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

[Tripe]

They fixed it somewhat in the much later comic book adaptation but yeah the film is horrible.

[LucasM]

They fixed it somewhat in the much later comic book adaptation but yeah the film is horrible.

Yeah... if I remember correctly (I may not), I think the comic was done from Whedon's original movie script.  [So still a bit raw compared to the heights the series reached, but still a vast improvement over what showed up on movie screens.]


[Jeez, two sentences and I've got a headache again.  I better try sleeping again, earlier than my usual evening crash.]

[Starman!]

I always thought that Buffy was meh. Of course, it doesn't help that my sisters were obsessed with that show. Meanwhile, my sister won't read the comics or even watch the motion comic thingy.

Anyways, this was a hard one but I voted for T2, The Deer Hunter, A Trip to the Moon and Gremlins.

I hate to admit it, but I've never seen Harold and Maude, Amadeus, Trainspotting or The Adventures of Robin Hood.

[Kete]

Poll is complete.  This one's a bit messy.  We had three winners, but a lot of ties for fourth (fourth place should advance since we had some carry-overs in this round).

The winners are:
Terminator 2
Le Voyage Dans La Lune
MASH

The fourth place ties are:
The Adventures Of Robin Hood
Amadeus
Gremlins
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World

I guess we'll carry these over to the next round.

We need 9 more movies to start the next round.

[Asbestos Bill]

*sigh* I guess the frequent nominations will have to do to convince people to watch The Grave of the Fireflies...

I'll re-nominate The Kid (only 2 votes the first time? Seriously?)

[ScottotD]

Can we close this one now? :-)

[Kete]

I'll re-nominate The Kid (only 2 votes the first time? Seriously?)

My favorite Chaplin is definitely City Lights.

[goflyblind]

I'll re-nominate The Kid (only 2 votes the first time? Seriously?)

i just don't think it's one of bruce willis' best roles.

[Asbestos Bill]

I'll re-nominate The Kid (only 2 votes the first time? Seriously?)

My favorite Chaplin is definitely City Lights.

I haven't seen that one. The Kid is more iconic, though, I think.

[MartyS (Gromit)]

I'll go with The Caine Mutiny this round.

It was up against some serious competition way back in round 11, maybe it will do better now.

I think we are reaching the point where there are fewer stand outs, and getting into lots of movies people haven't seen, a few polls back was the first one I had seen less than half of the ones on the poll. 

[LucasM]

Since two people have already resubmitted films I'd put up in earlier rounds this time, I'll nominate something from a very different film area.

Jason and the Argonauts (1963)

When Ray Harryhausen was awarded his lifetime achievement Oscar, Tom Hanks introduced Ray Bradbury (Harryhausen's lifetime friend) to give the speech about Harryhausen's achievements, and Hanks stood off to the side.  After Harryhausen gave his acceptance speech, and was preparing to leave the stage, Hanks said directly to him (i.e. not at the podium), "when people are asked what the best movie of all time is, most say 'Citizen Kane'... I say 'Jason and the Argonauts'." 

While I, personally, don't think it is 'better' than Kane, I like it a lot more, and it's probably in my top 5 favorite films.  [Buying, and seeing Harryhausen on Super8 films, and studying them one frame at a time, I learned how to do model animation as a teen.  At age 16 I saved up and bought a Minolta Super8 camera with single-frame capability, and did a bunch of model and clay animation myself... I never took a short-cut with them: I did movements between every frame, instead of every 2-3 like many other amateurs did.  It was so well-received, that my high school Cinema Study teacher asked me to sit in on each of his classes throughout the day and show it personally, and at one point a person I barely knew was having a massive party, and asked me if I could bring my projector and show it.  In a large room filled with about 50 people [most in their late teens or early 20s] who had been drinking and smoking pot (and ingesting god knows what else) I showed the film, and these 50 people were all silent and attentive while it played.  Despite the applause afterwards, that many people who had drunk that much sitting silently was probably the best compliment I ever got on it.]

Ooops... I'm still out of it, so got a bit off-topic there... (though since the rules say, 'personally relevant', I suppose I just explained part of why this film is personally relevant for me).

For a Harryhausen film - and compared to most fantasy films in general (certainly at that time) - it has a rather solid plot and fairly good acting, the interactions with Harryhausen's creatures are all integral to the plot, the things he chose to move are intensely difficult to animate [a seven-headed hydra followed by seven skeletons sword fighting] and his work has some of the most realistic movements of any model animation that I've ever seen, with clear personalities to the characters he animates in it.

So: give your votes generously, to Jason and the Argonauts.  Thank you!

[Edited to remove two small words to clarify the first sentence in the 'Oscar' paragraph.  That edit really makes a difference in clarity and implied meaning there.  (I just woke up and from writing this I'm already fried, despite mentally composing this post prior to my brain-and-spine-killing doctor's appointment last week. )  Later, I did a small change to the 'my-film' paragraph.]

[MartyS (Gromit)]

That's pretty funny, I was looking through my disc collection and almost nominated that one, instead I looked through early rounds to find one that hasn't made it yet.  I almost went with Mr Roberts but Caine Mutiny is a slightly better movie.

[MontyServo]

I will nominate Grease for the next round.  Just a fun movie and an all time classic.

[Starman!]

I will nominate Das Boot.

[D.B. Barnes]

I phlebotimmate The Manchurian Candidate (1962).