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What are your top five?

The Empire Strikes Back
6 (13.3%)
The Shining
5 (11.1%)
Lion of the Desert
0 (0%)
Le voyage en douce
0 (0%)
The Elephant Man
1 (2.2%)
Raging Bull
2 (4.4%)
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
0 (0%)
The Garage
0 (0%)
Aakrosh
0 (0%)
Kagemusha
2 (4.4%)
The King and the Mockingbird
1 (2.2%)
The Blues Brothers
3 (6.7%)
Breaker Morant
2 (4.4%)
Mon oncle d'Amérique
0 (0%)
A Distant Cry from Spring
0 (0%)
Muhammad and Larry
0 (0%)
Airplane!
6 (13.3%)
Ordinary People
2 (4.4%)
Oblomov
0 (0%)
The Long Good Friday
0 (0%)
The Taming of the Scoundrel
0 (0%)
Ekipazh
0 (0%)
Bizalom
0 (0%)
Alexander the Great
0 (0%)
Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind
0 (0%)
Microphone Test
0 (0%)
Coal Miner's Daughter
0 (0%)
The Last Metro
0 (0%)
Fists of the White Lotus
0 (0%)
The Falls
0 (0%)
Atlantic City
0 (0%)
Stardust Memories
1 (2.2%)
Shogun Assassin
0 (0%)
Resurrection
0 (0%)
Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!)
0 (0%)
Inside Moves
0 (0%)
In Search of Famine
0 (0%)
Caddyshack
2 (4.4%)
Somewhere in Time
0 (0%)
The Gods Must Be Crazy
0 (0%)
The Changeling
0 (0%)
Sällskapsresan eller Finns det svenskt kaffe på grisfesten
0 (0%)
The Young Master
0 (0%)
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
0 (0%)
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
0 (0%)
The Ninth Configuration
1 (2.2%)
The Big Red One
1 (2.2%)
The Stunt Man
0 (0%)
Hopscotch
0 (0%)
Out of the Blue
1 (2.2%)
Shaan
0 (0%)
The Conductor
0 (0%)
The Constant Factor
1 (2.2%)
Poto and Cabengo
0 (0%)
Dressed to Kill
1 (2.2%)
The Long Riders
0 (0%)
My Bodyguard
0 (0%)
Brubaker
0 (0%)
Gloria
0 (0%)
Bad Timing
0 (0%)
Gregory's Girl
0 (0%)
Every Man for Himself
0 (0%)
Spooky Encounters
0 (0%)
Heaven's Gate
0 (0%)
Superman II
0 (0%)
Used Cars
0 (0%)
Loulou
1 (2.2%)
Where the Buffalo Roam
0 (0%)
Flash Gordon
1 (2.2%)
Cannibal Holocaust
0 (0%)
Berlin Alexanderplatz [tv]
1 (2.2%)
Gideon's Trumpet [tv]
0 (0%)
Talking Heads [short]
0 (0%)
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe [short]
0 (0%)
Madonna and Child [short]
0 (0%)
Jadup und Boel
1 (2.2%)
Solo Sunny
1 (2.2%)
Berlin Chamissoplatz
1 (2.2%)
Xanadu
1 (2.2%)

Total Members Voted: 12

Author Topic: Best Film of 1980  (Read 10948 times)

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Best Film of 1980
« on: November 25, 2008, 03:34:03 PM »
Vote for your favourite film of 1980

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Re: Best Film of 1980
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2008, 03:37:01 PM »
The Shining because, again, the Star Wars films aren't that hot.
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Re: Best Film of 1980
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2008, 03:37:30 PM »
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Re: Best Film of 1980
« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2008, 03:37:38 PM »
1. Hopscotch
2. The Shining
3. The Elephant Man
4. Blues Brothers
5. Raging Bull

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Re: Best Film of 1980
« Reply #4 on: November 25, 2008, 03:46:27 PM »
This is a tough one.  I guess based on my top 20 list Empire gets the slight edge over Raging Bull but I can always change my mind if I feel like it.

1. Empire
2. Raging Bull
3. Superman II
4. Caddyshack
5. Kagemusha
6. Blues Bros.
7. Airplane!
8. Popeye


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Re: Best Film of 1980
« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2008, 03:49:18 PM »
Raging Bull, with Elephant Man and The Shining duking it out for second.
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Re: Best Film of 1980
« Reply #6 on: November 25, 2008, 03:53:45 PM »
Raging Bull, easily. 

And no Heaven's Gate in that list.
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Re: Best Film of 1980
« Reply #7 on: November 25, 2008, 04:01:22 PM »
Raging Bull, easily. 

And no Heaven's Gate in that list.


yeah i ain't seen heaven's gate, and when you hear things like 'flop' and 'bomb' and 'disaster', it can really put you off a movie.
And plus i didn't think anybody would want to vote for it. I could be wrong though so if there is anybody that wants to claim it as their favourite, then i'll add it!!
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Re: Best Film of 1980
« Reply #8 on: November 25, 2008, 04:03:55 PM »
Raging Bull, easily. 

And no Heaven's Gate in that list.


yeah i ain't seen heaven's gate, and when you hear things like 'flop' and 'bomb' and 'disaster', it can really put you off a movie.
And plus i didn't think anybody would want to vote for it. I could be wrong though so if there is anybody that wants to claim it as their favourite, then i'll add it!!

I haven't seen it either, but it definitely has a following and has sort of been re-appraised more kindly in recent years.
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Re: Best Film of 1980
« Reply #9 on: November 25, 2008, 04:29:23 PM »
I don't know how you thought to add The Ninth Configuration, but that's my favorite Buried Treasure of All Time.

 

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