Select your favorite movie from each of the matchups. Final group of this round!!


Matchup #1
#120 Point Break
vs
#137 Three Colors: Red

Matchup #2
#121 The Last of the Mohicans
vs
#136 The Sandlot

Matchup #3
#122 The Hunt for Red October
vs
#135 Breaking the Waves

Matchup #4
#123 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
vs
#134 Leaving Las Vegas

Matchup #5
#124 Die Hard With a Vengeance
vs
#133 The Sweet Hereafter

Matchup #6
#125 Wayne's World
vs
#132 The Children of Heaven

Matchup #7
#126 Ronin
vs
#131 Hoop Dreams

Matchup #8
#127 Run Lola Run
vs
#130 Close-Up

Matchup #9
#128 Quiz Show
vs
#129 Kicking and Screaming(Baumbach)

There isn't a single match-up here where I've seen both films. Nor do I feel strongly enough about the ones I have seen to vote for them anyway. So no vote here. And no way for me to see which ones are winning if I don't vote. Not that I care enough. Oh well...

Still waiting for the GOODFELLAS-SILENCE OF THE LAMBS-PULP FICTION-JFK-BRAVEHEART-FACE/OFF-JACKIE BROWN-THREE KINGS-MATRIX matchups. But there'll be hell to pay if SHAWSHANK, JURASSIC, TITANIC or AMERICAN BEAUTY outvote them. (TRESPASS is already out of the running, thanks to you wussy GRUMPY OLD MEN fans.)

Only one for me. The Sandlot gets my vote although it's getting clobbered.

Boo at hoop dreams losing.

Point Break (Feel kinda bad voting against the very Good Red but Point Break entertains me more and s more satisfying and impressive.)
The Last of the Mohicans
Breaking the Waves (Extremely easy pick. I hate most submarine movies and Hunt bores the hell outta me.)
Leaving Las Vegas
Die Hard With a Vengeance (Now this was a HARD pick. Very hard. Both are great but Die Hard 3 is one of my favorite action movies ever easily and is my fav. Die HArd movie. Just a great fun script and SLJ is hilarious in it. Wish we'd get more moves like this nowadays.)
Matchup #6 (abstain. Have not see The Children of Heaven)
Hoop Dreams (easily)
Run Lola Run
Matchup #9 (Abstain. Have not Seen Quiz Show)

+1
and:
HUGE HUGE HUGE Boo at Hunt for Red October beating Breaking the Waves.
Again I have to ask how many people voting for Hunt have not seen Breaking the Waves?

Red
The Last of the Mohicans
Breaking the Waves
Leaving Las Vegas
The Sweet Hereafter
Children of Heaven
Hoop Dreams
Run Lola Run
Kicking and Screaming

Last of the Mohicans? You're killin' me, Smalls.

Red
Mohicans
Waves
Vegas
Sweet
Hoop
Lola
Kicking

Boo at Point Break destroying Red.

I think you can see the results without voting. Isn't there a view results link?

Goodfellas, Silence of the Lambs, and Jackie Brown all debut in the very next group!!

Hey Woody, not that it looks like it will matter, but could you change my vote on Matchup #8 to Close-Up? For some reason it didn't register as the Kiarostami film. Thanks.

Okay, will do.

Three Colors: Red
The Last of the Mohicans
Breaking the Waves
Leaving Las Vegas
The Sweet Hereafter
The Children of Heaven
Hoop Dreams
Close-Up
Quiz Show

Point Break
Last of the Mohicans
The Hunt for Red October
Ace Ventura
Die Hard with a Vengeance
Wayne's World
Ronin
Run Lola Run
Quiz Show

Point Break
Mohicans
Red October
Leaving Las Vegas
Sweet Hereafter. Hardest choice, but this film is flawless and I felt bad for picking point break
Waynes World
Hoop Dreams - Ronin? Come on
Quiz Show

Matchup #4: Leaving Las Vegas

That's all I could do.

I think we know now why Kieslowski had a heart attack: "Mr. Kieslwoski, you've just made one of the most beautiful, haunting, and magnificent films ever committed to celluloid, and in about 15 years it's going to lose an internet poll to a surfing movie starring Keanu Reaves."

Point Break
Last of the Mohicans
The Hunt for Red October
Ace Ventura
Die Hard with a Vengeance
Wayne's World
Abstain
Abstain
Quiz Show

"And it was directed by a woman."

Point Break, easily
The Sandlot
abstain - never heard of "Breaking the Waves"
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Die Hard With a Vengeance
abstain - never heard of "The Children of Heaven"
Ronin
abstain - haven't seen Close-Up
abstain - didn't care for either

Well, if it's any consolation, I bought a used VHS of RED last night for $2. So now I can see what all the fuss is about.
(I also bought used DVDs of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's CURE and Harryhausen's JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS, but those were a tad more expensive.)

"View Results" (Is there a "d'uuuuhhhh" emoticon for 'geniuses' like me?) Thanks, Woody. I can now see that the film I like the most in this roundup, WAYNE'S WORLD, is doing very well.

I think the best film of all of these is The Sweet Hereafter. But it isn't beating a Bruce Willis movie everyone saw.

Matchup #5: Die Hard With a Vengeance