such an epic movie I was gonna take it but knew someone else would and wanted to give in the valley of elah some love.

my parents are very close friends with Saul Rubinek (the biographer in unforgiven) and I've had the pleasure of chatting with him about his life and movies several times such a nice interesting funny dude.

he also happens to be in one of my absolute all time fav films but I can't name it as it's undrafted.

such an elite movie.
ppl that don't love that movie have no funny bone.

fwiw I won't be commenting on any animated selections til draft is over so as not to unduly influence future picks, so don't think cuz I ignored your pick I don't like it.

I had trouble not picking Pale Flower, one of the best gambling flicks ever, especially for those of us who have had strung-out-psycho-gambling-junkie girlfriends, but came to the sad realization that there are actually people on a poker forum who have never had that experience. Plus, I've picked it in other drafts.

Death of Stalin was an out-and-out snipe.

He came really close to being in one of my picks, one that would have been elite by anybody's standards.

I’ll take Wall-E for animation. A masterpiece from start to finish and Pixar’s best.


So far:
Western: No Country for Old Men
Earth Sci-Fi: Mad Max Fury Road
Kurosawa: Ran
Hitchcock/Kubrick: North by Northwest
Animation: Wall-E

My 5th pick:

Ikiru, Kurosawa pick

write up later...Riverboatking on the clock

I'm going to take Sabrina for my Billy Wilder pick.

I love both the original and the remake and man what a cast bogy audrey hepburn who wouldn't fall in love with them???

dr strangelove Kubrick
chinatown neo noir
children of men sci fi
in the valley of elah western
sabrina Billy Wilder

I wonder if we're talking about the same movie or if you're talking about a movie based on a book.

In an effort to be difficult, I won't pick the western that everyone saw coming. Instead, I'll take what is perhaps the greatest of the genre, and a Western that stars America's Mifune, Ernest Borgnine.

The Wild Bunch

Not only do we have extreme violence, we have it in slow motion. You've seen that before, you say? Not before The Wild Bunch, you didn't. And most importantly, all the stars are old guys! How cool is that? To answer, first imagine that you are an old guy, and you will realize, pretty cool.

Revolutionaries, train robberies, hookers, machine guns, torture, bad guys getting their just deserts, good guys getting their just deserts, **** getting blown up, the closing of the West--it's all there in beautiful Technicolor.

From the very first scene of children gleefully torturing a scorpion, you know what's coming--the movie that put Sam Peckinpaugh on the map.

Pick 5 - Neo-Noir - Drive



That image should evoke an emotion from you if you've seen this movie. This movie can be enjoyed on a number of different levels. There's a lot to enjoy on the surface but if you pick away at things you can get a lot more from it.

Nicolas Winding Refn makes deep and meaningful movies that don't always get the box office success or major awards recognition but this one does without having to sacrifice his artistic integrity. It's a lean and mean movie without an ounce of fat. Great score, great atmosphere, edge of the seat stuff.

Pick 6 - Billy Wilder Movie - Ace in the Hole



This movie is approaching 70 years old but it's still relevant today. Perhaps more so in the past few years.

Anything to maximise the effect of a story. Many movies have done their own version of this *cough cough* [REDACTED] *cough* but this one is better. Tragic in parts, but gripping throughout. I feel like this pick is especially poignant with the recent passing of Kirk Douglas.

Ever wonder where The Simpsons got their idea for the episode Radio Bart?



Wonder no more.

So here's where we're at:

MOVIE DRAFT	Ozu Movies	Comedies of the last 10 years	Billy Wilder written or directed	Westerns	Neo-Noirs	Sci-Fi that never leaves earth	Animation	Kurasawa Movies	Hitchcock or Kubrick Movies
Shuffle	xxx	The Death of Stalin (5)		The Outlaw Josey Wales (2)	Pale Flower (4)	Terminator 2 (1)			2001: A Space Odyssey (3)
Schlitz mmmm		xxx		Unforgiven (4)		The Fly (1)	The Wall (3)		The Shining (2)
mrbaseball			xxx	The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (2)	Body Heat (3)	Bladerunner (1)
Zeno			Some Like it Hot (4)	xxx		The Day the Earth Stood Still (1)		The Seven Samurai (3)	Psycho (2)
Nicholasp27				No Country for Old Men (1)	xxx	Mad Max Fury Road (2)		Ran (3)	North by Northwest (4)
Dominic	Tokyo Story (1)		Double Indemnity (3)		Point Blank(2)	xxx		Ikiru	Rear Window (4)
Riverboatking				In The Valley of Elah (4)	Chinatown (2)	Children of Men (3)	xxx		Dr. Strangelove (1)
Phat Mack	Dragnet Girl (1)			The Wild Bunch (5)	L.A. Confidential(4)		Paprika(2)	xxx	The Killing(3)
xander biscuits	Late Spring (1)		Ace in the Hole (6)	Yellow Sky (4)	Drive (5)	The Thing (3)		Rashomon (2)	xxx

So a few round 8 picks can be made at any point now.

- Dominic can pick a western any time he wants
-mrbaseball can pick a Kubrick/Hitchcock movie whenever
- Phat Mack can pick a Sci-Fi that doesn't leave earth at his convenience

Just to be clear, you can pick them whenever you want, whether it's your turn or not. It will go down as your round 8 pick and it won't affect your round 6 or 7 picks.

I took my Hitchcock yesterday (Strangers on a Train)

Missing my Wall-E round 5 pick and I think some others

I better lock up the last Billy Wilder flick I like: The Apartment.

It features the love of my life, Shirley MacLaine, along with Jack Lemmon and Fred MacMurray, and stars Sexual Harassment, always a crowd favorite.

Dragnet Girl
Paprika
The Killing
L.A. Confidential
The Wild Bunch
The Apartment

I haven't been putting in other people's picks. I was trusting everyone to put in their own

i really hate to break it to you guys, but Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!! is from 2009 and doesn't qualify for the 'Comedy From the Past 10 Years' window.

Why am I picking Western now instead of waiting my turn? I mean, I don't care, i'm just curious.

I'll pick:

Pat Garret and Billy the Kid

Everybody else had picked a western, so you couldn't snipe anyone.

my neon pick isn't reflected in the table.

Cape Fear the remake

Wild Bunch an excellent pick; Go out with a bang, not a whimper.

I'm a huge fan of Jermaine clement and taiki however u spell his last name and I love all their collaborations and individual films but not sure I love any of them more than what we do in the shadows the fantastic documentary about vampire roommates in current times and who knew those blood suckers were so damn hilarious?

dr strangelove
chinatown
children of men
in the valley of elah
sabrina
what we do in the shadows


not really sure who I'm supposed to PM now....

does labyrinth have any animated sequences? If so, I wanna change my pick



if it doesn't qualify as animation, it'll be my chinese pick. Because f*ck China, that's why.

Pick whatever you want for whatever category you want, just don't be surprised when you come last in a category because you picked something that didn't fit.

Also all the people saying "my pick for xxxx is missing!" it's because you didn't fill it in and probably the only reason you have anything filled in is because somebody else did it for you.

Also we're at the point of skipping someone but it's difficult to spot who because of the partially filled in table...

MOVIE DRAFT	Ozu Movies	Comedies of the last 10 years	Billy Wilder written or directed	Westerns	Neo-Noirs	Sci-Fi that never leaves earth	Animation	Kurasawa Movies	Hitchcock or Kubrick Movies
Shuffle	xxx	The Death of Stalin (5)		The Outlaw Josey Wales (2)	Pale Flower (4)	Terminator 2 (1)			2001: A Space Odyssey (3)
Schlitz mmmm		xxx		Unforgiven (4)	Cape Fear (5)	The Fly (1)	The Wall (3)		The Shining (2)
mrbaseball		This is the End (5)	xxx	The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (2)	Body Heat (3)	Bladerunner (1)			Strangers on a Train (4)
Zeno			Some Like it Hot (4)	xxx		The Day the Earth Stood Still (1)	Finding Nemo(5)	The Seven Samurai (3)	Psycho (2)
Nicholasp27				No Country for Old Men (1)	xxx	Mad Max Fury Road (2)	Wall-E (5)	Ran (3)	North by Northwest (4)
Dominic	Tokyo Story (1)		Double Indemnity (3)	Pat Garret and Billy the Kid (8)	Point Blank(2)	xxx		Ikiru (5)	Rear Window (4)
Riverboatking		What we do in the shadows (6)	Sabrina (5)	In The Valley of Elah (4)	Chinatown (2)	Children of Men (3)	xxx		Dr. Strangelove (1)
Phat Mack	Dragnet Girl (1)		The Apartment(6)	The Wild Bunch (5)	L.A. Confidential(4)	The Host (8)	Paprika(2)	xxx	The Killing(3)
xander biscuits	Late Spring (1)		Ace in the Hole (6)	Yellow Sky (4)	Drive (5)	The Thing (3)		Rashomon (2)	xxx

PMing Dom because I think RBK didn't know who to PM and so didn't PM him