PF's favorite movies poll - nominations

[DennisN]

The polls are finally open!
Here they are:

• Poll 1 (Drama, Thriller & Action)
• Poll 2 (Science Fiction, Fantasy, Comedy & Western)

 

[DaveC426913]

While I don't wish to discourage your efforts, I'm wondering what another poll is intended to accomplish beyond what we've already done.

We've picked our favorite movies. If you produce another poll that asks us to pick only from those films, what new information will we get? I guess we'll get our order of preference for our top ten? (And I'm not sure how that'll be accomplished if you're using a PF poll - they're pretty limited. So I conclude you'll be using an external polling tool.)

I'm happy to participate; I just don't know what I'm doing.

[ UPDATE ] Case-in-point: as I mentioned, there's only two movies in the first poll that I would put in my top 40. So I only cast 2 votes.

 

[DennisN]

We've picked our favorite movies. If you produce another poll that asks us to pick only from those films, what new information will we get? I guess we'll get our order of preference for our top ten? (And I'm not sure how that'll be accomplished if you're using a PF poll - they're pretty limited. So I conclude you'll be using an external polling tool.)

I'm happy to participate; I just don't know what I'm doing.

My idea was to get a number of nominated movies from those who want to nominate (this thread), and then let anyone on the forum vote on the top nominated movies (the two polls).

 

[fresh_42]

While I don't wish to discourage your efforts, I'm wondering what another poll is intended to accomplish beyond what we've already done.

Poll is fun!

 

[epenguin]

While I don't wish to discourage your efforts, I'm wondering what another poll is intended to accomplish beyond what we've already done.

I'm happy to participate; I just don't know what I'm doing.

Well it would not be the first time someone did an experiment and afterwards realized that a different design would have given more information. Which I did... kind of... suggest at the start.

A main benefit has been it enabled people to mention things worthy of being better known, as for example #73, 74 (quote function not working).
Ah yes, Cyrano!

José Ferrar was a talent we didn't see enough of. Hollywood gave him a hard time, if I remember right. The Shrike was memorable and tragic. Candidate for the list. Though many years since saw, can never forget his Cyrano

Who, Is, That, Man?

Never achieved the same effect when I said it. In a small circle of my friends phrases from Cyrano achieved catchword status. Like a small ache or pain would be bravely passed off as "Nothing, nothing. Just my old wound from Arras." When outnumbered in my polemics on other forums I may still fall back on

You there---Who are you? A hundred against one---
I know them now, my ancient enemies---
Falsehood!...There! There! Prejudice---Compromise---Cowardice---
What's that? No! Surrender? No!

Heroic. But enough of me! Cyrano gives me the occasion to let you know of the IMHO best comics to emerge in Italy in the last 20 years, a trio called Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo, who in the first clip below are rehearsing Cyrano, but something comes up. One of these guys is twice as intelligent as the other two. However the latter often steal the smart one's girlfriend. Without intention or special effort, it just happens. In the scene such an event is coming to light. Oh, just a kiss, nothing more. That's his story anyway. But then, to hear Cyrano, a kiss is not just a kiss.

“And what is a kiss, specifically? A pledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned to taste, a vow stamped with the immediacy of a lip, a rosy circle drawn around the verb 'to love.' A kiss is a message too intimate for the ear, infinity captured in the bee's brief visit to a flower, secular communication with an aftertaste of heaven, the pulse rising from the heart to utter its name on a lover's lip: 'Forever.”

You don't have to understand the words to get the gist, and what I am particularly drawing to your attention is the way that all three of the trio combine .



You should also not miss this. They have moved on a bit, Giacomo .is still apologising and excusing himself while Gianni is saying OK don't talk about it any more, and then...

 

[cobalt124]

Curses, missed the nominations, will look at the voting threads.

 

[DaveC426913]

Curses, missed the nominations

That's all right. We got all the good ones.

 

[DennisN]

By the way, here is an alphabetical list of all 221 nominated movies:
(so you know what to watch next time you go to the cinema, VHS store, laserdisc store, DVD store, Bluray store or Netflix)

• 12 Angry men
• 2001
• 2010
• A Christmas Story
• A Clockwork Orange
• A Passage to India
• A Streetcar Named Desire, A
• A Taxing Woman (1987)
• Aaah! Zombies! (Also known as "Wasting Away")
• Alexander Nevsky
• Alien
• Aliens
• All Quiet on the Western Front
• All the King's Men
• Almost Famous (2000)
• Amadeus (1984)
• American Beauty
• American Graffiti 1973
• Apocalypse, Now
• Avengers: Ragnarok
• Babes in Toyland
• Back to the Future
• Back to the Future 2
• Back to the Future 3
• Beat the Devil (1954)
• Being There, 1979
• Better Off Dead
• Bicycle Thieves
• Blade Runner
• Brazil
• Brazil, 1985
• Bull Durham (1988)
• Bulletproof Monk
• Bullitt
• Casablanca
• Cat on a hot tin roof
• Citizen Cane
• Cleo From 5 to 7
• Contact
• Cool hand Luke
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
• Décalage horaire
• Deja Vu
• Die Hard
• Dirty Harry
• Dirty Harry 2
• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1998)
• Divorce Italian Style 1962
• Dogma, 1999
• Dr. Strangelove, 1964
• Dr. Zhivago, 1965
• Dracula 1931
• Empire of the Sun
• Eyes Wide Shut
• Fargo, 1996
• First Men in the Moon, 1964
• Floating Weeds
• For a Fistful of Dollars
• For Few Dollars More
• Freddie Got Fingered (Actually, this one is tied with "The Wraith")
• Friday the 13th Part 2
• From Here to Eternity
• Full Metal Jacket
• Goodfellas
• Grumpier Old Men
• Guns of Navarone
• Hallelujah Trail
• Hamlet (1948 Olivier)
• Harold and Maude
• Hatari
• Highlander
• Idiocracy, 2006
• Ikiru
• In The Heat Of The Night
• It could happen to you
• Jaws
• Jean de Florette
• Jules and Jim
• Jurassic Park
• Key Largo
• Kill Bill Vol. I
• Kill Bill Vol. II
• Kim
• Kingdom of Heaven
• Krull
• Kung Pow! Enter the Fist
• La Dolce Vita
• La Grande Illusion
• La Règle du Jeu
• La Strada
• Ladyhawke (1985)
• Last Man Standing (Willis)
• Le Caporal Épinglé
• Le Comte de Monte Cristo (Depardieu)
• Les Diaboliques
• Les Miserables (not the Liam Neeson version)
• Les rivières pourpres
• Life Of Brian
• Love, Actually
• M*A*S*H* 1970
• Matewan
• Men in Black, 1997
• Metropolis
• Men in Black II.
• Midnight Cowboy
• Million Dollar Baby
• Mindwalk, 1990
• Mister Roberts
• Moby Dick (G. Peck, not Patrick Stewart)
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• My Man Godfrey
• North by Northwest
• Nosferatu (1922) (never surpassed nor equalled in its genre IMO)
• Oceans 11 (remake Brad Pitt)
• Oh Brother Where Art Thou
• On the water front
• Papillon
• Paranormal Activity
• Personal Best (1986)
• Phenomen
• Polyester
• Pulp Fiction
• R.E.D.
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Ran (Lear)
• Red Beard (Kurosawa)
• Reservoir Dogs
• Robocop
• Rome, Open City
• Sanjuro
• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
• Seven (7)
• Seven Samurai
• Shakespeare in Love (1998)
• Shane (1948)
• Shindler's List
• Shrek (2001)
• Shutter Island (2010)
• Singin' in the Rain
• Smiles of a Summer's Night
• Some Like It Hot
• Source Code (2011)
• Stagecoach
• Star Trek IV – The Voyage Home (1986)
• Star Wars (Episode IV -- A New Hope)
• Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
• Stop Making Sense
• Sunset Boulevard
• Support Your Local Gunfighter
• Support Your Local Sheriff
• Terminator
• Terminator 2
• The African Queen 1951
• The Age of Adaline (2015)
• The apartment
• The birds
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• The Crimson Pirate 1952
• The Dark Crystal
• The day after tomorrow
• The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
• The Eiger Sanction
• The Evil Dead
• The Exorcist
• The Fellowship of the Ring
• The Fifth Element, 1997
• The Forbidden Planet
• The Godfather
• The Good the Bad and the Ugly
• The Goodbye Girl (1977)
• The Graduate 1967
• The Grapes of Wrath, 1940
• The Great Escape
• The Horses Mouth (1959)
• The Illusionist (2006)
• The Imitation Game (2014)
• The Jungle Book (Disney, 1967)
• The Lake House
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
• The Lion in Winter (1958)
• The Maltese Falcon (1931)
• The Man who Wasn't There
• The Master of Tea
• The Music Man
• The Omen
• The People Under the Stairs
• The Princess Bride
• The Remains of the Day
• The Return of the King 2003 (Lord of the Rings)
• The Right Stuff (1983)
• The rock
• The Running Jumping Standing Still Film
• The Searchers
• The Shining
• The Silence Of The Lambs (1991)
• The Sting 1973
• The Thief of Baghdad (1940)
• The Thing
• The Third Man
• Third Man, The
• The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
• The Time Traveler’s Wife (2009)
• The Truman Show (1998)
• The Untouchables (1987)
• The Wizard of Oz
• Thelma and Louise
• Throne of Blood (Macbeth)
• To Have and Have Not
• To Kill a Mockingbird, 1962
• Tootsie 1982
• Tora, Tora, Tora!
• Total Recall (Original)
• Trainspotting
• Twelve Monkeys
• Wasabi
• Werner - Beinhart!
• When Harry Met Sally (1989)
• When Worlds Collide
• Withnail and I
• Woodstock (original theater release)
• Yojimbo (The Bodyguard)
• Young Frankenstein

 

[Bystander]

We got all the good ones.

..., plus or minus a couple hundred.

 

[fresh_42]

..., plus or minus a couple hundred.

... which spread over many more categories.

 

[DaveC426913]

..., plus or minus a couple hundred.

Pshaw. Any that aren't in post #8 were just included as a formality.

 

[cobalt124]

That's all right. We got all the good ones.

And missed a lot of good ones, and I still had difficulty picking 5 from the two categories.

 

[DennisN]

And missed a lot of good ones, and I still had difficulty picking 5 from the two categories.

This is how I reacted when I read your post :