# The Great SDMB Movie Poll Round 3 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies, great-movie-poll\ **Created:** [October 1, 2026, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-3/1033520 "2026-10-01T18:12:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Thumper668](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thumper668/32/20803_2.png) [@Thumper668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thumper668)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-3/1033520/1 "2026-10-01T18:12:20Z")
Round 3 consists of the Winners of Round 2B versus the Losers of Round 2A. _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-3/1033520/1))_ _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-3/1033520/1))_ _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-3/1033520/1))_ _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-3/1033520/1))_ _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-3/1033520/1))_ _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-3/1033520/1))_ _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-3/1033520/1))_ _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-3/1033520/1))_ _Poll ([view on 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**Author:** ![Thumper668](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thumper668/32/20803_2.png) [@Thumper668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thumper668)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-3/1033520/2 "2026-10-01T18:14:37Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Raza](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raza/32/213_2.png) [@Raza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raza)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-3/1033520/3 "2026-10-01T18:25:12Z")
Wow, so many that were tough. A movie I enjoy very much versus a well-made groundbreaking film. Ugg! ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-3/1033520/4 "2026-10-01T18:37:54Z")
I know it wasn’t planned, but _Goodfellas_ vs _Resevoir Dogs_ was an inspired (and difficult) matchup. > [@Thumper668](#): > > 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! 👍 I’m glad it worked! ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-3/1033520/5 "2026-10-01T19:13:53Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-3/1033520/6 "2026-10-01T19:16:16Z")
Endless Summer vs Big Wednesday??? Fuck me… ---
**Author:** ![Thumper668](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thumper668/32/20803_2.png) [@Thumper668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thumper668)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-3/1033520/7 "2026-10-01T19:26:15Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Endless Summer vs Big Wednesday 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. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-3/1033520/8 "2026-10-01T19:37:27Z")
> [@Thumper668](#): > > 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! Care to share the method? I don’t know if I know. mmm ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-3/1033520/9 "2026-10-01T19:37:51Z")
Match 39: Master and Commander vs. Les Misérables. The question is, which Les Miz? IMDb lists[21 films](https://www.imdb.com/find/?q=les%20miserables&ref_=hm_nv_srb_sm) with that title, not counting some TV mini-series and a 41-episode anime. [Wikipedia lists 15](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_(disambiguation)). ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-3/1033520/10 "2026-10-01T19:42:10Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Match 39: Master and Commander vs. Les Misérables. I assumed it was a Russell Crowe vs Russell Crowe showdown. ---
**Author:** ![Thumper668](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thumper668/32/20803_2.png) [@Thumper668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thumper668)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-3/1033520/11 "2026-10-01T19:43:50Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Thumper668](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thumper668/32/20803_2.png) [@Thumper668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thumper668)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-3/1033520/12 "2026-10-01T19:46:44Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-3/1033520/13 "2026-10-01T19:52:42Z")
There were a lot of these that I wanted both to lose. Sad. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-3/1033520/14 "2026-10-01T20:39:29Z")
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.