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OT - The Boneyard Greatest Movie of All-Time Tournament

superjohn said:
Keanu Reeves- probably the nicest guy in Hollywood and it's worst actor, well next to Marky Mark.
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storrsroars said:
Wahlberg has no range, but IMO he's gotten quite good within his limited niche. Not including hamburgers.
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Finished night off with The Fighter. He did plenty good in that movie.
 
intlzncster said:
Crushes every one except the Matrix....which was groundbreaking in so many ways.

The amount of unintended cheese in Point Break is off the charts. Just perfect in every way.
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John Wick is a masterpiece and your disrespect is unforgivable.
 
StepbackCity said:
When does the bracket come out?
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uconndoit said:
I'd be interested in a compilation of everyone's list.
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UofCT2009 said:
Release the brackets
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Patience gentlemen. I’m going to start compiling the results tonight after I watch True Detective and assuming I don’t fall asleep on the couch. Anyone have any suggestions for statistical breakdowns they’d like to see? I’ve suggested era, genre, top 10 directors. I don’t think I’ll go as far as actor, would just be too many players involved.
 
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Mano said:
Patience gentlemen. I’m going to start compiling the results tonight after I watch True Detective and assuming I don’t fall asleep on the couch. Anyone of any suggestions for statistical breakdowns they’d like to see? I’ve suggested era, genre, top 10 directors. I don’t think I’ll go as far as actor, would just be too many players involved.
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I'm talking about a full list of the movies people submitted - whether or not they're finally selected for inclusion in the tournament.
 
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uconndoit said:
I'm talking about a full list of the movies people submitted - whether they're finally selected for inclusion in the tournament.
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Oh don’t worry, I will publish a master list with vote totals. It’s on the docket.
 
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Chin Diesel said:
Finished night off with The Fighter. He did plenty good in that movie.
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The Fighter is a great movie, he's alright in it and he's good in The Departed playing himself but he's pretty terrible in everything else. He's passable in Boogie Nights but it's somehow the same character he plays in The Fighter, even though they should be totally different. Bale is amazing in The Fighter.
 
Mano said:
Patience gentlemen. I’m going to start compiling the results tonight after I watch True Detective and assuming I don’t fall asleep on the couch. Anyone have any suggestions for statistical breakdowns they’d like to see? I’ve suggested era, genre, top 10 directors. I don’t think I’ll go as far as actor, would just be too many players involved.
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Can we get some advanced metrics?
 
Chin Diesel said:
Watching it right now on Sundance.

Patrick Swayze was such a versatile actor.

So was Gary Busy.

Maybe a top 10 Keanu Reeves flick. Johnny Utah was cool but how does this compare to John Wick, Speed or the Matrix movies??
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Easily top 10 if not top 2 (matrix 1 wins). Named my dog bodhi

I just love the character interactions and dialogue is so unintentionally hilarious. The remake was a travesty...for a fun YouTube video check out Alex honnold critiquing a bunch of famous climbing scenes and he basically all over the waterfall scene from the remake

Fun story I just read about...Keanu actually turned down a role in Heat, which I've seen mentioned in this thread a few times, so he could do a Shakespeare play at some Canadian theatre. The guy doesn't do it for the money and never compromises who he is. I think it's also pretty well known he gave away most of the $75mil he made from the matrix to the stunt and costume team
 
storrsroars said:
Wahlberg has no range, but IMO he's gotten quite good within his limited niche. Not including hamburgers.
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Agree on Wahlberg, but I liked him in Deepwater Horizon. His brother Donnie is a much better actor, he was memorable playing Carwood Lipton in Band of Brothers and was frightening in The Sixth Sense.
 
Mano said:
Heat is my #1. Yet to be topped. I don’t think there will ever be an action scene that can beat the bank heist.

City of God is a truly amazing sprawl of a film, was in my cut list.
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Agree that the bank heist scene is one of the best ever.
 
I put my original list together rather quickly. These are ones that I didn’t think about but have been mentioned.
Animal House , Cuckoos Nest , The Deer Hunter , Saturday Night Fever,Dirty Dozen , Caddyshack...I dont think Papillon was ever mentioned but would have probably been in my top 16.
One movie that would not make my favorites list but I have to watch every time I come across it is Roadhouse.
 
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I definitely forgot a few ... even WHILE I was creating the list I switched it around then forgot which I had ... I hate these lists. But I love them.

The top 4 I listed were:
The Departed
Goodfellas
He Got Game
Airplane

I know somewhere in there I had:
Shawshank Redemption
Billy Madison
Ace Ventura
My Cousin Vinny
Inception
The Dark Knight
Blood Diamond
Forrest Gump
Blue Chips
Ferris Bueller's Day Off

I have already forgotten the order other than my top 4, and if I told you my top 4 tomorrow, some of them might change.
 
If heist movies are your metier, try "Riffi" and "Topkapi." I started a thread on Entertainment on films worth viewing. I am providing a list of those introduced and in planning stage. the first trio was : "Oldboy", "The Red
Balloon'" and "The Last Temptation of Christ." The next group was "The Seven Samurai," "The Magnificent Seven," and "Breaking Away." The most recent, completed today are: "Judgement at Nuremberg," "The Ox-Bow Incident," and "12 Angry Men." Coming up: "The Exorcist," "Carrie," and "The Bride of Frankenstein."
Then "The Grapes of Wrath," "The Magnificent Ambersons", and "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn." Others include
"The Class," "The Best Years of Our Lives," and "To Kill a Mockingbird."

I try to introduce some lesser known films as well as looking back to films most have but perhaps not in many years.
 
huskiesNhoos said:
Easily top 10 if not top 2 (matrix 1 wins). Named my dog bodhi

I just love the character interactions and dialogue is so unintentionally hilarious. The remake was a travesty...for a fun YouTube video check out Alex honnold critiquing a bunch of famous climbing scenes and he basically all over the waterfall scene from the remake

Fun story I just read about...Keanu actually turned down a role in Heat, which I've seen mentioned in this thread a few times, so he could do a Shakespeare play at some Canadian theatre. The guy doesn't do it for the money and never compromises who he is. I think it's also pretty well known he gave away most of the $75mil he made from the matrix to the stunt and costume team
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I didn't know that about Keanu giving the money to the stunt and costume team. Wow! Need more guys like him in the world.
 
Slasher said:
I submitted and don't necessarily remember my order but these were the 10 I put in:

The Prestige
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Love Actually
The Dark Knight
Shawshank Redemption
Interstellar
Inception
Top Gun
Empire Strikes Back
The Dark Knight Rises
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I had no idea Christopher Nolan posted on this board (though to be fair I agree with a lot of these). I only included one representative per series.

The Empire Strikes Back
Inception
The Big Lebowski
Rocky
Back to the Future
Forrest Gump
Ocean's Eleven
The Matrix
The Bourne Identity
Rounders
Boondock Saints
Fight Club
Pulp Fiction
Superbad
The Prestige
Lord of the Rings (any)
 
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whaler11 said:
election is a decent movie but if cruel intentions is a better showcase for reese
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I like her in Wild. Not a great movie, and it isn't a showcase for her looks, but it is definitely interesting and watchable.
 
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Mano said:
I’ll do my absolute best Bob. If anyone wants to throw out some categories they’d like to see, let me know.
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i'll 'throw out a category.' hows aboot a big thanks for doing this thread, since my post is now in the #200's, which proves the popularity of the topic. anybody, anywhere, at anytime, who actually does anything deserves kudos. noice. any old 'final form' is all good. 'cider house rules.' lol.
 
Chin Diesel said:
Earlier in the afternoon I was watching original Avengers and having Tony Stark calling Thor Point Break is a perfect line.
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Such a throwaway line too. That's makes it even better.
 
zymurg said:
If heist movies are your metier, try "Riffi" and "Topkapi." I started a thread on Entertainment on films worth viewing. I am providing a list of those introduced and in planning stage. the first trio was : "Oldboy", "The Red
Balloon'" and "The Last Temptation of Christ." The next group was "The Seven Samurai," "The Magnificent Seven," and "Breaking Away." The most recent, completed today are: "Judgement at Nuremberg," "The Ox-Bow Incident," and "12 Angry Men." Coming up: "The Exorcist," "Carrie," and "The Bride of Frankenstein."
Then "The Grapes of Wrath," "The Magnificent Ambersons", and "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn." Others include
"The Class," "The Best Years of Our Lives," and "To Kill a Mockingbird."

I try to introduce some lesser known films as well as looking back to films most have but perhaps not in many years.
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All I had to read was "heist movies" and a light bulb turned on. Had not thought of this movie in years but has to rank as one of the best heist movies ever made....."Gambit"....from 1966, staring Michael Caine in one of his best roles and Shirley Maclaine.

I think you and I might be the only ones who list "Bride of Frankenstein", James Whale's masterpiece, and one of the only sequels of a great film that was even better than the original.
 
Here's my list.

1. L.A. Confidential
2. A Few Good Men
3. Gladiator
4. Young Frankenstein
5. Jaws
6. The Godfather Part II
7. Braveheart
8. Rocky
9. The Dark Knight
10. The Bourne Ultimatum
11. The French Connection
12. Hoosiers
13. Groundhog Day
14. Alien
15. Saving Private Ryan
16. Close Encounter of the 3rd Kind
 
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Chinatown
All Quiet on the Western Front
The French Connection
Mutiny on the Bounty
Dr. Strangelove
Fantasia (when stoned)
Midnight Cowboy
Some Like it Hot
 
auror said:
John Wick is a masterpiece and your disrespect is unforgivable.
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No disrespect, great movie. I just don't think your appreciating how high up on the pantheon Point break really is.

"Back off Warchild, seriously."

EDIT: now that I'm thinking of Swayze, another movie that absolutely must be on this list is:

Road House

No idea if anybody mentioned it or not. But they should have.
 
Mano said:
Patience gentlemen. I’m going to start compiling the results tonight after I watch True Detective and assuming I don’t fall asleep on the couch. Anyone have any suggestions for statistical breakdowns they’d like to see? I’ve suggested era, genre, top 10 directors. I don’t think I’ll go as far as actor, would just be too many players involved.
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Are we doing a tournament?

Don't forget to include Road House like I mentioned above. Would be a criminal oversight if not.
 
intlzncster said:
Are we doing a tournament?

Don't forget to include Road House like I mentioned above. Would be a criminal oversight if not.
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Submit an entry with it and it will be entered.
 
8893 said:
Submit an entry with it and it will be entered.
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I thought we could include lists on here. That was my list. Road House.

I did it anyway just to be sure. Added Point Break for emphasis in case there's seeding.
 
intlzncster said:
I thought we could include lists on here. That was my list. Road House.

I did it anyway just to be sure. Added Point Break for emphasis in case there's seeding.
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No you have to submit through his link or they are not counted.
 
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