Movie Tournament (Nominations)

[dethwing]

Favorite movie? Which was that?

[Lilliputian Hitcher]

Hope you don't mind a lurker joining in.

End of Evangelion
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0169858/
Léon
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110413/
Gunga Din
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031398/
Prince of Darkness (Nadesico)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0415148/
The Fifth Element
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119116/
The Hunt for Red October
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099810/

[dethwing]

Of course not! The more the merrier!

[MatthewV]

I found (the) Red October while in Russia. It was a chocolate factory! They make excellent chocolates too.

And have fun compiling the list dethwing

[Courk]

The Great Escape.

I used to love Hunt for Red October (and I still do love the theme - what is that? Their National Anthem?), but I read the book and it was SO much better.

[Chuck]

Destination Moon

Is Deth going to post the movies for us to download like he did for the songs in the song contest?

[zorT Kitty]

[dethwing]

No, deth is not going to. If someone else wants to offer their services let me know, and I'll give you the bracket early.

[Eykir]

Just to clarify, the Three Musketeers version I was nominating is the same 1993 production that wordcross nominated

http://imdb.com/title/tt0108333/

[casinopete]

12 Monkeys
Akira
American Beauty
Blade Runner
City of Lost Children
The Dark Crystal
Drunken Master
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Fight Club
Heathers
The Hustler
The Matrix
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Princess Mononoke
Rain Man
Rocky
Se7en
The Shawshank Redemption
Snatch
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Someone better back me up on The Dark Crystal. And One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

[Travis*]

I will. Keep in mind though the level of credibility isn't exactly top-notch.
Would you really value or appreciate back-up opinions from a guy who wanted to vote for Mary Poppins?

[Antrax]

CP, I hated City of the Lost Children and The Dark Crystal. All the other movies are either on my list or were close to getting on it
Mathgrant, if it makes you happier, I also liked the South Park movie.
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[Eykir]

I liked the South Park movie too, but not enough to put it up there. I also forgot about Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke. D'oh!

Antrax, don't let Cordelia hear you hated Dark Crystal. She made me go out and buy it after all her raving about it =D

[casinopete]

Antrax:

I thought The Game and Devil's Advocate were just o.k. - the others on your list that I've seen were similarly close to making it on mine, though I'd still put Aladdin and Beauty over Emperor for Disney.

I bet the overlap would deteriorate very quickly if we compared larger lists, though. A lot of the movies that would make my top, say, 50, are actually pretty weak/cheesy, but just have either a tone I find interesting, or a couple really good scenes that hook me. I was moderately close to adding Batman, Dead Poet's Society, Hackers, The Mask, Pi, The Professional, and The Wedding Singer, and I even gave Hudson Hawk a second thought.

[Antrax]

[LoudmouthLee]

Just a note on Liliputan's nomination, Leon-

If I remember correctly, in the US, it was released under a different name entirely... The Professional

That may help it out in the nominations....
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[knightshade]

Not necessarily my top 20 (most have been nominated), but many I think should be on here -



Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Chasing Amy
Old School

Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill Volume 1

Aladdin
Toy Story

JFK
Field of Dreams

Spider Man 2
Terminator 2

Silence of the Lambs
American History X

Almost Famous
Nightmare before Xmas

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Jurassic Park

-k

[Logain]

I definitely need to look at a list of movies to get 20 favorites

When do nominations close?

[Courk]

Oooh. Nightmare Before Christmas. From the parts I've seen, I like it (and that is at least 80% of the movie), but I've never sat down and watched the whole thing, so I don't want to nominate it

Random: What's this "dice" button do?

Dice Roll:

Original Roll String: 2d6 2 6-Sided Dice Results: 2, 2 (Total = 4)

[Agamemnon]

I don't see many of the 'older' films nominated, I mean, stuff in B&W. Do you think that the age of folk nominating will be a factor in this? Looking over folks lists it seems that a large percentage of nominations are from within the last 15 years. Does this mean some of the best films were made then? Or is it because of the age of folk nominating? Or because these films had a better distribution due to today's technology?

[Logain]

Aga, I think there's a lot of influences on why older films aren't as popular...besides the age of the person, which is a good reason though. Most films just don't stand the test of time as well. With respect to humor, I think today's standards are much different, and when it comes to point of reference, it's hard to relate to issues in a movie that aren't relevant today...obviously when the movie's not meant to be about the past And another reason is just the technology of the film. Just watching a movie that appears very dated in film quality can sometimes make it less enjoyable, IMO.

[Antrax]

Aga, the main reason I don't like older movies is the change in directing style. Movies used to be a lot slower, and I'm used to them being more fast-paced. A good example of this is, IMO, Ocean's 11. I loved the Soderberg remake, but the original bored me to death. There ARE several old movies I like (for example, 12 angry men), thought.
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[Quailman]

The African Queen
Animal House
Casablanca
The Dirty Dozen
The Exorcist
The Gods Must Be Crazy
The Great Escape
The Longest Day
Midway
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
My Fair Lady
North by Northwest
Parenthood
Patton
Saving Private Ryan
The Shining
The Sound of Music
True Lies
We Were Soldiers
The Wizard of Oz

[dethwing]

Nominations will stay open as long as people keep nominating. I have no fixed deadline in mind right now.

[Travis*]

It takes courage to nominate a movie like The Sound of Music with all these Kill Bill fans mingling around.

Good job, Quailman!

[Courk]

IMO, the best film was made in '63.

[groza528]

Aga: I nominated a few classics, at age 19. However, I know that I watch most movies with friends, and most of them aren't interested in the classics so most of the movies I see are newer. And many of them are very good.

[Travis*]

[Courk]

According to this, no.

[Travis*]

I had no idea plastic wrap was that new. Anyways, what film where you talking about, Courk?

[Quailman]

Reynolds Wrap is new. Saran wrap is not.

[Courk]

I was talking about The Great Escape.

[Travis*]

Okay, I didn't think you were alluding to sound of music. I think that was made somewhere in that area. I have not seen that one. I'll have to see The Great Escape.

[soap box]Obviously technology has transformed film making but I also think that film making as an art has gotten better. On a side note from that, I think older movies often fall by the wayside because of the change in society's values. Many films that were once classics now seem corny as attitudes and humor have advanced with the decades.
I'm a little disappointed to see nominations for movies that I consider nothing but cheesey yet no votes for It's a Wonderful Life, Ben Hur or The Ten Commandments. Films like those have become obsolete in a world that now admires Natural Born Killers as fine art. [/ramble]

dethwing, I'd like to second Wizard of Oz

[Courk]

I've never seen any of those movies. I did attempt to watch Casablanca a while ago, and I remember not liking it. However, I may have been too young at the time to really understand what was going on.

[Hitchhiker]

(drama)

All About Eve
12 Angry Men
Touch of Evil
The Best Years of Our Lives
A Few Good Men
The Shawshank Redemption
The Big Chill

(action/adventure)

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Romancing the Stone
Lethal Weapon
Sneakers

(comedy)

What's Up, Doc?
Some Like It Hot
The Court Jester
Blazing Saddles
Life of Brian

(family films)

Mary Poppins
The Wizard of Oz
My Neighbor Totoro
The Lion King

(thank goodness people have already nominated American Beauty, It's a Wonderful Life, Donnie Darko, Fight Club, and The Usual Suspects) =)

[Samadhi]

[wordcross]

I just finished taking a film class, as we watches some classics. The 6 we saw full length were:

Citizen Kane
Casablanca
Glory
Rain Man
Psycho
Tootsie

The only one i really liked all around was Glory.

Tootsie was good, in an 80's hairstyle/no one knows anything about femenism sort of way.

Rain Man was good only because Dustin Hoffman is probably the best damned character actor ever.

Psycho was good, as most Hitchcock stuff tends to be, although in today's society the ending is no big deal, as had been meant to be.

Citizen Kane was decent for an older film. I didn't really relate to the main character, though, or really feel sorry for him other than a sort of "it sucks that his parents were asshats"

Casablanca.... just, no. It's my first time ever seeing Humphry Bogart in a movie, and i wasn't impressed. He looks half asleep all the time. And it honestly doesn't seem to go much of anywhere. It sits and spins in circles and twiddles its thumbs.
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[Courk]

Continuing my list of nominees:
Glory (1989, Edward Zwick directing)
Gettysburg

[wordcross]

Hey deth, if you want some help running the threads for what seems to be turning into a massive undertaking, I'll be happy to run some of the matches
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[extropalopakettle]

Here's mine, though I'm sure I'll forget some major ones that should have been there.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Hang Em' High
A Clockwork Orange
2001: A Space Odyssey
Donnie Darko
The Abyss
Indianna Jones and the Temple of Doom
The Shining
My Neighbor Totoro
The Sting
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 remake)
Eraserhead
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Blade Runner
Fight Club
It's a Wonderful Life
Duck Soup
Platoon
Juliet of the Spirits
The Wizard of Oz

Two I removed from my list to get it down to 20:
The Shawshank Redemption
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest