The Cinemabowl Finals

[slipjig3]

This is it.

The big one.

Choose the film you prefer, for All the Proverbial Marbles.

Deadline is Wednesday, May 16 at 8 a.m.

EDIT: This thing is over. Thank you so much to everyone who participated!

Good luck, and godspeed.

The Official CinemaBowl Finals

[Poll #985085]

Comments

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Watch this end in a tie, or at least spend a really freakin' long time in a tie.

[theloriest.livejournal.com]

Damnit... I can't decide yet!

The Princess Bride has been one of my favorite movies for most of my life. It is much more quotable. It makes me laugh. It is a purely enjoyable movie.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy is a masterful work of cinematic achievement. Peter Jackson cemented himself as one of my favorite directors of all time with what he did with these three movies.

AHHH!!! *can't decide!!*

[enderfem.livejournal.com]

I knew it would come to this.

And now its in a dead heat. *bites nails*

Neither of these would even make my personal top-10!

[nonethewiser.livejournal.com]

This is so lame! And yet hilarious! I think the voting is seriously skewed!

[cktraveler.livejournal.com]

Well ... it's "pick the one you prefer" and always has been. If we were judging purely by cinematic merit, as in trying to find the literal best artistic work ever committed to film, a lot of these movies wouldn't even have been in the running.

If I were to list my top ten favorite movies, The Princess Bride would probably come in around number six. I've seen it a couple of dozen times and never tired of it. On the other hand, Flight of Dragons and The Phantom Tollbooth would also be on the list and I'm not exactly going to defend either one as a masterpiece.

I think The Princess Bride has an objectively better script. Peter Jackson was fantastic at realizing a world and making us believe that the events on the screen were really happening, but what he ended up creating just didn't feel special to me. It was an excellent work of design, set dressing, and cinematography, but the best movie ever ... ? No.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

'T would serve me right.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

*nods* The problem with sentimental favorites is that it's utterly impossible to judge them objectively.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Hide your eyes. The bloodshed will be over soon.

[spoothbrush.livejournal.com]

I think The Princess Bride has an objectively better script. Peter Jackson was fantastic at realizing a world and making us believe that the events on the screen were really happening, but what he ended up creating just didn't feel special to me. It was an excellent work of design, set dressing, and cinematography, but the best movie ever ... ? No.

Oh lord yeah. My impression of LotR was "Pretty movie. Writing and acting suck."

Re: Neither of these would even make my personal top-10!

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

I've been shielding my eyes for at least the past four rounds. (I'm officially going to refer to The Blues Brothers from now on as Sanjaya: The Movie.)

Actually, funny you should mention your personal top 10: usually, when I do a movie poll, I make it an open-ended "name your 10 all-time favorites" thing. I generally don't get enough responses, though, because such a list is rather labor-intensive. Given the response to the CinemaBowl (and given that I seriously need a corrective on a few matters), I'm probably going to dust the old poll off very shortly.

In other words, get your top 10 list ready. I'll be asking for it soon.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

If I were to list my top ten favorite movies, The Princess Bride would probably come in around number six.

See my response to nonethewiser above.

[jesshartley.livejournal.com]

*crosses her fingers*

[natf.livejournal.com]

No contest. ;-p