The Great SDMB Movie Poll Round 3

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Round 3 consists of the Winners of Round 2B versus the Losers of Round 2A.

Match 1
  • Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
  • Fargo
0 voters
Match 2
  • Apollo 13
  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
0 voters
Match 3
  • North By Northwest
  • Apocalypse Now
0 voters
Match 4
  • Toy Story
  • Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, 1971
0 voters
Match 5
  • Galaxy Quest
  • The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
0 voters
Match 6
  • The Matrix
  • Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
0 voters
Match 7
  • The Usual Suspects
  • Vertigo
0 voters
Match 8
  • Goodfellas
  • Reservoir Dogs
0 voters
Match 9
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
0 voters
Match 10
  • Star Wars: A New Hope
  • Some Like It Hot
0 voters
Match 11
  • Double Indemnity
  • Top Gun
0 voters
Match 12
  • Witness for the Prosecution
  • The Thing (1982)
0 voters
Match 13
  • 12 Angry Men
  • The Searchers
0 voters
Match 14
  • The Producers
  • Tombstone
0 voters
Match 15
  • True Grit (2010)
  • The Abyss
0 voters
Match 16
  • The Shining
  • Taxi Driver
0 voters
Match 17
  • Trainspotting
  • The Silence of the Lambs
0 voters
Match 18
  • Tootsie
  • Shaun of the Dead
0 voters
Match 19
  • Leon: The Professional (AKA The Professional)
  • Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
0 voters
Match 20
  • Grease
  • Silverado
0 voters
Match 21
  • Captain America: The First Avenger
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show
0 voters
Match 22
  • Repo Man
  • Murder by Death
0 voters
Match 23
  • My Cousin Vinnie
  • The Third Man
0 voters
Match 24
  • It’s a Wonderful Life
  • LA Confidential
0 voters
Match 25
  • Sixteen Candles
  • Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers
0 voters
Match 26
  • Grosse Pointe Blank
  • Top Secret!
0 voters
Match 27
  • Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
  • From Russia With Love
0 voters
Match 28
  • Saving Private Ryan
  • Charade
0 voters
Match 29
  • Dumbo (1941)
  • Good Will Hunting
0 voters
Match 30
  • Touch of Evil
  • The Caine Mutiny
0 voters
Match 31
  • Inception
  • In Bruges
0 voters
Match 32
  • Notorious
  • Fight Club
0 voters
Match 33
  • Sleuth (1972)
  • Rock and Roll High School
0 voters
Match 34
  • Bruce Almighty
  • The Birds
0 voters
Match 35
  • Goldfinger
  • Gran Torino
0 voters
Match 36
  • The Exorcist (1973)
  • You Only Live Twice
0 voters
Match 37
  • Inglourious Basterds
  • King Kong (1933)
0 voters
Match 38
  • 12 Monkeys
  • Princess Mononoke
0 voters
Match 39
  • Les Misérables
  • Master and Commander
0 voters
Match 40
  • Contact
  • The Dirty Dozen
0 voters
Match 41
  • It follows
  • Support Your Local Sheriff
0 voters
Match 42
  • Christmas Vacation
  • A Room With A View
0 voters
Match 43
  • Who’s Harry Crumb
  • His Girl Friday
0 voters
Match 44
  • Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
  • Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit
0 voters
Match 45
  • Weekend at Bernie’s
  • Almost Famous
0 voters
Match 46
  • Stalker (1979)
  • What’s Up Doc?
0 voters
Match 47
  • The Adventures of Robin Hood
  • Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
0 voters
Match 48
  • On Golden Pond
  • Rat Race
0 voters
Match 49
  • A Good Year
  • The Quiet Man
0 voters
Match 50
  • Breathless (1960)
  • The Apartment
0 voters
Match 51
  • Moonrise Kingdom
  • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
0 voters
Match 52
  • The Little Girl That Lives Down The Lane
  • La Femme Nikita
0 voters
Match 53
  • The Oxbow Incident
  • The Hangover
0 voters
Match 54
  • Rain Main
  • Clash of the Titans (1981)
0 voters
Match 55
  • The Cocoanuts
  • Pretty in Pink
0 voters
Match 56
  • Silver Linings Playbook
  • Slap Shot
0 voters
Match 57
  • The Deer Hunter
  • Pygmalion
0 voters
Match 58
  • Persuasion (1995)
  • Wait Until Dark
0 voters
Match 59
  • Big Wednesday
  • Endless Summer
0 voters
Match 60
  • Rashomon
  • The Descendants
0 voters
Match 61
  • Arthur
  • The Package
0 voters
Match 62
  • My Man Godfrey
  • The Drop (2014)
0 voters
Match 63
  • The Longest Day
  • Free Solo
0 voters
Match 64
  • Return of the Living Dead
  • RocknRolla
0 voters
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I want to give a HUGE shoutout to @TroutMan for showing me a way to build monster polls quickly! You just gave me back an hour and a half of my life!

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Wow, so many that were tough. A movie I enjoy very much versus a well-made groundbreaking film. Ugg!

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I know it wasn’t planned, but Goodfellas vs Resevoir Dogs was an inspired (and difficult) matchup.

:+1: I’m glad it worked!

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I surprised myself by voting for The Descendants over Rashomon, but which one have I watched multiple times? That one. I certainly know which one has the better soundtrack.

Sixteen Candles is so horrifying (between the rape and the racist jokes) (and Leon: The Professionial ain’t so great that I’m just voting against them regardless of competition; otherwise I’ll need to have seen both films to vote.

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Endless Summer vs Big Wednesday??? Fuck me…

7

Easy choice for me - I’d rather watch actual surfers than Jan Michael Vincent and Gary Busey pretending to be surfers.

ETA: Also I’d like to reiterate that the matchups were determined purely by the results of the previous round.

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Care to share the method? I don’t know if I know.

mmm

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Match 39: Master and Commander vs. Les Misérables.

The question is, which Les Miz?

IMDb lists 21 films with that title, not counting some TV mini-series and a 41-episode anime.

Wikipedia lists 15.

10

I assumed it was a Russell Crowe vs Russell Crowe showdown.

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Good question. From the beginning, I had assumed it was the one with Hugh Jackman. I guess I should have determined that earlier in the poll. I didn’t follow up on it because I’m not a fan and wasn’t aware of any other cinematic versions.

ETA: It was @SCAdian that nominated it. Perhaps he can clarify which version and I’ll update my spreadsheet.

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Essentially you use Google Sheets to put the matchups in the first 2 columns and paste the raw text for creating a poll in column C. Then copy it down the rest of the column. Copy and paste all of Column c into Discourse as text only. You can’t use Excel because of a formatting anomaly that adds an extra set of quotation marks. I can message you the text like Troutman sent it to me.

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There were a lot of these that I wanted both to lose. Sad.

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Again, Thumper668, thank you for the work you’re putting into this.

I’m surprised that some of my nominations are still in the mix – and looking strong. Thank you everyone for appreciating those goofy cult films.

15

QED and that’s not even mentioning the 1935 Charles Laughton one or the several musical editions out there.

16

Sigh. I keep finding myself voting against Fargo, even though it’s one of my favorite movies.

17

Oops.

2012, with Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe

18

Thanks - I’ll update the spreadsheet.

19

Voted against it – I’ve never seen it, whereas I’ve seen about three minutes of TWoK twice.

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I’ve got a pretty busy day ahead of me and won’t be able to tally up votes, so the polls will stay open until 9 AM Eastern time Monday October 5.