Ok people here is the 2nd half of the final 64!
Match 209 – #1 – The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Vs #65 – The Avengers (2012)
Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.
Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. brings together a team of super humans to form The Avengers to help save the Earth from Loki and his army.
Match 210 – #32 – Leon: The Professional (1994) V #161 – Good Will Hunting (1997)
A professional assassin rescues a teenage girl whose parents were killed in a police raid.
Will Hunting, a janitor at MIT, has a gift for mathematics but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.
Match 211 – #16 – Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) V #49 – Vertigo (1958)
Luke Skywalker, a spirited farm boy, joins rebel forces to save Princess Leia from the evil Darth Vader, and the galaxy from the Empire's planet-destroying
Death Star.
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's much-younger wife, all the while becoming
dangerously obsessed with her.
Match 212 – #145 – Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (1998) V #81 – Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Four London working class stiffs pool their money to put one in a high stakes card game, but things go wrong and they end up owing half a million pounds
and having one week to come up with the cash.
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow Marine recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the
bloody street fighting set in 1968 in Hue, Vietnam.
Match 213 – #8 – The Dark Knight (2008) V #185 – Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
When Batman, Gordon and Harvey Dent launch an assault on the mob, they let the clown out of the box, the Joker, bent on turning Gotham on itself and
bringing any heroes down to his level.
A Mumbai teen who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” He is arrested under suspicion of
cheating, and while being interrogated, events from his life history are shown which explain why he knows the answers.
Match 214 – #25 – The Silence Of The Lambs (1991) V #168 – V For Vendetta (2005)
A young FBI cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims.
A shadowy freedom fighter known only as “V” uses terrorist tactics to fight against his totalitarian society. Upon rescuing a girl from the secret police, he also
finds his best chance at having an ally.
Match 215 – #9 – The Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King (2003) V #201 – A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Aragorn leads the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw the dark lord's gaze from Frodo and Sam who are on the doorstep of Mount Doom with the
One Ring.
After a brilliant but asocial mathematician accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn to the nightmarish.
Match 216 – #152 – The King's Speech (2010) V #41 – Alien (1979)
The story of King George VI of Britain, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it.
A commercial deep space towing ship, investigating a suspected SOS, lands on a distant planet. The crew discovers some strange creatures and investigates.
Match 217 – #4 – Pulp Fiction (1994) V #61 – A Clockwork Orange (1971)
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.
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.
Match 218 – #100 – Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (1989) V #36 – Apocalypse Now (1979)
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.
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.
Match 219 – #116 – Snatch. (2000) V #52 – The Departed (2006)
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down
a priceless stolen diamond.
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.
Match 220 – #20 – Forrest Gump (1994) V #45 – The Shining (1980)
Forrest Gump, while not intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic moments, but his true love, Jenny, eludes him.
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.
Match 221 – #5 – The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (1966) V #69 – The Green Mile (1999)
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.
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 222 – #28 – The Usual Suspects (1995) V #37 – Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
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.
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.
Match 223 – #12 – One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) V #76 – Chinatown (1974)
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.
A private detective investigating an adultery case stumbles on to a scheme of murder that has something to do with water.
Match 224 – #21 – The Dark Knight Rises (2012) V #172 – Stand By Me (1986)
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.
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. GOGOGOGO!
October 6, 2010
damn, now they are starting to get harder.
shawshank
good will hunting
star wars
lock stock
slumdog millionaire
silence of the lambs
a beautiful mind
the kings speech
pulp fiction
indiana jones
snatch
forrest gump
the green mile
terminator 2
one flew over the cuckoo's nest
dark knight rises
October 22, 2012
leon
star wars IV
full metal jacket
slumdog
silence of the lambs
lord of the rings
alien
pulp fiction
apocalypse now
snatch
forrest gump
the good the bad the ugly
terminator2
cuckoos nest
stand by me
May 30, 2012
#1 ALL TIME MOVIE and I can't believe none of you guys mentioned it:
The GODFATHER
The GODFATHER 2
SNATCH is a must
Gladiator
Dark K rises, Dark Knight
The Avengers
Shawshank
Full Metal Jacket
The Last Samurai
One flew over
Harry Potter Death Hollow II
Lord of the Rings (King)
Jerry Mag
Silence of the Limbs
BRAVEHEART
Man under Fire
Armageddon
Metal of Valor
Black Hawk Down
Munich
Shindler's List
P-aire, you have to vote on the matches from the first post, not choose your own movies 🙂
Although some of the movies you have chosen are still in the tournament. Including schindlers list, silence of the lambs and the godfather. Unfortunately godfather part II got eliminated in the 2nd round.
If you want to look at what has happened so far in the tournament, here’s a link:
May 30, 2012
Ok guys that’s it for this round. Here is the results:
The Shawshank Redemption – 5
The Avengers – 0
Leon: The Professional – 2
Good Will Hunting – 3
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope – 5
Vertigo – 1
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels – 4
Full Metal Jacket – 2
The Dark Knight – 1
Slumdog Millionaire – 5
The Silence of the Lambs – 5
V for Vendetta – 1
Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King – 4
A Beautiful Mind – 2
The King’s Speech – 2
Alien – 4
Pulp Fiction – 6
A Clockwork Orange – 0
Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade – 3
Apocalypse Now – 3 (Higher Seed)
Snatch – 4
The Departed – 2
Forrest Gump – 4
The Shining – 2
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly – 3 (Higher Seed)
The Green Mile – 3
The Usual Suspects – 3 (Higher Seed)
Terminator 2: Judgement Day – 3
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest – 6
Chinatown – 0
The Dark Knight Rises – 4
Stand By Me – 2
And we are now down to the final 32! Here is the updated bracket:
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