OT - The Boneyard Greatest Movie of All-Time Tournament

[storrsroars]

4. The “that breaks all bargains” scene from The Quiet Man

Since I gave up partying on St. Paddy's years ago, watching "The Quiet Man" that day (it's always on some channel) has become a tradition. Always an enjoyable watch.

That's cool. Grodin always struck my as a really interesting guy.

My brother serviced Grodin's furnace for years. Said he was a really friendly guy. They sometimes drank beers in the garage. Brother also said he was surprised how normal Keith Richards is IRL. He has had some not-very-nice celebs though.

 

[storrsroars]

I could be wrong, but I think you guys didn't actually make a submission, so please submit. SUBMIT!

Thank you.

This is definitely the link you're looking for.

I made one a couple hours ago.

 

[Minicoop69]

How about

Clerks
Step Brothers
Rounders
Full Metal Jacket

 

[JB75]

Goodfellas, casino, seven, Shawshank, good will hunting, grandmas boy, half baked, anchorman 1, old school, training day, coming to America, silence of the lambs, Friday, godfather, the breakup, meet the parents, wedding crashers ,breakfast club, Ferris bueller, Hoosiers, any Denzel, Pacino or deniro movie lol- obviously missing hundreds- but those just popped in my head off the cuff

 

[Tommyboy]

Goodfellas, casino, seven, Shawshank, good will hunting, grandmas boy, half baked, anchorman 1, old school, training day, coming to America, silence of the lambs, Friday, godfather, the breakup, meet the parents, wedding crashers ,breakfast club, Ferris bueller, Hoosiers, any Denzel, Pacino or deniro movie lol- obviously missing hundreds- but those just popped in my head off the cuff

Love grandmas boy.

 

[tomtom80]

Although not quite a movie by today’s standards in terms of length, I would be remiss not including the Marx brothers
duck soup
horsefeathers

 

[Hoophound]

I’m always surprised by how few people put Good Will Hunting on their favorites list. I’d say I left that movie more certain that I’d just seen something really good than any other. Critics agreed. Granted, there are some great movies that are deeper, funnier, more intense and so on, but overall that was a very entertaining 2 hours. Like Forrest Gump, it was just totally satisfying.

 

[CL82]

Godfather I and II
No Country for Old Men
Deer Hunter
Gladiator
Young Frankenstein
Deliverance
Unforgiven
The Exorcist
One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Annie Hall
American Graffiti
Blazing Saddles
Bonnie and Clyde
Cool Hand Luke
Inglourious Bastards

Unforgiven and Cool Hand Luke would have made my list if I had remembered them.

 

[superjohn]

off the cuff

almost famous
shawshank
remember the titans
better off dead
goodfellas
old school
pulp fiction
quiet lambs
rounders
the ring
full metal jacket
hoosiers
wolf of wall st
seven
jaws
25th hour

25th Hour is great, nothing else captures NYC quite like it especially 9/11 NYC.

 

[temery]

So, did anyone actually use the form OP set up to make his job easier?

 

[Mano]

1) Heat
2) The Matrix
3) Silence of the Lambs
4) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
5) Akira
6) The Shawshank Redemption
7) L.A. Confidential
8) Fight Club
9) The Incredibles
10) The Godfather
11) Léon: The Professional
12) Ghost in the Shell (1995)
13) Goodfellas
14) The Thin Red Line
15) Terminator 2: Judgement Day
16) The 40-Year-Old Virgin

So hard to cut these:

There Will Be Blood
The Dark Knight
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Rosemary's Baby
Braveheart
Inception
Seven
The Game
Last of the Mohicans
2001: A Space Odyssey
Barry Lyndon
The Fifth Element
Toy Story
Monsters Inc.
Blade Runner
Lawrence of Arabia
Casino Royale
Amélie
Office Space
City of God
The Bourne Identity
and a million more...

I might do two entries lol.

 

[Mano]

So, did anyone actually use the form OP set up to make his job easier?

I've got about 50 legitimate entries in so far and some reminders to send out. It's gonna be a blast compiling it all lol.

 

[The Viking]

I've submitted these but just for public sake. I put in a lot more comedies than I thought I would and I've forgotten some great ones.

Shawshank
Saving Private Ryan
Caddyshack
Field of Dreams
Sixth Sense
Rocky
A Few Good Men
Anchorman
Austin Powers
Old School
Taken
Office Space
The Big Short
Something About Mary
Django
Tropic Thunder

 

[uconndoit]

These are my 16 best movies (and the approx # of times i've seen each).

1 Sophie's Choice (~10)
2 Star Wars (A New Hope) (~25)
3 Raiders of the Lost Ark (~25)
4 Rear Window (~15)
5 Goldfinger (~15)
6 Apocalypse Now (~15)
7 Pulp Fiction (~10)
8 Groundhog Day (~30)
9 Wizard of Oz (~25)
10 Contact (~10)
11 Pleasantville (~7)
12 Silence of the Lambs (~10)
13 The Shawshank Redemption (~7)
14 Being There (~15)
15 The Full Monty (~7)
16 Fight Club (~5)

Here's my full list of candidates (some made it for more personal reasons than objective ones):

Spoiler: The dog dies

A Clockwork Orange
A Few Good Men
Amélie
American Psycho
Apocalypse Now
Artificial Intelligence: AI
Atlantic City
Being There
Billy Jack
Breakfast Club
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Cidade de Deus (City of God)
Contact
Dangerous Liaisons
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Dead Ringers
Delicatessen
Dolores Claiborne
Donnie Darko
Dreamscape
Dumb and Dumber
Escape to Witch Mountain
Evil Dead Part 2
Eye of the Needle
Fight Club
Flatliners
Frances
Goldfinger
Good Will Hunting
Grease
Groundhog Day
Hair
High Anxiety
Into the Blue
It's All Gone Pete Tong
Jaws
King Kong (1976)
Man on the Moon
Midnight Express
Mommie Dearest
Mulholland Dr.
Mulholland Falls
Natural Born Killers
North by Northwest
Office Space
Pennies from Heaven
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Pleasantville
Popeye
Powder
Pulp Fiction
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rear Window
Requiem for a Dream
Rocky
Romancing the Stone
Roxanne
Se7en
Silence of the Lambs
Singin' in the Rain
Six Degrees of Separation
Sixteen Candles
Sixth Sense
Something About Mary
Sophie's Choice
Star Wars
Stripes
Teen Wolf
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
The Birdcage
The Fisher King
The Full Monty
The Game
The Graduate
The Heartbreak Kid
The Matrix
The Sting
The Truman Show
The Usual Suspects
The Wizard of Oz
The World According to Garp
There Will Be Blood
Three Days of the Condor
To Die For
Toto le héros
Twelve Monkeys
What About Bob?
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

...ok now I really have to get back to work.

 

[UconnFanDC]

Airforce 1

Everyone should have only picked 1 movie not movies. And just like if your same

 

[UconnFanNVa]

In no particular order. These are movies I can watch repeatedly and I walk around on a regularbasis quoting.

Coming to America
Major league
Sandlot
Trading places
Tommy boy
Happy Gilmore
Billy Madison
Water boy
Iron man
Full metal jacket
The princess bride
40 year old Virgin
The matrix
Rounders
Goodfellas
Shaolin vs Lama
He got game
White man can jump
Juice
Boys in the hood
Don't be a menace to south central while drinking your juice in the hood
Friday

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Arggh. I forgot Jaws.

"Gonna need a bigger list."

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

So hard to cut these:

There Will Be Blood
The Dark Knight
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Rosemary's Baby
Braveheart
Inception
Seven
The Game
Last of the Mohicans
2001: A Space Odyssey
Barry Lyndon
The Fifth Element
Toy Story
Monsters Inc.
Blade Runner
Lawrence of Arabia
Casino Royale
Amélie
Office Space
City of God
The Bourne Identity
and a million more...

I might do two entries lol.

That's what burner accounts are for.

 

[huskyrob1]

1) The Wizard of Oz
2) The Apartment
3) The Caine Mutiny
4) To Kill a Mockingbird
5) Giant
6) Shane
7) October Sky
8) The Sound of Music
9) The Blue Lagoon (1949 British film)
10) Saving Private Ryan
11) It's A Gift
12) How Green was my Valley
13) My Fair Lady
14) A Passage To India
15) The Prisoner of Zenda
16) It's a Wonderful Life

I put these in order of where I thought they should be ranked. If there was a 17-20, I would definitely add The Swimmer, Shawshank Redemption, King Kong, and M*A*S*H in that order.



Others that come awfully close, really splitting hairs after #10.........Places in the Heart, M*A*S*H, Gigi, Top Hat, The Quiet Man, King Kong, Schindlers List, Bringing Up Baby, It Happened One Night, Dr Zhivago, James Whale's "The Bride of Frankenstein", The Swimmer, Ben Hur, Casablanca, Shawshank Redemption, An Officer and a Gentleman, To Be Or Not To Be, Alien.......and many others.

 

[JMick]

Nyuck nyuck

1st: Catwoman (2004)
2nd: Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
3rd: Manos: The Hands of Fate
4th: Reefer Madness
5th: Aag
6th: The Hottie and the Nottie
7th: The Last Airbender (2010)
8th: From Justin to Kelly
9th: Glitter
10th: Mac and Me
11th: Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
12th: Nukie
13th: Eegah
14th: JAWS: THE REVENGE
15th: Simon Sez
16th: God's Not Dead

Manos should be #1, obvy.

You ever see the astronaut farmer? Or Batman & Robin? The only two movies I ever turned off before the Midway point

 

[Mano]

You ever see the astronaut farmer? Or Batman & Robin? The only two movies I ever turned off before the Midway point

All terrible movies to be sure. Only movie I’ve ever walked out on was Nacho Libre. That list was a joke list someone submitted. Will be getting deleted.

 

[Travelman6]

Can I add more later?

Grave of the fireflies
Iron Giant
Forest Gump
Goodfellas
Magnolia
One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest

 

[AdamaNation]

Marley and me?

 

[Tommyboy]

Nyuck nyuck

1st: Catwoman (2004)
2nd: Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
3rd: Manos: The Hands of Fate
4th: Reefer Madness
5th: Aag
6th: The Hottie and the Nottie
7th: The Last Airbender (2010)
8th: From Justin to Kelly
9th: Glitter
10th: Mac and Me
11th: Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
12th: Nukie
13th: Eegah
14th: JAWS: THE REVENGE
15th: Simon Sez
16th: God's Not Dead

Manos should be #1, obvy.

Paul Rudd's Mac and Me running gag on Conan makes me laugh every time.

 

[Mano]

Can I add more later?

Grave of the fireflies
Iron Giant
Forest Gump
Goodfellas
Magnolia
One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest

Collect your thoughts, get that list together and when you’re ready read below. Does anyone bother reading the OP? Lol

Greatest Movie of All-Time Tournament

It's simple. I love movies, you probably like movies. I want you to give me a list of up to 16 of your absolute favorite films. I will collect everyone's data, from that, seed them based on your rankings and then generate a bracket with hopefully some interesting regions and pairings. From there we will have the Boneyard vote until we have an ultimate winner.

You don't have to give me 16 selections, the more the better but as many as you deem worthy is just fine. There are no wrong answers, if it happens that White Chicks faces off against one of the Police Academy movies in the final then so be it. I will collect answers until next Tuesday and then by the weekend I will probably start the pairings.

Vote submission form, have fun!​