One round to go and I'm praying my movie doesn't get picked!
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Sorry everyone. Yeah, I'm holding up the draft! This is proving more difficult than I figured. I had two obscure favorites ready as soon as I finished making my last picks. But I've changed my mind, and I'm going out with a bang.
Picks to follow very soon.
(P.S. Ha Ha, Stupid Canucks!)
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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."
I hinted earlier after HD picked "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang", that I would select a movie of which his choice reminded me. I'm throwing that out for now, but I will mention it in an Honorary Mention list I hope to post after this is all over. Too many great movies left. Too many tough choices.
As the last pick in Round 19 of The CP Movie Draft, team Wrapped in Plastic selects, in the Wildcard #3 category, one of the greatest combinations of talents I can think of in a movie. The Untouchables (1987)
"If he pulls a knife, you pull a gun. If he sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way-- that's how you get Capone."
-Sean Connery (as Jim Malone)
Connery won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor as well as several other awards including the Golden Globes, Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards, and National Board of Review, USA.
Morricone won several honors for his original score including ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards, BAFTA Awards, Grammy Awards for Best Album of Original Instrumental Background Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television, Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists. He was also Oscar nominated for "Best Music, Original Score."
I'm not fond of many De Palma films, but he knocks it out of the park with this one. Even Costner is at the top of his game. And I don't need to say anything else but Robert 'freakin' De Niro!
Trailer
Al Capone talks about his enthusiasm: Baseball.
You've got nothing! (NSFW language)
Somebody messes with me?
Stairway scene (5m14s)
I like The Untouchables.
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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."
It is with mixed feelings that I make my final selection of the CP Movie Draft.
I would like to express my gratitude to GirlySports for organizing this draft. It's been very enjoyable and rewarding. Hey, I even got "kissed"!
For our 20th round Wildcard #4 final selection, team Wrapped in Plastic selects another movie that I consider an overlooked classic---Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974)
-from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis...e_Conversation
In between The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, Coppola directed The Conversation, the story of a paranoid wiretapping and surveillance expert (played by Gene Hackman) who finds himself caught up in a possible murder plot. The Conversation was released to theaters in 1974 and was also nominated for Best Picture, competing against The Godfather Part II; Coppola became one of the few directors to have two films competing for the Best Picture Oscar since the annual number of nominees was reduced to five in 1945.[5] While The Godfather Part II won the Oscar, The Conversation won the 1974 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
If not for all the fuss made over The Godfather Part II, I'm sure this movie would have received more attention and acclaim as one of the best movies of the decade.
The Conversation ranks #184 on the IMDB Top 250 Films list.
In 2009, AMC (home of Mad Men and Breaking Bad) is developing a TV series based on the movie. It stars Jim Caviezel and Sir Ian McKellen. (Link)
There's a hint for the TV Draft
Youtube goodies:
Trailer
The Conversation music by David Shire
Coppola talks about the movie in 1974
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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."
The Ghost of Siskel would like to thank GirlySports and all the other GMs for their dedication towards the draft. There are a lot of movies that I need to watch thanks to this endeavour.
With the 515th pick in the Movie Draft, the Ghost of Siskel selects in the Western category: Shane (1953).
I've never watched a lot of Westerns, but this seemed like one my Dad probably liked.
With the 516th Overall pick The All Or Nuttin team is proud to select in the "Black and White" category, 7 times Academy award nominated film noir starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson, Double Indemnity.
I was wondering about my last pick for a long time, but considering that screenplay for this movie was co-written by my favorite writer Raymond Chandler, it is a no brainer and a fitting final movie for The All Or Nuttin team in this great draft.
Roger Ebert:
The story was written in the 1930s by James M. Cain, the hard-boiled author of The Postman Always Rings Twice. A screenplay kicked around Hollywood, but the Hays Office nixed it for "hardening audience attitudes toward crime.'' By 1944, Wilder thought he could film it. Cain wasn't available, so he hired Raymond Chandler to do the screenplay. Chandler, whose novel The Big Sleep Wilder loved, turned up drunk, smoked a smelly pipe, didn't know anything about screenplay construction, but could put a nasty spin on dialogue.
Wilder's "Double Indemnity'' was one of the earlier films noir. The photography by John Seitz helped develop the noir style of sharp-edged shadows and shots, strange angles and lonely Edward Hopper settings. It's the right fit for the hard urban atmosphere and dialogue created by Cain, Chandler, and the other writers Edmund Wilson called "the boys in the back room.'' "Double Indemnity'' has one of the most familiar noir themes: The hero is not a criminal, but a weak man who is tempted and succumbs. In this "double'' story, the woman and man tempt one another; neither would have acted alone. Both are attracted not so much by the crime as by the thrill of committing it with the other person. Love and money are pretenses. The husband's death turns out to be their one-night stand.
Double Indemnity is currently ranked #29 by the American Film Institute.
With the 515th pick in the Movie Draft, the Ghost of Siskel selects in the Western category: Shane (1953).
I am absolutely floored that Shane lasted until the final round. When I was picking my western, it was a tough choice between Unforgiven, Butch Cassidy, and Shane.
Great final pick.
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I am absolutely floored that Shane lasted until the final round. When I was picking my western, it was a tough choice between Unforgiven, Butch Cassidy, and Shane.
Great final pick.
ya especially considering that "Shane" is regarded as one of the best westerns ever made...Ive never seen it though so I wouldnt really know, but definitely expected it to be taken well before the last round
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For our final pick team Theatre Head selects in the Western category, The Three Amigos
HA!
I had contemplated the three amigos as my western pick, theres also one other not so "western" western, that Im really kinda surprised hasnt been taken yet either
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Ok, Im not sure if I missed a pick or if I should be going, but some people have the entire roster filled out and I have two holes in mine, so Im gonna pick.
TEAM Wishwedidaporndraft is proud to select into the FANTASY category, Jim Carey in LIAR, LIAR
To me this is Jim Carey at his comedic best. Name me another actor who could have pulled off this role. He was brilliant in it and comedic performances like this never get the recognition they deserve. Sure, the movie was silly as hell and didn't make a whole lot of sense, but back in 1997, you went to Jim Carey movies to see him and his rubber face bouncing off the walls and making an ass of himself. Jim did exactly that and IMO, this is his best comedic performances, hands down.
Okay, I don't want to hold things up any longer...For my final pick, not the best movie still available, but I decided very early that if it wasn't picked yet, it would be my final choice just because I've had this quote as my signature since I joined this site...
"Turn up the good, turn down the suck!"
Hot Buttery Topping is pleased to select in the Wildcard #4 category, made in Calgary, from 2002, FUBAR.
Just Give'r.
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The MacGuffins select, with their final pick in the amazing CP Movie Draft, for entry in the Animation category:
The Iron Giant
Was thinking about taking this as my last pick too, but figured I already had enough animated films on my roster. Had a feeling you'd take it, I seem to remember you mentioning it a few times.
