Author Topic: Film Poll Raids Again: Finals Group B  (Read 15767 times)

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on: June 04, 2008, 06:26:59 PM
Welcome to Group B of the finals.  Each of these four films won one or more weeks of the regular poll, except Fight Club, which came within one vote of Empire Strikes Back.  They are competing to go up against one of the top four films from the regular poll.

From Group A, Monty Python and the Holy Grail has moved on to the Quarterfinals. 
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Reply #1 on: June 04, 2008, 06:27:45 PM
Chris Nolan for the win. But Following is better than Memento.

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Reply #2 on: June 04, 2008, 06:37:07 PM
Geez. These groupings are harder than the last ones... I'm gonna have to come back to this one, too.



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Reply #3 on: June 04, 2008, 06:45:48 PM
Fight Club for me.  Memento was great and I love both Nightmare before Christmas and Back to the Future, but Tyler Durden is an icon, man. 


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Reply #4 on: June 04, 2008, 06:57:07 PM
Argh, tough call.   I went with Back to the Future.   BTW, did you see that the courthouse set from that movie was damaged in the recent Universal fire? 

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Reply #5 on: June 04, 2008, 07:49:55 PM
Argh, tough call.   I went with Back to the Future.   BTW, did you see that the courthouse set from that movie was damaged in the recent Universal fire? 

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Reply #6 on: June 04, 2008, 07:56:35 PM
Very tough call. Had to go with Fight Club.

... but Memento is so close it can almost bite Marla's ... oh no, actually there is nothing to bite.

So yeah, Tyler Durden all the way.



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Reply #7 on: June 04, 2008, 08:06:42 PM
I voted for nightmare then regretted it two seconds later, but this poll doesn't allow me to revote. For me, it's a really close call between Nightmare and Fight Club - but while Nightmare was my favorite movie for several years, and Fight Club was never my absolute favorite in the same way - I think at this point in my life I prefer Fight Club.

Back to the Future - again, a movie that made a big impact on me when I first saw it, and I voted on it for the preliminaries, but not against this competition. Memento, for me, is a non-starter - while it is certainly good, it never really worked for me as well as it did for most people.



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Reply #8 on: June 04, 2008, 08:17:47 PM
I just had to go with Fight Club. While I love the others, I might make this one “required” viewing.



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Reply #9 on: June 04, 2008, 08:18:07 PM
Argh, tough call.   I went with Back to the Future.   BTW, did you see that the courthouse set from that movie was damaged in the recent Universal fire? 

I think the clocktower survived with damages, though.  King Kong, unfortunately, did not.  Kind of a bummer, really.  I have fond memories of that backstage tram tour.  I wonder what they'll do with it now.


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Reply #10 on: June 04, 2008, 08:29:32 PM
I still haven't seen Fight Club.

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Reply #11 on: June 04, 2008, 08:33:43 PM
I still haven't seen Fight Club.
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Reply #12 on: June 05, 2008, 06:41:17 AM
I still haven't seen Fight Club.

We'll wait.



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Reply #13 on: June 05, 2008, 01:22:19 PM
I still haven't seen Fight Club.

We'll wait.

It could be a long wait.  It could be years more.

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Reply #14 on: June 05, 2008, 01:32:21 PM
I still haven't seen Fight Club.

We'll wait.

It could be a long wait.  It could be years more.

WHAT? Years? Don't you trust our judgement at all? When we say, it is a great film, you better believe it, and if we say it is well worth it, given that we all here have similar tastes and interests, you can expect it to be very unlikely that you will be disappointed. (I bet, now you'll go watch it and say you hated it just out of spite?  :))



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Reply #15 on: June 05, 2008, 01:35:10 PM
WHAT? Years? Don't you trust our judgement at all? When we say, it is a great film, you better believe it, and if we say it is well worth it, given that we all here have similar tastes and interests, you can expect it to be very unlikely that you will be disappointed.

Well, some people here have a high opinion of 2001: A Space Odyssey so I really can't give you a definite "yes" to that one  ;D

I'll put it in my Netflix queue but I can't say when I'll get to it.

(And I won't say "hated it" unless I really do.)

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As for "similar tastes and interests", how many of you have read and enjoyed Battlefield Earth?   :)
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Reply #16 on: June 05, 2008, 03:43:08 PM
Re: Fight Club ...

Is this the movie I'm looking for?

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Reply #17 on: June 05, 2008, 03:57:31 PM
Re: Fight Club ...

Is this the movie I'm looking for?

Definitely. Not.

No Tyler Durden.  And no soap.


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Reply #18 on: June 05, 2008, 04:08:30 PM
This would be the one you should want. ;D



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Reply #19 on: June 05, 2008, 04:50:50 PM
For the second final poll in a row my film is going to lose.



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Reply #20 on: June 06, 2008, 09:38:48 AM
can't go against Nolan, even though i loved Fight Club



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Reply #21 on: June 06, 2008, 02:13:51 PM
A close vote so far...

Back to the Future: 7
Fight Club: 8

I voted for Marty McFly, but would be happy with Fight Club if it wins. They're both great.



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Reply #22 on: June 06, 2008, 05:52:38 PM
Fight Club was brilliant. Relatively simple concept, based on a fascinatingly complex book, but delivered as a totally separate, lovely, twisted creation...
One of my favorites.

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Reply #23 on: June 08, 2008, 03:59:15 AM
I still haven't seen Fight Club.

We'll wait.

It could be a long wait.  It could be years more.

I'm with stePH on this one.  I don't enjoy watching people hit each other, as a rule, and as cool as Pitt and Norton are... I just can't force myself to sit through it on purpose.

So, I had to go with BttF... please, don't hit me!  ;)

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Reply #24 on: June 08, 2008, 04:37:09 AM

I'm with stePH on this one.  I don't enjoy watching people hit each other, as a rule, and as cool as Pitt and Norton are... I just can't force myself to sit through it on purpose.

Unlike you, I don't have any particular objections to the film.  I just don't know when I'll get around to watching it ... I have a lot of stuff in my NetFlix queue.  Right now I'm working on Sam and Max and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.

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Reply #25 on: June 08, 2008, 08:18:50 PM
I still haven't seen Fight Club.
We'll wait.
It could be a long wait.  It could be years more.
I'm with stePH on this one.  I don't enjoy watching people hit each other, as a rule, and as cool as Pitt and Norton are... I just can't force myself to sit through it on purpose.

So, I had to go with BttF... please, don't hit me!  ;)

I had borrowed Fight Club from Wherethewild a little while ago.  When my wife saw it was beating Momento she said we should watch it.  I wasn't too sure, because I don't like watching hyped movies.  I was really good.  I think I would still vote with Momento, but I liked it. 

TAD:  There isn't as much punching as you would think.  There is a lot of the movie outside of the club.



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Reply #26 on: June 08, 2008, 08:22:09 PM

TAD:  There isn't as much punching as you would think.  There is a lot of the movie outside of the club.

What was the movie with the line about "I like little things... hitting each other!"  Was that Time Bandits?

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Reply #27 on: June 09, 2008, 01:25:07 PM
I hate movies about people hitting each other too.  And resisted watching Fight Club for years for that reason.

But that's really not what the movie is about, or even something that gets much screen time.  Watch it!



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Reply #28 on: June 09, 2008, 02:51:48 PM

TAD:  There isn't as much punching as you would think.  There is a lot of the movie outside of the club.

What was the movie with the line about "I like little things... hitting each other!"  Was that Time Bandits?

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Reply #29 on: June 11, 2008, 03:31:11 AM
On a tangent from the poll there is another movie from the author of fight club coming.  Choke and a trailer


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Reply #30 on: June 11, 2008, 06:12:01 AM
Interesting that the Presumptive winner never actually won in the original poll.  And it's going up against a movie that one three weeks in a row (BttF).  But Fight Club did come within one vote of tying Empire Strikes Back.  And nothing ever beat that movie.

Maybe they'll face each other again in the semi-finals, but this time just the two of them without the other films drawing off votes.
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Reply #31 on: June 11, 2008, 03:49:32 PM
I have to admit, I'm a little surprised it beat out Nightmare Before Christmas and Back to the Future.  Pleased, but surprised.


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Reply #32 on: June 12, 2008, 04:57:02 AM
On a tangent from the poll there is another movie from the author of fight club coming.  Choke and a trailer
omfg thank you.

I'd like to hear my options, so I could weigh them, what do you say?
Five pounds?  Six pounds? Seven pounds?