Tropical Island Movie Draft Thread - ROUND 20 FINISHED!!!

[atxrocker]

Figure my island needs a western movie

Unforgiven- 1992

While I am not the biggest western movie fan on earth, I do recognize the need to have at least one on my island and this is the one I pick. Thought it would be gone earlier so I had to scoop it now. This movie won 4 academy awards, including best picture and director and stars several big names from Clint, Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman among others. This movie is pretty violent and tells a great story. It is widely regarded as one of the best westerns ever.

 

[Bricklayer]

Figure my island needs a western movie

Unforgiven- 1992

While I am not the biggest western movie fan on earth, I do recognize the need to have at least one on my island and this is the one I pick. Thought it would be gone earlier so I had to scoop it now. This movie won 4 academy awards, including best picture and director and stars several big names from Clint, Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman among others. This movie is pretty violent and tells a great story. It is widely regarded as one of the best westerns ever.

Well darn.

I was not sure whether I would have room for it or not, and certainly not sure if such a downbeat epic would fit the flavor of my island, but that movie is just brilliant.

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Little Bill Daggett: You'd be William Munny out of Missouri. Killer of women and children.
Will Munny: That's right. I've killed women and children. I've killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you did to Ned.

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Will Munny: It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.
The Schofield Kid: Yeah, well, I guess they had it coming.
Will Munny: We all got it coming, kid.

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


Will Munny rocked.

 

[Löwenherz]

Will Munny: "Any man don't wanna get killed better clear on out the back."

Was strongely considering this one for my next pick. Nice choice.

 

[atxrocker]

now time for a little fun

Kung Fu Hustle- 2004

Had considered taking a war movie, or some of my darker picks here to start the round but decided to go with a rather unique pick instead. Risky movie here, I am picking what could be considered both my first comedy/ kung fu movie at the same time. Everything about this is just awesome and different. It's packed with tons of parodys and references that are clever and humerous, jammed with lots of action and fight scenes and is just all around fun. I am happy that it hadn't been taken, it will be an asset on my island for sure. It was the hightest grossing foreign film of 2005. With all the comedy and kung fu movies getting picked up, I had to take this now and just hope when this round plays out and comes back my way, I get the picks I had to pass up.

 

[Warhawk]

Kill Bill, Volume 1

My problem with this movie was the same problem I had with Sin City and AvP 2. If they had taken out the most bizzare/gross/over the top ±5% of each film, each would have been a much better movie.

Some directors just seem to want to put in that extra little crap that makes the film "memorable" (for lack of a better word) but definitely not any better....

 

[Bricklayer]

Okay, well...you were one 1 for 2.

I had heard great things about Kung Fu hustle, then saw it and...shrug.

Best to get it now I suppose with Slim picking next however.

 

[atxrocker]

Okay, well...you were one 1 for 2.

I had heard great things about Kung Fu hustle, then saw it and...shrug.

Best to get it now I suppose with Slim picking next however.

well, it's one of those films that people either love or hate. i have several friends who feel strongly both ways. since i always enjoyed it and thought it was a smart movie, i'll eat the criticism and enjoy it alone on my island.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Yeah... I wasn't ****ing with Kung Fu Hustle. I like a good comedy kung fu movie, but Kung Fu Hustle wasn't my idea of good... In other news, I'm not sure what five percent you thought was over the top, Warhawk, but most people I know IRL like Vol 1 much more than Vol 2 precisely because it was so violent and over the top.

With that in mind, with my tenth round pick, I select:

Kill Bill, Volume 2

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

The only problem with the "two browser/pc" rule that I alluded to before, is that you can't actually qc your link until after you actually post.

It should be fine now.

 

[NoBonus]

So, we are onto Karate/Kung-fu films, eh?

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Well, I don't know about "we," but I've been on kung fu movies since the fifth round, and I'm not leaving.

 

[Warhawk]

In other news, I'm not sure what five percent you thought was over the top, Warhawk, but most people I know IRL like Vol 1 much more than Vol 2 precisely because it was so violent and over the top.

In truth, I haven't seen KBv1 in forever, so I could address the other movies with more certainty with what I didn't care for. My recollection is a couple scenes showing overly gratuitous blood splatter and cartoonish stuff about bullets going through someone, or something. Frankly, I like hack and slash and shoot-em-up movies and blood doesn't bug me. But when they have to take it to the extreme (just for the sake of taking it to the extreme), it just detracts from the movie instead of adding to it, IMHO.

For instance, in Sin City, the bits with the alien and that crap. WTF? I mean, the movie was going along fine and then the left turn into that? I liked the "gangster" theme and blood and violence. That extra 5% or so is the reason I will not buy this movie.

I loved Aliens - it's one of my top 3 movies, I think. I enjoyed AvP, flaws and all, and own the DVD. For AvP2, the bits with the pregnant woman and the infants was over the top for me (maybe because I have a young son at home?). There really was no reason to go there, so why? Just to make it more "over the top"? Did that really make the film "better"? Or are they sacrificing what made the Alien and Predator movies so popular (focus on sci-fi action with very little horror) with a different "feel" to pander more to a "horror" crowd? It was just a bit much for my taste, and again why I will not buy that movie....

 

[NoBonus]

Well, I don't know about "we," but I've been on kung fu movies since the fifth round, and I'm not leaving.

My next two picks will be Kung-Fu films just to prove myself correct.

 

[Bricklayer]

Okay, we have fallen about a dozen picks behind on the draft board, so to avoid any confusion I am going to go ahead and catch us back up pending TradePeja's reappearance.

 

[Jerryaki]

...but most people I know IRL like Vol 1 much more than Vol 2 precisely because it was so violent and over the top.

With that in mind, with my tenth round pick, I select:

Kill Bill, Volume 2

nice on snagging the both of them. i actually liked the artistic direction of both films, but enjoyed the second one more because of its pacing. the first one had the over-the-top scene with the bunch of suited bad guys getting killed by uma, but then a 100-on-1 fight is pretty common for martial arts flicks.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

My next two picks will be Kung-Fu films just to prove myself correct.

Be my guest, boss; there's plenty to go around... That's the beauty of kung fu theatre: everybody could pick their fifteen favorite kung fu movies, and I could still find fifteen flicks I could enjoy. In fact, if you discount my complete series set of Frasier, ninety-five percent of my DVD collection is kung fu flicks; I've got over a hundred, and I'm going to pick up a few more on payday.

 

[bdouble013]

Frankly I'm a bit surprised that this has not been taken yet. So here goes.

Rocky [1976]

The start of an era. I mean the man has a statute of himself for a character he played in a movie.

Wiki for those interested - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky

 

[atxrocker]

I had considered taking rocky with my last pick too because i was very surprised that this thing could last 10 rounds without it being picked. solid pick.

 

[Bricklayer]

Yep -- like Unforgiven had moved that one onto the back of my queue in the last few rounds. Tremendous movie, and people forget just how good it was before the 80s hijacked the series.

My only question with it, and my M.O. for this whole draft, has been that I am not drafting movies for artistic merit, I am drafting ones I actually watch repeatedly. And while Rocky is a great story, its also very slow moving and I'm just not sure if I would break it out even once a year.

P.S. technically the statue was from Rocky III. They eventually took it down after a decade on the steps of the Art Museum there (the steps he runs up in the first Rocky), and by the time I was in Philly what was there instead where just the two footprints of the statue, with a plaque. But then they put it back up again in recent years.

 

[NoBonus]

Rocky is an awesome pick up... again... who has my list?

 

[bdouble013]

Yep -- like Unforgiven had moved that one onto the back of my queue in the last few rounds. Tremendous movie, and people forget just how good it was before the 80s hijacked the series.

My only question with it, and my M.O. for this whole draft, has been that I am not drafting movies for artistic merit, I am drafting ones I actually watch repeatedly. And while Rocky is a great story, its also very slow moving and I'm just not sure if I would break it out even once a year.

P.S. technically the statue was from Rocky III. They eventually took it down after a decade on the steps of the Art Museum there (the steps he runs up in the first Rocky), and by the time I was in Philly what was there instead where just the two footprints of the statue, with a plaque. But then they put it back up again in recent years.

See Brick, I WOULD watch all my movies. Maybe that says something for my personality, but if I'm stuck on a damn desert island I'm bringing crap that I want to watch....and probably building a boat to roll over to a few other's islands.

 

[NoBonus]

See Brick, I WOULD watch all my movies. Maybe that says something for my personality, but if I'm stuck on a damn desert island I'm bringing crap that I want to watch....and probably building a boat to roll over to a few other's islands.

I chose movies I actually enjoy watching (that is why I picked up Clash of the Titans). Each person who votes will have an opinion on that... and that may be my saving grace or my great downfall... who knows! It is just fun to spin the dice.

 

[GoGoGadget]

Kudos to Slim for picking up both of the Kill Bill flicks. I definitely would have gone for them, but couldn't bear to break them up and figured back-to-back picks would be the only way to get both (and that's only if I was willing to burn two picks on a film that I usually watch as one).

As for the Kung Fu genre... my alternates are chock full of 'em, but I can't justify moving them to the main list because I don't watch them as much as the films I've got left, and NO ONE has gone anywhere near the films I've got left, so I don't see them moving up naturally either. Sadly, it's a genre I will likely omit completely, though that's not necessarily an accurate reflection of my tastes in general.


Also, I know that my pick is next -- I will be posting shortly.

 

[GoGoGadget]

Well, since I let David Lynch guide my pick in the babe thread a moment ago, I figure it just makes sense to continue that theme here.

Lost Highway (1997) -- So... yeah... Spinal Tap was a nice diversion, but it's time for me to once more dive headfirst into dark, weird, and violent. David Lynch is a... strange fellow, who generally makes strange movies, and this one may well be the strangest -- I know plenty of people who like Lynch as a filmmaker but hate this movie for being "too weird," which alone speaks volumes. His interviews during the press junket for this film usually consisted of the interviewer asking what Lost Highway was all about, and Lynch responding that he, acting as both writer and director, had not a clue. What does all this mean? It means that if you're going to have the audacity to be this weird just for the sake of being this weird, you'd better damn well be good at it, and Lynch is a master. This film is sexy where it probably shouldn't be, creepy without ever revealing why, and leaves the viewer asking way more questions than it has any intention of answering. I know TONS of people who either hate this film or can't make it long enough to give it a chance, and I can't really blame them, but I have found it to be almost mesmerizing no matter how many times I've watched it.

 

[bozzwell]

Mulholland Drive (2001)

After GGG picked Sherilyn Fenn and Lost Highway, here's another Lynch pick.

I don't even know if this is the best Lynch movie, there is one
that I like at least as much, but this is perfect Lynch movie. Odd, surreal, highly stylized and just Lynchian in every sense, perhaps even more so then any other of his movies. The project started as a pilot for ABC for a Lynch TV series along the lines of Twin Peaks, then ended up being finished as a feature film. Lynch later went on to claim that after completion he realized that movie wanted to be like that from the start. He is probably the only artist ever who can get away with such a claim - No, I didn't slap it together from bits and pieces of a failed pilot, it always wanted to be this way (a David Lynch movie).

This is a great desert island movie, no not just because of the lesbian scene, but because on every re-watch it will provide additional hours of fun of going through all the clues and the story over and over again as you try to piece it together in your head. I actually don't make as much fuss about what it all means and how it all hangs together after watching a Lynch movie, and I often thought that his movies are over-analyzed which is kind of counter-intuitive since they are almost all surreal. I do enjoy though watching this movie multiple times and looking for parts that reinforce or challenge my own interpretation and theories.

 

[Monty'sBiggestFan]

Man..this makes me almost want to check these two films out...I read a write up on Lost Highway after G3 posted that pick and it was making my head spin. I may look these up when I need my head spun or something

 

[Bricklayer]

I, on the other hand, rather enjoy studiously ignoring that pretentious old fart.

But it certainly beats having you run around nabbing movies off my list, so I would like to encourage further David Lynch picks.

 

[tradepeja]

I apologize to all draftees for my lax boardmanship. I had class last night than rushed home to see game 6. Then I watched a bunch of post game, called up some Laker fan friends to brag, tried to call up my friend in Boston who was at the game but was probably wasted or out on the street rioting somewhere, and then came on here, didn't even look at this thread and went to bed.

Thanks Brick for tidying it up.

 

[Warhawk]

I am taking a movie that Dad and I used to watch frequently. Although not the best movie ever, it has special meaning for me, and it is both a hack-n-slash as well as an epic adventure. It's the acting breakthrough (if you can say that with a straight face ) of our esteemed governor, and includes James Earl Jones and Mako.

I am speaking, of course, about:

Conan the Barbarian - 1982

The movie score is very good as well, keeping me from having to choose it in the music thread. From wiki:

Several of the pieces, including the "Anvil of Crom" are frequently used in the movie trailers of other films by Universal Pictures, like Ridley Scott's Gladiator. Much of the film's music was also reused in Conan the Destroyer.
"Riders of Doom" is usually used for the first trailers for several games in the Legend of Zelda series.
The soundtrack has become a classic amongst movie-music collectors. Score for Conan the Barbarian is considered by many to be one of the finest examples of motion picture scoring ever written.

Mongol General: "What is best in life?"
Conan: "Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of the women."

King Osric: "There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and all that is left is a father's love for his child."

Thulsa Doom: "Infidel defilers. They shall all drown in lakes of blood. Now they will know why they are afraid of the dark. Now they will learn why they fear the night."

Conan's Father: Fire and wind come from the sky, from the gods of the sky. But Crom is your god, Crom and he lives in the earth. Once, giants lived in the Earth, Conan. And in the darkness of chaos, they fooled Crom, and they took from him the enigma of steel. Crom was angered. And the Earth shook. Fire and wind struck down these giants, and they threw their bodies into the waters, but in their rage, the gods forgot the secret of steel and left it on the battlefield. We who found it are just men. Not gods. Not giants. Just men. The secret of steel has always carried with it a mystery. You must learn its riddle, Conan. You must learn its discipline. For no one - no one in this world can you trust. Not men, not women, not beasts.
[Points to sword]
Conan's Father: This you can trust.

Thulsa Doom: Ah. It must have been when I was younger. There was a time, boy, when I searched for steel, when steel meant more to me than gold or jewels.
Conan: The riddle... of steel.
Thulsa Doom: Yes! You know what it is, don't you boy? Shall I tell you? It's the least I can do. Steel isn't strong, boy, flesh is stronger! Look around you. There, on the rocks; a beautiful girl. Come to me, my child...
Thulsa Doom: [coaxes the girl to jump to her death]
Thulsa Doom: That is strength, boy! That is power! What is steel compared to the hand that wields it? Look at the strength in your body, the desire in your heart, I gave you this! Such a waste. Contemplate this on the tree of woe. Crucify him!

 

[Bricklayer]

Oh, now that actually pisses me off.

Was going to be my next pick, although I knew a few movies like that will earn me zero votes.