Our sixteenth round of voting is here. The latest round of tentative and eliminated titles follows.
The new tentative titles are:
- Dark Future (1995)
- Last Night (1998)
- Mr. Nobody (2009)
- Stalker (1979)
The newly eliminated titles are:
- Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
- Back to the Future Part II (1989)
- Dark Star (1974)
- Dreamscape (1984)
- Eraserhead (1977)
- The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
- K-PAX (2001)
- Mars Attacks! (1996)
- Planet Terror (2007)
- Return of the Living Dead (1985)
- Rollerball (1975)
- Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
Write in votes for movies not on the master list are accepted at [email protected] and will be up to and including week 24.
They eliminated Rollerball (1975)?!? I’m wondering if someone got it confused with the remake, because the original is a classic.
Confusion may be a factor. I’d hoped that including the years would eliminate that, but given the sheer number of votes for the 1936 Flash Gordon serial, I suspect some voters ignore the years. The 1980 Flash Gordon film is still to come.
When the tournament is over, I’ll release the results of the voting. There are a lot of suprises here that could make things very, very interesting down the road.
See, I wouldn’t include it among greatest titles, and I suspect other Bureau-cats felt the same. I enjoyed Gilliam’s take on Munchausen, but it’s uneven and overly long, and I have a fondness for Return of the Living Dead (Have we ever reviewed that here?), but I would never rank it “above average.”
Incidentally, Robot and Frank (2012) is not only going to get a second shot at votes in week 24 (with the other 2012 releases) but it comes out on DVD this coming Tuesday, February 12.
How exactly does Howard the Duck get on a list of any “best” movies.
That was my gut reaction. (It came from a list that has a lot of weird entries.) It does, however, have multiple “Above Average” votes at this point. They’re the minority, but they’re there.
It’s been a long time, but I remember enjoying Howard the Duck. Maybe it’s because I never read the comic.