"My Favourite Film" - ABC TV Aus film poll results

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A very weird/interesting combination, I guess it must reflect their viewing audience.

I submit to ILX for comment, so you film mavens can tear it to shreds!

From here: http://www.abc.net.au/myfavouritefilm/top100.htm

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1-10
1. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
2. Amelie
3. Blade Runner
4. The Shawshank Redemption
5. Donnie Darko
6. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
7. Pulp Fiction
8. The Princess Bride
9. Gone With The Wind
10. Fight Club

11-20
11. The Sound of Music
12. To Kill A Mockingbird
13. 2001: A Space Odyssey
14. Casablanca
15. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
16. American Beauty
17. Doctor Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
18. Monty Python's Life of Brian
19. Lawrence Of Arabia
20. Apocalypse Now

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 5 December 2005 02:30 (twenty years ago)

I have no comment on it really, except to say, weird top 10, but refreshingly not canon, and that this'd piss some people off I like.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 5 December 2005 02:32 (twenty years ago)

i wonder if aunty has ever actually shown any of these films?

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Monday, 5 December 2005 02:36 (twenty years ago)

#100 is Dead Man.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 5 December 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)

omg. we are a bankrupt culture.

― turboalbino (haitch), Monday, 5 December 2005 02:40 (twenty years ago)

We were a culture, now?

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 5 December 2005 02:41 (twenty years ago)

16. American Beauty

why??????

and you CAN'T have three films at #1, that is some fucking sleight-of-hand bullshit right thurr!

― turboalbino (haitch), Monday, 5 December 2005 02:42 (twenty years ago)

REmember too of course, this is a personal favourites poll, not some "best films ever" thing.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 5 December 2005 02:43 (twenty years ago)

LOTR topped the "my fave book" list too, I seem to remember. jesus h.

where is mad max on that list?? that is secretly every australian's real favourite movie. you know it, I know it. clearly ABC viewers prefer to look like lefty ponces or 15-year-olds.

― turboalbino (haitch), Monday, 5 December 2005 02:57 (twenty years ago)

will david and margaret be allowed to go to town on this list? god I hope so.

― turboalbino (haitch), Monday, 5 December 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)

haha

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Monday, 5 December 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

Bah, Margaret is about as savage as a poodle.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 5 December 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)

poodles can get pretty nasty tho

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Monday, 5 December 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)

david: "tonight on at the movies, we discuss how our viewers have devolved to the level of SBS' current 'the movie show' hosts."
margaret: "ha ha ha, oh david you're so cutting!"

― turboalbino (haitch), Monday, 5 December 2005 03:16 (twenty years ago)

OMG *spits drink at monitor laffing*

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 5 December 2005 03:26 (twenty years ago)

I'd excelsior that if I thought more than about 4 of us would get it =)

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 5 December 2005 03:26 (twenty years ago)

For the briefest of moments I thought number one was:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0790731045.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Chinchilla Volapük (Captain Sleep), Monday, 5 December 2005 04:25 (twenty years ago)

god damn fucking bullshit. fucking cuntage lord of the rings nerds totally ruined this which pissed me off because the panel was pretty good and amelie and blade runner were two and three.

also where are the classic australian films like alvin purple and houseboat horror and maslin beach? (i know somebody who acted in maslin beach lol)

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Monday, 5 December 2005 05:03 (twenty years ago)

Houseboat Horror omg! That film is COMEDY GOLD.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 5 December 2005 05:12 (twenty years ago)

esteban how do you rate houseboat horror against the awesome "killer bush pig" horror classic, RAZORBACK?

― turboalbino (haitch), Monday, 5 December 2005 05:34 (twenty years ago)

HOUSEBOAT HORROR WITH KNOCKOUT BRIAN MANNIX SONG HITS every time

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Monday, 5 December 2005 05:42 (twenty years ago)

Ranking the panel :

1. Judith Lucy - Consistently amusing but would get #1 spot for her critical dissection of Amelie alone (basically "I hate it").

2. Siggy - intelligent, reasoned responses derived from an obviously thorough understanding of film.

3. Chris Taylor - mostly interesting/amusing, particularly when it came to putting cricketboy in his place.

4. Roxy - disappointingly dull & pretentious.

5. MacGill - sadly, all those nights alone in hotel rooms have made poor Stu a dull boy.

― filmgeek australis, Monday, 5 December 2005 05:53 (twenty years ago)

where was citizen cane?(it's on Aunty this week) As for Australian movies it's got to be Stone followed closely by Maslin Beach

― aylene madden (Dorca), Monday, 5 December 2005 06:07 (twenty years ago)

15. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

this is the only entry i find really surprising. how has it snuck into a chart like this? should i see it? always sounded pretty meh to me.

also, THE CASTLE!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 5 December 2005 08:11 (twenty years ago)

The Adventures Of Barry fuckin McKenzie

WHERE IS IT?

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 5 December 2005 08:36 (twenty years ago)

or the sequel Barry McKenzie Holds His Own

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Monday, 5 December 2005 09:35 (twenty years ago)

Popcorn Taxi held a screening last week, Crocker and Beresford and Humphries and Gough all turned up

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 5 December 2005 09:47 (twenty years ago)

oh and WAKE IN FRIGHT fules (on next Monday at the Annandale, check it sydneyfux0rs)

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 5 December 2005 09:50 (twenty years ago)

I don't really have any major problems with this list. LOTR, maybe not number one, maybe not at all - but I like almost all of the rest.

(please don't compare me to Megan Spencer or that other pretentious idiot.)

― Mika, Monday, 5 December 2005 09:52 (twenty years ago)

Ok, 'Local Hero' - WTF??

And Serenity I liked ok, but it's a bit early to canonize isn't it?

― Mika, Monday, 5 December 2005 09:54 (twenty years ago)

LOTR in number one isn't very surprising, but even apart from that this is an incredibly geeky list. Half of the top ten is sci-fi/fantasy!

― 31g (31g), Monday, 5 December 2005 10:05 (twenty years ago)

Where's Tim?!? Where's The Cars That Ate Paris?!?!? Where's Muriel's Wedding?!?!?! Shame on you Australia.

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Monday, 5 December 2005 10:14 (twenty years ago)

Well I dont think it was meant to be a very Aussie list.

We have no roots! (haha. I mean. Yeah).

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 5 December 2005 10:29 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000D8UC5.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

THE PASSOIN OF TEH TIM

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Monday, 5 December 2005 10:40 (twenty years ago)

Actually Noodle I think you may be suprised (or not) that homegrown stuff possibly hasn't the cachet here it has overseas. There's this whole embarrasment thing, see.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 5 December 2005 10:43 (twenty years ago)

Nah, I'm just playing. Tim's rofflicious, innit? To be fair though, there's prob'ly been a much higher number of good Aussie flicks made over the last 30 years compared to Brit flicks.

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Monday, 5 December 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

1. PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT (I haven't even thought of that film for years.)

― andy --, Monday, 5 December 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

I see the Shawshank virus has spread to other lands.

― Not Logged In, Man, Monday, 5 December 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

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