"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father prepare to die."
With its fourth round pick, team Hot Buttery Topping selects, in the Fantasy category, Rob Reiner's Action/Comedy/Romance/Swashbuckling/Adventure tale, The Princess Bride.
Framed by scenes in the "real world" featuring Fred Savage as a boy who is home sick in bed, and Peter Falk as his grandfather, who has decided to help make the boy feel better by telling him a fairy tale.
The fairy tale, called The Princess Bride, is the story of Buttercup (Robin Wright - not yet Penn) and Westley (Cary Elwes) and their never-ending love for each other...but don't worry, it's not one of those "kissing books".
Meathead finds the right mix of comedy, adventure, and romance in this story, with a great cast, including Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, Mandy Patinkin, and Andre the Giant (typecast, as always, as the Giant), and a soundtrack by Mark Knopfler.
The Princess Bride is a sweet, funny, family tale, with some memorable scenes and quotable lines. How can you not like a family movie that features the line, "There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours"?
Here's the best trailer I could find...
The battle of wits...
INCONCEIVABLE! You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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The Princess Bride is one of a very few "kids" movies I enjoy. I read the book by William Goldman too and its hilarious. Would definently recommend giving it a read.
With the pick in Round 4, TEAM Wishwedidaporndraft is happy to select into the foreign category, Alejandro Gonzalez Innarritu's soon to be classic, Amorres Perros!!
Nobody can do the multi layered story like Alejandro and proof of this is in Amores Perros in which three different stories are told all connecting to one horrific car crash. Each story has it's own feel, its own theme, but it all comes back to one thing, Amores Perros or as it is translated(loosely), LOVE"S A BITCH!!!
TRAILER
Very intense opening couple minutes, sorry, couldn't find a clip with the subtitles.
Octavio trying to get his brother's wife to go away with him and also negotiating to let his dog into the underground dog fighting circuit.
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Damn you Van, there goes my foreign category selection...
I loved this movie by Alejandro Inarritu and then I absolutely hated his next movie Babel, I tried to watch it twice and i turned it off twice.
I saw Babel first and absolutely loved it, thought it was robbed of Best Picture byt The Departed, although after a second viewing of The Departed, I agreed with the award. I then watched Amores Perros and thought it was miles beyond Babel. It's one of my favorite movies of all time, easily. I love Inarittu's vision, I think it's fantastic.
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With it's 4th round, 90th overall pick, Team Snoogans is happy to select in the sports category, a Bruce Lee classic...Enter the Dragon.
Synopsis: Bruce Lee was immortalized in his films as a martial arts master and first-class entertainer. ENTER THE DRAGON was the first martial arts film that American audiences had witnessed, and was actually produced in both Hong Kong and Hollywood. Interestingly, ENTER THE DRAGON also set the stage... Bruce Lee was immortalized in his films as a martial arts master and first-class entertainer. ENTER THE DRAGON was the first martial arts film that American audiences had witnessed, and was actually produced in both Hong Kong and Hollywood. Interestingly, ENTER THE DRAGON also set the stage for non-traditional, culturally specific narratives to make their way into Hollywood. Bruce Lee plays a kung fu master recruited by a foreign government to infiltrate the island of a megalomaniac martial artist named Han. Han's bodyguard is also found to have killed Lee's sister, giving Lee a personal vendetta to fight for. The Hall of Mirrors sequence towards the end of the film is now famous, as are Lee's incredibly gymnastic martial arts abilities. This trend-setting film holds up as an entertaining, engaging action movie, more than 30 years later
(synopsis from rottentomatoes.com)
With the #81 pick, Wrapped in Plastic selects "Fantasia" (1940) in the ANIMATION category. Links and goodies to follow.
I'm late with my late sales pitch for this pick, but here it is.
-from Wikipedia "Fantasia is a 1940 animated film produced by Walt Disney, and is the third film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics. Fantasia is an experiment in animation and music, consisting of classical music presented against the backdrop of animation and does not feature any dialogue. The music is recorded under the direction of Leopold Stokowski; seven of the eight pieces were performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Animated artwork of varying degrees of abstraction or literalism is used to illustrate or accompany the concert in various ways. The film also includes live-action segments featuring Stokowski, the orchestra, and American composer and music critic Deems Taylor, who serves as the host for the film. Besides its avant-garde qualities, Fantasia was notable for being the first major film released in stereophonic sound, using a process dubbed "Fantasound".
... The film opened to mixed critical reaction and failed to generate a large commercial audience, which left Walt Disney in financial straits. Fantasia was eventually picked up by RKO for release in 1941 and edited drastically to a running time of 81 minutes in 1942. Five subsequent rereleases of Fantasia between 1946 and 1977 restored various amounts of the deleted footage, with the most common version being the 1946 rerelease edit, which ran nine minutes shorter than the original 124 minute roadshow version. A 1982 reissue featured a newly recorded digital soundtrack conducted by composer Irwin Kostal, but was taken out of circulation in 1990 after a restored version of the original Stokowski-conducted soundtrack was prepared. The original version of Fantasia was never released again after 1941, and although some of the original audio elements no longer exist, a 2000 DVD release version attempted to restore as much of the original version of the film as possible. Fantasia, despite its initial commercial failure, is today considered a classic film."
As enjoyable as the state-of-the-art animated films by the likes of Pixar and DreamWorks are, there is something to be respected about the old-style hand-drawn animation techniques utilized by the Disney animators. Here we have the pinnacle of those efforts.
This masterpiece of a film remains a popular tool in music education to this day.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice with Mickey Mouse
Night on Bald Mountain
"La Gioconda: Dance of the Hours" from Ponchielli's opera (ballet-dancing hippos)
With the first pick of the 4th round, #82 overall, Wrapped in Plastic selects "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (2004) in the FANTASY category (per IMDB). Links and goodies to follow.
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd.
-- Alexander Pope
"Today is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap."
One of my favourite movies of all time, and IMHO the best screenplay ever written. I'm ecstatic to be able to add this to my lineup, especially in the 4th round.
(More to follow as time permits)
Trailer
Montage with Jon Brion's theme song
"You had the whole human race pegged." (one of my favourite scenes)
"Am I ugly?" (favourite scene of many others)
Ending (SPOILERS of course!) including Beck's cover of the almost forgotten 1980 hit by The Korgis "Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime" (at the 6:30 mark)
The B-List Celebs are proud to select in the 4th round in the category of Fantasy, The Crow. This movie really introduced Brandon Lee to North America, and showed that he could become a huge star like his dad Bruce Lee. But tragically he was shot and killed during the filming The Crow.
A poetic guitarist Eric Draven is brought back to life by a crow a year after he and his fiancée are murdered. The crow guides him through the land of the living, and leads him to his killers: knife thrower Tin-tin, drugetic Funboy, car buff T-Bird, and the unsophisticated Skank. One by one, Eric gives these thugs a taste of their own medicine. However their leader Top-Dollar, a world-class crime lord who will dispatch his enemies with a Japanese sword and joke about it later, will soon learn the legend of the crow and the secret to the vigilante's invincibility.
Can't post youtube stuff since I am at work but I will tonight cause there are just to many great scenes to not post them.
Fighting movies can't be sports movies I don't think.
I was going with the idea that Martial Arts are a sport therefore a movie could qualify in that category. If most feel that it doesn't fit then I can definitely change it.
With it's 4th round, 90th overall pick, Team Snoogans is happy to select in the sports category, a Bruce Lee classic...Enter the Dragon.
Damn, first time in the draft that I've missed out on a movie I was planning to pick. Great film, I love the showdown in the hall of mirrors, probably my favorite old-school martial arts scene.
As far as the sports classification, I think it sorta fits, but I also thought it was fairly clear that we would be using the IMDB categorical listings. If we're allowed to challenge the IMDB categorizations, that would change my strategy a bit, as there are a few films I'd like to use in categories that they aren't listed under.
I was going with the idea that Martial Arts are a sport therefore a movie could qualify in that category. If most feel that it doesn't fit then I can definitely change it.
While I wont argue that martial arts and martial arts training are certainly athletic activites, but for the purpose of the draft we are using the IMDB genre listings, and unfortunately "enter the dragon" isnt listed as a "sports" movie
just remember though if you get caught cheating; and if south park and Bill Belichick have taught us anything, just say "I misinterprrrreted the rrrrules"
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Yes we are going by IMDB classifications so Enter The Dragon is not a sports movie.
I have a question regarding this one and my City Of God pick- where are you finding these IMDB classifications?
When I go to the Enter The Dragon main page and click genre, it brings up a list containing such classic genres as:
Chop Socky
Psychotronic
Prosthetic Limb
Racial Slur
Are you just using the genres shown on the main page (in this case, action/crime/drama/thriller) or is there another page you are using to help classify what genres this one qualifies under?
I kind of wanted to leave my foreign slot open and I swear I saw City Of God listed as an action movie somewhere on IMDB, but I will change it if need be once we figure this out. Thanks!
I kind of wanted to leave my foreign slot open and I swear I saw City Of God listed as an action movie somewhere on IMDB, but I will change it if need be once we figure this out. Thanks!
The only genre listed for City of God on IMDB is crime. Obviously this would be a foreign genre though too.
I have a question regarding this one and my City Of God pick- where are you finding these IMDB classifications?
When I go to the Enter The Dragon main page and click genre, it brings up a list containing such classic genres as:
Chop Socky
Psychotronic
Prosthetic Limb
Racial Slur
Are you just using the genres shown on the main page (in this case, action/crime/drama/thriller) or is there another page you are using to help classify what genres this one qualifies under?
I kind of wanted to leave my foreign slot open and I swear I saw City Of God listed as an action movie somewhere on IMDB, but I will change it if need be once we figure this out. Thanks!
just those on the main page
Chop Socky is a 'plot keyword'
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Yes we are going by IMDB classifications so Enter The Dragon is not a sports movie.
Also a movie has to be about the sport (like Slapshot).
Bruce Lee movies are just action/fighting movies.
Fair enough. So after double checking the genre listing on IMDB, team snoogans is happy to re-select the 90th overall pick in the sports category...When We Were Kings. (it's listed as documentary, history, sport)
When We Were Kings is a 1996 documentary film directed by Leon Gast about the famous Rumble in the Jungleheavyweight championship match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman held in (what was then called) Zaïre (now called the DR Congo, all references are to Zaire) on October 30, 1974. It highlights the legendary boxer's trademark wit and charisma, as well as his superb ring generalship during the fight itself. The title refers to the time when Black people were kings and queens in Africa.
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