It's the Final Countdown
Added 2022-10-01 15:03:31 +0000 UTC
This last final championship round of our Classics bracket is going on now! This ends at midnight tonight
If you want to see the results broken down, check out this page.
Mandolorian episodes will be up today and Bodyguard tomorrow!
Hope you have a wonderful Saturday, put a pumpkin on your porch for me!
Cassie
Comments
Watched Bridge on the River Kwai when I was in grade school and even though it was pretty long, for a child, it kept me enthralled, and left me deep impression that stayed with me to this day. Never realized till much later that it starred Obi-Wan.
Dan Campbell
2022-11-08 00:35:20 +0000 UTC7 samurai and magnificent seven should be a matched pair if you ever get to those. They are essentially the same movie and both are spectacular, which brings up a topic as a whole with revisioned Japanese movies being turned into spaghetti westerns. Another classic Yojimbo with Toshiro Mifune which was rewritten into an eastwood staple, A Fistful of Dollars and once again for a lesser known but equally amazing Bruce Willis outing Last Man Standing.
Bubba Fett
2022-10-23 00:29:31 +0000 UTCIf you are interested in more WWII movies you should definitely watch The Longest Day and Battle of Britain. Both are fantastically well done, have all star casts, and are based on real events.
Una Vez en una Luna Azul
2022-10-09 23:16:02 +0000 UTCWith this many films the top three or four should be viewed. In this bracket we should see the top 4. The top 2 films have lots of similarities. Both Kwai and Escape take place in WW2. Both are primarily set in prison camps; 1 a Japanese camp and the other German. Both have supporting actor James Donald whose character offers an observation at the end. Both have a lead character who is an American officer who is unconventional and sarcastic. Both have a sadistic prison commander. Both are filmed state of the art film equipment and cameras. Both are visually stunning. Both are well written and directed. One is a bit grittier than the other. Both are "road show" movies that are big releases, big stars, and a lot of them. Treasure is much different. Black & white. Small cast, big stars. Character driven adventure film. Not a war movie. Often mistaken as a western. The script is magnificent. Because it is so different from Escape & Kwai, Treasure should be viewed. Cassie has often said that she has always been surprised at how good the older movies are. This one will, without romance, ultimately has a romantic outlook.
Christopher Carr
2022-10-07 02:34:24 +0000 UTCOkay so I think next time for Classic poll... there ought to be 3 categories running at the same time so that there will be 3 winners from 3 different categories such as, Classic Poll 1 - Comedy + Romance-Comedy - the lighter side Classic Poll 2 - Action/War/Western oriented - gunplay stuff Classic Poll 3 - Eccentric - anything else that doesn't easily fit in the above two categories such as musicals, arthouse, foreign film, intrigue, film class 101, challenging films, science fiction, what else goes here?, anything that can't win in the above two categories? This one could be the most popular and at the same time most controversial, this is the dark horse category, Cassie can fill in the titles herself, this can be Cassie's entries preferred titles. It would be funny to run a pre-poll where a list of 36 films are assigned to the 3 categories above by voting. In the end each category must have the same number of entries, 12. This will at least separates action from the comedic films. The 3rd category can have the obtuse films like Citizen Kane fighting it out with musicals such as Hello Dolly... (unless it's voted that Citizen Kane has gunplay and that Hello Dolly has a romance - at least one of these is true) (edit) Having said that, the categorized polls above could be announced early but running the polls could be done later one at a time so as not to stress Cassie out (or conversely to extend the drama). When the polls are announced early then expectations are set for the whole kit 'n' caboodle (the whole tournament) and it will be much easier to swallow because the focus of emotions are more spread out you know less laser focused to one event.
Em McG
2022-10-06 14:46:28 +0000 UTCBoth movies are outstanding, IMHO. It's win-win. For me, the first time I saw the ending of "Bridge" was one of my all-time white knuckler movie moments. And for "Great Escape," the first time I saw it was in the 80's. Mom and I went to the video rental store (remember those?), and she made me rent it instead of a James Bond movie, which I would always choose. I was mad at her until we watched it, and I fell in love with in instantly. Thanks Mom :)
Brian O'Grady
2022-10-04 00:33:05 +0000 UTCI loved Quatermass and the Pit and the Pendulum! James Donald as the archeologist unearthing Torquemada (Lance Henriksen). The horror, the horror!
Happy Hanukkah
2022-10-03 18:05:22 +0000 UTCIt's just occurred to me! This is now a James Donald Marathon! Amazing! Whoever thought such a thing would be possible? Let's just add the greatest Sci Fi Horror movie of all time "Quatermass And The Pit" to it and call it a Triple header!
Dryfesands
2022-10-03 14:34:44 +0000 UTCDon't bother, I win! [Mr. Epimenides on line 1...]
Happy Hanukkah
2022-10-03 01:46:25 +0000 UTCadding to this, I'd love to have a "runner's up poll" for some of the previous polls.
Kristin D
2022-10-03 00:59:19 +0000 UTCLet's do a losers poll..
Celeste McAllister
2022-10-02 19:01:42 +0000 UTCWhen I was in Iraq they gathered all the munitions they confiscated from the enemy and EOD blew them all at once and it caused such a cloud of crap that blew everywhere. not a smart move. Still paying for all that stuff over there.
Jayson Phillips
2022-10-02 18:39:21 +0000 UTCCondolences for the loss of your heroic brother. In John Huston’s autobiography “An Open Book” he wrote tenderly about directing his father in “The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre.” He was so proud to help his father win the Academy Award for the role and loved how close it brought the two of them. In his film work director John Huston repeatedly returned to the motif, “There is enough for each person’s need, but not enough for each person’s greed.” Very notably in “The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre” and later in “The Man Who Would Be King,” another enjoyable morality tale of avarice and ambition.
Steve Holton
2022-10-02 17:31:03 +0000 UTCI had a brother who was a major in the army who died a couple years ago from exposure to toxic chemical dumps in Iraq. His group was tasked with neutralizing these poisonous pits to protect others. Anyway, CASSIE! Please consider playing the Treasure of the Sierra Madre as a 3rd place honorable mention. 1st and 2nd place movies are really good but more well known overall. You won't be sorry you watch all 3 places.
Christopher Carr
2022-10-02 16:59:59 +0000 UTCI spoke to Charles Bronson, The Great Escape’s “Tunnel King," on my first day training as weekend help in a Malibu real estate office while in high school. They insisted celebrities would constantly phone because it was Malibu and were quite pleased that it happened on cue. Bronson was warm and friendly, but I soon transferred him to Cormac O’Herlihy, a top broker and son of actor Dan O’Herlihy (The CEO in Robocop), who is the only other celebrity who ever called in the year I worked there. I guess I was bad luck, but the O’Herlihys never fired me (And Robocop didn’t shoot me out a window). Cormac did have wonderful things to say about the other star of The Great Escape, Steve McQueen, a Malibu resident who passed away years before. Most notably that Steve McQueen earned promotion to a presidential honor guard after saving five fellow marines from drowning during Arctic military training. But like his character in The Great Escape, McQueen sometimes clashed with his chain of command and one very misguided punishment required McQueen clear asbestos without proper safety gear from several old Navy ships. This exposure triggered Steve McQueen’s long, tragic battle with asbestos related mesothelioma.
Steve Holton
2022-10-02 16:41:25 +0000 UTC
