SHERDOG MOVIE CLUB: Let's pick the Week 102 movie! BATTLE ROYALE EDITION!!!

[europe1]

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Here's a quick list of all movies watched by the SMC.

Sherdog Movie Club Battle Royale Week!
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• This week, we're going to hold a special event in the Sherdog Movie Club, the Battle Royale. This will count as europe1's week, so that next week it will proceede as normal with MusterX's week.

• For this event, every member will have received the opportunity to nominate one film for the Royal Rumble.

• Every member will recieve 2 votes for picking which film they wish to see win.

• In the case of a draw, we do as we always do, voting manually between the victors.

• Credit goes to @Strange King for initially suggesting we do something along these lines.

Here are our candidates!

REMEMBER: You are NOT allowed to vote for your own movie!!!

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A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Nominated By: @Cubo de Sangre

Premise: In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.

Why I Picked It: It's the GOAT film from the GOAT director.

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Battle Royale (2000)

Director: Kinji Fukasaku

Nominated By: @FrontNakedChoke

Premise: In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

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Versus (2000)

Director: Ryuhei Kitamura

Nominated By: @the muntjac

Premise: There are 666 portals that connect this world to the other side. These are concealed from all human beings. Somewhere in Japan exists the 444th portal.... The forest of resurrection.

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Young Frankenstein (1974)

Director: Mel Brooks

Nominated By: @AndersonsFoot

Premise: An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that his grandfather was not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.

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Talk Radio (1988)

Director: Oliver Stone

Nominated By: @shadow_priest_x

Premise: A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.

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eXistenZ (1999)

Director: David Cronenberg

Nominated By: @chickenluver

Premise: A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.

Why I picked it: Cronenburg is a well known director, and this film seems to be a hidden gem from him. I've seen it once a few years ago, and it was perhaps my favorite Cronenburg film experience. Also had one of my favorite ending scenes and final shots of any film. I've been meaning to watch it again for some time to see if it holds up.

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Fury (2014)

Director: David Ayer

Nominated By: @Scott Parker 27

Premise: A grizzled tank commander makes tough decisions as he and his crew fight their way across Germany in April, 1945.

Why I Picked It: Saw it in theaters when it came out and thought it was a great movie. Anytime it's on one of the movie channels I watch.

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Cloud Atlas (2012)

Director: Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski

Nominated By: @Caveat

Premise: An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.

Why I Picked It: Caveat didn't say but I'm guessing Shadow paid him to.

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24 Hour Party People (2002)

Director: Michael Winterbottom

Nominated By: @sickc0d3r

Premise: In 1976, Tony Wilson sets up Factory Records and brings Manchester's music to the world.

Why I picked it: I've never seen it but the story of Factory Records, inspired by the Sex Pistols to become one of the most important recording companies in history before spectacularly flaming out (much like the Pistols themselves), sounds promising.

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Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Director: Stuart Rosenberg

Nominated By: @MusterX

Premise: A laid back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.

Why I picked it: If I had to choose a movie that is a mandatory watch for any movie buff, but one that, for whatever reason, I encounter people saying they have never got around to watching it, I would choose Cool Hand Luke (1967), starring Paul Newman.

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The Burmest Harp (1956)

Director: Kon Ichikawa

Nominated By: @europe1

Premise: In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming forces, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.

Why I picked it: Widely famed as one of the greatest Japanese films of all time, winning the Oscar for best foregin-language film and everything. I haven't seen it, so I'm curious to see if it really holds up to such lofty expectations.

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REMEMBER: You are NOT allowed to vote for your own movie!!!
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Members: @shadow_priest_x @europe1 @MusterX @Scott Parker 27 @the muntjac @Caveat @Cubo de Sangre @sickc0d3r @chickenluver @Strange King @FrontNakedChoke @AndersonsFoot

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[europe1]

Mod should be in any minute now to set up the poll.

Let's see how many people break trying to figure out what to vote for!

And again -- no voting for your own nomination!

 

[chickenluver]

 

[Guestx]

Fun idea.

Props to @Caveat for nominating Cloud Atlas.

No, I didn't pay him . . . but I would have.

 

[europe1]

And the poll is up!

Time for horrifying indecision to commence!

 

[TheRuthlessOne]

Versus kicks ass

Shout out to @the muntjac

 

[MusterX]

Hmmm, people be pulling out the heavy hitters for this round robin.

 

[MusterX]

I've seen 7 of these films. I went ahead and chose one I've seen and one I haven't. Good choices SMC.

 

[FrontNakedChoke]

I accidentally only voted for one lol

 

[the muntjac]

Lots of good movies on here. I’ve seen half of the list. I went with something I haven’t seen, and one I have, but wouldn’t mind seeing it again.

 

[europe1]

I accidentally only voted for one lol

Pm me your second vote and I'll add it to the calculations.

If you pick my movie then I'll count it as weighing double

Still haven't voted. Its to damn hard. I've seen 7 of them. I'll try to get the Budapest Hotel write up out tomorrow (truly a film that one can say an myriad amount about).

 

[MusterX]

I accidentally only voted for one lol

 

[Guestx]

So what is this exactly. . .?

 

[MusterX]

So what is this exactly. . .?

Ahhhh, that's a bitch getting hit with a fish.

 

[Guestx]

Ahhhh, that's a bitch getting hit with a fish.

I mean, do we know the source?

 

[MusterX]

I mean, do we know the source?

I don't know. Its an old gif though, I saw that one years ago. I've never been able to figure out if its a real event or set up.

 

[Guestx]

I don't know. Its an old gif though, I saw that one years ago. I've never been able to figure out if its a real event or set up.

That's what I was wondering.

I've never seen it before. Made me laugh my ass off.

 

[europe1]

When Cubo nominated A Clockwork Orange as his pick I came THIS close to nominating Spanish A Clockwork Orange (Clockwork Terror) just to mess with him.

 

[Cubo de Sangre]

When Cubo nominated A Clockwork Orange as his pick I came THIS close to nominating Spanish A Clockwork Orange (Clockwork Terror) just to mess with him.

Never heard of it. Any good? Based on my first sentence, I'm guessing not.

 

[Guestx]

@europe1, if FrontNakedChoke PMd you his other vote you should post it so we can keep an accurate tally.