Top 20 Movies of 1970-79

[Kyle]

1- Post up with a movie that was released in the 19070s that you think has the highest domestic box office gross (according to IMDb). The domestic gross can be from any theatrical release of the movie- including if it was rereleased after the 1970s (there are movies on this list due to re-releases post 70s). I have heard of all of these movies- they are well known. In fact, I've seen all but one of them, as most are considered classics.

2- After you make a post- you can only guess again AFTER I HAVE TOLD YOU IF YOU ARE RIGHT AND HAVE AWARDED POINTS. Thus, if you make a guess- please don't guess again until I've acknowledged your guess.

3- Your guess must be done off the top of your head. No research. No googling. No referring to Imdb. Obviously, no referring to Box Office Mojo. Just use your brain. This game is on the honor's system. But if you cheat, please understand that you're just ruining the game for everyone. There's nothing at stake. We're just all trying to have fun.

4- Points are awarded only for the top 20 movies, in reverse order of their place on the list. Thus, 1 point for the 20th movie. 20 points for the top movie. The listing is determined by a secret source that I found and points will be awarded in compliance with their listing. If you think IMDb has made a mistake- that's too bad.

I will try to periodically update this first post with all the guesses, points awarded and standings.

MOVIES:
1- Star Wars
2- Jaws
3- The Exorcist
4- Grease
5- The Sting
6- National Lampoon's Animal House
7- The Rocky Horror Picture Show
8- The Godfather
9- Superman
10- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
11- Smokey and the Bandit
12- Blazing Saddles
13- Rocky
14-
15- American Graffiti
16- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
17- Love Story
18- Kramer vs. Kramer
19-
20-

NON-SCORING GUESSES:
22- Airport
24- Saturday Night Fever
29- Apocalypse Now
30- Star Trek: the Motion Picture
36- Alien
38- The Muppet Movie
45- Patton
46- The Godfather Part II
62- Convoy

Rocky II (not listed- but would have been out of the top 20)
Silver Streak (not listed- but would have been out of the top 20)
The Hustler (1961)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

STANDINGS:
Tahlvin- 56
poorpete- 53
Zombie- 36
Mike- 22
Zen- 19
DMDarcs- 10
Phoebe- 4
Ronster- 0

[Tahlvin]

Star Wars

[Zen]

Star Wars

EDIT: Darn... beat me to it!

Jaws

[Mike]

Jaws

Dammit!

Rocky Horror Picture Show

[Zombie]

The Exorcist

[Kyle]

Reminder- these are gross raw numbers. They are not adjusted for inflation.

[poorpete]

The Godfather

[Kyle]

Scores updated. Everyone can make new guesses.

[DMDarcs]

Smokey and the Bandit

[poorpete]

Smokey and the--DAMMIT!

The Sting

[Mike]

The Godfather Part II

[Tahlvin]

Grease

[Ronster]

Alien

[Zen]

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

[Hoping it was still the 70s...]

[And to be clear... Tahlvin and I actually posted Star Wars at the same time. When I hit submit there were no replies to the post and the system didn't give me the "there were additional replies" warning, so I have to assume his post hadn't fully completed when I hit submit, which is why I did it the way I did... I was surprised that it didn't tell me there was another post... it usually does...]

[Kyle]

[Zombie]

I suck at remembering 70s movies. Is American Graffiti on there?

[Kyle]

Scores updated. Everyone can guess again.

I also added the movies that were guessed but weren't in the top 20.

Also- I'm going to leave it open for guesses over the weekend and open up a new round on Monday.

[Phoebe]

A wild guess as far as box office, but it was at least important in its day: Patton

[Mike]

Rocky

[Zen]

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid