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mae
02-25-2015, 06:29 AM
For the Round 1 polls, please vote for up to six titles to move on to the next round. You can vote for less, but please make sure you are not voting for more before clicking that Vote button. The poll will be open for one week. The top six titles will be moving on to Round 2.


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/38/ComingtoAmerica1988MoviePoster.jpg/215px-ComingtoAmerica1988MoviePoster.jpg
Coming to America (1988) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_to_America)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2zR-NddnOU

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/87/Three_amigos_ver2.jpg/220px-Three_amigos_ver2.jpg
Three Amigos! (1986) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%A1Three_Amigos!)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUTl8DSYUQA

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/36/This-is-the-End-Film-Poster.jpg/220px-This-is-the-End-Film-Poster.jpg
This Is the End (2013) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_the_End)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kliQSsD_npo

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/27/Meet_The_Fockers.jpg/220px-Meet_The_Fockers.jpg
Meet the Fockers (2004) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_the_Fockers)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F66AcFhmGso

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/db/Princess_bride.jpg/220px-Princess_bride.jpg
The Princess Bride (1987) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_Bride_%28film%29)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3CIXEAjcc8

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c8/American_Pie1.jpg/220px-American_Pie1.jpg
American Pie (1999) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Pie_%28film%29)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUZ3Yxok6N8

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/84/What_About_Bob_film.jpg/220px-What_About_Bob_film.jpg
What About Bob? (1991) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_About_Bob%3F)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptmP1lziJw4

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1f/WallStreet2013poster.jpg/220px-WallStreet2013poster.jpg
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolf_of_Wall_Street_%282013_film%29)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pabEtIERlic

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/46/GreatRace.jpg/220px-GreatRace.jpg
The Great Race (1965) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Race)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuxL4WW97Io

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/dc/As_good_as_it_gets.jpg/215px-As_good_as_it_gets.jpg
As Good as It Gets (1997) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Good_as_It_Gets)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrRl2QQKkI8

mae
02-25-2015, 06:39 AM
Going with five here: Coming to America, This Is the End (loved the meta aspect), American Pie (the original was actually funny), The Wolf of Wall Street, and As Good as It Gets (one of Jack's best roles ever).

Tommy
02-25-2015, 06:44 AM
Going with five here: Coming to America, This Is the End (loved the meta aspect), American Pie (the original was actually funny), The Wolf of Wall Street, and As Good as It Gets (one of Jack's best roles ever).

No Princess Bride? :o

mae
02-25-2015, 06:44 AM
First, I doubt it'll need my help and second I'm not a big fan.

Tommy
02-25-2015, 06:47 AM
Fair enough

webstar1000
02-25-2015, 06:47 AM
WOW... tough line up for me

Ben Staad
02-25-2015, 07:26 AM
This is a tough group. There are a few great films in here that I don't think of as comedy. That will make this a bit easier.

fernandito
02-25-2015, 08:48 AM
The Three Amigos
The Princess Bride
Meet The Fockers
American Pie
The Wolf of Wall Street
As Good As It Gets

mae
02-25-2015, 08:52 AM
Solid choices.

fernandito
02-25-2015, 09:07 AM
I agree with your post above, Pablo. AGAIG is defintely Nicholson's best role.

mae
02-25-2015, 09:13 AM
Yup. And speaking of trailers, that trailer in the first post for This Is the End is so damn epic. I think it's one of my all-time favorite trailers!

fernandito
02-25-2015, 09:16 AM
Woah, this is a very tight group so far!!

Tommy
02-25-2015, 09:26 AM
I agree with your post above, Pablo. AGAIG is defintely Nicholson's best role.

Definitely? what about -

Easy Rider
Five Easy Pieces
The Last Detail
Chinatown
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Shining
Prizzi's Honor
A Few Good Men (he was the only thing I liked about that one)
About Schmidt
The Departed
?

fernandito
02-25-2015, 09:31 AM
The Shining, Cuckoo's Nest, and As Good as It Gets. Top 3.

Heather19
02-25-2015, 09:36 AM
I might be the only one but I absolutely hated As Good As it Gets...

Not sure I can vote for any here. Out of the ones I've seen, the only one I enjoyed was Meet the Fockers, but its so insuperior to the original.

Tommy
02-25-2015, 09:43 AM
I might be the only one but I absolutely hated As Good As it Gets...


You're not alone Heather, the happy ending is not earned, Nicholson's character is too damaged to be anything other than an unhappy loner, nothing about it felt genuine to me

Mattrick
02-25-2015, 07:24 PM
I agree with your post above, Pablo. AGAIG is defintely Nicholson's best role.

I like About Schmidt Better. Between As Good As It Gets, The Pledge and About Schmidt he had some great roles in those couple years.


This Is The End
What About Bob
Wolf of Wall Street
As Good As It Gets

divemaster
02-25-2015, 07:24 PM
The Princess Bride and American Pie. That's it for this round.

Mattrick
02-25-2015, 07:25 PM
I might be the only one but I absolutely hated As Good As it Gets...


You're not alone Heather, the happy ending is not earned, Nicholson's character is too damaged to be anything other than an unhappy loner, nothing about it felt genuine to me

So the guy who wrote about people falling in love for decades didn't earn a chance to fall in love for himself?

Tommy
02-25-2015, 07:52 PM
I might be the only one but I absolutely hated As Good As it Gets...


You're not alone Heather, the happy ending is not earned, Nicholson's character is too damaged to be anything other than an unhappy loner, nothing about it felt genuine to me

So the guy who wrote about people falling in love for decades didn't earn a chance to fall in love for himself?

What I meant was the movie itself didn't earn that ending not the guy, everyone deserves happiness I suppose but some are nearly incapable of it, Here is a quote from Ebert's review

"If the movie had been either more or less ambitious, it might have been more successful. Less ambitious, and it would have been a sitcom crowd-pleaser, in which a grumpy Scrooge allows his heart to melt. More ambitious, and it would have touched on the underlying irony of this lonely man's bitter life. But "As Good as It Gets" is a compromise, a film that forces a smile onto material that doesn't wear one easily. Melvin is not a man ever destined to find lasting happiness, and the movie's happy ending feels like a blackout, seconds before more unhappiness begins."

He did give it a favorable score, I however felt no chemistry between Hunt and Nicholson and have no desire to watch it again

Still Servant
02-25-2015, 07:58 PM
Matt, you just got Eberted.

Matt's usually the one doing the Eberting. :lol:

Tommy
02-25-2015, 08:05 PM
Matt, you just got Eberted.

Matt's usually the one doing the Eberting. :lol:

:biggrin:
I've been reading Ebert's reviews for 20+ years now, he's who taught me how to look at film with a critical eye, I didn't always agree with him but even when I didn't agree I respected his opinion, I miss him dearly

Mattrick
02-26-2015, 12:57 AM
Yeah, I know his review for that movie haha. I don't agree with it but I still enjoyed it. Sure it could have been a bolder movie and not gone for a happy ending, and maybe his happiness is really brief, but there's something about a person late in life discovering happiness maybe for the first time after a lifetime of misery that just gets me...this is why I love Royal Tenenbaums and About Schmidt so much. Udall was a hopeless romantic trapped inside the body of a prejudiced, angry man who won't let anyone close to him, it's tragic. I'm always happy to see him happy. He wrote what he could not have so he could feel it. I have wheelbarrow full of feels for Melvin Udall, even IF people who talk in metaphors oughta shampoo his crotch.

Iwritecode
02-26-2015, 06:41 AM
After reading the last few posts, I just realized I had the wrong Jack Nicholson movie in my head. I kept thinking the nomination was for Something's Gotta Give.

I don't need to change my votes or anything, but I feel dumb now. :doh:

mae
02-26-2015, 06:44 AM
That's what the trailers are for, to refresh your memory.

BROWNINGS CHILDE
02-26-2015, 02:11 PM
This is the best group of the first bracket, and the only group where I felt that I had to leave one out.

Voted for Coming to America (my favorite of the group), American Pie, Wolf of Wallstreet, What about Bob (another absolute classic), Princess Bride and Meet the Fockers.

Wanted to vote for Three Amigos and As Good as it Gets, but Alas, only 6 votes.

BROWNINGS CHILDE
02-26-2015, 02:12 PM
Crap, I just realized it was Meet the Fockers, not Meet the Parents. MTF was good, but not nearly as good as MTP, and I would not have voted for it over As Good as it Gets.

skyofcrack
02-26-2015, 02:13 PM
What about Bob (another absolute classic),

"Is this some kind of radical new therapy."

Still Servant
02-26-2015, 04:51 PM
Matt, you just got Eberted.

Matt's usually the one doing the Eberting. :lol:

:biggrin:
I've been reading Ebert's reviews for 20+ years now, he's who taught me how to look at film with a critical eye, I didn't always agree with him but even when I didn't agree I respected his opinion, I miss him dearly

Have you seen Life Itself yet? It's fantastic.

Theli
02-27-2015, 01:18 AM
This is a killer list, The Three Amigos, Princess Bride, THe Wolf of Wall Street... but for pure comedy gold nothing strikes be better than the stupid comedy of Rogen and Franco (other than Monty Python), so I give the sole vote to This Is the End.

Still Servant
02-27-2015, 08:20 AM
This is a killer list, The Three Amigos, Princess Bride, THe Wolf of Wall Street... but for pure comedy gold nothing strikes be better than the stupid comedy of Rogen and Franco (other than Monty Python), so I give the sole vote to This Is the End.

Honestly, the dirty magazine scene is one of the more genuinely funny moments I've seen in a film in about 5 years. I'd post the scene here, but it might be offensive to some. Fuck it, I'll put it in a spoiler tag.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNuJ0ZW060s

Tommy
02-27-2015, 09:14 AM
Matt, you just got Eberted.

Matt's usually the one doing the Eberting. :lol:

:biggrin:
I've been reading Ebert's reviews for 20+ years now, he's who taught me how to look at film with a critical eye, I didn't always agree with him but even when I didn't agree I respected his opinion, I miss him dearly

Have you seen Life Itself yet? It's fantastic.

Yes I've seen it and it is a great film, I love all the stuff about Siskel & Ebert, the promo outtakes are hilarious. It is incredibly heartbreaking and disturbing to watch him slowly and painfully deteriorate from cancer but Ebert knew it was important to show someone going through what he did. And if Ebert was going to be in a film, it certainly wasn't going to be weak tea.

Odetta
02-27-2015, 01:35 PM
Let your SOUL GLO!

needfulthings
02-27-2015, 02:33 PM
"We could use a PLETHORA of votes about now"
http://imageshack.com/a/img540/9534/ynUtjJ.jpg

Still Servant
02-28-2015, 11:52 AM
Matt, you just got Eberted.

Matt's usually the one doing the Eberting. :lol:

:biggrin:
I've been reading Ebert's reviews for 20+ years now, he's who taught me how to look at film with a critical eye, I didn't always agree with him but even when I didn't agree I respected his opinion, I miss him dearly

Have you seen Life Itself yet? It's fantastic.

Yes I've seen it and it is a great film, I love all the stuff about Siskel & Ebert, the promo outtakes are hilarious. It is incredibly heartbreaking and disturbing to watch him slowly and painfully deteriorate from cancer but Ebert knew it was important to show someone going through what he did. And if Ebert was going to be in a film, it certainly wasn't going to be weak tea.

Loved the promos too. There was so much venom coming from both of them. In the end, they really did love and respect each other.

I still feel the film should have been nominated for best documentary.

mae
03-02-2015, 07:10 AM
This poll is closing in two days, so please get your votes in. The first group of polls managed between 30 and 32 votes per poll, so keep voting, please! The more people vote, the more fair the process is!

mae
03-03-2015, 08:24 AM
Need to break the tie for sixth, more votes for This Is the End, please!

Still Servant
03-03-2015, 02:34 PM
If Meet the Fockers goes through and This is the End doesn't I'm going to be slightly agitated.

mae
03-03-2015, 10:18 PM
This is closing soon so we need to break that tie! Where are all the This Is the End fans?

Iwritecode
03-04-2015, 06:08 AM
I've already voted for This is the End.

How are ties broken again?

mae
03-04-2015, 06:12 AM
If there's a tie for last place (or last places), there will be a separate 4-day tiebreaker poll. I hope more people do vote, though it's getting awful late now. Looks like about 3-5 people didn't vote in this group that voted in the first one... :cry:

mae
03-04-2015, 06:58 AM
The poll has closed. The following five titles are moving on to the next round:


The Princess Bride (1987) 59.26%
American Pie (1999) 55.56%
Coming to America (1988) 51.85%
What About Bob? (1991) 48.15%
Three Amigos! (1986) 44.44%


The following two titles will face off in a tiebreaker for the last spot:


Meet the Fockers (2004) 33.33%
This Is the End (2013) 33.33%


And the following three titles have been eliminated:


As Good as It Gets (1997) 25.93%
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) 22.22%
The Great Race (1965) 18.52%

pathoftheturtle
03-04-2015, 07:15 AM
:orely:

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s12/POTT2007/Posters/rt-wab_zpscwrvn8xk.jpg (http://s148.photobucket.com/user/POTT2007/media/Posters/rt-wab_zpscwrvn8xk.jpg.html)

I did not realize this.