Ok guys we're down to our final 64. I'll do 2 rounds of 16 matches and then change it at the top 32. here is the first round:
Match 193 – #2 – The Godfather (1972) V #66 – Gladiator (2000)
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.
Match 194 – #98 – 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) V #34 – Memento (2000)
Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest.
A man, suffering from short-term memory loss, uses notes and tattoos to hunt for the man he thinks killed his wife.
Match 195 – #15 – Goodfellas (1990) V #79 – The Intouchables (2011)
Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy.
After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caretaker.
Match 196 – #18 – The Matrix (1999) V #82 – Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1975)
A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.
King Arthur and his knights embark on a low-budget search for the Grail, encountering many very silly obstacles.
Match 197 – #7 – Schindler's List (1993) V #199 – Rocky (1976)
In Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
A small time boxer gets a once in a lifetime chance to fight the heavyweight champ in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.
Match 198 – #26 – Se7en (1995) V #39 -Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his modus operandi.
Following the Normandy Landings, a group of US soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.
Match 199 – #10 – Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) V #74 – Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004)
As Luke trains with Master Yoda to become a Jedi Knight, his friends evade the Imperial fleet under the command of Darth Vader who is obsessed with turning
Skywalker to the Dark Side of the Force.
A couple undergo a procedure to erase each other from their memories when their relationship turns sour, but it is only through the process of loss that they
discover what they had to begin with.
Match 200 – #234 – Shutter Island (2010) V #87 – The Lion King (1994)
Drama set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is
presumed to be hiding nearby.
Tricked into thinking he killed his father, a guilt ridden lion cub flees into exile and abandons his identity as the future King.
Match 201 – #131 – Scarface (1983) #67 – Reservior Dogs (1992)
In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel while succumbing to greed.
After a simple jewelery heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.
Match 202 – #158 – Gone With The Wind (1939) V #35 – American History X (1998)
American classic in which a manipulative woman and a roguish man carry on a turbulent love affair in the American south during the Civil War and
Reconstruction.
A former neo-nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did.
Match 203 – #14 – Inception (2010) V #78 – L.A. Confidential (1997)
In a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a highly skilled thief is given a final chance at redemption which involves
executing his toughest job to date: Inception.
As corruption grows in 1950s LA, three policemen – the straight-laced, the brutal, and the sleazy – investigate a series of murders with their own brand of
justice.
Match 204 – #19 – City Of God (2002) V #46 – American Beauty (1999)
Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer.
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation for his daughter's
attractive friend.
Match 205 – #251 – The Breakfast Club (1985) V #59 – Life Is Beautiful (1997)
Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more
in common than they thought.
A Jewish man has a wonderful romance with the help of his humour, but must use that same quality to protect his son in a Nazi death camp.
Match 206 – #27 – Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981) V #91 – Metropolis (1927)
Archeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the US government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis.
On a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet
who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Match 207 – #11 – Fight Club (1999) V #54 – Back To The Future (1985)
An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that transforms into a violent revolution.
A teenager is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his friend, Dr. Emmett Brown, and must make sure his
high-school-age parents unite in order to save his own existence.
Match 208 – #107 – Batman Begins (2005) V #43 – Citizen Kane (1941)
Bruce Wayne loses his philanthropic parents to a senseless crime, and years later becomes the Batman to save the crime-ridden Gotham City on the verge of
destruction by an ancient order.
Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance.
Voting will be open for at least 72 hours. GOGOGOGOGO!!!
easily the toughest round yet. which obv makes sese
I spent 10 minutes debating reservoir dogs vs. scarface.
Godfather
2001
Goodfellas
Monty
Schindlers
Saving
Star Wars
Shutter
Reservoir Dogs
American History X
LA COnf
American Beauty
Breakfast
Raiders
Fight Club
Citizen
October 6, 2010
gladiator
memento
goodfellas
the matrix
schindlers list
saving private ryan (dam, why did i have to choose)
empire strikes back
shutter island
reservior dogs
american history x
inception
american beauty
breakfast club
raiders of the lost ark
fight club
batman begins
October 22, 2012
the godfather
2001
goodfellas
matrix
rocky
7
star wars
lion king
reservoir dogs
history x
breakfast club (that was the toughest)
indi
back to the future
batman
Ok guys that'll do for this round. Here are the results:
The Godfather – 3 (Higher Seed)
Gladiator – 3
2001: A Space Odyssey – 3
Memento – 3 (Higher Seed)
Goodfellas – 5
The Intouchables – 0
The Matrix – 4
Monty Python And The Holy Grail – 2
Schindler's List – 3
Rocky – 2
Se7en – 3 (Higher Seed)
Saving Private Ryan – 3
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back – 5
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind – 1
Shutter Island – 4
The Lion King – 2
Scarface – 1
Reservoir Dogs – 5
Gone With The Wind – 0
American History X – 5
Inception – 4
L.A. Confidential – 1
City Of God – 2
American Beauty – 3
The Breakfast Club – 5
Life Is Beautiful – 1
Raiders Of The Lost Ark – 5
Metropolis – 0
Fight Club – 5
Back To The Future – 1
Batman Begins – 5
Citizen Kane – 1
Here is the updated bracket:
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