Alright guys & girls we're finally down to the Grand Final!!!

256 movies, down to 2. Let's find out which is TPE's Greatest Movie Of All Time!!

Match 255 – #1 – The Shawshank Redemption (1994) V #11 – Fight Club (1999)

TOURNAMENT HISTORY

Top 256 – Blow 7-0

Top 128 – The Big Lebowski 4-1

Top 64 – The Avengers 5-0

Top 32 – Good Will Hunting 6-0

Super 16 – Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope 8-1

Elite 8 – The Silence Of The Lambs 5-2

Final 4 – The Usual Suspects 5-4

The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont and starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman.

Adapted from the Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, the film tells the story of Andy Dufresne, a banker who spends nearly two decades in Shawshank State Prison for the murder of his wife and her lover despite his claims of innocence. During his time at the prison, he befriends a fellow inmate, Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding, and finds himself protected by the guards after the warden begins using him in his money laundering operation.

Despite a lukewarm box office reception that barely recouped its budget, the film received favorable reviews from critics, multiple award nominations, and has since enjoyed a remarkable life on cable television, VHS, DVD, and Blu-ray. It was included in the American Film Institute's 100 Years…100 Movies 10th Anniversary Edition

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TOURNAMENT HISTORY

Top 256 – King Kong 5-2

Top 128 – The Maltese Falcon 3-1

Top 64 – Back To The Future 5-1

Top 32 – Batman Begins 7-0

Super 16 – The Breakfast Club 6-1

Elite 8 – American History X 5-2

Final 4 – Se7en 6-1

Fight Club is a 1999 American film based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. The film was directed by David Fincher and stars Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, and Helena Bonham Carter. Norton plays the unnamed protagonist, an “everyman” who is discontented with his white-collar job. He forms a “fight club” with soap maker Tyler Durden, played by Pitt, and becomes embroiled in a relationship with him and a dissolute woman, Marla Singer, played by Bonham Carter.

Palahniuk's novel was optioned by 20th Century Fox producer Laura Ziskin, who hired Jim Uhls to write the film adaptation. Fincher was one of four directors the producers considered and hired him because of his enthusiasm for the film. Fincher developed the script with Uhls and sought screenwriting advice from the cast and others in the film industry. The director and the cast compared the film to Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and The Graduate (1967). Fincher intended Fight Club's violence to serve as a metaphor for the conflict between a generation of young people and the value system of advertising. The director copied the homoerotic overtones from Palahniuk's novel to make audiences uncomfortable and keep them from anticipating the twist ending.

Studio executives did not like the film and they restructured Fincher's intended marketing campaign to try to reduce anticipated losses. Fight Club failed to meet the studio's expectations at the box office and received polarized reactions from critics. It was cited as one of the most controversial and talked-about films of 1999. However, the film later found commercial success with its DVD release, which established Fight Club as a cult film. Critical reception of Fight Club has since become more positive.

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