SHERDOG MOVIE CLUB: Let's Pick the Week 113 Movie: Battle Royale II

[europe1]

Sherdog Movie Club Battle Royale Week!

Rules:

1: Every member has 2 votes

2: You are NOT allowed to vote for your own Nomination

Here are our candidates!
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13 Assassins (2010)

Nominated by: MusterX

Director: Takeshi Miike

Reason for Nominating: It starts as a slow burn Samurai tale but the last hour of the film explodes with one of the longest fight scenes of all time.
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In Order of Disappearance (2014)

Nominated by: Coolthulu

Directed by: Hans Petter Moland

Premise: The honorable citizen Nils ploughs snow in the wild winter mountains of Norway, when his son is mistakenly murdered, Nils takes action, which ignites a war between the vegan gangster "the Count" and the Serbian mafia boss Papa.
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Forty Guns (1957)

Nominated by: Yotsuya

Directed by: Samuel Fuller

Reason for Nominating: It’s a western by Samuel Fuller starring Barbara Stanwyck, so no punches pulled in this one

Premise: Showdown in Arizona between the Bonnell brothers, U.S.Marshals, and Jessica Drummond, the iron-fist rancher who controls the territory.
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The World’s End (2013)

Nominated by: the muntjac

Directed by: Edgar Wright

Reason for Nominating: The reason - I think it will generate some good discussion within the group, plus it’s a fun movie to watch.

Premise: The World's End is a movie starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and Martin Freeman. Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from twenty years earlier unwittingly become humanity's only hope for survival.
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The Running Man (1987)

Nominated by: jei

Directed by: Paul Michael Glaser

Reason for Nominating: This was the second place film for the first week of the movie club, losing by a few votes to Valhalla Rising. I thought it appropriate to go back to the club's beginning when making my return to it. A classic Arnold movie that doesn't get the love it deserves because of his other greats like Commando, Predator, and T2, this movie is supposed to take place now - as in from 2017 to 2019.

Premise: A wrongly convicted man must try to survive a public execution gauntlet staged as a game show.
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Train to Busan (2016)

Nominated by: Scott Parker 27

Directed by: Sang-ho Yeon

Reason for Nominating: Fun flick that I came across last week on netflix.

Premise: While a zombie virus breaks out in South Korea, passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan.
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Inherent Vice (2014)

Nominated by: chickenluver

Directed by: Paul Tommy Andersson

Premise: In 1970, drug-fueled Los Angeles private investigator Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend.

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The Station Agent (2003)

Nominated by: Lights Out 101

Directed by: Tom McCarthy

Reason for Nominating: Peter Dinklage is the main contributing factor.

Premise: When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Nominated by: Tufts

Directed by: Michel Gondry

Reason for Nominating: It is my favorite movie because I love the idea that we are the product of our experiences and that while erasing our bad ones may give us temporary relief, ultimately we will suffer the loss of that experience. I also love the idea that is was better to have loved and suffered and lost, then to have never loved at all.... I think this was one of JC's best performances and the movie has always stuck with me.

Premise: When their relationship turns sour, a young couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories.
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Gangs of New York (2002)

Nominated by: AndersonsFoot

Directed by: Martin Scorcese

Reason for Nominating: Lobbying for that much-vaunted sickc0d3r vote, obviously.

Premise: In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher, his father's killer.
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Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Nominated by: sickc0d3r

Directed by: Denis Villeneuve

Premise: A young blade runner's discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.

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The World According To Garp (1982)

Nominated by: Cubo de Sangre

Directed by: George Roy Hill

Reason for Nominating: Why? Because it's the film where Robin Williams showed he had a lot more to offer than playing Mork from Ork or a non-cartoon version of Popeye. In this John Irving tale we follow along as T.S. Garp goes from baby, to youth, to manhood. With the depths of the laughter and sorrow, It's easily one of the best epic life stories in cinema (and easily one of Williams' top three roles). John Lithgow is amazing and Glenn Close delivers as well. Anyone who hasn't seen this needs to throw it a vote.

Premise: A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.
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Rear Window (1954)

Nominated by: FrontNakedChoke

Directed by: Some guy named Alfred Hitchcock

Reason for Nominating: I've never seen it and always wanted to.

Premise: A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
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Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man (1976)

Nominated by: europe1

Directed by: Ruggero Deodato

Reason for Nominating: A supposedly high-octane, ultra-violent, thoroughly-sleazy Italian buddy cop movie, it came to my attention when I heard it described as "It's either a dark, nasty pastiche of American crime films and cop show, or it's an attempt to replicate the genre by people who don't quite seem to understand it and lack ANY kind of moral center what so ever." Considering this movie was made by the guy who made Cannibal Holocoust, I bet it's the later. I'm forwarding a Trailer narrated by screenwriter Josh Olsen.

Premise: Fred and Tony are members of an elite 'special squad' of police in Rome, Italy whom are licensed-to-kill, undercover cops whom thrive on living dangerously.





Members: @europe1 @MusterX @Scott Parker 27 @the muntjac @Cubo de Sangre @sickc0d3r @chickenluver @FrontNakedChoke @AndersonsFoot @Tufts @Coolthulu @Yotsuya @Lights Out 101 @jei


Remember, 2 votes for each member, and no voting for your own movie!

 

[europe1]

A prodigal member has returned to the fold!

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We have the law on our side now, people! He should be in here at any moment to help set up the poll.

Let me know if anyone didn't get their Batsignal sent to them!

Also, here is music to listen to for when you're reading through the nominations:

 

[JayPettryMMA]

Game on.

 

[FrontNakedChoke]

Game on.

 

[chickenluver]

Stacked Battle Royale

 

[sickc0d3r]

Wow, those are some seriously good nominees (mostly by @AndersonsFoot)

 

[Tufts]

Wow! Tough week to be on the road! It is gonna be hard to narrow down. What a cool selection. I’m psyched!

 

[FrontNakedChoke]

Man, tough choice this one!

Our Battle Royale's are more stacked than UFC cards in 2018

 

[MusterX]

Spoiler

@jei sneaking in here again?

 

[Scott Parker 27]

Oh shit, great picks. I think Ive only seen 3 of these.

 

[JayPettryMMA]

Spoiler

@jei sneaking in here again?

 

[MusterX]

The thing is, @europe1 has his turn taken up by the Battle Royale each time.

I could make this recommendation. Just something to think about.

At the end of each cycle we have a Battle Royale week, then the following week we begin the cycle fresh with @europe1 's turn. Then we get to keep the Battle Royale and europe1 gets his week.

 

[europe1]

At the end of each cycle we have a Battle Royale week, then the following week we begin the cycle fresh with @europe1 's turn. Then we get to keep the Battle Royale and europe1 gets his week.

That's how we're doing it.

The previous time we had a Battle Royale -- we just did it on my turn because it was an experiment. I wanted to see if people liked it. Plus, if we didn't do it on my turn, then everyone else's turn would have been set back one weekend, which could have irked some people.

The next week -- we're switching over to my week's nominations, starting the cycle afresh. I realize that this is rather awkward since we have 3 new members. But a lot of people don't like the idea that members who join at the end of the cycle basically get their week after only 1 or 2 weeks of participation, while others may have to wait for a full cycle. After all, we've had members who joined up, never participated, but still got a week because of this.



3 votes left If I'm not mistaken. This is a hell of a lot tighter than last time, when the winning pick won with 6 votes cast to it.

 

[chickenluver]

 

[europe1]

I'm wondering how we do in the events of a tie.

I'm thinking the members who nominated the films in the tie are not allowed to participate in the tie-breaking.

But then how do we solve ties within the tie-breaker (if, say, my nomination would be part of the tie-breaking vote). I'm thinking we just... flip a coin?

 

[MusterX]

That's how we're doing it.

Apparently I'm out of the loop around here.

This is me.

 

[MusterX]

I'm wondering how we do in the events of a tie.

I'm thinking the members who nominated the films in the tie are not allowed to participate in the tie-breaking.

But then how do we solve ties within the tie-breaker (if, say, my nomination would be part of the tie-breaking vote). I'm thinking we just... flip a coin?

Are you trying to turn me retarded or what? Why would we not just vote on the tie breaker as usual?

 

[europe1]

Are you trying to turn me retarded or what? Why would we not just vote on the tie breaker as usual?

It would be weird if members could vote for their own movies, hence them sitting out in a tie-break.

Wouldn't I just vote on my own movie over someone elses?

Also, just heads up to people. There are non-members voting in the polls.

 

[MusterX]

It would be weird if members could vote for their own movies, hence them sitting out in a tie-break.

Wouldn't I just vote on my own movie over someone elses?

It would not be weird. Why would it? Members vote for their own movie in our tie breakers all the time.

 

[europe1]

Members vote for their own movie in our tie breakers all the time.

Yeah, but in that situation, they have nominated both films. Here you face one film you nominated -- vs a film that someone else nominated. You are inherently predisposed towards voting for your own picture. Hence the ban on doing so in the actual polls.