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post #61 of 615
12/5/02 at 10:29am
I have my 2nd and would use it on Herrmann if it would get the tournament started, but we're still a few short so I prefer to save it for Cassavetes, F.W. Murnau, Luis Bunuel or Carl Th. Dreyer. Just a hint
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post #62 of 615
12/5/02 at 7:01pm
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Brook K said:
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I have my 2nd and would use it on Herrmann if it would get the tournament started, but we're still a few short so I prefer to save it for Cassavetes, F.W. Murnau, Luis Bunuel or Carl Th. Dreyer. Just a hint


And good hints they are.

Ric, I love Jim Morrison's music and The Doors, but I just can't see exactly what Morrison did for movies.

But if anybody asks, people are probably wondering why I picked certain choices. For example, John Belushi is in this tournament. The simplest answer I can give is that not only was John Belushi a comedic icon from comedy classics such as The Blues Brothers and Animal House, but he's also a tragic example of the excesses of Hollywood. His life was cut short due to all the bad things about successful star life.

This is kind of in the same vein as Rock Hudson (died of AIDS?), though he had a much larger film resume.
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post #63 of 615
12/5/02 at 9:18pm
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I have my 2nd and would use it on Herrmann if it would get the tournament started, but we're still a few short so I prefer to save it for Cassavetes, F.W. Murnau, Luis Bunuel or Carl Th. Dreyer. Just a hint

Nice hints, Brook.

I'll nominate F.W. Murnau.
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post #64 of 615
12/5/02 at 9:24pm
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Ric, I love Jim Morrison's music and The Doors, but I just can't see exactly what Morrison did for movies.


Well, fuckin ELVIS is in this tournament, and if The King ever acted in a GOOD movie, then it's probably locked away in a vault somewhere...
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post #65 of 615
12/6/02 at 3:41am
Well, fuckin ELVIS is in this tournament, and if The King ever acted in a GOOD movie, then it's probably locked away in a vault somewhere...
Actually, it's called Jailhouse Rock and it's even available on dvd in OAR.
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post #66 of 615
12/6/02 at 6:47am
:wink:
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post #67 of 615
12/6/02 at 6:29pm
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Well, fuckin ELVIS is in this tournament, and if The King ever acted in a GOOD movie, then it's probably locked away in a vault somewhere...




Good point, why the hell do I have Elvis in this tourney?



I was thinking of the boatload of movies (crappy or not) he made. On second thought, I think I'll remove him.

Lists updated.
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post #68 of 615
12/6/02 at 10:12pm
Thanks Bill, I second Freidrich Wilhelm Murnau
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post #69 of 615
12/6/02 at 10:28pm
I'm no Elvis fan, but I'm sorry to see him go. He was a decent actor and certainly had screen presence.
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post #70 of 615
12/7/02 at 12:26am
Don't get me wrong, fair is fair, I thought Elvis deserved his spot, but A Corpses Of Rock N Roll Tourney does seem most appealing...
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post #71 of 615
12/9/02 at 6:43pm
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List updated, I'm going to go and PM a few people.
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post #72 of 615
12/10/02 at 8:54am
Okay, I'm not sure what you need me to do at this point. How many noms do I get, how many 2nds, who needs a 2nd.

Like Murnau I thought had enough nom/2nd to be on, right? Same with Lloyd?


If so, then I nominate Marlene Dietrich. Not sure which era though, tough call between older (Touch of Evil, Nuremburg) and younger (Destry Rides Again, German silents even).


Not sure on the second yet, I'll wait and see if anyone else gets nommed.

I hated to leave Griffith and Claudette Colbert off the table.
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post #73 of 615
12/10/02 at 2:57pm
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There's a rules and master list up front.
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post #74 of 615
12/10/02 at 4:39pm
I nominate Krzysztof Kiewslowski.
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post #75 of 615
12/10/02 at 9:19pm
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If so, then I nominate Marlene Dietrich. Not sure which era though, tough call between older (Touch of Evil, Nuremburg) and younger (Destry Rides Again, German silents even).


Seth? In POLLS? Wow!
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post #76 of 615
12/10/02 at 9:42pm
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I nominate Krzysztof Kiewslowski.

Good call! I'd gladly second him if I had, say, another second...
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post #77 of 615
12/10/02 at 10:35pm
Thanks for the invite!

I will second Vincent Price.

I will nominate Jim Henson.
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post #78 of 615
12/11/02 at 7:35pm
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This is something I've been seriously deliberating. How about expanding it to 128?
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post #79 of 615
12/11/02 at 7:41pm
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If everbody else wants an expansion to 128, I could extend a two more noms and two more seconds each to everybody.
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post #80 of 615
12/11/02 at 8:35pm
Sounds good to me!
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post #81 of 615
12/11/02 at 9:23pm
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post #82 of 615
12/12/02 at 7:19am
I dunno, I think 128 is pushing it. Maybe you should make a list of nominees that have been proposed so far, pull out a bunch of your 51 automatic noms and add them to the list, and open it up for seconding. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who would prefer Bernard Herrmann over Walter Matthau.
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post #83 of 615
12/12/02 at 4:31pm
To have people like John Belushi and Elvis (and others) in this tournament but NOT Bernard Herrmann would be a travesty, in my ever so humble opinion!
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Way to go Tomlin. Having trouble counting to one?



Since when do we have tourneys where you only get ONE nomination? Sheesh!

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post #84 of 615
12/12/02 at 7:33pm
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When I get back from my weekend, I'm opening the floor to more nominations and seconding. Have fun while I'm gone.
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post #85 of 615
12/16/02 at 6:50pm
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Alright, I'm opening the floodgates. Unlimited noms and unlimited seconding. Let's try to get every corpse in before the New Year.

I'll have the bracket made for the 2nd or 3rd.
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post #86 of 615
12/16/02 at 7:53pm
OK, so do I need to nominate Bernard Herrmann now, or what?

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post #87 of 615
12/16/02 at 8:36pm
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Oh yeah, one more thing, you cannot second your own nominations.

Rob Tomlin's nomination is noted.
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post #88 of 615
12/16/02 at 8:45pm
I'll second Krzysztof Kieslowski and Marlene Dietrich.

I'll nominate:

Montgomery Clift
Ronald Colman
Samuel Fuller
Greta Garbo
John Garfield
John Huston
Boris Karloff
Veronica Lake
Peter Lorre
Myrna Loy
Anthony Mann
Lee Marvin
James Mason
Robert Newton
Warren Oates
William Powell
Jean Renoir


Um, I'll stop there.

Edited to add John Huston and Boris Karloff to my nominations list.
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post #89 of 615
12/16/02 at 10:42pm
I'll 2nd
Sam Fuller
Montgomery Clift
Peter Lorre

I'll nominate

Luis Bunuel
Carl Th. Dreyer
Yasujiro Ozu
Kenji Mizoguchi
Yasuzo Masumura
Jean-Pierre Melville
Luchino Visconti
Roberto Rosselini
Takeshi Shimura
Walter Brennan
Charles Coburn
Karl Freund
Barbara Stanwyck
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post #90 of 615
12/16/02 at 11:16pm
I'll second Takashi Shimura and Walter Brennan.

Here's some more noms:

Lionel Barrymore
Lon Chaney
William Demarest
W.C. Fields
Jose Ferrer
Edward Everett Horton
Leslie Howard
Trevor Howard
Walter Huston
Raymond Massey
David Niven
Eugene Pallette
Claude Rains
Andrei Tarkovsky
James Whale
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