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post #1 of 44
12/10/07 at 10:18pm
Thread Starter 
Diamond Men
Jesus' Son
Bully
The Host
Rules of Attraction
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post #2 of 44
12/10/07 at 10:20pm
The Lives of Others (people are still bitter about this beating Pan's Labyrinth, aren't they?)
Twilight Samurai
Match Point
Millions
A Mighty Wind
No Direction Home
28 Days Later
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post #3 of 44
12/10/07 at 10:27pm
The Others
Session 9
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post #4 of 44
12/10/07 at 10:28pm
Too many to list. I'll try to limit it.

State and Main
3-Iron
Hero
Spider
Morvern Callar
The Child
21 Grams
The Time of the Wolf
2046

edit- Ratty got it first
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post #5 of 44
12/10/07 at 10:28pm
Everything is Illuminated
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post #6 of 44
12/10/07 at 10:30pm
The big elephant in the room: no Two Towers.
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post #7 of 44
12/10/07 at 10:34pm
Yeah, LOTR:TTT is definitely the most interesting to me, too. No way I would have drafted it, but given the love that series gets... and the other two installments were drafted in the first seven picks. And TTT doesn't stand out as an inferior entry, the way something like ROTJ does. Curious.
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post #8 of 44
12/10/07 at 10:34pm
Thread Starter 
Yeah, what happened to The Two Towers? My recollection is it was the best of those films. But haven't seen any in a while.

Apparently me and Bailey can hang. Morvern Callar is a flick not a lot of people like.
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post #9 of 44
12/10/07 at 10:36pm
Thread Starter 
I think Matchstick said Waking the Dead was Crudup's best perf but no way, it's Jesus' Son, another S.Morton flick. I also just discovered she's the voice of Ruby in Max & Ruby which my daughter forces me to watch.
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post #10 of 44
12/10/07 at 10:42pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirby Drummond
Morvern Callar is a flick not a lot of people like.
Yeah, really underloved. I liked it a lot, and not just because I had an almost unnatural thing for Samantha Morton for awhile. I don't think Lynne Ramsay has done anything since.
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post #11 of 44
12/10/07 at 10:44pm
Black Snake Moan
Happiness of the Katakuris
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post #12 of 44
12/10/07 at 10:46pm
Here's another one (besides The Shape of Things and Morvern Callar) I figured I was the only one who liked-- Anybody got some love for Young Adam?
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post #13 of 44
12/10/07 at 10:48pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by El Tati
And maybe the first Pirates movie. I mean they drafted Transformers and Bad Boys 2, why not?
Agreed. If I'd been playing, I wouldn't have let the first Pirates get past round 3, I guarantee you that. The shitty sequels are probably too fresh in peoples' minds, it's easy to forget that the first Pirates is easily one of the best adventure flicks since Raiders. I don't care if it is thirty minutes too long.
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post #14 of 44
12/10/07 at 10:54pm
Re: Two Towers. I guess no one wanted to be the third person on the bandwagon. It would have been a terribly unoriginal pick but, in my opinion, a very valid one.

Another example: I damn near had Bourne Supremacy up for one of the later rounds, but when Ultimatum went, I shoved it aside because I didn't want to be a "copycat". Part of the fun of this draft was trying to surprise people.
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post #15 of 44
12/10/07 at 10:54pm
Maria Full of Grace
Serenity
Final Destination 2
Saved!
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post #16 of 44
12/10/07 at 11:05pm
With some of what was drafted in the bonus round I'd say Serenity easily belongs. The movie is a gimme for me so I let it slide.
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post #17 of 44
12/10/07 at 11:20pm
Grizzly Man
Kinsey
Chicago
Street Fight
Deliver Us From Evil
The Kid Stays in the Picture
The Emperor's New Groove
The Sea Inside
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post #18 of 44
12/10/07 at 11:28pm
Just fyi, Grizzly Man was taken in the bonus round.
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post #19 of 44
12/10/07 at 11:31pm
I was totally going to grab The Host, but thread starter had to beat me to it.

I'm pleased that I grabbed the best Samurai film of the decade, the one without Tom Cruise.

I considered The Emperor's New Groove myself. 2D animation and not slotting easily into Disney's usual formula almost was enough. Animation got picked over hard in the draft.
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post #20 of 44
12/10/07 at 11:36pm
Vanilla Sky
War of the Worlds
Minority Report
Letters from Iwo Jima
Hero
About Schmidt
Big Fish

Not necessarily stuff I would have picked, but I thought some of these would have gone.
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post #21 of 44
12/10/07 at 11:38pm
The Quiet American.
Spy Game.
Rabbit Proof Fence.
A Very Long Engagement.
Atanarjurat.
Code 46
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post #22 of 44
12/10/07 at 11:56pm
Thread Starter 
Ramsay had The Lovely Bones before some other guy got a hold of it.
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post #23 of 44
12/11/07 at 12:06am
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bailey
Just fyi, Grizzly Man was taken in the bonus round.
My bad. I'm glad someone got it.
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post #24 of 44
12/11/07 at 12:39am
No Hotel Rwanda, either.

I seriously considered Minority Report. I love that film, even with the semi-copout ending.
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post #25 of 44
12/11/07 at 1:19am
Damn, I was gonna take THE QUIET AMERICAN. That's a great movie.

And I'm amazed that OCEAN'S TWELVE didn't get picked up. Did everyone think Nick had dibs on it? I certainly did.
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post #26 of 44
12/11/07 at 2:56am
About a Boy.

I stand by what I said about Crudup, but Jesus's Son is amazing and I did forget about it.

Still, kid has disappointed since.
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post #27 of 44
12/11/07 at 2:58am
More, off the top of the noggin':

TRISTRAM SHANDY: A COCK AND BULL STORY
INTACTO
THE GOOD SHEPHRED
PRIDE & PREJUDICE
CATCH A FIRE
A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS
GEORGE WASHINGTON
RAISING VICTOR VARGAS
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post #28 of 44
12/11/07 at 3:37am
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kevin Matchstick
About a Boy.
Mine!
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post #29 of 44
12/11/07 at 12:00pm
I almost picked Twohy's Below. I think it's a really good flick and it was just brutalized by its studio. Like it was a Mike Judge flick or something.
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post #30 of 44
12/11/07 at 12:07pm
Thread Starter 
Kinsey is a good flick, on the other night.

Also:

Auto Focus
Pollock
The Brown Bunny
Spider-man
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
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post #31 of 44
12/11/07 at 1:28pm
Ginger Snaps
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Last Life in the Universe
Jackass: Number Two
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post #32 of 44
12/11/07 at 4:24pm
I considered Spider Man, but I think someone took the sequel so that sort of stole the thunder.

I almost took May in the bonus round.
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post #33 of 44
12/11/07 at 4:28pm
I know there's already a couple Johnny To pics out there, but I expected Breaking News to go as, well.
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post #34 of 44
12/11/07 at 5:58pm
If Ripoll's including GINGER SNAPS, I'm listing GINGER SNAPS: UNLEASHED, its equally impressive sequel.

And good call mentioning MAY, Jankis. That was one of my bonus round possibilities too. Love that movie.
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post #35 of 44
12/11/07 at 6:06pm
The King of Kong

Haven't seen it yet but looks great and think it got a great write up on CHUD a while back.
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post #36 of 44
12/11/07 at 6:21pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Anyawatchin Angel
The King of Kong

Haven't seen it yet but looks great and think it got a great write up on CHUD a while back.
Was very good. I briefly entertained it for my bonus round pick, but went another way. Someone already mentioned Everything Is Illuminated, but I'll mention it again.
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post #37 of 44
12/11/07 at 7:59pm
Would Blade Runner - The Final Cut been allowed? I wondered this after Army of Shadows was chosen.

Also, you know what's awesome? NO ONE chose a prequel. Even Freddy Got Fingered and Jackass Two were picked.
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post #38 of 44
12/11/07 at 8:16pm
King of Kong was pretty awesome. This was definitely a good year for documentaries.

I was pretty surprised that Gone Baby Gone didn't make anyone's list. It's probably my second favorite film of the year, but like I said in the other thread, there were probably only three or four releases from this year that you could arguably put on a "best of the decade" list without question.
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post #39 of 44
12/11/07 at 8:38pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris Allen
Would Blade Runner - The Final Cut been allowed? I wondered this after Army of Shadows was chosen.

Also, you know what's awesome? NO ONE chose a prequel. Even Freddy Got Fingered and Jackass Two were picked.
The way I went about it was films that were made previously but had a US theatrical debut during the decade were eligible. Older films that premiered a new cut this decade, or director's cuts of new films that were pretty much exclusive to DVD didn't apply. I'm not saying those were the actual rules, just my guess based on what Kirby said in other threads.
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post #40 of 44
12/11/07 at 10:55pm
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Also, you know what's awesome? NO ONE chose a prequel. Even Freddy Got Fingered and Jackass Two were picked.
As someone who actually owns all three prequels on DVD and admits to enjoying some aspects of them, I can say that there is absolutely no way any of them deserve to be on the list. But it would have been interesting to see someone post them as a way to commit reputation suicide.
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post #41 of 44
12/11/07 at 11:07pm
Did Howl's Moving Castle get picked?

I almost picked Man on Fire bonus round.
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post #42 of 44
12/12/07 at 12:22am
Where was Oliver Assayas?
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post #43 of 44
12/12/07 at 12:42am
Nobody picked Garden State. Props for that.
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post #44 of 44
12/13/07 at 2:18am
Quote:
Originally Posted by R-Lu
Nobody Knows
Ah, there's the one I was waiting for. I hoped to see it come up eventually.
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