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My final tally:

An Obsession ***
Attack the Gas Station **
Autumn ***
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A ***
Cause for Alarm **
Convoy Busters ***
The Depression of Detective Downs ***
Eastern Promises ***
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai ***
The Limey ***
Mario's Story ***
The Marquise of O ***
Miami Blues ***
Out of the Past ****
Rats: A Sin City Yarn ***
Sonatine ***
The State Witness ***
Stray Dog ****
Superfly ***
Suture ***
Thief ***
The Thin Man ****
The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse ***
3:10 to Yuma *
To Rob a Thief ***
Wiseguys Vs. Zombies **
Yo-Yo Girl Cop ***


Finished up with 27 crime films watched, including 18 first viewings.

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01/31/08

I'm not going to get to watch any more movies before the end of the night so my total stands at 13. I watched 7 new titles (counting the director's cut of Zodiac as a new viewing) and rewatched 6 movies.

My final list
(new titles in bold)

01. Zodiac (Director's Cut)
02. Laura
03. Kiss Of Death (1947)
04. Fallen Angel
05. Reservoir Dogs
06. Shock (1946)
07. I Wake Up Screaming
08. Out Of The Past
09. Double Indemnity
10. Where The Sidewalk Ends
11. The Street With No Name
12. Pulp Fiction
13. Jackie Brown

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My final count: I didn't view as many as I hoped.

26 movies watched

13 new movies.

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I only got a chance to see 14, and a couple of those might have stretched the definition of the challenge a wee bit.

Best new discoveries were Angels with Dirty Faces and The Thin Man.

Biggest disappointment was Reservoir Dogs.

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My final tally:
NOIR/CRIME CHALLENGE 2008, FIRST TIME VIEWINGS IN BLUE

01 - 01/05 - CRUISING 4/5
02 - 01/05 - THE LODGER 3.5/5
03 - 01/06 - HANGOVER SQUARE 3.5/5
04 - 01/06 - ROAD TO PERDITION 3/5
05 - 01/10 - THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES 4/5
06 - 01/10 - THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES 3.5/5
07 - 01/11 - SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE VOICE OF TERROR 3/5
08 - 01/11 - SHERLOCK HOLMES & THE SECRET WEAPON 2.5/5
09 - 01/12 - SHERLOCK HOLMES IN WASHINGTON 2.5/5
10 - 01/12 - SHERLOCK HOLMES FACES DEATH 2.5/5
11 - 01/13 - SHERLOCK HOLMES IN THE SPIDER WOMAN 3/5
12 - 01/13 - SHERLOCK HOLMES IN THE SCARLET CLAW 2.5/5
13 - 01/13 - SHERLOCK HOLMES IN THE PEARL OF DEATH 2/5
14 - 01/13 - SHERLOCK HOLMES IN THE HOUSE OF FEAR 1/5
15 - 01/13 - SHERLOCK HOLMES IN THE WOMAN IN GREEN 3/5
16 - 01/13 - SHERLOCK HOLMES IN PURSUIT TO ALGIERS 3.5/5
17 - 01/14 - SHERLOCK HOLMES IN TERROR BY NIGHT 2/5
18 - 01/14 - SHERLOCK HOLMES IN DRESSED TO KILL 2/5
19 - 01/17 - HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES 4/5
20 - 01/19 - ANATOMY OF A MURDER 3/5
21 - 01/20 - BUCKTOWN 3/5
22 - 01/20 - NIGHT AND THE CITY 3.5/5
23 - 01/20 - THE HITCH-HIKER 4/5
24 - 01/20 - EASTERN PROMISES 4/5
25 - 01/25 - PICK-UP ON SOUTH STREET 4/5
26 - 01/25 - THE NAKED KISS 4.5/5
27 - 01/26 - THE HONEYMOON KILLERS 3/5
28 - 01/26 - DISTURBIA 2/5
29 - 01/27 - CRISS CROSS 3.5/5
30 - 01/27 - FOLLOW ME QUIETLY 4/5
31 - 01/27 - RATED X 2/5
32 - 01/27 - SCARLET STREET 4/5
33 - 01/27 - BOOMERANG 4/5
34 - 01/27 - HE WALKED BY NIGHT 3.5/5
35 - 01/29 - DR. MABUSE THE GAMBLER 4/5
36 - 01/29 - DETECTIVE STORY 4/5
37 - 01/29 - KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL 4/5
38 - 01/29 - THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION - 5/5
39 - 01/30 - THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE - 5/5
40 - 01/30 - UNDYING MONSTER 2/5

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40 titles, all first timers but one. And admittedly "Bucktown" (blaxploitation) and "Undying Monster" (played like "Hound Of the Baskervilles" except there really was a monster) are pushing it. I watched more then I thought I would be able to, but those Holmes were only just over an hour. I wish I had more time for discussion. Lot's of fun this challenge.

Faves : 1st couple Rathbone Holems, the Mabuse films, Cruising and Shawshank.

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*13. Act of Violence - My final film of this challenge was one of the very best. The plot centers around Van Heflin's character who seems to have a pretty ordinary life until Robert Ryan shows up. Ryan is after Heflin for some unknown reason that only Heflin's character knows about. The reason is eventually revealed and the chase is on. I was thoroughly entertained by this film throughout it's entire runtime. Janet Leigh was also quite good as Van Heflin's wife and Mary Astor played a tough bar girl. ****

My totals I saw a few others that would probably count too. First time viewings contain an Asterisk

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• The House on 92nd Street *
  
• Harper *
  
• Notorious
  
• Zodiac - Director's Cut
  
• F For Fake
  
• The Hoax *
  
• Border Incident *
  
• Sudddenly *
  
• No Way Out *
  
• The Roaring Twenties *
  
• Where the Sidewalk Ends *
  
• Tension *
  
• The Thin Man
  
• Act of Violence *

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Here's My Final Total

First Time Viewings In BOLD

January 4
1. Zodiac (2007) (4.5/5)
January 5
2. Skidoo (1968) (2.5/5)
3. Goodfellas (1990) (5/5)
January 6
4. The Petrified Forest (1936) (4.5/5)
January 9
5. L.A. Confidential (1997) (5/5)
Janaury 17
6. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
January 19
7. The Ladykillers (2004) (3/5)
January 29
8. The Lady Vanishes (1938) (5/5)
9. Crook's Tour (1941) (3.5/5)
January 30
10. Little Caesar (1931) (4/5)
January 31
11. The Public Enemy (1931) (5/5)
12. Die 3groschenoper (AKA The Threepenny Opera) (1931) (5/5)
13. Scarface (1932) (5/5)

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Neither of us came close to our insane totals in the horror challenge. That's probably a good thing though.

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I agree, that horror challenge was a little crazy. That said, I recently auired a pretty much complete collection of Godzilla films if there's a Sci fi challenge...

I'm surprised I watched as many as I did on this one. I probably could of watched more really, I just got lazy digging through my collection. I can't belive I left Chinatown on my shelf!

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So, is anyone still interested in other challenges? maybe something for march. I'm trying to remember some of the other ones I originally proposed. I know Sci-Fi had already been proposed and I had some others like Epics, Historical Dramas and so on. Part of my hope was to try and get a few people to venture beyond their usual genres.

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Musicals?

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I'm definitely in for Sci-fi.

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If this a quarterly thing, maybe Sci-Fi Challenge would good be for April and then Comedy And Musical Challenge for July. Not that musicals automatically fit in with comedies but I think a fair number have comedic elements.

I'd like a Blaxploitation challange but I doubt that there would be too many people interested in it.

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I was interested in possibly doing something a little less ordinary. Those are just genres I expect people are watching anyway. Of course, someone else can run a challenge on whatever genre they want.

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I agree but what other genres are there that have a big enough appeal?

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I think thats it Travis. Horror and Sci fi tend to have a bit more obsevive fans who collect a bunch of movies, so they are more accesable. I'd participate in the historical epics and musicals, I just flat have access to near as many titles. If you did a musicals challenge the month after that next Warners box set came out, I'd join in, I just happen to have way more non-musical titles sitting on my "to Watch" shelf that I wat to go through rather then re-watch a bunch of my collection.

Blaxploitation would be fun as well, I again suffer from not having that many titels, not as many as I would llike anyways. Frankly, I'm enough of a nerd that I keep track of what I watch anyways, so I'd do my best to join in to any challenge.

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That's basically it Russell. I don't see the point in running only challenges in genres people are watching all the time anyway.

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I guess I'd like to see Sci-fi because that's my favourite genre and I have the most titles in that category. I see your point though. My least represented genre in my collection are Westerns and War films. I'm trying to watch more films in either category so for me, they would be good choices. Epics or historical dramas were mentioned. I would be interested in that as well. Maybe we could combine Epics and historical dramas together. Either way, as long as it's not horror, I'm in.

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Well, I would definitely like to run one on Historical Drama/Epics. So, my plan would be to do that in March. Maybe someone else would like to run a Sci-Fi challenge in May. My feeling is it's best to skip a month in between each one.

Maybe Russell would like to run a Grindhouse challenge sometime.

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I'm up for Sci-fi and Historical/Epic challenges. Pass on the musicals.

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I'll pass on the musicals as well. But March sounds great to me for Epics/Historical dramas.

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Make it Musicals/comedies as previously suggested and you open it more.

As I said before, I'll give all of them a go. Just don't expect obsessive crazy numbers like the scary movie challenge

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OK then, I'll do a Historical Drama/Epics challenge in March. I'll open the thread in a couple weeks.

Here are my thoughts on qualifications.

1) Any movie set in any realistic, historical time period. Not necessarily non-fiction. Examples: A Very Long Engagement: YES. Elizabeth: YES Star Wars: NO. "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away" doesn't qualify.

2) Any movie with a running time of at least 160 minutes. Examples: Heat: YES. Doctor Zhivago: DOUBLE YES. LOTR: If you must, but the idea is to branch out. Prepare to be mocked. Titus: No under rule 1 (not a realistic time period) but YES under rule 2.

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should probably save this for the thread, but I think maybe we should discount LOTR from the historical drama/epics. It is a fantasy right? I know they treat Middle Earth like a real world, it isn't though.

LOTR makes sense to a Sci fi / Fantasy. I see these movie as ones that are monster/science or monster based, but not in a horror movie vane.

I should get my copy of El Cid for march.

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I think John's criteria are either/or, not that they must meet both. Hence, some LOTR films would meet the 160 minute minimum (as would "King Kong" 2005 ) as an "epic" defined by Criteria 2.

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Yes, it is either/or.

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Star Wars is a sci-fi epic so in that sense it should be included. But I have no problem discounting it. I'll include it in the sci-fi challenge. Oh goody, I get to watch King Kong again.

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I'll turn this car around!!!

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First, thanks for Tim for suggesting this Winter Crime Theme.

Films

L.A. Confidential
D.O.A.
Too Late For Tears
The Mirror Crack'd
The Thin Man
Shadow of the Thin Man
Murder My Sweet
Pickup On South Street
3:10 To Yuma (2007)
Zodiac
The Lady Vanishes
Eastern Promises
No Country For Old Men
Pulp Fiction