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

[temery]

You're having your Casablanca moment.

That would make a good contest: Movies pre 1970.

 

[temery]

I know Shawshank got screwed, but how many of the others on this least won an Oscar for best picture?

 

[Mano]

I know Shawshank got screwed, but how many of the others on this least won an Oscar for best picture?

I broke it down in the S16 round:

(1) The Shawshank Redemption - Nominated for 7 Academy Awards, no wins. Box Office Gross: $28.3 Million.
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(5) It's a Wonderful Life - Nominated for 5 Academy Awards, no wins. Box Office Gross: $3.3 Million.
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(6) Die Hard - Nominated for 4 Academy Awards, no wins. Box Office Gross: $141.2 Million.
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(15) The Princess Bride - No Academy Award nominations. Box Office Gross: $30.8 Million.
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(1) Goodfellas - Nominated for 6 Academy Awards, 1 win (Supporting Actor: Pesci). Box Office Gross: $46.8 Million.
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(4) The Silence of the Lambs - Nominated for 7 Academy Awards, 5 wins (Picture, Director: Demme, Actor: Hopkins, Actress: Foster, Adapted Screenplay). Box Office Gross: $272.7 Million.
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(6) Forrest Gump - Nominated for 13 Academy Awards, 6 wins (Picture, Director: Zemeckis, Actor: Hanks, Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing, Visual Effects). Box Office Gross: $677.9 Million.
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(7) Animal House - No Academy Award nominations. Box Office Gross: $141.6 Million.
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(1) Pulp Fiction - Nominated for 7 Academy Awards, 1 win (Original Screenplay). Box Office Gross: $213.9 Million.
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(4) The Godfather: Part II - Nominated for 11 Academy Awards, 6 wins (Picture, Director: Coppola, Supporting Actor: De Niro, Adapted Screenplay, Art Direction, Score). Box Office Gross: $47.5 Million.
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(6) Caddyshack - No Academy Award nominations. Box Office Gross: $39.8 Million.
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(2) Rocky - Nominated for 10 Academy Awards, 3 wins (Picture, Director: Avildsen, Film Editing). Box Office Gross: $117.2 Million.
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(1) The Godfather - Nominated for 11 Academy Awards, 3 wins (Picture, Actor: Brando, Adapted Screenplay). Box Office Gross: $245 Million.
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(5) The Departed - Nominated for 5 Academy Awards, 4 wins (Picture, Director: Scorsese, Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing). Box Office Gross: $291.4 Million.
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(3) Raiders of the Lost Ark - Nominated for 8 Academy Awards, 5 wins (Film Editing, Art Direction, Sound, Visual Effects, Sound Editing). Box Office Gross: $389.9 Million.
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(2) The Dark Knight - Nominated for 8 Academy Awards, 2 wins (Supporting Actor: Ledger, Sound Editing). Box Office Gross: $1004.9 Million.

 

[intlzncster]

Roadhouse was just plain stupid,

What in the sam !@#$ is wrong with you?

 

[intlzncster]

There's a beautiful perfection inherent in so many 80s B-movies it's mind boggling. How could one decade turn out such high end B sides, many of which surpassed the promoted films.

 

[intlzncster]

The original Point Break is the greatest movie of all time.

You might be being facetious, but if we're being dead on balls accurate, it is close to it. Just smashingly cheesy line after cheesy line it's so goshdarn satisfying.

 

[temery]

He probably got his butt kicked by a skinny middle aged bouncer.

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[CL82]

He probably got his butt kicked by a skinny middle aged bouncer.

If he did it was because it was time not to be nice.

 

[storrsroars]

He probably got his butt kicked by a skinny middle aged bouncer.

I actually was a doorman/bouncer in South Norwalk for a short time in the late 80s.

Swayze is so bad as an actor he makes Stallone look like Laurence Olivier.

 

[temery]

I actually was a doorman/bouncer in South Norwalk for a short time in the late 80s.

Swayze is so bad as an actor he makes Stallone look like Laurence Olivier.

That's even worse. A bouncer getting tossed by another bouncer. Was she at least nice when she tossed you out?

 

[storrsroars]

That's even worse. A bouncer getting tossed by another bouncer. Was she at least nice when she tossed you out?

Girls fight much dirtier than guys.

 

[August_West]

You might be being facetious, but if we're being dead on balls accurate, it is close to it. Just smashingly cheesy line after cheesy line it's so goshdarn satisfying.

Back off warchild