The MoFo Top 100 of the 1970s: Countdown

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Yeah, MoFo's censure is ridiculous.
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Look, I'm not judging you - after all, I'm posting here myself, but maybe, just maybe, if you spent less time here and more time watching films, maybe, and I stress, maybe your taste would be of some value. Just a thought, ya know.



I gotta say I love being on the opposite side of the House love. It makes me feel like my film taste is impeccable.
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Mad Max and Muppets? Both on SC's list. That's all you need to know.
I know, eh? Only thing comparable is if they were both on honeykid's list. Or even worse, what I like to call the perfect mofo countdown storm, if both films were on both of your lists. I think the site would break or something if that happened.

You've all been warned.

Also, think I've seen all but two of the movies so far.
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Oh. Uhm. Yes, I'm here. I can't keep up with this thread. We have twice as many pages as entries, so far, and we can only expect things to ramp up. I'm just too tired after work to read all this. But I'm here, in case you were wondering, and interesting list, so far!!
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Invasion very near made mine as well... if we could pick 30 instead of 25, it'd probably be 26th or 27th.


Walkabout is also a cracking movie. Would have made my list if I could have picked 50.



Speak posh? would that mean the same as the phrase, "speaking the Queen's English"?
Yes. Y'see, the problem is that in many parts of the country, pornouncing words correctly is seen as "posh."
well I was going to say they spoke RP but I didn't know if you'd know what I was on about!

Received Pronunciation - see we even have an accent that isn't supposed to be an accent!
You see.
PG, House 4/10!???? Nonsense.
Absolutely. Never that high.

I don't get on with the 70's version of Bodysnatchers. Walkabout is great, though. It wasn't on my list, but well done for those who did vote for it.
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I wonder what other Roeg films will make the cut. I've never heard of Performance, before just now looking at his filmography, so I'd say that's out. Walkabout, on the other hand, seems more popular than Don't Look Now, so I'm sure that will make it sometime soon.
Yup, we did get at least one more Nic Roeg movie.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers was on nine lists, with three top tens: a third place, a fourth place, and a ninth place vote. Walkabout was on eight lists and had four top tens, including being somebody's number one choice (also sixth, seventh, and eighth place votes).

Deadite actually had this pair on his ballot: Invasion of the Body Snatchers was his ninth choice, and Walkabout his twelfth.

1. Marathon Man
9. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
12. Walkabout
18. Straw Dogs

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Never heard of Walkabout. Snatchers didn't leave much of an impression and I've forgotten most of it.

I wonder if Star Wars will be 65 or 66.



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I really wanted to see both these films but didnt get round to it (still), I reckon i would like both and i thought the original Snatchers was great.

That brings me down to 20/32 seen.
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Not seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but I would probably like it as I have enjoyed whatever else I have seen from the Seventies with Donald Sutherland

Walkabout was 6th on my list, a fantastic film that I have thought about more and more since I first saw it, it has an amazingly hypnotising atmosphere that is created through fantastic imagery, but also a tragic human story about communicating and the barriers of society. Here's what I wrote when I first saw it:



Walkabout
(Nicolas Roeg, 1971)
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My first venture into the work of British director Nicolas Roeg was a very interesting and certainly delightful one. A very odd, unconventional film that some will see as too strange, but I was fascinated by Roeg's beautiful and mysterious film. Definitely one of the most beauitful films that I have ever seen, at times the film reminded me of a French New Wave work in the way that it weaved together images, video and sound, particularly at the beginning and end. The desert is powerful and haunting in its beauty, it's a film I definitely want to visit again, it makes you think, what is Roeg trying to say? Now I have seen Don't Look Now, Ebert's theory of a commentary on communication seems correct.
As of now I'd give it
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Unfortunately this probably means that The Man Who Fell to Earth won't be showing up, unless there are secretly a few fanatics on here that had it really high up on their lists.



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Unfortunately this probably means that The Man Who Fell to Earth won't be showing up, unless there are secretly a few fanatics on here that had it really high up on their lists.[/quote]

Fingers crossed.



The 78' version is certainly my favourite iteration of the "Invasion" story (the less said about the 2007 version the better). Walkabout is very good, it wasn't on my list. Roeg did show up on my list though, but at this point I think it's safe to assume that particular film probably didn't make the cut.