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[Mitchell]

OK house clearing first. Votes for Duel (TV Movie) and Take The Money And Run (1969) where thrown out.

340 films nominated, 211 with more than one vote. Same format as before.

Let's go.

200) Devils (1971)
Directed by: Ken Russell.
Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed
IMDB link 7.5/10 (1,272 votes)

199) Murder By Death (1976)
Directed by: Robert Moore.
Stars: Alec Guinness, David Niven, Peter Falk and Peter Sellers
IMDB link 7.2/10 (5,081 votes)

198) Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)
Directed by: Norman Jewison.
Stars: Ted Neeley, Carl Anderson, Yvonne Elliman and Barry Dennen
IMDB link 6.6/10 (5,513 votes)

197) Las Valseuses (Going Places) (1974)
Directed by: Bertrand Blier.
Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Isabelle Huppert
IMDB link 7.2/10 (1,332 votes)

196) The Panic in Needle Park (1971)
Directed by: Jerry Schatzberg.
Stars: Al Pacino, Kitty Winn, Alan Vint and Richard Bright
IMDB link 6.9/10 (1,463 votes)

195) Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant (1971)
Directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Stars: Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla and Katrin Schaake
IMDB link 7.5/10 (1,272 votes)

194) Overlord (1971)
Directed by: Stuart Cooper.
Stars: Brian Stirner, Davyd Harries, Nicholas Ball and Julie Neesam
IMDB link 7.0/10 (62 votes)

193) Blue Collar (1978)
Directed by: Paul Schrader.
Stars: Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto and Ed Begley Jr.
IMDB link 7.3/10 (833 votes)

192) The Getaway (1972)
Directed by: Sam Peckinpah.
Stars: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson and Sally Struthers. IMDB link 7.4/10 (4,217 votes)

191) Bound For Glory (1976)
Directed by: Hal Ashby.
Stars: David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland and Randy Quaid
IMDB link 7.1/10 (624 votes)

[Slackmo]

Clumps o' ten after all this waiting is a bit, you know--ANTICLIMACTIC.

[boobs]

Last Detail better get a vote

[Slackmo]

OK house clearing first. Votes for Duel (TV Movie) and Take The Money And Run (1969) where thrown out.

Two-week holdup and we couldn't hit a brother off about the Take the Money and Run error? Weakness.

[Mitchell]

Last Detail better get a vote

It got 6. Be patient.

Clumps o' ten after all this waiting is a bit, you know--ANTICLIMACTIC.

All this waiting and this is the best YOU can come back with?

Two-week holdup and we couldn't hit a brother off about the Take the Money and Run error? Weakness.

I have a job now.

[Agrimorfee]

[quote] 200) Devils (1971) [/quote]
[/quote] Gotsta, gotsta see this one yet.

[quote] 199) Murder By Death (1976)[/quote]
[Used to love this when I was a kid, but now I found the script to be pretty freakin' awful. This movie is saved by the actors' characterizations (not counting Truman Capote :lol: )


[quote] 198) Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)
[/quote]
It was said before somewhere, but I'll say it again: Great score, dopey movie.

[Slackmo]

Mitchell, I warned you this was going to be a bitchfest.

[Rocks And Blows]

I didn't vote and I know very little about movies, or music for that matter. But does the "time hasn't been good to that movie" argument apply like it does to music. Because for many reasons, time has not been kind to the likes of "Easy Rider" and "The Wild Bunch"

[Agrimorfee]

But does the "time hasn't been good to that movie" argument apply like it does to music. Because for many reasons, time has not been kind to the likes of "Easy Rider" and "The Wild Bunch"

My maturing appreciation of film has not been kind to some movies-- cf. my above post...

[Mitchell]

I didn't vote and I know very little about movies, or music for that matter. But does the "time hasn't been good to that movie" argument apply like it does to music. Because for many reasons, time has not been kind to the likes of "Easy Rider" and "The Wild Bunch"

both 1969.

[birdistheword]

I agree with Easy Rider. The Wild Bunch? Actually, I'd say time's been kinder to it than most Westerns. Butch & Sundance is NOTHING compared to The Wild Bunch.

[theremin]

Too high!!

[Pavement Ist Rad]

Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid still rules.

[Rocks And Blows]

I didn't vote and I know very little about movies, or music for that matter. But does the "time hasn't been good to that movie" argument apply like it does to music. Because for many reasons, time has not been kind to the likes of "Easy Rider" and "The Wild Bunch"

both 1969.

not my point asshole

[birdistheword]

Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid still rules.

Which version did you see? I heard Peckinpah's original cut is very different and much better than the theatrical version (I think both are on DVD). Haven't seen either, but I remember watching a few bits on TV, like the duel...Billy doesn't bother walking, he just turns around and waits, but turns out to be a smart move because the other guy's a cheat and spins around way before "10."

[Mitchell]

190) Le Boucher (1970)
Directed by: Claude Chabrol.
Stars: Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia and Pascal Ferone
IMDB link 7.7/10 (817 votes)

189) Sleeper (1973)
Directed by: Woody Allen.
Stars: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, John Beck, Mary Gregory and Don Keefer
IMDB link 7.3/10 (7,189 votes)

188) Frenzy (1972)
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock.
Stars: Jon Finch, Alec McCowen, Barry Foster, Billie Whitelaw and Anna Massey.
IMDB link 7.5/10 (5,277 votes)

187) The End (1978)
Directed by: Burt Reynolds et al.
Stars: Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Sally Field, Strother Martin and David Steinberg
IMDB link 6.1/10 (749 votes)

186) Foxy Brown (1974)
Directed by: Jack Hill.
Stars: Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown and Terry Carter.
IMDB link 6.2/10 (1,096 votes)

185) Get Carter (1971)
Directed by: Mike Hodges.
Stars: Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland and John Osborne
IMDB link 7.6/10 (4,472 votes)

184) What’s Up, Doc? (1972)
Directed by: Peter Bogdanovich.
Stars: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars and Austin Pendleton
IMDB link 7.3/10 (3,711 votes)

183) Carnal Knowledge (1971)
Directed by: Mike Nichols.
Stars: Jack Nicholson, Candice Bergen, Art Garfunkel, Ann-Margret and Rita Moreno
IMDB link 6.8/10 (2,079 votes)

182) Supervixens (1975)
Directed by: Russ Meyer.
Stars: Shari Eubank, Charles Napier, Uschi Digard, Charles Pitts and Henry Rowland
IMDB link 6.1/10 (755 votes)

181) Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (1972)
Directed by: Adrian Maben.
Stars: David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, Richard Wright and Montana.
IMDB link 8.1/10 (1,217 votes)

[Slackmo]

181) Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (1972)
Directed by: Adrian Maben.
Stars: David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, Richard Wright and Montana.
IMDB link 8.1/10 (1,217 votes)

brilliant.

[Tony]

I didn't vote and I know very little about movies, or music for that matter. But does the "time hasn't been good to that movie" argument apply like it does to music. Because for many reasons, time has not been kind to the likes of "Easy Rider" and "The Wild Bunch"

Easy Rider yes.

The Wild Bunch is downright classical and has nothing 60s-ish about it.

[Rocks And Blows]

I didn't vote and I know very little about movies, or music for that matter. But does the "time hasn't been good to that movie" argument apply like it does to music. Because for many reasons, time has not been kind to the likes of "Easy Rider" and "The Wild Bunch"

Easy Rider yes.

The Wild Bunch is downright classical and has nothing 60s-ish about it.

I love "The Wild Bunch",Top 5 all time in my book. I just feel the violence in it, which at the time was groundbreaking, seems to have not dated that well. I think my question has been lost in all of this. And I highly recomend 'Straw Dogs' another Peckinpah classic.

[birdistheword]

I love "The Wild Bunch",Top 5 all time in my book. I just feel the violence in it, which at the time was groundbreaking, seems to have not dated that well. I think my question has been lost in all of this. And I highly recomend 'Straw Dogs' another Peckinpah classic.

As in, it's no longer groundbreaking or it looks tame? I wouldn't agree with the latter, but with the former, that's bound to happen with innovation. Even then, the violence still stands out, because it's not just the amount of blood that grabs/grabbed your attention but how it's orchestrated - maybe it was over the top in 1969 (Howard Hawks sneered that he could've killed a dozen men in the time it took Peckinpah to kill one), but without the shock value, today there's a grotesque lyricism to the way violence breaks out. A lot of cheap movies do slow-motion action scenes now, but it takes more than slo-mo to make something seem lyrical. Still, if violence was all there was to The Wild Bunch, it wouldn't have held up so well.