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The Great 2020 All Time Movie Draft- The judging is heavily biased against me. It’s a hoax! Fake news. (3 Viewers)

timschochet said:
Round 2 Humphrey Bogart, Legendary Movie Star 

Bogart was also a great actor. But a movie star is someone with a magnetic screen personality, who draws you in so that when he or she appears on camera you rarely notice anyone else. Nobody has ever had this quality more than Humphrey Bogart. 
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A great pick and much better value than your 1st round one.

 
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joffer said:
Apocalypse Now too.  it's really good
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Yes it is and I really like the recent edit the little known director of Apocalypse Now has recently made. It's better than the Redux. Also, I thought you were hinting at your next pick. 

 
Doug B said:
"When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living... until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'. The ocean turns red, and despite all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they... rip you to pieces ...

... So, eleven hundred men went in the water; 316 men come out and the sharks took the rest ..."

2.11: Jaws, Suspense Film
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higgins said:
2.12 -- Daniel Day Lewis, Best Actor.

@joffer
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Well, ####.  

 
2.15 - Spirited Away - Animation

From the brilliant Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli comes my favorite movie of all time.

Miyazaki has the uncanny ability to thrust the mundane into the fantastical, and vice versa. We meet Chihiro, a young girl who is moving across the country. She lacks confidence, does not know what it means to be responsible, and relies heavily on her parents for everything in life. She's young, this is par for the course. Crossing over into the spirit world, she takes up employment at a bathhouse for spirits in the most visually stunning animated film of all time, by my reckoning. The stills from this film range from jaw-dropping gorgeous, to absurdly mystifying, to it all revolving around a young girl learning how to take control of her life.

A few such stills:
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It's available on HBOMax, I know for sure, and I dare not divulge too much more should you not have seen it yet. Put the subtitles on and be ready to watch a masterpiece.

 
hagmania said:
2.15 - Spirited Away - Animation

From the brilliant Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli comes my favorite movie of all time.

Miyazaki has the uncanny ability to thrust the mundane into the fantastical, and vice versa. We meet Chihiro, a young girl who is moving across the country. She lacks confidence, does not know what it means to be responsible, and relies heavily on her parents for everything in life. She's young, this is par for the course. Crossing over into the spirit world, she takes up employment at a bathhouse for spirits in the most visually stunning animated film of all time, by my reckoning. The stills from this film range from jaw-dropping gorgeous, to absurdly mystifying, to it all revolving around a young girl learning how to take control of her life.

A few such stills:
1
2
3

It's available on HBOMax, I know for sure, and I dare not divulge too much more should you not have seen it yet. Put the subtitles on and be ready to watch a masterpiece.
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####.  I had that written down for my fantasy movie.  

 
I gotta get to work, so I will take these: 

2.xx:  APOCALYPSE NOW -  war or 70s, not sure.  (I think people were just spotlighting above, and this wasn't actually taken??!)

3.xx:  CITIZEN KANE - 40s.  

Back to @AAABatteries and @hagmania

 
Getting close.  I am at 13 movies seen to 9 movies not seen.  The run from Shawshank to Silence of the Lambs  gave the lead to the "seen it" group.

 
After doing some reading about Apocalypse Now from other sources, upon my last viewing I wrote this in the Recently Viewed thread:

One "click" I realized upon this viewing - when Willard is in his hotel at the beginning, he shares  the screen with an image of Buddha but with Willard separated and upside down - i.e. completely out of tune.

However after killing Kurtz he throws down his weapon, grabs Lance (in a savior type move - something he couldn't do for Chef) and then DOESNT call in the air strike. It is then that Willard is shown, not just upright but juxtaposed with the Buddha image. Thus, amidst all the chaos, does Willard overcome his circumstances and actually become a peacemaker.

Apocalypse Now is then, essentially, not really an anti-war movie but really a pro-humanity movie.
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And here's a good article on the Final Cut.

 
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3.2 Star Wars - Greatest Movie Score

Another no-brainer pick.  The brilliant John Williams' masterpiece.  It's impossible to explain what it was like to hear that intro for the first time.  And I think I speak for the majority in here when I say that sitting in the theater today and hearing that transports you back to your childhood unlike anything else I can think of.  

Awards

  • Academy Award for Best Original Score (1977)
  • Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score (1977)
  • BAFTA Award for Best Film Music (1978)
  • Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media (1978)
  • Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition (1978) – for Main Title
  • Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance (1978)
  • Saturn Award for Best Music (1977) – tied with Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • AFI's Greatest American movie score of all time


@joffer - otc

 
AAABatteries said:
3.2 Star Wars - Greatest Movie Score

Another no-brainer pick.  The brilliant John Williams' masterpiece.  It's impossible to explain what it was like to hear that intro for the first time.  And I think I speak for the majority in here when I say that sitting in the theater today and hearing that transports you back to your childhood unlike anything else I can think of.  

Awards

  • Academy Award for Best Original Score (1977)
  • Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score (1977)
  • BAFTA Award for Best Film Music (1978)
  • Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media (1978)
  • Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition (1978) – for Main Title
  • Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance (1978)
  • Saturn Award for Best Music (1977) – tied with Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • AFI's Greatest American movie score of all time


@joffer - otc
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WOW, KNOCKED IT OUT OF THE PARK

Great pick.

 
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AAABatteries said:
I was so hoping that KP would take it so I didn't have to recommend to Hags that we take.  BORING.
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I don't get that take at all.  I stayed away from the movie for years because of comments like that, but the first time I watched Kane I ended up watching it 3x over a weekend.  I thought it was fantastic right away.  

 
AAABatteries said:
I was so hoping that KP would take it so I didn't have to recommend to Hags that we take.  BORING.
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The thing about Citizen Kane for us now is that we have to look at it not from our current place, but back to its time.

Orson Welles was young, brash and doing his own thing within the popular media of the day.  His Mercury Theater troupe was a finely tuned machine that were masters of the 'theater of the mind'.  Citizen Kane was a bold leap into a visual medium for him and his gang, and despite being known for his radio work, he also proved he had some visual tricks up his sleeve.

As for the story itself, I think it's timeless and still contains insight for today.  To us it feels dated in some ways, but in 1941, it was cutting edge. For that, it remains an solid early round value.

 
3.04 -- Lawrence of Arabia, Greatest Movie of all Time.

6 Reasons Why “Lawrence of Arabia” is The Best Epic Movie of All Time

Awards and honours

Best Picture Won

Best Director David Lean Won

Best Actor Peter O'Toole Nominated

Best Supporting Actor Omar Sharif Nominated

Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson Nominated

Best Art Direction – Color John Box, John Stoll and Dario Simoni Won

Best Cinematography – Color Freddie Young Won

Best Film Editing Anne V. Coates Won

Best Music Score – Substantially Original Maurice Jarre Won

Best Sound John Cox Won

 
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Ok I wasn't sure about Star Wars because the movie was already drafted. I guess you could always attribute it to one of the films not taken yet.

Also are the other Star Wars soundtracks available? I vote no. 

 
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In case it's not clear, I really do like Tim. 

And ever since I started reading his posts by visualizing a creature one part Salvador Dali and another part C-3PO, I really get a kick out of him. 

 
I'm available to judge, if needed. I have some bread & butter categories, and a couple in which I'd be less capable,  but happy to assist.

 
"... Somebody oughta belt you in the mouth … but I won’t ... I won’t ...

... the hell I won’t!"
 

3.06: John Wayne, Legendary Movie Star

 
KarmaPolice said:
I don't get that take at all.  I stayed away from the movie for years because of comments like that, but the first time I watched Kane I ended up watching it 3x over a weekend.  I thought it was fantastic right away.  
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Just not a fan.  I promise to go watch it again if you put it in the GOAT category. :)

I think it was a really good pick though - like I said, I would have felt obligated to at least discuss it with Hags if you didn't take it.

 
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