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OT - The Boneyard Greatest Movie of All-Time Tournament

8893 said:
No you have to submit through his link or they are not counted.
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But Mano posted this:

Mano said:
P.S. To anyone who wants to, feel free to post your lists here, like tomtom started to. Some good debate is always welcome on the Boneyard I think.
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intlzncster said:
But Mano posted this:
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Yea that was more meant to have a fun discussion. Only entries through the Google form will be tabulated. I’m going to weight everyone’s choice based on how they ranked them. Then we will have a bracket based tourney to vote on a winner.
 
Duncan Idaho said:
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
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Which "Mutiny on the Bounty"? The original with Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, and Charles Laughton.....or the 1962 version with Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, and Richard Harris? I liked them both for different reasons, but curious which one you are referring to?
 
Mano said:
Yea that was more meant to have a fun discussion. Only entries through the Google form will be tabulated. I’m going to weight everyone’s choice based on how they ranked them. Then we will have a bracket based tourney to vote on a winner.
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Ahh, I thought you'd have some script or something. OK.
 
Seems like a lot of posters think there weren't any good movies before they were born.
This is an impossible task. Every post I read reminds me of one or two I missed.
 
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Dr. Zhivago
Cool Hand Luke
Mulholland Drive
It's a Wonderful Life
Godfather 1 & 2
Shawshank Redemption
Patton
Fight Club
Lawrence of Arabia
Ground Hog Day
Annie Hall
All the President's Men
Adaptation
Animal House
The Big Lebowski
Kill Bill Vol 2
Hot Tub Time Machine
 
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This is my list already posted to the special contest site:
Casablanca
Grapes of Wrath
The Bicycle Thief
Seven Samurai
All The President's Men
The Producers
The Godfather 1
Fitzcarraldo
Good fellas
Silence of the Lambs
Double Indemnity
No Country for Old Men
Groundhog Day
Once Upon a Time in the West
Laura
The Leopard

With the exception of Casablanca, the order is arbitrary. These are all films I return to again and again. There are quite a few others as the films worth viewing proves.
 
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zymurg said:
This is my list already posted to the special contest site:
Casablanca
Grapes of Wrath
The Bicycle Thief
Seven Samurai
All The President's Men
The Producers
The Godfather 1
Fitzcarraldo
Good fellas
Silence of the Lambs
Double Jeopardy
No Country for Old Men
Groundhog Day
Once Upon a Time in the West
Laura
The Leopard

With the exception of Casablanca, the order is arbitrary. These are all films I return to again and again. There are quite a few others as the films worth viewing proves.
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Good pick on Laura, great flick.
 
huskyrob1 said:
Which "Mutiny on the Bounty"? The original with Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, and Charles Laughton.....or the 1962 version with Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, and Richard Harris? I liked them both for different reasons, but curious which one you are referring to?
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1935 version. Loved Laughton. Had best picture. Three best actor nominees. Best supporting category created because of it. Didnt like Brando's take on Christian. The film production values were great though.
Always liked Howard in his WWII flicks.
 
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Duncan Idaho said:
1935 version. Loved Laughton. Had best picture. Three best actor nominees. Best supporting category created because of it. Didnt like Brando's take on Christian. The film production values were great though.
Always liked Howard in his WWII flicks.
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Completely agree. The main character in the book was Roger Byam (who eventually returns to England in chains and is condemned to hang but is granted a full pardon), and was played by Franchot Tone in the 1935 version, who stood between Christian and Bligh, he was completely written out of the 1962 version, and it almost killed that movie, leaving Brando alone to try to carry a contrived story. The only thing that the 1962 version had left were the production values, it was visually stunning and Bronislau Kapers musical score was off the charts. I wouldn't say it was Brando's interpretation of Christian that killed that movie but a terrible script did. Franchot Tone's performance in the 1935 movie got him a Best Actor nomination.
 
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Duncan Idaho said:
1935 version. Loved Laughton. Had best picture. Three best actor nominees. Best supporting category created because of it. Didnt like Brando's take on Christian. The film production values were great though.
Always liked Howard in his WWII flicks.
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huskyrob1 said:
Completely agree. The main character in the book was Roger Byam (who eventually returns to England in chains and is condemned to hang but is granted a full pardon), and was played by Franchot Tone in the 1935 version, who stood between Christian and Bligh, he was completely written out of the 1962 version, and it almost killed that movie, leaving Brando alone to try to carry a contrived story. The only thing that the 1962 version had left were the production values, it was visually stunning and Bronislau Kapers musical score was off the charts. I wouldn't say it was Brando's interpretation of Christian that killed that movie but a terrible script did. Franchot Tone's performance in the 1935 movie got him a Best Actor nomination.
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Def the best EIGHTY FOUR year old movie in the tourney.

Clear fave in the NO SOUND bracket
 
whaler11 said:
Def the best EIGHTY FOUR year old movie in the tourney.

Clear fave in the NO SOUND bracket
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Really, you think so Mr Whaler? I loved Mutiny on the Bounty, but still think "Bride of Frankenstein" was a slightly better EIGHTY FOUR year old movie.:)
 
huskyrob1 said:
Did anyone mention "Gone with the Wind", "Wuthering Heights", "Peyton Place", "From Here to Eternity", "A Place in the Sun", "The Ten Commandments", or John Ford's "The Hurricane"?

Prior to 1960 all were mentioned on any all time great movies list.
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There were many more I struggled with as I'm sure everyone else did too.
Inherit The Wind
Lillie's of the Field
Easy Rider
The Children's Hour(1961. Maybe one of the first movies with major actors to explore same sex relationships)
Fail Safe
Christmas in Connecticut
Lonely Are The Brave(probably Kirk Douglas's best movie)
Fried Green Tomatoes
Blotto(a Laurel & Hardy short film that is infectiously hilarious)
 
weyuo said:
There were many more I struggled with as I'm sure everyone else did too.
Inherit The Wind
Lillie's of the Field
Easy Rider
The Children's Hour(1961. Maybe one of the first movies with major actors to explore same sex relationships)
Fail Safe
Christmas in Connecticut
Lonely Are The Brave(probably Kirk Douglas's best movie)
Fried Green Tomatoes
Blotto(a Laurel & Hardy short film that is infectiously hilarious)
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I don't think I've seen Blotto but my father insists that the best movie in the history of cinema is Laurel & Hardy's "Sons of the Desert". I've watched it several times - it's pretty great.

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Shawshank Redemption is no. 1 with a bullet. Crash is the Syracuse of movies. Overrated and an early exit.
 
Somehow I lost a rather long view on "Nowhere in Africa." This film won the Oscar for best foreign language film in 2002. A family of Jews escapes Germany in 1938; they end up in Kenya until 1947. Beautifully filmed in
in Kenya. In German with subtitles, acting is first rate, while the setting, rural Kenya, is unusual it provides some interesting insights into the lives of Jewish exiles.
This is definitely worth viewing.
 
I don't know if you're still taking entries but .... The Outlaw Josey Wales and another vote for Silence of the Lambs (not on my original list). "Well, you gunna pull them pistols or whistle Dixie?" and "Ain't we going to bury em Josey?" Clint spits on the forehead of the dead guy and says "Buzzard's got to eat, same as the worm." Priceless!!
 
zepfan said:
I don't know if you're still taking entries but .... The Outlaw Josey Wales and another vote for Silence of the Lambs (not on my original list). "Well, you gunna pull them pistols or whistle Dixie?" and "Ain't we going to bury em Josey?" Clint spits on the forehead of the dead guy and says "Buzzard's got to eat, same as the worm." Priceless!!
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Voting is closed, sorry. I have my staff hard at work putting together some stats and graphs. Maybe a pie chart. Actually, no, just pie. Dang. Wish I had some ice cream.
 
Casablanca. Black and white and just as entertaining 67 years later. How many movies can you still enjoy on the 20th watching? Granted The Godfather one is on that list and damn close.
 
zymurg said:
Somehow I lost a rather long view on "Nowhere in Africa." This film won the Oscar for best foreign language film in 2002. A family of Jews escapes Germany in 1938; they end up in Kenya until 1947. Beautifully filmed in
in Kenya. In German with subtitles, acting is first rate, while the setting, rural Kenya, is unusual it provides some interesting insights into the lives of Jewish exiles.
This is definitely worth viewing.
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"Out of Africa" was a good one too. True story about some remarkable people and their friendships in colonial East Africa. Denys Finch Hatton, Karen Blixen, and Beryl Markham.
 
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Wife was talking about Cohen's testimony today and his role as a "fixer", and I immediately thought of a movie I will watch every single time it's on, but which I didn't include on my list: Michael Clayton. Tom Wilkinson was amazing in that. And I love the final confrontation scene between Swinton and Clooney.
 
storrsroars said:
Wife was talking about Cohen's testimony today and his role as a "fixer", and I immediately thought of a movie I will watch every single time it's on, but which I didn't include on my list: Michael Clayton. Tom Wilkinson was amazing in that. And I love the final confrontation scene between Swinton and Clooney.
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But what was Wilkinson doing with all those baguettes???
 
8893 said:
But what was Wilkinson doing with all those baguettes???
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If you hadn't already concluded his character is a nutjob, the director wanted to drive that point home.

I thought the same thing. How's one guy living alone going to eat them all before they get stale? That's why he's cray-cray.
 
Mad Max Thunderdome
The original Willy Wonkas Chocolate Factory
The Five Deadly Venoms
Predator
Mo Better Blues
Trading Places
Coming to America
The Untouchables
Curse of the Golden Flower
Uptown Saturday Night
Which way is up
 
Raiders of the lost Ark
Shawshank
The usual suspects
Blade runner
Apocalypse now
Apocoaypto
12 angry men
Planet of the ape
Alien
Silence of the lambs
Seven
The big red one
The hustler
Cool hand luke
Sharkys machine
The Godfather
Good fellas

There are a lot more
 
Are we still doing this?

Rocky
Jaws
Godfather 1-2
Unforgiven
The Raiders of the Lost Ark
Shawshank
Goodfella's
Lawrence of Arabia
Bridge on the River Kwai
The Quiet Man
The Searchers
Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars
Rear Window
North by Northwest
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Patton
Singing in the Rain
 
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