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JerzeeGirl

08-20-2008, 02:05 PM

With our 5th pick, Team That's What She Said, would like to select from the Documentary category, the 2006 film - Shut Up & Sing.

This film follows the Dixie Chicks from the perch atop the music world in 2003 thru the death threats, public record/cd/dvd burnings & general abuse they received following a statement made by lead singer Natalie Maines at a concert in London. As the USA launched its attack on Iraq, an action questioned & criticized by many people at home and abroad and George W. Bush enjoying extremely high approval ratings, Maines said to her London audience, “Just so you know, we’re on the good side with y’all. We do not want this war, this violence, and we’re ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas.“

The documentary attempts to give context to her comment, which was made in the wake of a huge anti-war protest in London. Maines apparently wanted to show solidarity with the Brits and was taken aback that her quip sparked a firestorm in which the band was branded as traitors by some Americans.

The film examines the backlash created by her comment and takes a fascinating, fly-on-the-wall look at damage-control efforts. We see the Chicks and their families, their various reactions to the death threats, being called traitors and essentially discovering that, as the tagline for the film states: "Freedom of speech is fine as long as you don't do it in public."

I wasn't a huge Dixie Chicks fan before this but I am now a fan of these women - and the fact that agree with them or not, they showed that there is more to patriotism than just parading around with a flag in your hand and blindly following along with the people in charge.

The Preview Trailer:
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A longer clip...worth the watch!
(Potentially NSFW tho due to some language)
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Video for "Not Ready To Make Nice" the autobiographical song of what they went thru...
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Superflyer

08-20-2008, 04:33 PM

I am on my way out the door to go home so just to keep the draft going, we pick in the pre 1960's category Some Like it Hot.

http://rojas.files.wordpress.com/2006/10/some-like-it-hot.jpg

I will post more on it when I get home.

Jagger

08-20-2008, 05:24 PM

I am on my way out the door to go home so just to keep the draft going, we pick in the pre 1960's category Some Like it Hot.

Great pick. I love this movie!

sadora

08-20-2008, 07:20 PM

With our 5th round, 127th overall, team snoogans is happy to select SWINGERS in the comedy category.

http://www.impawards.com/1996/posters/swingers_ver1.jpg

Mike (Jon Favreau (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Favreau)), a recent transplant to Los Angeles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles), has recently broken up with his long-time girlfriend of six years and is still having trouble letting go and moving on. His friend Trent (Vince Vaughn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Vaughn)) takes him on an overnight trip to Las Vegas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas,_Nevada) in an attempt to get him back in the game. Trent picks up two cocktail waitresses, but Mike's obsession with his ex-girlfriend spoils the one-night stand. Back in Los Angeles, Mike attends various Hollywood (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood) and Los Feliz hot spots while his swinger friends coach him on the rules of seduction. Mike makes several awkward attempts at speaking to women, but they all end disastrously. Along the way, the group discusses movies, video games, and their floundering careers in show business. When Mike learns to accept himself and eschew the pretenses and self-promotion involved in the Hollywood dating scene, he finally connects with a beautiful girl named Lorraine. The next day, he gets a call from the ex-girlfriend he's been obsessing over but rejects her offer to get back together when Lorraine rings in on the other line.

http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/product_images/1020/221609.1020.A.jpg

language NSFW

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Displaced Flames fan

08-20-2008, 07:24 PM

Great pick Sadora, and you'll be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't like that movie.

Watching the clips, it's crazy how young Vaughn and Favreau look!

getbak

08-20-2008, 07:28 PM

Watching the clips, it's crazy how young Vaughn and Favreau look!
And skinny. Of course, I don't want to compare myself to how I looked in the mid-90s either.

sadora

08-20-2008, 07:31 PM

Great pick Sadora, and you'll be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't like that movie.

Watching the clips, it's crazy how young Vaughn and Favreau look!

Thanks, I'm just glad it was still available.

Trent (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000681/): I'm gonna make Gretzky's head bleed for super fan 99 over here.

Trent (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000681/): You take yourself out of the game, you start talking about puppy dogs and ice cream and of course it's going to end up on the friendship tip.

Superflyer

08-20-2008, 08:59 PM

To make it a more formal post, the B-List Celeberties are proud to select the movie that made Marliyn Monroe a star - in the pre 1960's category, Some Like It Hot.

Maybe "nobody's perfect," as one character in this masterpiece suggests. But some movies are perfect, and Some Like It Hot is one of them. In Chicago, during the Prohibition era, two skirt-chasing musicians, Joe and Jerry (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon), inadvertently witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. In order to escape the wrath of gangland chief Spats Colombo (George Raft), the boys, in drag, join an all-woman band headed for Florida. They vie for the attention of the lead singer, Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe), a much-disappointed songbird who warbles "I'm Through with Love" but remains vulnerable to yet another unreliable saxophone player. (When Curtis courts her without his dress, he adopts the voice of Cary Grant--a spot-on impersonation.) The script by director Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is beautifully measured; everything works, like a flawless clock. Aspiring screenwriters would be well advised to throw away the how-to books and simply study this film. The bulk of the slapstick is handled by an unhinged Lemmon and the razor-sharp Joe E. Brown, who plays a horny retiree smitten by Jerry's feminine charms. For all the gags, the film is also wonderfully romantic, as Wilder indulges in just the right amounts of moonlight and the lilting melody of "Park Avenue Fantasy." Some Like It Hot is so delightfully fizzy, it's hard to believe the shooting of the film was a headache, with an unhappy Monroe on her worst behavior. The results, however, are sublime.

http://www.tvol.vn/mfiles/trangtin/nghethuat/2007/10/SomeLikeItHot.jpg

Trailer for the movie
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octothorp

08-20-2008, 09:05 PM

Prototype

08-20-2008, 11:34 PM

With our 5th pick, Team That's What She Said, would like to select from the Documentary category, the 2006 film - Shut Up & Sing.

Amazing movie. Great pick.

VANFLAMESFAN

08-21-2008, 07:35 AM

In round 5, TEAM Wishwedidaporndraft is happy to select into the DRAMA category, the very powerful AMERICAN HISTORY X!!!

http://home.scarlet.be/pieter-ve/dvd/american%20history%20x.JPG

Backed by an unreal performance by the very talented Edward Norton, American History X tells the story of a former neo-Nazi coming home from prison to try and get his brother out of the life that he lead him down before he was sent away.

This movie is just filled with strong scene after strong scene after strong scene, here's a couple,

Derek Vinyard attacking his mother's Jewish boyfriend at the dinner table. Very well written and directed scene.

NSFW....language and content

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Continuation of that scene

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Derek curb-stomping....very NSFW.....very hard scene to watch

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Maybe the best scene in the movie, moving stuff

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VERY COOL VID, COMPILATION OF SCENES DONE UP WITH METALLICA'S NOTHING ELSE MATTERS......VERY COOL

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Very happy to pick American History X, not sure how you could watch this movie and not be moved by it. I will never forget this movie. Ed Norton was robbed of the Oscar, he was simply brilliant.

czure32

08-21-2008, 08:56 AM

In round 5, TEAM Wishwedidaporndraft is happy to select into the DRAMA category, the very powerful AMERICAN HISTORY X!!!

fantastic pick, the ending of this movie is so emotionally draining

getbak

08-21-2008, 09:02 AM

I don't have time for a big write-up, but I'll make my pick now to keep it moving...

"Houston, we have a problem."

http://getbak.com/images/cp_movielogo.gif

In the "Documentary/Non-Fiction" category, team Hot Buttery Topping is proud to select Ron Howard's ambitious and faithful dramatization of the incredible true events of the ill-fated lunar landing mission Apollo 13.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9e/Apollo_thirteen_movie.jpg

Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton star as the astronauts aboard the Saturn V rocket which suffers a near-catastrophe while on its way to the moon. Ed Harris and Gary Sinise are among the earth-bound cast who must find a way to get the crew home -- alive.

Howard wanted his movie to be as technically accurate as possible, going so far as to shoot every scene that takes place in zero-gravity aboard NASA's weightlessness training vehicle, nicknamed "The Vomit Comet".

Mission Commander, Jim Lovell (who is portrayed by Hanks in the film), wrote the book "Lost Moon" about his experience aboard Apollo 13, and actively participated in the production to assure it remained as accurate to real events as possible. All of dialogue between the crew and mission control in Houston is based upon the archived transcripts of the mission communications.

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Flame Of Liberty

08-21-2008, 09:06 AM

Just what I thought... Awesome actors, awesome movie. Steal of this round IMO (American History X)

kermitology

08-21-2008, 09:20 AM

Team Pineapple Express is thrilled that it's time to make another pick! With this fifth round pick, Team Pineapple Express is proud to select in the category of Sci Fi, Donnie Darko (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246578/).

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Eastern Girl

08-21-2008, 11:32 AM

It's nice to be loved.

08-21-2008, 01:08 PM

The MacGuffins will select, with a heavy dose of nostalgia, their fifth team selection and 130th overall pick, for entry in the Fantasy category:

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

Come.
Stay.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y28/djroach/ET20MOVIE20POSTER.jpg

After watching all sorts of short-listed picks fall off the board (Amelie, Strangelove, Donnie Darko, Malkovich, Trainspotting, Kill Bill, and especially Butch Cassidy), I figured it was time to fill a category that had a handful of options, but only one movie I really love- the first movie I ever saw in a theatre (at age 9 months), E.T. One of Steven Spielberg's true masterpieces, this is the quintessential family movie, and a film that I could watch again and again.

One of the most profound things about E.T. is that it seems to suck viewers in, as a flood of childhood memories wash over them. It's almost as if this wonderous state of innocence overtakes people, and whisks them back to being an age in the single digits. Little kids and great-grandparents sit there transfixed, and even film buffs, hip teenagers, and jaded adults find it irresistable and come along for the (bike) ride.

What is it about this film that does that? From a technical standpoint, Spielberg relied heavily on POV shots, so much so that almost the entire movie is seen through the eyes of either E.T. or Elliot. The camera is often low to the ground, bobbling around (think the chase/bike scenes), or obstructed (blanket over E.T.'s head), helping the viewer to experience and understand what's happening just like an innocent child (or alien) would. As the plot moves forward, and it becomes apparent that E.T. is sick and the evil scientists (see how I am in kid mode already?) are banging down doors looking for E.T., everything is seen from that same kid perspective. Viewers immediately and instinctively identify with both E.T. and Elliot, and tend to watch with a childlike sense of anticipation and wonderment.

Those technical decisions set up the emotional aspect of the film brilliantly. Of course the feelings brought about are helped by the outstanding acting by the child actors, one of John Williams' best scores, and some very memorable, classic scenes. However, the beautifully simple story of love, friendship, compassion, and unselfishness maintains to this day its power to render almost anybody completely stripped bare. Upon my most recent viewing, I remember tears trickling down my face during the last few minutes, completely overwhelmed and engrossed.

A movie for absolutely everyone, E.T. is a magical cinema experience, and I am happy to add it to The MacGuffins!

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y28/djroach/2002_e_t_the_extra_terrestrial_010.jpg

Jagger

08-21-2008, 02:07 PM

The MacGuffins will select, with a heavy dose of nostalgia, their fifth team selection and 130th overall pick, for entry in the Fantasy category:
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

Another good 'un from you Ro. You're pretty much picking every movie that is on my list. Hopefully I have returned the favour, or will do in the future!

fotze

08-21-2008, 02:16 PM

In round 5, TEAM Wishwedidaporndraft is happy to select into the DRAMA category, the very powerful AMERICAN HISTORY X!!!

Very happy to pick American History X, not sure how you could watch this movie and not be moved by it. I will never forget this movie. Ed Norton was robbed of the Oscar, he was simply brilliant.
Funny that Tony Kaye who directed the film fought to have the directing credit renamed to Alan Smithee, which is the fictional directors name that is attached to movies where the director feels that the film has been edited/altered against his will (like John Doe).

Other films directed by Alan Smithee:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000647/

Flame Of Liberty

08-21-2008, 02:29 PM

fotze you forgot this important part:

Director Tony Kaye wanted his credit to read "Humpty Dumpty" according to Entertainment Weekly.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120586/trivia

ResAlien

08-21-2008, 05:44 PM

With their 5th round pick team Lucky the Donkey is ecstatic to select, in the Drama category, Glengarry Glen Ross.

You ever take a dump make you feel like you just slept 12 hours?

I'll keep this one short and sweet. Greatest sales movie ever. Mamet's dialog? Killer. Far too many lines to start quoting. We will include "the speech" though:

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Plus, any film that gave us the inspiration for Gil (The Simpsons) is classic.

Jagger

08-21-2008, 08:37 PM

With their 5th round pick team Lucky the Donkey is ecstatic to select, in the Drama category, Glengarry Glen Ross.

Awesome steal to get this one in the 5th round. Fantastic dialogue and a great cast. Very nice pick.

GirlySports

08-21-2008, 08:53 PM

With the 132nd pick,MattyC selects Rudy in the sports category.

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a26/kaitlynf3/rudy.jpg

http://www.givememyremote.com/remote/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/rudy.jpg

Flame Of Liberty

08-22-2008, 01:15 AM

With the 133rd Overall pick The All Or Nuttin team is proud to select in the "Drama" category a movie that was robbed of the Best Picture Academy Award in 1997, but still managed to win 2 Oscars for Best screenplay and Best actress in a supporting role, starring Kevin Spacey, Guy Pearce, Russell Crowe, Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, simply a great noir story, L.A. Confidential.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d8/La_confidential.jpg/200px-La_confidential.jpg

Set against the backdrop of the glitz, glamour, grit and noir of early 1950s Los Angeles the film revolves around three LAPD officers caught up in corruption, sex, lies, and murder following a multiple murder at the Nite Owl coffee shop.

Critically acclaimed, it presently holds a 99% "certified" fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes with 73 out of 74 reviews positive with an average rating of 8.5 out of 10, as well as an aggregated rating of 90 based on 28 reviews on Metacritic. To quote Roger Ebert, "L.A. Confidential is seductive and beautiful, cynical and twisted, and one of the best films of the year."

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WindomURL

08-22-2008, 01:36 AM

With the 133rd Overall pick The All Or Nuttin team is proud to select in the "Drama" category a movie that was robbed of the Best Picture Academy Award in 1997, but still managed to win 2 Oscars for Best screenplay and Best actress in a supporting role, starring Kevin Spacey, Guy Pearce, Russell Crowe, Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, simply a great noir story, L.A. Confidential.
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To quote Roger Ebert, "L.A. Confidential is seductive and beautiful, cynical and twisted, and one of the best films of the year."

What a fantastic pick Liberty!
Is it just me, or are many of these 5th round selections better movies than most of those chosen earlier?

I'll go further than Ebert and say this was IMHO the best film of the decade. As well executed in every way as you could hope.

Congrats... :yay:

Flame Of Liberty

08-22-2008, 01:56 AM

What a fantastic pick Liberty!
Is it just me, or are many of these 5th round selections better movies than most of those chosen earlier?

I'll go further than Ebert and say this was IMHO the best film of the decade. As well executed in every way as you could hope.

Congrats... :yay:

Thanks man, really apreciate it. Cant wait for my next pick, I am thinking I will go a little bit off the board with that one ;)

Tilley

08-22-2008, 07:57 AM

With the 134th selection in the Movie Draft, the unbelievably still un-named team selects:

in the Action category: Sin City (2005).

sadora

08-22-2008, 08:01 AM

With the 134th selection in the Movie Draft, the unbelievably still un-named team selects:

in the Action category: Sin City (2005).

I can't believe this was still available, such a fun and uniquely gory movie. I can't wait 'til the second one.

VANFLAMESFAN

08-22-2008, 08:32 AM

I can't believe this was still available, such a fun and uniquely gory movie. I can't wait 'til the second one.

i was definitely grabbing it in the next round if it was available but I wasn't expecting it to be.

octothorp

08-22-2008, 09:54 AM

With the 133rd Overall pick The All Or Nuttin team is proud to select in the "Drama" category a movie that was robbed of the Best Picture Academy Award in 1997, but still managed to win 2 Oscars for Best screenplay and Best actress in a supporting role, starring Kevin Spacey, Guy Pearce, Russell Crowe, Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, simply a great noir story, L.A. Confidential.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooo!

I mean, noooo, I didn't want that pick. The only reason it got all those good reviews is because it's a great story and one of the best ensemble cast performances ever, and pretty good direction. Possibly my favorite Russell Crowe role ever, I love the scenes between him and Pearce. It captures that film noir mood perfectly without needing to use black and white or other gimics. No sir, did not want that pick at all.

WindomURL

08-22-2008, 10:07 AM

With the 135th selection in the 5th round, Wrapped in Plastic is very pleased to select in the Comedy category, Office Space (1999) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/).
http://members.shaw.ca/windomurl/Office_Space_SE_with_flair.jpg
(More to follow)

WindomURL

08-22-2008, 10:12 AM

With the 136th selection in the 6th round, Wrapped in Plastic is amazed to add to their lineup, in the Pre-60s category, Aflred Hitchcock's
North by Northwest (1959) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053125/)

http://members.shaw.ca/windomurl/North_by_Northwest.jpg

Trailer: Hitchcock uses his sardonic wit to describe his 1950s suspense classic.

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The Opening:
A quintessential Hitchcock opening, including the credits, and the Master himself getting a bus door shut on him, all with efficiency and style leading us to the protagonist, Adman Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) and his big problem . . . done in 6 ½ minutes. Released in 1959, North by Northwest, written by Ernest Lehman (6 Oscar Nominations -- Sabrina, North by Northwest, West Side Story, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe, Hello Dolly) is considered one of Hitchcock's great comedic thrillers, incorporating many of his best cinematic themes from earlier works.
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The famous crop duster scene: Brilliantly, and patiently set up by the master. Believe me, it's worth the nine minutes!
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WoW version:
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octothorp

08-22-2008, 10:24 AM

Flame Of Liberty

08-22-2008, 10:45 AM

habernac

08-22-2008, 11:39 AM

Tilley

08-22-2008, 12:28 PM

With the 137th selection in the Movie draft, The Ghost of Siskel selects:

in the Drama category Fargo (1996).

Great movie "in a general sort of way".

Flame Of Liberty

08-22-2008, 12:30 PM

With the 138th Overall pick The All Or Nuttin team is proud to select in the "Animated" category, a story of love lost with a dark twist and gothic feel set in Victorian era, voiced by Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Albert Finney and Emily Watson, one of Tim Burton's finest works, strangely sexy, the one and only, Corpse Bride.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/53/Corpse_bride.jpg/200px-Corpse_bride.jpg

If you are going to watch one animated romance movie, make it this one. Tim Burton does not dissapoint and delivers us a witty yet touching loveanddeathstory from the world of the living and from the world of the dead. Dark, gothic atmosphere that grabs you and doesn't let you go, stunnig visuals, wicked story and talented cast of actors providing the vocals to their characters is what makes this movie memorable.

Trailer:

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Victor's piano solo:

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octothorp

08-22-2008, 01:17 PM

JerzeeGirl

08-22-2008, 02:39 PM

With the 137th selection in the Movie draft, The Ghost of Siskel selects:

in the Drama category Fargo (1996).

Great movie "in a general sort of way".

Great pick Tilley - oh ya! ;)

*mutters as she crosses yet another title off her short list*

czure32

08-22-2008, 02:46 PM

in the Drama category Fargo (1996).

Great movie "in a general sort of way".

http://www.movieactors.com/freeze-frames/fargo/Fargo9-23-51-75.jpg

Officer Olson (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0707531/): What'd this guy look like, anyway?
Mr. Mohra (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0091191/): Oh, he was a little guy... Kinda funny lookin'.
Officer Olson (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0707531/): Uh-huh. In what way?
Mr. Mohra (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0091191/): Oh, just in a general kinda way

Steve Buscemi is kinda funny lookin....in a general kinda way ;)

Eastern Girl

08-22-2008, 03:03 PM

I am crossing a lot of movies off my list. Some really good picks made today.

I am surprised Office Space lasted so long, given the number of times it seems to get quoted on this board.

And Corpse Bride really was an underappreciated flick.

Prototype

08-22-2008, 04:43 PM

Am I the only one who doesn't have a list?

czure32

08-22-2008, 04:51 PM

Am I the only one who doesn't have a list?

I dont have a list per se, not like the one I compiled for hte hottie draft anyways, but I do have a good idea as to what my next couple of choices are going to be

VANFLAMESFAN

08-22-2008, 05:56 PM

Am I the only one who doesn't have a list?

Nope, I don't have a list. Whenever its my turn to pick, that's when I do a little research, and by research, I mean checking to see if the movie I want has been taken.

HalifaxDrunk

08-22-2008, 06:57 PM

Eastern Girl

08-22-2008, 07:00 PM

Same here, no list.

Wait, I guess I "do" have a list, all my DVD's are stored in an excel spreadsheet. But that list would take me all day to go through. When it's my turn I just look at a category I need and pick a fav of mine.

Same here, right down to the extensive Excel listing.

I don't actually have a physical list for this draft, but a mental one. I know the movies I want for each category and if one gets chosen, I cross it off and replace it with something else. It's not like I have pages of research and the like...

Displaced Flames fan

08-22-2008, 07:02 PM

I, too, am wingin' it.

I do have a mental idea of what movies I will take and if one gets taken I start thinking ahead of time. I'm not keeping a list though. I respect those that do though! I wish I had that kind of energy.

HalifaxDrunk

08-22-2008, 07:05 PM

Same here, right down to the extensive Excel listing.

Each title in my Excel list is also hyper linked to IMDB, yes it's true I AM a movie nerd! :bag:

Displaced Flames fan

08-22-2008, 07:06 PM

I guess I need to watch LA Confidential again. Didn't enjoy it at all, it's been so long though I can't remember the situation in which I watched it. I might have been distracted.

Eastern Girl

08-22-2008, 07:10 PM

Each title in my Excel list is also hyper linked to IMDB, yes it's true I AM a movie nerd! :bag:

Yeah, you are... ;)

But so am I. I have two seperate lists. One master list with all the movies listed alphabetically and a second that is alphabetically listed and divided by genre. I have another list of the tv shows that I own on DVD, and it's coded so I know which shows are still ongoing, which shows are no longer on the air, which shows I own in their entirety, etc. No links to websites. Maybe I should do that though... It's possible that I would feel even more satisfaction looking at the long list of movies I own.

08-22-2008, 08:11 PM

I guess I need to watch LA Confidential again. Didn't enjoy it at all, it's been so long though I can't remember the situation in which I watched it. I might have been distracted.

Me too! I think I was too young to fully appreciate it when I first saw it, and with the praise it's received here and elsewhere, I need to revisit it.

The Ghost of Siskel selects:

in the Drama category Fargo (1996).

Many people have called this one the best film of the 90's, and I think it's tremendous value this late in the draft. Excellent pick!

Re: my list. I have a sloppy Word document with possible choices under each category. Some only have 3 or 4 movies, others have 15+. I erase them as they are picked by others, and try to add some new ones each time I open it up.

ResAlien

08-22-2008, 10:05 PM

With the 137th selection in the Movie draft, The Ghost of Siskel selects:

in the Drama category Fargo (1996).

I'm the only person I've met who does not like this film. Not slamming your pick, it is definitely considered a great film and most people love it. For my part, I've never been able to make it past about 30 minutes into the movie before I lose interest and turn it off. William H Macy's character just irritates the bejeebus out of me and I can't take it.

But everyone loves it, I'll try to watch it again due solely to this thread.

Displaced Flames fan

08-22-2008, 10:37 PM

I'm the only person I've met who does not like this film. Not slamming your pick, it is definitely considered a great film and most people love it. For my part, I've never been able to make it past about 30 minutes into the movie before I lose interest and turn it off. William H Macy's character just irritates the bejeebus out of me and I can't take it.

But everyone loves it, I'll try to watch it again due solely to this thread.

I'm pretty sure Jerry, and his wife, are supposed to annoy you.

"Dad's watching the Gophers, Jerry. Do you want to watch the Gophers?"

Annoying or not, I think Macy plays his character brilliantly. And Frances McDormand....whoa.

MattyC

08-23-2008, 12:55 AM

With the 139th pick team Theatre Head selects in the Drama category Almost Famous.

One of my personal favorites this is a movie I could watch over and over.

Best Scene Evar!

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ResAlien

08-23-2008, 12:38 PM

With their 6th round pick, team Lucky the Donkey is incredulous their pick is still available, in the category of war, The Deer Hunter.

Deniro. Walken. Mao!

Awesome flick. Heavily decorated, including best picture. Walken is fantastic as a man completely broken and scarred by the horrors of POW life and becoming lost. Deniro not giving up on him, and the heartbreaking finale all make this a classic human experience and war flick. Talking to my father who was in Vietnam this is easily one of his favourite movies, although he always says it is one of the hardest movies for him to watch.

Clips NSFW and not for the squeamish

Trailer

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08-23-2008, 01:34 PM

The MacGuffins are extremely happy to select, with their 6th team selection and 141st overall pick, for entry in the Drama category:

Requiem For A Dream

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An excerpt from Roger Ebert's review of the film:

The movie was given the worthless NC-17 rating by the MPAA; rejecting it, Artisan Entertainment is asking theaters to enforce an adults-only policy. I can think of an exception: Anyone under 17 who is thinking of experimenting with drugs might want to see this movie, which plays like a travelogue of hell.
A travelogue of hell indeed. Based on the equally graphic and disturbing book by Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem For A Dream tells the harrowing tale of four drug addicts falling under the spell of addiction with a blunt force that leaves most viewers spellbound. I watch the entire credit roll after most good films, but after seeing this film I always feel like I need to take that time to try and recover emotionally. What a depressing ride this film is, but oh is it worth it.

Some may consider this one an odd choice, as it's a difficult movie to endure from almost any standpoint. Technically, it's heavily stylized- split screens, slow motion, sped-up montages, time lapse photography, fades/dissolves, an emphatic and operatic score (IMO, one of the most memorable you'll ever encounter), distorted images, and some horrifying kitchen appliances. The acting is powerful (Burstyn gives a performance for the ages- she was robbed of the Oscar), and as the characters experience the ups and downs of drug use, we as viewers see the impressive range of emotions the actors are able to convey. That said, from an emotional standpoint, it's a tough cinematic experience, as the characters are nihlistically left to wallow in their pathetic addictions (the film has been criticized for this). Primarily, however, is the story, which is like a blow to the head with a mallet- there are no depths the characters will not seek out, and the jarring transitions from drug-addled bliss to deprived hysteria are exhausting.

So what is there to like? Well, it's not a fairy tale- it's an unflinching and brutallly honest look at the plauge of drug addiction. Once the viewer comes to grips with the fact that there can be no happy endings, it's all about the filmmaking and the acting. There is a compelling beauty in the grotesqueness of it all that makes you want to turn away and keep watching all at once.

As Aronofsky has noted, there are three distinct acts, or cinematic "requiems," and the subtle changes in mise en scene before and after each sequence are most intriguing. Things are all rosy right up to, and even during, the hit (or the breakfast, or the "score,"), and things are not so hot on the way back down. The background music ebbs and flows with the story, and when not soothing the characters with a false sense of calm, acts as an ominous predictor of things to come. The lighting changes from a glowing optimistic hue to a filtered, dark, cold one. The colors go from stark and vibrant to dull and depressing. From sunsets, kisses in elevators, and red dresses to prostitution, jail, amputation, and dementia, everything leads to a terrifying, dizzying conclusion after which most viewers are left shocked and silent. It is at this point that I had no choice but to forgive the script's shortcomings regarding the somewhat one-dimensional characters and its extreme views about the consequences of drug addictions, and simply applaud the powerful filmmaking.

Requiem For A Dream is a modern gem, and The MacGuffins are proud to add it to their squad.

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Displaced Flames fan

08-23-2008, 04:19 PM

I would've sworn that both Almost Famous and The Deer Hunter were already picked.

I can't believe both last this long.

getbak

08-23-2008, 06:54 PM

This is one I've almost picked in the last couple of rounds, and I can't let it drop any further. It's interesting timing too after the picture of Ellen Burstyn that Ro posted from Requiem. Here we go, two Burstyn films in a row.

"The power of Christ compels you. The power of Christ compels you."

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For our sixth round pick, in the "Thriller/Horror" category, team Hot Buttery Topping is proud to select one of the greatest horror films ever made...From 1973, directed by William Friedkin, the 1974 Golden Globe winner for Best Drama, The Exorcist.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7b/Exorcist_ver2.jpg/200px-Exorcist_ver2.jpg

William Peter Blatty won an Oscar for his screenplay, adapted from his own 1971 novel of the same name. Jason Miller (Father Karras), Ellen Burstyn (Chris MacNeil), and Linda Blair (Regan MacNeil) all received Oscar nominations for their performances. Both Friedkin and the film were also nominated for Academy Awards.

The Exorcist is considered by many to be the scariest movie of all time, and while it doesn't feature much of the gore or "killer around the corner" suspense of many more recent horror films, it is a film that gets into your mind and can be hard to shake.

The movie tells the tale of Chris MacNeil, a recently divorced actress and single mother. Chris and her 12 year-old daughter, Regan, have recently moved into a small home in the Georgetown area of Washington DC, where Chris is working on a new movie. Chris starts hearing strange noises coming from the attic, and soon Regan begins exhibiting strange behaviour that quickly goes beyond standard teen-angst and rebellion.

After medical and psychiatric evaluations return no scientific explanation, and as Regan's actions begin to go from strange to supernatural, and eventually deadly, Chris decides to consult with a young Catholic priest, Father Karras (who is undergoing his own crisis of faith surrounding his mother's death), about the possibility of performing an exorcism. Initially skeptical, Karras eventually is convinced to ask the Church's permission to perform an exorcism on Regan, who now claims to be possessed by the Devil himself. The Church sends Father Merrin (Max von Sydow in a Golden Globe nominated performance), an experienced exorcist, to Washington to assist Father Karras.

The exorcism scene is literally chilling, as Friedkin chose to shoot the scene on a refrigerated set so that the performers' breath would be visible on screen.

Linda Blair, who was 14 years-old when she made the movie, gives an incredible performance for such a young and relatively inexperienced actress. It is a role that, for better or worse, has defined Blair's career and changed her life forever. When the movie was originally released, she received death threats and Warner Bros. hired a security detail for her protection.

The movie was re-released in 2000, with numerous scenes that were originally cut from film restored, including the infamous "spider walk" scene and an extended ending.

The original theatrical trailer:
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The spider walk:
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Regan's head spinning (language warning):
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VANFLAMESFAN

08-23-2008, 08:52 PM

First off, I want to say, that I don't believe that my next pick belongs in the Thriller category, but IMDB lists it as that, so I have no complaints.

TEAM Wishwedidaporndraft is proud to select their second offering from the most original filmmakr of the last 20 years, Quentin Tarantino's..........

RESERVOIR DOGS
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In 1992, Quentin Tarantino was a relative unknown in the mainstream. It was until 1994's Pulp Fiction where he was a household name, but he did gain a lot of steam after making a funny, tragic, gruesome abd brillant crime thriller, Reservoir Dogs.

Starring Harvey Keitel, Steve Buscemi, Tim Roth and Michael Madsen, Reservoir Dogs is an absolute cult classic. Reservoir Dogs tells the story of seven strangers who attempt to pull of an elaborate jewel robbery, but all hell breaks loose and suspicions arise as a set up may have been in the works. Backed by an amazing soundtrack, Reservoir Dogs is a personal favorite and very nice addition to our squad.

Some Scenes: NSFW...Language and Violence

Opening scene including the "Like A Virgin" speech, the Tipping is for the birds speech and also a great song at the end of it.

Maybe the best opening scene I have ever scene.

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Joe Giving out the names:

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The Infamous Ear Scene, Michael Madsen at his sadistic best!

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HalifaxDrunk

08-23-2008, 09:01 PM

The Exorcist.

In a word...Awesome! This is the greatest horror movie of all time, end of story.

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Sweet pick! I agree, I'm not sure of the IMDB listing, but in the end you can't go wrong with this in any category.

czure32

08-23-2008, 09:04 PM

sadora

08-23-2008, 09:36 PM

Man there have been some great picks lately. Both Exorcist and Reservoir Dogs are such great movies.

So...team snoogans is happy to select in the Animation category, the movie that helped popularize Anime in the West...AKIRA

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/Cover-akira.jpg

The film is set in a neon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon)-lit futuristic post-apocalyptic Tokyo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo) in 2019. While most of the character designs and basic settings were directly adapted from the original 2,182 page manga epic, the restructured plot of the movie differs considerably from the print version, pruning much of the last half of the book. Akira is regarded by critics as one of the greatest animated films ever made (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Films_considered_the_greatest_ever).[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_%28film%29#cite_note-autogenerated1-0) The movie led the way for the growing popularity of anime (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime) in the West (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world), with Akira considered a forerunner of the second wave of anime fandom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fandom) that began in the early 1990s. One of the reasons for the movie's success was the highly advanced quality of its animation. At the time, most anime was notorious for cutting production corners with limited motion, such as having only the characters' mouths move while their faces remained static. Akira broke from this trend with meticulously detailed scenes, exactingly lip-synched (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lip-synching#Animation) dialogue—a first for an anime production (voices were recorded before the animation was completed, rather than the opposite)—and super-fluid motion as realized in the film's more than 160,000 animation cels (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cel).[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_%28film%29#cite_note-AK3-1) Notable motifs in the film include youth culture, delinquency (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delinquency), Human fantasies with psychic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic) abilities, social unrest and the world's reaction towards a nuclear holocaust (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki) and Japan's post-war economic revival. The film also explores a number of psychological and philosophical themes, such as the nature of corruption, the will to power (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_to_power), and the growth from childhood to maturity both in individuals and the human race itself. Elements of Buddhist symbolism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_symbolism) are also present in the film.

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Superflyer

08-23-2008, 10:56 PM

For the next choice for the B-List Celebs we are proud to select in the category of War, Good Morning Vietnam.

Barry Levinson (Wag the Dog) directed this comedy-drama about an Armed Forces Radio disc jockey (Robin Williams) whose manic, hilarious delivery from a studio in 1965 Saigon gives U.S. troops in the field a morale boost (while upsetting military brass). Based on the real-life experiences of deejay Adrian Cronauer, the film is actually more concept than story: put Williams in front of a microphone and let him go nuts. Still, the surrounding stuff about the influence upon Cronauer of the endless deaths among his listeners--as Cronauer tries to stay funny while feeling the mounting losses--is affecting. Williams got a much-deserved Oscar nomination for his work.

http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/nst/blogs/fillips/images/Good%20Morning%20Vietnam%201987.bmp

First time Cronauer goes on the air.
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Such a great scene, but for some reason after watching it I always have something in my eye.
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Eastern Girl

08-24-2008, 03:57 PM

Bump from the second page...

Jagger

08-25-2008, 12:10 AM

Not another 2nd page bump? For shame...

octothorp

08-25-2008, 12:18 AM

That's an asskick by now, right? Jerzeegirl's up.

GirlySports

08-25-2008, 12:24 AM

That's an asskick by now, right? Jerzeegirl's up.

It's Jerzee tht's asskicked.. ITSE's up

JerzeeGirl

08-25-2008, 12:28 AM

It's Jerzee tht's asskicked.. ITSE's up

Wow, I was still 2 spots away earlier tonight and I come back to an asskicking....ouch! :whaa:

GirlySports

08-25-2008, 12:42 AM

Wow, I was still 2 spots away earlier tonight and I come back to an asskicking....ouch! :whaa:

You were? Superflyer made his pick on the 23rd.
Check the thread... You guys should able to continue the draft without me updating the title.

No harm done. Just pick now ;)

JerzeeGirl

08-25-2008, 01:24 AM

With our 6th pick, team That's What She Said would like to select in the Drama category, Frailty. This film marks Bill Paxton's first foray into directing and he did a superb job with a relatively small budget, creating an ambience that added to the intensity of the film and not relying on gore or cgi to make the audience jump.

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This movie is one where you are constantly surprised and unsettled as you observe a normal family's decent into madness as the father of 2 boys claims to have had "visions from God" telling him to destroy demons that walk among the rest of society.

One son, after witnessing the eradication of the first demon brought home by his father, jumps on board with the plan claiming to have had his own vision. The older boy, feels his father has gone over the edge and does his best to end the killing he is witnessing.

To say any more would be to say too much....I just recommend watching this flick some night if you haven't already.

Clips!

The trailer:
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A scene...
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To see what Ebert had to say, click the linky (http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20020412/REVIEWS/204120303/1023).

Itse

08-25-2008, 01:40 AM

With our 6th pick, team That's What She Said would like to select in the Drama category, Frailty.

Hmm, never heard of that one, but sounds interesting. I think I'll check that out.

EDIT: I'll have to think about my pick for a little, I'll have to keep you waiting for a few hours.

Itse

08-25-2008, 04:41 AM

For our 6th round pick and 146th overall, Selfmade Heroes are happy to pick High Fidelity (2000) in the Comedy category.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e8/HighfidelityDVD.jpg/200px-HighfidelityDVD.jpg

Out of all the films in the world, this might very well be the one that strikes closest to home. It's very hard to say exactly what makes this movie special, yet it is very much so. It's constantly funny, flows very naturally. It's also so very true to life, it loves it's characters dearly and understands them even when they are being complete pricks.

I absolutely love this film. Everytime I see it, I feel happy and melancholic, and feel that I have learned something about myself and life. There is no way I would ever want to try and review this film objectively.

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The last one is a compilation of three scenes, which are kind of irrelevant but manage to capture something about the film.

Jagger

08-25-2008, 05:05 AM

For our 6th round pick and 146th overall, Selfmade Heroes are happy to pick High Fidelity (2000) in the Comedy category.

Great movie! I agree with your comments wholeheartedly. The book by Nick Hornby, based in London not Chicago, is equally fantastic as is most of his work. Very nice pick indeed.

JerzeeGirl

08-25-2008, 07:29 AM

For our 6th round pick and 146th overall, Selfmade Heroes are happy to pick High Fidelity (2000) in the Comedy category.

Brilliant pick - this movie grew on me every time I watched it, as did the actual soundtrack to it. These characters are so real and complex that you don't quite grasp how good it is without multiple viewings.

doozwimp

08-25-2008, 04:25 PM

Give me a minute. Have had to change gears after High Fidelity and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid were taken.

I'll take The Kids are Alright in the music category.
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http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/who_the_kids_are_alright/
Stunningly I cant find any youtubes specifically referring to the movie (copyright issues?). Anyway here are a couple of clips I believe are taken from the concert filmed for the movie.
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octothorp

08-25-2008, 04:47 PM

Does the 'musical' category also include the 'music' category? I thought that this and similar films would go into the 'documentary' category.

And speaking of nitpicking genres, did whoever picked African Queen (Habernac?) for the B&W category ever re-pick or change to another category?

sadora

08-25-2008, 04:51 PM

For our 6th round pick and 146th overall, Selfmade Heroes are happy to pick High Fidelity (2000) in the Comedy category.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e8/HighfidelityDVD.jpg/200px-HighfidelityDVD.jpg

Noooooooooo......I mean great pick. I was debating between this one and Akira for my last pick. I was hoping to pick this one next. I just love this movie. Probably one of John Cusack's better roles. Here's two of my favorite quotes.

"Look at these. I used to dream I'd be surrounded by exotic women's underwear forever and ever. Now I know they just save their best pairs for the nights they know they're going to sleep with somebody. "

"She didn't make me miserable, or anxious, or ill at ease. You know, it sounds boring, but it wasn't. It wasn't spectacular either. It was just good. But really good. "

Jagger

08-25-2008, 04:54 PM

Does the 'musical' category also include the 'music' category? I thought that this and similar films would go into the 'documentary' category.

I've noticed a few 'Musical' picks have come from IMDB 'music' classification. It would be tough to disallow them now I would imagine. Personally I've got no problem with it.

MattyC

08-25-2008, 04:57 PM

I've noticed a few 'Musical' picks have come from IMDB 'music' classification. It would be tough to disallow them now I would imagine. Personally I've got no problem with it.
In this case I would like to change Almost Famous to the Musical category

Jagger

08-25-2008, 05:06 PM

In this case I would like to change Almost Famous to the Musical category

Better let the law around here (i.e. Girly) rule on this first!

octothorp

08-25-2008, 05:07 PM

I've noticed a few 'Musical' picks have come from IMDB 'music' classification. It would be tough to disallow them now I would imagine. Personally I've got no problem with it.

Ah, good point. Does anyone have a problem if we officially state that movies classified with 'music' as their genre on IMDB can also be used in the 'musical' category? I'll leave it to the commish to make any sort of final ruling on it.

getbak

08-25-2008, 05:12 PM

In this case I would like to change Almost Famous to the Musical category

Better let the law around here (i.e. Girly) rule on this first!
It won the Golden Globe for Best Musical or Comedy, so I can't see how it doesn't qualify. I had it slotted in to the Musical category.

GirlySports

08-25-2008, 05:23 PM

Music = musical. It's fine with me.

(sorry, I'm still in the other post where everyone thinks i'm a bad person) ;)

HalifaxDrunk

08-25-2008, 06:12 PM

With our 6th round selection Yippie-Kay-Yay is happy to select a movie that spans MANY genres. (Animation | Action | Adventure | Crime | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller)

For now in the Animation category we select the super awesome Canadian masterpiece:
Heavy Metal
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Heavy Metal is a 1981 Canadian animated film from executive producer Leonard Mogel, with Ivan Reitman producing and Gerald Potterton directing, the work flow was expedited by having several animation houses working simultaneously on different segments.

The film is an anthology of various science fiction and fantasy stories adapted from Heavy Metal magazine and original stories in the same spirit. Like the magazine, the film has an unusual amount of bloody violence, nudity and sexuality for an animated film.

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Jagger

08-25-2008, 11:21 PM

This thread's moving (up), It's ALIVE, It's ALIVE!

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CMPunk

08-25-2008, 11:38 PM

Music = musical. It's fine with me.

(sorry, I'm still in the other post where everyone thinks i'm a bad person) ;)

Sheesh...changing the rules again?

I think if you're picking for a musical category, it should be a musical like Wizard of Oz or something like that, not a movie about music. The point of this game was to do research on movies to fill a certain category, not continually broadening the category to make things easier.

Jagger

08-26-2008, 12:07 AM

Sheesh...changing the rules again?

I think if you're picking for a musical category, it should be a musical like Wizard of Oz or something like that, not a movie about music. The point of this game was to do research on movies to fill a certain category, not continually broadening the category to make things easier.

I respect your opinion but I thought the point of this game was about having fun. Why does everything have to become so difficult? Moreover, GirlySports came up with this idea and has spent a lot of time running it for our enjoyment and as the commish makes the decisions.

A movie with the Music genre tag on IMDB obviously has music as a main theme of the movie. What's wrong with using that as the measuring stick?

Whatever, like I said, this should be about fun and not an exercise in proving how good your research is. Maybe, that's just me.

edit: And looking over the picks does anybody not agree that "Pink Floyd: The Wall" and "Purple Rain" have music as a main theme of them and as such better belong in some sort of music or musical category?

Prototype

08-26-2008, 09:32 AM

In the spirit of moving things along, I may fata here... but it will be the steal of the century if it's not.

Team NC-17 is proud to select, in the COMEDY catagory, ANIMAL HOUSE.

I will do my usual posting about the movie later tonight.

octothorp

08-26-2008, 09:35 AM

VANFLAMESFAN

08-26-2008, 09:36 AM

habernac

08-26-2008, 09:49 AM

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no, and it isn't over now!

Prototype

08-26-2008, 10:26 AM

I didn't have time to go through 30 pages... sorry folk...

In the WILD CARD catagory, another potential fata, GOOD WILL HUNTING.

WindomURL

08-26-2008, 10:56 AM

Anyways, I just picked up a couple oldies to watch, 12 Angry Men and Vertigo. Looking forward to being impressed...

This post was from 08-05. What did you think of these movies?

I've been catching a lot of Picked movies on AMC (channel 47 on Shaw in Calgary) recently. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was just on last night and again this morning. Superb! Later is the first of the trilogy, followed by The Usual Suspects, and Apollo 13.

sadora

08-26-2008, 11:34 AM

I didn't have time to go through 30 pages... sorry folk...

In the WILD CARD catagory, another potential fata, GOOD WILL HUNTING.

Good Will Hunting hasn't been picked yet(good pick btw), but just go through the draft board on the first page of this thread to find out what has been picked.

octothorp

08-26-2008, 12:04 PM

We need a central list of movies that have been picked which are going to be on TV. Here's a list of movies that have been picked so far that are appearing on TCM or AMC in the next month. If one of your movies is appearing on a different channel and I've missed it, let me know and I'll include it, and update it weekly.

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: AMC Tue Aug 26 @ 11AM (right now!)
Usual Suspects: AMC Aug 26 @ 5:30 PM
Psycho: TCM Aug 26 @ 10:00 PM
Some Like it Hot: TCM Aug 27 @ 8:00 PM
Apocolypse Now: TCM Aug 29 @ 1:15 AM
The African Queen: TCM August 30, 10:00 PM
Twelve Angry Men: TCM Sept 01, 6:15 PM
Casablanca: TCM Oct 04, 3:30 AM
Usual Suspects: AMC Sept 5 @ 2:00 AM
Usual Suspects: AMC Sept 5 @ 3:30 PM
Dr Strangelove: TCM Sept 08, 10:15 PM
The Great Escape: AMC Sept 09, 10:30PM
Dr. Zhivago: TCM September 13, 2:30 PM
Rear Window: TCM Sept 13, 2:00 AM
Some Like it Hot: TCM Sept 23 @ 1:00 AM
The African Queen: TCM Sept 28, 10:00 PM
Psycho: TCM Sept 30 @ 3:30 PM

Note: TCM and AMC use different systems for listing their early morning (between 12 and 6) movies; for TCM, their listed as being under the date of the previous evening, for AMC their listed as the following day. Just double-check your TV listings before staying up late to watch any of these.

Prototype

08-26-2008, 01:05 PM

Good Will Hunting hasn't been picked yet(good pick btw), but just go through the draft board on the first page of this thread to find out what has been picked.

I've only had enought time to jump on here for like 5-10 mins at a time, and I didn't want to hold things up...

Displaced Flames fan

08-26-2008, 05:43 PM

I almost watched the first overall pick last night on American Movie Classics. It was set to run from 9:30 PM til 1:30 AM. I gave up!

sadora

08-26-2008, 08:16 PM

I almost watched the first overall pick last night on American Movie Classics. It was set to run from 9:30 PM til 1:30 AM. I gave up!

Honestly, watching that movie on tv doesn't do it justice, all the good stuff cut out of it and all the commercials. You have to watch it right, no interruptions and in widescreen with good soundsaround.

Displaced Flames fan

08-26-2008, 09:11 PM

Honestly, watching that movie on tv doesn't do it justice, all the good stuff cut out of it and all the commercials. You have to watch it right, no interruptions and in widescreen with good soundsaround.

Agree. I used that as a larger part of my justification than the 4 hours of sleep I would've ended up with.:D

GirlySports

08-27-2008, 07:40 AM

Liamenator's been AK'd

Eastern Girl is up.

liamenator

08-27-2008, 10:23 AM

AK'd... How embarrassing! Sorry folks.

With our 6th pick, BF & the BFFs are proud to select, in the category of War, the late Anthony Minghella's WW2 masterpiece... One of the better novel adaptations you will ever see - not in terms of faithfulness to the source material, but in terms of adapting the novel for a different medium, creating a new work of art that can stand alone, but that also maintains the spirit and feeling of the original... Featuring a top-notch cast, breathtaking cinematography, and a brilliant score... One of the least linear plots to win best picture in the last 20 years... The English Patient

http://bbs.chinadaily.com.cn/attachments/month_0711/The-English-Patient-movie_7OqrcLnnoJij.jpg

The film garnered widespread critical acclaim and was a major award winner as well as a box office (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_office) success; its awards included the Academy Award for Best Picture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture), the Golden Globe Award (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award) and the BAFTA Award for Best Film (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAFTA_Award_for_Best_Film). Juliette Binoche (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliette_Binoche) won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Supporting_Actress), winning out over Lauren Bacall (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Bacall) for The Mirror Has Two Faces (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mirror_Has_Two_Faces) (it would have been Bacall's only Oscar win, and in her acceptance speech Binoche commented that she had expected Bacall to win). Anthony Minghella (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Minghella) took home the Oscar for Best Director. Kristin Scott Thomas and Ralph Fiennes were nominated for Best Actress and Best Actor. In all, The English Patient was nominated for an impressive 12 awards and ultimately walked away with 9. It is the highest-grossing non-IMAX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAX) film (and second highest-grossing film overall) to never reach the weekend box office top 5.[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_English_Patient_%28film%29#cite_note-1)
An episode of Seinfeld (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_English_Patient_%28Seinfeld_episode%29) was devoted to lampooning the film's fervent supporters: Elaine is dumped by her boyfriend because of her tepid response to the film, and her critique culminates with the outburst, "Quit telling your stupid story, about the stupid desert, and just die already! Die!!".
Since weekend box office top 10 rankings were first recorded in 1982, The English Patient and Amadeus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeus_%28film%29) are the only two Best Picture winners to never enter the weekend box office top 5.[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_English_Patient_%28film%29#cite_note-2)[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_English_Patient_%28film%29#cite_note-3)
Pulitzer Prize (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize) winning critic Roger Ebert (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ebert), from the Chicago Sun Times (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Sun_Times) gave the movie a 4 star rating, saying that "It is the kind of movie you can see twice--first for the questions, the second time for the answers."[5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_English_Patient_%28film%29#cite_note-4)

Eastern Girl

08-27-2008, 10:34 AM

No time today to see if it's been picked or to put up the usual goodies, so perhaps I will later.

But in the interest of keeping this thing moving along, I don't think it's been picked yet, so with Team Pineapple's sixth round pick, we are proud to select in the category of Thriller, A Few Good Men (1992). It stars (a pre-crazy) Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore (as the most useless chick ever).

Great movie, the courtroom scenes are fantastic. I can recite most of the lines by heart, I've seen it so many times. And it spawned the catch phrase, "You can't handle the truth!"

GirlySports

08-27-2008, 10:56 AM

WindomURL

08-27-2008, 11:46 AM

http://bbs.chinadaily.com.cn/attachments/month_0711/The-English-Patient-movie_7OqrcLnnoJij.jpg

"I'd rather see Sack Lunch"
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JerzeeGirl

08-27-2008, 12:52 PM

"I'd rather see Sack Lunch"

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f0/Sein_ep208.jpg/250px-Sein_ep208.jpg

What s/he said!

(Sorry Liam.....;))

Displaced Flames fan

08-27-2008, 05:19 PM

I really disliked The English Patient, despite it's undenibaly great cinematography and score. I will probably give it another shot sometime soon.

A Few Good Men is classic. I miss J.T Walsh!!!

czure32

08-27-2008, 05:19 PM

bump

*gah figures i go to bump it from page 2 and im beat by seconds by a legitimate post so i just look like a jack ass*

octothorp

08-27-2008, 06:30 PM

Eastern Girl

08-27-2008, 09:48 PM

I didn't get a chance to post any goodies for my sixth round pick, A Few Good Men, so here it is, for those that may be interested.

Plot/Cast Info

Released in 1992, A Few Good Men (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104257/) stars Tom Cruise as Navy lawyer Daniel Kaffee, who is picked to defend two marines on trial for murder. Demi Moore and Kevin Pollock are assigned to help him prepare his case. Kevin Bacon plays Cpt. Jack Ross, who is prosecuting the case. Jack Nicholson plays Jessop, a high ranking Colonel at the base where the murder took place. Noah Wylie, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Keifer Sutherland all have bit parts.

As an aside, did anyone else hate Demi Moore in this movie? I hated her character in this movie. I said earlier, she was completely useless in this film. The character was just irritating. Just had to say that. That would be my biggest complaint about this film.

Trivia

Tom Cruise impersonates Jack Nicholson in the film, it was not scripted.
In the scene where Sutherland is driving Cruise and co. around the base to conduct their investigation, Sutherland had trouble driving the wide vehicle and actually hit several of the soldiers in a few of the takes.
The word "sir" is said 164 times, an average of once every 50 seconds.
The line "You can't handle the truth" ranked #29 on the American Films Institutes top 100 movie quotations, and #92 on Premieres "100 Greatest Move Lines."
Youtube Stuff

Here is a short trailer for the film:

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Here is the opening of the film. I figured I would include it because I think it's pretty darn neat to watch, so enjoy:

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The film itself is famous for its courtroom drama, in particular, the confrontation between Colonel Jessop (Nicholson) and Lt. Kaffee (Cruise).

Here is that scene, courtesy of Youtube.

***Two warnings here: This is the climax of the film, so if you haven't seen it and don't want it ruined, don't watch this clip. Secondly, there's some questionable language so NSFW.***

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This is my favourite scene, aside from the courtroom scene above.

This is the scene where Moores character has screwed up and hurt the case, so Kaffee gets drunk and tells her what's what. I love it.

"Galactically Stupid," that's awesome.

***This scene occurs late in the film, so it's slightly spoiler-ish***

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Hope you enjoyed that!

WindomURL

08-27-2008, 10:13 PM

Last edited by Eastern Girl : 08-27-2008 at 09:51 PM. Reason: spacing is all weird and it won't let me fix it, sorry

I know! My last post ended up the same weird way. I thought it made me look like a computertard :bag:

WindomURL

08-27-2008, 10:15 PM

Some like it Hot is on right now. Never seen it before, it's pretty good so far.

Did you or anyone watch the Tony Curtis movie that followed SLIH? Wow, I didn't know they wrote scripts like that in 1957.

Flamesguy_SJ

08-27-2008, 10:20 PM

With our 6th round pick, Direct2Video selects A Fistful of Dollars in the Western category.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e4/Fistful_Macaroni.jpg

A Fistful of Dollars was at first intended by Leone to reinvent the western genre in Italy. In his opinion the American westerns of the mid to late nineteen-fifties had become stagnant, overly-preachy and unbelievable and because of this Hollywood began to gear down on the production of such films. Leone knew that there was still a significant market in Europe for westerns yet also realised that Italian audiences of the time were beginning to laugh at the stock conventions of both the American westerns and pastiche work of Italian directors hiding under pseudonyms. His approach was to take the grammar of the Italian film and transpose it into a western setting. Clint Eastwood was not the first actor who was approached to play the main character. Originally, Sergio Leone intended Henry Fonda (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fonda) to play the role of the "Man With No Name". However, the production company could not afford to engage a major Hollywood star. Hereupon, Leone offered Charles Bronson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bronson) the part who, in turn, declined the role arguing the script was too bad. Both Fonda and Bronson would later star in Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_the_West) (1968 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_in_film)). Other actors who turned the role down were Ty Hardin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty_Hardin) and James Coburn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Coburn). Leone then turned his attentions towards Richard Harrison (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Harrison_%28actor%29), who had recently starred in the very first Italian western, Gunfight at Red Sands (Duello nel Texas). Harrison, however, had not been impressed with his experience on his previous film, and refused. The producers later established a list of available, lesser-known American actors, and asked Harrison for advice. Harrison suggested Clint Eastwood, whom he knew could play a cowboy convincingly. Harrison later stated: "Maybe my greatest contribution to cinema was not doing Fistful of Dollars, and recommending Clint for the part".

habernac

08-28-2008, 07:47 AM

nice pick, flamesguySJ. I love reading about the stuff in the background of these movies. Who could see anyone other than Eastwood as the Man with No Name?

habernac

08-28-2008, 07:58 AM

The Roger Ebert Experience is proud to select, in the best picture category, the epic western Dances with Wolves.

At almost 4 hours, it seems long, but I remember it going by very quickly the first time I saw it. Terrific cast, wonderful story and great acting. Rodney A Grant is probably my favourite character in the movie. Lots of people get down on Costner for whatever reason, but he's had some terrific films.

http://sb3143.k12.sd.us/year/images/picture11.jpg

Dances with Wolves is a 1990 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990) epic film (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_film) which tells the story of a United States Lieutenant who travels to the American Frontier to find a military post. He eventually befriends a local Sioux tribe.[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dances_with_Wolves#cite_note-allmov-0) Developed by director/star Kevin Costner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Costner) over 5 years, the film (released November 9 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_9), 1990 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990)) has high production values[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dances_with_Wolves#cite_note-allmov-0) and won 7 Academy Awards (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award) (1990) and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award_for_Best_Motion_Picture_-_Drama).[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dances_with_Wolves#cite_note-imdb-1) Much of the dialogue is in the Lakota language (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakota_language) with English (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language) subtitles, unusual for a film at the time of its release. It was shot in South Dakota (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota) and Wyoming (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming).
In 2007, Dances with Wolves was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Film_Registry) by the Library of Congress (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress) as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dances_with_Wolves#cite_note-registry-2)

Originally written as a spec script (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spec_script) by Michael Blake (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Blake), it went unsold in the mid-1980s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s). It was Kevin Costner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Costner) who, in early 1986 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986) (when he was relatively unknown), encouraged Blake to turn the screenplay into a novel, to improve its chances of being adapted into a film. The novel manuscript of Dances with Wolves was rejected by numerous publishers but finally published in paperback in 1988 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988). As a novel, the rights were purchased by Costner, with an eye to his directing it.[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dances_with_Wolves#cite_note-3) Actual filming lasted from July 18 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_18) to November 23 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_23), 1989 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989). Most of the movie was filmed on location in South Dakota (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota), but a few scenes were filmed in Wyoming (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming). Filming locations included the Badlands National Park (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badlands_National_Park), the Black Hills (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hills), the Sage Creek Wilderness Area, and the Belle Fourche River (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Fourche_River) area. The buffalo hunt scenes were filmed at the Triple U Buffalo Ranch (http://web.archive.org/web/20060502133152/http://www.tripleuranch.com/htm/dances_with_wolves.shtml) near Pierre, South Dakota (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre,_South_Dakota), as were the fort Sedgwick scenes, the set being constructed on the property. [5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dances_with_Wolves#cite_note-4)
Because of budget overruns and production delays, and the general perception, after the fiasco of Michael Cimino's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cimino) Heaven's Gate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(film)), then considered one of the most mismanaged Westerns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_(genre)) in film history (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_film), Costner's project was satirically (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire) dubbed "Kevin's Gate" by Hollywood critics and skeptics during the months prior to its release. [6] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dances_with_Wolves#cite_note-5)
The language spoken in the film is a fairly accurate, although simplified[citation needed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)], version of the actual Lakota language (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakota_language). Lakota Sioux language instructor Doris Leader Charge (1931--2001) was the on-set Lakota dialogue coach and also portrayed Pretty Shield, wife of Chief Ten Bears, portrayed by Floyd Red Crow Westerman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Red_Crow_Westerman).[7] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dances_with_Wolves#cite_note-6)
According to the "Making Of" documentary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_film) on the Special Edition Dances With Wolves DVD, not all of the buffalo were computer animated and/or puppets. In fact, Costner and crew employed the largest domestically owned buffalo ranch, with two of the domesticated buffalo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Bison) being borrowed from Neil Young (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Young), and used the herd for the hunting scene. The hunt chase was filmed live and Costner did his own stunts for the shots. The only computer animation and puppetry special effects that were used were for the shots of the buffalo falling.
Despite portraying the adopted daughter of Graham Greene (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Greene_(actor))'s character Kicking Bird, Mary McDonnell, then 37, was actually two months older than Greene, and less than two years younger than Tantoo Cardinal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantoo_Cardinal), the actress playing her adoptive mother. In addition, McDonnell was extremely nervous about shooting her sex (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missionary_position) scene (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_in_film) with Kevin Costner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Costner), requesting it be toned down to a more modest version (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modesty#Modest_versions_of_nudity) than what was scripted.[8] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dances_with_Wolves#cite_note-7)

octothorp

08-28-2008, 09:38 AM

6 Degrees of Troy McClure is proud to select, in the Drama category, Royal Tenenbaums. A great cast, with Gene Hackman, Angelica Huston, Luke and Owen Wilson, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Bill Murray and Danny Glover. Not necessarily my favorite Wes Anderson film, but I think it's the best in terms of writing, direction and acting.

Sorry, no time to post clips right now. Except maybe one.

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octothorp

08-28-2008, 09:40 AM

Did you or anyone watch the Tony Curtis movie that followed SLIH? Wow, I didn't know they wrote scripts like that in 1957.

I didn't watch most of it, but I was channel surfing later, and caught a couple scenes of it that seemed to have great, emotionally rich, but not over-the-top dialogue. Seemed to be a very different role for Tony Curtis than most of the ligth comedy films I've seen him in.

VANFLAMESFAN

08-28-2008, 09:48 AM

The Roger Ebert Experience is proud to select, in the best picture category, the epic western Dances with Wolves.

At almost 4 hours, it seems long,

Director's cut is 4 hours. Original theatrical version is 3.

Great pick, love this flick.

czure32

08-28-2008, 10:00 AM

while this next selection doesnt strike one as a typical western with cowboys and indians and oh i dont know....lets say, wagon painting; IMDB does list it as a western, and as far as "westerns" go, its one that I can get into

with the 156th pick overall, in the Western category, DVD-eh selects:

El Mariachi
http://unixbeard.net/~richardc/talks/siesta/el-mariachi.jpeg

the directorial debut of Robert Rodriguez, filmed in Mexico for a budget of $7000 US, tells the story of an out of work musician who is mistaken for an escaped convict that is killing his former partners men using a stash of weapons that he has hidden in his guitar case

no clips as Im at work, but will try to add some tonight
*its apparently incredibly difficult to find clips from the first el mariachi...Ill see if i cant find somethign though*

REDVAN

08-28-2008, 11:10 AM

With the 157th pick, Team REDVAN will chose

Open Range, in the western category.

I enjoy this movie because it has some excellent performances by the actors. There are a lot of good westerns out there, but this one was filmed in the Calgary area so I have to give it higher points for that.

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habernac

08-28-2008, 11:12 AM

great, great movie, Redvan. Another Costner gem. When Duvall was filming it, he was in downtown Calgary a number of times, was a patron at a friend's restaurant and was extremely polite.

MissTeeks

08-28-2008, 11:47 AM

With the 158th pick, Team MissTeeks selects in the comedy category, Dazed and Confused. This is one of my favorite movies of all time, and I'm a little surprised it was still available. This movie follows around a group of high school kids on the last day of school in 1976. It stars some future Hollywood hotshots Ben Affleck and Matthew McConaughey, but my favorite character was always Rory Cochrane as Slater. My parents tell me that this was so much like their days in high school it was scary. It's full of great quotes and has a totally kick-ass soundtrack. My friend and I listen to it in the car all the time.

IMDB page:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106677/

Trailer:

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Great scenes:

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Some of my favorite quotes:

Simone (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000725/): I did it when I was a freshman, and you'll do it when you're seniors. but you're doing great. Now fry like bacon, you little freshman piggies. Fry!
_______________________

Pink (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0518715/): All I'm saying is that if I ever start referring to these as the best years of my life - remind me to kill myself.
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Cynthia (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005356/): God, don't you ever feel like everything we do and everything we've been taught is just to service the future?
Tony (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0710829/): Yeah I know, like it's all preparation.
Cynthia (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005356/): Right. But what are we preparing ourselves for?
Mike (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004965/): Death.
Tony (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0710829/): Life of the party.
Mike (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004965/): It's true.
Cynthia (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005356/): You know, but that's valid because if we are all gonna die anyway shouldn't we be enjoying ourselves now? You know, I'd like to quit thinking of the present, like right now, as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.
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Slater (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0168262/): Behind every good man there is a woman, and that woman was Martha Washington, man, and everyday George would come home, she would have a big fat bowl waiting for him, man, when he come in the door, man, she was a hip, hip, hip lady, man.
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Sorry, I got carried away!

Superflyer

08-28-2008, 12:13 PM

Wow there are a lot of westerns going out the door lately, I think that I should have picked one while I had the chance. At least there are still a few good ones left.

Eastern Girl

08-28-2008, 12:15 PM

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"L-I-V-I-N"

I quote this all the time, almost too much. I should probably stop.

Got Miikka?

08-28-2008, 12:40 PM

With the 159th pick, Team Clint Eastwood selects Heat (1995) in the Drama category (for the time being).

http://www.follow-me-now.de/assets/images/Heat-Filmplakat.jpg

Aside from its landmark status as being the first movie to feature cinematic legends Robert De Niro and Al Pacino on screen at the same time - reason enough to warrant heavyweight status - Michael Mann's absolutely epic crime drama is packed with goodies: a deep, all-star cast, a compelling and intricate story that unfolds seamlessly, and of course, superlative direction by Mann, who has released several highly-esteemed films - none of which, I venture, come close to the achievements he makes in this one.

I didn't see this movie until a few years ago and it instantly vaulted to favorite status; I am equally enthralled by successive viewings. Mann does so many things right: the entire movie was shot on location without a single soundstage, giving it an ultra-real effect. The two major action setpieces in the film - both robberies - benefit from taking place on Los Angeles streets and Mann ups the realism by letting the sound effects rule the atmosphere; no music is used in these scenes. The latter sequence especially is gripping for its depiction of combat-zone brutality on a crowded downtown avenue in broad daylight (evidently this scene was actually screened for US Marine recruits at one point as an example of how to retreat while under fire - more trivia here (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113277/trivia)). Indeed, the setting in this film is as important as any of the characters, playing a large role in all of the scenes; a romance that develops between De Niro and the character played by Amy Brenneman is all the more compelling for taking place in busy restaurants and overlooking the distinctive L.A. landscape at night, with its blinking lights - Mann uses effective filters to enhance the humid, muggy atmosphere.

I have a minor quibble with the ending - I would have rolled credits before the inevitable final chase - but even this is inconsequential; the way the film does wrap up nicely punctuates the respectful back-and-forth between the two leads. The storyline that engages these men works as a perfect parallel for their real-life personas.

The aforementioned robbery shooutout sequence - best viewed on a big screen with a pumping soundsystem (some spoilers in this sequence!)
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octothorp

08-28-2008, 12:49 PM

Man, the draft just flies between the 1-10 spots. It really distinguishes those of us who sit at our desks looking at CP all day. Keep it up! Some great picks.

Got Miikka?

08-28-2008, 12:50 PM

It really distinguishes those of us who sit at our desks looking at CP all day

:bag:

even worse considering how seldom I usually post..

Jagger

08-28-2008, 01:07 PM

With the 160th pick It's Just A Flesh Wound is proud to select another personal favourite, "Local Hero" (1983). This will represent, bizarrely IMO, our Foreign selection, it being a UK film and all!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6a/Local_Hero_Poster.jpg/200px-Local_Hero_Poster.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Local_Hero_Poster.jpg)

"Local Hero is a 1983 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_in_film) Scottish comedy film (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy_film) starring Peter Riegert (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Riegert), Denis Lawson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Lawson) and Burt Lancaster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Lancaster). It was directed by Bill Forsyth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Forsyth) and produced by David Puttnam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Puttnam).[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Hero#cite_note-0)
The film is set in the fictional fishing village of Ferness on the west coast of Scotland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland). A young representative of an American oil company is sent to the village on a mission. The film features a notable ensemble of character parts."

There's just something about this little movie that makes it a real gem. Sure it is a little dated now but the characters, location, and music make it a classic in my eyes. If you haven't seen it I would highly recommend you rent it at least. Perhaps you'll fall in love with it as I did....

Oh yeah, this movie also features my signature below. "It's red all over" exclaims Mac when he observes the Northern Lights for the first time.

Linkies:

Trailer:
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"I feel like I've been here forever"

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"It's never locked"

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A world without oil:

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This movie also features fantastic music from Mark Knopfler:

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Another verision:
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StrayBullet

08-28-2008, 02:56 PM

With the 161st pick, in the CP Movie Draft, StrayBullet selects Oldboy (올드보이) starring, Min-sik Choi and Ji-tae Yu. Oldboy (올드보이) will fill the Foreign criteria.

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x34/erwinaviray/oldboy.jpg

My personal favorite Foreign movie from Korea... Action, violence, deception, intensity, drama, loyalty and personal anguish all rolled into a great film about vengeance against others who have done wrong to a man. Released in 2003.

Awesome fight scene.
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octothorp

08-28-2008, 03:09 PM

Huh, two in a row that I haven't even heard of. Will need to check them out.

08-28-2008, 03:12 PM

With the 161st pick, in the CP Movie Draft, StrayBullet selects Oldboy

I love this movie. It was either this one or City Of God for my foreign slot, and I was strongly considering taking this one later on as a wildcard if it was still available.

For all its flaws, it's a triumphant display of filmmaking. It's part B-movie, part John Woo, and part Greek tragedy. With a healthy dose of bloody gore and expert camera work. Lots of memorable scenes, an original and intriguing premise, and it pulsates with life.

It won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes the year Tarantino headed the jury committee, so it comes Quentin approved, and after you've seen it, it's easy to see why.

Nice pick!

08-28-2008, 03:17 PM

Also, we are really flying now fellas. Kickass!

Think we can finish before the music draft? ;)

GirlySports

08-28-2008, 03:47 PM

Wow, I didn't think Oldboy would go cause I didn't think people knew about it. It's extremely popular in Asia and extremely violent. It has a cult following for sure.

WindomURL

08-28-2008, 03:53 PM

StrayBullet, that pick totally rules! I saw that a few months ago in Hi-def after having never heard of it before. What a treat. Octo and everyone else, it's worth hunting down for sure.

And today in 7 hours, you guys picked as many movies as in the last 4 days before that. Keep it up!

getbak

08-28-2008, 03:53 PM

With the 158th pick, Team MissTeeks selects in the comedy category, Dazed and Confused.
"That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age."

habernac

08-28-2008, 03:55 PM

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doozwimp

08-28-2008, 04:58 PM

Local hero was my next pick.

Jagger

08-28-2008, 06:20 PM

Local hero was my next pick.

Phew. I'm glad that I didn't let it slip any further as I considered then. It really is a great little movie.

Displaced Flames fan

08-28-2008, 06:51 PM

great, great movie, Redvan. Another Costner gem. When Duvall was filming it, he was in downtown Calgary a number of times, was a patron at a friend's restaurant and was extremely polite.

SOOOOOO glad this movie got picked. Easily the best Western since Unforgiven until 3:10 to Yuma came along.

Love it so much. I really thought there was a good chance it wouldn't get taken!

As for Dances With Wolves, wonderful film. Tear every time. I have never seen the director's cut (didn't know there was one!)...I'll get on that!

Displaced Flames fan

08-28-2008, 07:03 PM

Also, we are really flying now fellas. Kickass!

Think we can finish before the music draft? ;)

Don't even go there.

I sure would like to replace a few of those drafters with a few of you guys.:grrr:

Displaced Flames fan

08-28-2008, 07:05 PM

http://phillyimprov.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/wooderson.jpg

I'm kind of a fan of his, acting ability aside. This movie is a big reason why. Wooderson killed me. I just like his style!

Displaced Flames fan

08-28-2008, 07:06 PM

Here I am commenting on the picks of others when it's my freaking turn!

Sorry guys, will have them up quickly because I have a Fantasy football draft in 25 minutes!

Displaced Flames fan

08-28-2008, 07:14 PM

With our 6th round pick, 162nd overall, The Team With No Name is proud to select in the category of Musical, Fiddler on the Roof!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067093/

This movie was released in the year I was born. It's the story of a Russian Jew trying to find husbands for his three daughters in pre-revolution Russia. I just latched onto the historical aspects of the movie and really ignored the song and dance stuff when I first watched it as a kid. Now, I appreciate it as an exceptional musical which happens to be set in an extremely intriguing place and time period!

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Displaced Flames fan

08-28-2008, 07:28 PM

With our 7th round pick, 163rd overall, The Team With No Name is proud to select in the WAR category, Glory.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097441/

Easily the best Civil War movie ever made, IMO. The film focuses on the first all volunteer African-American unit to serve in the Civil War. You can just imagine the amount of great plot material that can come from that. Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Andre Braugher. Great actors. My only beef with this movie is the casting of Matthew Broderick as Col Shaw. Really difficult for me to see him as anything but a goofy rick kid skipping school. Not his fault, I know, but I didn't find him very believable. Probably more about my view of him than his performance. This movie won 3 oscars...one for Denzel for best supporting, another for it's absolutely spectacular cinematography and a third for sound. If you haven't seen it, do it!

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The Aforementioned brilliant actors in action

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Jagger

08-28-2008, 08:46 PM

Hey, there's an off chance of another pick for me coming up tonight! I was going to be leaving tonight for the long weekend but won't be going until tomorrow now. Come on Stray!!!! :w00t:

BTW some excellent picks recently. Great going guys....

octothorp

08-29-2008, 12:35 AM

With our 7th round pick, 163rd overall, The Team With No Name is proud to select in the WAR category, Glory.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097441/

Easily the best Civil War movie ever made, IMO. The film focuses on the first all volunteer African-American unit to serve in the Civil War. You can just imagine the amount of great plot material that can come from that. Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Andre Braugher. Great actors. My only beef with this movie is the casting of Matthew Broderick as Col Shaw. Really difficult for me to see him as anything but a goofy rick kid skipping school. Not his fault, I know, but I didn't find him very believable. Probably more about my view of him than his performance. This movie won 3 oscars...one for Denzel for best supporting, another for it's absolutely spectacular cinematography and a third for sound. If you haven't seen it, do it!

Saw this on TV a few weeks ago for the first time. And I had already made my war category pick. But it occured to me that if I hadn't, this would have been a film to watch for in a later round. Very impressed with it.

MattyC

08-29-2008, 10:21 AM

BUMP Lets go team

GirlySports

08-29-2008, 10:59 AM

Straybullet is asskicked. Jagger's up!

Jagger

08-29-2008, 11:14 AM

It's Just A Flesh Wound is thrilled to select, with our 7th round pick, the movie that made Humphrey Bogart a major movie star, and influenced an entire genre;

"The Maltese Falcon (1941)"

Some housekeeping required to select this pick. "Rear Window" will be moved to the Thriller category and "The Maltese Falcon" takes the Pre-60's slot.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/99/Falconm.JPG (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/99/Falconm.JPG)

The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1941_in_film) Warner Bros. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros.) film written and directed by John Huston (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Huston), based on the novel of the same name (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maltese_Falcon) by Dashiell Hammett (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashiell_Hammett), and starring Humphrey Bogart (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Bogart) as private investigator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_investigator) Sam Spade (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Spade), Mary Astor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Astor) as his femme fatale (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femme_fatale) client, Sydney Greenstreet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Greenstreet) in his film debut, and Peter Lorre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lorre). The film was Huston's directorial debut and was nominated for three Academy Awards (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Awards).
The story concerns the entanglement of a San Francisco private investigator with three greedy, unscrupulous and murderous adventurers who compete with each other to obtain a fabulous jewel-encrusted statuette of a falcon worth millions.
The Maltese Falcon has been named as one of the greatest films of all time by Roger Ebert (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ebert),[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maltese_Falcon_%281941_film%29#cite_note-Ebert-0) and Entertainment Weekly (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment_Weekly),[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maltese_Falcon_%281941_film%29#cite_note-EW-1) and was cited by Panorama du Film Noir Américain, the French book that coined the term film noir (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_noir), as the first film of that genre.[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maltese_Falcon_%281941_film%29#cite_note-Sklar-2)
The film premiered on October 3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_3), 1941 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1941_in_film) in New York City (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City) and in 1989 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_in_film) was selected for inclusion in the Library of Congress (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress)' National Film Registry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Film_Registry).

Links to follow after the long weekend. Have to run right now! Have a good weekend people!

StrayBullet

08-29-2008, 11:22 AM

Sorry kids... I didn't realize DFF's 7th round selection was Glory and that ya'll were waiting for me. I apologize...

With 164th pick in the CP Movie Draft, StrayBullet selects, Three Kings starring George Clooney, Ice Cube & Mark Wahlberg. Three Kings will represent the War criteria.

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x34/erwinaviray/ThreeKings1999.jpg

I couldn't keep my eyes off the screen when I first saw this. The images and cinematics in the movie were not seen/done before(In 1999). There were times when you were rooting for the protagonist and moments where you could have been against them. The acting was first-rate --This film probably pushed Ice Cube into taking acting more seriously and George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg do their thing, convincing us of their roles.

Got Miikka?

08-29-2008, 01:05 PM

Team Clint Eastwood selects 166th overall (I think) in the Sci-Fi category, Ghostbusters (1984).

http://chud.com/articles/content_images/5/Ghostbusters.jpg

Quite surprised no one has taken this one yet - seems a rather conspicuous choice! Happy to have it. (hope I didn't miss it somewhere along the line, didn't see it on the draft board)

The original and arguably reigning king of comedy blockbusters, Ghostbusters is ubiquitous in more ways the one, be it the trademark logo you still see the odd dork brandishing on a t-shirt or the theme song - this at its very worst a hallmark of Halloween club crawls, used to draw the obligatory foursome of Ghostbuster-jumpsuit-costumed hotties onto the speakerboxes. I can recall one instance during a sobering meeting with the boss where at one point the question "Who are you going to call?" was asked of me and my response was automatic. It actually effectively cut the tension of the meeting - got the boss laughing.

As a kid I was fascinated by the supernatural storyline (I still jump a bit during the scene when the librarian morphs into a hideous monster - this scene scared the living sh-t out of me when I was younger) and the cool gadgets; now I am better able to appreciate the humor behind Dan Aykroyd's creations. I laugh out loud at virtually every piece of dialogue spoken by Harold Ramis as the "always serious" Egon; his response "Print is dead" when flirtatiously asked by his secretary if he enjoys reading kills me. Bill Murray's performance is all-time and he manages to generate some great chemistry with Signourney Weaver, who is also spot-on.

I could go on and on but you've all seen this movie... I got a chance to see it on the big screen the other night at a revival theatre, and I highly recommend seeing it this way if you ever can. It was an original, unrestored print so the picture was ultra-grainy and the soundtrack was crackly as hell - it was great!

Venkman: I dunno, it just seems a little pricey for a unique fixer-upper... what do you think, Egon?
Egon: I think this building should be condemned. There's serious metal fatigue in all the load-bearing members, the wiring is substandard, it's completely inadequate for our power needs and the neighborhood is like a demilitarized zone.
Ray Stantz: Hey! Does this pole still work?? [he slides down] Wow! This place is GREAT! When can we move in? You've gotta try this pole! We should stay here - tonight! You know, try it out! I'm gonna get my stuff!
Venkman: I think we'll take it.

Ghostbusters Hottie Halloween Costume:
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Toys from the spin-off animated TV series, "The Real Ghostbusters":
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Ghostbusters appeal the mayor for release from prison, much to the chagrin of Walter Peck (hilarious performance by William Atherton)
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Another great scene, Rick Moranis delivering more ridiculous dialogue
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Well I think I've dedicated enough time to this post

MissTeeks

08-29-2008, 02:17 PM

Great pick, GotMiikka! I totally just watched the second one the other night. Not as good as the first but I still enjoy it!

With the 166th pick, Team MissTeeks selects in the Sci-Fi category, Back to the Future.

I was surprised this lasted this long as well. I was too young when this movie first came out, but I remember watching it all the time when it was on TBS. It's my favorite out of the three, and I used to have a huge crush on Michael J. Fox for watching Family Ties reruns. Who doesn't wish they could go back in time and see what their parents were like growing up, except for the whole changing time so you would cease to exist thing!

IMDB page:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088763/

Trailer:

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My favorite scene:

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Quotes:

George McFly (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000417/): Last night, Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn't take Lorraine out that he'd melt my brain.
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Marty McFly (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000150/): Wait a minute, Doc. Ah... Are you telling me that you built a time machine... out of a DeLorean?
Dr. Emmett Brown (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000502/): The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?
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Dr. Emmett Brown (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000502/): Great Scott!
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Marty McFly (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000150/): Time circuits on. Flux Capacitor... fluxxing. Engine running. All right!
[the engine stops suddenly]
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I could go on forever

VANFLAMESFAN

08-29-2008, 02:19 PM

^^^^I wanted to take it last round as my fantasy pick, but it wasn't listed as a fantasy which really confused me. How does time travel not count as fantasy?? Weird.

octothorp

08-29-2008, 02:30 PM

^^^^I wanted to take it last round as my fantasy pick, but it wasn't listed as a fantasy which really confused me. How does time travel not count as fantasy?? Weird.

I think that if the time travel is the result of science, it belongs in science-fiction rather than fantasy, but then my fantasy pick (The Prestige) is one where a seemingly magical thing is in fact the result of science, too. Honestly, I think the fantasy category is probably the most poorly defined of all IMDB's, as it has a very fuzzy line with science fiction, horror, and other genres, and also includes a lot of movies that I would consider magic realism.

Anyway, great to see both Back to the Future and Ghostbusters get picked.

Jagger

08-29-2008, 02:50 PM

!

With the 166th pick, Team MissTeeks selects in the Sci-Fi category, Back to the Future.

I ALMOST took BTTF with my last pick. It is a movie I really love. However, Bogey was too good to pass up. Nice pick though.

REDVAN

08-29-2008, 05:32 PM

Sorry if there has been a delay guys, with pick 167, team REDVAN will take

School of Rock in the musical category.

It's getting tough now. I know there a lot of movie I was going to pick, but I am gambling that they are going to be around in a few rounds. Good luck everyone.

08-29-2008, 08:09 PM

I got a chance to see it on the big screen the other night at a revival theatre, and I highly recommend seeing it this way if you ever can. It was an original, unrestored print so the picture was ultra-grainy and the soundtrack was crackly as hell - it was great!

Are you in Toronto? We were checking out some of those theatres this week, and I remember seeing Ghostbusters listed as playing in August. We are interested in going to one if we have time, and if there's a cool oldie we wanna see. Is there one in particular that you recommend?

Nice pick, btw. Bill Murray is my favorite actor, and he's awesome in this one.

GirlySports

08-30-2008, 12:25 AM

With the 169th pick, czure32 selects The Karate Kid in the sports category.

http://images.teamsugar.com/files/upl0/3/32916/03_2008/karate_kid.jpg

Wax on Wax off!

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octothorp

08-30-2008, 12:50 AM

6 Degrees of Troy McClure selects, in the Thriller category, Roman Polanski's noir masterpiece, Chinatown.

http://www.stopsmilingonline.com/uploads/photos/story/20071111200044_20071112.jpg

Fay Dunaway and Jack Nicholson star in the gritty, dark film set around the battle to bring water to Los Angeles. Robert Towne's script is an absolute masterpiece, earning the best screenplay award at the Oscars, Golden Globes, BAFTA, and Writer's Guild of America. The film also won the Golden Globe for best picture, and Nicholson and Polanski both won awards for their work. The AFI also routinely sites this as one of the best american films ever made.

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Got Miikka?

08-30-2008, 07:57 AM

Are you in Toronto? We were checking out some of those theatres this week, and I remember seeing Ghostbusters listed as playing in August. We are interested in going to one if we have time, and if there's a cool oldie we wanna see. Is there one in particular that you recommend?

The one I saw Ghostbusters at is just down from where I have been staying, on Queen Street East. It is called the Fox (www.foxtheatre.ca), which underwent renovations (and new ownership I think) last year. The seats recline and are very comfortable, and they've got old movie theatre memoriabilia throughout (including several old projectors and posters, my favorite being the one for Chinatown that's just above the john in the bathroom). Normally they function as more of a second-run joint; if you check out their September schedule it's full of Wall-E and Get Smart. Ghostbusters was a part of an 80s film series they did this month - I wanted to get out for Robocop and Weird Science but didn't have time.

I'd recommend checking it out if the upcoming schedule were better, because it really is a quaint old haunt and for me $10 was money well spent for the Ghostbusters experience. As far as other similar theatres in the city, I am not sure as I haven't been here long, but from my understanding the Fox - endless Crystal Skull reruns notwithstanding - is quite reputable.

habernac

08-30-2008, 10:43 AM

the Roger Ebert Experience is proud to select, in the comedy category, the Guy Ritchie classic: Snatch

http://movies.popcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/snatch-movie-poster-500w.jpg

WindomURL

08-30-2008, 11:10 AM

Hilarious film. Pretty good pick for #171 overall :D

I guess next up are Flamesguy_SJ, Eastern Girl, and liamenator

MattyC

08-30-2008, 11:15 AM

AHHH no! Snatch was my next pick!

WindomURL

08-30-2008, 11:17 AM

Don't you hate when that happens Matty? :whistle:;)

MattyC

08-30-2008, 11:35 AM

Lol yes....yes I do

Flamesguy_SJ

08-30-2008, 03:14 PM

With our pick in the 7th Round, Direct2Video selects Jurassic Park (1993) in the Thriller category.

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sadora

08-30-2008, 03:47 PM

the Roger Ebert Experience is proud to select, in the comedy category, the Guy Ritchie classic: Snatch

http://movies.popcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/snatch-movie-poster-500w.jpg

habernac...I hate you. well no, not really. Great pick!

I was hoping to pick this one next as well and here are some of the clips I was thinking of using.

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Eastern Girl

08-30-2008, 04:14 PM

Is it my turn now or no?

If yes, it'll be up soon, hopefully. My mom is getting married this week, so all my free time has been booked, apparently.

WindomURL

08-30-2008, 06:30 PM

Yeah, you're up EG.

Originally Posted by octothorp http://forum.calgarypuck.com/images/calpuck/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?p=1413889#post1413889)
We need a central list of movies that have been picked which are going to be on TV. Here's a list of movies that have been picked so far that are appearing on TCM or AMC in the next month. If one of your movies is appearing on a different channel and I've missed it, let me know and I'll include it, and update it weekly.
...
The African Queen: TCM August 30, 10:00 PM

Reminder. This starts in 1 1/2 hours.

Reminder #2: habernac, did you decide what category you wanted to move this to? It's not B&W, right?

08-30-2008, 06:42 PM

6 Degrees of Troy McClure selects, in the Thriller category, Roman Polanski's noir masterpiece, Chinatown.

I've seen this one three times. The first time because I heard it was a must-see classic, but was not yet as learned in the art of cinema as I am today. Verdict --> bleh. The second time I watched for a film class in Kelowna while we were studying film noir, and learned to appreciate it a little more. But I was still underwhelmed. I had it arrive via Zip a few months and gave it another shot, and was once again sorta bored.

It's not that it hasn't aged well, and the acting/directing are top notch. I think maybe the subject matter/surprise revelation was perhaps more shocking back in the 70's than it would be today, and that it didn't affect me as much as it would have if I had seen it as a young man growing up back then? I dunno. Noir is a great genre, but this one was sorta like Miller's Crossing to me, a film from a brilliant director that is well respected and admired, but that I just didn't find all that engaging, and therefore didn't enjoy all that much. I dunno. Sorry for slagging your pick Octo.:bag: For the record, The Royal Tenenbaums is also one of my favorite movies.:D

With our pick in the 7th Round, Direct2Video selects Jurassic Park (1993) in the Thriller category.
http://posters.motechnet.com/covers/tt0107290_largeCover.jpg

This one gets lost in the shuffle sometimes I think. It's gotta be the lame ass sequels. But for a family friendly summer blockbuster kinda movie, this one can still get your heart racing, and does just about everything right. Awesome pick, one I had on my short list in a few different categories.

the Roger Ebert Experience is proud to select, in the comedy category, the Guy Ritchie classic: Snatch

Love this movie as well, and it was also pencilled in a few different spots because of its many possible classifications. My only criticism would be that it's essentially a reworking of Ritchie's first and and equally as entertaining movie Lock, Stock, & Two Smoking Barrels, with some different twists and turns.

But like Dis has said a few times, how awesome is Brad Pitt in this one? And how many of you have watched it with the subtitles on just so you make out what the *%$# he is saying half the time?

I've heard good things about his new movie RockNRolla (http://%22http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1032755/%22%5BB), and am going to try and see it Toronto at the TIFF.

Eastern Girl

08-30-2008, 06:59 PM

Team Pineapple Express has managed to pry herself away from wrapping wedding favours long enough to make her seventh round pick, in the category of drama, The Notebook (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0332280/).

Released in 2004, The Notebook stars two young, up and coming Canadians, Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. It is based on the best selling novel by author Nicolas Sparks.

I am sure there's lots of interesting trivia, etc, for this film, but I don't have the time right now.

Perhaps later...

Eastern Girl

08-30-2008, 08:00 PM

Okay, I've got some time now....

The Notebook centers around an old man telling a tale of love and romance to an old woman in a nursing home. The story follows the relationship of a young couple, Noah and Allie, over the span of several years.

The film stars Ryan Gosling (hot), Rachel McAdams (the men folk seem to like her), James Garner (wasn't too bad back in the day), Gena Rowlands, James Marsden (really hot), Sam Shepard and Joan Allen.

Trivia
Ryan Gosling made the kitchen table featured in the film in preparation for the role of Noah.
Gena Rowlands, who plays the older version of Allie, is director's (Nick Cassavetes) mother.
Gosling wore brown eye contacts because James Garner, who plays older Noah, has brown eyes.
Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake were originally considered for the roles of Allie and Noah.
Tom Cruise, Steven Spielberg, Reese Witherspoon and Ashley Judd were all attached to the project at one point, but backed out.
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The Trailer:
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***Possible Spoilers***
The scene where Allie confronts Noah:
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That scene leads into the kiss that won them the Best Kiss award at the MTV movie awards...

Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams accepting the best kiss award:
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So there you have it, Liam, I believe it's your turn now...

habernac

08-30-2008, 08:21 PM

Yeah, you're up EG.

Reminder. This starts in 1 1/2 hours.

Reminder #2: habernac, did you decide what category you wanted to move this to? It's not B&W, right?

if the commish has an issue with it, she can move it to pre-60's.

Dion

08-30-2008, 08:25 PM

I seriously regret not getting involved in the draft :whaa:

All of you here have made some amazing picks. Some i've already seen and the others will be added to my list of must see - thanks! :)

liamenator

08-31-2008, 09:40 AM

Holy crap its my turn... OK so I just moved to St Catharines and have no internet, so I am currently hijacking a horrible wireless connection and thus have no time to make any fancy-pants remarks or even check properly to see if this movie has been taken or not (pretty sure it hasn't). If it has, just AK me and I'll resume picking when I have a real connection.

In the category of comedy, I pick, Rushmore.

WindomURL

08-31-2008, 10:20 AM

Great pick, liam. And yeah, it's safe... no one took this before you. I was thinking of it last round, but I chose Office Space instead.

Have fun unpacking!

octothorp

08-31-2008, 10:50 AM

I've seen this one three times. The first time because I heard it was a must-see classic, but was not yet as learned in the art of cinema as I am today. Verdict --> bleh. The second time I watched for a film class in Kelowna while we were studying film noir, and learned to appreciate it a little more. But I was still underwhelmed. I had it arrive via Zip a few months and gave it another shot, and was once again sorta bored.

It's not that it hasn't aged well, and the acting/directing are top notch. I think maybe the subject matter/surprise revelation was perhaps more shocking back in the 70's than it would be today, and that it didn't affect me as much as it would have if I had seen it as a young man growing up back then? I dunno. Noir is a great genre, but this one was sorta like Miller's Crossing to me, a film from a brilliant director that is well respected and admired, but that I just didn't find all that engaging, and therefore didn't enjoy all that much. I dunno. Sorry for slagging your pick Octo.:bag: For the record, The Royal Tenenbaums is also one of my favorite movies.:D

Yeah, for me the twist isn't really shocking, there's definitely other more recent movies that use the same twist and probably use it to better effect (I won't say what movies, as that would give the twist away). But for me, this movie is mostly about the script: the dialogue just pops, and what could be a very convoluted story is delivered at a quick pace; and the scope of it is great: most noir films focus on fairly small-time crime plots or maybe at most, police force corruption. But in telling the story of the creation of LA's water-system, there's a fascinating slice of history in this movie, as well, with characters loosely based on actual LA historical figures like Mulholland. I'm not really a fan of Nicholson or Dunaway overall, and there's one or two other Polanski films that I enjoy, but I wouldn't count him among my favorite directors. Yet this film just sticks in my head. And I don't mind you slagging my pick, I'm happy to defend it.

Eastern Girl

08-31-2008, 01:48 PM

Rushmore is a great pick!

Jason Schwartzman is fantastic, I'm a big fan of his and that movie!

"I like your nurses uniform, guy"
"They're OR scrubs"
"O R they?"

And just cause I liked the flick another favourite quotation...
Herman: "You guys have it real easy. I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and your going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you. "

WindomURL

08-31-2008, 05:45 PM

Seems like Prototype is away this weekend.
http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=62215

It's possible he may jump online and see that it's his turn, so I'm thinking it's fair that we wait the full 15 hours for him. Any thoughts?

Displaced Flames fan

08-31-2008, 07:16 PM

08-31-2008, 07:24 PM

I was under the impression that weekends are asskick free periods. Am I wrong?

I think we have to treat it just the same as any other period in time. We give him 15 hours and then he's AK'd. He knew he was going to be away, so he could've sent some picks in advance to the commish if he wanted or if he remembered. Maybe he forgot. No biggie. Can't prematurely AK him though, we'll just have to wait till tomorrow morning I guess.

08-31-2008, 09:58 PM

With the 160th pick It's Just A Flesh Wound is proud to select another personal favourite, "Local Hero" (1983).

Took some time to read up on this one today, and will have to keep it in mind the next time I'm scouring around for an old gem to watch. Based on your other picks I assumed it would be worthwhile, but the love for this movie really pours out at IMDB:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085859/usercomments

I saw Death At A Funeral a couple months ago and loved it- have you guys seen that one? Some not so subtle British humour, but the familiar wry smiles and dry retorts made me think of it when I was reading all those comments.

GirlySports

08-31-2008, 11:29 PM

I was under the impression that weekends are asskick free periods. Am I wrong?

weekends are not asskick free periods but they usually go slow enough that an asskicked person would only miss a pick or 2.

and protto's been asskicked :)

HalifaxDrunk

09-01-2008, 10:21 AM

Yippie-Kay-Yay is happy to select in the category of Comedy, Matt & Trey's masterpiece:
Orgazmo
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Orgazmo is a 1997 comedy-action film written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of the animated series South Park, and directed by Trey Parker.

The film revolves around mild-mannered Mormon missionary Joe Young (Trey Parker), who gets talked into starring in a porno movie by the famous porn director Maxxx Orbison (Michael Dean Jacobs) in order to earn enough money to marry his fiancée Lisa (Robyn Lynne Raab), in the Salt Lake City temple.

In the movie-within-the-movie, he plays a superhero named "Orgazmo" who fights crime with his sidekick "Choda Boy", played by Ben Chapleski (Dian Bachar) using his signature weapon, the "Orgazmorator", a device that forcefully triggers climax in those he uses it on. Following an agreement with the director, Joe acts and fights while a "stunt " does the rest. Orgazmo goes on to be a smash hit, and the director decides to exploit the missionary and make the movie into a series. Joe's fiancée is upset at his role in the film and leaves, and is kidnapped by the director to ensure Joe's participation in further filming.

Joe then decides to fight back using a real Orgazmorator invented by Ben, which gives him the powers his character purportedly had. He uses these powers to bring down the corrupt filmmaker and rescue his fiancée. The film wraps up with Lisa, seeing Ben's distress at the thought of his friend moving back to Utah, declaring that Joe must stay and fight crime with him. Ben, after a prayer from Joe, concludes by saying, "god bless us...every one!" (a parody of Tiny Tim's line at the end of A Christmas Carol).

Trailer
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P.S. - czure32, I'd like to finally complement you on your team name "DVD-eh?", that is brilliant! I was afraid to say something earlier as I figured someone then would take Orgazmo ahead of me.

czure32

09-01-2008, 11:34 AM

P.S. - czure32, I'd like to finally complement you on your team name "DVD-eh?", that is brilliant! I was afraid to say something earlier as I figured someone then would take Orgazmo ahead of me.

haha thanks, DVDA is hilarious
I think most fans of matt and trey would recognize the DVDA reference immediately (that and dirty old men), just had to alter it slightly to make it relevant to a movie draft

DVDA now you're a man (Orgazmo theme)
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What Would Brian Boitano Do (interesting fact...Brian Boitano has actually skated to a modified version of this song)
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and finally just because its the most memorable running gag of Orgazmo
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doozwimp

09-01-2008, 02:22 PM

After deep thought and general reflexion on life I have decided to choose American Movie under Documentary.
http://ca.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/29/A70-14594
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Movie

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Jagger

09-01-2008, 08:06 PM

Took some time to read up on this one today, and will have to keep it in mind the next time I'm scouring around for an old gem to watch. Based on your other picks I assumed it would be worthwhile, but the love for this movie really pours out at IMDB:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085859/usercomments

Local Hero is a true gem of a movie. There's just something about it that is bigger than the sum of its parts. The scenery, the music, the quirky characters; it's just so good. Judging by your picks so far, Ro, very similar to my tastes, you'll love this movie too. Buy it if you can. It really requires multiple viewings to truly appreciate. Let me know what you think when you finally see it.

Displaced Flames fan

09-01-2008, 08:16 PM

Watched 12 Angry Men today for the first time in about 10 years. It was awesome again. Anybody else catch it? I think it was on Turner Classic Movies.

Jagger

09-01-2008, 08:23 PM

Watched 12 Angry Men today for the first time in about 10 years. It was awesome again. Anybody else catch it? I think it was on Turner Classic Movies.

Excellent! I watched it again on DVD the other night. It's just a truly superb movie. TCM show some great stuff.

Displaced Flames fan

09-01-2008, 08:28 PM

Excellent! I watched it again on DVD the other night. It's just a truly superb movie. TCM show some great stuff.

I took a close look at the cast. I remembered Henry Fonda and Jack Klugman (Go Quincy!) but there were some other interesting names in there. I knew Jack Warden looked familiar, but it is difficult to place those guys sometimes when you only know them as older men! Ed Begley senior played the cantankerous juror #10 as well.

Jagger

09-01-2008, 10:51 PM

I took a close look at the cast. I remembered Henry Fonda and Jack Klugman (Go Quincy!) but there were some other interesting names in there. I knew Jack Warden looked familiar, but it is difficult to place those guys sometimes when you only know them as older men! Ed Begley senior played the cantankerous juror #10 as well.

You might also recognize the voice of John Fielder (Juror #2). He has played the voice of Piglet from Winnie the Pooh for years! He also appeared in "The Bob Newhart Show" and "The Odd Couple"

Dion

09-01-2008, 10:58 PM

Watched 12 Angry Men today for the first time in about 10 years. It was awesome again. Anybody else catch it? I think it was on Turner Classic Movies.

I've watched it about 3 times. One of the greats from the past. Loved how the vote swayed and how they got the last guy to change his.

Itse

09-01-2008, 11:35 PM

As our 7th round pick Self-made Heroes is proud to pick Paths of Glory (1957) in the Pre-1960's category. Possibly the best movie by Kubrick in my opinion.

Corporal Paris: See that cockroach? Tomorrow morning, we'll be dead and it'll be alive. It'll have more contact with my wife and child than I will. I'll be nothing, and it'll be alive.
[Ferol smashes the roach]
Private Ferol: Now you got the edge on him.

General Broulard:There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die - one way to maintain discipline is to shoot a man now and then.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bc/PathsOfGloryPoster.jpg/200px-PathsOfGloryPoster.jpg

"Paths Of Glory was the first time Stanley Kubrick got to work with a major star - and in the late 1950s, stars didn't come any more major than Kirk Douglas. He championed this 'hard to sell' anti-war film to the Hollywood studios, and bankrolled the 28-year-old tyro director who, with his growing reputation, still had it all to prove in Hollywood. And with his indignant performance Douglas provides an emotional counterbalance to Kubrick's chilly, conceptual style."

"Adapted from Humphrey Cobb's based-on-fact novel, the film tells the story of a botched WWI French attack. In return for a promised promotion, General Mireau (George Macready), charges his troops with the impossible task of storming Ant Hill, a German position. The attack is led by Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas), who dutifully leads his men into the German guns. When the attack dissolves into chaos and a rout, the furious general first orders his artillery to fire on his own men, and, to pass the blame, chooses three soldiers at random to go before a court martial to explain their cowardice, with Dax acting as defence counsel."

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When interviewed in 1969, Kirk Douglas recalled Paths of Glory as the summit of his acting career: "There's a picture that will always be good, years from now. I don't have to wait 50 years to know that; I know it now."

GirlySports

09-02-2008, 12:11 AM

if the commish has an issue with it, she can move it to pre-60's.

Yes i will move it to pre-60s.

09-02-2008, 12:15 AM

As our 7th round pick Self-made Heroes is proud to pick Paths of Glory (1957) in the Pre-1960's category. Possibly the best movie by Kubrick in my opinion.

I was worried you might be one of the guys to take one of the movies I want next, and you did. I guess you're helping to make my choice easier by narrowing it down, but what an outstanding selection this is. Paths Of Glory is without question my favorite war movie and a true classic. See it if you're one who's skipped it- you'll love it.

Kubrick was the man. That's what, 6 or 7 of his films picked already? Too bad he didn't stay with us long enough to complete Artificial Intelligence- would've been amazing in his hands I'm sure.

Itse

09-02-2008, 01:53 AM

Kubrick was the man.

That was the third Kubrick for me, I win! :D

WindomURL

09-02-2008, 01:57 AM

I was worried you might be one of the guys to take one of the movies I want next, and you did. I guess you're helping to make my choice easier by narrowing it down, but what an outstanding selection this is. Paths Of Glory is without question my favorite war movie and a true classic. See it if you're one who's skipped it- you'll love it.

Kubrick was the man. That's what, 6 or 7 of his films picked already? Too bad he didn't stay with us long enough to complete Artificial Intelligence- would've been amazing in his hands I'm sure.

I had this in my sights as my 7th round pick too!
Damn you, Itse! :ph34r:

JerzeeGirl

09-02-2008, 08:38 AM

Our pick this round is in the Sports category, and That's What She Said is proud to select: Field of Dreams.

This 1989 movie starring Kevin Costner as Ray Kinsella, a farmer determined to keep his land that hears a voice among the tall corn saying, "If you build it, he will come." He begins a journey that involves plowing part of his field to build a baseball diamond where the ghosts of former MLB players came to throw the ball around and play. His journey affirms his love for the purity of the game and helps him (and a few others) resolve issues that they had buried in the past and planned to leave there.

This film was a movie that dealt with many things, but at its heart it was about the love of a boy for his father and the uber-American past-time of baseball. Before the strikes that ruined several seasons and the steroids that have come to haunt the MLB of today. This is my favourite of the Costner baseball movies altho Bull Durham is pretty awesome too.

YouTube Goodies!

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habernac

09-02-2008, 08:54 AM

excellent pick, Jerzee. Great cast, great story. Love Moonlight Graham, great role for an aging Burt Lancaster.

VANFLAMESFAN

09-02-2008, 09:08 AM

I think I'm the only one who thought Field of Dreams was crap. Totally overrated IMO. I just don't get the feeling behind it.

GirlySports

09-02-2008, 09:12 AM

I think I'm the only one who thought Field of Dreams was crap. Totally overrated IMO. I just don't get the feeling behind it.

Depends if you're a baseball fan or not? Or from a farm?

VANFLAMESFAN

09-02-2008, 09:24 AM

Depends if you're a baseball fan or not? Or from a farm?

I don't hate baseball, I dont love it. But I like baseball movies. I don't think that's the issue at all. And no, city boy born and raised.

octothorp

09-02-2008, 09:46 AM

Great pick, I definitely would have picked it if were still around when I pick my sports movie. Also has a strong Alberta connection, being based on the novel by Edmonton-area author W.P. Kinsella. I love the magic-realist tone of the story.

JerzeeGirl

09-02-2008, 10:15 AM

I don't hate baseball, I dont love it. But I like baseball movies. I don't think that's the issue at all. And no, city boy born and raised.

To be fair, this wasn't per se a baseball movie the way Bull Durham or even Major League are....this is a movie where the baseball is coincidental to the larger story.

It's really just different strokes for different folks IMHO with FoD.....seems like you either love it or are turned off by the saccharine "golly gee" type of feel to it.

Superflyer

09-02-2008, 10:26 AM

With the next pick for the B-List Celebs we are proud to select in the category of Black and White, Night of the Living Dead.

http://haunttheplanet.org/images/Night_of_the_Living_Dead_affiche.jpg

Chaos descends upon the world as the brains of the recently deceased become inexplicably reanimated, causing the dead to rise and feed on human flesh. Speculation rests on a radiation-covered NASA satellite returning from Venus, but it only remains a speculation. Anyone who dies during the crisis of causes unrelated to brain trauma will return as a flesh-eating zombie, including anyone who has been bitten by a zombie. The only way to destroy the zombies is to destroy the brain. As the catastrophe unfolds, a young woman visiting her father's grave takes refuge in a nearby farmhouse, where she is met by a man who protects her and barricades them inside. They both later discover people hiding in the basement, and they each attempt to cope with the situation. Their only hope rests on getting some gasoline from a nearby pump into a truck that is running on empty, but this requires braving the hordes of ravenous walking corpses outside. When they finally put their plans into action, panic and personal tensions only add to the terror as they try to survive.

At work so I cannot post youtube videos

sadora

09-02-2008, 11:43 AM

with the 7th round, 181st overall pick, team snoogans is happy to select in the war category, Jarhead.

Jarhead is a 2005 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_in_film) film (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film) based on U.S. Marine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps) Anthony Swofford (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Swofford)'s 2003 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_in_literature) Gulf War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War) memoir (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoir) Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarhead_%28book%29), starring Jake Gyllenhaal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Gyllenhaal) as Swofford. The title comes from the slang (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slang) term used to refer to Marines (sometimes by Marines themselves). The film was directed by Academy Award (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Awards) winner Sam Mendes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Mendes), most famous for his 1999 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_in_film) film American Beauty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Beauty_%281999_film%29).

http://www.impawards.com/2005/posters/jarhead.jpg

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VANFLAMESFAN

09-02-2008, 11:57 AM

TEAM Wishwedidaporndraft would like to select into the Documentary/non-fiction category, the winner of 11 Academy Awards(including Best Picture) and the highest grossing movie of all time, James Cameron's epic, TITANIC.

http://www.biggest-selling-movies.com/images/titanic.jpg

What can be said about film like this. Titanic was a massive achievement. Grossing more than 1.8 BILLION dollars worldwide. It set the mark for big budget movies by having a movie on a grand scale and also taking home 11 Academy Awards in almost every single category.

Everyone knows the story, so there's no point going into a long essay length synopsis of the movie. But at it's very root, TITANIC is truly a remarkable and tragic story and Cameron does a magnificent job with it.

Trailer:

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Here's the top scenes from it put together for a nice montage:

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JerzeeGirl

09-02-2008, 12:07 PM

TEAM Wishwedidaporndraft would like to select into the Documentary/non-fiction category, the winner of 11 Academy Awards(including Best Picture) and the highest grossing movie of all time, James Cameron's epic, TITANIC.

Well there you go......we just traded movies that don't make sense to the other cuz seriously Titanic was just not a movie I found had many redeeming qualities to it....save perhaps that the ship did sink. ;)

But clearly a prime example of the category if nothing else VanFlames, kudos on the choice.

octothorp

09-02-2008, 12:22 PM

TEAM Wishwedidaporndraft would like to select into the Documentary/non-fiction category, the winner of 11 Academy Awards(including Best Picture) and the highest grossing movie of all time, James Cameron's epic, TITANIC.\

Isn't this stretching the non-fiction category by quite a lot? I can understand United 93 and Apollo 13, as these movies are based not only around historic events and historic characters, but also strive as much as possible to give an accurate account of the events. But Titanic is, at it's core, a completely ficticious love story around two completely ficticious characters, set in a historic setting amongst a cast of largely fictional characters with a few accurate historical characters thrown in. If we allow this to pass as non-fiction, we'd have to allow any film in a historical setting to pass as non-fiction, regardless of how much of the story is fictional.

czure32

09-02-2008, 02:12 PM

Isn't this stretching the non-fiction category by quite a lot? I can understand United 93 and Apollo 13, as these movies are based not only around historic events and historic characters, but also strive as much as possible to give an accurate account of the events. But Titanic is, at it's core, a completely ficticious love story around two completely ficticious characters, set in a historic setting amongst a cast of largely fictional characters with a few accurate historical characters thrown in. If we allow this to pass as non-fiction, we'd have to allow any film in a historical setting to pass as non-fiction, regardless of how much of the story is fictional.

Im inclined to agree with octothorp here
Titanic is a fictional story that takes place during a real event and makes mention of some real people. But largely, the main characters are fictional, the story is fictional, even the catalyst for the story (the necklace) is fictional

so if Titanic stands as non-fiction...
(and I say this all because I really dont expect anyone to select this flaming turd :poo:, and if you do, and I give your pick away, Im sorry)
then I could argue "Sudden Death" as non fiction; in that its a fictional story that occurs within a real surrounding (mellon arena), with real people (i.e Lucky Luc and Mike Lange) at a real event (SCF hockey game although, if i recall correctly its game 7 of the SCF pittsburgh vs chicago...completely fictional, as pittsburgh swept the series)

anywho im rambling now, and everything Ive typed is completely ridiculous which oddly enough is about how i feel about titanic being "non-fiction"

sorry VFF, but it had to be done

sadora

09-02-2008, 02:30 PM

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Isn't this stretching the non-fiction category by quite a lot? I can understand United 93 and Apollo 13, as these movies are based not only around historic events and historic characters, but also strive as much as possible to give an accurate account of the events. But Titanic is, at it's core, a completely ficticious love story around two completely ficticious characters, set in a historic setting amongst a cast of largely fictional characters with a few accurate historical characters thrown in. If we allow this to pass as non-fiction, we'd have to allow any film in a historical setting to pass as non-fiction, regardless of how much of the story is fictional.

There's no way Titanic should be allowed as documentary/non-fiction.

GirlySports

09-02-2008, 03:08 PM

getbak

09-02-2008, 03:35 PM

"This piece is called 'Lick My Love Pump'."

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For my next pick, Team Hot Buttery Topping chooses, in the Musical category, my second film directed by Meat Head and third film directed by a 1970s sitcom star, Rob Reiner's comedy classic, and the film that launched a thousand mockumentary ships for Christopher Guest...This Is Spinal Tap!

http://thecia.com.au/reviews/t/images/this-is-spinal-tap-poster-0.jpg

This Is Spinal Tap was Rob Reiner's directorial debut and is a brilliantly funny look at the craziness of the Rock 'n' Roll world through a mock-rockumentary following the "once great" British rockers Spinal Tap on their American comeback tour. As outrageous as the whole movie seems, many real rockers have claimed to have experienced situations very similar to the events in the movie. Eddie Van Halen and Steven Tyler both failed to see the humour in the movie because it hit too close to home, and numerous rockers claim to have found themselves lost in the bowels of a venue, unable to find the stage.

Metallica's 1991 "Black Album" was also a tribute to the revised cover for "Smell the Glove" that is seen in the movie.

Theatrical trailer...
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These go to eleven...
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"As long as there's, you know, sex and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll."

Jagger

09-02-2008, 03:51 PM

"This one goes to eleven."

I'm at work right now, so I don't have time to do a full write-up...For my next pick, Team Hot Buttery Topping chooses, in the Musical category, my second film directed by Meat Head and third film directed by a 1970s sitcom star, Rob Reiner's comedy classic, and the film that launched a thousand mockumentary ships for Christopher Guest...This Is Spinal Tap!

Awesome pick! Spinal Tap is pure genius.

czure32

09-02-2008, 03:56 PM

If anyone is a member of the FAN960 fan club and hasnt seen or doesnt own a copy...
the FanClub will be giving away copies of the 59th pick overall: The Nightmare Before Christmas for 7,000 fan points. It'll be available on Sept 13 @ 12:01pm

octothorp

09-02-2008, 04:04 PM

Yeah, I love this one. I had it pegged for a later round but suspected it wouldn't still be around. So many great lines.
How much more black could this be? The answer is none. None more black.

09-02-2008, 04:37 PM

The MacGuffins are proud to select, with the 184st pick in the 7th round, for entry in the Thriller category:

No Country For Old Men

I always knew you had to be willing to die to even do this job. But, I don't want to push my chips forward and go out and meet something I don't understand. A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He'd have to say, "OK, I'll be part of this world."

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y28/djroach/no-country-for-old-men.jpg

IMO, this is the best film of the decade. I saw it 4 times in its first two weeks in the theatres, mainly because it kept calling me back, urging me to dismantle it and piece it back together. I found that it could be appreciated on so many levels, and that every time I saw it I could focus on something different and explore that area of the film. The more I put in the more I got out, and for that reason alone, this is one of my desert island picks. So few films approach viewers in this manner- for all the bloodshed and cat-and-mouse action there is so much subtext lurking there for active viewers that I simply cannot wait to see the film again every time I think about it.

With that said, I'm going to take a different approach to this writeup and simply list in point form things I liked about the film, or reasons why I think it's such a work of art. Maybe even some explanations and analysis also. Might be a little easier to digest that way, and I have a feeling it would be pages long otherwise. Some spoilers abound. Beware.

There is almost no music in the film. The lack of a score to accompany the action onscreen seems to heighten the tension in many scenes, and contributes to the lonely, alienating atmosphere throughout the film.
With no music, there is an extraordinary emphasis placed on the sound design, which is incredible. Consider the scene where Chigurh is tracking the briefcase to the motel where Moss is hiding out- the viewers are almost made hyper-aware of the beeping of the tracking device. A beeping that has never sounded so ominous.
The film is not about a psycho killer and his attempt to track down a fugitive. And it is not about that man on the run and his attempts to shed those in pursuit of him. Mistakenly, so many people dissatisfied with this film have focused their energy on those two characters, whose character arcs seem rather unfulfilled if that's the approach chosen. NCFOM is much more than that. Read on.
Chigurh represents an unstoppable evil; a force that cannot be restrained. Nothing, not even a compund fracture, will slow him down. Sheriff Bell, over the course of the film, realizes this, and decides that it's best for an old man to simply turn his back on that evil and let it run its course. Let the young whippersnappers try to tame it. Like his father's former colleague says to him: “What you got ain’t new. Can’t stop what’s coming. Ain’t all waiting on you. That’s vanity.”
In choosing to not show the (presumably) climactic scene where Moss is gunned down, the Coens further illustrate that Moss's fate is essentially meaningless to the story, and that the briefcase full of money is nothing more than a MacGuffin. They are not interested in the outcome of that storyline, but rather in the motivations of the characters and what that might represent.
All that said, the film is deliberately left somewhat open-ended and eager for personal interpretation. Like I said above, it rewards an active viewing experience, and there are no right or wrong "readings" of the film.
The cinematography sets a new standard IMO. Desolate, empty landscapes have never looked this beautiful. So many breathtaking shots- the lifeless boot under the shade tree, the dog chase in the canyon, the empty street at night during the shotgun blast sequence between Chigurh and Moss.
Even though the chase sequences and "tracking down the fugitives" aspect of the film aren't especially important in relation to the themes suggested, they are so well constructed and thrilling they are worthy of distinction.
Chigurh's very name (what kind of word is that? It's more of a "sound" or combination of letters), the manner in which he kills his victims (the cold efficiency of the cattle gun), his wacky haircut, accent, and dress, and his penchant for tossing coins all symbolize what his character stands for perectly- fate is unstoppable, unconventional, unpredictable. And that is exactly what he represents.
Sheriff Ed Tom is playing catch up the whole picture. Some have argues that if the movie is supposed to be best absorbed from his point of view, that he didn't have enough screen time and character development for that to have any resonance. I disagree. He's a step behind the entire way, and is given just enough screen time to show that. His lengthy scenes come towards the end of the picture when he's trying to make sense of it all and concludes that his time has passed.
While some will view that ending as nihilistic and depressing, one could argue that it's uplifting and full of self-realization. Evil and the destruction that comes along with it has always been around, so when Bell makes the decision to turn his back and wave the white flag, one presumes he will be able to turn his attnetion to his wife and ranch after a lifetime of servitude to society that went pretty much unnoticed. Perhaps he'll find happiness there.
Another way to interpret the ending is that Ed Tom, when explaining his dreams in the film's final scene, describes his father (who Ed Tom has outlived by 20 years, and is thus a "younger"man) marching on ahead in the cold and darkness to prepare a fire. That could symbolize that regardless of all the evil in the world, if you're not able to imagine forging ahead in the face of the bleak future and lighting a fire, what have you got? Even when you "wake up?"
What happened in the motel scene at the end where Ed Tom approaches the scene of the crime and Chigurh appears to be inside? Was Chigurh really in there? Was it all in Ed Tom's head? Did Chigurh escape into the shadows? Again, by not fully fleshing this out and forcing the viewer to determine what happened, the Coens have made a brave choice, and one that I applaud. It only reinforces Chigurh's presence as a "ghostly" figure, and one that cannot be restrained. That was, in many ways, Ed Tom's moment of clarity, his "coin toss" with Chigurh, and he's packing it in.
The Coens have a knack for startling images, and for presenting them in eye-popping ways. Consider the camera slowly panning over the scuff marks at the first movie scene, or the way a second truck appears at the top of the hillcrest while Moss is back investigating the carnage below. Or the deliberate manner in which Chigurh checks the soles of his shoes, or the beads of condensation on the milk bottle. All carefully manipulated pieces of filmmaking of the highest artistic merit.
Bardem's performance is legendary. Really not a lot else to say about it.
Whether you approach this film stylistically or symbolically doesn't matter. Both form and content are exceptional. It is, however, the intertwining of these factions that lifts the film to stratospheric heights- so few films achieve this that it's a privilege to find one that is enhanced when style and content are mixed together into something completely different, and not just meant to be appreciated separately.
The scene pictured below. Maybe my favorite movie scene of all time. The dialogue is pitch perfect, the performances just the same, and the tension is bursting at the seams. I love it!http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y28/djroach/cointoss.jpg

HalifaxDrunk

09-02-2008, 04:39 PM

Team Hot Buttery Topping chooses, in the Musical category, my second film directed by Meat Head and third film directed by a 1970s sitcom star, Rob Reiner's comedy classic, and the film that launched a thousand mockumentary ships for Christopher Guest...This Is Spinal Tap!

If someone had picked the Blues Brothers ahead of me this was my other musical choice. Awesome movie.

octothorp

09-02-2008, 04:46 PM

I will take No Country For Old Men in the thriller category. IMO the best film of the decade. Will add to this later when i can get back to a computer.

Oh man, my spreadsheet is taking a beating today. Field of Dreams, Spinal Tap, and now No Country! Ouch.

WindomURL

09-02-2008, 05:02 PM

I will take No Country For Old Men in the thriller category. IMO the best film of the decade. Will add to this later when i can get back to a computer.

That's the fourth Coen Bros. movie chosen I think (after Lebowski, Barton Fink, Fargo).
I think you're just trying to convince yourself that $150 for the TIFF premiere is money well spent. ;)

Meanwhile I just used 6000 FAN960 Fan Club points to grab 2 tickets to an advance screening of Burn After Reading next Monday Sept. 8 at 7:00pm.
I encourage any others of you in Calgary to do the same. Maybe we can get a group together? link (http://www.m2omedia.com/cfac/members/spend/shopping/)

doozwimp

09-02-2008, 05:28 PM

My war movie is gone. Really enjoyed Jarhead.

Prototype

09-02-2008, 09:02 PM

Hey guys... I'm not surprised that I'm AK'd, was in Kamloops since Friday morning with no internet connection.

I'll have a pick up in a bit...

EDIT: Comedy - SUPER TROOPERS

ResAlien

09-02-2008, 10:50 PM

With their seventh round pick team Lucky the Donkey is happy to select, in the category of sci-fi, the 1997 classic Cube

I'll add some clips etc later as I'm crashing, but oh yeah, psyched this is still around. Great movie. No backstory, no explanation, just *bang* go! No on knows why these 7 strangers are in this killer structure, but they all have something special that will help them survive. Love the evolution of the characters as the film progresses. Definitely one of the most original movies I've ever seen. Also, for some reason I have a soft spot for Michael Rappaport, dude is just awesome.

sadora

09-02-2008, 10:53 PM

My war movie is gone. Really enjoyed Jarhead.

I'm just glad it was still available. It seems like the war and western categories were the toughest to pick IMO.

VANFLAMESFAN

09-02-2008, 10:56 PM

VFF: Looks like the consensus is against Titanic being non-fiction.
I also think that's pushing the definition too far.

You have the option of moving it to a new category or picking a different movie.

2-3 people is a consensus??

I'm gonna make a new pick altogether, but not till the morning. Im tired right now.

czure32........11 Academy Awards including Best Picture.....far from a steaming pile of turd. This movie gets an undeserved bad rap because of the love story and Leo being a teen heartthrob at the time.

czure32

09-02-2008, 11:37 PM

czure32........11 Academy Awards including Best Picture.....far from a steaming pile of turd. This movie gets an undeserved bad rap because of the love story and Leo being a teen heartthrob at the time.

actually the flaming turd comment was in regards to sudden death, i wasnt overly fond of titanic either, but it had so much critcal acclaim, that i wouldnt exactly call it a turd

GirlySports

09-02-2008, 11:45 PM

2-3 people is a consensus??

I'm gonna make a new pick altogether, but not till the morning. Im tired right now.

czure32........11 Academy Awards including Best Picture.....far from a steaming pile of turd. This movie gets an undeserved bad rap because of the love story and Leo being a teen heartthrob at the time.

Not just 2-3 people.. got some PMs too.
Sorry for the trouble.

VANFLAMESFAN

09-03-2008, 07:59 AM

Alright, I'll draft again into the Documentary category. And I don't wanna take films that I haven't seen, so since I don't watch too many documentaries, I really didn't have much to choose from, so TEAM Wishwedidaporndraft will select Morgan Spurlock's SUPERSIZE ME!

http://stores.homestead.com/unitedindependentmedia/catalog/Super-Size-Me-DVD.jpg

Morgan Spurlock takes you on a very funny and scary journey. He ate three meals a day of straight McDonalds and wanted to see what kind of effect it would have on people. I still know plenty of people who won't eat McDonald's and some still reference this movie as a reason.

VERY STRONG OPENING SCENE

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Spurlock puking up his supersized meal

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MattyC

09-03-2008, 09:02 AM

With my 7th round pick, Team Theatre Head is proud to select in the War category The Pianist

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The Best Oscar acceptance ever

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octothorp

09-03-2008, 09:06 AM

Good pick Matty, and you're right about it being a great Oscar acceptance speech. One of my wife's absolute favorite movies ever, and it does pretty good on my list, too.

MattyC

09-03-2008, 09:09 AM

Thanks Octo. This is one of my alltime favorite movies. I can watch it 20+ times and it still wouldnt get old. Just a very well made film

Itse

09-03-2008, 02:05 PM

Flame Of Liberty

09-03-2008, 03:57 PM

With the 187th Overall pick The All Or Nuttin team is proud to select in the "Comedy" category, the best Guy Ritchie movie to date, a crime comedy full of hilarious low-lifes from East London, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

http://www.movieposterdb.com/posters/08_01/1998/120735/l_120735_5a24e3ac.jpg

After the movie Snatch was picked, immediately I knew there is no room for hestitation. Ritchie made Lock, stock and two smoking barrels first and honestly, eventhough Snatch is a great movie, it doesnt quite reach the heights of the "original." Style, dark humour, originality, insane pace and even more insane characters, and of course a good portion of "gutter realism" makes this movie a great experience.

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habernac

09-03-2008, 04:28 PM

excellent selection!

JerzeeGirl

09-03-2008, 05:43 PM

09-03-2008, 09:41 PM

The Pianist- Great film, was my #1 remaining pick for the War category. Have to go digging now. Nice pick.

Lock, Stock- Another one to scratch off my list. Lots of fun this one is. The way it ends has always stuck with me too- a perfect way to finish the film. Nice pick.

WindomURL

09-03-2008, 09:42 PM

I thought Tilley was in this thread this evening, but I guess I misread.
Anyways, I'm PMing 2 picks plus 1 contingency pick to Girly right away.
Hopefully he'll have both of his ready to go too.

Boom, outta here!

Tilley

09-03-2008, 10:36 PM

With the 188th selection in the movie draft, The Ghost of Siskel selects:

in the Fantasy Category: The Green Mile (1999).

Sorry for the delay.

WindomURL

09-04-2008, 05:34 AM

^^ Nice one. I consider this one of the best movies set in a prison, based on a story by Stephen King, directed by Frank Darabont.

Kudos! ;)

WindomURL

09-04-2008, 06:27 AM

With the 189th pick of the 7th round, "Wrapped In Plastic" selects the 1976 Golden Palm winner at Cannes in the Best Picture category:
Taxi Driver (1976)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075314/

http://members.shaw.ca/windomurl/Taxi_Driver.jpg

-from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_Driver)
Taxi Driver is a 1976 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_in_film) film directed by Martin Scorsese (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Scorsese) and written by Paul Schrader (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Schrader). The movie is set in early post–Vietnam Era New York City and stars Robert De Niro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_De_Niro) and features Jodie Foster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodie_Foster), Albert Brooks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Brooks), Harvey Keitel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Keitel), Leonard Harris (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Harris_%28actor%29), Peter Boyle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Boyle) and Cybill Shepherd (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybill_Shepherd).

Critical response:
Taxi Driver was a financial success and was nominated for four Academy Awards (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Awards), including Best Picture (but lost to Rocky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky)) and received the Palme d'Or (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palme_d%27Or), at the Cannes Film Festival (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannes_Film_Festival).[11] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_Driver#cite_note-10) In later years, the film was ranked #52 on the American Film Institute (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Film_Institute)'s list of "100 Years, 100 Movies,"[12] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_Driver#cite_note-11) and #22 on its "100 Years, 100 Thrills."[13] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_Driver#cite_note-12) Bickle was also named as #30 on its' "villains" list.[14] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_Driver#cite_note-13) It has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Film_Registry).[15] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_Driver#cite_note-14) The film earned $28,262,574 in the United States.[16] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_Driver#cite_note-15)
The film was chosen by Time (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_%28magazine%29) Magazine as one of the 100 best films of all time.[17] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_Driver#cite_note-16)

Taxi Driver was reportedly part of a delusional fantasy on the part of John Hinckley, Jr. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hinckley,_Jr.)[20] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_Driver#cite_note-19)[21] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_Driver#cite_note-20) which triggered his attempted assassination (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_assassination_attempt) of President Ronald Reagan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan) in 1981 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981), an act for which he was found not guilty by reason of insanity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insanity_defense).[22] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_Driver#cite_note-21)[23] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_Driver#cite_note-22) His stated reason was that the act was an attempt to impress Jodie Foster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodie_Foster) by mimicking Travis' mohawked appearance at the Palantine rally. The movie was so influential that his attorney concluded his defense by playing the movie.
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This intense character study remains one of the most unforgettable movies I have ever seen. Although it lost out to the popular, feel-good choice of "Rocky" for the Best Picture Oscar that year, it has arguably become the more well-respected movie with time.

Trailer
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One of the most quoted and memorable scenes in movie history: "You Talking To Me?" (NSFW language)
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