Author Topic: 1980s US Bracket: Verdicts  (Read 395830 times)

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Re: 1980s US Bracket: Verdicts
« Reply #190 on: August 05, 2009, 01:05:40 PM »
The Untouchables tells a really good story, and imo tells it well. A solid 3/4 in my books. Friday the 13th is beyond memory for me.
what is the story it tells? 
The whole Ness and company versus Capone thing. I think it's a good story. I like the odd ball team Ness assembles. I like that whole sequence at the bridge. I like the courtroom stuff. I don't know how accurate any of that stuff is to actual events (and I don't care), it's interesting and entertaining.

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Re: 1980s US Bracket: Verdicts
« Reply #191 on: August 05, 2009, 01:15:41 PM »
The Untouchables tells a really good story, and imo tells it well. A solid 3/4 in my books. Friday the 13th is beyond memory for me.



what is the story it tells? 

i would prolly give it 3/4 as well, out of ten, that is :)

aside from the stairs, my favorite part was reading the address on the matchbook where Malone (Connery) lived - 1634 Racine - which is just a block from where i live :)

That's a busy neighborhood:
Quote from: Imdb.com trivia page for "The Lake House"
The address of the building in Chicago at which Sandra Bullock lives is 1620 Racine. This would place it in the same block as the apartment belonging to Sean Connery in The Untouchables (1987) (Connery's character lived at 1634 Racine).

weird, i forgot that.  

and, ahhhhhhh, The Lake House, another bit of evidence of my syndrome :)
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Re: 1980s US Bracket: Verdicts
« Reply #192 on: August 05, 2009, 01:17:52 PM »
you're number 1 in my book, skjerva

And the next match-up is?
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Re: 1980s US Bracket: Verdicts
« Reply #193 on: August 05, 2009, 01:26:18 PM »
you're number 1 in my book, skjerva

And the next match-up is?

it crossed my mind that was the idea, next up
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Re: 1980s US Bracket: Verdicts
« Reply #194 on: August 05, 2009, 02:36:44 PM »
I can't believe skjerva negatively reviewed The Untouchables without calling it pro-police state fascist propaganda. Seemed like easy pickins for you.

I thought TU was better than excrement but I'm not a huge fan. Haven't seen Friday the 13th, but I guess it was time you let a horror movie through.
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Re: 1980s US Bracket: Verdicts
« Reply #195 on: August 05, 2009, 04:15:44 PM »

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Re: 1980s US Bracket: Verdicts
« Reply #196 on: August 05, 2009, 11:41:33 PM »
But I wish the public could, in the midst of its pleasures, see how blatantly it is being spoon-fed, and ask for slightly better dreams. 
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Re: 1980s US Bracket: Verdicts
« Reply #197 on: August 05, 2009, 11:44:26 PM »
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heh, more Costner for you.

is there Costner in there?
oops! I guess when I went to imdb Swing Shift I typed in Swing Vote by accident. Didn't mean to scare you.

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Re: 1980s US Bracket: Verdicts
« Reply #198 on: August 05, 2009, 11:45:40 PM »
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heh, more Costner for you.

is there Costner in there?
oops! I guess when I went to imdb Swing Shift I typed in Swing Vote by accident. Didn't mean to scare you.

it kinda did, though there was a bit of car-wreck interest bubbling, too :)
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Re: 1980s US Bracket: Verdicts
« Reply #199 on: August 05, 2009, 11:55:02 PM »
Swing Vote will probably win the 00s Bracket.

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