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Main cast:

Roman Polanski


Isabelle Adjani

TOTAL POINTS: 27

 

[CiG]

Somewhat surprised I was the only one to list (or even mention) In the Realm of the Senses. Has anybody else seen it or just not very impressed? Genuinely curious.

 

[CiG]

5th) The Network directed by Sidney Lumet



Voted for by:
@Einherjar86 (1st place)
@Anom@nder Rake (2nd place)
@challenge_everything (2nd place)

Spoiler

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Main cast:

Faye Dunaway


William Holden


Peter Finch


Robert Duvall

TOTAL POINTS: 28

 

[CiG]

4th) The Omen directed by Richard Donner



Voted for by:
@rms (3rd place)
@CiG (5th place)
@challenge_everything (8th place)
@Einherjar86 (8th place)
@RadicalThrasher (8th place)
@Anom@nder Rake (10th place)
@Krow (unranked)

Spoiler

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Main cast:

Gregory Peck


Harvey Spencer Stephens


Lee Remick


David Warner


Billie Whitelaw


Patrick Troughton

TOTAL POINTS: 29.5

 

[CiG]

3rd) Rocky directed by John G. Avildsen



Voted for by:
@RadicalThrasher (1st place)
@TechnicalBarbarity (2nd place)
@Slammed (6th place)
@Einherjar86 (10th place)
@Krow (unranked)

Spoiler

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Main cast:

Sylvester Stallone


Talia Shire


Burt Young


Carl Weathers


Burgess Meredith

TOTAL POINTS: 30.5

 

[CiG]

2nd) Carrie directed by Brian De Palma



Voted for by:
@challenge_everything (1st place)
@no country for old wainds (3rd place)
@Anom@nder Rake (4th place)
@rms (4th place)
@CiG (7th place)
@Bloopy (9th place)
@Einherjar86 (9th place)
@Slammed (9th place)
@Krow (unranking)

Spoiler

IMDB
Main cast:

Sissy Spacek


John Travolta


Nancy Allen


Piper Laurie


Amy Irving


William Katt


Betty Buckley

TOTAL POINTS: 43.5