You Think We’re in Ohio Yet? Road Movie Nominating/Voting Thread - VOTING CLOSES MIDNIGHT, MAY 15th

Excellent. May rewatch Scarecrow myself.

Wow, so Wanda is truly a great film. Very beautiful pacing, and I found Loden's performance really moving.

Love the non-ending.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-76PV0XanjUA/U0Rn96uZcpI/AAAAAAAAAnI/F3T5ahqqQt0/s1600/Wanda+9.png

First two ballots shared five films, one which I would have said looks like a cheesy '90s American film that I guess is much better than that--just ordered it off of Amazon.

I'm gonna be trying to squeeze in a film a day until the due date, but I'm not sure if I'll get to 25. How do I structure the points if I want to submit a ballot of, say, 20?

That's 80% of 200, so 160 points? But if you want to split up the full 200, no big deal.

As pointed out above, TCM tonight:

8:00 PM – The Sugarland Express (1974)
An ex-convict springs her husband from prison to keep their child from being adopted

11:45 PM – Scarecrow (1973)
Two hitchhikers with wildly different backgrounds become fast friends.

(Doesn't appear to be a road movie, but it's actually the film between those two I want to watch, Jerry Schatzberg's Sweet Revenge. Came out in '76--never even heard of it, to my surprise.)

Typically conked out--I'm basically the "I'm tired, I'm tired" Cuckoo's Nest guy these days. I watched about the first third of Sugarland Express, took a break before Sweet Revenge, fell asleep and missed the beginning, didn't even try to last for Scarecrow. Loved this one shot in Sugarland Express:

http://cdn1-www.comingsoon.net/assets/uploads/1970/01/file_571671_sugarland-express-movie-club-old-couple-1142012-235502.jpg

Yes, the real purpose of this post is as a reminder: need ballots!

Voted!

Great. That's five, including me--still hoping for 20.

The road, it's a lonely place.

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I'm out of deadline hell, so I'll put my ballot together this morning.

Wow @ Smokey and the Bandit not being on the nominations list.

All write-ins count, so don't hesitate to vote for it.

The road, it's a lonely place.

I watched six that were new to me before I voted. Had plans for more, but I ran out of gas. :)

Wow @ Smokey and the Bandit not being on the nominations list.

Yeah, I found it kind of hard to think of things that would qualify. I'd often have them filed away as something else in my head.

25 seems like a lot considering it's a somewhat short nomination list. Also, is there a reason for including Fitzcarraldo but not Aguirre?

The reason is that you have not yet written 'Aguirre' on your ballot.

I think only because I mentioned the former and not the latter. Actually, I think Aguirre fits the remit better, and I was half-joking at my stretching of the definition of road movie.

Also, remember: All write-ins count, so don't hesitate to vote for it.

There are a couple more things I want to watch before my ballot gets sent in, but I have most of the rest sorted. Am currently struggling with the maths to make mine staggered in points the way I want them, though.

Added Aguirre, also a write-in vote that makes sense to me: No Country for Old Men.

Llewelyn: "Are we in a road movie right now?"
Anton: "Not in the sense that you mean."

Voted.

Thanks for the ballots so far--now up to...eight. I guess I'll keep the window open through the weekend. Short of 20, I don't know if it's worth tabulating everything. Just jot down 20 or 25 films; don't fuss over the order. You can't see everything--go for what you know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN2i5G03P2c

I do kinda wanna vote for this but yeah compiling a film ballot takes me a lot longer than a songs ballot, for reasons that I would think are obvious

has this been nominated yet?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment_(2015_film)

Shakey, the nominations were in the previous thread and there's a link to the noms at the top. You don't have to start from scratch to put a ballot together.

I completely forgot about Entertainment -- I probably would have voted for it if I'd remembered.

I know I don't have to start from scratch, but it takes time to watch movies, and one of the things I like about these polls is discovering stuff. If I just vote for things I've already seen/have already been nominated it feels less worth it.

but I suppose if the preference is just for thrown together ballots sure I can do that to

too!

Ah, if you can keep it open over the weekend that would be great for me.

I feel like there's gotta be some great horror movies that qualify here but I'm blanking ("The Hitcher" is not really great imo)

working on pulling together a ballot, thanks for the extension. trying to watch some new stuff. watched Holy Motors (good, though left with a couple images I'd rather not keep) last night and started Detour (fair noir).

xp Never seen it but doesn't 'Jeepers Creepers' happen on a road trip,

Messidor is up on youtube and is good if people are interested.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre's kind of a road film, come to think of it.

YellowBrickRoad involves a road:

http://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/04/at-the-end-of-the-path-a-review-of-yellowbrickroad/

Enjoyed it when I saw it, sound design was very well done.

Yeah, I only ended up watching six films for this. Two of them made it into the bottom half of my list. The rest are just favorites that happen also to be road movies, mostly.

is fury road a road movie

^ I was just going to ask how come no-one listed any of the Mad Max/Road Warrior films. First thing I thought of.

Nevermind, I do see The Road Warrior listed. Didn't check the The's.

Wolf Creek maybe?

re: road horror: Carnival of Souls def on my ballot. Stopped at the current incarnation of the Saltair pier on a family road trip last year.

Oh, good shout!

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I'll do my best to get something in to you by the end of the weekend. I love the idea of this poll and really wanna participate, but this week has turned out to be a shitshow in both expected and unexpected ways.

You know what'll clear your head? Get in the car and drive.

There are ten things I want to vote for but 25 is just too much. Will sit this one out.

No problem at all with a ballot of 10--take 100 points and split them up.

Because I suck so bad at math, I have to ask: how would I split up the points for a ballot of 15?

I've had a couple of 20 films/200-point ballots...For 15 films, I'd say 150?

If a 25-film ballot gets 200 points, a 15-film ballot (60% of 25) should get 60% of the points, or 120. Sorry not sorry to be a pedant, but it's worth doing the math to make sure that short ballots aren't disproportionately weighted.

Fair enough. I'll do 120 pts.

So 8 points per film in your list? Is there a maximum votes per film in a list? Like, could someone list 10 films, give 71 pts to one and 1 point each to the other 9? I thought I saw a 20-pt max per film early in the thread, though that may have just been an example.

Ok, I see 40 points max in the original post.