Shrek hurts my head. Last Canada Day I watched it after drinking a 40 of whiskey and by the time they got to the castle I wanted to strangle Eddie Murphy.
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I don't like separating animated films into their own "genre", since they can be any genre. One if my all-time favorite films is Grave of the Fireflies, which is a drama.
I just consider it to be the medium. It's no more a genre than black and white films are a genre. Animated movies would range from Bambi and Lion King to Ghost In The Shell and Akira to A Scanner Darkly and Zemeckis's Beowulf.
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And they are off..... LOL This debate will go on for quite some time IMHO Musicals, Animated, etc. Great reading!!!
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63 in '23!!!!!!!!!!
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The Houston Astros cheated Major League Baseball from 2017-18!!!! Is that how we teach our kids to play the game now?????
I think it makes sense. Then "musical" can be considered the medium too, rather than a genre, and we can put Mary Poppins in "Comedies", and West Side Story in "drama". Bears like.
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The American Film Institute classifies animation as a separate film genre.
AFI defines "animated" as a genre in which the film's images are primarily created by computer or hand and the characters are voiced by actors.
Wiki link.
Hearts are tough, she said, most times hearts don't break, and I'm sure that's right . . . but what about then? What about who we were then? What about hearts in Atlantis?
If we do an animated one and Fantastic Planet doesn't pass the first round I might choke on my own saliva.
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I would nominate that in the sci-fi tournament.
Just posted the last tiebreaker. So once that's over Round 2 can begin!
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
I've watched Fantastic Planet at least a dozen times in the past couple of years. Such a great film. I actually heard rumblings of a remake recently.
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We don't have traditional ratings, but after Round 1, the films that failed to move on can be ranked thus:
Movies with 3 points:
- New Nightmare (+5 in tiebreaker)
- Pan's Labyrinth (+4 in tiebreaker)
- Puppet Master (+4 in tiebreaker)
- Them (+4 in tiebreaker)
- Jacob's Ladder (+3 in tiebreaker)
- The Haunting (+1 in tiebreaker)
- Army of Darkness
- Pontypool
Movies with 2 points:
- Funny Games (+4 in tiebreaker)
- Horror of Dracula (+2 in tiebreaker)
- Near Dark (+2 in tiebreaker)
- 1408
- An American Warewolf in London
- Bud Abbott & Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
- Dark Water
- Event Horizon
- Frailty
- Ju-On
- Orphan
- Silent Hill
- Stir of Echoes
- The Bride of Frankenstein
- The Devil's Backbone
- The Last Exorcism
- The Omen
- The Orphanage
Movies with 1 point:
- [REC]
- 2,000 Maniacs
- Absentia
- Cannibal Holocaust
- Carnival of Souls
- Class of Nuke 'Em High
- Cloverfield
- Cold Fish
- Eyes Without a Face
- I Spit on Your Grave
- In Fear
- Let the Right One In
- May
- Phantasm
- Shiver
- The Bad Seed
- The Changeling
- The Devil's Rock
- The House on Haunted Hill
- The Innocents
- The Masque of the Red Death
- The Wicker Man
- Two Eyes Staring
- Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
- Who Can Kill A Child
Movies with 0 points:
- American Gothic
- Bay of Blood
- Black Sabbath
- Black Sunday
- Dark Corners
- Deep Red
- Don't Look Now
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Fear(s) of the Dark
- Fragile
- Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
- Joshua
- Kill List
- Let's Scare Jessica to Death
- Mimic
- Onibaba
- Paranormal Activity
- Phantoms
- Picnic at Hanging Rock
- Suspiria
- The Appeared
- The Condemned
- The Creature from the Black Lagoon
- The Dark
- The Mothman Prophecies
- The Mummy
- The Uninvited
- The Vanishing
- Zombi 2
Nine of the zero-point movies are bears' nominees. Nine. Almost one third.
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When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
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It so happens six are mine.
There are a whole lot of movies in there I had never even heard of much less watched.
Hearts are tough, she said, most times hearts don't break, and I'm sure that's right . . . but what about then? What about who we were then? What about hearts in Atlantis?
Here's some food for thought for our eventual sci-fi tournament: http://www.popularmechanics.com/tech...l-time#slide-1
Excellent list, although I'm not sure if I agree with Gattaca as number three...
I think I need to watch it again, it's been a while.
It's definitely in my Sci-Fi Top 10-or-So.
The last two groups {7 & 8} of Round 2 have been posted!
The last two groups of round 2 have ended. Round 3 will begin soon
Only the gentle are ever really strong.