Head to Head tourney - SteveGon and Vickie_M (1 Viewer)

[Brook K]

Grave of the Fireflies
Fitzcarraldo

 

[Bill J]

The Elephant Man
Fitzcarraldo
Sorcerer
The Vanishing

 

[Vickie_M]

The Elephant Man won 3-2
Fitzcarraldo won 2-0
The Vanishing won 2-1
Local Hero and Sorcerer were tied at 1 each.
I think it's about time to say goodbye to this tourney. When I take the original lists, delete everything that was voted against, here's what was left. They either won their bracket, or were tied.
Steve's remainding movies:
Angels and Insects
Sorcerer
Vanishing, The (1988)
Where the Green Ants Dream

My remainding movies:
After Life
Children of Heaven
Citizen X
Crumb
Dersu Uzala
Elephant Man, The
Elmer Gantry
Fitzcarraldo
Household Saints
Local Hero
Peeping Tom
Pledge, The
Ponette
Tumbleweeds
Until the End of the World

I could choose 4 from my list to go up against Steve's 4, but I wouldn't know which ones to pick. I love them all and couldn't choose.
Grave of the Fireflies was Steve's most dangerous movie. It took out several big titles: Arsenic and Old Lace, Sling Blade, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and Gods and Monsters. It was finally defeated by The Elephant Man.
There were a whopping 22 brackets which were tied during the tourney, with Steve's Sorcerer involved in 4 of them, and Where The Green Ants Dream involved in 3.
6 of the ties had neither movie getting votes, while in 11 of the ties the movies had one vote each.
There were several 1-0 wins, too many to count (ok, too depressing to count). Most seemed to be 2-1 brackets.
Without question, Bill McA wins the "WE COULDN'T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT YOU!!" award. He single-handedly kept this tourney running. In nearly every case, his was the "1" in the 1-0 wins. Thanks Bill! My awe at your depth of moviewatching is huge.
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Here are our complete lists:
Steve's Original List:

Accidental Tourist, The
Adjuster, The
All the Mornings of the World
Angels and Insects
Asphyx, The
Before the Rain
Black Rain (Imamura)
Black Robe
Cemetery Man
Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, The
Cronos
Cross of Iron
Crossroads (1986)
Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
Frenzy
Gods Must Be Crazy, The
Grave of the Fireflies
Hard Eight
Heart in Winter, A
Heart of Glass
Highway 61
Jesus of Montreal
Jude
Kafka
Kiss Me Deadly
Lair of the White Worm
Little Odessa
Man in the White Suit, The
Martin
Men With Guns
Milagro Beanfield War, The
Mystery Train
Nothing Sacred
One False Move
Only Angels Have Wings
Pi
Proof
Quatermass and the Pit
Repulsion
Rhapsody in August
Salt of the Earth
Santa Sangre
Shiloh
Slacker
Smoke
Smoke Signals
Son of Frankenstein
Sorcerer
Spanish Dracula (1931)
Steel Helmet, The
Suture
Targets
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
T-Men
Trees Lounge
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Twelve Chairs, The
Two-lane Blacktop
Ulee's Gold
Vanishing, The (1988)
Vanya on 42nd Street
Voyager
Where the Green Ants Dream
White Hunter, Black Heart
My Original List:
After Life
American Movie
American Psycho
Arsenic and Old Lace
At Close Range
Bad Boys (1983 with Sean Penn)
Beautiful Girls
Birdy
Bliss (1985)
Bride With White Hair, The
Bullitt
Cape Fear (1962)
Catch 22
Children of Heaven
Citizen X
Cotton Club, The
Crumb
Dersu Uzala
Drugstore Cowboy
Elephant Man, The
Elmer Gantry
Fail-Safe
Fitzcarraldo
Gift, The
Girlfight
Gods and Monsters
Heavenly Creatures
Hope and Glory
Household Saints
In the Company of Men
Irma Vep
Limey, The
Little Big Man
Local Hero
Marty
Meet the Feebles
Minus Man, the
Never Cry Wolf
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
Opposite of Sex, The
Out of Sight
Peeping Tom
Player, The
Pledge, The
Ponette
Real Genius
Reds
Return To Oz
Romper Stomper
Royal Tenenbaums, The
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Shadow of the Vampire
Sling Blade
Stunt Man, The
Sweet and Lowdown
That Thing You Do!
Three Kings
Topsy-Turvey
Tumbleweeds
Until the End of the World
Used Cars
Velvet Goldmine
Virgin Suicides, The
Zero Effect

Steve, even though this was an uneven tourney that got sidelined and bitched about several times, I enjoyed seeing your list of movies and have seen several of them since the tourney started, most importantly Salt of the Earth, which I'll always thank you for bringing to my attention. (Do you get the TRUE STORIES channel? It's part of the whole Encore package along with Westerns, Mystery, etc. There's a movie coming up about the filmmaker who made Salt of the Earth. I can get more information if you're interested.)
Thanks to all those who participated, even those who just popped into to say they couldn't vote.

 

[Bill McA]

Thanks, Vickie & Steve!
It was fun.

 

[Lew Crippen]

Thanks guys--at least I have some more movies in my queue.

 

[ChuckDeLa]

Thanks, guys, it was interesting! Here's how you both stack up in my book:


Steve:
Accidental Tourist, The - 6
Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, The - 7
Frenzy - 6
Gods Must Be Crazy, The - 3
Grave of the Fireflies - 4
Hard Eight - 6
Martin - 7
Slacker - 7
Smoke - 6
Trees Lounge - 6
Vanishing, The (1988) - 7

Vickie:
American Movie - 10
Birdy - 8
Crumb - 8
Drugstore Cowboy - 10
Elephant Man, The - 10
In the Company of Men - 9
Limey, The - 9
Marty - 6
Meet the Feebles - 2
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? - 8
Player, The - 6
Real Genius - 6
Romper Stomper - 6
Royal Tenenbaums, The - 10
Searching for Bobby Fischer - 7
Sweet and Lowdown - 7
That Thing You Do! - 6
Used Cars - 6

Vickie's tastes seem a little closer aligned to mine.

 

[Ric Bagoly]

Fun Tourney!