2012 Movie Tournament Thread!!

[Uncle Sam]

Who gave JGlass the right answers? Come on - come forward now and make it easier on yourself.

 

[Dowdsy McDowds]

+1 for The Hustler and 12 Angry Men

HGR, you including the movies posted in the non-spam version too?

If not, Seven Samurai.

 

[Loveless]

Two David Fincher films in the top ten? Seems gratuitous.

1. Synechdoche, New York
2. Speed Racer
3. Let Me In

I'm giving a +1 to Synecdoche: New York. Awsome, mindbending film. The other 2 are shit though and I wrote a concise essay on why Let Me In was fucking awful.

I'd also happily +1

The Seventh Seal
Donnie Darko
Million Dollar Baby
12 Angry Men
Grace of the Fireflies
Spirited Away
Stand By Me
500 Days of Summer
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I've pretty much lost track of what's been nominated & +1'd but you can take my top 3 of whatever hasn't been accepted yet, starting at the top.

American Beauty
Dawn of the Dead (original, not the bullshit remake)
Magnolia
Amélie
Let the Right One In
Blade Runner
The Tree of Life
Finding Nemo
WALL·E
Up
Where the Wild Things Are
Gone Baby Gone
The Royal Tenembaums
Ghostbusters
In Bruges
Leon The Professional
Pans Labyrinth
Life of Brian
Alien
The Warriors
Watchmen

 

[Loveless]

Star Wars: A New Hope
Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring
LOTR: Two Towers
LOTR: Return of the King

Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Toy Story 3

The Godfather: Part II
The Godfather: Part II
The Godfather: Part II

Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Last Crusade
Temple of Doom

Batman Begins
The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight Rises
Tim Burton's Batman
Batman Returns

Casino Royale
Live and Let Die
You Only Live Twice
Dr. No
From Russia With Love
Goldfinger

The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Supremacy
The Bourne Ultimatum

As for this

Empire Strikes Back
Two Towers
Toy Story 3
Godfather II
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Dark Knight
Casino Royale
The Bourne Identity

 

[Loveless]

Fellowship of the Ring. All day, every day.

No battles
No Gollum
No Christopher Lee
Lots of walking

Fuck the Fellowship

 

[Megatron]

Raging Bull

 

[Uncle Sam]

I wrote a concise essay on why Let Me In was fucking awful.

I cross-searched "Let Me In" with your name and didn't come across it. I did find a thread on shaved vagina, mind you, so it's not all a loss.

No battles

The best ones of the series in the mines of Moria, then in the forest. Ones with actual impact too, instead of constant sweeping shots of massive CG armies.

No Gollum

And New Hope doesn't have Yoda - that's not the reason it's worse than Empire Strikes Back.

No Christopher Lee

Guh?

Lots of walking

Not as exciting as bag CG trees slowly debating one another, I'll give you that.

 

[Loveless]

I cross-searched "Let Me In" with your name and didn't come across it. I did find a thread on shaved vagina, mind you, so it's not all a loss.

I have many interests, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

The best ones of the series in the mines of Moria, then in the forest. Ones with actual impact too, instead of constant sweeping shots of massive CG armies.

Meh. There's nothing special or memorable about them in comparison to what followed.

Guh?

Touché. I must have missed that when I fell asleep watching Fellowship.

Not as exciting as bag CG trees slowly debating one another, I'll give you that.

The Ents are awesome, you leave 'em alone.

 

[Uncle Sam]

Fuck the ents! I'd have much more love for Two Towers if it weren't for the ents. It's the Alberto Del Rio effect; if they're supposed to be boring and they are boring, what exactly have you accomplished?

 

[Loveless]

Fuck the ents! I'd have much more love for Two Towers if it weren't for the ents. It's the Alberto Del Rio effect; if they're supposed to be boring and they are boring, what exactly have you accomplished?

They weren't boring, they were funny. Seeing them slowly getting to the point of realising they'd been betrayed and then watching them decimate Isengard was one of the most entertaining moments in all 3 films and a rare feel-good moment.

 

[Alex]

Meh. There's nothing special or memorable about them in comparison to what followed.

The fight with the cave troll, Gandalf vs the Balrog. And don't get me started on the fight at the end

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Boromir fucking rules!!!!!

Touché. I must have missed that when I fell asleep watching Fellowship.

Two badass old men fighting?!? one of the most memorable scenes

The Ents are awesome, you leave 'em alone.

They're not really. Aside from them destroying Isengard they don't do much

 

[JGlass]

Who gave JGlass the right answers? Come on - come forward now and make it easier on yourself.

The sooner you realize my taste is superior to yours, the sooner we'll be able to achieve world peace.

And Fellowship is miles better than Two Towers. Fellowship was a much more complete film than Towers, and the battles were better too. Mynas Tyrath was cool, but it was so broken up.

 

[Blizz]

The Thing (Original)
The Pursuit of Happyness
Men In Black

 

[The 1-2-3 Killam]

All right guys, save your LOTR arguments for the tournament because...

Spoiler

1. The Godfather, Part II
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Fight Club
4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
5. The Matrix
6. Se7en
7. Terminator 2
8. Gladiator
9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
10. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
11. A Clockwork Orange
12. No Country for Old Men
13. Inglorious Bastards
14. The Avengers
15. Shawshank Redeption
16. The Big Lebowski
17. Jurassic Park
18. American History X
19. Jaws
20. 12 Angry Men
21. American Beauty
22. The Warriors
23. The Artist
24. Grave of the Fireflies
25. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
26. Spired Away
27. The Tree of Life
28. Seven Samurai
29. The Godfather: Part II
30. LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring
31. LOTR: Return of the King
32. Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back
33. The Dark Knight
34. Raiders of the Lost Ark
35. Toy Story 3
36. Casino Royale
37. The Bourne Identity
38. Alien
39. Aliens
40. The Departed
41. Cool Hand Luke
42. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
43. Boondock Saints
44. Psycho

I think we might have to do some preliminary rounds in the GSD, because I doubt they'll be enough interest to do a full 128 film tournament.

Keep them coming er'body.

 

[.]

Perfect blue. Played a part in inspiring Requiem for a Dream and Black Swan.

 

[Loveless]

I think we might have to do some preliminary rounds in the GSD, because I doubt they'll be enough interest to do a full 128 film tournament.

It'd be easy enough to get 128 films, I could do that just on my own but 64 is probably the right number. I'd go straight knockout, any kind of "Group Vote" in the preliminaries is always a populist disaster.

 

[Loveless]

Spoiler

1. The Godfather, Part II
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Fight Club
4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
5. The Matrix
6. Se7en
7. Terminator 2
8. Gladiator
9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
10. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
11. A Clockwork Orange
12. No Country for Old Men
13. Inglorious Bastards
14. The Avengers
15. Shawshank Redeption
16. The Big Lebowski
17. Jurassic Park
18. American History X
19. Jaws
20. 12 Angry Men
21. American Beauty
22. The Warriors
23. The Artist
24. Grave of the Fireflies
25. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
26. Spired Away
27. The Tree of Life
28. Seven Samurai
29. The Godfather: Part II
30. LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring
31. LOTR: Return of the King
32. Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back
33. The Dark Knight
34. Raiders of the Lost Ark
35. Toy Story 3
36. Casino Royale
37. The Bourne Identity
38. Alien
39. Aliens
40. The Departed
41. Cool Hand Luke
42. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
43. Boondock Saints
44. Psycho

Stand By Me, Donnie Darko, Synecdoche: New York, The Seventh Seal, Million Dollar Baby, Psycho, Rosemary's Baby, The Silence of the Lambs, 500 Days of Summer, Drive, all have been +1'd

And seriously, where are Amelie & Blade Runner?

 

[The 1-2-3 Killam]

Cool your jets. More are coming. And er'body needs to stop tagging me every time they post. Inboxes are too damn small for that shit.

 

[Tastycles]

Weekend at Bernie's 2.

 

[Lee]

There's a girl at work called Bernie and we had this ice breaker where we had to say a movie title that would describe our last relationship. She got quite offended when I said weekend at Bernies 2

 

[SD619]

The Pursuit of Happyness

+1

Ben Hur.

 

[¡Roján!]

From Russia With Love, The Social Network, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.

 

[nightmare]

Clue

Legend

Four Rooms

Back to the Future

Fear and Loathing

Kill Bill

.....(how are none of these listed yet?)

 

[Blue Chipper]

+1 on Clue.

 

[JGlass]

Clue

Legend

Four Rooms

Back to the Future

Fear and Loathing

Kill Bill

.....(how are none of these listed yet?)

+1 on Back to the Future