Best Film of 1970 (ongoing survey)

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07-18-02, 10:54 PM

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Tora! Tora! Tora!

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07-19-02, 12:27 AM

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Patton

07-19-02, 12:33 AM

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Patton Schmatton - the clear choice is: Little Big Man!!!

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M*A*S*H*
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07-19-02, 11:15 AM

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Patton

07-19-02, 11:20 AM

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Gimme Shelter

07-19-02, 11:45 AM

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Patton

07-19-02, 12:44 PM

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1. Patton
2. Love Story
3. M*A*S*H*

This was hard to vote on. Had to go with Patton.

07-19-02, 04:13 PM

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This was so not a stellar year. As much of an Altman fan as I am, I think MASH is overrated. Brewster McCloud is as good but neither is Best Picture material. Little Big Man pales so much in comparison to the book that I just can't vote for it. That goes even more so for Catch-22.

There's nothing else that's very exciting so my vote goes to Patton by default. It's a very good movie but I would not pick it as Best Picture in almost any other year.

07-19-02, 05:09 PM

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Little Big Man

I guess I should be glad that I never read the book!

07-19-02, 06:46 PM

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Quote:

Originally posted by Damfino
Little Big Man

I guess I should be glad that I never read the book!

You'd be in for a real treat. It is a great book.

I read the book before I saw the movie. I think if you read the book after, it is usually not as harmful, retroactively, to your enjoyment of a movie which is good but doesn't quite do justice to the book.

07-19-02, 10:32 PM

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Beneath the Planet of the Apes

07-20-02, 11:44 AM

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Patton

07-20-02, 07:56 PM

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Love Story hands down.

07-20-02, 09:36 PM

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Even in it's edited form: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

07-21-02, 01:00 AM

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MASH.

i still haven't seen Patton, Five Easy Pieces, or Tora! Tora! Tora!

so... maybe i'll revise this in a year when i finally see those...
but i REALLY loved MASH, so it will be hard to beat!

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07-23-02, 11:30 AM

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Originally posted by LBPound
Are we going to do 2001 soon?

End of August at the earliest... by then I'll have seen Lord of the Rings and In The Bedroom, the two I'm most blatantly missing from my 2001 list

And oh yeah, bump!

07-23-02, 11:56 AM

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Patton. Great movie, and relatively historically accurate.

07-25-02, 11:29 PM

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The Out-of-Towners

I can never change the channel when I find this one on cable.

07-26-02, 03:42 AM

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Patton wins it hands down, but the other votes were very spread out. I'm a little suprised that as we go farther back, the votes are still very much spread out (more so than through a lot of the 80s).

1) Patton (16 votes)
2) Five Easy Pieces / M*A*S*H (4 each)
4) Il Conformista / Little Big Man (3 each)

8 more films got 1 or 2 votes each.

This one's ready to close...