Classic Film : CFB Poll: Favourites of 1979 **Closed**

I'm sorry you took my comments as mean-spirited. That wasn't the intention.
And no, I was not trolling for a reaction. (I've been around here long enough that I'd figure folks would realize that.)

As for The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again, The Fifth Musketeer, and Caligula, maybe I misunderstood the aim of the survey. These are not high on my list of favorite films of all time, but that's not what's being surveyed here, is it? I enjoyed them much more than Quintet and several of the other films mentioned. If I read the rules correctly, #1 and #2 on a list of 20 get more points than #1 and #2 on a list of 5, so why wouldn't I or anyone else include a film I enjoyed like The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again or Phantasm to fill out the ballot and increase the weights of my top choices?

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I'm sorry you took my comments as mean-spirited. That wasn't the intention.

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Cool, and I'm sorry for overreacting eolloe. My passion runs deep and sometimes my heart gets in the way of my head.

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And no, I was not trolling for a reaction. (I've been around here long enough that I'd figure folks would realize that.)

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Apologies, that was a cheap shot. I didn't really think you were trolling.

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As for The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again, The Fifth Musketeer, and Caligula, maybe I misunderstood the aim of the survey. These are not high on my list of favorite films of all time, but that's not what's being surveyed here, is it? I enjoyed them much more than Quintet and several of the other films mentioned. If I read the rules correctly, #1 and #2 on a list of 20 get more points than #1 and #2 on a list of 5, so why wouldn't I or anyone else include a film I enjoyed like The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again or Phantasm to fill out the ballot and increase the weights of my top choices?

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Interestingly enough, the way I understand the points system eolloe, if you left the likes of THE APPLE DUMPLING GANG RIDES AGAIN, CALIGULA etc (and I am not saying you should) off your ballot and submitted between say 10 and 16 films (but not less than 5), your top choices would actually be awarded more points. I.E. if you submitted only 10 films the same amount of points that would be allocated to a 20 film ballot would be divided among those 10 films - making each one's individual points tally higher. I'm open to correction, but I think there is a set amount of points for the number 1 choice, though.

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if you submitted only 10 films the same amount of points that would be allocated to a 20 film ballot would be divided among those 10 films - making each one's individual points tally higher. I'm open to correction, but I think there is a set amount of points for the number 1 choice, though.

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No the points are always determined by the amount of films included on the ballot.


I'll be waiting, with a gun and a pack of sandwiches.

I think the easiest way to work it out is the bottom film in your list always gets one point and the points advance up in increments of one, so the more you add the more your top film would receive. i.e. if you submit five films your bottom film gets 1 point and your top one 5 but if you submit twenty films your bottom film still only gets 1 point but the top one gets 20.

As below:

Rank/Points
1/20
2/19
3/18
4/17
5/16
6/15
7/14
8/13
9/12
10/11
11/10
12/9
13/8
14/7
15/6
16/5
17/4
18/3
19/2
20/1

Rank/Points
1/5
2/4
3/3
4/2
5/1


Does this make sense? It effectively means your higher listed entries get more points the more films you list.

Frazer
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Thanks so much for the explanation Red-Barracuda, it does make sense now. elloe was right, and I am glad because I nearly always put 20 films on my ballot.



PS: am going to delete my enquiry now, so there is no confusion when it comes to the tallying.

Thanks for the POLL !

Ranked:

01. The Black Stallion
02. The Electric Horseman
03. Heartland =
04. Love at First Bite =
05. The Rose
06. Dracula (Badham)
07. Norma Rae
08. The Muppet Movie
09. Being There
10. Alien
11. Kramer vs Kramer
12. The China Syndrome
13. The Great Train Robbery
14. The Lion. The Witch and the Wardrobe ,&
15. Escape From Alcatraz


(Illustration idea shamelessly stolen from Woodchipper)

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(Illustration idea shamelessly stolen from Woodchipper)

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Yours are much better than mine, well done old sport!

Keep the change, ya filthy animal!

Will everyone's ballot count in the final results or will you use OldAle's method?

I'm not going to exclude your ballot, if that's what you mean.


I'll be waiting, with a gun and a pack of sandwiches.

Alphabetically:

Alien (Scott)
Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
The Black Stallion (Ballard)
Breaking Away (Yates)
The China Syndrome (Bridges)
The Crying Woman (Doillon)
Drugstore Romance (Vecchiali)
The Herd (Okten)
Hunter in the Dark (Gosha)
The Intruder (Christensen)
Last Embrace (Demme)
Mad Max (Miller)
Manhattan (Allen)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Fassbinder)
Norma Rae (Ritt)
Saint Jack (Bogdanovich)
Star Trek (Wise)
10 (Edwards)
Time After Time (Meyer)
Vengeance Is Mine (Imamura)

Hello flaiky, how's things?

Les bons débarras (1980)
out of the question right?

Thanks in advance'

Nunca comboio, sempre trem - jd
Nothing is 'universally acclaimed' OldAle1

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- You must use IMDb dates. Only titles listed as 1979 on this site can be included; it's far easier for consistency.

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anyway ;)

1. A Force of One (1979)

unranked

Magyar rapszódia (1979)
Tema (1979)
La nuit claire (1979)
I comme Icare (1979)

Ajándék ez a nap (1979)
Rosszemberek (1979)
New Old (1979)
A kis Valentinó (1979)
Vavilon XX (1979)

Harpya (1979)
Refleksy (1979)
Los sobrevivientes (1979)
Osenniy marafon (1979)
Kummatty (1979)

Allegro barbaro (1979)
Verzió (1979)
and justice for all. (1979)
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979)
Cristo si è fermato a Eboli (1979)


Nunca comboio, sempre trem - jd
Nothing is 'universally acclaimed' OldAle1

I'm really not sure how to do points for this, sorry, is it okay to take the whole thing as unranked?


I'll be waiting, with a gun and a pack of sandwiches.

of course, unranked ;)

Nunca comboio, sempre trem - jd
Nothing is 'universally acclaimed' OldAle1

flaiky, if it helps, I think that such a ballot would see 20 points assigned to the top film and the remaining points would come to 190 (19+18+17+16+15+14+13+12+11+10+9+8+7+6+5+4+3+2+1). That 190 would then be shared evenly between the unranked films and each one of those would receive 10 points.

That's all, folks!

Sure, that works, thanks.


I'll be waiting, with a gun and a pack of sandwiches.

I want to subtract Chuck Norris

Hey, I previewed Makino Takashi. Looks interesting. Thanks!

ahah Chuck Norris doesn't like this post

what I've seen from Makino so far, it's ''fascinating and transcendent''

Nunca comboio, sempre trem - jd
Nothing is 'universally acclaimed' OldAle1

My list:

1. All That Jazz (Bob Fosse)
2. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
3. Life of Brian (Terry Jones)
4. Alien (Ridley Scott)
5. Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog)
6. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
7. The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
8. Manhattan (Woody Allen)
9. Vengeance is Mine (Shohei Imamura)
10. Being There (Hal Ashby)

11. Tale of Tales (Yuriy Norshteyn)
12. Wise Blood (John Huston)
13. Tess (Roman Polanski)
14. The Muppet Movie (James Frawley)
15. Norma Rae (Martin Ritt)
16. The China Syndrome (James Bridges)
17. The Tin Drum (Volker Schlöndorff)
18. Mad Max (George Miller)
19. Breaking Away (Peter Yates)
20. Woyzeck (Werner Herzog)


I'll be waiting, with a gun and a pack of sandwiches.

1. Kong shan ling yu (1979) Raining In The Mountain (King Hu)
2. Breaking Away (1979) (Peter Yates)
3. Amator (1979) Camera Buff (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
4. The Plumber (1979) (Peter Weir)
5. *beep* suru wa ware ni ari (1979) Vengeance is Mine (Shohei Imamura)
6. Mad Max (1979) George Miller
7. Buffet froid (1979) (Bertrand Blier)
8. The Warriors (1979) (Walter Hill)
9. The Odd Angry Shot (1979) (Tom Jeffrey)
10. Hardcore (1979) (Paul Schrader)
11. The Last of the Knucklemen (1979) (Tim Burstall)
12. Pyat vecherov (1979) Five Evenings (Nikita Mikhalkov)
13. My Brilliant Career (1979) (Gillian Armstrong)
14. Alien (1979) (Ridley Scott)
15. Apocalypse Now (1979) (Francis Ford Coppola)
16. Life of Brian (1979) (Terry Jones)
17. Moonraker (1979) (Lewis Gilbert)
18. Caligola (1979) Caligula (Tinto Brass)
19. Scum (1979) (Alan Clarke)
20. Wise Blood (1979) (Jhon (sic) Huston)