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="John Cougar Lunchbucket":3o2dh59k]Up to 56 (edit).
I do believe the 'shack was '79[/quote:3o2dh59k]
1980 per imdb.com.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Oct 14 2008 02:01 PM
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wikipedia says Caddyshack was 1980.
I'll allow it!
Let's fill out the field here:
Raging Bull
Amadeus
Hannah & her Sisters
Wall Street
Over the Top
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metirish
Oct 14 2008 02:01 PM
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Apparently no good movies were made outside America in the 80's.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Oct 14 2008 02:02 PM
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Nope this is all shitty USA movies of the 80s.
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seawolf17
Oct 14 2008 02:03 PM
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Spaceballs
The Three Amigos
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seawolf17
Oct 14 2008 02:05 PM
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Clue
Spinal Tap
Princess Bride
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seawolf17
Oct 14 2008 02:05 PM
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Naked Gun
Spies Like Us
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Frayed Knot
Oct 14 2008 02:06 PM
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Raging Bull
Do the Right Thing
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dgwphotography
Oct 14 2008 02:09 PM
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The Right Stuff
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metsguyinmichigan
Oct 14 2008 02:15 PM
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Field of Dreams (1989), Best Movie Ever!
And Caddyshack, too! (1980)
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metsguyinmichigan
Oct 14 2008 02:19 PM
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="Benjamin Grimm":2fjmtk0n]Here are the ten that won Best Picture during that decade:
* 1980 Ordinary People - Wildwood, Paramount - Ronald L. Schwary
* 1981 Chariots of Fire - Enigma, The Ladd Company/Warner Bros. - David Puttnam
* 1982 Gandhi - Indo-British Films, National Film Development Corp., Carolina Bank, Ltd., Columbia - Richard Attenborough
* 1983 Terms of Endearment - Brooks, Paramount - James L. Brooks
* 1984 Amadeus - Barrandov Studios - Zaentz, Orion - Saul Zaentz
* 1985 Out of Africa - Universal - Sydney Pollack
* 1986 Platoon - Hemdale, Orion - Arnold Kopelson
* 1987 The Last Emperor (????) - Hemdale, Columbia - Jeremy Thomas
* 1988 Rain Man - Mirage Entertainment, Star Partners II, United Artists - Mark Johnson
* 1989 Driving Miss Daisy - Majestic Films International, Zanuck Company., Warner Bros. - Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck[/quote:2fjmtk0n]
Yikes!
This list reads like you're trying to show a first date that you are a sensitive guy, or trying to impress potential future in-laws. :)
The true classics never get the love they deserve.
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HahnSolo
Oct 14 2008 02:24 PM
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| ="John Cougar Lunchbucket"]wikipedia says Caddyshack was 1980.
I'll allow it!
Let's fill out the field here:
Raging Bull
Amadeus
Hannah & her Sisters
Wall Street
Over the Top |
You just threw that in to see if we were paying attention, right?
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Frayed Knot
Oct 14 2008 02:24 PM
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Every John Hughes movie ever made
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Oct 14 2008 02:26 PM
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="HahnSolo"]| ="John Cougar Lunchbucket"]wikipedia says Caddyshack was 1980.
I'll allow it!
Let's fill out the field here:
Raging Bull
Amadeus
Hannah & her Sisters
Wall Street
Over the Top |
You just threw that in to see if we were paying attention, right? |
The world meets no one halfway. NO ONE!!!!!
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HahnSolo
Oct 14 2008 02:27 PM
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It was Terry Funk's finest movie.
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metirish
Oct 14 2008 02:29 PM
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Nothing is more American than a trucker arm wrestling to win back his son, a classic of the genre.
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AG/DC
Oct 14 2008 02:31 PM
Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 14 2008 02:44 PM
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Top teen movies for every eighties year from the old <a href="http://p094.ezboard.com/fthecranepoolforumfrm27.showMessageRange?topicID=314.topic&start=1&stop=20" target="_blank">32 Candles Thread</a>:
1980: My Bodyguard (over Fame)
1981: Gregory’s Girl (over Taps and The Night the Lights Went out in Georgia)
1982: Diner (Mr Hand objects, as it barely qualifies, over Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Class of 1984, and The Last American Virgin)
1983: Valley Girl (over The Outsiders)
1984: Sixteen Candles
1985: Heaven Help Us (difficult choice over The Sure Thing, Gotcha!, and Weird Science)
1986: One Crazy Summer (I've got a weak spot for this least regarded of the early Cusack trilogy)
1987: Some Kind of Wonderful
1988: Heathers
1989: Say Anything
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metsguyinmichigan
Oct 14 2008 02:35 PM
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Except, maybe, "Roadhouse," where bouncers are only effective law enforcement in the entire town.
It's a movie that worms its way into your brain to the point that weeks, months or even years later, without being provoked, you just shout out, "No! That jsut can't happen! I...can't...suspend...disblief...that...much."
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Willets Point
Oct 14 2008 02:39 PM
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Better Off Dead
A Christmas Story
Cinema Paradiso
Dead Poets Society
Electric Dreams
The Empire Strikes Back
The Gods Must Be Crazy
The Mission
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
On Golden Pond
The Princess Bride
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Real Genius
The Right Stuff
Roger & Me
[/list]
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AG/DC
Oct 14 2008 02:48 PM
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A triple from 1988:
<ul><li>The Adventures of Baron Munchausen</li>
<li>A Fish Called Wanda</li>
<li>The Adventures of Baron Munchausen</li></ul><i>Red Dawn</li> belongs there, too. Very much of its time.
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seawolf17
Oct 14 2008 02:49 PM
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="AG/DC":35zbmh0i]A triple from 1988:
<ul><li>The Adventures of Baron Munchausen</li>
<li>A Fish Called Wanda</li>
<li>The Adventures of Baron Munchausen</li></ul>[/quote:35zbmh0i]
Or an expanded double, really.
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AG/DC
Oct 14 2008 02:52 PM
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At least I spelled it the same way (probably wrong) both times.
The third one was supposed to be <i>Midnight Run</i>.
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Vince Coleman Firecracker
Oct 14 2008 02:52 PM
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Brazil
Mad Max
The Big Red One
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Benjamin Grimm
Oct 14 2008 02:56 PM
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Are we going to have to expand the field to 128 films?
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soupcan
Oct 14 2008 02:57 PM
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Porky's
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soupcan
Oct 14 2008 02:58 PM
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Scarface
The Terminator
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Vince Coleman Firecracker
Oct 14 2008 03:02 PM
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Das Boot
Conan the Barbarian
Star Trek II: the Wrath of Kahn
The Thing
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Vince Coleman Firecracker
Oct 14 2008 03:12 PM
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Cannonball Run
Evil Dead
Nightmare on Elm Street
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Ran
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metsmarathon
Oct 14 2008 03:14 PM
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="metirish":2clbucxg]Apparently no good movies were made outside America in the 80's.[/quote:2clbucxg]
what do you think this is, the world movie classic? this is the freakin' world series! its all american, baby, with a few grudging nods to canada, as needed.
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Vince Coleman Firecracker
Oct 14 2008 03:26 PM
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The Money Pit
Aliens
Manhunter
Blue Velvet
Predator
Full Metal Jacket
Beetlejuice
Coming to America
Turner & Hooch
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seawolf17
Oct 14 2008 05:32 PM
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="metsmarathon":3swxglzf]what do you think this is, the world movie classic? this is the freakin' world series! its all american, baby, with a few grudging nods to canada, as needed.[/quote:3swxglzf]
Mostly Rick Moranis and Dan Aykroyd.
And for that matter, add:
Little Shop of Horrors
My Blue Heaven
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Rockin' Doc
Oct 14 2008 07:07 PM
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Field of Dreams
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seawolf17
Oct 14 2008 07:50 PM
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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Oct 14 2008 07:59 PM
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The Selection Committee has made up brackets. There will no doubt be some disappointed folks out there, but the committee would like it to be known that it rewarded Action-Adventure and Comedy over Serious Pictures.
Play will commence soon.
Samantha Baker Division
1 The Breakfast Club
2 The Empire Strikes Back
3 Ferris Buehler’s Day Off
4 War Games
5 Footloose
6 Risky Business
7 Robocop
8 Poltergiest
9 Lethal Weapon
10 The Untouchables
11 Top Gun
12 The Right Stuff
13 Some Kind of Wonderful
14 Who Framed Roger Rabbit
15 The Lost Boys
16 Ruthless People
Lacey Underall Division
1 A Christmas Story
2 The Karate Kid
3 The Naked Gun
4 16 Candles
5 Raiders of the Lost Ark
6 The Terminator
7 E.T.
8 Beverly Hills Cop
9 Tootsie
10 Stripes
11 Blade Runner
12 A Fish Called Wanda
13 Real Genius
14 The Three Amigos
15 Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
16 Porky’s
Ricky Smith Division
1 Caddyshack
2 This is Spinal Tap
3 Fast Times at Ridgemont High
4 Better Off Dead
5 Field of Dreams
6 The Princess Bride
7 The Road Warrior
8 Heaven Help Us
9 Ghostbusters
10 Arthur
11 48 Hrs.
12 Spaceballs
13 The Big Chill
14 Big
15 Police Academy
16 Mr. Mom
Lincoln Hawk Conference
1 Back to the Future
2 Fletch
3 Bull Durham
4 Airplane!
5 Die Hard
6 Stand by Me
7 Rain Man
8 A Nightmare on Elm Street
9 Blues Brothers
10 Romancing the Stone
11 Say Anything
12 Heathers
13 Midnight Run
14 St. Elmo's Fire
15 Crocodile Dundee
16 Spies Like Us
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Centerfield
Oct 14 2008 08:18 PM
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How is Major League not on that list on a baseball forum?
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HahnSolo
Oct 14 2008 08:36 PM
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Not a great movie, that Major League.
Digger Phelps is calling a 16 seed over a 1 seed in the Lacey Underall region.
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soupcan
Oct 14 2008 08:59 PM
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48 HRS!
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AG/DC
Oct 14 2008 09:24 PM
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| ="Centerfield"]How is Major League not on that list on a baseball forum? |
This is the non-baseball forum.
Maybe, if this be successful, we can do an all-baseball tourny in the other place.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Oct 14 2008 09:28 PM
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No. 11 seed in the Ricky Smith division
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Nymr83
Oct 14 2008 09:45 PM
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you left many of the better movies mentioned by others off your brackets. what we SHOULD do is let everyone nominate a few movies instead of one guy picking who makes the cut
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metirish
Oct 15 2008 06:56 AM
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This is not a democracy Nymr. Buckets brother makes movies so that makes bucket an expert in these things.
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soupcan
Oct 15 2008 07:10 AM
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| ="John Cougar Lunchbucket"]
No. 11 seed in the Ricky Smith division |
Yup. Sorry didn't see it.
Some of us citizens are behind you all the way, Officer.
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AG/DC
Oct 15 2008 07:27 AM
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<table align="center" bgcolor="gray"><tr><td width="300"><img src="http://www.nypress.com/18/28/travel/TRAVEL-AMISH.jpg"><br><font size="1" color="black">Disappointed <i>Witness</i> fans respond after watching ESPN's Bracket Madness Selection Show report that their film of preference was overlooked by the JCLA Selection Committee. "For the record, I've never seen a film," said Amos Stoltzfus, right, "and I'm probably going to get shunned just for watching this show, "but to see <i>Witness</i> get the shaft while die kacke like <i>Spaceballs</i> gets the magic phone call... well, 'media consipracy' is a hässlich phrase, so I'm not going to use it."</td></tr></table>
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Oct 15 2008 07:46 AM
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And proving the inappropriateness of nymr's thumbs-down too. You know I wasn't all smiles when the committee whacked Back to School and Over the Top.
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Vince Coleman Firecracker
Oct 15 2008 08:16 AM
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Coming to America needs to be on this list. It made 125 million dollars domestically and is, you know, great.
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soupcan
Oct 15 2008 08:24 AM
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Bachelor Party
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HahnSolo
Oct 15 2008 08:28 AM
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There's always the NIT for those films that feel snubbed.
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Benjamin Grimm
Oct 15 2008 08:36 AM
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It's a long winter. Expand the field to 128! Or even 256! Hell, why not 512?
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Fman99
Oct 15 2008 08:57 AM
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="Benjamin Grimm":x9eqywx4]It's a long winter. Expand the field to 128! Or even 256! Hell, why not 512?[/quote:x9eqywx4]
Make it too big and interest wanes, shit dies on the vine.
Having seen it last winter.
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Vince Coleman Firecracker
Oct 15 2008 11:19 AM
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| ="Benjamin Grimm"]It's a long winter. Expand the field to 128! Or even 256! Hell, why not 512? |
Not saying that, but Some Kind of Wonderful and Heaven Help Us combined only grossed 25 million. Box office isn't the be-all, end-all for this tourney, I understand, but about five times as many people saw Coming to America than those two movies combined. I say you seed Coming to America and have those two as the play-in game.
Or not, it's your tourney, dude. I just can't see how, in an 80's movie tournament that's heavy on comedies, a movie directed by John Landis and starring Eddie Murphy can't make the cut.
Hey, where's Trading Places? And why isn't Caddyshack in the Lacey Underall division?
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soupcan
Oct 15 2008 12:06 PM
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="Vince Coleman Firecracker":s20xfgqi]Hey, where's Trading Places?[/quote:s20xfgqi]
Seconded.
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AG/DC
Oct 15 2008 12:07 PM
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Take your corporate greed and your Masterson-hating ways and hit the highway, Coleman. Dollars ain't beauty.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Oct 15 2008 12:15 PM
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Movies I am willing to bump to another tournament to make room for dissed popular comedies:
The Untouchables
Top Gun
The Right Stuff
The Lost Boys
The Road Warrior
The Big Chill
Big
Mr. Mom
Spies Like Us
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metirish
Oct 15 2008 12:26 PM
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="AG/DC":3hbeukh4]Take your corporate greed and your Masterson-hating ways and hit the highway, Coleman. Dollars ain't beauty.[/quote:3hbeukh4]
He hates Watts?
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AG/DC
Oct 15 2008 12:29 PM
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Clearly he fucking despises her.
I think he's dangerously unstable and shouldn't be trusted.
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AG/DC
Oct 15 2008 12:32 PM
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="John Cougar Lunchbucket":33m2gybd]Movies I am willing to bump to another tournament to make room for dissed popular comedies:[/quote:33m2gybd]
Don't forget popular Amish-themed two-fisted police action.
The added benefit would be that, despite jettisoning <i>Top Gun</i>, you'd retain your McGillis factor.
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soupcan
Oct 15 2008 12:44 PM
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I could live without the inclusion of:
The Lost Boys
Mr. Mom
Spies Like Us
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AG/DC
Oct 15 2008 12:46 PM
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<i>Coming to America</i> would/could replace <i>Spies Like Us</i> and keep the Landis factor untouched.
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HahnSolo
Oct 15 2008 01:51 PM
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The Untouchables did have a character with the very Metly name of George Stone. We gotta keep it.
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Benjamin Grimm
Oct 15 2008 01:53 PM
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I too vote for keeping The Untouchables. It was one of a relatively few movies from the 80's that I really liked!
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AG/DC
Oct 15 2008 01:59 PM
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<i>The Untouchables</i> struck me as DePalma imiatating Scorsese --- with cheap unfunny McBainian quips --- "He's in the car" or "Leave it to a dago to bring a knife to a gun fight" --- that were unbecoming of a film that seemed to take itself so seriously.
It's not something I feel any need to go back to.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Oct 15 2008 02:04 PM
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Last chance for pleading your flick's case... revised brackets go up tonite
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AG/DC
Oct 15 2008 02:17 PM
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Weird Science in. St Elmo's Fire out. Way out.
More Rodney. Less Gutenberg. Easy Money or Back to School over Police Academy. If Gutenberg has a place, it's with Cocoon.
In fact, the absence of Splash as well suggests Ron Howard is getting shafted.
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metsmarathon
Oct 15 2008 03:10 PM
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i was going to note that you managed to leave off the #3 rated movie of the 80s according to imdb, in the shining (also #'s 4 and 5 in das boot and aliens), but then i looked a little harder and realized that you've committed one cardinal sin of omission.
goonies.
how can you leave goonies off of a damned list of the top movies of the 80's?
i mean, it had a freaking pirate ship, and it was full of treasure! what the hell more could you want from a movie, huh? fine. you want more? you got sloth! and data! who could forget data? and the fratelli gang! oh, and chunk, too!
it was great i tell ya! how can it not be in this competition, damnit!
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Benjamin Grimm
Oct 15 2008 03:16 PM
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I'm really getting the sense that the 1980's weren't my favorite movie decade.
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AG/DC
Oct 15 2008 03:22 PM
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I'm calling BS on <i>Goonies</i>.
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soupcan
Oct 15 2008 03:39 PM
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="John Cougar Lunchbucket":1rnebln3]Last chance for pleading your flick's case... revised brackets go up tonite[/quote:1rnebln3]
An American Werewolf In London
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metsmarathon
Oct 15 2008 04:38 PM
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="AG/DC":30a7x5x5]I'm calling BS on <i>Goonies</i>.[/quote:30a7x5x5]
bs backatcha! it was a great freakin' movie, and i'm prolly the only forumite here that's neither too old nor too young to think that...
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Oct 15 2008 05:37 PM
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="soupcan":3plcy7ke]="John Cougar Lunchbucket":3plcy7ke]Last chance for pleading your flick's case... revised brackets go up tonite[/quote:3plcy7ke]
An American Werewolf In London[/quote:3plcy7ke]
good one!
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Oct 15 2008 05:42 PM
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="metsmarathon":2khthklv]="AG/DC":2khthklv]I'm calling BS on <i>Goonies</i>.[/quote:2khthklv]
bs backatcha! it was a great freakin' movie, and i'm prolly the only forumite here that's neither too old nor too young to think that...[/quote:2khthklv]
I was holding Goonies in reserve to use as an insult when someone complained about the brackets.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Oct 15 2008 06:36 PM
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REVISED BRACKETS
Out: Top Gun, Right Stuff, Spies Like Us, Lost Boys, Mr. Mom, Big Chill, Big
In: Trading Places, Witness, Back to School, Coming to America, Weird Science, American Werewolf in London, Splash
Some seeding adjusted
Samantha Baker Division
1 The Breakfast Club
2 The Empire Strikes Back
3 Ferris Buehler’s Day Off
4 War Games
5 Footloose
6 Risky Business
7 Robocop
8 Poltergiest
9 Lethal Weapon
10 The Untouchables
11 An American Werewolf in London
12 Trading Places
13 Some Kind of Wonderful
14 Who Framed Roger Rabbit
15 Weird Science
16 Ruthless People
Lacey Underall Division
1 Caddyshack
2 The Karate Kid
3 The Naked Gun
4 16 Candles
5 Raiders of the Lost Ark
6 The Terminator
7 E.T.
8 Beverly Hills Cop
9 Tootsie
10 Stripes
11 Blade Runner
12 A Fish Called Wanda
13 Real Genius
14 The Three Amigos
15 Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
16 Porky’s
Ricky Smith Division
1 Fast Times at Ridgemont High
2 This is Spinal Tap
3 A Christmas Story
4 Better Off Dead
5 Field of Dreams
6 The Princess Bride
7 The Road Warrior
8 Heaven Help Us
9 Ghostbusters
10 Arthur
11 48 Hrs.
12 Witness
13 Coming to America
14 Back to School
15 Spaceballs
16 Police Academy
Lincoln Hawk Conference
1 Back to the Future
2 Fletch
3 Bull Durham
4 Airplane!
5 Die Hard
6 Stand by Me
7 Rain Man
8 A Nightmare on Elm Street
9 Blues Brothers
10 Romancing the Stone
11 Say Anything
12 Heathers
13 Midnight Run
14 St. Elmo's Fire
15 Splash
16 Crocodile Dundee
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AG/DC
Oct 15 2008 06:43 PM
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Let's jump center.
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soupcan
Oct 15 2008 06:50 PM
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Ooh, 'Splash'.
Nicely done, that would have been a bad omission.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Oct 15 2008 06:53 PM
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="AG/DC":a8p3unzt]Let's jump center.[/quote:a8p3unzt]
I don't wanna choke the nbf with polls but that's the only way, huh?
I promise to make it gradual.
Finals coming in March!
btw, find yourself a blank 64-team bracket form, and run the teams down as above.
Samantha and Lacey on the left; Rickey & Lincoln on the right.
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AG/DC
Oct 15 2008 07:08 PM
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You can use the film review forum.
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metirish
Oct 15 2008 07:27 PM
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Finals coming in March! |
Not during the WBC I hope.
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AG/DC
Oct 15 2008 08:04 PM
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Here you go:
<a href="http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=295491">World Series of Eighties Films</a>
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Oct 15 2008 08:34 PM
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="AG/DC":15c1u3l6]Here you go:
<a href="http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=295491">World Series of Eighties Films</a>[/quote:15c1u3l6]
Nice!
And I ain;t going to that Film Review Forum
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AG/DC
Oct 15 2008 08:45 PM
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If you like, I can plug in the dates and times of the matchups.
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Willets Point
Oct 15 2008 08:48 PM
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What's the matter with <i>The Right Stuff</i>? The other films are scared of it that's what!
"There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die. "
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Elster88
Oct 15 2008 09:26 PM
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The Color of Money
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dgwphotography
Oct 16 2008 08:36 AM
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="Willets Point":2jq5gtv7]What's the matter with <i>The Right Stuff</i>? The other films are scared of it that's what!
"There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die. "
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This should have been included...
I'm looking at some of the crap that's on this list, and just shaking my head that this isn't included...
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Vic Sage
Oct 16 2008 09:37 AM
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i'm sorry i didn't see this thread till it was too late.
that you bumped
RIGHT STUFF, LOST BOYS and BIG, for
Back to School, Coming to America and Weird Science
is a shame.
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AG/DC
Oct 16 2008 09:42 AM
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It was a winless and thankless task. Platoon didn't make consideration.
OE: Wow, that's my second Corey Glover moment this morning.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Oct 16 2008 09:52 AM
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="Vic Sage":n96zg6kc]i'm sorry i didn't see this thread till it was too late.
that you bumped
RIGHT STUFF, LOST BOYS and BIG, for
Back to School, Coming to America and Weird Science
is a shame.[/quote:n96zg6kc]
It is. But all came as a reult of someone else's complaints.
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Vince Coleman Firecracker
Oct 16 2008 09:59 AM
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="Vic Sage":onwmbntm]that you bumped
RIGHT STUFF, LOST BOYS and BIG, for
Back to School, Coming to America and Weird Science
is a shame.[/quote:onwmbntm]
I'll take Coming to America over all three that you mentioned.
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HahnSolo
Oct 16 2008 10:01 AM
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My quick, Jay Bilas/Andy Katz like look at the Brackets:
First Seeded movie (1 through 4 seed) to get knocked off: #4 Better off Dead, losing in round 1 to Coming to America.
First #1 seed to go down: I see Back to the Future getting knocked off by 9 seed Blues Brothers in the second round. And Breakfast Club will have a battle in round two against the Lethal Weapon/Poltergeist winner.
Low seeded (10 seed or higher) movie that can make some noise: I like three 11 seeds. Blade Runner and Say Anything have real tough first round matchups, but if they can get by those, I could see both getting to the regional finals. In fact, I think the Say Anything/Stand By Me winner will be in the final four. The other, 48 Hours, has an easier first round matchup, but a real tough sweet 16 battle with Spinal Tap.
5-12 upset. Since all NCAA brackets have to have one, I'll go with Trading Places over Footloose.
Final Four: Empire Strikes Back over Breakfast Club in the Samantha Baker Division; Caddyshack over Blade Runner in the Lacey Underall Division; This is Spinal Tap over Fast Times at Ridgmont High in the Ricky Smith Division; and Stand By Me over Blues Brothers in the Lincoln Hawk conference.
World Series final: Caddyshack vs. This is Spinal Tap.
Cutting down the nets: Caddyshack.
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Vic Sage
Oct 16 2008 10:04 AM
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you can take it and keep it.
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Vic Sage
Oct 16 2008 10:55 AM
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[u:21a2muvs]My Top 64 US movies of the 1980s:[/u:21a2muvs]
1. 48 Hrs. (1982)
2. Airplane! (1980)
3. Aliens (1986)
4. Amadeus (1984)
5. American Werewolf in London, An (1981)
6. Back to the Future (1985)
7. Batman (1989)
8. Big (1988)
9. Blade Runner (1982)
10. Blue Velvet (1986)
11. Breakfast Club, The (1985)
12. Bull Durham (1988)
13. Caddyshack (1980)
14. Christmas Story, A (1983)
15. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
16. Die Hard (1988)
17. Diner (1982)
18. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
19. Excalibur (1981)
20. Fame (1980)
21. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
22. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
23. Field of Dreams (1989)
24. First Blood (1982)
25. Fish Called Wanda, A (1988)
26. Fly, The (1986)
27. Ghost Busters (1984)
28. Karate Kid, The (1984)
29. Last Starfighter, The (1984)
30. Lethal Weapon (1987)
31. Little Mermaid, The (1989)
32. Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
33. Lost Boys, The (1987)
34. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
35. My Favorite Year (1982)
36. Natural, The (1984)
37. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
38. Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)
39. Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
40. Platoon (1986)
41. Poltergeist (1982)
42. Princess Bride, The (1987)
43. Purple Rain (1984)
44. Raging Bull (1980)
45. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
46. Reds (1981)
47. Right Stuff, The (1983)
48. Risky Business (1983)
49. RoboCop (1987)
50. Say Anything... (1989)
51. Sixteen Candles (1984)
52. Splash (1984)
53. Stand by Me (1986)
54. Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
55. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
56. Starman (1984)
57. Stunt Man, The (1980)
58. Terminator, The (1984)
59. This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
60. Tootsie (1982)
61. Untouchables, The (1987)
62. Verdict, The (1982)
63. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
64. Witness (1985)
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AG/DC
Oct 16 2008 10:58 AM
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A Mary Stuart Masterson wasteland.
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Vic Sage
Oct 16 2008 11:19 AM
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I didn't include these from your list, but i could see why they made the cut for the following reasons:
[u:pvm2ncwu]critical and commercial hits:[/u:pvm2ncwu]
War Games
Trading Places
Ruthless People
The Naked Gun
Arthur
Fletch
Midnight Run
[u:pvm2ncwu]commercial hits (with mixed critical success):[/u:pvm2ncwu]
Beverly Hills Cop
Stripes
Crocodile Dundee
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Blues Brothers
Romancing the Stone
[u:pvm2ncwu]widely disparaged hits:[/u:pvm2ncwu]
Footloose
Porky’s
Coming to America
Back to School
Police Academy
St. Elmo's Fire
Weird Science
[u:pvm2ncwu]less than commercially successful, but with some critical cache or cult status:[/u:pvm2ncwu]
Heathers
Heaven Help Us
Better Off Dead
Real Genius
[u:pvm2ncwu]but for the life of me, i can't figure out why these are on the list, other than the particular tastes of the listmakers:[/u:pvm2ncwu]
Some Kind of Wonderful - AC/DC's Masterson fixation?
The Three Amigos - huh?
Spaceballs - wuh?
(The Road Warrior is Australian, so didn't count on my list. If it did, i would bump Thunderdome for it)
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Oct 16 2008 11:36 AM
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| ]but for the life of me, i can't figure out why these are on the list, other than the particular tastes of the listmakers:
Some Kind of Wonderful - AC/DC's Masterson fixation?
The Three Amigos - huh?
Spaceballs - wuh? |
Kinda, yeah and yup
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AG/DC
Oct 16 2008 06:39 PM
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Watching <i>Back to the Future</i> NOW!!!!
Mayor Goldie Wilson is an embarassingly retrograde portrayal.
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Benjamin Grimm
Oct 16 2008 06:48 PM
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Question: How long does each poll stay open?
And are we supposed to vote on how we felt about the movie back when it was new, or how we view it now? I'm kind of going with a combination. Some of the movies I haven't seen since then, some I've only seen much after the release, and of course, some I haven't seen at all. When I've never seen either movie, I don't vote. If I've only seen one of the two, I'll only vote if I really liked or disliked the movie.
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Willets Point
Oct 16 2008 07:55 PM
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="Benjamin Grimm":2mjcv3fd]Question: How long does each poll stay open?
And are we supposed to vote on how we felt about the movie back when it was new, or how we view it now? I'm kind of going with a combination. Some of the movies I haven't seen since then, some I've only seen much after the release, and of course, some I haven't seen at all. When I've never seen either movie, I don't vote. If I've only seen one of the two, I'll only vote if I really liked or disliked the movie.[/quote:2mjcv3fd]
Relax, I don't think it requires such deep analysis.
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AG/DC
Oct 16 2008 08:01 PM
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The absence of Purple Rain is a bit painful.
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Willets Point
Oct 16 2008 08:04 PM
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| ="AG/DC"]The absence of Purple Rain is a bit painful. |
Not as painful as watching Purple Rain.
Definitely in the World Series of 80's soundtracks.
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AG/DC
Oct 16 2008 08:45 PM
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Just as a delivery system for that soundtrack, it belongs.
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Benjamin Grimm
Oct 17 2008 04:18 AM
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="Willets Point":zbi2l5rw]="Benjamin Grimm":zbi2l5rw]Question: How long does each poll stay open?
And are we supposed to vote on how we felt about the movie back when it was new, or how we view it now? I'm kind of going with a combination. Some of the movies I haven't seen since then, some I've only seen much after the release, and of course, some I haven't seen at all. When I've never seen either movie, I don't vote. If I've only seen one of the two, I'll only vote if I really liked or disliked the movie.[/quote:zbi2l5rw]
Relax, I don't think it requires such deep analysis.[/quote:zbi2l5rw]
Your definition of "deep" is quite shallow.
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Edgy DC
Oct 17 2008 08:21 AM
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Know what's real risky business? Taking on a werewolf. But that's what Risky Business did, and now the risk is increased as they take on a slick high school con artist (good eighties matchup, Ferris vs. Joel in the battle of over-coddled little shits!), and await the matchup of a bullet-proof cyber-cop vs. a galactic empire.
<a href="http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=295491" target="_blank">Second round matchups starting to reveal themselves</a>.
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seawolf17
Oct 17 2008 08:52 AM
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Ooh, I like that BracketMaker. I'll use that for the Parody Contest.
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Vic Sage
Oct 17 2008 09:26 AM
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based on those brackets, i would pick a final 4 of:
EMPIRE STRIKES BACK v BLADERUNNER
ROAD WARRIOR v DIE HARD
with a final of BLADERUNNER v ROAD WARRIOR
I could be happy with either of these films as the winner.
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dgwphotography
Oct 17 2008 11:51 AM
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="Willets Point":2pmxnf9q]
Definitely in the World Series of 80's soundtracks.[/quote:2pmxnf9q]
So is Flash Gordon - doesn't make it a good movie.
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AG/DC
Oct 17 2008 12:08 PM
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Yes it does.
<i>Flash</i> is a hastily knocked out goofball joke of a soundtrack, subservient to the farcical movie. Purple Rain is a masterwork from Prince and the Revolution and the source material from which the movie sprung. Name anybody who holds the two records as equal. I imagine <i>Purple Rain</i>'s soundtrack outsold <i>Flash</i>'s by 100 to one.
And I write that as someone who personally owns the latter but not the former.
There's scarcely two or three real actors in <i>Purple Rain</i>, but it's enough to sew the songs together into a narrative that's as coherent as any other melodrama on this list --- hey, <i>St. Elmo</i> fans, show yourselves. It asks the musical question, "Can I be a great artist without treating women like shit?"
I wonder if Prince still wrestles with this thinker.
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Fman99
Oct 17 2008 12:35 PM
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I am One Thousand times more invested in this tournament than I am in the actual MLB 2008 postseason tournament.
As well I ought to be.
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Benjamin Grimm
Oct 17 2008 12:38 PM
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="Fman99":sflp5s1s]I am One Thousand times more invested in this tournament than I am in the actual MLB 2008 postseason tournament.
As well I ought to be.[/quote:sflp5s1s]
I'm somewhat disconnected from it since, to my surprise, I've seen so few of these films, and don't have much memory of many others.
But that's a reflection on me, not on this tourney. I think it was a great idea. This outside-the-box kind of stuff is just the ticket for the off-season, which, sadly, began on September 29.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Oct 17 2008 12:50 PM
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Well that's great. The whole concept was 20 seconds from inspiration to publication. I think I saw something somewhere where the greatness of Ghostbusters was at issue and ... whack.
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AG/DC
Oct 20 2008 09:08 AM
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With Heathers the only non-stupid film in that part of the draw, we're guaranteed to have at least one idiotic guilty pleasure in the elite eight of the <a href="http://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=295491">World Series of Eighties Films</a>
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Benjamin Grimm
Oct 20 2008 12:11 PM
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I'm just amazed at how much everyone (except for me, that is) remembers these movies from 20 to 28 years ago. Characters names! Lines of dialog! Supporting players! Plots!
Have you guys seen them repeatedly in the intervening years? Or did they make that much of an impression on you?
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AG/DC
Oct 20 2008 12:15 PM
Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 21 2008 09:11 AM
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Speaking of Chase (crossing over fromt the Presidential thread, where this didn't fit), I can't argue much with the elimination of <i>Spies Like Us</i> and it's teaming of two second bananas, but I've got to give it a sympathetic tip of the hat for trying to update the most unlikely of sub-genres --- the Bing-and-Bob-on-the-Road wisesass comedy.
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Fman99
Oct 21 2008 08:52 AM
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| ="AG/DC"]Speaking of Chase (crossing over fromt the Presidential thread, where this didn't fit), I can't argue much with the elimination of <i>Spies Like Us</i> and it's teaming of two second bananas, but I've got to give it a sympathetic tip of the hat for one of trying to update the most unlikely of sub-genres --- the Bing-and-Bob-on-the-Road wisesass comedy.
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I loved Spies Like Us. Stupid comedy, funny lines/bits, uber-hot Donna Dixon, comedic Russkies.
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HahnSolo
Oct 21 2008 08:54 AM
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The overtime Tootsie win has caused little controversy so far.
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soupcan
Oct 21 2008 08:58 AM
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="Benjamin Grimm":3cdo81s3]Have you guys seen them repeatedly in the intervening years? Or did they make that much of an impression on you?[/quote:3cdo81s3]
Both.
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AG/DC
Oct 21 2008 02:17 PM
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AG/DC
Oct 21 2008 05:07 PM
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Highest grossing film by year in the eighties:
1980 The Empire Strikes Back
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1983 Return of the Jedi*
1984 Ghostbusters
1985 Back to the Future
1986 Top Gun
1987 Fatal Attraction*
1988 Rain Man
1989 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade*
*Failed to qualify
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AG/DC
Oct 22 2008 01:30 PM
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Not making the cut, despite popcorn credibility and a critical tag lineof "Movie of the Decade" that the film marketers ran with is 1989's <i>Batman</i>.
OK by me.
Three films I recall exploding upon us that summer of '89: <i>Batman</i>., <i>Ghostbusters II</i>, and <i>Do the Right Thing</i>. All are now mostly consigned.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Oct 22 2008 02:31 PM
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I personally whacked Batman, it is a personal un-favorite of mine.
The tournament continues tommorrow, needed a break to get some actual work done this morning.
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Nymr83
Oct 22 2008 03:14 PM
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="AG/DC":a3uelv19]Not making the cut, despite popcorn credibility and a critical tag lineof "Movie of the Decade" that the film marketers ran with is 1989's <i>Batman</i>.
OK by me.
Three films I recall exploding upon us that summer of '89: <i>Batman</i>., <i>Ghostbusters II</i>, and <i>Do the Right Thing</i>. All are now mostly consigned.[/quote:a3uelv19]
That Batman doesn't hold a candle to the more recent incarnation, ghostbusters 2 was a poor sequel to a good movie, and spike lee's film was total trash.
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Willets Point
Oct 22 2008 07:18 PM
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I think you hosers need to start this contest over again, eh? There's been a glaring omission.
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AG/DC
Oct 22 2008 08:21 PM
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="Nymr83":2ik3keb5]="AG/DC":2ik3keb5]Not making the cut, despite popcorn credibility and a critical tag lineof "Movie of the Decade" that the film marketers ran with is 1989's <i>Batman</i>.
OK by me.
Three films I recall exploding upon us that summer of '89: <i>Batman</i>., <i>Ghostbusters II</i>, and <i>Do the Right Thing</i>. All are now mostly consigned.[/quote:2ik3keb5]
That Batman doesn't hold a candle to the more recent incarnation, ghostbusters 2 was a poor sequel to a good movie, and spike lee's film was total trash.[/quote:2ik3keb5]
I'm not arguing, I'm observing.
<i>Batman</i> shouldn't be elimnated because of its relative goodness to <i>Batman Begins</i>, but because of its relative goodness to <i>Back to School</i>.
It's also a personal un-favorite of mine.
Simlarly about <i>Ghostbusters</i>.
<i>Do the Right Thing</i> was not total crap. It may be the best thing Lee did. I understand that he's a propagandist posing as an auteur, but that doesn't discredit everything in the film. It's as nuanced as the guy gets.
It certainly was no popcorn movie, but Ernest Dickerson does not shoot total crap.
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themetfairy
Oct 22 2008 08:36 PM
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With Spike Lee, the parts are generally better than the whole. But some of his parts are absolutely incredible.
The scene in Jungle Fever where Wesley Snipes is looking for his crack addicted brother, played by Samuel L. Jackson, was amazing.
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Vic Sage
Oct 23 2008 08:25 AM
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the fact that y'all voted for ARTHUR over ROAD WARRIOR is an embarrassment.
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Vince Coleman Firecracker
Oct 23 2008 09:22 AM
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I hadn't noticed Batman got whacked. I don't think it's a great film, but I do think it's very good. I'd put it #4 on my list of favorite Burton movies after Ed Wood, Beetle Juice, and Pee-Wee's Big Adventure.
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sharpie
Oct 23 2008 09:54 AM
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Do the Right Thing should've been in there. Certainly over crap like Arthur.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Oct 23 2008 11:02 AM
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Yabbut, I tried my best to get away from dramas although a few got in. Because once you start letting in DTRT then you gotta open the door for Ordinary People and Ghandi and shit. It just didn;t work
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AG/DC
Oct 23 2008 08:13 PM
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Raging Bull went out with the dramas too.
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sharpie
Oct 24 2008 07:12 AM
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Do the Right Thing was not a drama-drama. Comic characters, a light feel til the end. I agree that Raging Bull, Ordinary People, Ghandi, etc. don't belong in this contest but Do the Right Thing does. Still time. Exchange it for one of the low-ranked ones in the upcoming brackets.
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Fman99
Oct 24 2008 01:11 PM
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I have infected this entire tournament with wankiness.
You're welcome.
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Benjamin Grimm
Oct 24 2008 01:16 PM
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If you're so perpetually horny now, what were you like when you were 16?
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Vic Sage
Oct 24 2008 01:47 PM
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RAGING BULL was left out, but RAIN MAN was OK?
If your gonna make it a "popcorn movie only" ranking, thats fine. But then, what's RAIN MAN doing in there? It's a good movie, but its a drama, like many other worthy dramas that were left out.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Oct 24 2008 02:01 PM
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It was a huge hit, I think was my reasoning.
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Fman99
Oct 27 2008 10:26 AM
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<cough>
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Willets Point
Oct 27 2008 01:08 PM
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Post the WSO80'sM polls -- NOW!!!
It's the only thing that keeps me coming back to the CPF these days.
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AG/DC
Oct 27 2008 02:41 PM
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I think John Cryer Lunchbucket is on the road today.
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AG/DC
Oct 27 2008 10:37 PM
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I actually saw JCL today, as the road took him to the DC region, and he asked me to post some more polls for him. I'll get those up tonight.
In the meantime, check out the bracket maker copntroversy a-brewin' in the Rickey Smith Division, as the next round will force voters to choose between two oddball much-loved Rob Reiner/Christopher Guest collaborations. Loyalties will be divided as Count Tyrone Rugen squares off against Nigel Tufnel.
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AG/DC
Oct 28 2008 07:13 AM
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I think maintaining fealty to a quote should be next to maintaining fealty to a wank on the list of short-sighted reasons to advance one film's cause over another. C'mon. Open up a little.
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Willets Point
Oct 30 2008 05:38 AM
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Me want polls!!!
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Benjamin Grimm
Oct 30 2008 09:13 AM
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Inspired by a comment by Edgy in the Blade Runner poll, and my own cluelessness in this World Series, I checked IMDB to see which 1980's movies I actually did see. There are a bunch of them, many of which are not in the tournament. For some, I remember little about them other than that I did see the movie.
Here's my list:
Nine to Five (1980)
Superman II (1980)
Airplane! (1980)
The Blue Lagoon (1980)
Urban Cowboy (1980)
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Popeye (1980)
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
The Shining (1980)
The Blues Brothers (1980)
The Elephant Man (1980)
Caddyshack (1980)
Friday the 13th (1980)
Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
Gloria (1980)
Private Benjamin (1980)
Fame (1980)
The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)
The Big Red One (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
On Golden Pond (1981)
Arthur (1981)
Stripes (1981)
The Fox and the Hound (1981)
Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981)
Escape from New York (1981)
Time Bandits (1981)
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Ragtime (1981)
Fort Apache the Bronx (1981)
Ghost Story (1981)
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Rocky III (1982)
Tootsie (1982)
Poltergeist (1982)
King of Comedy, The (1982)
Porky's (1982)
World According to Garp, The (1982)
Sophie's Choice (1982)
Annie (1982)
Victor Victoria (1982)
Year of Living Dangerously, The (1982)
Diner (1982)
Missing (1982)
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
Christmas Story, A (1983)
Trading Places (1983)
WarGames (1983)
Right Stuff, The (1983)
Risky Business (1983)
Superman III (1983)
Christine (1983)
Man with Two Brains, The (1983)
Mr. Mom (1983)
Silkwood (1983)
Terminator, The (1984)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Ghost Busters (1984)
Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
Gremlins (1984)
Dune (1984)
Romancing the Stone (1984)
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
Natural, The (1984)
Supergirl (1984)
Muppets Take Manhattan, The (1984)
Back to the Future (1985)
Breakfast Club, The (1985)
Goonies, The (1985)
Witness (1985)
Purple Rose of Cairo, The (1985)
Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
Sure Thing, The (1985)
Platoon (1986)
Stand by Me (1986)
Top Gun (1986)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Color of Money, The (1986)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Pretty in Pink (1986)
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
Nine 1/2 Weeks (1986)
F/X (1986)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Princess Bride, The (1987)
Untouchables, The (1987)
Lethal Weapon (1987)
Empire of the Sun (1987)
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
Last Emperor, The (1987)
Fatal Attraction (1987)
Witches of Eastwick, The (1987)
Throw Momma from the Train (1987)
Radio Days (1987)
Die Hard (1988)
Rain Man (1988)
Big (1988)
Midnight Run (1988)
Mississippi Burning (1988)
Bull Durham (1988)
Eight Men Out (1988)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Batman (1989)
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Glory (1989)
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Field of Dreams (1989)
Ghostbusters II (1989)
Little Mermaid, The (1989)
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
War of the Roses, The (1989)
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Frayed Knot
Oct 30 2008 09:53 AM
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No votes from me for this current section as I've not seen either one or both movies in each matchup.
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Willets Point
Oct 31 2008 11:32 AM
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We're finally in the second round. Lets have some polls!
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Edgy DC
Oct 31 2008 11:49 AM
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I guess there's something appropriate about seeing the unlikely advance of <i>The Karate Kid</i> through the brackets of a tournament it scarcely qualifies to even enter.
I can't, however, work the Miyagi Karate School logo into the bracket display.
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soupcan
Oct 31 2008 12:05 PM
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I predict that the winner of this tournament will be the survivor of the inevitable 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High' / 'This is Spinal Tap' matchup.
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Gwreck
Oct 31 2008 02:48 PM
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I could see the Back to the Future vs. Bull Durham winner doing well too.
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Nymr83
Oct 31 2008 03:19 PM
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I saw about 1/2 of the big orange guy's list, though strangely most were in the second half of his list (none in theaters as i was 6 in 1989)
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Benjamin Grimm
Nov 11 2008 12:23 PM
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Just bumping this to the front page.
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Edgy DC
Nov 15 2008 12:34 PM
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Things are heating.
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That <i>Spinal Tap</i>/<i>Princess Bride</i> smackdown is going to be epic. What idiot put them in the same quarter of the draw.
This is fun, though I agree with Vic that we'll all pay a cruel cosmic price for ousting <i>Blade Runner</i>. My stars, the criteria peeps are using. Vote the word, not the brand!
Anyhow, I think I'll follow up on this with a Best Song of 1985 tournament. I just found my old list of nominees.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Dec 02 2008 10:36 AM
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Could you update the brackets? At least to the 16, thanks.
I threw away my paper copy relying on this.
New battles to commence shortly!
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seawolf17
Dec 02 2008 10:37 AM
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| ="John Cougar Lunchbucket"]Could you update the brackets? At least to the 16, thanks.
I threw away my paper copy relying on this.
New battles to commence shortly! |
You had a paper copy? Dork.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Dec 02 2008 10:39 AM
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It was an NCAA bracket with the teams crossed off & movies written in.
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Edgy DC
Dec 02 2008 11:19 AM
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="John Cougar Lunchbucket":2zt55dvu]Could you update the brackets? At least to the 16, thanks.[/quote:2zt55dvu]
As you wish.
<a href="http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=295491">World Series of Eighties Films</a>
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Edgy DC
Dec 05 2008 10:50 AM
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We've got an irresistable force/immovable object thingie coming up with <a href="http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=295491" target="_blank">Karate Kid/Teminator</a>.
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Willets Point
Dec 05 2008 10:57 AM
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| ="Edgy DC"]We've got an irresistable force/immovable object thingie coming up with <a href="http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=295491" target="_blank">Karate Kid/Teminator</a>. |
Neither of those movies should have made it this far.
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Benjamin Grimm
Dec 05 2008 11:01 AM
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The brackets don't yet reflect the results of Bull Durham/Rain Man and Back to the Future/Airplane!
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Edgy DC
Dec 05 2008 11:05 AM
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Ah shit.
I'll fix that while you ponder how the T-101 would defend itself against the indefensible crane technique.
OE: I added the results of the former, but can't find the latter.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Dec 05 2008 11:11 AM
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The BTTF/Airplane! battle has yet to take place.
We are halfway through the Sweet 16 now, 4 battles to go.
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sharpie
Dec 12 2008 12:47 PM
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Back to the Future the only #1 seed left.
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Nymr83
Jan 08 2009 02:43 AM
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Bump?
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