Movie Tournament (Nominations)

[dethwing]

Since there was some confusion last time, I'll spell out clearly the way I envsion this working. Everyone can post up to 20 movies to be included in the contest. Everything that gets at least 2 nominations will be in, after that it depends on how close we are to a power of 2, I'll keep you updated. Seeding will be determined by number of nominations.

Ideally, I would like you post your list of favorite/best movies beforereading what other people say, (To keep them from influencing your choices), but I'm not going to be a jerk about it. Just keep that in mind, eh?

There are no restrictions on what movies you can pick. Foreign is fine, but you might want to add translations for my benefit
And of course *Glances at IS*, No pr0n

Enjoy!

[Courk]

The Great Escape
The Untouchables
Back to the Future

More later

[dethwing]

Here's my list:

The Princess Bride
Aladin
The Lion King
Star Wars: A New Hope
Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Star Wars: Phantom Menace
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
Memento
Jurasic Park
North by Northwest
Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail
Office Space
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Battle Royale
The Ring
Forest Gump
Jumanji
Groundhog Day
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

[Naboo]

Cool! I love movies. I hope you don't mind if I take advantage of all 20 nominations, which are:

(Invizzed so as not to influence other posters)


1) American Beauty
2) The Deer Hunter
3) The Godfather Part 2
4) City of God
5) Monster
6) Happiness
7) Glengarry Glen Ross
8) Full Metal Jacket
9) The Shining
10) Almost Famous
11) Koyaanisqatsi
12) Dogville
13) The Conversation
14) Reservior Dogs
15) Mystic River
16) The Pledge
17) Bob Roberts
18) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
19) Bringing out the Dead
20) The Wicker Man (if only for Britt Ekland )

[zorT Kitty]

Princess Mononoke
Gone With the Wind
Hero
Rear Window
Requiem for a Dream
Eternal Sunshine on a Spotless Mind
Kill Bill vol. 2
Lost in Translation
Music Man (original) [edit- was Rain Man]
A Mighty Wind [edit- was Being John Malcovich]
Chicago
LOTR Return of the King
Moulin Rouge
A Beautiful Mind
Castle in the Sky
O Brother, Where Art Thou
Shrek
My Fair Lady
Trainspotting
Battle Royale

[Agamemnon]

Henry V (Branagh version)
Once Were Warriors
The Commitments
Odd Man Out
The Green Mile
The Ladykillers (Guinness version)
Mean Machine (Reynolds version)
Cromwell
Lord of the Rings (All three or any of the three)
Shawshank Redemption
Malcolm
Trainspoting
Excaliber
Time Bandits
Tora Tora Tora
Long Riders
The Lady Vanishes
Pelle erobreren
The Lavender Hill Mob
Toy Story

[Duke Gnome]

1) The Third Man
2) LA Confidential
3) Usual Suspects
4) Yojimbo
5) Star Wars: A New Hope
6) Miller's Crossing
7) Lord of the Rings- Fellowship of the Ring
8) A Fistful of Dollars
9) The Sting
10) Citizen Kane
11) Reservoir Dogs
12) The Godfather Part 2
13) Seven Samurai
14) Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
15) I Robot
16) Midnight Run
17) Shrek 2
18) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
19) Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
20) Sleuth

[LoudmouthLee*]

Sorry, the computer at my work (I teach) does not like Cookies...

The 20 movies I would like to nominate are... (Director in parenthesis)
Yes.. no "classics" besides Rashomon. No big name/huge budget films here...

Movies.. raw and emotional films. (or... on the other hand, wickedly funny and brilliant)

Movies here are also part of a college course that I am drawing up plans for. Film/Literature comparitive studies class.

1- The Usual Suspects (Singer)
2- Fight Club (Fincher)
3- Cube (Natali - Canadian)
4- Rashomon (Kurosawa - Japanese)
5- Silence of the Lambs (Demme)
6- Vanilla Sky (Crowe)
7- When Harry Met Sally (Reiner)
8- This is Spinal Tap (Reiner)
9- Requiem for a Dream (Aronofsky)
10- Pi (Aronofsky)
11- Memento (Nolan)
12- Donnie Darko (Kelly)
13- The Princess Bride (Reiner)
14- Amores Perros (Gonzalez Inarritu- Mexico)
15- Brazil (Gilliam - UK)
16- Network (Lumet)
17- Kalifornia (Sena)
18- Defending Your Life (Albert Brooks)
19- Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks)
20- Se7en (Fincher)


(wow... that was much harder than I anticipated.)

[Travis]

Here's a few

In no particular order..

A League of Their Own
Indiana Jones, The Last Crusade
Animal House
Back to the Future, 1, 3 (not the movie about the kid who kept nibbling at the stitches, that was Back to the Suture)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Ocean’s Eleven (steven soderberg remake)
Major League
Alien
The Others
Twins
The Last Samurai
Babe
Babe, Pig in the City
Die Hard
Solaris

[mith]

Clue
The Godfather, Part 1
The Matrix
Memento
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Princess Bride
The Silence of the Lambs
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back


Cube
Die Hard
Forrest Gump
The Game
Gladiator
Goldeneye
The Godfather, Part 2
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Matrix Reloaded
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

replaced: Back to the Future, John Q

I might make some changes though, I didn't spend a lot of time thinking about it yet. And I can think of several movies that I'm pretty sure *would* make the list if I had seen them. I'll have to do so.

[groza528]

Shawshank Redemption
Boondock Saints
Strangers on a Train
The Lady Vanishes
Fight Club
Hero
Princess Mononoke
Se7en
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
French Connexion
Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain
The Usual Suspects
Matchstick Men
Memento
The Spanish Prisoner
12 Angry Men
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Donnie Darko
Princess Bride
To Be or Not to Be

[nopants]

Brazil
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Groundhog's Day
The Sting
Like Water for Chocolate
City Lights
Alien
Blade Runner
South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut
The Godfather
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Amadeus
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Piano
Monty Python adn the Holy Grail

[Internet Stranger]

Stray Dog
Seven Samurai
A Better Tomorrow
Shawshank Redemption
Alien
Aliens
Battle Royale (Antrax reminded me of this)
Anal Desecration 4
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[One Skunk Todd]

The Princess Bride
Amelie
Star Wars: A New Hope
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Jaws
My Neighbor Totoro
Castle in the Sky
Terminator
Terminator II
Groudhog Day
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Raising Arizona
Alien
Aliens
Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Rocketeer
Most any James Bond flick

[JDTAY]

The Fifth Element
Super Mario Bros.
Jurassic Park
Men in Black
Home Alone
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
edit: Akira (was Mortal Kombat)
edit: Fight Club (was Forrest Gump)
Lion King
The Matrix
Memento
The Cable Guy
Dumb and Dumber
Happy Gilmore
As Good As It Gets
Lilo and Stitch
Scary Movie
The Waterboy
The First Wives Club
The Addams Family

Note: My movies may be subject to editing as time goes on. I'll post the changes to help you keep track, dethy.
edit: Okay, after making those first two changes I finally looked at the other noms. No more edits.

[dethwing]

Aga: Either drop 2 noms so you can do all 3 LotR picks, or pick one please.

OST: Pick a bond film please

[MeeStee]

The Boondock Saints
American History X
Ocean's Eleven
Cruel Intentions
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
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[Moose]

Anne of Green Gables (1985 tv version)
Metropolitan
Four Friends
Amelie
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Last of the Mohicans
It’s a Wonderful Life
North By Northwest
Cherade
Donnie Darko
Before Sunrise
Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King
L.A. Story
Monsters Inc.
The Lady From Shanghai
Annie Hall
Sleepless in Seattle (sorry, I couldn’t not put it on the list)
Die Hard
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Singin’ in the Rain


gosh, it's hard making a list like that. i probably left out some of my favorite movies...oh well. and also i'm sure some of those will never get a second nomination, but oh well. i've given my two cents blame groza

[arandomguy]

The Godfather Part 1
The Godfather Part 2
Saving Private Ryan
Half Baked
Hoosiers
Rudy
Remember The Titans
Citizen Kane
Rocky 1
The Deer Hunter
Silence of the Lambs
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
The Green Mile
Patton
Patriot
Gladiator
South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Hoop Dreams
Shawshank Redemption
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[Antrax]

Oldboy <-- seriously, watch it.
Snatch <-- I think I watched this movie more than any other
The Usual Suspects <-- Pick when I was beaning Guatamalas in police, we used to shit... nostalgia
Se7en <-- One of the better thrillers
Fight Club <-- What got me started on Chuck Palahniuk
Terminator 2 <-- Still good
Dogville <-- Made me feel
Mullhouland Drive <-- Best Lynch movie I saw (still haven't seen Erasehead though)
The Emperor's New Groove <-- best Disney ever
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind <-- One of the better movies I've seen the past year
Battle Royale <-- This movie had to be made, and only Japanese could do it
The Fist of Legend <-- Best martial arts ever
American Beauty <-- Another "test other people's reactions" movie
Rounders <-- Because I have to.
The Shawshank Redemption <-- Very wholesome
The Game <-- Very clever
Falling Down <-- if only for the burger scene
The Devil's Advocate <-- Had to have a Pacino in there somewhere
The Matrix <-- Groundbreaking.
The Matrix Reloaded <-- Because I wasn't disappointed in it at all.
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[dethwing]

Wow, this is a much better result than we had for music. Maybe the clearer directions, or the fact that there are less movies than songs to chose from.

Allready have 55 with more than 1 nominations, and 5 that have five nominations.

[groza528]

Bugger... That's a lot
Told you it should have been 15 nominations

[One Skunk Todd]

Goldfinger

[Jedo the Jedi]

Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Aladdin
Lion King
Finding Nemo
Incredibles
National Treasure
Die Hard I
Italian Job
League of Extraordinary Gentleman
Ocean's Eleven (remake)
edit: I, Robot (was Bram Stoker's Dracula)
Indiana Jones: Last Crusade
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Music Man (original)
Princess Bride
Whole Nine Yards
Grinch
Liar Liar
Bruce Almighty

Those are just the ones that came to my head first. If you need me to clarify the Trilogies, I will gladly do so.
edit: After looking at other's lists, this was the only one that I felt had to be on my list. I forgot about it.

[groza528]

Might as well start choosing in the trilogies. Everyone else had to.

[Jedo the Jedi]

Thar we go then.

[The Ragin' South Asian]

The Fox and The Hound
Terminator 2
A Fistful of Dollars
For A Few Dollars More
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
Wayne's World
This Is Spinal Tap
Rockadoodle
Good Will Hunting
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Scent of a Woman
Once Upon A Time In The West
Kill Bill Vol. 2
Terminator
The Shawshank Redemption
Jesus Christ Superstar
American History X
Braveheart
Gandhi
Team America: World Police

[dethwing]

I should have nominated fox and the hound. I hope it gets in

[Neo]

1. Black Hawk Down
   
2. Miracle
   
3. Gattaca
   
4. For Love of the Game
   
5. Patton
   
6. Band of Brothers Dethy: does this count as one movie?
   
7. We Were Soldiers
   
8. Resevoir Dogs
   
9. The Fox and the Hound
   
10. Dr. Strangelove (or How I Leanred to Stop Worrying and Live with the Bomb.)
    
11. Schindler's List
    
12. The Incredibles
    
13. Ice Age
    
14. Apollo 13
    
15. Behind Enemy Lines
    
16. The Rock
    
17. Smokey and the Bandit
    
18. Homeward Bound
    
19. October Sky
    
20. Tora Tora Tora
    
21. (alternate, in case Band of Brothers not allowed) Midway
    

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[Bicho the Inhaler]

In no particular order (I went as far as to pseudorandomize the lines):

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
The Terminator
Robin Hood (Disney)
Memento
Adaptation
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Sixth Sense
Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade
Noises Off
The Ladykillers (remake (haven't seen the original))
Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Jagte Raho (translation: "Stay Awake" (old Indian film))
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Matrix
Matchstick Men
The Ring

Et cetera.

[Travis*]

I forgot Maverick

[groza528]

Looking at the nominations we've received so far I've got a quick question:
How on Earth did music beat out movies last time?

[Neo]

I just changed mine Dethy. See number 2 on my list (which is in no order, btw)
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[zorT Kitty]

Wait... they made a movie of Noises Off? I'll have to see that.

[dethwing]

"How on Earth did music beat out movies last time?"

I don't know. It was tight between Music, VG, and Movies. And it was tight again this tiem between VGs and Movies. They seem to be equally popular.

Maybe it's just easier for people to rattle off favorite movies than favorite songs? Being that there are way more songs to choose from?

[Digit Ne]

The Princess Bride
Lost in Translation
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Matrix
Ferris Beuller's Day Off
Donnie Darko
Groundhog Day
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Emporer's New Groove
Adaptation
Amelie

[mathgrant]

Nominate Fox and the Hound, because RSA rocks, and I want his favorite movie to win
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[MatthewV]

12 Angry Men
Shrek
Lost in Translation (Russian version only :) )
Braveheart
Forrest Gump
Fight Club

[Courk]

Ocean's Eleven
Backdraft
Ground Hog Day
Princess Bride
Finding Nemo
A Bug's Life
1776
Aladdin
The Little Mermaid
Beauty and the Beast
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Usual Suspects

[Agamemnon]

There are some real bad historical based nominations here