Attention VOTE: Battle of the Films

[captainofbeef]

Since the foreign genre is significantly bigger and broader than the others, it has 62 films with a play in instead of 32 with a play in.
Seven Samurai
Le Samourai
Breathless
Man Bites Dog
8 1/2
Ran
Seventh Seal
Ugetsu
Fanny and Alexander
Battle of Algiers
Wages of Fear
Passion of Joan of Arc
Forbidden Games
Amarcord
The Cranes are Flying
The Grand Illusion
Salo
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Shoot the Piano Player
400 Blows
Harakiri
Sword of Doom
Samurai I-III, to save space
Kagemusha
Chungking Express
Rashomon
A Better Tomorrow
In the Mood for Love
Sonatine
Night and Fog
Yojimbo
Sanjuro
Satantango
Idi i smotri
Aguirre: Wrath of God
Persona
Funny Games
Wages of Fear
Zatoichi
Das Boot
Ali:Fear Eats the Soul
Mon Oncle
Blowup
Wings of Desire
Los Olvivados
Red Beard
Winter Light
I Fidanzati
Oldboy
Stalker
Throne of Blood
Wild Strawberrie
La Dolce Vita
Scenes From A Marriage
Tokyo Story
Jules and Jim
Band of Outsiders
Bob Le Flambeur
Dekalog
2046
Kikujiro
The Killer
Diabolique
Hard Boiled

[captainofbeef]

Horror
Rosemary's Baby
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Halloween
Day of the Dead
Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead
Exorcist
Psycho
The Shining
Evil Dead
Evil Dead II
Jaws
Silence of the Lambs
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Bubba Ho-Tep
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Rats:Night of Terror
Joy Ride
Phantasm
Blair Witch Project
From Dusk Till Dawn
Friday the 13th
American Werewolf in London
White Zombie
28 Days Later
Bride of Frankenstein
Alien
The Omen
Sisters
The Thing
Nosferatu
The Fly
The Dead Zone
Shaun of the Dead

[captainofbeef]

Drama seeds
1 seeds. Citizen Kane, Raging Bull
2 seeds. A Clockwork Orange, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
3 seeds. Full Metal Jacket, Rear Window
4 seeds. OUATIA, Godfather
5 seeds. Chinatown, Goodfellas
6 seeds. Faces, Deer Hunter
7 seeds. Godfather II, Midnight Cowboy
8 seeds. Nashville, Apocalypse Now
9 seeds. Unforgiven, Taxi Driver
10 seeds. Easy Rider, A Woman Under the Influence
11 seeds. The Graduate, Magnolia
12 seeds. 12 Angry Men, Opening Night
13 seeds. Fight Club, Straw Dogs
14 seeds. Eraserhead, Shawshank Redemption
15 seeds. Walkabout, Fargo
16 seeds. Gandhi, Million Dollar Baby
Battle-in. Almost Famous vs Glengarry Glen Ross

[captainofbeef]

Comedy Seeds
1 seeds. Dr Strangelove, Manhattan
2 seeds. Annie Hall, TDCOTB (This one should really be in foreign, but I missed it while making the seeds, so I will let it slide.)
3 seeds. City Lights, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
4 seeds. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, MASH
5 seeds. Some Like it Hot, Dazed and Confused
6 seeds. Clerks, Bank Dick
7 seeds. Animal House, American Grafitti
8 seeds. Life of Brian, Slacker
9 seeds. Truman Show, Ferris Bueller
10 seeds. Being John Malkovich, Groundhog Day
11 seeds. Wag the Dog, Blues Brothers
12 seeds. Unfaithfull Yours, Midnight Run
13 seeds. Sleeper, Stripes
14 seeds. Big Lebowski, His Girl Friday
15 seeds. The Jerk, Chasing Amy
16. Mallrats, Jerry Macguire
Battle-in. Man with Two Brains vs The Return of the Living Dead

[captainofbeef]

Horror Seeds
1 seeds. Silence of the Lambs, Psycho
2 seeds. Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Exorcist
3 seeds. Rosemary's Baby, Halloween
4 seeds. Night of the Living Dead, The Shining
5 seeds. Dawn of the Dead, Jaws
6 seeds. Evil Dead II, Alien
7 seeds. The Thing, Evil Dead
8 seeds. Day of the Dead, The Omen
9 seeds. The Fly, From Dusk Till Dawn
10 seeds. A Nightmare on Elm Street, Shaun of the Dead
11 seeds. Friday the 13th, Nosferatu
12 seeds. Bride of Frankenstein, The Dead Zone
13 seeds. Phantasm, Sisters
14 seeds. Bubba Ho-Tep, 28 Days Later
15 seeds. White Zombie, American Werewolf in London
16 seeds. Joy Ride, Blair Witch Project
Battle-in. Rats:Night of Terror vs Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

[captainofbeef]

Action/Sci-fi seeds
1 seeds. Pulp Fiction, 2001
2 seeds. OUATIW, TGBU
3 seeds. Reservoir Dogs, Blade Runner
4 seeds. Empire Strikes Back, Brazil
5 seeds. Kill Bill Vol 2, Wild Bunch
6 seeds. Kill Bill Vol 1, Return of the King
7 seeds. Raiders of the ost Ark, THX 1138
8 seeds. Terminator II, A New Hope
9 seeds. Fellowship of the Ring, Platoon
10 seeds. Aliens, Butch Cassidy
11 seeds. Planet of the Apes, The Matrix
12 seeds. Close Encounters of the Third Kind, ET
13 seeds. Dead Man, Back to the Future
14 seeds. Dirty Harry, Two Towers
15 seeds. Return of the Jedi, The Thin Red Line
16 seeds. King Kong(1933), Robocop
Battle-in. Metropolis vs Dark City

[captainofbeef]

Foreign seeds
1 seeds. Seven Samurai, 8 1/2, Fanny and Alexander, Aguirre: The Wrath of God
2 seeds. The Seventh Seal, Ran, Ugetsu, The Grand Illusion
3 seeds. Tokyo Story, Jules and Jim, Solaris, La Dolce Vita
4 seeds. Kagemusha, Breathless, Passion of Joan of Arc, Wages of Fear
5 seeds. Dekalog, Persona, Amarcord, Idi i smotri
6 seeds. Stalker, Rashomon, Battle of Algiers, 400 Blows
7 seeds. Satantango, Red Beard, Winter Light, Le Samourai
8 seeds. Blow-up, Sonatine, Yojimbo, Scenes From A Marriage
9 seeds. Shoot the Piano Player, Harakiri, Ali:Fear Eats the Soul, Wings of Desire
10 seeds. Throne of Blood, Wild Strawberries, Cranes are Flying, Band of Outsiders
11 seeds. Diabolique, Hiroshima Mon Amour, I Fidanzati, The Killer
12 seeds. In the Mood for Love, Sanjuro, Mon Oncle, Samurai I-III
13 seeds. Los Olvidados, Bob Le Flambeur, Das Boot, Forbidden Game
14 seeds. Man Bites Dog, Zatoichi, Oldboy, Chungking Express
15 seeds. Night and Fog, Sword of Doom, 2046, Hard Boiled
16 seeds. Funny Games, A Better Tomorrow, Hidden Fortress, A Taste of Cherry
Battle-in. Salo vs Kikujiro.

[captainofbeef]

Okay, we are starting with HORROR! Same rules as the other battle. If you have not seen one of the films, you can not vote.
Battle-in.
Rats:Night of Terror (Mattei, 1984)

One hundred years after a nuclear war has devastated the planet, society has been reborn into two factions; the underground society and the scavangers above in the wastelands. A group of scavangers on bikes come accross a town infested with flesh eating rats, and soon the gore is spilling everywhere!

vs
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (De Bello, 1978)

After a wave of reports of mysterious attacks involving people and pets being eaten by the traditionally docile fruit, a special government task force is set up to investigate the violent veggies and put a stop to their murderous spree. Included in this crack team are a lieutenant who never goes anywhere without his parachute, an underwater expert who's never out of his scuba gear, and a master of disguise who conceals his appearance by dressing as a black Adolf Hitler.

[captainofbeef]

I cannot vote, have not seen Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. It looks hilarious though.

[criterionmaster]

RATS!! It has the funniest horror ending ever and is just a classic. I do love AotFT though.

[satantangofan]

Can't vote i'm sad to say. Both look hilarious.

[PTAhole]

LOVE Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, but haven't seen Rats.

[misterbalco]

I have a question...as the winner of the battle-in seed, where do you go on the bracket? There is already 32 films, and you cannot have 33 in a bracket.

Besides, lets move on to the next two films, nobody has seen those two...or have they??

[blackmoses]

I'll vote for Rats because no one has seen both of these and Dan voted for Rats but I would be voting for Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!

[captainofbeef]

Rats wins 2-0. As for your question misterbalco, the battle-in winner plays one of the 16 seeds in the next round.

[blackmoses]

Put the next battle up.

[captainofbeef]

Round 1
Battle 1
Northwest region
Battle-in winner
Rats:Night of Terror (Mattei, 1984)

One hundred years after a nuclear war has devastated the planet, society has been reborn into two factions; the underground society and the scavangers above in the wastelands. A group of scavangers on bikes come accross a town infested with flesh eating rats, and soon the gore is spilling everywhere!

vs
16 seed
Joy Ride (Dahl, 2001)

The plot concerns Lewis Thomas (Paul Walker), a young man who decides to go cross-country to pick up his high school sweetheart, Venna Wilcox (Leelee Sobieski), from college. On his way there, he bails his brother, Fuller Thomas (Steve Zahn), out of jail. Fuller, looking for a good time, decides to ride with Lewis. During their trip to pick up Venna, Fuller coaxes Lewis into playing a cruel joke, through their CB radio, on a truck driver, known only as 'Rusty Nail' (voiced by Ted Levine). When the joke takes a deadly turn, Lewis, Venna, and Fuller find themselves being relentlessly stalked by the psychotic truck driver who is looking for more than an apology.

[captainofbeef]

Joy Ride. Rats was just....awful.

[blackmoses]

BeeD I hate you! Joy Ride I like so much but I have to go with Rats.

[criterionmaster]

RATS!

[captainofbeef]

Ok, that is everyone who has seen Rats. So, I guess Rats wins 2-1. Next one up after I gorge at lunch.

[captainofbeef]

Round 1
Battle 2
1 seed
Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)

Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam's California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into The Bates Motel. The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman who seems to be dominated by his mother.

vs
16 seed
Rats:Night of Terror (Mattei, 1984)

One hundred years after a nuclear war has devastated the planet, society has been reborn into two factions; the underground society and the scavangers above in the wastelands. A group of scavangers on bikes come accross a town infested with flesh eating rats, and soon the gore is spilling everywhere!

[captainofbeef]

Psycho!!!

[blackmoses]

O god!! BeeD I hate you! Im going with Rats.

[criterionmaster]

I have to go with Psycho. Moses will be mad but I can't deny the Cock.

[blackmoses]

O god ill change my vote to Psycho. I just wanted to see Rats go farther

[captainofbeef]

That is everyone who has seen Rats. Psycho wins 3-0.

[captainofbeef]

Round 1
Battle 3
Southwest region
1 seed
Silence of the Lambs (Demme, 1991)

Young FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman to save her from a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. Clarice attempts to gain a better insight into the twisted mind of the killer by talking to another psychopath Hannibal Lecter, who used to be a respected psychiatrist. FBI agent Jack Crawford believes that Lecter who is also a very powerful and clever mind manipulator have the answers to their questions to help locate the killer. Clarice must first try and gain Lecter's confidence before he is to give away any information.

vs
16 seed
Blair Witch Project (Myrick, Sanchez, 1999)

Three film students set out into the Black Hills Forest to make a documentary on the legendary Blair Witch. Armed with a 16mm camera, a Hi8 video camera, and a DAT recorder, every step, word and sound is captured. After wandering around the Black Hills Forest, Heather, Josh, and Mike are cold, lost and hunted. Finally, one night after the last ray of light had left the forest black, they were never to be seen again. One year later, a bag full of film cans, DAT tapes, and video tapes were found. The behind the scenes, video footage and the film, are cut together, and this is..."The Blair Witch Project."

[captainofbeef]

Lambs!!

[criterionmaster]

Silence of the!