The Great SDMB Movie Poll - Round 2A Winners Bracket {Polls closing at Noon EDT, 2026-01-10}

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Match 1
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • RocknRolla
0 voters
Match 2
  • The Princess Bride
  • The Drop (2014)
0 voters
Match 3
  • Jaws
  • Pygmalion
0 voters
Match 4
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • Pretty in Pink
0 voters
Match 5
  • Schindler’s List
  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
0 voters
Match 6
  • Naked Gun
  • Charade
0 voters
Match 7
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  • The Quiet Man
0 voters
Match 8
  • Stand By Me
  • Apocalypse Now
0 voters
Match 9
  • The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
  • The Fellowship of the Ring
0 voters
Match 10
  • Young Frankenstein
  • The Package
0 voters
Match 11
  • The Big Lebowski
  • Almost Famous
0 voters
Match 12
  • Das Boot
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
0 voters
Match 13
  • The Fifth Element
  • Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, 1971
0 voters
Match 14
  • Office Space
  • From Russia With Love
0 voters
Match 15
  • The Maltese Falcon
  • Free Solo
0 voters
Match 16
  • All the President’s Men
  • The Caine Mutiny
0 voters
Match 17
  • Clue
  • The Searchers
0 voters
Match 18
  • Groundhog Day
  • Master and Commander
0 voters
Match 19
  • Blazing Saddles
  • The Apartment
0 voters
Match 20
  • Pulp Fiction
  • Some Like It Hot
0 voters
Match 21
  • The Great Escape
  • The Birds
0 voters
Match 22
  • The Breakfast Club
  • Rat Race
0 voters
Match 23
  • The Dirty Dozen
  • The Shawshank Redemption
0 voters
Match 24
  • Animal House
  • The Hangover
0 voters
Match 25
  • The Terminator
  • Clash of the Titans (1981)
0 voters
Match 26
  • The Blues Brothers
  • His Girl Friday
0 voters
Match 27
  • Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
  • Rocky
0 voters
Match 28
  • The Silence of the Lambs
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail
0 voters
Match 29
  • The Sting
  • Endless Summer
0 voters
Match 30
  • The Return of the King
  • Tombstone
0 voters
Match 31
  • Harvey
  • Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
0 voters
Match 32
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  • LA Confidential
0 voters
Match 33
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai
  • King Kong (1933)
0 voters
Match 34
  • Breaker Morant
  • Rock and Roll High School
0 voters
Match 35
  • Spirited Away
  • Vertigo
0 voters
Match 36
  • Forbidden Planet
  • Murder by Death
0 voters
Match 37
  • Ghostbusters
  • Good Will Hunting
0 voters
Match 38
  • Beetlejuice
  • What’s Up Doc
0 voters
Match 39
  • Lawrence of Arabia
  • La Femme Nikita
0 voters
Match 40
  • Kill Bill Pts. 1 & 2
  • The Abyss
0 voters
Match 41
  • Slap Shot
  • This Is Spinal Tap
0 voters
Match 42
  • The Bourne Identity (2002)
  • Support Your Local Sheriff
0 voters
Match 43
  • Casablanca
  • The Descendants
0 voters
Match 44
  • Seven Samurai
  • You Only Live Twice
0 voters
Match 45
  • The Martian
  • Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers
0 voters
Match 46
  • In Bruges
  • Unforgiven
0 voters
Match 47
  • Aliens
  • Wait Until Dark
0 voters
Match 48
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Princess Mononoke
0 voters
Match 49
  • The Godfather Part II
  • Top Secret!
0 voters
Match 50
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  • Back to the Future
0 voters
Match 51
  • Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit
  • The Godfather
0 voters
Match 52
  • Silverado
  • Planes, Trains and Automobiles
0 voters
Match 53
  • Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
  • For a Few Dollars More
0 voters
Match 54
  • The Hunt for Red October
  • The Third Man
0 voters
Match 55
  • Project Hail Mary
  • Top Gun
0 voters
Match 56
  • The Thing (1982)
  • The Incredibles
0 voters
Match 57
  • Shaun of the Dead
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
0 voters
Match 58
  • Animal Crackers
  • Gran Torino
0 voters
Match 59
  • Best in Show
  • A Room with a View
0 voters
Match 60
  • Taxi Driver
  • Citizen Kane
0 voters
Match 61
  • The Magnificent Seven (1960)
  • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
0 voters
Match 62
  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • Fargo
0 voters
Match 63
  • Fight Club
  • Airplane!
0 voters
Match 64
  • Reservoir Dogs
  • The Fugitive
0 voters
The Great SDMB Movie Poll - Round 1 The Great 128 [voting in this round closed]
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The losers bracket Round 2B will probably have to wait until tomorrow - it takes a good hour to put this together and I have stuff I need to get done today.

3

It was fun voting, thank you for doing this!

4

Some odd combinations. Airplane! and Fight Club are apples and oranges.

Had fun voting though. Interested to see the results.

5

Thanks! This is fun.

6

Unforgiven vs. In Bruges was a tough choice.

7

It’s like a fairytale, really.

8

Currently tied.

9

Ditto!

10

I assume we’re supposed to vote for the pictures we’d prefer to see out of each pair.

In some cases I couldn’t vote at all because I’d not seen either. In others, I knew them both but had no real preference.

When there was no clear-cut preference, I usually voted for the one I’d seen less often and would like to see again to make up for it..

11

I only voted for ones in which I had seen both.

12

Here is a link to Round 2B:

The Great SDMB Movie Poll - Round 2B Best of the Rest - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board

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I can’t believe Empire Strikes Back is losing to Fargo.

I’m not a Star Wars fan, but Empire was the best of them and Fargo was not the best Coen Brothers movie.

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Right, that was really a tough choice between those two. (I initially voted for Fargo.)

But you convinced me to search my feelings and change my vote, though—and the vote is so close that my switch single-handedly put Empire Strikes Back into the lead.

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Eh, I beg to differ . I think Fargo IS the best Coen brothers film overall and despite my childhood obsessions (I saw Star Wars at the long-since gone Coronet in San Francisco on opening day and went back 5 times), I just don’t think they’re great films. None of them, I’m afraid, with the possible exception of the first :slightly_smiling_face:. They’re entertaining, but not great. They’re one of those beloved franchises that, as movies, diminishes ever more with passing time (for me). Lando Calrissian suckssss.

16

On any given day, I’m far more likely to be in a Fargo mood than an Empire mood.

17

Agreed. A few of the Star Wars films are bloody good fun but the hype over them is WAY over the top. Fargo is just a better film than any of them.

18

My feeling over the Star Wars movie is mostly childhood nostalgia. Also, Disney ruined it for me, so I have a hard time watching them these days. Having said that, I tend to either love or hate Coen Bros movies and Fargo is the exception to the rule. I don’t hate it, but I do find it somewhat boring, predictable and overrated. I’d actually rather watch Empire Strikes Back.

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I’d rather watch the Star Wars Christmas Special then just about any Coen brothers movie, including Fargo.

20

I really love Oh Brother, where art thou? and I seem to be the biggest fan of The Hudsucker Proxy, it lost money and isn’t well rated, but I think it is pretty close to perfect.

Fargo I thought was mostly boring, but I know many love it.