We Gotta Get Outta This Place - The Escape Movies Tournament (1 Viewer)

[SteveGon]

Welcome to my Escape Movies Tournament
I love a good escape movie, whether it's convicts trying to bust out of prison or prisoners of war trying to tunnel their way to freedom. And so we have this tourney.
The tournament is now over. Go away.
The List

1. [*]Assault on Precinct 13[*]The Bridge on the River Kwai[*]Chicken Run[*]Cool Hand Luke[*]Cube[*]The Deer Hunter[*]The Defiant Ones[*]Escape from Alcatraz[*]Escape from L.A.[*]Escape from New York[*]From Dusk Till Dawn[*]The Fugitive[*]Grand Illusion[*]The Great Escape******[*]The Killing Fields[*]Logan's Run[*]Midnight Express[*]O Brother, Where Art Thou?[*]One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest[*]101 Dalmatians (1961)[*]Papillon[*]The Poseidon Adventure[*]Runaway Train[*]The Running Man[*]The Shawshank Redemption[*]Stalag 17[*]Stir Crazy[*]The Terminator[*]THX 1138[*]Toy Story[*]Toy Story 2[*]Tron
   

Wild Cards

1. [*]Aliens[*]Dawn of the Dead[*]Deliverance[*]Evil Dead 2[*]First Blood[*]Gladiator[*]The Matrix[*]Misery[*]Night of the Living Dead (1990)[*]Panic Room[*]The Planet of the Apes (1968)[*]Spartacus[*]Star Wars[*]The Truman Show[*]12 Monkeys[*]The Wizard of Oz
   

 

[ChuckDeLa]

Nominate:
Midnight Express
The Great Escape
Escape from Alcatraz
Toy Story 2

 

[Jan H]

Cool.
Nominate:
Stalag 17
The Defiant Ones
Second:
The Great Escape

 

[SteveGon]

Some suggestions:
Brute Force
Down By Law
Grand Illusion
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Kanal
Le Trou
Oh, and Chicken Run.

 

[george kaplan]

I'll third:

The Great Escape

second:

Stalag 17
Toy Story 2

 

[Bill J]

Third:
Stalag 17

 

[george kaplan]

I'll nominate:

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Cool Hand Luke
The Fugitive
Stir Crazy

I wanted to nominate The Bridge on the River Kwai, but ran out, and figured that one was a shoe-in for someone else to nominate.

 

[ChuckDeLa]

Second:
Stir Crazy

 

[ChuckDeLa]

Ack, I forgot about The Killing Fields. Someone nominate it!

 

[Andrew_Sch]

Nominate:
Bridge on the River Kwai

Second:
Grand Illusion

 

[Jim_K]

Second
Bridge on the River Kwai
Cool Hand Luke
The Fugitive
Third
Grand Illusion
I'll have to think of some nominations

 

[Jim_K]

Nominate:
Papillon
The Deer Hunter
Runaway Train
Plague Dogs

 

[Travis Olson]

Nominate:

Escape From New York
Escape From LA

Third:

The Fugitive

 

[ChuckDeLa]

Second:
Papillon
Runaway Train

 

[Richard Kim]

I nominate:

The Shawshank Redemption

third:

Bridge On The River Kwai

 

[SteveGon]

Updated.
Andrew and Jim, Grand Illusion was just a suggestion on my part. But since it's fairly well known, I went ahead and put it on the list.

 

[Dome Vongvises]

Nominate list
The Cube
2nd list
Shawshank Redemption
Escape from New York
3rd list
Cool Hand Luke
Remind me never to be born in the middle of nowhere for my next lifetime. Friday's at the Ville suck!!! :frowning:

 

[ErikG]

Second:
Escape From Alcatraz
Third:
Escape From New York
The Shawshank Redemption
Stir Crazy

 

[Bill J]

Nominate:
The Killing Fields

 

[John Thomas]

Would you consider O Brother, Where Art Thou??

Another suggestion is The Count of Monte Cristo.