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The Great 2020 All Time Movie Draft- The judging is heavily biased against me. It’s a hoax! Fake news. (1 Viewer)

KarmaPolice said:
Were you the bloke that said he was going to watch all the "greatest ever" movies selected in the draft?
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Nope.   I was the bloke that said I don't know enough movie stuff to do the draft but I would help someone so I could have a rooting interest.

 
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krista4 said:
Can’t imagine why you’d think The Godfather would be an issue.  It’s one of my favorite movies, as is one of its sequels (I’ll let you guess which one).

I like Die Hard as well.  Not sure of its value as #3 overall, as I’m not sure what the canon of action movies is considered to be.  I think some of the ones that immediately come to mind as great action flicks will get sucked into the other categories such as war, crime, comic book (I don’t know if the latter two are actual categories but you get my drift), so it could be a top pick when it all shakes out.

ET:   :mellow:  
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That’s precisely why I had Die Hard ranked so high. It’s just the perfect pure action movie. 

 
Ilov80s said:
That’s precisely why I had Die Hard ranked so high. It’s just the perfect pure action movie. 
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Exactly, IMO there are just 1 or 2, then it's just a jumble of a bunch of good stuff that are pure action movies and like Krista said - it's also a blur of other genres too.  

 
Drifting into the PSF again and jon and BladeRunner are there so I need to eject.  Going to do some research or watch E.T. 

 
KarmaPolice said:
Drifting into the PSF again and jon and BladeRunner are there so I need to eject.  Going to do some research or watch E.T. 
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Don't let the vocal minority dominate the conversation. Everyone needs to go in there and speak their mind. It's as important as voting.

 
I'll take " The Life and Times of Tommy Frazier,  A Football Legend."      Directed by Keller Moore.     Screenplay by Case Keenum.  Sports Category















:blackdot:

 
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It seems splitting comedy into “slapstick” and “romantic” is doing comedy a terrible disservice. By those two strict categories you are leaving out many of the greatest comedies/comedians of all time.

 
timschochet said:
OK whatever 
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I think the concern would that a judge would have to decide if a comedy qualifies as slapstick.  I’m assuming that if we put a movie in a category where it doesn’t belong the judge will be harsh with the ranking.  I don’t want to spotlight with examples.

 
1. “Over the Rainbow” - best song 

https://youtu.be/PSZxmZmBfnU

Coincidentally I just drafted a different song by this same performer in the jukebox draft, so she was on my mind. 
It’s amazing that “Over the Rainbow” was nearly deleted from the movie, as Louis B. Mayer felt it slowed it down and had no place in a children’s film. The director, writer, songwriter, and Judy’s vocal coach all begged him to keep the song in and he relented, thankfully leaving us with what most people believe to be the greatest song, and perhaps also scene, ever to come out of Hollywood. 
 

@Dr. Octopus

 
Round 1 Unforgiven - Western

I'm not sure what the judges will think, and frankly I don't really care much but I just can't see this movie not being considered as the best Western of all-time. The acting is incredible and the storyline that follows the story of an aging outlaw trying to live life the right way in honor of his dead wife lured in by a big payday to do one last job. The way the Bill Muny character goes from an addled old man to evil incarnate once he starts hitting the whiskey again gives me goosebumps.

Unforgiven won the Oscar for best picture in 1992 and was critically acclaimed:

Unforgiven received widespread acclaim. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes has a 96% approval rating based on 104 reviews, with an average rating of 8.82/10. The website's critical consensus states, "As both director and star, Clint Eastwood strips away decades of Hollywood varnish applied to the Wild West, and emerges with a series of harshly eloquent statements about the nature of violence."[13] Metacritic gave the film a score of 85 out of 100 based on 33 critical reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[14]

Jack Methews of the Los Angeles Times described Unforgiven as "The finest classical western to come along since perhaps John Ford's 1956 The Searchers." Richard Corliss in Time wrote that the film was "Eastwood's meditation on age, repute, courage, heroism—on all those burdens he has been carrying with such grace for decades."[11] Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert criticized the work, though the latter gave it a positive vote, for being too long and having too many superfluous characters (such as Harris' English Bob, who enters and leaves without meeting the protagonists). Despite his initial reservations, Ebert eventually included the film in his "The Great Movies" list.[15]

"Unforgiven" was named one of the ten best films of the year on 76 critics' lists, according to a poll of the nation's top 106 film critics.[16]
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Lot's a great quotes in this one:

The Schofield Kid: Yea...well I guess they had it comin'.

William Munny: We all have it comin' kid.

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Will Munny: I've killed women and children. I've killed everything that walks or crawls at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you done to Ned.

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Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett: I don't deserve this... to die like this. I was building a house.

Bill Munny: Deserve's got nothin' to do with it.

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Bill Munny: Its a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away everything he's got and everything he's ever gonna have.

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Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett: Well sir, you are a cowardly son of a #####. You just shot an unarmed man.

Bill Munny: He should have armed himself....... if he's going to decorate his saloon with my friend.

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Bill Munny: All right, I'm coming out! Any man I see out there, I'm gonna kill him! Any sonofa##### takes a shot at me.. I'm not only gonna kill him, I'm gonna kill his wife, all his friends, and burn his damn house down!

 
Dr. Octopus said:
@Charlie Steiner @Gally
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1.09 Steven Spielberg, Modern Director

As synonymous as they come for movie makers past, present and future, the father of the blockbuster Summer movie phenomenon, he not only can stuff the box office, he can woo the critics and even get the great Stanley Kubrick to trust him to finish his last film.  While this is a crass comment, he will be the most profitable movie director long after he passes away. He may not be the greatest director ever, but he can make a case for being the poster child for the job.

@Gally, here's where you add your thoughts.

 
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1.10 - Star Wars: A New Hope - Best Movie Ever

Flipped a coin and this won. I liked her before she was surgically altered by He Who Shall Not Be Named but still...this movie still reverberates 40 years after its release. No other movie has that much influence.

 
Charlie Steiner said:
1.09 Steven Spielberg, Modern Director

As synonymous as they come for movie makers past, present and future, the father of the blockbuster Summer movie phenomenon, he not only can stuff the box office, he can woo the critics and even get the great Stanley Kubrick to trust him to finish his last film.  While this is a crass comment, he will be the most profitable movie director long after he passes away. He may not be the greatest director ever, but he can make a case for being the poster child for the job.

@Gally, here's where you add your thoughts.
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was going to be my pick if he fell

 
Andy Dufresne said:
1.10 - Star Wars: A New Hope - Best Movie Ever

Flipped a coin and this won. I liked her before she was surgically altered by He Who Shall Not Be Named but still...this movie still reverberates 40 years after its release. No other movie has that much influence.
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Probably still the movie I've seen the most times and so iconic for all the extracurricular reasons alone, not to mention the special effects and the world's proper introduction to Harrison Ford (yes he was in American Graffiti and Apocalypse Now, but they weren't him).  Well done, sir.

 
Charlie Steiner said:
1.09 Steven Spielberg, Modern Director

As synonymous as they come for movie makers past, present and future, the father of the blockbuster Summer movie phenomenon, he H not only can stuff the box office, he can woo the critics and even the great Stanley Kubrick to trust him to finish his last film.  While this is a crass comment, he will be the most profitable movie director long after he passes away.He may not be the greatest director ever, but he can make a case for being the poster child for the job.

@Gally, here's where you add your thoughts.
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I didn't think there would be any way he would make it to us.  Very glad we got him.  Involved in a lot of my all time favorites that I would list but don't want to spotlight.  Since I am not a big movie guy I am just happy we got someone I have heard of...hahaha.

Strong start to this roster.

-Team GalStein

 
Andy Dufresne said:
Spielberg is a tale of two directors. The good one with the war movie and before - and everything after.
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With 1980 as the starting line for modern directors, if he never made another movie after Schindler's List, he'd still be a top 10 pick.  He'd even be a top 10 pick for pre-1980 directors.

 
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