1978: Movies Sorted By Tier

Submitted by stooky on Fri, 06/25/2004 - 11:32
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  • Days Of Heaven
  • The Deer Hunter
  • Halloween
  • Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
  • Superman: The Movie
  • Who’ll Stop The Rain

  • Very Good

  • La Cage Aux Folles
  • The Driver
  • Foul Play
  • Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
  • **I have always read that Bertrand Blier was a film-maker with a knack for making shocking, nasty films that are incredibly entertaining. Well this one didn't disappoint. With such topics as adultery, menage et trois and pedophelia firmly embraced as light entertainment this one could curl an prude's hair. Luckily I'm a pretty hip psuedo-old guy so it all seemed fun and pretty darn entertaining. I wish I was a 13 year old genius porking a really hot babe. dude.
  • Go Tell The Spartans
  • Interiors
  • The Last Waltz
  • Martin
  • Midnight Express
  • Watership Down

  • Good

  • The Buddy Holly Story
  • Coma
  • Coming Home
  • Death On The Nile
  • Grease
  • House Calls
  • Inferno
  • The Rutles
  • Straight Time

  • Guilty Pleasures

  • The Cat From Outer Space
  • Hooper

  • Average

  • The Big Fix
  • The Boys From Brazil
  • California Suite
  • Fingers
  • Hot Lead And Cold Feet
  • Magic
  • Pretty Baby
  • Stevie
  • The Wild Geese
  • Winds Of Change

  • Dissapointing

  • The Betsy
  • Capricorn One
  • Drunken Master
  • Force 10 From Navarone
  • The Fury
  • Heaven Can Wait
  • The Little Mermaid
  • The Lord Of The Rings
  • Revenge Of The Pink Panther
  • The Shout
  • A Wedding

  • Cellar Dwellers

  • Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes
  • Barracuda
  • The Bees
  • The Chosen
  • Damien: The Omen 2
  • The Evil
  • The Executioner
  • The Manitou
  • The Master Of The Flying Guillotine
  • **Outrageously silly and completely awful kung fu film at which I grimaced, as if hit by the dorky One Arm Kung Fu master, in much pain and mental fatigue; much of the story centres around The Master Of vs. One Arm Guy and their terrible fight scenes, which would be the low point of the film if it weren’t for dubious dubbing that fades in and out of the original language (with subtitles) for no apparent reason. Bulging with the worst kind of chop-socky, mostly of the I punched two feet away from you now react variety not to mention numerous cheesy death including the flying guillotine which looks like a mosquito net for your head (except it decapitates you), the film haphazardly thrusts a kung-fu foot forward and creates awful characterizations to boot. Brazen silliness of this kind would be one thing if the film weren’t so intent on being serious (and what’s with the magnificently boring lead actor), I kept saying under my breath “Please, bring back Bloodsport”, an outburst of which only the most serious pain could elicit. About halfway through stupefaction gave way to sheer boredom and I fell asleep 4 times while watching the end. Yet the climax of grimacing pain came when One Arm Kung Fooey, in an attempt to show his students the way of “light breathing” (perhaps he meant light headedness), marches up the wall and walks across the ceiling then down the other wall. “Bad” or “Awful” cannot sum up what this film is; I would rather call it “Gigantic heaving brain fart” and be done with it.
  • Piranha
  • The Pirate
  • Sasquatch
  • The Tiger’s Claw

  • The Big Stink

  • Jaws 2
  • Manitou
  • The Wiz

  • Unfortunately Haven’t Seen

  • Blue Collar
  • The Chant Of Jimmy Blacksmith
  • Eraserhead
  • Gates Of Heaven
  • In A Year With 13 Moons
  • Movie Movie
  • A Slave Of Love
  • An Unmarried Woman
  • Woyzeck
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1979: Movies Sorted By Tier
bertie07/15/2004

Ah! thanks for reminding me of Who'll Stop the Rain, an unjustly neglected actioner. Good one, stooky!

stooky07/15/2004

Thanks. I have no idea why that film doesn't get enough respect. Nick Nolte is amazing (that's a shocker) and sexy too (that's an even bigger shocker). The rest of the cast is fab (including Michael Moriarty <--another big shocker) and it's got that sleezy 70's actioner vibe that I love.

One of a kind, almost got my vote for best movie. It got usurped because I watched "The Deer Hunter" when I was 15 and it blew my little young, impressionable boy mind.

Tallyho

:?)

professor11/30/2004

Magic and Heaven Can Wait are amongst my favourites ! Never mind.

stooky11/30/2004

I might have enjoyed them better had on not seen their counterparts Dead Of Night & Here Comes Mr. Jordan before-hand. I watched them wishing I was watching their earlier incantations, if you get my drift. Warren Beatty...Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

T'ho

:?)

jim11/30/2004

Ooof! Very funny Master of the Flying Guillotine review, even if I feel guilty for having inflicted it upon you. I really wasn't trying to screw you! I thought, given your taste for the outlandish and love for The Bride with White Hair (I remain a bit befuddled at how one can love one and hate the other), that this had a legitimate shot. Ah well. I grovel for your forgiveness.

stooky12/01/2004

No big deal, as you pointed out I put it on my list for 1978. I think it comes down to this, Bride with White Hair was a melodramatic, epic tale of doomed love and Master was a really silly movie. :?)

T'ho

:?)

192210/22/2005

I don't know how to feel about Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings -adaptation. I mean, is it split up into two parts? What I have seen of it, didn't come to a real end. It stopped after the battle of Helm's Deep... Maybe you can tell me more...

0dysseus10/22/2005

I heard that he (they?) ran out of money and the whole thing grinds to a hault. Lucky for us.

If you must know how it ends seek medical attention immediately. Or you can watch the Rankin/Bass version of The Return of the King and just hope that the paramedics get to you in time.

The answer is: You should feel awful.