Yeah, Juno blew me away because I went into it with some very low expectations. It was third on my list for my last pick. Nice 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
Okay, last pick was at 9 last night, it's after noon, so I guess it's an AK and I'm up...
"What are you, people? On dope?"
This one struck me like a bolt of lightning last night when I realized it hadn't been picked yet...For my second-last pick, team Hot Buttery Topping is very pleased to pick in the Wildcard #3 position, another 80s classic, and a movie that launched many young careers: From 1982, Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
Directed by Amy Heckerling and written by Cameron Crowe, Fast Times features early appearances by several future stars, including Sean Penn, Eric Stoltz, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nicolas Cage (in his only film credit as Nicolas Coppola), Anthony Edwards, Phoebe Cates, Forest Whitaker, and Judge Reinhold.
Cage, Penn, and Whitaker have all since gone on to win the Best Actor Oscar, and Crowe has since won two Oscars.
Trailer...
The plot of Fast Times is a pretty standard high school coming of age film where everyone is trying to either get high or get laid, and most everyone gets at least one of those.
You may ask what sets Fast Times apart from all the other high school movies, and my answer to that is just four words... Phoebe Cates, pool scene (it's not on YouTube unedited, but it is out there).
A final thought: This is a picture of Phoebe Cates taken 10 days ago...
Fast Times is a great pick and I echo your Phoebe sentiments. I love the pizza scene in Mr. Hand's room.
__________________ 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
Waaaayyyyy behind... But I will get this done quick.
StrayBullet's 18th Round, 485th pick in the CP Movie Draft -- The Last Emperor (末代皇帝), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. The Last Emperor will fulfill the Best Picture category.
With the 488th selection in the CP Movie Draft, StrayBullet chooses, Unbreakable, starring Bruce Willis & Samuel L. Jackson. Unbreakable was directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Unbreakable will be placed in the Wildcard #4 slot.
The MacGuffins happily select, with their pick in the 19th round, for entry in the Documentary category:
Touching The Void
Bloody hell... I'm gonna die to Boney M.
Tons of great doc's to choose from, but I had to go with this one. My Dad is an avid mountaineer, and growing up I heard dozens of stories about his climbing expeditions. I've done a little climbing myself, but very basic stuff. However, we've done plenty of backpacking as a family, and I can honestly say it's my favorite outdoor activity and the one thing I miss the most about not living in AB at the moment.
So one day I get a call from my Dad saying "you gotta read this book." Doesn't happen too often, recommendations from Dad, but when it does, they are always great (Road To Perdition was one movie I remember, in addition to a few other books I have my eye on in the literature draft). So I picked up Joe Simpson's book and loved every page.
Unbeknownst to me at the time, this documentary was released in 2003 and was essentially a play-by-play re-enactment of the fateful climbing expedition that nearly took the lives of climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates on the West Face of the Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985. I remember another call from Dad, asking me if I had seen the movie, because "it was fantastic." After renting it a couple weeks after that phone call, I have to say he was right- Touching The Void was not only fantastic, but one of the most entertaining and riveting documentaries I had ever seen.
I don't want to give too much away, because if you're familiar with mountaineering it's likely you know this story (it's generally regarded as one of the "crown jewels" of mountaineering lore by that community), and if you're not, it's better to go in with a completely clean slate (IE/ not familiar with the events). Either way, there are a handful of moments where decisions made the climbers leave viewers with their mouths agape (one infamous choice in particular), and the film is thrilling from beginning to end. I highly recommend Touching The Void, and am happy to add it to The MacGuffins!
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With the 488th selection in the CP Movie Draft, StrayBullet chooses, Unbreakable, starring Bruce Willis & Samuel L. Jackson.
"They called me mr. Glass"
I still get a chuckle out of that one. Such a good movie. It's unfortunate Shyamalan is so heavily labeled as "the guy with the gimmicks in the end", because his movies are among the most intelligent mainstream movies in a long time (which isn't saying that much, unfortunately, but it's a big merit nonetheless).
I would say yes to auto-AK'ing Res. He hasn't logged in since Thurs nite, therefore wouldn't know it's his turn. Sorry Res if you've been lurking while not signed in, but that works against you.
Matty, I don't think any harm is done by going ahead and making your pick.
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Eberle said, "It was one of the more special ones I've had. You don't score your first NHL goal too many times."
hey sorry guys, I was ready to make my pick last night but my brother decided he'd try to make our internet faster and screwed everything up...gimme a couple min
To throw into a wildcard spot, team Theatre Head has decided to take the third part in a series of which we picked the first earlier on in the draft. One of the best conclusions to a trilogy in recent memory, The Bourne Ultimatum.
With the 511th Overall pick The All Or Nuttin team is proud to select in the "Wildcard #4" category, a movie directed by Clint Eastwood, starring Sean Penn (Oscar for a leading role), Tim Robbins (Oscar for a supporting role) and Kevin Bacon, Mystic River.
Roger Ebert gives this movie 4 stars:
Clint Eastwood's "Mystic River" is a dark, ominous brooding about a crime in the present that is emotionally linked to a crime in the past. It involves three boyhood friends in an Irish neighborhood of Boston, who were forever marked when one of them was captured by a child molester; as adults, their lives have settled into uneasy routines that are interrupted by the latest tragedy. Written by Brian Helgeland, based on the novel by Dennis Lehane, the movie uses a group of gifted actors who are able to find true human emotion in a story that could have been a whodunit, but looks too deeply and evokes too much honest pain.
Yeah, for a while I had So I Married An Axe Murderer on my list of potential comedy category picks. I really wish Myers more often played a real person, as he does here, rather than his silly characters.
Woman!
Woe... man.
Whooooah, man!
It just occured to 6 Degrees of Troy McClure that we should have picked this film up based simply on the Phil Hartman appearance! Damn!
__________________ 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
