Alright guys and girls we are into the 2nd phase of the GMOAT: The final 128!!
Here is the first set of 16 matches:
Match 129 – #4 – Pulp Fiction (1994) V #132 – Cool Hand Luke (1967)
The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster’s wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and
redemption.
A man refuses to conform to life in a rural prison.
Match 130 – #61 – A Clockwork Orange (1971) V #68 – The Prestige (2006)
In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the
government in an effort to solve society’s crime problem… but not all goes to plan.
The rivalry between two magicians is exacerbated when one of them performs the ultimate illusion.
Match 131 – #29 – Rear Window (1954) V #100 – Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (1989)
A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has
committed murder.
When Dr. Henry Jones Sr. suddenly goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, eminent archaeologist Indiana Jones must follow in
his father’s footsteps and stop the Nazis.
Match 132 – #36 – Apocalypse Now (1979) V #93 – All About Eve (1950)
During the on-going Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green
Beret who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe.
An ingenue insinuates herself in to the company of an established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater friends.
Match 133 – #13 – Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (2001) V #116 – Snatch. (2000)
An innocent hobbit of The Shire journeys with eight companions to the fires of Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring and the dark
lord Sauron forever.
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish
jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.
Match 134 – #52 – The Departed (2006) V #77 – Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Two men from opposite sides of the law are undercover within the Massachusetts State Police and the Irish mafia, but violence and
bloodshed boil when discoveries are made, and the moles are dispatched to find out their enemy’s identities.
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village’s theater and formed a deep friendship with the
theater’s projectionist.
Match 135 – #20 – Forrest Gump (1994) V #148 – Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Forrest Gump, while not intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic moments, but his true love, Jenny, eludes him.
The Bride wakes up after a long coma. The baby that she carried before entering the coma is gone. The only thing on her mind is to
have revenge on the assassination team that betrayed her – a team she was once part of.
Match 136 – #45 – The Shining (1980) V #84 – Braveheart (1995)
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his
psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.
William Wallace, a commoner, unites the 13th Century Scots in their battle to overthrow English rule.
Match 137 – #5 – The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (1966) V #133 – Sin City (2005)
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote
cemetery.
A film that explores the dark and miserable town, Basin City, and tells the story of three different people, all caught up in violent
corruption.
Match 138 – #60 – The Lives Of Others (2006) V #69 – The Green Mile (1999)
In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming
increasingly absorbed by their lives.
The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a
mysterious gift.
Match 139 – #28 – The Usual Suspects (1995) v #156 – The Grapes Of Wrath (1940)
A boat has been destroyed, criminals are dead, and the key to this mystery lies with the only survivor and his twisted, convoluted
story beginning with five career crooks in a seemingly random police lineup.
A poor Midwest family is forced off of their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great
Depression.
Match 140 – #37 – Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) V #165 – Ben-Hur (1959)
The cyborg who once tried to kill Sarah Connor is dead, and another T-101 must now protect her teenage son, John Connor, from an
even more powerful and advanced Terminator, the T-1000.
When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.
Match 141 – #12 – One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) V #140 – Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Upon arriving at a mental institution, a brash rebel rallies the patients to take on the oppressive Nurse Ratched, a woman more
dictator than nurse.
The true-life story of Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against
the Hutu militia in Rwanda.
Match 142 – #53 – M (1931) V #76 – Chinatown (1974)
When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
A private detective investigating an adultery case stumbles on to a scheme of murder that has something to do with water.
Match 143 – #21 – The Dark Knight Rises (2012) V #108 – Inglorious Basterds (2009)
Eight years on, a new terrorist leader, Bane, overwhelms Gotham’s finest, and the Dark Knight resurfaces to protect a city that has
branded him an enemy.
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a
theatre owner’s vengeful plans for the same.
Match 144 – #44 – Spirited Away (2001) V #172 – Stand By Me (1986)
In the middle of her family’s move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and
monsters; where humans are changed into animals; and a bathhouse for these creatures.
After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy.
Voting will be open for at least 72 hours. Get voting!! GOGOGO!!
Pulp Fiction (FTW!!!)
A Clockwork Orange
Last Crusade
Apocalypse Now
Snatch
The Departed
Kill Bill
Braveheart
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
The Green Mile
The Usual Suspects
Terminator 2
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Chinatown
Inglourious Basterds
Spirited Away
Just wanna note that there were some incredibly close matches in this one, and that its only gonna get harder from here.
September 29, 2012
Pulp Fiction
A Clockwork Orange
Rear Window
Apocalypse Now
LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Departed
Forrest Gump
The Shining
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The Green Mile
The Grapes of Wrath
Ben Hur
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Chinatown
The Dark Knight Rises
Stand By Me
Ok guys thats a wrap for the first round of 128. Here are the results:
Pulp Fiction – 6
Cool Hand Luke – 1
A Clockwork Orange – 5
The Prestige – 2
Rear Window – 1
Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade – 5
Apocalypse Now – 5
All About Eve – 0
LOTR: The Fellowship Of The Ring – 3
Snatch. – 4
The Departed – 7
Cinema Paradiso – 0
Forrest Gump – 4
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 – 2
The Shining – 3 (Higher Seed)
Braveheart – 3
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly – 6
Sin City – 1
The Lives Of Others – 0
The Green Mile – 7
The Usual Suspects – 6
The Grapes Of Wrath – 1
Terminator 2: Judgement Day – 5
Ben-Hur – 1
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest – 6
Hotel Rwanda – 0
M – 1
Chinatown – 3
The Dark Knight Rises – 3 (Higher Seed)
Inglourious Basterds – 3
Spirited Away – 1
Stand By Me – 5
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