The Smart Marks favorite Movie Tournament

[Guest Kagato Otaku]

What-EVER.

 

I have to be in a certain mood to get into and enjoy Kane. I can watch Amy and be entertained by the dialogue, since that's one of the few things any Kevin Smith flick has going for it.

 

This is not a "best movie ever" tourney, and we're not voting for artistic achievement.

 

At least I'm not.

[Guest godthedog]

if you know what to look for, 'kane' is really a ton of fun to watch. there's at least a dozen 'holy shit' moments.

[Guest J*ingus]

Can we make a rule that you simply cannot vote for a movie unless you've seen both films in contention?

[Guest godthedog]

i've argued for it & i've argued for it, but the peons will just not listen.

 

and this isn't really meant to be taken too seriously anyway, i'm curious to see what the results of this will be.

[Guest Incandenza]

::turns on Snob mode::

 

I haven't participated in this thread, 'cuz I'm not terribly interested in what a bunch of wrestling fans think is The Greatest Movie Ever.

 

::turns off Snob mode::

[Guest Nathan J]

GROUP A

 

12 Monkeys

vs

400 Blows, The

 

A Clockwork Orange

vs

A Bronx Tale

 

Airplane!

vs

AKIRA

 

Alien

vs

Almost Famous

 

American Beauty

vs

Army of Darkness

 

Back to the Future

vs

Being John Malkovich

 

Better Off Dead

vs

The Bicycle Thief

 

The Big Lebowski

vs

Blade Runner

 

Blazing Saddles

vs

Boyz N The Hood

 

Braveheart

vs

Breakfast Club

 

Caddyshack

vs

Casablanca

 

Chasing Amy

vs

Citizen Kane

 

Clerks

vs

Color of Money

 

Cool Hand Luke

vs

Crow, The

 

Das Boot

vs

Dawn of the Dead

 

Day the Earth Stood Still, The

vs

Death Race 2000

 

GROUP B

 

Die Hard

vs

Donnie Darko

 

Ed Wood

vs

Evil Dead 2

 

Falling Down

vs

Fargo

 

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

vs

Ferris Beuller's Day Off

 

Fight Club

vs

Fletch

 

Full Metal Jacket

vs

Get Shorty

 

Ghostbusters

vs

Gladiator

 

Godfather, The

vs

Godfather Part II, The

 

Gone With The Wind

vs

Goodfellas

 

Grosse Pointe Blank

vs

Halloween

 

Happy Gilmore

vs

Heat

 

Heathers

vs

High Fidelity

 

Hoosiers

vs

Hustler, The

 

Jacob's Ladder

vs

Jaws

 

Killer, The

vs

Lawrence of Arabia

 

Leon: the Professional

vs

Life Is Beautiful

 

GROUP C

 

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

vs

Magnolia

 

Mallrats

vs

Matrix, The

 

Memento

vs

Moulin Rouge

 

Naked Gun, The

vs

Night of the Hunter, The

 

Night of the Living Dead

vs

Nightmare on Elm Street

 

North by Northwest

vs

Nosferatu (1922 version)

 

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

vs

Princess Bride, The

 

Pulp Fiction

vs

Ran

 

Rear Window

vs

Reservoir Dogs

 

Road to Perdition

vs

Rocky

 

Rudy

vs

Saving Private Ryan

 

Say Anything

vs

Scarface

 

Scent of a Woman

vs

Schindler's List

 

Searchers, The

vs

Searching For Bobby Fischer

 

Se7en

vs

Seven Samurai

 

Shining, The

vs

Silence of the Lambs

 

GROUP D

 

Sixteen Candles

vs

Shawshank Redemption, The

 

Some Like it Hot

vs

Spaceballs

 

Spiderman

vs

Star Wars: A New Hope

 

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

vs

Sting, The

 

Superman

vs

Taxi Driver

 

Terminator, The

vs

Terminator 2

 

Three Colours Trilogy

vs

Third Man, The

 

Tombstone

vs

Touch of Evil

 

Traffic

vs

Transformers: The Movie

 

Trainspotting

vs

True Romance

 

Truman Show, The

vs

Un Chien Andalou

 

Unforgiven

vs

Untouchables, The

 

Usual Suspects, The

vs

Vertigo

 

Warriors, The

vs

Wet Hot American Summer

 

Wizard of Oz, The

vs

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

 

Young Frankenstein

vs

Young Guns

[Guest J*ingus]

Hey Nathan J, you can't just click the "bold" button, or any other Ikoncode button, to get it to work; you have to go in and manually do it all within the body of your text.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

...I'm still in shock that there's someone who's never seen Big Lebowski, Fight Club, Jaws, OR fucking Night of the Living Dead.

 

The fact that Fear and Loathing is going to lose to Ferris is a travesty, too. I liked it and all, but c'mon. You people also voted for Hubert Humphrey, AND YOU KILLED JESUS!

[Guest JHawk]

For clarification: If I only saw one of them, that got the vote by default. If there's no vote, I haven't seen either of them.

 

GROUP A

 

12 Monkeys

vs

400 Blows, The

 

A Clockwork Orange

vs

A Bronx Tale

 

Airplane!

vs

AKIRA

 

Alien

vs

Almost Famous

 

American Beauty

vs

Army of Darkness

 

Back to the Future

vs

Being John Malkovich

 

Better Off Dead

vs

The Bicycle Thief

 

The Big Lebowski

vs

Blade Runner

 

Blazing Saddles

vs

Boyz N The Hood

 

Braveheart

vs

Breakfast Club

 

Caddyshack

vs

Casablanca

 

Chasing Amy

vs

Citizen Kane

 

Clerks

vs

Color of Money

 

Cool Hand Luke

vs

Crow, The

 

Das Boot

vs

Dawn of the Dead

 

Day the Earth Stood Still, The

vs

Death Race 2000

 

GROUP B

 

Die Hard

vs

Donnie Darko

 

Ed Wood

vs

Evil Dead 2

 

Falling Down

vs

Fargo

 

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

vs

Ferris Beuller's Day Off

 

Fight Club

vs

Fletch

 

Full Metal Jacket

vs

Get Shorty

 

Ghostbusters

vs

Gladiator

 

Godfather, The

vs

Godfather Part II, The

 

Gone With The Wind

vs

Goodfellas

 

Grosse Pointe Blank

vs

Halloween

 

Happy Gilmore

vs

Heat

 

Heathers

vs

High Fidelity

 

Hoosiers

vs

Hustler, The

 

Jacob's Ladder

vs

Jaws

 

Killer, The

vs

Lawrence of Arabia

 

Leon: the Professional

vs

Life Is Beautiful

 

GROUP C

 

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

vs

Magnolia

 

Mallrats

vs

Matrix, The

 

Memento

vs

Moulin Rouge

 

Naked Gun, The

vs

Night of the Hunter, The

 

Night of the Living Dead

vs

Nightmare on Elm Street

 

North by Northwest

vs

Nosferatu (1922 version)

 

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

vs

Princess Bride, The

 

Pulp Fiction

vs

Ran

 

Rear Window

vs

Reservoir Dogs

 

Road to Perdition

vs

Rocky

 

Rudy

vs

Saving Private Ryan

 

Say Anything

vs

Scarface

 

Scent of a Woman

vs

Schindler's List

 

Searchers, The

vs

Searching For Bobby Fischer

 

Se7en

vs

Seven Samurai

 

Shining, The

vs

Silence of the Lambs

 

GROUP D

 

Sixteen Candles

vs

Shawshank Redemption, The

 

Some Like it Hot

vs

Spaceballs

 

Spiderman

vs

Star Wars: A New Hope

 

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

vs

Sting, The

 

Superman

vs

Taxi Driver

 

Terminator, The

vs

Terminator 2

 

Three Colours Trilogy

vs

Third Man, The

 

Tombstone

vs

Touch of Evil

 

Traffic

vs

Transformers: The Movie -- I can see this isn't based off of an AFI list...

 

Trainspotting

vs

True Romance

 

Truman Show, The

vs

Un Chien Andalou

 

Unforgiven

vs

Untouchables, The

 

Usual Suspects, The

vs

Vertigo

 

Warriors, The

vs

Wet Hot American Summer

 

Wizard of Oz, The

vs

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

 

Young Frankenstein

vs

Young Guns

[Guest godthedog]

For clarification: If I only saw one of them, that got the vote by default.

it feels so good to know i'm really making a difference in this thread.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

VOTING IS OVER!!!!

 

Now I gotta add all this shit up

[Guest 5_moves_of_doom]

Meh, I've seen all of the movies on the list believe it or not, save Falling Down and Color Of Money.

 

However, those two were up against Clerks and mother-fucking FARGO, which happen to both be on or near my Top Ten List, especially the latter one, as the Coen's kick ass.

 

Oh, and about the whole Citizen Kane debacle: this is FAVORITE movie, not BEST, and prefer more surreal, slightly-humorous movies, though Citizen Kane DID rock the house. I haven't seen it in a year or two though, and I remember it boring me slightly the third time around, while Smith's films have longitivity, which is very important when choosinf favorites.

 

Oh, and again, why the FUCK isn't Dog Day Afternoon in there!?

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Any movie that isn't on the list isn't on because no one nominated it. Plain and simple.

 

I am not going to be able to put round 2 up till tomorrow...this is taking way longer then I thought.

 

Thank ye for your patiance

[Guest Mr. Slim Citrus]

Since some people have appeared to direct some sort of irritation by my votes:

 

mattdotcom: I haven't see Jaws the same way that I haven't seen Miracle on 34th Street, It's a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Story, and The Ten Commandments. I just have a tendency to somehow avoid watching those movies. I've never actually rented Jaws, and I believe I was 2 years old or something when it came out. I don't remember any occasion in which it's ever been on TV, and assuming it has, there's probably just been something else I'd rather watch on.

 

In the case of the X-mas movies, It's become as much of a tradition for me to avoid watching them as it is for some people to watch them every year.

 

godthedog, El Satanico: I've never partaken in illegal drugs, thank you very much. As far as choosing Chasing Amy over Citizen Kane, unless I was mistaken, the objective was to choose your favorite movies, not the best movies. I'm astute enough to recognize the fact that Kane is technically superior to Amy in just about every critical aspect, but that doesn't mean that it entertains me.