OK, polls are now closing. Results may take me a bit as I’m working today.
Round 3 results are in. Here are the 64 movies eliminated in Round 3 with final rankings:
129 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
130 Apocalypse Now
131 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
132 A Clockwork Orange
133 Tootsie
134 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, 1971
135 It’s a Wonderful Life
136 Taxi Driver
137 The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
138 Christmas Vacation
139 Top Secret!
140 Top Gun
141 Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
142 Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit
143 Vertigo
144 Notorious
145 King Kong (1933)
146 The Third Man
147 Silverado
148 You Only Live Twice
149 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
150 Captain America: The First Avenger
151 The Abyss
152 Touch of Evil
153 Sixteen Candles
154 Tombstone
155 From Russia With Love
156 In Bruges
157 Princess Mononoke
158 Witness for the Prosecution
159 The Oxbow Incident
160 Rat Race
161 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
162 Murder by Death
163 Clash of the Titans (1981)
164 Dumbo (1941)
165 Some Like It Hot
166 Pretty in Pink
167 Contact
168 Rock and Roll High School
169 Silver Linings Playbook
170 Weekend at Bernie’s
171 Reservoir Dogs
172 Gran Torino
173 Trainspotting
174 Les Misérables (2012)
175 Bruce Almighty
176 Charade
177 The Searchers
178 It follows
179 Pygmalion
180 Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
181 Breathless (1960)
182 A Good Year
183 RocknRolla
184 The Descendants
185 The Drop (2014)
186 Stalker (1979)
187 Who’s Harry Crumb
188 Persuasion (1995)
189 The Little Girl That Lives Down The Lane
190 The Package
191 Free Solo
192 Big Wednesday
And here are the 64 films moving on to Round 4 to face off against the winners of Round 2A:
1 The Silence of the Lambs
2 Star Wars: A New Hope
3 Saving Private Ryan
4 Goodfellas
5 The Matrix
6 Galaxy Quest
7 12 Angry Men
8 Goldfinger
9 My Cousin Vinnie
10 The Birds
11 Good Will Hunting
12 Apollo 13
13 Toy Story
14 Fargo
15 Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
16 True Grit (2010)
17 The Rocky Horror Picture Show
18 Almost Famous
19 Rain Main
20 The Thing (1982)
21 The Adventures of Robin Hood
22 12 Monkeys
23 The Usual Suspects
24 The Shining
25 The Producers
26 Double Indemnity
27 The Longest Day
28 Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers
29 Inglourious Basterds
30 Grosse Pointe Blank
31 North By Northwest
32 Master and Commander
33 Inception
34 The Exorcist (1973)
35 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
36 LA Confidential
37 Shaun of the Dead
38 The Dirty Dozen
39 To Kill a Mockingbird
40 The Deer Hunter
41 Grease
42 Rashomon
43 The Caine Mutiny
44 Fight Club
45 His Girl Friday
46 Repo Man
47 Arthur
48 What’s Up Doc?
49 Leon: The Professional (AKA The Professional)
50 A Room With A View
51 Support Your Local Sheriff
52 Slap Shot
53 Moonrise Kingdom
54 La Femme Nikita
55 The Apartment
56 Wait Until Dark
57 The Cocoanuts
58 On Golden Pond
59 Return of the Living Dead
60 The Quiet Man
61 My Man Godfrey
62 Sleuth (1972)
63 The Hangover
64 Endless Summer
I guess by definition I was bound to be disappointed either way, but I am astonished that Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan lost in this round. It is by far the best Star Trek movie that has ever been made.
I disagree. Star Trek IV (The Whales) was the best and most successful. Lots of humor and outside of the time travel special effect, has aged very well. Also Galaxy Quest is better, so clearly I like the ones with a lot of humor. Wrath of Khan is #3 in my opinion.
Part of Wrath of Khan not aging well, is Spock’s death can never have the impact it did the first time.
Star Trek IV was fun, but crossed the line into campiness, IMHO. And besides the time travel silliness, you had “transparent aluminum,” Spock as a hippy, “where are the nuclear wessels?”, mind-melding with whales…
But again, it was definitely a fun movie. Although not as dramatic and moving as TWoK, in my opinion.
I’d rank the three movies you mentioned as follows:
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
- Galaxy Quest