Directors The Best Film of 2005 Tournament (1 Viewer)

[Bill McA]

3-Iron

In Her Shoes - didn't like Melinda at all, In Her Shoes is very underrated

High Tension - Saw 2 was unnecessary. The ending of Tension made no sense, but I enjoyed it up to that point

abstain - I have Lord of War right here in front of me...I'll be back later. Except for the special effects, I didn't think too much of WotW and I really hated the lame-o Spielberg ending

 

[Bill McA]

Lord of War

 

[Adam_S]

tri-abstain
In Her Shoes

 

[Brook K]

Advancing:

3-Iron over 5x2 - 2-1 (Would have been my vote as well. I've enjoyed the other Ozon films I've seen but I didn't think 5x2 worked very well)

In Her Shoes over Melinda & Melinda - 3-0 (My vote as well. I liked the comic half of Melinda with Will Ferrell channeling Woody. The dramatic half OTOH is one of Allen's poorest efforts.)

High Tension over Saw 2 - 4-0 (Agree again)

Tiebreaker time....
Lord of War over War of the Worlds - 3-2 (Tough as both had strong sections alongside flat out poor material that turned them from very good films to just ok films that I don't have much desire revisit. WoW had higher highs which made for a greater disappointment by the end.)

Syriana
vs.
Transporter 2

Kingdom of Heaven
vs.
The New World

Three Extremes
vs.
Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist

Millions
vs.
Everything is Illuminated

Can someone explain posting images to me. This is driving me nuts!

 

[Justin_S]

Abstain - Transporter 2 is not my cup of tea, but I loved Syriana.
The New World - I have yet to watch my Kingdom of Heaven DC though, so this is in reference to the theatrical edit.
Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist - the third story in Three Extremes brought it down slightly for me. The full length Dumplings is fantastic.
Abstain - no Millions.

 

[Elizabeth S]

Brook, copy and paste the URL address of the image between the codes below as such. (To get the URL address, right click on the image, and click "properties".)

abstain all around. :frowning:

Have seen only 3 of those, and they are not pitted against each other.

 

[Bill McA]

Transporter 2 - Syriana was ok, but trying too hard to be 'meaningful' in an Oscar sort-of-way. Transporter was fluff but entertaining.

The New World - Kingdom bored me to tears, New World was great, but not Malick's best

Three Extremes

abstain - no Everything is Illuminated just yet


Brook, if Elizabeth's explaination doesn't do it for you, let me know

 

[Adam_S]

tri-abstain
Millions (ouch)

 

[tyler payne]

abstain
THE NEW WORLD
abstain
abstain

 

[SteveGon]

The New World

Abstain on the rest.

 

[Brook K]

I tried that using images from Amazon (the quickest I found that were the right size), and it didn't work. It just printed the url between the

 

[JohnRice]

I'll break one tie in favor of 3 Extremes over Dominion, which, as Steve would put it, sucked donkey balls.

 

[SteveGon]

Abstain - Plan on seeing both.
Abstain - No CL.
A History of Violence
Abstain - No R2.

 

[tyler payne]

abstain
The Corpse Bride
A History Of Violence
The Ring 2 (I guess, but both were pretty bad IMHO)

 

[Elizabeth S]

Make sure you have the / in the ending [/img] bracket, and there are no extra spaces within the brackets. (I tested an Amazon image yesterday and it worked fine.)

abstain
abstain
A History of Violence
abstain

 

[Adam_S]

tri-abstain
History of Violence

 

[Justin_S]

Abstain - seen neither.
Abstain - don't care to see either.
Abstain - haven't seen The Interpreter, though I'm sure it's not better than A History of Violence.
The Devil's Rejects - no contest.

 

[Bill McA]

abstain - no Beat that my Heart Skipped, but Youth was great

abstain - no Chicken Little. Corpse Bride was good and it had Christopher Lee's voice in it

A History of Violence - thought that The Interpreter was just ok

The Devil's Rejects - Ring Two was crap.

 

[Brook K]

Well fiddlesticks...Don't you people watch movies!? j/k

Elizabeth, thanks...It was deriving the image URL from properties that was the difference. I was trying to use "copy shortcut" previously.

Advancing:

Three Extremes 2-1 over Dominon: Prequel to the Exorcist

A History of Violence 4-0 over The Interpreter (I wholeheartedly agree)

The Devil's Rejects 2-1 over Ring 2 (Agree, DR made my top 10 of the year. Ring 2 was one of the 3-4 worst films I saw)

New Matchups


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and continuing, please vote if you can

Transporter 2 leads Syriana - 1-0

Millions leads Everything is Illuminated - 1-0

The Best of Youth vs. The Beat That My Heart Skipped

The Corpse Bride leads Chicken Little - 1-0 (Guess I could get my kids to vote here )

 

[Adam_S]

quad abstain