SteveGon
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Welcome to my Future Classics Tournament.
What's it all about? Well, this tourney was inspired by a thread started over in Movies by John Kilduff (thanks, John!) on the supposed critical derision of films from the eighties - was that decade really a worse one for film than any other? How about the nineties? Anyway, imagine the world 2050. Which films of the last two decades or so will be considered classics? That's the gist of this tourney - it won't be about simply voting for your favorite film - you'll be expected to make a critical decision on which film in a particular matchup will truly stand the test of time.
The tournament is now over. Go away.
The List
What's it all about? Well, this tourney was inspired by a thread started over in Movies by John Kilduff (thanks, John!) on the supposed critical derision of films from the eighties - was that decade really a worse one for film than any other? How about the nineties? Anyway, imagine the world 2050. Which films of the last two decades or so will be considered classics? That's the gist of this tourney - it won't be about simply voting for your favorite film - you'll be expected to make a critical decision on which film in a particular matchup will truly stand the test of time.
The tournament is now over. Go away.
The List
[*]Abre los Ojos[*]The Abyss
[*]The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
[*]A.I.[*]Akira
[*]Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
[*]Aladdin
[*]Aliens
[*]Almost Famous
[*]Amadeus
[*]Amelie
[*]American Beauty
[*]American History X
[*]American Pie
[*]American Psycho
[*]Apollo 13
[*]Armageddon
[*]Army of Darkness
[*]Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery[*]Back to the Future[*]Batman
[*]Beauty and the Beast
[*]Beetlejuice
[*]Being John Malkovich
[*]A Better Tomorrow
[*]Beverly Hills Cop
[*]Big
[*]The Big Lebowski
[*]Billy Elliot
[*]Black Hawk Down
[*]Blade Runner
[*]The Blair Witch Project
[*]Blood Simple
[*]Blue Velvet
[*]Bram Stoker's Dracula
[*]Braveheart
[*]Brazil
[*]The Breakfast Club
[*]Breaking the Waves
[*]A Bug's Life
[*]Bull Durham
[*]Casino
[*]Cast Away
[*]Catch Me If You Can
[*]Chicago
[*]Chicken Run
[*]Cinema Paradiso
[*]The City of Lost Children
[*]The Commitments
[*]Contact
[*]The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
[*]Cool Runnings[*]Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon*****
[*]Dances With Wolves
[*]Dark City
[*]Das Boot
[*]The Devil's Backbone
[*]Die Hard
[*]Dirty Dancing
[*]Donnie Darko
[*]Do the Right Thing
[*]Driving Miss Daisy
[*]Eat Drink Man Woman
[*]Election
[*]The English Patient[*]E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial*****
[*]Eyes Wide Shut
[*]Falling Down
[*]Fantasia 2000
[*]Farewell My Concubine
[*]Far from Heaven
[*]Fargo
[*]Fatal Attraction
[*]Ferris Bueller's Day Off
[*]Field of Dreams
[*]Fight Club
[*]A Fish Called Wanda
[*]The Fly
[*]Forrest Gump
[*]48 Hrs.
[*]Frailty
[*]The Freshman
[*]Fright Night
[*]The Fugitive
[*]Full Metal Jacket
[*]eXistenZ
[*]Galaxy Quest
[*]George Washington
[*]Gettysburg
[*]Ghost
[*]Ghostbusters
[*]The Gift
[*]Ginger Snaps
[*]Glengarry Glen Ross
[*]Glory[*]GoodFellas*****
[*]Good Will Hunting
[*]Grave of the Fireflies
[*]Gremlins
[*]Groundhog Day
[*]Hannah and Her Sisters
[*]Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
[*]Heat
[*]Hedwig and the Angry Inch
[*]The Hitcher
[*]Home Alone
[*]The Hunt for Red October
[*]Il Postino
[*]Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
[*]In the Mood for Love
[*]Interview With the Vampire
[*]The Insider
[*]The Iron Giant
[*]Jacob's Ladder
[*]Jurassic Park
[*]The Killer
[*]The King of Comedy
[*]Labyrinth
[*]L.A. Confidential
[*]Ladyhawke
[*]La Femme Nikita
[*]The Last of the Mohicans
[*]The Last Starfighter
[*]Lethal Weapon
[*]License to Drive
[*]Limbo
[*]The Limey
[*]The Lion King
[*]The Little Mermaid
[*]Little Shop of Horrors
[*]Lone Star[*]The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring*****
[*]The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
[*]The Lost Boys
[*]Lost Highway
[*]Magnolia
[*]Major League
[*]The Man in the Moon
[*]The Matrix
[*]Memento
[*]Men in Black
[*]Microcosmos
[*]Midnight Run
[*]Miller's Crossing
[*]Minority Report
[*]Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
[*]Monsters, Inc.
[*]The Mosquito Coast
[*]Mulholland Dr.
[*]My Neighbor Totoro
[*]National Lampoon's Vacation
[*]The Natural
[*]The Nightmare Before Christmas
[*]Ocean's Eleven
[*]Office Space
[*]The Others
[*]Planes, Trains & Automobiles
[*]Platoon
[*]Pleasantville
[*]Predator
[*]Pretty Woman
[*]Prince of Darkness
[*]The Princess Bride
[*]Princess Mononoke
[*]The Professional
[*]Pulp Fiction
[*]The Quiet American
[*]Rad
[*]Rain Man
[*]Raise the Red Lantern
[*]Raising Arizona[*]Ran*****
[*]The Red Violin
[*]Regarding Henry
[*]Requiem for a Dream
[*]Reservoir Dogs
[*]Return of the Jedi
[*]The Right Stuff
[*]Ringu
[*]Road to Perdition
[*]Robocop
[*]Romancing the Stone
[*]Roxanne
[*]The Royal Tenenbaums
[*]Runaway Train
[*]Run Lola Run
[*]Rushmore
[*]Ruthless People
[*]Safe
[*]The Sandlot]
[*]The Santa Clause
[*]Saving Private Ryan
[*]Scarface
[*]Schindler's List
[*]Scrooged
[*]The Secret of Roan Inish
[*]Se7en
[*]Shakespeare in Love
[*]Shallow Grave[*]The Shawshank Redemption*****
[*]Shine
[*]Shrek
[*]The Silence of the Lambs
[*]A Simple Plan
[*]Sixteen Candles
[*]The Sixth Sense
[*]Sling Blade
[*]Sneakers
[*]Stand By Me
[*]Starman
[*]Starship Troopers
[*]Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
[*]Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
[*]Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
[*]Stir of Echoes
[*]Stop Making Sense
[*]Strictly Ballroom
[*]The Sweet Hereafter
[*]Talk to Her
[*]Tenebrae[*]The Terminator*****
[*]Terminator 2: Judgment Day
[*]The Thin Red Line
[*]This is Spinal Tap
[*]Three Colors: Blue
[*]Three Colors: Red
[*]Three Colors: White
[*]Titanic
[*]Titus
[*]To Live and Die in L.A.
[*]Tombstone
[*]Total Recall[*]Toy Story*****
[*]Toy Story 2
[*]Traffic
[*]Trainspotting
[*]Tron
[*]True Lies
[*]True Romance
[*]Tucker: The Man and His Dream
[*]12 Monkeys
[*]Unforgiven[*]The Untouchables*****
[*]The Usual Suspects
[*]The Vanishing(1988)
[*]Victor/Victoria
[*]WarGames
[*]We Were Soldiers
[*]Who Framed Roger Rabbit
[*]Wild at Heart
[*]Wings of Desire
[*]Witness
[*]Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
[*]Wonder Boys
[*]Zapped!
[*]Zelig
