I was really hoping Lola Rennt would slip by into the next round. Most of the recent picks were on my list but I didn't really expect them to drop far enough to be available. That was one I hoped would be overlooked a little while longer.
Damn you people are too good.
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I was really hoping Lola Rennt would slip by into the next round. Most of the recent picks were on my list but I didn't really expect them to drop far enough to be available. That was one I hoped would be overlooked a little while longer.
Damn you people are too good.
well if its any consolation, i had it pegged for my third round pick as well depending on what happened with the next couple picks and if i got what i had ranked for my 2nd pick
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The Roger Ebert Experience selects, in the Thriller category: Jaws
Jaws is a 1975thriller/horrorfilm directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's best-selling novel that was inspired by the Jersey Shoreshark attacks of 1916. The police chief of Amity Island, a fictional summer resort town, tries to protect beachgoers from a great white shark by closing the beach, only to be overruled by the town council, which wants the beach to remain open to draw a profit from tourists. After several attacks, the police chief enlists the help of a marine biologist and a professional shark hunter. Roy Scheider stars as police chief Martin Brody, Richard Dreyfuss as marine biologist Matt Hooper, Robert Shaw as shark hunter Quint, Lorraine Gary as Brody's wife Ellen and Murray Hamilton as Mayor Vaughn. Jaws is regarded as a watershed film in motion picture history, the father of the summer blockbuster movie and one of the first "high concept" films.[2][3] Due to the film's success in advance screenings, studio executives decided to distribute it in a much wider release than ever before. The Omen followed suit in the summer of 1976, and then Star Wars one year later in 1977, cementing the notion for movie studios to distribute their big-release action and adventure pictures (commonly referred to as tentpole pictures) during the summer. The film was followed by three sequels, none with the participation of Spielberg or Benchley. Jaws 2 (1978), Jaws 3-D (1983) and Jaws: The Revenge (1987). A video game entitled Jaws Unleashed was later made in 2005.
In this, the second round of the CP Movie Draft, Team Direct2Video selects Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959) in the Black & White category.
Cool, the first "waaaaaaaay off my board" pick! This is the second film selected thus far that I haven't seen, and I have to admit, this one wasn't even on my radar. It is now!
Cool, the first "waaaaaaaay off my board" pick! This is the second film selected thus far that I haven't seen, and I have to admit, this one wasn't even on my radar. It is now!
Would love to hear your comments about it.
looking forward to these kinds of picks as well, the later rounds should be gold.
I'll turn it over to team Troy McClure's director of overseas scouting:
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With our second pick, we are proud to select Spirited Away in the animated category. We were so high on this film that we did consider taking it in the eighth-overall spot, and are delighted that it's still around. Miyazaki's best film, the best film to come out of the anime tradition, and in our opinion the best animated film ever. But also extremely versatile, as it also won several 'best foreign' awards and most impressively, the Golden Bear from the Berlin Film Festival. Bizarre and beautifully-animated story of a young girl who finds herself trapped, working in a bathhouse for spirits.
with the 48th pick, we are very pleased to select in the Black and White category, Mel Brooks' classic:
Young Frankenstein
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Young Frankenstein is number 28 on Total Film Magazine's "List of the 50 Greatest Comedy Films of All Time", number 56 on Bravo television network's list of the "100 Funniest Movies", number 234 on IMDb's Top 250 list, and number 13 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 funniest American movies.[1] In 2003, it was deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the United States National Film Preservation Board, and selected for preservation in the Library of CongressNational Film Registry.
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Cool, the first "waaaaaaaay off my board" pick! This is the second film selected thus far that I haven't seen, and I have to admit, this one wasn't even on my radar. It is now!
Would love to hear your comments about it.
I really, really loved this movie when I saw it in my film class last year. The language in it (it's in French, with English subtitles) is absolutely beautiful. "Poetry on-screen" is what our Prof used to describe it, because if you were to look at the dialogue spoken by the two main characters, it'd read just like a poem.
I'm sure you can find a better synopsis elsewhere than I could provide, so I won't bore you with that. I will say this though: it's a film about memory. Or, I guess, about the burden of remembering; how not being able to forget something can alienate a person and totally paralyze them.
As I said, I really loved it...but I'm a giant fan of French in general, so that was the main pull for me -- just the pleasure of listening to such a beautiful language. And really, as far as "old" movies go, it's much more like what we're used to now, as it uses flashbacks and other more modern techniques and conventions.
With the 49th (?) pick, TEAM REDVAN is proud to select under the COMEDY category: HAPPY GILMORE
This is probably my second favorite movie of all time, behind the Matrix, so I could not let it slip by any further. I am taking a gamble here, since there are so many good movies left to be picked. Best of luck to the other teams!
With the 50th pick in the draft MissTeeks selects Gone With the Wind in the Best Picture category.
I choose this movie because it's everything an epic movie should be! A love story, good action scenes, overcoming hardships. Plus it's really beautiful to look at. The Burning of Atlanta is my favorite sequence in the movie.
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"As God as my witness, I'll never go hungry again!"
"Frankly my dear"
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I hate to be a stickler, but the guy who picked Goodfellas put it into the Best Picture category. Goodfellas never won best picture in any of the stipulated award ceremonies. It was nominated for a bunch and yes Joe Pesci won an Oscar for his role, but the film never won best picture and the category is pretty clearly called "Best Picture".
I hate to be a stickler, but the guy who picked Goodfellas put it into the Best Picture category. Goodfellas never won best picture in any of the stipulated award ceremonies. It was nominated for a bunch and yes Joe Pesci won an Oscar for his role, but the film never won best picture and the category is pretty clearly called "Best Picture".
You mean we're not counting the Edgar Allan Poe award for best picture?
I hate to be a stickler, but the guy who picked Goodfellas put it into the Best Picture category. Goodfellas never won best picture in any of the stipulated award ceremonies. It was nominated for a bunch and yes Joe Pesci won an Oscar for his role, but the film never won best picture and the category is pretty clearly called "Best Picture".
You are correct.. I thought it won a Golden Globe but it lost there too.
Dooz: you'll have to move it to another category.
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Full Metal Jacket is interesting.. it features one of the best performances in Vincent D'Onoffrio's portrayal of Private Gomer Pyle, but the second half of the movie I'm not a fan of.
Also the pick of Blazing Saddles is awesome. Brooks is the king of satire and that movie is downright hilarious. I agree with habby on the quote he mentioned.. best of the whole thing..
"THE SHERIFF's a *******!"
"What did he say?"
"I think he said the sheriff is nearer!"
"Oh!! Good!!"
*crowd claps*
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With the (insert draft selection number here, what are we at now?) choice, Team Clint Eastwood selects in the Best Picture category the 1995 Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Mel Gibson's opus Braveheart.
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What can I say about Braveheart? Often imitated but never duplicated (especially as far as the epic, gratuitous battle sequences), this is a glorious, sweeping epic that truly carries the viewer through its expansive running time; a touching romantic tragedy woven into a 'fact-based' parable punctuated by stunning action setpieces. Gibson deftly negotiates top-billing both in front of and behind the camera, and draws magnificent performances from his entire cast. I haven't decided yet if I would rank this movie among the all-time greats (you may come to discover this theme in my picks), but damn, it is a marvellous spectacle. I still get chills when I watch some of the action and violence, and the wrenching storyline that becomes of the intertwining of Wallace's loss of his true love and his fight for what he believes in is fantastically executed. Props to the musical score by James Horner and the gorgeous cinematography by John Toll. This is one 3-hour juggernaut I can sit through over and over.
(SOILER alert! - This clip taken from the film's denouement)
What They Had To Say
"Die Hard in a kilt."
-Peter Travers - Rolling Stone
"...an ambitious film, big on simple emotions like love, patriotism and treachery, [it] avoids the travelogue style of so many historical swashbucklers."
-Roger Ebert
"Greatest Movie ever"
-sams234
"I don't know about all that. But it is a great film."
-FilmScoreFan (reacting to sams234 proclamation)
"Gibson's second directorial effort, in which the oppressed people of Scotland are led to freedom by a short man with dazzling blue eyes, a dreadlock wig, an Australian accent and excellent biceps, is a rambling disappointment."
-Desson Howe, Washington Post columnist and certified Rotten Tomatoes 'Top Critic'
Indeed, scarcely the unanimous praise one might expect of a superlative, all-time cinematic effort. I don't care.
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