The Greatest Live-Action Movie Ever (Nomination Thread)

[LumRanmaYasha]

Fixed. 

The current list of nominations is as follows:

1. Citizen Kane
2. Casablanca
3. Black Dynamite
4. Django Unchained
5. 12 Angry Men
6. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
7. Rashomon
8. The Seven Samurai
9. Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
10. Dial M for Murder
11. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
12. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
13. The World's End
14. Clerks
15. Monthy Python and the Holy Grail
16. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
17. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
18. The Untouchables
19. Aliens
20. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
21. Back to the Future
22. Goodfellas
23. Ed Wood
24. Predator
25. John Carpenter's The Thing
26. Little Miss Sunshine
27. John Woo's The Killer
28. Kung-Fu Hustle
29. Serenity
30. The Dirty Dozen
31. Rain Man
32. Godzilla (1954)
33. Collateral
34. Drunken Master
35. Drunken Master II
36. Iron Monkey
37. Hard-Boiled
38. Alien
39. A Better Tomorrow
40. Jaws
41. Lone Wolf And Cub
42. Police Story
43. Yojimbo
44. Training Day
45. The Dark Knight
46. Raiders of the Lost Ark
47. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings
48. Gone Baby Gone
49. The Terminator
50. Copland
51. Groundhog's Day
52. Ghostbusters
53. Big Trouble in Little China
54. X-Men: Days of Future Past
55. Captain America: The First Avenger
56. Captain America: The Winter Solider
57. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
58. Die Hard
59. Lethal Weapon
60. Lethal Weapon 2
61. In Bruges
62. Hot Fuzz
63. Love Exposure
64. Cemetery Man
65. American Psycho
66. Underground
67. Army of Darkness
68. Casino
69. LA Confidential
70. Raging Bull
71. Taxi Driver
72. Oldboy (original)
73. There Will Be Blood
74. The Bird People In China
75. Blue Velvet
76. Kill Bill
77. Die Hard with a Vengeance
78. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
79. The Grand Budapest Hotel
80. Why Don't You Play In Hell?
81. Gone Girl
82. Battle Royale
83. Little Shop of Horrors (1986 musical)
84. Scream
85. The Cabin in the Woods
86. Caligula (uncut)
87. The Descent
88. Casino Royale (2006)
89. Mean Girls
90. Videodrome
91. The Usual Suspects
92. Hitchcock
93. Live Free or Die Hard
94. Goldeneye
95. Total Recall (1990)
96. The Matrix
97. 12 Years a Slave
98. Ran
99. Aguirre: The Wrath of God
100. M
101. The Lion in Winter (original version)
102. The Third Man
103. Miller's Crossing
104. Chinatown
105. The Night of the Hunter
106. Blade Runner: Director's Cut
107. Touch of Evil
108. Out of the Past
109. The Lives of Others
110. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
111. Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
112. Dazed and Confused
113. The Blues Brothers
114. Labyrinth
115. The Fly
116. Harakiri (1962)
117. Double Indemnity
118. The Rules of the Game
119. Chimes at Midnight
120. The Apartment
121. Sunset Boulevard
122. Badlands
123. The Tree of Life
124. Pulp Fiction
125. Duck Soup
126. 8 1/2
127. Whiplash
128. Before Sunrise

If Avaitor hadn't decided to pull his nominations, I would have seen it fit to raise the max limit of nominations for the competition and allowed people to make additional nominations as well. However, as it stands, I see no reason to. Pharass has 4 nominations he has left to make and Vlord has 15, and that will fill us to 128. I will not start this competition before the 13th no matter what, but if they don't add in enough nominations before the 12th, I will allow other members to make more nominations on a first come, first serve basis until the limit of 128 is reached. However, if any other forum members who have yet to nominate anything decide to do so, such as previous competition participants like Dr. Insomniac, Rynnec, ShadowGentleman, Inkwolf, Lord Il, and talonmalon333, I will do what I would have done if Avaitor had not retracted his votes and raise the max limit for nominations and how many nominations one person can make.

[Commode]

Damn, that's a good list so far.

[Commode]

Wait, where's the Star Wars films?  At least put Empire on there.

[LumRanmaYasha]

You want 'em in, you nominate 'em yourself. 

[Commode]

Okey doke,

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

Also

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
Dazed and Confused
The Blues Brothers

for good measure.

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

While I can't deny others the right to nominate if they haven't already done so, I kind of hope that the list doesn't get too long. While there are tons of great movies (and believe me, I've had to make tough decisions in leaving off some of my favorites), I feel that these games are more interesting with just the right amount of nominations involved. Just look at The Greatest Villain tournament. It's super interesting now that it has boiled down to the "worst of the worst," but honestly the first 2 rounds weren't that interesting for me since just about any half-way decent villain was on the list. Forcing a limit on these kinds of tournaments forces each of us to pick and choose the films that we feel the most passionate about, and thus the competition is all the stronger and more interesting for it.

Of course, don't misunderstand me. I'm not suggesting anything, here. Should others choose to nominate, they deserve to have their input taken into account just as much as anyone. I'm simply stating my opinion that these kinds of games are more fun when we already start off with the best of the best, as opposed to taking a few rounds to get to that point.

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

Now, how the hell did I miss nominating that one? I'm not even the biggest Star Wars fan, but this is one of the greatest genre films ever. I feel so ashamed.

[Commode]

As you should lol.

[gunswordfist]

I actually liked the Greatest Villains the most at the beginning. It was nice seeing all those different villains, a lot of them were among my favorites. Now the list is more like what you expect to see at any site where people like villains from multiple forms of medium.

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

How many sites pit villains like Tywin Lannister against villains from a completely different medium and culture like Meruem? Simply having more villains isn't more interesting, IMO, because you'll have clear, easy answers as to who you think is better in a given round. When there's less to choose from, your choices become much tougher as your favorites go head to head, and that to me is more interesting.

[Lord Il]

Videodrome

The fact that someone brought that '80s title up which many (at least that I've spoken to about it) haven't heard of.. I'm almost in awe. That movie freaked the hell out of me. O_o David Cronenberg's movies are disturbing as they are brilliant. Highly doubtful it would make it far in the competition, but it's a fun nomination to have.


I can't really add too much more (in case I can). But I would like to entertain Labyrinth as another nomination. Such a fun movie when I was a kid and equally as enjoyable today.

And since talking about Cronenberg, how about The Fly remake he made as well. Creepy and very memorable, Jeff Goldblum's performance was fantastic.

[gunswordfist]

I need to catch up on watch Cronenberg's work. I've been meaning to.

[Avaitor]

Yo, I think I'm gonna abstain from nominating stuff. You can take all of my choices off and replace them with some more of your own, guys.

Do you still plan on voting in the tournament?

Maybe, idk.

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

I've heard of Videodrome, I just haven't gotten around to seeing it yet. I thought it was a pretty well-known 80's film thanks to a strong cult-following built over time, much like movies such as Return of the Living Dead, Night of the Creeps, and They Live.

Also, I love Cronenberg's remake of The Fly. I even ranked it as one of my favorite Sci-Fi movies of all time on an earlier list that I made.

[Lord Il]

I've heard of Videodrome, I just haven't gotten around to seeing it yet. I thought it was a pretty well-known 80's film thanks to a strong cult-following built over time, much like movies such as Return of the Living Dead, Night of the Creeps, and They Live.

I thought the same as well and I still do believe that to be correct. It's just weird when I bring it up to people and they look at me like I have two heads because they've never heard of it.

Also, I love Cronenberg's remake of The Fly. I even ranked it as one of my favorite Sci-Fi movies of all time on an earlier list that I made.

Nice! It's well deserved to be regarded quite highly.