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Post by SnoBorderZero on Aug 10, 2020 17:28:19 GMT -5
Psycho
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Post by PhantomKnight on Aug 10, 2020 17:28:45 GMT -5
Psycho
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Post by thebtskink on Aug 10, 2020 17:31:43 GMT -5
Lawrence
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Post by Neverending on Aug 10, 2020 17:35:07 GMT -5
Psycho
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Post by IanTheCool on Aug 10, 2020 17:35:41 GMT -5
Lawrence
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Post by Doomsday on Aug 10, 2020 18:51:01 GMT -5
Lawrence of Arabia
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Post by donny on Aug 11, 2020 16:38:34 GMT -5
Mr. Lawrence edges out Mr. Bates as Psycho goes down in a thriller. 7 spots remain.
Next battle up shortly.
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Post by donny on Aug 11, 2020 17:04:12 GMT -5
Battle of the Decades
The Sweet 16
The Naughty Nineties
Team Coop and DraculaThe 1990's as described by Wikipedia: The 1990s was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1990, and ended on December 31, 1999. Culturally, the 1990s are characterized by the rise of multiculturalism and alternative media, which continued into the 2000s and 2010s. Movements such as grunge, the rave scene and hip hop spread around the world to young people during that decade, aided by then-new technology such as cable television and the World Wide Web. A combination of factors, including the continued mass mobilization of capital markets through neo-liberalism, the thawing and end of the decades-long Cold War, the beginning of the widespread proliferation of new media such as the Internet from the middle of the decade onwards, increasing skepticism towards government, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union led to a realignment and reconsolidation of economic and political power across the world and within countries. The dot-com bubble of 1997–2000 brought wealth to some entrepreneurs before its crash between 2000 and 2001. The 1990s saw extreme advances in technology, with the World Wide Web, the first gene therapy trial, and the first designer babies all emerging in 1990 and being improved and built upon throughout the decade. GoodfellasSelected by: Cooper and Dracula Released: 1990 Directed By: Martin Scorsese Who Directed: 6 Films in the 1990's
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Thoughts from the Team: Such a banger. This much imitated gangster movie was in many ways a milestone in Scorsese's career in that it was sort of his transition out of grimy character pieces about catholic guilt into more audience pleasing and accessible character pieces about catholic guilt. The film is an endlessly watchable story, but not one that feels weightless in the slightest. It tells a story about what life is like for a criminal, the good and the bad, in a way that was very innovative and perfectly executed. - Dracula Visual Enhancements:What Happened... in the 1990's:At the height of their popularity in 1994, pagers—now considered an entirely obsolete piece of technology—were used by 61 million people. Today, the only people you'll see using this vintage device are those working in the medical field. VersusThe Big LebowskiSelected by: Cooper and Dracula Released: 1998 Directed By: Joel and Ethan Coen Who Directed: 6 Films in the 1990's
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Thoughts from the Team:One of the few comedies that truly gets better with time. Every rewatch reveals a new joke you missed, a new gesture, or a line you once overlooked that's now the funniest thing in the world. We can talk about how the film reinvents noir tropes or critiques masculinity and while I do find all that interesting, Lebowski's greatest strength is that it's mad funny and super creative. - PG Cooper Visual Enhancements:What Happened... in the 1990's:In 1999, when more than 2 million children in America owned at least one of these talking toys, the NSA declared the Furby an international threat and actually banned people from carrying them. According to CBS News, they were trying to prevent the Chinese government from installing secret listening devices into the Furbys that they were manufacturing at the time. My Vote: The Big Lebowski
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Post by PG Cooper on Aug 11, 2020 17:06:41 GMT -5
Goodfellas
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Post by PhantomKnight on Aug 11, 2020 17:46:23 GMT -5
The Big Lebowski
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Lebowski
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Post by SnoBorderZero on Aug 11, 2020 19:01:15 GMT -5
GoodFellas
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Post by donny on Aug 12, 2020 10:30:25 GMT -5
Tie ballgame.
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Post by Neverending on Aug 12, 2020 13:04:42 GMT -5
Lebowski
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Post by donny on Aug 12, 2020 16:37:32 GMT -5
That's gonna do it folks. Another heavy favorite goes down in the Round of 16, as The Dude keeps on dancing. March Madness in August.
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Post by donny on Aug 12, 2020 17:04:30 GMT -5
Battle of the Decades
The Sweet 16
The Electrifying Eighties
Team Dooms and Sno The 1980's as described by Wikipedia: The 1980's was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1980, and ended on December 31, 1989. The decade saw major socioeconomic change due to advances in technology and a worldwide move away from planned economies and towards laissez-faire capitalism. As economic deconstruction increased in the developed world, multiple multinational corporations associated with the manufacturing industry relocated into Thailand, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan, and China. Japan and West Germany saw large economic growth during this decade. The AIDS epidemic became recognized in the 1980's and has since killed an estimated 39 million people (as of 2013). Global warming became well known to the scientific and political community in the 1980's. The United Kingdom and the United States moved closer to supply-side economic policies beginning a trend towards global instability of international trade that would pick up more steam in the following decade as the fall of the USSR made right wing economic policy more powerful. The final decade of the Cold War opened with the US-Soviet confrontation continuing largely without any interruption. Superpower tensions escalated rapidly as President Reagan scrapped the policy of détente and adopted a new, much more aggressive stance on the Soviet Union. The world came perilously close to nuclear war for the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis 20 years earlier, but the second half of the decade saw a dramatic easing of superpower tensions and ultimately the total collapse of Soviet communism. The ShiningSelected by: Dooms and Snoborder Released: 1980 Directed By: Stanley Kubrick Who Directed: 2 Films in the 1980's A Decade in Music:Thoughts from the Team:I like The Shining but I don't love The Shining. Doomsday Visual Enhancements: What Happened... in the 1980's:Apple Computer® launches its Macintosh computer in 1984. Versus
Raiders of the Lost ArkSelected by: Dooms and Snoborder Released: 1981 Directed By: Steven Spielberg Who Directed: 8 Films in the 1980's A Decade in Music:Thoughts from the Team:One of the most universally beloved movies ever made but whose quality is equal to its likability. If there's a movie with more iconic scenes than Raiders of the Lost Ark I'd like to hear it. Doomsday Visual Enhancements:What Happened... in the 1980's:Best selling author Tom Clancy concludes a successful decade with the publication of Clear and Present Danger in 1989. The book follows previous bestsellers The Hunt for Red October (1984), Red Storm Rising (1986), Patriot Games (1987), and The Cardinal of the Kremlin (1988).
My Vote: The Shining
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Post by thebtskink on Aug 12, 2020 17:12:26 GMT -5
Time for vengeance voting.
Raiders.
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Post by IanTheCool on Aug 12, 2020 17:17:00 GMT -5
Raiders
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Post by Doomsday on Aug 12, 2020 17:22:29 GMT -5
I appreciate my Shining quote.
Raiders of the Lost Ark
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