The Greatest Live-Action Movie Ever (Nomination Thread)

Started by LumRanmaYasha, March 06, 2015, 11:01:03 AM

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LumRanmaYasha

All right, ALL RIGHT, enough is enough! It's time for AR to finally do a Greatest Live-Action Movie competition. I was thinking about doing another Protagonist tournament or something else first, but no, fuck it, let's just do this one already.

All non-animated movies qualify for this competition. To qualify as a film it has to be at least over an hour in length and generally recognized as a film by most people. Each participant is limited to 16 nominations each. The minimum amount of nominations needed to begin this competition is 64 entries, and the maximum is 128. The maximum limit will not be lifted unless more than 8 people wish to participate, at which point the limit will be raised as seen fit to. The nomination period will last until midnight on March 13th.

That's all I really have to say, so here are my nominations:

Citizen Kane
Casablanca
Black Dynamite
Django Unchained
12 Angry Men
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Rashomon
The Seven Samurai
Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
Dial M for Murder
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
The World's End
Clerks
Monthy Python and the Holy Grail
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl An American Werewolf in London

Avaitor

Badlands
Days of Heaven
The Thin Red Line
The New World
The Tree of Life
To the Wonder
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I got their first CD, but you can't have it, motherfucker!

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Foggle

Quote from: Cartoon X on March 06, 2015, 11:01:03 AM
Black Dynamite
We should just end the tournament now, because this is the factual greatest film of all time.

Dr. Ensatsu-ken

#3
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Untouchables
Aliens
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Back to the Future
Goodfellas
Ed Wood
Predator
John Carpenter's The Thing
Little Miss Sunshine
John Woo's The Killer
Kung-Fu Hustle
Serenity
The Dirty Dozen
Rain Man
Godzilla (1954)

GSF: I'm leaving it up to you to nominate A Better Tomorrow and maybe some other martial arts films. Also, Collateral, can't forget that.

QuoteDial M for Murder

If I could hug you right now, I totally would. :thumbup:

Dr. Ensatsu-ken

Quote from: Foggle on March 06, 2015, 12:51:33 PM
Quote from: Cartoon X on March 06, 2015, 11:01:03 AM
Black Dynamite
We should just end the tournament now, because this is the factual greatest film of all time.

Neither Sergio Leone nor Ennio Morricone had any involvement with this film whatsoever, so you're wrong. :sly:

gunswordfist

#5
I hope you weren't deterred from doing the anime music competition by what I said. I was only half serious :blush: ...but I will definitely do it after I finish the video game music tourney, like I planned.
Quote from: Dr. Ensatsu-ken on March 06, 2015, 01:24:35 PM
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Untouchables
Aliens
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Back to the Future
Goodfellas
Rear Window
Predator
John Carpenter's The Thing
Little Miss Sunshine
John Woo's The Killer
Kung-Fu Hustle
Serenity
The Dirty Dozen
Rain Man
Godzilla (1954)

GSF: I'm leaving it up to you to nominate A Better Tomorrow and maybe some other martial arts films. Also, Collateral, can't forget that.

>:( That was mine to nominate.

I got you. Collateral is in my top 5.

Collateral
Drunken Master
Drunken Master II
Iron Monkey
Hard-Boiled
Alien
A Better Tomorrow
Jaws
Lone Wolf And Cub
Police Story
Yojimbo
Training Day
The Dark Knight

Quote from: Foggle on March 06, 2015, 12:51:33 PM
Quote from: Cartoon X on March 06, 2015, 11:01:03 AM
Black Dynamite
We should just end the tournament now, because this is the factual greatest film of all time.
I can get behind this. :thumbup:
"Ryu is like the Hank Hill of Street Fighter." -BB_Hoody


Spark Of Spirit

Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings
Gone Baby Gone
The Terminator
Aliens
Copland
Groundhog's Day
Ghostbusters
Big Trouble in Little China
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Captain America: The First Avenger
Captain America: The Winter Solider
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Die Hard
Lethal Weapon
Lethal Weapon 2

Most of that was filling in holes.
"The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder." - G.K. Chesterton

Foggle

Good stuff, fellows.

In Bruges
Hot Fuzz
Love Exposure
Cemetery Man
American Psycho
Underground
Army of Darkness
Casino
LA Confidential
Raging Bull
Taxi Driver
Oldboy (original)
There Will Be Blood
The Bird People In China
Blue Velvet
Kill Bill (as one movie; seriously, it becomes a masterpiece when you watch it as intended)

LumRanmaYasha

Quote from: gunswordfist on March 06, 2015, 02:00:15 PM
I hope you weren't deterred from doing the anime music competition by what I said. I was only half serious :blush: ...but I will definitely do it after I finish the video game music tourney, like I planned.

Nah, I wasn't planning to do consecutive music tournaments in the first place.  ;) I'm also just kind of tired of running anime/manga related competitions, so I probably won't do one of those again for a bit.

Avaitor

EK, you keep on nominating the past winners of this tournament. :P

Double Indemnity
The Lost Weekend
Sunset Boulevard
Stalag 17
Love in the Afternoon
Some Like It Hot
The Apartment
One, Two, Three

This time, I hope I can just get someone on here to watch a Billy Wilder movie already, though.
Life is not about the second chances. It's about a little mouse and his voyage to an exciting new land. That, my friend, is what life is.

Sir, do you have any Warrants?
I got their first CD, but you can't have it, motherfucker!

New blog!
http://avaitorsblog.blogspot.com/

Foggle

We should have like a week grace period between First Bracket rounds to give everyone enough time to watch all the films.

LumRanmaYasha


Spark Of Spirit

Oh, Aliens was already nominated.

I nominate Live Free or Die Hard in its place.
"The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder." - G.K. Chesterton

Dr. Ensatsu-ken

Avaitor: The last time we did this competition was over five years ago, and with a different group of people. CX, GSF, Homura Akemi, Lord Il, VLord, Pharass, and others weren't here for that. So, it's all fair game, now. ;)

Dr. Ensatsu-ken

Quote from: Spark Of Spirit on March 06, 2015, 03:13:53 PM
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings
Gone Baby Gone
The Terminator
Aliens
Copland
Groundhog's Day
Ghostbusters
Big Trouble in Little China
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Captain America: The First Avenger
Captain America: The Winter Solider
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Die Hard
Lethal Weapon
Lethal Weapon 2

Most of that was filling in holes.

You got Gone Baby Gone but missed The Town and Argo? :thinkin: