I notice the thread title reads liamenator, Prototype, then Drunk.
I don't mean to sound critical (even though I must seem that way, eh
Matty? ) but maybe HalifaxDrunk doesn't even realize it's his turn?
I've PMed him. Maybe some of you who know him better could do the same?
Assuming its actually my turn I will select The Graduate in Drama. Extremely pleased to be able to select this one this late. Very different for its time, has a breakout role with Dustin Hoffman and boasts probably the greatest soundtrack of all time done by Simon and Garfunkel.
Wont be around for a few days so I've sent my next picks to Girly Sport.
I notice the thread title reads liamenator, Prototype, then Drunk.
I don't mean to sound critical (even though I must seem that way, eh
Matty? ) but maybe HalifaxDrunk doesn't even realize it's his turn?
I've PMed him. Maybe some of you who know him better could do the same?
You guys dont need to go by the draft thread since I'm always around.
Just keep picking.
HalifaxDrunk is a draft veteran, he always knows when it's his turn
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Oh it's my turn? The 3rd pick for team Selfmade Heroes and I believe 70th overall shall be one of Stanley Kubrick's several masterpieces, The Shining, I guess it'll have to be in the Thriller / Horror category. Links and love letters later.
If Jerzee doesn't get back by 5 hours, at 6:29am the next person should go ahead and pick. Superflyer are you out there? I don't see why people shouldn't just go ahead when time's up as per the rules.
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Reason: oops: read the wrong time.
With our 3rd pick, Team That's What She Said would like to call The Rocky Horror Picture Show up to the podium in the Wildcard category (for now,altho this does seem the most appropriate place for it). We were delighted that this film, that has been selected by the Library of Congress to be preserved in the National Film Registry as it has been deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" was still available at this time.
This is a film that was made with a modest $1.2 million dollar budget but has gone on to become the longest running release in film history - even today it can be found at midnight shows all over the world with audiences dressing up, yelling at the screen and doing the Time Warp (again).
In fact, the only actual horrible thing about this film is that MTV has apparently announced plans to remake it...
Some clips.....
The original trailer - can't even imagine what this looked like on tv back in the '70s!
Get ready - it's time to do the Time Warp!
The entrance of the spectacular Tim Curry as Dr. Frank N Furter...
And the infamous Lips!
For those interested in experiencing the show as it should be (live, that is) - the next screenings in Calgary will be Aug. 29 - 31st at the Plaza Theatre in Kensington. For more info, their website is here.
And for tips on props and when to use them, here's a quick refresher on some:
Rice (to be thrown at Ralph and Betty's wedding)
Water pistols (back row squirts them during rain scene)
Newspapers (for front and middle rows to shield themselves from rain)
Flashlights or cigarette lighters ("There's a Light" verse of "Over at Frankenstein Place")
Rubber gloves (during and after the creation speech, Frank snaps his gloves three times)
Noisemakers (the Transylvanians applaud Frank's creation - so should you)
Toilet paper (when Brad yells "Great scott!", throw a roll)
Confetti (at the end of the "Charles Atlas" reprise, the Transylvanians throw confetti)
Toast (when Frank proposes a toast at dinner)
Party hat (when Frank puts on his hat to wish Rocky happy birthday, so does the audience)
Bell ("When we made it/did you hear a bell ring?")
Cards ("Cards for sorrow/cards for pain")
For more RHPS related tips and trivia - check out the website here.
With the 3rd round selection for the B list team we are proud to select in the Musical category, Phantom of the Opera.
The story of a young chorus girl, Christine - a young talented singer who, with the right training, could become world famous. While rehearsing at the Opera Populaire, where weird and unexplainable things happen, she captures the attention and the heart of The Phantom, or as the Opera Populaire call him...The Opera Ghost. But he is no ghost - he is a disfigured musical genius who has hidden away for years to avoid the cruel stares of strangers. With the Phantoms help, Christine becomes the venue's leading lady, but tragedy awaits as the young soprano has fallen for the charms of handsome noble Viscount Raoul De Chagny, not realizing her Angel of Music is deeply in love with her. Insane with jealousy and unable to see the object of his affection, and ultimately is obsession, in the arms of another man, The Phantom kidnaps Christine - unaware of the lengths Raoul is prepared to go to get her back.
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With our 3rd round, 73rd overall, team snoogans is proud to select in the action category, Luc Besson's classic: Leon: The Professional.
Léon (aka The Professional) is a story of a lone hitman in New York who saves the life of a 12-year-old girl after her family is murdered. He insists that she leave the next morning but the girl, Mathilda, wants to learn to be a "cleaner" so she can avenge the death of her family.
Léon finds himself oddly drawn to Mathilda who gives him a taste of life, but with this young girl comes trouble.
Some great choices recently. I had hoped to see The Shining fall to me but didn't think realistically it would. Leon is one of my favorite action movies.
With their third pick, TEAM Wishwedidaprondraft is very happy to select a personal favorite, a movie that our commis has seen more than any other movie, a whopping 136 times and counting. The James Cameron epic, TERMINATOR 2:JUDGEMENT DAY. This will be our science fiction choice.
Cameron revolutionized visual effecs with the T-1000 in T2, winning Oscars in sound and visual effects. The story is simple, but at the same time very interesting. A post-nuclear war machine is set back thru time disguised as a police officer to kill the leader of the human resistance while he was still a child. The humans(namely John Connor himself) was able to send a re-programmed Terminator to protext John. What happens is maybe the best 2.5 hours of cat and mouse every seen in a movie. with solid performances by Arnold, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick and a surprsing debut for Edward Furlong, Terminator 2 set the bar for science fiction action movies and has been duplicated, but never matched.
Here's a couple of the many visually stunnig chase sequences:
Sarah's escape from the mental hospital, GREAT VISUAL EFFECTS
The T-100 malfunctions is the final battle
HASTA LA VISTA BABY
God, there are so many more parts that I want to put on this, but there really isn't enough room, but TERMINATOR 2: Judgement Day will forever be known as on the best sci-fi action movies ever made.
Some great choices recently. I had hoped to see The Shining fall to me but didn't think realistically it would. Leon is one of my favorite action movies.
I'm just glad Leon was still available. I love that movie. Gary Oldman plays such a good crooked cop.
Just an idea but why don't we change the deadline for picks to 6 hours or so? (I do understand that this will be tough on overseas posters).
However this would speed up the draft substantially and the people missed can just pick when they get online. There are a ton of good movies out there to be picked so it really shouldn't be a problem. The draft definitely crawls to a halt at times. We need to move it along. Anyway, just an idea. Girlysports?
Just an idea but why don't we change the deadline for picks to 6 hours or so? (I do understand that this will be tough on overseas posters).
However this would speed up the draft substantially and the people missed can just pick when they get online. There are a ton of good movies out there to be picked so it really shouldn't be a problem. The draft definitely crawls to a halt at times. We need to move it along. Anyway, just an idea. Girlysports?
What if those 6 hours are like from midnight to 6am? Are you guys going to enforce it. This types of drafts always slow down a bit on weekends. Everyone has a life
I'm sure it'll pick up tomorrow morning.
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What if those 6 hours are like from midnight to 6am? Are you guys going to enforce it. This types of drafts always slow down a bit on weekends. Everyone has a life
I'm sure it'll pick up tomorrow morning.
Yeah, fair enough. Funnily enough though, given my baby doesn't sleep much, I probably would be up sometime between those hours! I get your point. Like I said, just an idea.
This is a weird choice, one I didn't plan on making...not because I don't like the movie, but because I never thought it would still be available this late in the draft.
With our third round pick, team Hot Buttery Topping is proud to add another Oscar winner to the team...not a Best Picture winner, but it did snag the Best Director trophy for Steven Spielberg...in the War Category, Saving Private Ryan.
Opening with one of the most ambitious recreations of a real-life battle ever put on film, the storming of Omaha Beach by US Forces on D-Day is presented in brutal detail using a first-person perspective camera which puts the audience into the heart of the battle.
After the Allies have taken the beach, Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks, in another Oscar nominated performance) is given a strange new mission, to bring a squad of Army Rangers into the heart of Nazi controlled France to find and rescue an American Private named James Ryan (Matt Damon). Ryan (if he's still alive) is the last survivor of four brothers serving the United States in the war. In an effort to comfort Ryan's mother, who is scheduled to receive notification of the death of three of her sons on the same day, the decision has been made to release Private Ryan from his service, to return him to his grieving mother.
After many struggles, Miller's squad eventually tracks down Ryan, who (as you would expect) refuses to leave behind his comrades despite being given a free ticket home. Miller's group joins Ryan's in defending a village against German forces.
I won't spoil the ending, but the Allies win the war, in case you were wondering. Here's the trailer that came out during a re-release of the film...
Saving Private Ryan has become the standard against which all other war movies will be judged. This is the fourth Spielberg film chosen in this draft which takes place during the Second World War (Schindler's List, Empire of the Sun, and Raiders of the Lost Ark being the others), and it is a testament to his genius that this film, which on most Director's resumés would be their undeniable crowning achievement, was the fourth of his WWII era films chosen.
Quote:
Private Jackson: Sir... I have an opinion on this matter.
Captain Miller: Well, by all means, share it with the squad.
Private Jackson: Well, from my way of thinking, sir, this entire mission is a serious misallocation of valuable military resources.
Captain Miller: Yeah. Go on.
Private Jackson: Well, it seems to me, sir, that God gave me a special gift, made me a fine instrument of warfare.
Captain Miller: Reiben, pay attention. Now, this is the way to gripe. Continue, Jackson.
Private Jackson: Well, what I mean by that, sir, is... if you was to put me and this here sniper rifle anywhere up to and including one mile of Adolf Hitler with a clear line of sight, sir... pack your bags, fellas, war's over. Amen.
Private Reiben: Oh, that's brilliant, bumpkin. Hey, so, Captain, what about you? I mean, you don't gripe at all?
Captain Miller: I don't gripe to *you*, Reiben. I'm a captain. There's a chain of command. Gripes go up, not down. Always up. You gripe to me, I gripe to my superior officer, so on, so on, and so on. I don't gripe to you. I don't gripe in front of you. You should know that as a Ranger.
Private Reiben: I'm sorry, sir, but uh... let's say you weren't a captain, or maybe I was a major. What would you say then?
Captain Miller: Well, in that case... I'd say, "This is an excellent mission, sir, with an extremely valuable objective, sir, worthy of my best efforts, sir. Moreover... I feel heartfelt sorrow for the mother of Private James Ryan and am willing to lay down my life and the lives of my men - especially you, Reiben - to ease her suffering."
Mellish: [chuckles] He's good.
Private Caparzo: I love him.
[they make mocking kissy-faces at each other]
Quote:
Captain Miller: James Francis Ryan of Iowa?
Private Ryan: Yes, sir. Payton, Iowa, that's correct. What is this about?
Captain Miller: Your brothers were killed in combat.
Private Ryan: Which - Which ones?
Captain Miller: All of them.
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Captain Miller: It's like finding a needle in a stack of needles.
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Captain Miller: I'm a schoolteacher. I teach English composition... in this little town called Adley, Pennsylvania. The last eleven years, I've been at Thomas Alva Edison High School. I was a coach of the baseball team in the springtime. Back home, I tell people what I do for a living and they think well, now that figures. But over here, it's a big, a big mystery. So, I guess I've changed some. Sometimes I wonder if I've changed so much my wife is even going to recognize me, whenever it is that I get back to her. And how I'll ever be able to tell her about days like today. Ah, Ryan. I don't know anything about Ryan. I don't care. The man means nothing to me. It's just a name. But if... You know if going to Rumelle and finding him so that he can go home. If that earns me the right to get back to my wife, then that's my mission.
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I always thought Ryan was a pretty typical war film. Better than many other due to simple production value, sure, but not much more than that. A cheesier ending than most war movies.
) but maybe HalifaxDrunk doesn't even realize it's his turn?
