GoGoGadget
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Ok fangirl, next pick you HAVE to select something that doesn't involve one of those hunky munchkins of love, Pitt and Clooney. Agreed?
I already picked a movie without either of them.
Though... it did have Statham.
Tropical Island Movie Draft Thread - ROUND 20 FINISHED!!!
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I already picked a movie without either of them.
Though... it did have Statham.
@%$^$^*&^&%$%%&^**&(&#$%#^(&&*&(&%$^ !
I had that next (maybe 2 down at most) on my list. Figured you or Brick would take it, but since it had gone this far I thought it might be safe another round.
Are there any bridges between our respective islands????
Edit - you know, looking through the music thread there really aren't any albums I am heartbroken over missing - in fact, I wouldn't (at this point) trade any of my choices for anything else chosen there right now. But this contest is BRUTAL. Just about everyone has at least one movie I would like to have on my island as well. And the competition really isn't getting too much easier....
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GoGoGadget
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@%$^$^*&^&%$%%&^**&(&#$%#^(&&*&(&%$^ !
I had that next (maybe 2 down at most) on my list. Figured you or Brick would take it, but since it had gone this far I thought it might be safe another round.
Are there any bridges between our respective islands????
You kidding? Brick's got the Holy Grail! If there aren't bridges, I'm damn sure building one.
Or build a giant wooden badger?
GoGoGadget
All-Star
We don't need no stinkin' badgers.
bdouble013
Bench
Sorry it took me so long. Turns out studying for the bar sucks.
This is probably law school influence shining through, but with my next pick I select....
My Cousin Vinny [1992]
If you want comedy, watch the Mr. Tipton cross. I wish real court were that much fun.
This is probably law school influence shining through, but with my next pick I select....
My Cousin Vinny [1992]
If you want comedy, watch the Mr. Tipton cross. I wish real court were that much fun.
As I said earlier, I don't actually watch a whole lot of movies, except for one type. Which is why my last sixteen picks will all be of the same genre. That's right, ladies and gents, get ready for...
Kung Fu Theatre! Starting with:
The Big Boss - 1971
Also known as the original Fists of Fury, The Big Boss was Lee's first big hit stateside, and was also the movie where he had the highest confirmed body count.
Kung Fu Theatre! Starting with:
The Big Boss - 1971
Also known as the original Fists of Fury, The Big Boss was Lee's first big hit stateside, and was also the movie where he had the highest confirmed body count.
Monty'sBiggestFan
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I nearly took this one with my last pick but rolled the #%#$%$%#$ dice that I could get it on the snake back.
I got to this movie via the music first, so I made the backwards connection and too have seen it countless times on cable and in my own on demand screenings. Completely agree, there is sooo much to keep discovering that it probably should be watched repeatedly anyway.
Um...have captain jack drop off a third and fourth crate off, my draft experience officially now has $#$$$%#$ $#$@#. And I'm finding a way to sneak contraband movies onto my island...that's all there is to it! sigh...and damnit, the soundtrack FOR SURE is going if I'm getting stranded with a biggie home theater system.
Yeah, I really like that movie too. Didn't make my list, but Marisa Tomei was great in that.
Don't worry, if nothig else we are building a few bridges to get to Monty Python and the Holy Grail. That means the bridge goes to where Brother is, too.
Gonna have to see who Brick and GGG eventually have on their islands from the "other" draft for eye candy - I may spend more time there than on my own. I can always carry my music and movies with me....
Monty'sBiggestFan
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Don't worry, if nothig else we are building a few bridges to get to Monty Python and the Holy Grail. That means the bridge goes to where Brother is, too.
Cooooool...that might make me feel better when the rum that is consoling me is gone.
Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
Yo commish -- you've been slacking! I just had to update the last 5 pics on the draft board. Better pick it up or risk a revolt! And you know what happens to the ruler after a revolt:
tradepeja
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Yo commish -- you've been slacking! I just had to update the last 5 pics on the draft board. Better pick it up or risk a revolt! And you know what happens to the ruler after a revolt:
I would call it less slacking and not being home all yesterday. Nothing I can do. I'll also be gone all tomorrow for a wedding, so you might as well take over updating it for the next couple days.
Someone, don't know if it was you, has been updating it even when I have been around too. Kinda freaked me out the first time, because they forgot a movie in the middle and when I went to add the next one, it was already there...
D-Mass
Starter
Hey...the more people picking Kung Fu the better as far as I'm concerned!
Another relatively mainstream movie:
Fist of Fury, aka The Chinese Connection - 1972
Fist of Fury, aka The Chinese Connection - 1972
bdouble013
Bench
The Sting [1973]
From Wiki - The Sting is a 1973 caper film set in September 1936 and revolving around a complicated plot by two professional grifters (Paul Newman and Robert Redford) to con a mob boss (Robert Shaw). The story, created by screenwriter David S. Ward, was inspired by some real-life con games perpetrated by the brothers Fred and Charley Gondorf and documented by David W. Maurer in his book The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man. The movie was directed by George Roy Hill, who also directed Newman and Redford in the classic Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The title phrase refers to the moment when a con artist finishes the "play" and takes the mark's money. (Today the name is mostly used in the context of law enforcement sting operations.) If the con game is successful, the mark does not realize he has been "taken" (cheated), at least not until the con men are long gone.
Best picture, best director, good flick...and my wife wanted some Redford for the island.
From Wiki - The Sting is a 1973 caper film set in September 1936 and revolving around a complicated plot by two professional grifters (Paul Newman and Robert Redford) to con a mob boss (Robert Shaw). The story, created by screenwriter David S. Ward, was inspired by some real-life con games perpetrated by the brothers Fred and Charley Gondorf and documented by David W. Maurer in his book The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man. The movie was directed by George Roy Hill, who also directed Newman and Redford in the classic Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The title phrase refers to the moment when a con artist finishes the "play" and takes the mark's money. (Today the name is mostly used in the context of law enforcement sting operations.) If the con game is successful, the mark does not realize he has been "taken" (cheated), at least not until the con men are long gone.
Best picture, best director, good flick...and my wife wanted some Redford for the island.
GoGoGadget
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Well, so far I've still got a lot on my list that I fear may be snatched up if I don't take it now, but I've also done some editing and feel much better about my next choice:
Natural Born Killers (1994) -- As a disclaimer, I HATE Oliver Stone as a director. I think he is criminally overrated. He's one of a handful of directors whose films have actually been so arrogant in their style, tricks, and controversy that they literally make me angry. That being said... I ****ing love this film. Every single thing about it. Is it overloaded with unnecessary gimmicks? Yep. Is it taking itself way too seriously? Uh huh. Did Stone pretty much rape an otherwise comedic Tarantino script? He sure did. Is the acting across the board laughably over-the-top? You betcha. Do I care? Not one little bit. By the time the blood started pouring down the windshield to introduce the opening credits, I'd already become invested enough in this film and knew that I would happily follow it down any road it traveled. Mickey and Mallory rock my socks.
Natural Born Killers (1994) -- As a disclaimer, I HATE Oliver Stone as a director. I think he is criminally overrated. He's one of a handful of directors whose films have actually been so arrogant in their style, tricks, and controversy that they literally make me angry. That being said... I ****ing love this film. Every single thing about it. Is it overloaded with unnecessary gimmicks? Yep. Is it taking itself way too seriously? Uh huh. Did Stone pretty much rape an otherwise comedic Tarantino script? He sure did. Is the acting across the board laughably over-the-top? You betcha. Do I care? Not one little bit. By the time the blood started pouring down the windshield to introduce the opening credits, I'd already become invested enough in this film and knew that I would happily follow it down any road it traveled. Mickey and Mallory rock my socks.
bozzwell
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Rounders (1998)
It's an excellent movie. Not an all time great, but extremely rewatchable and knowing the end does not spoil the pleasure. Acting performances are memorable, actually I will always have problem watching Edward Norton as anything then an f-up after Fight Club and Rounders. Matt Damon looks like a spitting image of my younger brother (which I mentioned before here, I believe) so he really needs to work hard to convince me of his character in each movie, and in this movie he is spot on. Malkovich managed to do russian accent that is both humorous AND believable (trust me, I know russian accent and most of the time in movies it is as fake as you like).
Just love this flick, even though I am not one of those people who plays poker and tivo's every World Series of Poker session.
It's an excellent movie. Not an all time great, but extremely rewatchable and knowing the end does not spoil the pleasure. Acting performances are memorable, actually I will always have problem watching Edward Norton as anything then an f-up after Fight Club and Rounders. Matt Damon looks like a spitting image of my younger brother (which I mentioned before here, I believe) so he really needs to work hard to convince me of his character in each movie, and in this movie he is spot on. Malkovich managed to do russian accent that is both humorous AND believable (trust me, I know russian accent and most of the time in movies it is as fake as you like).
Just love this flick, even though I am not one of those people who plays poker and tivo's every World Series of Poker session.
Decisions, decisions. I have several movies I'd like to pick up now for various reasons, but I don't think I want to pass on another James Cameron movie with our esteemed Governator in it - gotta bump up the action movie quotient with some decent flicks while they are still available:
True Lies (1994)
The cast is a lot of fun (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Bill Paxton, Tia Carrere, Charlton Heston, and Art Malik.)
Frankly, even at her age Curtis was still a hottie in here and I love Bill Paxton in supporting roles. Here he is perfect as alternately the two-bit sleaseball wannabe spy and the chicken-s*** used car salesman. I have always liked this flick and can use it to help make up for the loss of Die Hard.
I really like the interplay between Tom (Gib) and Arnie as well - Tom really shines here as a smart-a** sidekick.
Gib: So your life's in the crapper. So you wife is banging a used car salesman - it's humiliating, I know. But goddamnit, Harry, take it like a man!
It's all in the delivery, and this movie has as much action as comedy. Good stuff. It's going with me.
True Lies (1994)
The cast is a lot of fun (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Bill Paxton, Tia Carrere, Charlton Heston, and Art Malik.)
Frankly, even at her age Curtis was still a hottie in here and I love Bill Paxton in supporting roles. Here he is perfect as alternately the two-bit sleaseball wannabe spy and the chicken-s*** used car salesman. I have always liked this flick and can use it to help make up for the loss of Die Hard.
I really like the interplay between Tom (Gib) and Arnie as well - Tom really shines here as a smart-a** sidekick.
Gib: So your life's in the crapper. So you wife is banging a used car salesman - it's humiliating, I know. But goddamnit, Harry, take it like a man!
It's all in the delivery, and this movie has as much action as comedy. Good stuff. It's going with me.
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AleksandarN
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This movie is my favourite movie when i was a kid. Still enjoy it to this day. I had to double check to make sure it was not taken already. I am surprised it was still on board
Back to the Future
Back to the Future
D-Mass
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Bummer...I had this one coming up pretty soon, but I'm not surprised it was taken before I could get to it.
Löwenherz
Starter
Watching the DeLorean fly off my island at 88 MPH hurts, but ...
I could not be more ecstatic about my next pick dropping to me in the 6th round. In the immortal words of Nuke, it feels out there. i mean, it's a major rush. I mean, it feels radical in kind of a tubular sort of way, but most of all, it feels out there.
All I have to say is all of you who skipped this for the last six rounds are a bunch of lollygagers.
Bull Durham - 1988
Generally, it's a good rule of thumb to avoid movies featuring the man pictured above, but I will make an emphatic exception here.
Rated by Sports Illustrated and Rotten Tomatoes as the #1 sports movie of all time, #4 on ESPN.com's list of top sports movies, and #55 and #97 on Bravo's and AFI's respective lists of 100 funniest movies of all time.
Sports cliche's, new age mysticism and the battle of the sexes are all fair game for Bull Durham to satire, in a cool mix of minor league baseball, steamy love triangle, neo-philosophy and zinging dialogue producing such gems as:
[Coach jogs out to the mound to break up a players' conference]
Coach: Excuse me, but what the hell's going on out here?
Crash Davis: Well, Nuke's scared because his eyelids are jammed and his old man's here. We need a live... is it a live rooster?
[Jose nods]
Crash Davis: We need a live rooster to take the curse off Jose's glove and nobody seems to know what to get Millie or Jimmy for their wedding present.
[to the players]
Crash Davis: Is that about right?
[the players nod]
Crash Davis: We're dealing with a lot of (stuff).
Coach: Okay, well, uh... candlesticks always make a nice gift, and uh, maybe you could find out where she's registered and maybe a place-setting or maybe a silverware pattern. Okay, let's get two! Go get 'em.
It's comforting to know on my island, Crash and Nuke will always be warming up in the bullpen.
I could not be more ecstatic about my next pick dropping to me in the 6th round. In the immortal words of Nuke, it feels out there. i mean, it's a major rush. I mean, it feels radical in kind of a tubular sort of way, but most of all, it feels out there.
All I have to say is all of you who skipped this for the last six rounds are a bunch of lollygagers.
Bull Durham - 1988
Generally, it's a good rule of thumb to avoid movies featuring the man pictured above, but I will make an emphatic exception here.
Rated by Sports Illustrated and Rotten Tomatoes as the #1 sports movie of all time, #4 on ESPN.com's list of top sports movies, and #55 and #97 on Bravo's and AFI's respective lists of 100 funniest movies of all time.
Sports cliche's, new age mysticism and the battle of the sexes are all fair game for Bull Durham to satire, in a cool mix of minor league baseball, steamy love triangle, neo-philosophy and zinging dialogue producing such gems as:
[Coach jogs out to the mound to break up a players' conference]
Coach: Excuse me, but what the hell's going on out here?
Crash Davis: Well, Nuke's scared because his eyelids are jammed and his old man's here. We need a live... is it a live rooster?
[Jose nods]
Crash Davis: We need a live rooster to take the curse off Jose's glove and nobody seems to know what to get Millie or Jimmy for their wedding present.
[to the players]
Crash Davis: Is that about right?
[the players nod]
Crash Davis: We're dealing with a lot of (stuff).
Coach: Okay, well, uh... candlesticks always make a nice gift, and uh, maybe you could find out where she's registered and maybe a place-setting or maybe a silverware pattern. Okay, let's get two! Go get 'em.
It's comforting to know on my island, Crash and Nuke will always be warming up in the bullpen.
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Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
Its hard for even those of us old enough to remember to recall that there was a time when EVERYTHING that man was in turned to gold. I'm not going to run through the lists because of the nature of our contest here, but he ha the Midas touch for the longest time until his ego ran him down.
AleksandarN
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Then Waterworld came along
Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
As for myself, well after all my plotting and planning did in fact result in my next planned pick still being available here, I am now going to put it back out at risk by going a different way:
Good Will Hunting (1997)
My first "serious" flick, and typical of both me and my island, its not some angst ridden piece of despair, or some twisted elegy to scummy amoral sociopaths, but rather a movie with hope for the human condition flooding through it (if I could have paired it with Shawshank it would have been nifty). And a lot of truth too. There are some tremendously written scenes and speeches in here (Robin Williams on the bench, Affleck at the job site come to mind) and this movie really spoke to me when it came out (because of course I am a super-genius and everything) Don't watch it as much as I used to, but a nice strong anchor to the more serious (and Oscar worthy) side of my island. Now just none of you take the flick I was planning on taking in this spot and I won't have any regrets at all.
Good Will Hunting (1997)
My first "serious" flick, and typical of both me and my island, its not some angst ridden piece of despair, or some twisted elegy to scummy amoral sociopaths, but rather a movie with hope for the human condition flooding through it (if I could have paired it with Shawshank it would have been nifty). And a lot of truth too. There are some tremendously written scenes and speeches in here (Robin Williams on the bench, Affleck at the job site come to mind) and this movie really spoke to me when it came out (because of course I am a super-genius and everything
) Don't watch it as much as I used to, but a nice strong anchor to the more serious (and Oscar worthy) side of my island. Now just none of you take the flick I was planning on taking in this spot and I won't have any regrets at all.- Status
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