The Boneyard Greatest Movie of All-Time Tournament - The Epic 8 - VOTE NOW!

[Mano]

Greatest Movie of All-Time Tournament

The raw data: Boneyard Best Movie of All-Time Tournament
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Total Entries: 91

Total Movies: 445
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Top 100 vote getters.

1) The Shawshank Redemption (390pts)
2) Goodfellas (298pts)
3) The Godfather (270pts)
4) Pulp Fiction (166pts)
5) Rocky (155pts)
6) The Dark Knight (151pts)
7) Jaws (140pts)
8) Casablanca (138pts)
9) Die Hard (132pts)
10) Forrest Gump (123pts)
11) Saving Private Ryan (123pts)
12) Caddyshack (120pts)
13) The Godfather: Part II (118pts)
14) The Big Lebowski (115pts)
15) The Silence of the Lambs (113)
16) The Matrix (110pts)
17) It’s a Wonderful Life (109pts)
18) Gladiator (102pts)
19) The Departed (101pts)
20) Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (98pts)
21) My Cousin Vinny (93pts)
22) Raiders of the Lost Ark (88pts)
23) Hoosiers (85pts)
24) The Wizard of Oz (82pts)
25) Unforgiven (79pts)
26) Animal House (77pts)
27) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (76pts)
28) To Kill a Mockingbird (73pts)
29) The Deer Hunter (68pts)
30) Blazing Saddles (65pts)
31) Schindler’s List (65pts)
32) Dazed and Confused (63pts)
33) A Few Good Men (62pts)
34) Back to the Future (62pts)
35) The Great Escape (61pts)
36) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (61pts)
37) Field of Dreams (58pts)
38) Heat (58pts)
39) The Blues Brothers (55pts)
40) Children of Men (55pts)
41) Fight Club (55pts)
42) Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (54pts)
43) Full Metal Jacket (54pts)
44) Apocalypse Now (52pts)
45) The Graduate (51pts)
46) Step Brothers (51pts)
47) There’s Something About Mary (51pts)
48) Alien (50pts)
49) Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (50pts)
50) Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (49pts)
51) The Shining (49pts)
52) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (48pts)
53) Good Will Hunting (48pts)
54) Old School (48pts)
55) No Country for Old Men (47pts)
56) Cool Hand Luke (44pts)
57) The Princess Bride (44pts)
58) The Usual Suspects (43pts)
59) Dumb and Dumber (42pts)
60) Man on Fire (42pts)
61) Chinatown (41pts)
62) Inception (41pts)
63) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (41pts)
64) Top Gun (41pts)

First Four Out:

65) Apollo 13 (40pts)
66) The Sting (40pts)
67) The Breakfast Club (39pts)
68) 2001: A Space Odyssey (38pts)

Next Four Out:

69) 12 Angry Men (37pts)
70) Braveheart (37pts)
71) Casino (36pts)
72) Happy Gilmore (36pts)

The Rest of the Top 100:

73) Superbad (36pts)
74) Bill Madison (35pts)
75) Platoon (35pts)
76) Slap Shot (34pts)
77) Aliens (33pts)
78) North by Northwest (33pts)
79) Office Space (33pts)
80) Almost Famours (32pts)
81) Avengers: Infinity War (31pts)
82) Coming to America (31pts)
83) Remember the Titans (31pts)
84) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (30pts)
85) He Got Game (30pts)
86) True Grit (30pts)
87) Young Frankenstein (30pts)
88) Rear Window (29pts)
89) Scarface (29pts)
90) Shooter (29pts)
91) Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (28pts)
92) Boogie Nights (27pts)
93) Diner (27pts)
94) Miracle (27pts)
95) Pineapple Express (27pts)
96) Reservoir Dogs (27pts)
97) Stripes (27pts)
98) Interstellar (26pts)
99) Fargo (25pts)
100) The Prestige (25pts)

By Decade: (I just eyeballed this, so its short of the total number, whatevs)

1930’s:

10

1940’s:

14

1950’s:

15

1960’s:

29

1970’s:

51

1980’s:

84

1990’s:

102

2000’s:

88

2010’s:

42

The Boneyard Greatest Movie of All-Time Tournament Master Thread

Updated Bracket:

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Our Epic 8 matchups: Please, please, please, when voting only pick one from each pair.

(1) The Shawshank Redemption - 9.3/10 IMDb, 4/4 Roger Ebert, 91% Rotten Tomatoes
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(6) Die Hard - 8.2/10 IMDb, 2/4 Roger Ebert, 93% Rotten Tomatoes
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(1) Goodfellas - 8.7/10 IMDb, 4/4 Roger Ebert, 96% Rotten Tomatoes
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(7) Animal House - 7.6/10 IMDb, 4/4 Roger Ebert, 91% Rotten Tomatoes
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(4) The Godfather: Part II - 9/10 IMDb, 4/4 Roger Ebert, 97% Rotten Tomatoes
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(2) Rocky - 8.1/10 IMDb, 4/4 Roger Ebert, 93% Rotten Tomatoes
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(1) The Godfather - 9.2/10 IMDb, 4/4 Roger Ebert, 98% Rotten Tomatoes
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(3) Raiders of the Lost Ark - 8.5/10 IMDb, 4/4 Roger Ebert, 95% Rotten Tomatoes

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[Travelman6]

Sad to see the Princess bride Cinderella run end and a very hard choice between Rocky and Godfather 2 but I have to give the nod to Rocky.

Btw didn't Hoosiers have a regular season matchup with Rocky? Who won that?

 

[SubInATub]

All crap

 

[Mano]

All crap

Cool. I’m sorry for you Tubby that Transformers didn’t make the tourney.

 

[Deepster]

All chalk.

 

[Mano]

All chalk.

Agreed. Although I can see some people not wanting to vote in 2 Godfathers pushing themselves towards Rocky.

As an aside, it’s been years since I’ve seen all the Rocky’s. I think back to them and all I can picture really is melodramatic cheese.

 

[8893]

All chalk.

Agreed. Although I can see some people not wanting to vote in 2 Godfathers pushing themselves towards Rocky.

As an aside, it’s been years since I’ve seen all the Rocky’s. I think back to them and all I can picture really is melodramatic cheese.

I went with Rocky and Animal House. Tough call on both but for me it came down to the iconic and genre-setting value of each over their respective competitors, which are each great but less valuable in that regard imo as compared with the OG Godfather.

Pretty clear it’s going to come down to Shawshank vs. Godfather in the finals.

 

[Mano]

Pretty clear it’s going to come down to Shawshank vs. Godfather in the finals.

Yea, I think we all could’ve probably called that one. I bet Goodfellas gives it a run for its money tho. Something about the demos on here make me think it has a chance.

 

[SubInATub]

Cool. I’m sorry for you Tubby that Transformers didn’t make the tourney.

Top 5

 

[Doctor Hoop]

Bruce Willis + Alan Rickmam > Tim Robbins + Morgan Freeman

 

[Mano]

Top 5

Good movie. Probably among Chris Rock’s best movies. Wonder why he hasn’t directed another since then?

 

[B1GEast]

The comnittee did a poor job seeding this year

 

[Mano]

The comnittee did a poor job seeding this year

The Comnittee (sic) was all of you. So, BOOOOOO B1GEast!!!

 

[CL82]

As an aside, it’s been years since I’ve seen all the Rocky’s. I think back to them and all I can picture really is melodramatic cheese.

Really to watch the Rockies you need a few minutes of character identification and then skip to the final fight.

I will say that overall Rocky Balboa and Creed are better movies. Haven't gotten around to Creed 2 yet.

 

[Deepster]

You need to separate the original Rocky from all other Rockys. Won the Oscar for Best Picture.

 

[Chin Diesel]

You need to separate the original Rocky from all other Rockys. Won the Oscar for Best Picture.

You can get to Rocky II and make a split between them and the rest.

You needed the sequel to complete Rocky's storylines.

Rocky III on out is a pure commercial money making franchise.

I don't think anyone with power in Hollywood greenlighted Rocky or Rocky II because they though they were surefire commercial successes.

 

[Mano]

Poll closes tomorrow night. Final-Cut Four will commence probably the day after.

 

[intlzncster]

In an epic twist, I actually haven't seen 2 of these movies.

 

[storrsroars]

Really to watch the Rockies you need a few minutes of character identification and then skip to the final fight.

Nah. Not for the first one. That was a movie with plot, character development, and all that. The ones that followed were cartoons. Actually, the fighting in the first one was the most comically bad part of the film.

 

[intlzncster]

Really to watch the Rockies you need a few minutes of character identification and then skip to the final fight.
I will say that overall Rocky Balboa and Creed are better movies. Haven't gotten around to Creed 2 yet.

Nah. Not for the first one. That was a movie with plot, character development, and all that. The ones that followed were cartoons. Actually, the fighting in the first one was the most comically bad part of the film.

Shows how little CL knows about movies. If you lopped off the training montages in Rocky IV, you'd have left some of the finest cinematic sequences in history on the cutting room floor.

Can't believe all the Rocky hate here. Ya'll probably didn't like Road House either. How that didn't win Best Picture we'll never know.

 

[Huskygrad88]

Bruce Willis + Alan Rickmam > Tim Robbins + Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman>Alan Rickman>Tim Robbins>Bruce Willis....Shawshank Wins

 

[HuskyHawk]

Yea, I think we all could’ve probably called that one. I bet Goodfellas gives it a run for its money tho. Something about the demos on here make me think it has a chance.

Goodfella's hasn't aged very well in my opinion. I thought it was brilliant at the time, but it feels dated. It doesn't work as well as it once did.

I went with Animal House and Rocky, as @8893 did. Hoping for a Rocky vs Shawshank final.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

You need to separate the original Rocky from all other Rockys. Won the Oscar for Best Picture.

Tells you more about Oscars and awards voting than anything else. The other Best Picture nominees were All the President's Men, Bound for Glory, Network, and Taxi Driver. All were arguably better films than Rocky, but vote-splitting likely secured the winner one year before the sea change to blockbusterdom solidified the change forever after.
Compare Avildsen's filmography with that of Pakula, Ashby, Lumet, and Scorcese, and it's easy to see that emotions got tapped at a time when the need for good news and modest heroes was ascending in an insecure time. But Best Picture?

 

[storrsroars]

Goodfella's hasn't aged very well in my opinion. I thought it was brilliant at the time, but it feels dated. It doesn't work as well as it once did.

I went with Animal House and Rocky, as @8893 did. Hoping for a Rocky vs Shawshank final.

Goodfellas aged worse than Animal House? Hahahaha.

All one needs to disprove that is to cite the increasingly larger number of instances where some BYer quotes, "... when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor..." and some other BYer corrects them to say it was, indeed, the Japanese.

 

[Deepster]

Tells you more about Oscars and awards voting than anything else. The other Best Picture nominees were All the President's Men, Bound for Glory, Network, and Taxi Driver. All were arguably better films than Rocky, but vote-splitting likely secured the winner one year before the sea change to blockbusterdom solidified the change forever after.
Compare Avildsen's filmography with that of Pakula, Ashby, Lumet, and Scorcese, and it's easy to see that emotions got tapped at a time when the need for good news and modest heroes was ascending in an insecure time. But Best Picture?

I guess there's some semblance to vote-splitting, but Rocky was also heralded across the board.

Rocky - 10 nominations including picture, director, actor, actress and 2 for supporting actor with 3 wins.
All the Presidents Men - 8 nominations including picture, director, supporting actor and actress with 2 wins.
Bound for Glory - 6 nominations including picture with 2 wins.
Network - 10 nominations including picture, director, actor twice, actress and supporting actor/actress. 4 wins in total.
Taxi Driver - 4 nominations including picture, actor, actress and 0 wins.

Safe to say, if Network wasn't in the bunch, Rocky would have brought home a truckload that year. It's held up better than those 4 over time, for sure.