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1980 Film Poll - Final Round
Top two films advance to the 1980's Tournament

The Empire Strikes Back
The Blues Brothers
The Shining
Airplane!


ballpark_frank,
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1980 Film Poll - Final Round

The Empire Strikes Back held on to finish first, closely followed by The Blues Brothers in second.
Both advance to the 1980's Tournament


(my apologies for being 'late' in posting this - stayed up too late, woke up too late - LOL).

The Blues Brothers - 1980

AE4WX,
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@ballpark_frank I mean. How do you choose?

AE4WX,
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@ballpark_frank True story: the kid down the street from me almost got the part of Danny in The Shining.

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@AE4WX
Whoa... that's Cool ... !!! (and too bad he didn't get it)...

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@AE4WX
That's the advantage of running these polls - I can't choose - LOL
This is where I can sense the heart-strings being pulled ... Example, I love Empire - BUT, Airplane! is just such FUN... BUT Blues Brothers has so many great scenes... BUT ... The Shining has Jack N. at his eerie-est ...

AE4WX,
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@ballpark_frank exactly. Cultural cornerstones of the Gen X experience, each one.

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@AE4WX
Plus - quite often, such films aren't 'competing' against each other - the different genres tend to have their core fans, then the general public. Seldom is Empire matched up against a horror film, Shining vs. Comedy, Comedy v. Sci-fi, etc...
That's another thing I have fun with in these polls - when people who hadn't considered such things before suddenly come face-to-face with such decisions ... (plus it gives me a bit of morbid pleasure - chuckle)...

AE4WX,
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@ballpark_frank you know, the funny part is I've only seen 6 of your original list. Where was I?

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@AE4WX
And, that's yet another thing I love about doing these polls - many times people haven't seen (and in some cases - like the 'Mill Creek' specials) haven't even heard of before. Occasionally that spurs them to check out something they've been missing all these years.

AE4WX,
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@ballpark_frank as it is doing for me!

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@AE4WX
And, if you're curious, here's a sneak peak at the 1981 poll match-ups:

AE4WX,
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@ballpark_frank Great choices!!!!

You know, it's so horribly dated now, but for a 10 year old For Your Eyes Only was amazing

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@AE4WX
Though I was apprehensive about how 'glastnost' (sp?) would affect the Bond franchise, I like how this film played it - especially the ending scene on the cliff. Gen. (or whatever rank) Gogol is one of my favorite supporting characters during that era of the franchise.

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Oh, there are tons of films which are highly spoken of by people which I still haven't seen yet. I slowly try to fill in gaps as people mention <such and such>. Fast Times at Ridgemont High, etc...
So, at times I'm in that same boat. Quite often, it's simply I am reminded of one, but then totally forget about it (being distract by squirrels, shiny objects, etc.).

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@ballpark_frank This is close!

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@ballpark_frank I said it'd be close!!

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@BackFromTheDud
For a while, The Shining and Airplane! were hanging in there as well... 👍

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@ballpark_frank airplane being so low is quite a shock, but then again it hasn't really aged as well as the other 2.

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@ballpark_frank (I say 2 because they're set in a contemporary setting, as opposed to RotJ).

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@BackFromTheDud
Was sort of wondering, there. 😎

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