GRcade's Films 2009 - General Discussion Thread

[Rubix]

Im using this as a topic to chat about where we will go next and also for general chat. Please use the voting topic to vote and talk about your votes, and Nominations for nominations only. Anything else in here please and all ideals welcome as next I am looking at moving to top 5 from each Genres and also may move onto each Decade. Previous winners will also be updated here on the first page

Previous Winners from the A-Z Films


2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien, Back to the Future, City of God, Die Hard, (The) Empire Strikes Back (SW), Fight Club, (The) Godfather Part II, Hard Boiled, In Bruges, Jaws, King Kong (1933), (The) Lives of Others, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, No Country for Old Men, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Pulp Fiction, Quantam of Solace, Raging Bull, (The) Shining, (The) Thing, (The) Usual Suspects, Vertigo, (The) Wrestler, X-Men 2 (X2), Yojimbo, Zatoichi

Decades
Top 5 Winners from the 30's Films

1. Snow White and the seven dwarfs (1937), 2. (The) Wizard of Oz (1939), 3. King Kong (1933), 4. Gone with the Wind (1939), 5. (The) 39 steps (1935)
Top 5 Winners from the 40's Films

1. It's A Wonderful Life (1946), 2. Dumbo (1941), Joint 3rd. Citizen Kane (1941) & Pinocchio (1940) 5. The Third Man 1949
Top 5 Winners from the 50's Films

1. 12 Angry Men (1957), 2. Vertigo (1958), 3. Rear Window (1954), 4. North by Northwest (1959), 5. Seven Samurai (1954)
Top 5 Winners from the 60's Films

1. Psycho (1960), 2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), 3. Lawrence of Arabia (1962), 4. The Good,The Bad, and the Ugly (1966), 5. Goldfinger (1964)
Top 5 Winners from the 70's Films

1. Star Wars (1977), 2. The Godfather, Part II (1974), 3. Alien (1979), 4. Enter the Dragon (1973), 5. Jaws (1975)
Top 5 Winners from the 80's Films

1. Die Hard (1988), 2. The Empire Strikes Back (1980) & The Terminator (1984), 4. Aliens (1986), 5. The Thing (1982)
Top 5 Winners from the 90's Films

1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994), 2. Pulp Fiction (1994), 3. Se7en (1995), 4. Fight Club (1999), 5. Jurassic Park (1993)
Top 5 Winners from the 00's Films

1. The Dark Knight (2008), 2. The Departed (2006), 3. There will be blood (2007), 4. The Prestige (2006), 5. Memento (2000)

Trilogies and Saga's
Top 5 Winners from Trilogy Films

1. Back to the Future, 2. The Lord of the Rings, 3. Bourne Trilogy
Top 5 Winners from SAGA Films

1. Alien, 2. Star Wars, 3. Indiana Jones

[Banjo]

I like both the ideas of of Top 5 for each genre and the Top 10 for each decade. I cans ee where problems would arise though. The earliest decades (pre 30's) are going to be very difficult for most members to choose films from, and some of the later decades (80's onwards) are going to split opinion like never before.

As for genre, like Poncho mentioned in the P voting thread, some films cross genres, how would we decide what goes where. I still think this is all very doable though.

[Drumstick]

IMO skip genres. Just move on to decades.

I remember a while back on the old GR film thread, people posted their top five of each decade just for fun and that was fine. I think it'd be a pretty good system but if you're going to compile a top 50 or 100 (which you should) then maybe you should give people ten choices per decade instead.

[IGM]

Decades sounds good, - the 80's vote will be a killer!

I think a genres one would be good if it was for clear genres like MUSICALS, or WESTERNS. When you get to fuzzy genres like action or thriller it would all fall down.

Maybe do genres as one off specials now and again. Starting with musicals, obviously...

[Rubix]

P & Q updated. Glad Pulp Fiction won, one of my favorites

[Rubix]

No we can't skip Q on an A-Z list

You all better hope that a good Q film is out before next years

[Banjo]

I propose that all of GRcade bands together and makes a film with the specific intention of giving it a title starting with Q. Or alternatively, everyone makes their own film but has to name it with a Q so there's more to vote for.

[Rubix]

What shall we call it?

[Banjo]

We'll have a thread where people make nominations, then vote for the best.

My idea is this.

It shall be called Que? It'll be about a band of forumites currently stranded in Brazil. We get treated to a sweet-ass montage as they learn Spanish so they can interact with the locals only to learn that they all speak Portuguese. Eventually they go "strawberry float it" and hit the beaches and perv over the hot women. The End.

[Rubix]

Sounds good, lets have a party at the end American Pie 2 style

[Drumstick]

I'm in, if only for the babes.

[thousand yard stare]

My idea is for a film called Quetzalcoatl, about a delusional man who believes he is the reincarnated spirit of the winged serpent God of Mexican folklore.

[SpaceJebus]

Is there going to be a numbers round or have you decided against that?

[Drumstick]

Yeah, there will be. Otherwise we'd never be able to nominate 2001 or 12 Angry Men.

[Banjo]

You could nominate them under T.

[SpaceJebus]

Yeah, there will be. Otherwise we'd never be able to nominate 2001 or 12 Angry Men.

That's the film I was asking for before it got to the 'T' nominations. Good to know there will be one though.

[Rubix]

Is there going to be a numbers round or have you decided against that?

Numbers will come after Z

[Drumstick]

You could nominate them under T.

The titles begin with numbers though so I class them as such. There's enough films out there to justify a numbers round IMO.

[Banjo]

They're the only two (and maybe 12 Monkeys) that I can see winning it. There are others, but not of that quality.

[Drumstick]

Any film could win it. See QoS.