For the next pick, with the addition of two new wildcard spots we figure we should fill one in. So in our first Wildcard spot we are proud to select a guilty pleasure of ours, Pirates of the Caribbean - Curse of the Black Pearl.
This movie brought Johnny Depp back from obsecurity and shot him to the top as one of the most sought after actors of today. This movie is great as it has great acting by Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom and the beautiful Keira Knightley.
Pirates of the Caribbean is a sweeping action-adventure story set in an era when villainous pirates scavenged the Caribbean seas. This roller coaster tale teams a young man, Will Turner, with an unlikely ally in rogue pirate Jack Sparrow. Together, they must battle a band of the world's most treacherous pirates, led by the cursed Captain Barbossa, in order to save Elizabeth, the love of Will's life, as well as recover the lost treasure that Jack seeks. Against improbable odds, they race towards a climactic confrontation on the mysterious Isla de Muerta. Clashing their swords in fierce mortal combat, Will and Jack attempt to recapture The Black Pearl ship, save the British navy, and relinquish a fortune in forbidden treasure thereby lifting the curse of the Pirates of the Caribbean.
^That is also a guilty pleasure of mine. The two sequels though, not so much.
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The Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little, and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while the Company is true. Go Flames Go!
Have you seen the British TV show, "Spaced" then? You will likely love it since you like Pegg. It's available over here on a complete 2 season DVD.
That's been in my Netfilx cue for 3 months and I can never get it because it is so popular.
Hot Fuzz exceeded my expectations. I thought it was just going to be a bumbling cop movie. So much more!
I'm not sure they can ever top Shaun of the Dead, but Hot Fuzz was a hell of an attempt!
and....oh...thanks for the extra 2 rounds! Was thinking today at work and wondering how in the heck I was going to pick just 3 more movies.
TV draft? Hmmmm...who came up with that one?
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
I've got an absolute steal here. A fairly recent box office hit that won over two dozen film awards all over the world, including an Oscar (although it's the one category it didn't deserve anything in, music). Then again I've understood this movie was never really well received or understood on your side of the pond, so propably this is yet another suicide pick
For our 15th round pick, team Selfmade Heroes picks Full Monty (1997) as our Wildcard #2 (at least for now).
jemmytee from Los Angeles, Ca, in IMDB puts it very nicely:
"I want to start off by saying, if you're looking for slap-shtick comedy and low- rent toilet humor, this is NOT the movie for you. It has its moments of "belt-in- the-face" fun, but they are consistently grounded in the real problems the lead characters face -- unemployment, loss of family, lack of self-respect, fear of ridicule and a bleak future that promises even greater failure. This is not a Farrelly Brothers kind of story...and that is what makes it so special.
Gaz is broke, on welfare, lives in the projects, is behind on his child support and is threatened with losing his son to his ex-wife unless he can pull together 700 pounds (about $1100). But this is Sheffield, England -- once a boomtown but now a deadening city of shopping malls and garment mills, where the factories (and the guys that worked in them) are empty shells of themselves. The women have jobs; the men have job fairs. Into this comes a touring "Chippendale's" dance troupe (aimed at women only; after all, they have the spare money) and an idea is born. Gaz and some mates will strip all the way, give the ladies "the full monty", as a way to earn some quick change.
The idea is preposterous. Only one of the six men in the new dance troupe is good-looking enough to pull it off (pun intended); the rest are either fat, skinny, old and/or ugly. But the movie's gentle suggestion is that not only is beauty in the eye of the beholder, but so is self-respect...and in following through with their plans, they gain a LOT more than just 2000 pounds each.
Robert Carlyle is good as the anchor of the piece, always pushing and planning and cajoling and begging and even stealing, as need be, but it's the rest of the cast that makes this movie work -- from Tom Wilkinson as a manager ashamed to tell his wife he's lost his job to Mark Addy as a man who's so ashamed of how fat and unattractive he is, he's driving his wife away right down to Hugo Speer and his joyful "let's have a blast" attitude.
"The Full Monty" is a gem of human comedy aimed not at the gut but at the sense of hope we all carry. I recommend it for anyone who needs a lift. "
Great choice Itse. Wonderful film that I enjoy everytime I watch it!
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
I've got an absolute steal here. A fairly recent box office hit that won over two dozen film awards all over the world, including an Oscar (although it's the one category it didn't deserve anything in, music). Then again I've understood this movie was never really well received or understood on your side of the pond, so propably this is yet another suicide pick
For our 15th round pick, team Selfmade Heroes picks Full Monty (1997) as our Wildcard #2 "
Good one! This moved onto my radar when the couple of extra wildcards entered the competition. Needless to say it was taken soon after!!!
TEAM Wishwedidaporndraft is happy to select into the WAR category, the Wolfgang Peterson classic, DAS BOOT
I swore I saw this taken earlier, but I couldn't find it on the draft board, so if it is taken, someone call me out on it and I'll pick again, but until that happens, Im extremely happy with my choice.
Okay, a quick pick before I head out. My foreign list has taken a hit over the last few picks, first Downfall goes, then Hot Fuzz and The Full Monty, which were both in my sights as English foreign films.
Just because I like ballet doesn't mean I'm a poof, you know.
For my next pick, team Hot Buttery Topping is proud to select in the Foreign category, from the United Kingdom, Billy Elliot.
Set during the UK Coal Miner's Strike of the mid-80s, Billy Elliot tells the story of a young boy who falls in love with ballet, much to the disappointment of his coal miner father and brother.
Billy must struggle not only to become a better dancer, but to earn his family's respect and acceptance of his choice to become a dancer.
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Turn up the good, turn down the suck!
Yup, great pick. I used my war pick early, but in my mind this is about the third best war film out there, and I was shocked pretty much every time someone picked a war film that wasn't Das Boot. It was getting to the point where I was considering using a Wildcard to pick it up.
Yup, great pick. I used my war pick early, but in my mind this is about the third best war film out there, and I was shocked pretty much every time someone picked a war film that wasn't Das Boot. It was getting to the point where I was considering using a Wildcard to pick it up.
While I've never seen the Godfather, and picked it... all my other picks have been movies I've seen and loved. Never seen Das Boot, and figured that Stripes would have been available much deeper in the draft. (Had Spies Like Us as a back up...)
While I've never seen the Godfather, and picked it... all my other picks have been movies I've seen and loved. Never seen Das Boot, and figured that Stripes would have been available much deeper in the draft. (Had Spies Like Us as a back up...)
My wife won't watch it. She hates mob movies and detests the violence. I keep trying to convince her that all that stuff is secodnary, it's just amazing filmmaking.
