OT - The Boneyard Greatest Movie of All-Time Tournament

[Mano]

if im watching rw gimme sweet home alabama. her peak

Pleasantville. Election.

The wife likes Reese’s romcoms, they’re tolerable.

 

[whaler11]

Pleasantville. Election.

The wife likes Reese’s romcoms, they’re tolerable.

election is a decent movie but if cruel intentions is a better showcase for reese

 

[Mano]

election is a decent movie but if cruel intentions is a better showcase for reese

Eh, they sold that movie on a single kiss. Selma Blair is hotter anyway.

 

[UConnDad]

Sleepers with Brad Pitt
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rocky
The Magnificent Seven
The Dirty Dozen
Jaws

 

[whaler11]

Eh, they sold that movie on a single kiss. Selma Blair is hotter anyway.

i dont know what they sold it on but that kiss isnt the good part.

selma blair is hotter then reese witherspoon? the hot takes around here lately are incredible

 

[storrsroars]

Apocalypto

Aaargh... there's one I forgot. I watched it on a lark one night not knowing much about it. Was blown away.

 

[Mano]

i dont know what they sold it on but that kiss isnt the good part.

selma blair is hotter then reese witherspoon? the hot takes around here lately are incredible

Always had a thing for brunettes, don’t tell my wife.

 

[huskyrob1]

No, King based The Shining on the Stanley Hotel in Colorado. The outside of the hotel used in the film is the ski lodge on Mount Hood in Oregon.

He took elements from both, "based on" was a bad choice of words. The Indian settlement and burial ground on Overlook and the name itself he clearly used for his book. As well as the Catskill Overlook was closed down for the winter and kept up by a caretaker.

 

[Jaker]

2049

 

[Mano]

One that sticks out to me now and that I regret not including in my list of near misses is The Fountain. It’s almost an indescribable film, I don’t know how Aronofsky keeps getting funding for his flicks.

 

[Horatio]

Warriors
The Wiz
Goodfellas
Mad Max
Brave Heart
Beloved
Live and Let Die
12 years a slave
My Bodyguard
The Fifth Element
Revenge of the Nerds
Excalibur
The Skeleton Key

 

[mussels]

16 is tough

I will go with a “preview reel” of coming attractions and then offer a double feature of 2 fav’s

Previews:

1. The “USS Indianapolis” scene from Jaws
2. Any Marx Brothers
3. The “you’re a lowdown yankee liar” gunfight from Shane
4. The “that breaks all bargains” scene from The Quiet Man
5. A Renee Montgomery Clip from “Not my Favorite Christmas”
6. The “Firecracker dance” from Holiday Inn
7. Any Cary Grant
8. Garland’s “Over the Rainbow”
9. “Make my day” from Eastwood
10. Any Charlie Chan
11. Any Thin Man
    
    Then 1st feature:
    
    It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
    
    2nd main feature:
    
    Casablanca

This sort of reminds me of that scene in Trains Planes and Automobiles where they're on a bus singing and Steve Martin starts singing "Three coins in a fountain", everyone just looks at him puzzled for a second, then John Candy breaks into "Flintstones meet the Flintstones" and the party resumes.

 

[ClifSpliffy]

bang the drum slowly

 

[mussels]

Surprised that several movies I would think would be in the Boneyard wheelhouse are missing:
Scarface (someone had to have listed this but I don't see it),
A Bronx Tale
The Graduate
The Longest Yard (original with Burt Reynolds}
The Sting
The Professional
Total Recall (Arnold shoots Sharon Stone in the head "Consider dat a divorce")

Some that I dont think would appeal to most but still surprised no one mentioned:
As Good as it Gets
Somethings got to give
It's Complicated
Saturday Night Fever (surprisingly has held up really well)
The Flamingo Kid
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Cult Films:
Brazil
Heathers

Documentaries:
Hoop Dreams

For anyone else who slogged through this whole thing - a lot of great films have been mentioned, what else is missing ?

 

[zepfan]

Aaargh... there's one I forgot. I watched it on a lark one night not knowing much about it. Was blown away.

Yes, me too. I saw it in the theater when it first came out, but I knew nothing about it at the time. Not sure I can think of any other movie that keeps you on the edge of your seat for the entire movie, none stop, starting after the first 15 minutes or so of setting the stage.

 

[superjohn]

No Donnie Brasco, Boyz n the Hood, Carlito's Way? Also really surprised I'm the only one who mentioned Heat, I though everyone loved that movie. Manhunter is another Michael Mann classic. To Live and Die In LA. City of God, one of the best movies ever made and maybe the biggest omission The French Connection.

 

[KingConn]

Top 4
Almost Famous
Animal House
Dazed and Confused
Empire Strikes Back

The rest in no particular order:
Chasing Amy
The Breakfast Club
Mallrats
Cool Hand Luke
The Blues Brothers
Pulp Fiction
The Usual Suspects
True Romance
Bull Durham
Slap Shot
Stripes
Kingpin
Boogie Nights

 

[StepbackCity]

When does the bracket come out?

 

[ImpalerMD]

No Donnie Brasco, Boyz n the Hood, Carlito's Way? Also really surprised I'm the only one who mentioned Heat, I though everyone loved that movie. Manhunter is another Michael Mann classic. To Live and Die In LA. City of God, one of the best movies ever made and maybe the biggest omission The French Connection.

Heat is mediocre at best.

 

[Mano]

No Donnie Brasco, Boyz n the Hood, Carlito's Way? Also really surprised I'm the only one who mentioned Heat, I though everyone loved that movie. Manhunter is another Michael Mann classic. To Live and Die In LA. City of God, one of the best movies ever made and maybe the biggest omission The French Connection.

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.

 

[whaler11]

Top 4
Almost Famous
Animal House
Dazed and Confused
Empire Strikes Back

The rest in no particular order:
Chasing Amy
The Breakfast Club
Mallrats
Cool Hand Luke
The Blues Brothers
Pulp Fiction
The Usual Suspects
True Romance
Bull Durham
Slap Shot
Stripes
Kingpin
Boogie Nights

I saw Chasing Amy at a GLBT film fest in Raleigh when it first came out. They sold beers in glasses.

It’s really good but in that context it was great.

 

[weyuo]

It's A Wonderful Life
The Wizard of Oz
To Kill A Mockingbird
Saving Private Ryan
The Sting
Gravity
The Lovely Bones
The Birds
Close Encounters
Jaws
The Godfather
Blade Runner
Summer of 42
10
Raiders of the Lost Ark
On The Beach

 

[Rich]

American Psycho

 

[huskiesNhoos]

Point break

 

[mussels]

Steel Magnolias
Under the Tuscan Sun
Bridget Jones Diary
Bridges of Madison County
Terms of Endearment
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
27 Dresses
Letters to Juliet
The Time Travelers Wife
The Princess Diaries
Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood
PS I love You
Dirty Dancing
What to expect when you're expecting
Sex in the City