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One of the strangest things about this countdown, and it may be due entirely to how recent the films are, is even with the Top Ten there is no real, true, clear, overwhelming consensus. We are on the doorstep of the Top Five and the point totals are still in the 200s. The MoFo Top 100 of the 1970s List had 99 ballots to this countdown's 98. The only two decade lists that have almost crested a hundred total participants. On that 1970s list the 200 point threshold was hit at movie #39 (Solaris). On this list it was #23 (Inception) and #6 (The Social Network) is at 296 on only eighteen lists. The 1970s countdown hit the 300 point totals at movie #21 (Aguirre, the Wrath of God). It jumped from 381 points at #14 (Close Encounters of the Third Kind) to 444 points at #13 (Monty Python and the Holy Grail). #12 was another huge jump to 540 points for The Exorcist and 542 for #11 Rocky. The Top Ten was simply another level of voting. #10's The Godfather Part II had 728 points, it was on 46 of the 99 lists. And the runaway #1 of The Godfather 1,213 points. It was on 66 ballots, 50 of which had it somewhere in their Top Ten. This is the exact same scoring/voting system.
We may not even hit 400 points at this rate.
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"Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream it takes over as the number one hormone. It bosses the enzymes, directs the pineal gland, plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to Film is more Film." - Frank Capra
Last edited by Holden Pike; 02-07-23 at 03:12 PM.