Nice pick Jagger. I should have predicted that one too, given your team name. MPATSFTHG (whoa, long acronym) was on my short list for comedies, and is essentially one hilariously brilliant scene after another. One of those DVDs I watch a couple times a year just to have a good laugh. And annoy my friends, family, and co-workers for about two weeks afterward saying things like:
"Go and boil your bottoms, you sons of a silly person!"
and
"I am French! Why do you think I have this outrrrrrrrrageous accent, you silly King!"
Commish, do you mind to update the draft board? I'd like to see what's up. Oh and I will try to click refresh, so if you have been and I am an idiot, then please ignore.
P.S. 19 and a half hours and counting, Got Miikka...
Yup more than 20 hours now so Miikka's been asskicked
With the 59th pick, MissTeeks sent me this:
Animation: The Nightmare Before Christmas
I love this movie because I'm a sucker for stop-motion animation. It's got an excellent soundtrack, my favorite of any animation movie, and anything involving Tim Burton is excellent. I'm not one of those emo kids that have latched onto this movie, I watched it in the theatres when it first came out in 1993. My sister and I watch it every Halloween and Christmas.
Trailer:
Jack's Lament (Favorite Song)
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With the 58th overall selection Team Clint Eastwood selects Disney's Aladdin (1992) in the Musical category.
Edit number 4:
Got pretty pissy this morning when I couldn't get this damn thing posted due to technical constraints. Gonna try again now that I've got a glass of wine and am (therefore) more relaxed. After all, I am trying to compile a compelling list of films and don't want to appear pressed to make a decision that would lead to my 'team' having any weak spots.
Do I hate musicals? No. They generally drive me up the wall because in terms of storytelling disrupting the pace of a good film with a song and dance routine is to me a nuissance. Because of this I find only a certain style of storytelling fits the musical apparatus: it has to be zany or otherwise possess enough freemoving energy that there isn't a total sense of disconnect between the story and the musical numbers (this dichotomy was parodied effectively in Mel Brooks' version of "The Producers" - I can't speak for the remake). I called the genre illegitimate but this was terse and shortsighted; movie musicals are just an insular genre with less room for cross-genre manipulation due to their strict principles. Unique and often grating, yes; illegitimate certainly not.
I find animated films possess enough of the zany quality that might befit the odd unprovoked musical number; they can appear almost natural (I do applaud animated features for recently moving away from this formula, however). This leads me to my selection: Disney's take on Aladdin. Who better to personify the zany/musical crossover than the one and only Robin Williams? Say what you will about a performer who has often seemed out of place or confused for his part in some of his roles ("What Dreams May Come" anyone?) - Aladdin was the perfect venue for Williams and he effortlessly steals the show - and performs the most memorable numbers - as the manic Genie. The movie overall has a playful tone which once again seems to mesh well with the concept of the musical format; this is the main reason I chose this over the more dramatically complete Beauty and the Beast, which itself has one or two entertaining productions and as I originally mentioned wins the Battle of the Disney Hotties hands down.
There are many other things about Aladdin I enjoyed thoroughly as a youngster seeing the movie for the first time: the delightfully campy but nonetheless sinister villain Jafar, the edgy humor of Gilbert Gottfried as Jafar's parrot sidekick, and of course some spectacular visuals - the main setpiece being Aladdin's escape from the Cave of Wonders. This is by no means a deep, meaningful film, but it achieves what it sets out to and for me is one of the few movie musicals I am not compelled to turn off moments in.
And, for fun - make of it what you will (ignore the spelling errors too!):
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Reason: feeling better
Great pick, it was #2 on both my list of animated movies and musicals. The quality of the animation is wonderful, the music is great (especially the ridiculously catchy 'What's This', which I would list as my favorite Christmas carol), and the concept is brilliant and well executed.
Yup more than 20 hours now so Miikka's been asskicked
With the 59th pick, MissTeeks sent me this:
Animation: The Nightmare Before Christmas
D'oh
Nightmare was my top "musical" pick, what a fantastic film and soundtrack
I must say as well that the Fiona Apple version of "Sally's Song" is wonderful
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Originally Posted by octothorp
Great pick, it was #2 on both my list of animated movies and musicals. The quality of the animation is wonderful, the music is great (especially the ridiculously catchy 'What's This', which I would list as my favorite Christmas carol), and the concept is brilliant and well executed.
ha ha, as I was thinking about trying to get nightmare with my 4th round pick, I would constantly get "Whats This" stuck in my head...
whats this? whats this? theres colour everywhere
whats this? theres white stuff in the air
not so fond of the fall out boy version though
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with teh recent addition of the BAFTA's, having won Best picture not in the english language, in the Best Picture category DVD-eh? selects:
El laberinto del fauno (better known as Pan's Labyrinth)
a wonderful and visually stunning fairy tale. Pans Labyrinth is one of my favorite foreign language films. The recipient of 64 different awards and regarded by many critics as one of the best films of 2006
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In the Sci-Fi Category, SDoTM selects Alien. Such a landmark film, not one that was really big at the time, but has become incredibly important and respected over the years.
I love the way that it captures the size and emptiness of space, and Ripley is such a great, solitary character. And Giger's alien concept is so iconic. So many of the aliens depicted in film previously had been done with the idea that they would be so reliant on technology that their physical bodies would be somewhat underwhelming. This Alien was the opposite of that, a creature that was so sophisticated that it needed no technology to be a near unstoppable killing machine.
I was considering this one instead of Apocolypse Now, and thinking about the two films together, I was struck by the similar elements of Ripley and Willard, as these reluctant but inevitable heroes, emotionally isolated from their companions, and pitted against an inhumanly evil force. So I wasn't at all surprised when, in doing research about this pick, it turned out that Alien, like Apocolypse Now, was influenced by Joseph Conrad's writing.
And in regards to Aliens already being picked, I'm not going to trash talk someone else's pick too much, but I strongly prefer Scott's tense sci-fi horror tone over Cameron's slightly goofy action adventure.
