September 2013 50 Movie Challenge

[Travis]

This month will have levels of completion, like last month's. Here!

60 Movies - Platinum
50 Movies - Gold
40 Movies - Silver
30 Movies - Bronze

10 categories to pick from. Same as last month, if one, or two, of the categories doesn't float your boat, you can pick replacements from the optional categories.

Categories will be determined by you!

Please submit two categories. Your #1 category will be placed in the Main Selections. Your #2 category will be placed in the Optional Selections.

First 10 #1 entries will be used. Remaining will be placed in the optional list. Also, if one of the first ten #1's is the same as one of the #2's, the optional selection will be moved to main selection.

For example, I have Computer Animation as #2. If someone else selects it as their #1, Computer Animation will be placed in Main Selections.

MAIN SELECTIONS
1. Drama
2. Horror
3. Comedy
4. Underrated/Lesser-Known movies you would highly recommend to fellow forum members
5. Erotic Thrillers
6. Action/Adventure
7. Five Movies from the Year You Were Born
8. Sci-Fi
9. Martial Arts
10. Miscellaneous

[Show spoiler]Any 5 movies

OPTIONAL SELECTIONS
1. Computer Animation
2. Films from a Director that You Have Seen No Prior Work From
3. 3-D Movies
4. Movies with Actors Who've Never Won an Oscar for Acting
5. Movies Made before 1920
6. Five Movies from a Foreign Director in the English Language (example : Trouffats Farenheit 451)
7. Movies Never Seen Before
8. Creature Features (Movies featuring animal or animal-like monsters such as Godzilla, Pacific Rim, Jaws, etc.)
9. Fantasy
10. Costume Drama

[Travis]

September's movies with ratings.

Drama


Horror

Comedy


Underrated/Lesser-Known movies you would highly recommend to fellow forum members

Computer Animation


Action/Adventure


Five Movies from the Year You Were Born


Sci-Fi


Movies Never Seen Before



Miscellaneous

[Show spoiler]Any 5 movies

[Abdrewes]

As per usual, I'll be doing the 100 Movie challenge.

[chris_sc77]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

As per usual, I'll be doing the 100 Movie challenge.

And me as well.


SEPTEMBER 1

[MrBlonde]

Out of four.

Drama
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Horror
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Comedy
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.

Films from a Director that You Have Seen No Prior Work From
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.

Erotic Thrillers
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.

Action/Adventure
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.

Five Movies from the Year You Were Born (1992)
31.
32.
33.
34.
35.

Sci-Fi
36.
37.
38
39.
40.

Martial Arts
41.
42.
43.
44.
45.

Miscellaneous
46.
47.
48.
49.
50.

[MrBlonde]

Horror

Films from a director that you have seen no prior work from.

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by chris_sc77

And me as well.


SEPTEMBER 1

Done. Thread created:
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...51#post8055651

[cinemaphile]

my #1 category will be quite flexible, as it revolves around personal tastes/opinions:

#1: Underrated/Lesser-Known movies you would highly recommend to fellow forum members
#2. 3-D Movies (I considered using this as my main category, but not everybody has the equipment)

[Travis]

Originally Posted by chris_sc77

And me as well.


SEPTEMBER 1

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

As per usual, I'll be doing the 100 Movie challenge.

Cool, but give me your #1 and #2 categories!

[Monarch_of_Media]

Failed with August and classes are only getting more hectic, but I'm up for challenges. Let's do this.

Category 1: Comedy
Category 2: Movies with actors who've never won an Oscar (ex. Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Joseph Gordon Levitt, etc.)

[cinemaphile]

My List:

[Show spoiler]

Action/Adventure
1. Rollerball
2. Getaway
3. Passenger 57
4. xXx
5. The Fugitive

Comedy
1. Can't Buy Me Love
2. The World's End
3. White Men Can't Jump
4. Earth Girls Are Easy
5. Peeples

Drama
1. The Da Vinci Code
2. Angels & Demons
3. Outbreak
4. Rush
5. Don Jon

Horror
1. Dark Skies
2. +1
3. The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia
4. Blade
5. Blade: Trinity

Sci-Fi
1. Pitch Black
2. The Chronicles of Riddick
3. Riddick
4. Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire
5. Dark City

3-D Movies
1. Iron Man 3
2. World War Z
3. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
4. Iron Man 3*
5. Star Trek Into Darkness

Movies Never Seen Before
1. The Eagle
2. Children of the Corn: Genesis
3. Last of the Mohicans
4. The Oranges
5. Jobs

Underrated/Lesser-Known movies you would recommend to fellow forum members
1. Torque (watched on Vudu HD converted from DVD through Disc-to-Digital)
oh, I know I'll get flamed for it, but I love this flick. It is the ultimate guilty pleasure - tons of fun. Is it just Fast & Furious on motorcycles? Of course it is. But it also knows exactly what it is and doesn't take itself seriously for even a single minute. It's cheesy, it's over-the-top, and it's a blast (and the director has a serious obsession with mirror/reflection shots. Seriously, make it a drinking game and you'll be in the ER for alcohol poisoning). So if you're the kind of guy who likes cheesy guilty pleasure flicks, you should really check this out.
2. Tapeheads - It severely dated - set in the age when music videos still played on MTV and the pinnacle of video technology was the VHS tape. But this movie is hilarious, thanks in no small part to the talents of John Cusack and Tim Robbins, both in their comedic prime. Infinitely quotable and tons of fun. I've loved this movie since I first saw it almost 25 years () ago. I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys Cusack and/or Robbins from back before they both got so serious.
3. The Body - It's such a great concept. An archaeological dig in Jerusalem unearths a tomb containing remains of a body - Remains that evidence suggests may just be the body of Jesus Christ. If true, it would completely contradict the idea of the resurrection, undo the foundations of Western Religion, and change the world. I would say it's in the vein of DaVinci Code and Angels & Demons, but it's better than both of those disappointments. Stars Antonio Banderas and Olivia Williams, along with Derek Jacobi and Jason Flemyng.
4. Much Ado About Nothing - I know it's a very new title, but very few people I know have seen it, and that's just a crime. I absolutely loved this adaptation, and wish it had a wider release and would garner awards attention. It won't, but it will almost certainly be in my Top 5 for 2013.
5.

Five Movies from a Foreign Director in the English Language
1. Now You See Me - Louis Leterrier (French)
2. The Family - Luc Besson (French)
3. Stoker - Park Chan-wook (Korean)
4. The Great Gatsby - Baz Luhrmann (Australian)
5. Blade II - Guillermo Del Toro (Mexican)

Miscellaneous
1. Cadillac Man
2. Peeples*
3. Xanadu
4. Atlantis: The Lost Empire
5. Choke

* note - movies listed more than once are ones I watched more than once.

Ranked: Letterboxd List

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For my own reference:
Underrated/Lesser-Known movies you would recommend to fellow forum members

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possible entries: Suicide Kings, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Brothers Solomon, Torque (guilty pleasure/unintentionally hilarious), Pyrates, Tapeheads, Orgazmo, Lost in La Mancha, Murder By Death, Kissing a Fool

Five Movies from a Foreign Director in the English Language

[Show spoiler]
possible entries: The Family/Fifth Element/Professional (Besson), Hamlet (Zefferelli), Pacific Rim (Del Toro), Gravity (Cuaron), Robocop (Verhoeven), Alien Resurrection (Jeunet), Last Stand (Kim Jee-Woon), Stoker (Park), Mirrors(Aja), Wanted (Bekmambetov) Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (Wirkola), Dead Man Down (Oplev), Prisoners (Villeneuve)

[Monarch_of_Media]

Originally Posted by cinemaphile

Clarification: never won specifically for ACTING? (I ask only because you listed Damon there)

Yeah acting. I thought about in general, but I have actors (actually it's really only Damon LOL) in mind who've won in other categories.

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by Travis

Cool, but give me your #1 and #2 categories!

#1. Erotic Thrillers
#2. Movies made before 1920.

[Scottie]

Looks like you guys are genre crazy after the July 2013 challenge

[Travis]

Originally Posted by cinemaphile

my categories will be quite flexible, as they revolve around personal tastes/opinions:

#1: Underrated/Lesser-Known movies you would highly recommend to fellow forum members
#2. Movies That Were Robbed of an Oscar (any category, but you must specify)

Really like that #1. Will be watching:
Ride With the Devil
Barney's Version
Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan
Moon
Once Upon a Time in the West

Not sure about those last two..guess they are underrated and lesser-known.

[MrBlonde]

Originally Posted by Travis

Really like that #1. Will be watching:
Ride With the Devil
Barney's Version
Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan
Moon
Once Upon a Time in the West

Not sure about those last two..guess they are underrated and lesser-known.

Ehh, maybe Moon, definitely not Once Upon a Time in the West.

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by cinemaphile

yikes! Erotic Thrillers in the required categories? I guess I know one I'm switching out! LOL

[gaboman]

Action/Adventure and Sci-Fi Best I got right now. I like the underrated category. That's fun.

Movies Watched This Month:

[Show spoiler]Drama
1.

2.

3.
4.
5.

Horror
1.

2.

3.
4.
5.

Comedy
1. ½

2.
3.
4.
5.

Underrated
1.

2.
3.
4.
5.

Action/Adventure
1.

2. ½

3.

4. ½

5.


Foreign Director, English Language
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Computer Animation
1. ½

2.

3.

4.

5.

Sci-Fi
1.

2.

3.

4.
5.

The Year I Was Born (1981)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Movies Never Seen Before
1. ½

2. ½

3.

4.

5.

Miscellaneous
1. ½

2.

3. ½

4.

5.

27 down, 23 to go.

[chris_sc77]

Five movies from the year you were born.
Five movies from a foreign director in the English language (example : Trouffats Farenheit 451)

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by cinemaphile

I might use that second one. I can already think of a couple directors I would use.

Paul Verhoeven...oh wait, nevermind