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| 12. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) |
  
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46 | 85.19% |
| 245. Dog Day Afternoon (1975) |
  
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5 | 9.26% |
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1 | 1.85% |
| 117. Up (2009) |
  
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33 | 61.11% |
| 140. The Seventh Seal [Det sjunde inseglet] (1957) |
  
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6 | 11.11% |
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1 | 1.85% |
| 53. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) |
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27 | 50.00% |
| 204. Million Dollar Baby (2004) |
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13 | 24.07% |
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1 | 1.85% |
| 76. Reservoir Dogs (1992) |
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36 | 66.67% |
| 181. There Will Be Blood (2007) |
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12 | 22.22% |
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1 | 1.85% |
| 21. City of God [Cidade de Deus] (2002) |
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26 | 48.15% |
| 236. La Haine (1995) |
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1 | 1.85% |
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1 | 1.85% |
| 108. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) |
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41 | 75.93% |
| 149. The General (1926) |
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4 | 7.41% |
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1 | 1.85% |
| 44. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) |
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46 | 85.19% |
| 213. Stalker (1979) |
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1 | 1.85% |
| 85. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) |
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38 | 70.37% |
| 172. Rebecca (1940) |
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2 | 3.70% |
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01-24-2017, 08:38 AM
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FOFC's Favourite Movie - Opening Round (Part 5)
The tournament continues and I figured I'd catch the work day crowd instead of waiting until tonight to post the next bracket. Part 4 still has a few hours to go. The complete bracket is here.
I think this bracket is one of the easiest for me, outside of the Reservoir Dogs - There Will be Blood battle. That could arguably be the toughest call for me in the opening round. City of God is one of my personal all-time favourites and I hope it does very well in this tournament. We'll see how many on this forum are familiar with it. It seems like it has a favourable first round matchup but might be in tough against an Indy movie next round. Last edited by Carman Bulldog : 01-24-2017 at 08:45 AM. |
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01-24-2017, 11:10 AM
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There are some nasty matchups! Dog Day Afternoon is screwed and is a FANTASTIC movie. To kill a mockingbird vs Rebecca is also hard to figure .
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01-24-2017, 11:12 AM
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BRUTAL. Dog Day Afternoon is one of my favorite Pacino movies.
There Will Be Blood is some of the best work of this short century, and I'm guessing the generation that grew up with Reservoir Dogs isn't going to let it breathe. |
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01-24-2017, 12:00 PM
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Yeah I think youre right. Reservoir Dogs was a game-changer in my eyes (and to alot of the buddies I ran around with).
Ah, sucks that Boondock Saints isnt listed. Would be interesting to see how that would play here. Last edited by HomerSimpson98 : 01-24-2017 at 12:04 PM. |
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01-24-2017, 12:15 PM
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Couldn't choose between Dog Day Afternoon/ESB, or There Will Be Blood / Reservoir Dogs.
Million Dollar Baby is a great movie too, but it's got an impossible draw. These are the hardest matchups yet
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01-24-2017, 12:16 PM
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Million Dollar Baby was an easy choice for me. Dr. Strangelove fits in that quirky, quotable movie realm for me that isn't as great as people remember it to be.
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01-24-2017, 12:32 PM
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I agree. Of all of the historic movies I have made a point to watch in my lifetime, Dr. Strangelove is the one that stands out as a complete dud to me. |
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01-24-2017, 12:34 PM
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My personal biggest disappointment was Citizen Kane. |
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01-24-2017, 12:34 PM
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Million Dollar Baby is a great movie. It was hard for me to decide between that and Dr. Strangelove, but I went with the latter because I felt not enough classic movies are advancing.
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01-24-2017, 01:29 PM
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Man, I love Dr. Strangelove.
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01-24-2017, 01:50 PM
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Easy vote for Dr. Strangelove. Million Dollar Baby was the worst movie to win Best Picture until Crash won it a year later.
There Will Be Blood over Reservoir Dogs. Love both movies, but Blood was the best movie of the Aughts IMO, while Dogs wasn't even Tarantino's best movie of the 90s. (If it were Pulp Fiction vs. There Will Be Blood, I would probably just abstain from voting as I wouldn't be able to pick one over the other) T2 vs Stalker...has there been a shutout yet? |
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01-24-2017, 02:14 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: North Carolina
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I get why To Kill a Mockingbird will win this.
I just want to say for the record that Rebecca is a very good and very creepy movie. |
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01-24-2017, 03:02 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Concord, MA/UMass
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It's in no danger of losing to a movie I've never heard of, so I guess I'm surprised City of God is getting so few votes. I figured that was the rare foreign movie most posters would have seen (and a very good movie.)
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