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All right guys, time for the week 5 vote! @europe1 tried to send us into the bowels of weird obscurity, but @Mondo Freaks is here to bring us back into the mainstream.
Mondo and I had a little conversation after he sent me his picks. We're in disagreement about which film we think is going to win so it's going to be interesting to see how this plays out.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Robert DeNiro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci
Premise: Greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two mobster best friends and a trophy wife over a gambling empire.
Why @Mondo Freaks Picked It: One of the first really violent movies I saw as a kid. I remember being scared and in awe of Nicky at the same time. I think I've seen this movie more than any other movie in my life. Every father and son should watch this movie together. Also every businessman should watch this. I also see this movie as a blood relative of Goodfellas.
Trailer:
GoldenEye (1995)
Director: Martin Campbell
Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco
Premise: James Bond teams up with the lone survivor of a destroyed Russian research center to stop the hijacking of a nuclear space weapon by a fellow agent formerly believed to be dead.
Why @Mondo Freaks Picked It: This and Casino Royale are my favorite Bond films. This is also a throwback to my childhood. My church youth group would watch this then play it on 64...such good times. Bronson is a stud and an underrated 007. The women are true bond girls, and Famke Janssen is a bonafide femme fatale. Ned Stark was a welcome villain and though not a traditional bond villain, he stood his own and brought a calculated malice to the 007 franchise. Yes, I did play Perfect Dark.
Trailer:
Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Director: Jonathan Demme
Stars: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins
Premise: A young F.B.I. cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims.
Why @Mondo Freaks Picked It: Only movie to ever give me nightmares. My parents were watching this when I was 4 and I remember peeking at the scene where he breaks out of jail. I had no idea what was going on but it was scary as shit. SotL is one of the reasons supernatural horror movies don't scare me. If it has monsters, demons, or ghosts, its just another fiction to me, but Silence made me realize that fucked up people do exist in this world and that still kinda frightens me today. Like Casino, I have watched this movie numerous times.
Trailer:
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Stars: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah
Premise: The Bride wakens from a four-year coma. The child she carried in her womb is gone. Now she must wreak vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her - a team she was once part of.
Why @Mondo Freaks Picked It: Favorite move as a teen. Thought all the women were super hot in this when I was in high school. Its just a kickass movie with silly ass dialogue. Makes you realize how shitty the Hateful 8 really was. Yea, h8ful 8 is a bad movie, there I said it.
Trailer:
The Matrix (1999)
Director: The Wachowski Bros (that's right, I said BROS)
Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss
Premise: A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.
Why @Mondo Freaks Picked It: Another movie I watched constantly as a teen. I remember the usher at the movie theater asking me for ID. I was 16 at the time and I think you had to be 17 to watch it. The usher either couldn't do math or didn't give a shit cuz I got in. This movie changed a lot in the action genre. The bullet time sequences were gnarly as hell, and the plot was sooooo jacked up. I will admit i didn't get it the first time I watched it and had to keep watching it to understand it. Somewhere in there, it became one of my favorite action movies.
Trailer:
So you guys know what to do. See y'all in the discussion thread on Wednesday!
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http://forums.sherdog.com/threads/could-a-sherdog-movie-watching-club-work.3237221/
The discussion thread for this movie will go up on Wednesday the 1st!
All right guys, time for the week 5 vote! @europe1 tried to send us into the bowels of weird obscurity, but @Mondo Freaks is here to bring us back into the mainstream.
Mondo and I had a little conversation after he sent me his picks. We're in disagreement about which film we think is going to win so it's going to be interesting to see how this plays out.
Here Are Our Candidates!
Casino (1995)
Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Robert DeNiro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci
Premise: Greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two mobster best friends and a trophy wife over a gambling empire.
Why @Mondo Freaks Picked It: One of the first really violent movies I saw as a kid. I remember being scared and in awe of Nicky at the same time. I think I've seen this movie more than any other movie in my life. Every father and son should watch this movie together. Also every businessman should watch this. I also see this movie as a blood relative of Goodfellas.
Trailer:
GoldenEye (1995)
Director: Martin Campbell
Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco
Premise: James Bond teams up with the lone survivor of a destroyed Russian research center to stop the hijacking of a nuclear space weapon by a fellow agent formerly believed to be dead.
Why @Mondo Freaks Picked It: This and Casino Royale are my favorite Bond films. This is also a throwback to my childhood. My church youth group would watch this then play it on 64...such good times. Bronson is a stud and an underrated 007. The women are true bond girls, and Famke Janssen is a bonafide femme fatale. Ned Stark was a welcome villain and though not a traditional bond villain, he stood his own and brought a calculated malice to the 007 franchise. Yes, I did play Perfect Dark.
Trailer:
Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Director: Jonathan Demme
Stars: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins
Premise: A young F.B.I. cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims.
Why @Mondo Freaks Picked It: Only movie to ever give me nightmares. My parents were watching this when I was 4 and I remember peeking at the scene where he breaks out of jail. I had no idea what was going on but it was scary as shit. SotL is one of the reasons supernatural horror movies don't scare me. If it has monsters, demons, or ghosts, its just another fiction to me, but Silence made me realize that fucked up people do exist in this world and that still kinda frightens me today. Like Casino, I have watched this movie numerous times.
Trailer:
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Stars: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah
Premise: The Bride wakens from a four-year coma. The child she carried in her womb is gone. Now she must wreak vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her - a team she was once part of.
Why @Mondo Freaks Picked It: Favorite move as a teen. Thought all the women were super hot in this when I was in high school. Its just a kickass movie with silly ass dialogue. Makes you realize how shitty the Hateful 8 really was. Yea, h8ful 8 is a bad movie, there I said it.
Trailer:
The Matrix (1999)
Director: The Wachowski Bros (that's right, I said BROS)
Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss
Premise: A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.
Why @Mondo Freaks Picked It: Another movie I watched constantly as a teen. I remember the usher at the movie theater asking me for ID. I was 16 at the time and I think you had to be 17 to watch it. The usher either couldn't do math or didn't give a shit cuz I got in. This movie changed a lot in the action genre. The bullet time sequences were gnarly as hell, and the plot was sooooo jacked up. I will admit i didn't get it the first time I watched it and had to keep watching it to understand it. Somewhere in there, it became one of my favorite action movies.
Trailer:
UPDATE: We have a winner!
The Matrix briefly captured an early lead, but in the end Casino dominated. It didn't take long to see the writing on the wall and the gap between it and competition just continued to grow. While personally I'd have preferred to re-watch The Matrix, it's hard to argue with Scorsese.
So you guys know what to do. See y'all in the discussion thread on Wednesday!
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