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10-11-2003, 09:11 AM
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Monty Python's Life of Brian
The Draughtsman's Contract
Scrooge (1951)
Small Faces
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10-11-2003, 09:50 AM
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My votes
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Abstain - seen neither
Oliver Twist
Abstain - seen neither
Monty Python's Life of Brian over The Full Monty 9-0
Oliver Twist Scrooge (1951) 5-3
The Draughtsman's Contract, If, Small Faces & Women in Love get tossed for not enough votes.
Billy Liar
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The Horse's Mouth
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Brazil
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Watership Down
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Blow Up
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The 39 Steps
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Brassed Off
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Carry On Up The Khyber
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10-11-2003, 11:27 AM
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The Draughtsman's Contract, If, Small Faces & Women in Love get tossed for not enough votes.
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Unfortunately that doesn't bode well for the rest of this tournament...2 of those films are well established British classics and the other 2 are minor masterworks.
Maybe we should just make this a Monty Python tournament 
Billy Liar
Brazil
Blow Up
Carry On Up The Khyber
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10-11-2003, 04:13 PM
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Brazil
Blow Up
ˇTime is not my master!
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10-11-2003, 07:30 PM
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The Horse's Mouth
Watership Down
The 39 Steps
Carry On Up The Khyber
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10-11-2003, 08:20 PM
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The Horse's Mouth
abstain - seen both, but don't have a preference
The 39 Steps
abstain - haven't seen Carry On
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10-12-2003, 12:14 AM
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Abstain - Too long since I've seen BL.
Brazil - Tough one.
The 39 Steps
Abstain - No COUTK.
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10-12-2003, 05:20 AM
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I've only seen 1 movie in each of the brackets
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Springtime in a Small Town - B+ / Evan Almighty - C
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10-12-2003, 08:00 AM
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#69 of 391
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Abstain
Brazil - but that was a *really* tough choice
The 39 Steps
Brassed Off - also v tricky choice
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10-12-2003, 11:13 AM
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#70 of 391
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My votes
The Horse's Mouth
Brazil
The 39 Steps
Abstain - No BO
The Horse's Mouth over Billy Liar 3-1
Brazil over Watership Down 5-1
The 39 Steps over Blow Up 5-2
Carry On Up The Khyber over Brassed Off 2-1
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Don't Look Now
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Night of the Demon
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
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The Railway Children
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Barry Lyndon
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Henry V (1944)
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Pink Floyd: The Wall
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The Commitments
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