Sorry - would have made pick last night save for home computer deciding to freeze and not do anything.....spent the whole evening trying to make it behave - will make my pick around lunchtime!
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Damn, that looks sweet. I have a fairly paltry DVD collection (it consists entirely of LoTR extended editions, and Samurai Jack. And the first futurama movie). I think I may use this draft as an excuse to start building a collection... go out and get all the DVDs that end up on my team.
By my calculations, it's been 30 hours since the last pick. Double asskick?
Does that mean Dooz should be able to pick before Itse?
What do you say, Girly?
This is pretty frustrating after the great Monday 6pm through Wed 8am run we had where 15 people drafted in 37 hours. Now we've come to a screeching halt.
COME ON!
/Gob
By my calculations, it's been 30 hours since the last pick. Double asskick?
Does that mean Dooz should be able to pick before Itse?
What do you say, Girly?
This is pretty frustrating after the great Monday 6pm through Wed 8am run we had where 15 people drafted in 37 hours. Now we've come to a screeching halt.
COME ON!
/Gob
Yup 30 hours... 2 asskicks.
You don't need my approval
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not sure exactly what makes that one a special edition other than different cover art. If the digital copy is anything like other DVD's advertising digital copy, thats all the second disc is. Now its been a while since ive watched the special features on the copy I have, but I know for certain it has "frankenweenie" and 99% sure it has "Vincent" as well, maybe its the storyboards and making of feature...not enough to convince me to purchase another copy
now this one, thats a special edition, I would never spend $100+ on Nightmare, but I will say that does look pretty farking cool
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not sure exactly what makes that one a special edition other than different cover art. If the digital copy is anything like other DVD's advertising digital copy, thats all the second disc is. Now its been a while since ive watched the special features on the copy I have, but I know for certain it has "frankenweenie" and 99% sure it has "Vincent" as well, maybe its the storyboards and making of feature...not enough to convince me to purchase another copy
now this one, thats a special edition, I would never spend $100+ on Nightmare, but I will say that does look pretty farking cool
Well, it's new to me since I've got the original VHS version of the movie and you can't find any of the other DVD versions here in Canada, at least that I've been able to find. If I had a large amount of disposable income, I totally would be buying that $100 one. How sweet is that packaging!
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On further review, I may have to buy that Gift set anyways, $140 CDN be damned!
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Team That's What She Said is proud to select, in the Foreign category, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain or as it was known here - simply Amélie.
This charming and whimsical 2001 movie, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, examined the life of a naive & sheltered young woman living in Paris who had very little interaction with others until the night Princess Diana died and she discovered the hidden treasure of a little boy who had once lived in her apartment.
Deciding on a whim to observe the now, much older version of the boy who hid the treasure, she returns his loot to him and is so affected by his joy that she vows to continue to make others happy as well which in turn leads to her own joy as the story continues.
This movie shows that attention to details is never a bad thing and that even subtle changes can have a major impact - on both the instigator of the change & the person undergoing the change. A classic proof of the cliche that no one is an island, unaffected by the environment around them - every action taken impacts the not only world around us but also the world within us. The use of colour and motion in the film re-inforces the naive and childlike view that the story is told from while Audrey Tautou is perfect in the lead - a modern day Audrey Hepburn that takes the screen by force.
Sorry it took so long, but so many of my shortlist choices are gone (Fight Club, Seven Samurai, Vertigo, Alien, Aliens, Full Metal Jacket, Zoolander, Holy Grail, Rocky Horror...) and on the other hand outside my shortlist there's still tons of choices... Just too much to choose from. But here goes. A classic of black comedy and political satire.
For our 4th pick and something overall, team Selfmade Heroes is happy to choose Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) in the best picture category (BAFTA).
"You can't fight in here, this is the War Room."
Originally designed to become a serious political thriller, before Stanley Kubrick came to see the movie in a new light:
"My idea of doing it as a nightmare comedy came in the early weeks of working on the screenplay. I found that in trying to put meat on the bones and to imagine the scenes fully, one had to keep leaving out of it things which were either absurd or paradoxical, in order to keep it from being funny; and these things seemed to be close to the heart of the scenes in question."
If you've ever wanted to see a movie that's at the same time dark and intelligent and yet funny to the point of downright silliness, beautifully shot, magnificently acted and directed by one the greatest in movie history, this is the one.
Peter Sellers in his triple-role is of course the most memorable actor, but Sterling Haydens as the mad general Jack D. Ripper, Georce C. Scott as almost equally bonkers general "Buck" Turgidson and Slim Pickens (who by the way wasn't told this was a comedy before shooting was finished) as major "King" Kong create such a delightfully cracked image of military might that it's impossible to imagine the movie without them.
This is a combination of two scenes, where a mad general outlines his idea for starting a nuclear war against Soviet Union and the basic reason for it.
A scene from the very end of the movie, outlining Dr. Strangelove's plan for the survival of the "human race", or at least the American side of it during a nuclear war; evacuation into mine shafts.
(EDIT: changed the last scene into a longer version)
Nice pick Itse. I'm sure you'll enjoy knowing this was one of 4 choices I narrowed down to for my #81 & #82 picks. I ended up with Fantasia and Eternal Sunshine, but what if I had gone with Strangelove? Huh? Huh?
Strangelove is a fantastic movie. Excellent pick. That *might* have been my next pick. It was between that and one other movie (still available right now!)
And to think I almost pm'd a couple of picks to girly yesterday morning before I left for my Grandpa's funeral! Glad I didn't waste that time now!!
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