GMD Social Poll: Top Ten Films of 1977

[CiG]

RYM film chart

Deadline is JUNE. If you need an extension just say so and it will absolutely be considered. This is usually just a soft deadline to make sure everybody doesn't become complacent.

REMEMBER for those of you who haven't seen many films from this year or in general, you can always submit lists as small as only having 5 submissions.

Rules:

- Please submit at least 5 films.
- First place in your rankings gets 10 points, 2nd gets 9, etcetc, 10th gets 1.
- Feel free to post more than 10, but only the top 10 will get points.
- Feel free to post less than 10, the same scoring will apply.
- Feel free not to rank your picks, in which case all ten picks will get 5.5 points.
- If you're so much of a dick that you have to post more than 10 unranked picks, the maths will be worked out.

 

[RadicalThrasher]

1. Rolling Thunder
2. Sorcerer
3. Slap Shot
4. Cross of Iron
5. Star Wars
6. Breaker! Breaker!
7. The Deep
8. Saturday Night Fever
9. The Hills Have Eyes
10. Short Eyes

Quickie....maybe change later

 

[Slammed]

1. Smokey and the Bandit
2. Breaker! Breaker!
3. Slap Shot
4. High Anxiety
5. The Hills Have Eyes
6. The Spy Who Loved Me
7. Saturday Night Fever
8. The Kentucky Fried Movie
9. Star Wars
10. The Last Wave

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

1. Eraserhead
2. Shock
3. Suspiria
4. Demon Seed
5. The Boxer
6. Rabid
7. Desperate Living
8. That Obscure Object of Desire
9. 3 Women
10. Sorcerer

Voodoo Passion
El miron
La muerte incierta
Mannaja: A Man Called Blade
The Psychic
Jungle Holocaust
The Ascent
Hitch-Hike
Alucarda
Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals
Death Bed
The Hills Have Eyes
Bloodlust (Mosquito der Schänder)
The Haunting of Julia

 

[CiG]

1. Opening Night (John Cassavetes)
2. Sorcerer (William Friedkin)
3. Eraserhead (David Lynch)
4. The Last Wave (Peter Weir)
5. 3 Women (Robert Altman)
6. Stroszek (Werner Herzog)
7. Saturday Night Fever (John Badham)
8. The Gauntlet (Clint Eastwood)
9. Rolling Thunder (John Flynn)
10. Short Eyes (Robert M. Young)

Honourable mentions...
Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
Bobby Deerfield (Sydney Pollack)

 

[RadicalThrasher]

@CiG what years are left to do after this?


EDIT: Better question, what years have we done so far?

 

[no country for old wainds]

since it seems unlikely at this point we'd ever get enough votes to bother doing any pre-'60s years, i'd quite like to see a decade poll for the earlier decades at some point.

 

[CiG]

@CiG what years are left to do after this?


EDIT: Better question, what years have we done so far?

The years we've done so far:

1966
1968
1976
1977
1983
1984
1985
1987
1988
1990
1992
1993
1996
1997
2001
2002
2005
2008
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019

since it seems unlikely at this point we'd ever get enough votes to bother doing any pre-'60s years, i'd quite like to see a decade poll for the earlier decades at some point.

Yeah I like that idea.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i plan to start participating properly again but i’m trying to get through the battle royale rym thing first lmao, starting to pick up the pace with those now

 

[Bloopy]

Yesss, feed those old decades into the random number cruncher so we can do one sometime soon. Or just do a decade whenever you feel like changing things up a bit.

 

[CiG]

Probably makes sense to do the 1950's first and see how it goes.

 

[Bloopy]

1. The Hills Have Eyes
2. Rollercoaster
3. Eraserhead
4. Smokey and the Bandit
5. Demon Seed
6. Desperate Living
7. Sorcerer
8. Star Wars
9. Damnation Alley
10. ハウス (House)

 

[CiG]

Well, we're in June. Anybody have forthcoming lists?

 

[rms]

Might make one tomorrow. Kinda wanna find cross of iron somewhere and give that a try...hoping peckinpah hits me one day.

And might have to rewatch Eraserhead with all these first place votes

 

[CiG]

And might have to rewatch Eraserhead with all these first place votes

One first place vote dickhead, put down the contrarian crackpipe and think for a few seconds before posting.

 

[rms]

Nah, got things to do. Two thirds for a shitty movie lol

 

[CiG]

Nah, got things to do.

Sure ya do fag.

 

[challenge_everything]

Screw you all, this thread needs more Suspiria love.

1. Suspiria (Dario Argento)
2. Star Wars (George Lucas)
3. House (Nobuhiko Obayashi)
4. Shock (Mario Bava)
5. Sorcerer (William Friedkin)
6. The American Friend (Wim Wenders)
7. Eraserhead (David Lynch)
8. Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
9. Desperate Living (John Waters)
10. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg)

 

[CiG]

It needs more Last Wave love.

 

[Einherjar86]

I've never seen Last Wave or Sorcerer (and 1977 in general seems to be a year that slipped by me), so I don't have as much to contribute to this one. Here's a provisional list of seven (if I don't revise you can count it as is):

1. Eraserhead
2. Suspiria
3. Equus
4. House
5. Powers of Ten (nerd choice but I love it)
6. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
7. Star Wars

I feel like Equus isn't a great film, but I've always been very fond of it. The original play is fantastic.