103 Movies You Have To See or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Poll

[MontyServo]

I missed out nominating last time so I will nominate Boogie Nights for the next round.

[ScottotD]

28 Days Later

[LucasM]

WHOA WHOA WHOA! Do we mean the Avengers from 1998 or the one from 2012? because the distinction must be made considering they were both mainstream and impossible to erase from our memories.

From the nominating post (same page as this question, four posts above it):

D.B. nominated it before, and it was shot down by others because it was "too new" and that it might be caught up in 'too much hype'.

"The Avengers"

Do I think Whedon did a good job of pulling together the nine characters necessary for the film (the six Avengers, Fury, Colson, and, of course, Loki)?  Heck yeah.  Do I think Whedon did an overall great job on a film that people said 'couldn't be done'?  Yes.  But those also aren't really why I think it deserves to be on the list.

To quote myself from a couple pages back...:

...if/when it might be renominated, The Avengers, because any film that could get the country/planet - in probably the worst world-wide financial collapse we've seen (since film was created, at least) - go and shell out over a billion dollars to see, is 'relevant' to the planet/country... regardless of it's other film qualities].

I thought it was fairly clear which was being referred to. 

[MontyServo]

WHOA WHOA WHOA! Do we mean the Avengers from 1998 or the one from 2012? because the distinction must be made considering they were both mainstream and impossible to erase from our memories.

From the nominating post (same page as this question, four posts above it):

D.B. nominated it before, and it was shot down by others because it was "too new" and that it might be caught up in 'too much hype'.

"The Avengers"

Do I think Whedon did a good job of pulling together the nine characters necessary for the film (the six Avengers, Fury, Colson, and, of course, Loki)?  Heck yeah.  Do I think Whedon did an overall great job on a film that people said 'couldn't be done'?  Yes.  But those also aren't really why I think it deserves to be on the list.

To quote myself from a couple pages back...:

...if/when it might be renominated, The Avengers, because any film that could get the country/planet - in probably the worst world-wide financial collapse we've seen (since film was created, at least) - go and shell out over a billion dollars to see, is 'relevant' to the planet/country... regardless of it's other film qualities].

I thought it was fairly clear which was being referred to. 

I think he was just joshing ya, Lucas. 

[LucasM]

Yeah... I'm too far gone to figure that out.  Thanks.

[D.B. Barnes]

Hugo

Pure movie magic!

[Kete]

Rocky

[Starman!]

I nominate The 39 Steps

[LucasM]

I'll try again:

Un Chien Andalou ['The Andelusian Dog'] by Salvador Dali and Louis Bunuel.

[Kete]

Poll is up!

[Relaxing Dragon]

Hmm... might be a split in the horror vote this round. Gotta watch that.

[goflyblind]

that is all.

[Kete]

He's a zit.  I get it.

[LucasM]

For the next round, how about a film on 'shared experiences' (which actually works better in theaters than in home video, though I suspect the Blu-Ray on a large TV would be pretty close).  Wikipedia describes it as, "a story of two brilliant scientists who develop a revolutionary device to record and vicariously experience other people's feelings and perceptions, a device the military tries to steal for its own purposes".  I always thought - if the machine was real - it would be a tremendous boon to the field of psychology and trauma treatment.

Brainstorm

Film created by Doug ['2001' 'CE3K' and 'Blade Runner' special effects] Trumbull, as he imagined the future of film.  He then went on to work on technical aspects of film, e.g. using 70mm and 60fps to heighten the experience, a technique he'd conceived for filming Brainstorm [more detail and faster frame rate to reduce the brain's perception that it is 'watching a film', but it would have required expensive projection equipment upgrades by theaters which scuttled the idea].  He shortly after the film became vice chairman of IMAX for a time.

Natalie Wood died part-way through shooting, requiring that the film be altered a bit to use the film of her that was already shot and not need more.

[Parts of that from a Wikipedia review since my brain's not working well enough to retrieve it 'cold'.]

[Starman!]

I'll nominate The Birds