Network might just be the best movie I’ve ever seen. If you haven’t seen it yet, I recommend you do! And if you have seen it, I can heartily recommend Dave Itzkoff’s 2014 book Mad as Hell: The Making of Network and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies.
I guess I knew there was going to be two polls because I had already seen the broken polls @John_DiFool posted before voting in @puzzlegal’s fixed polls.
I was 13 in 1976 and my parents were going through a divorce. I saw every movie that year. The four or five I didn’t check must not have made it to Orange County, CA.
We really liked that film back then.
But when i watched it recently, the ending made me go “What? They have no skills, no food, nothing, they are all gonna die, horribly”.
When I was 11, I read the novelization of The Omen during a beach holiday, and it included a few (black and white) photos, so I feel like I’ve seen the film, but I haven’t. It’s on the current list of “let’s maybe watch this soon” for my household (me, wife, teen kid).
This threw me off. Am I supposed to choose both?
Thanks are in order to @Puzzlegal; I honestly don’t know wtf happened there, never even knew FORCED choice was even an option, just cranked what I thought were the allowed votes up to N-2 just like I always have done.
I was going off of this list from Motor Trend, where they mentioned “American Motors Corporation” at the top, but in the list they called it “American Motors”, so I assumed they were two different companies.
Surprises: No Lexus, Hummers (we are mostly enviros here natch I’d imagine), Genesis, or Scion (I see those latter two all the time, at least in Florida if not Ohio).
I assume in @Little_Nemo 's poll that “Cannonball” = “The Cannonball Run”.
There are two numbers, max and min. You edited the wrong one. Easy error to make. Copying your polls and editing those two numbers was very easy.
Mucho thanks in any event. ![]()
If so, count me as one more vote for that timeless ouvre.
Actually, no, it’s a completely different movie, though based on the same topic: the real-life Cannonball Baker coast-to-coast race.
“Cannonball” came out in 1976 (as did all of the movies in that poll), and starred David Carradine, Victoria Hamel, and Robert Carradine. It was apparently a low-budget, small-studio movie.
FWIW, another movie in that poll, “The Gumball Rally”, was also about that race.
“The Cannonball Run” – the more famous one – came out in 1981, and starred Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Farrah Fawcett, and a ton of other stars.
Sorry…Veronica Hamel. ![]()
Kenobi’s right.
The only thing I’d add is that was there was another movie in the genre, Deathrace 2000, which had been released in 1975. It was directed by Paul Bartel and starred David Carradine, who would team up again for Cannonball a year later. It also featured Sylvester Stallone, right before his breakout role in Rocky.
Carradine was one of the kings of the B-movies – particularly the action movies – in the '70s.
I assumed that the poll was asking about the civilian version. I’ve driven a HMMWV many times. I also never owned a Chevrolet but I drove a CUCV many times.
It kind of surprised me how many different brands I had to click. Many because of what various long term partners had. I was able to vote for BMW because I had a 730. Not that impressive when you know it was passed down through many GIs and had huge rust holes. It ran good until something went in the heating system. Sold it for $500.
Ditto, except that in my case it was one of Dan Gallery’s books, when I was in my teens.
A red VW Cabroilet was much easier to find.
The same with my red Subaru wagon. We replaced it with a Hyundai that vanished in the hordes of other silver-grey sedans; standard plates, as we decided the extra charge for submarine plates, but I put submarine dolphin stickers on both ends of both bumpers to make it easier to find.
I don’t remember whether I’ve ever used Mercurochrome.
Sometimes we had Mercurochrome, sometimes we had Merthiolate.
The only other mark on it is a Ukranian tryzub in black and white.
I would have thought that was an anchor.
I was in junior high when I was introduced to Ray Rayner and Garfield Goose (having just moved in from out of state), and high school when Sesame Street came out. When I was a kid my favourite show was a local show called Chuck’s Alley (later changed to Al E Khatt and the Mayor), but I didn’t get to watch it often because it was on at the same time as Mickey Mouse Club and my sister was bigger than I was.
More surprises for those makes which did get votes: Mercedes 2%, Mini 2%, & Tesla 2% (given the several long threads on them here and the enviro contingent as I indicated earlier).
I’d guess that the subset of posters who answer the polls aren’t completely representative.
I would have thought that was an anchor.
It’s a trident.
Surprises: No Lexus, Hummers (we are mostly enviros here natch I’d imagine), Genesis, or Scion
Genesis is a newer brand, and IIRC Scion has come and gone, not to mention most people would just say Toyota.