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Works the same way as Toms ILM Top 100 songs ( ie email me the list do not post)with a couple of exceptions :
1) Half the Movies , Half The points. Give me 20 of your favorite movies scored between 1 and 25 . 2) I will give it a week. Lets say all entries have to be in on the 16th . 3) The format should read :
Title Director Year Country of Origin and Number of Points.
If i am stealing Toms Thunder please tell me and i will kybosh this glorius plan.

― anthony, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

How do we distribute the points and so on. I didn't do the ILM poll because I don't like music polls - but i reckon this is more in my field. Anyway someone has to counter-act all the rubbish films that Stevie Trousers is going to vote for (Umbrellas Of Cherbourg anyone).

Ah - Pete and Stevie, like the Siskel and Ebert of ILE. Of course I'm Ebert because I'm the fat one.

― Pete, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

This is not Tom's board so thunde r= not his to be stolen. But giving it just a week does mean he can't VOTE ha ha, as he is on holiday with goats.

― mark s, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Easy you get 250 points that you have to distrubite between 20 films . Maxium points one film can have is 25.

― anthony, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Cheers. Tom doesn't like films anyway except for the Coen Brothers and Charlies Angels (er possibly the only films he's seen) so missing him out won't kill him.

The goat might.

― Pete, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

(Can we not somehow avoid all these ugly multiples of five? 99 is a nice number, and so is 24...)

― mark s, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Yo do not have to distribute all 250 points but i do not want to skew the poll too much. Hence the 25 point maximum and the required 20 films. Give one 25 points and 19 one point if you want.

― anthony, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Wasn't there some old C-Grade horror flick called "My Bloody Valentine"? That should win for obvious reasons.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I nominate "The Loveless" (Dir Kathryn Bigelow? Not sure and can't be bothered to look up...)
Second: "Hit Me Baby One More Time" (Dir K.Keislowksi)

― mark s, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Hahaha, Tom may be gone but I will vote for Coen brothers films.

― Josh, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

As will I. And Charlie's Angels.

― Otie Wheeler, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

No one is biting Tom's Thunder, you are nipping Fred's Awful Idea. But you sound like you're doing it better anyhow, because you aren't going to do some complex mathematical formula to dock everyone if they don't fulfill every requirement known to man. Though you can make it "exciting" and change the rules daily, like the ILM poll did.

I am going to send in my poll now, I guess, but this is bloody awful, 1 to 25, it's worse than the other poll! That's a ridiculous statistically improbable point spread. What the hell ever happened to 1-10 ratings?

― Ally, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Oh, and I want to start a campaign for the inclusion of Cannonball Run, btw.

― Ally, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Blood Simple and Cannonball Run shall figure prominently on my list. Stroker Ace is tempting, as is Over the Top.

― Andy, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Let's not forget Roadhouse....an underrated classic. Celebrity bouncers are where it's at.

But no monkey movies, because monkeys are at least as evil as beards.

― Nicole, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Is it okay if you don't know who directed it, or when it was produced?

― james e l, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I propose to make the list better that nobody is allowed to vote for anything below TWO in the respective series. eg ALIENS, EVERY WHICH WAY YOU CAN (= an ape, Nicole), THREE COLOURS: WHITE ...

Films which haven't reach a TWO in the respective series are anyway proven rubbish by this very fact (as in : hey, if it was SO GOOD, where's the remake?)

― mark s, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

James if you care enough look it up on Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com). I just want to make sure that you get the right film. There are movies with similar titles . Give me enough identifying details . About series: Blue is a different movie then White, both will be judged on their own merits . If you include both of them on your list you think of both of them masterpeices , then they both go on your list.

― anthony, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

But Police Academy I-VIII are to be lumped together as a single GESAMSTUNSTWERK? OK, fair enough — but the votes must be weighted somehow to take account of the much greater length...

― mark s, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

just rented Killing Zoe..anybody see it?

― kevin enas, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I am a fairly loose person. If you consider a series of films like Wagners ring cycle put them on the same line. If they work apart put them on 2 or 3 ( or in the case of the PA movies 8)

― anthony, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I'm all there for Cannonball Run. Someone has to back me on Wild Things cuz that's the best moovee ever.

― AP, Tuesday, 10 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Pls list films by Allen, Hartley, and Peckinpah. Amateur by Hartley, btw, containing one of the most in-your-face-existential endings ever. "Yes. I know this man."

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 10 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

We shall wave the flag, Sterl.

― JM, Tuesday, 10 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Should you care to collude, Sterling, I listed a few Allen films: Annie Hall, Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex, Hannah and Her Sisters, and Sleeper. Would greatly appreciate more points for Hannah and Her Sisters. ;)

― Josh, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

What? No Manhattan? Sir, this is a most grevious insult.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Sorry, I just haven't seen it. It looks like I would quite like it though.

― Josh, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I liked Demolition Man too. Can I still vote?

― Tom, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I like Hollow Man tho I have not seen it. I cannot vote as the numbers factorise in an unacceptable manner.

― mark s, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Oops, I spent all my Woody Allen points on Love and Death. I wasn't aware he had made any since...

― Pete, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

_Hollow Man_? Oh, lord. You'd think a Kevin Bacon movie where you didn't see Kevin Bacon = classic. Alas. Verhoeven even screwed up the obligatory T&A scene. Doink.

Hey, Anthony - what's the update on the # of lists sent? Shall there be an extension to allow Tom & other lollygaggers a chance to opine? (And did you get my list, perchance? I realize I formatted the entries all fokaka, and I apologize.)

― David Raposa, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

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