EN World Movie Battle Royal! We have our winner!

[Tonguez]

Tonguez,

While you have some nice movies on there. This is supposed to be a Science Ficition, Horror and Fantasy movies only contest.

2,4,5, and 6 don't really fit those criteria.

2, 5 and 6 I'd consider 'low magic Fantasy' (I like my fantasy non-standard). Swashbuckling musketeers is a fantasy staple, Little Big Man vs MCH is 'Western Fantasy', Romeo and Juliet fits in a fantasy world and a world were rival gangs dance and sing is somewhat fantastic don't ya think

I admit 4 doesn't fit but that was a "damn I can't think of any others option" (PS Would Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid vs Who Framed Roger Rabbit meet the criteria? - again Fantasy imho)

 

[ShadowDenizen]

I have no objections to any of the movies, either.
(Granted, though, I've seen them all, where some people might not have.)

I'm doing next round, and I tried to get a good mix of old and new, classic & not-so-classic, from a variety of categories: it's tough to choose just 16!!

I do plan to include "Doctor Zhivago", which could only tenously be classified as "Fantasy", becuase it fits the motif of the movie I pitted it against. (You'll see when I post.)

Oh, and how many reposnes are we waitiing on, or should we just set it for "X number of days" at this point? Ideally, I'd like to post tomorrow, and give people the weekend to reply, and I'll tally the votes on Monday. (Since I'm usually away from my computer over the weekends anyway!!)

 

[shady]

1.(Disneys) Sleeping Beauty (1959) vs (Disneys) Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Umm, Beauty and the Beast

2. Cyrano De Bergerac (1990) vs The Scarlet Pimpernel(1934)
Difficult. Scarlet Pimpernel, if only on the grounds that the lead actor was killed in the fight against fascism. But did you think of Scarlet Pimpernel(1934) vs Pimpernel Smith (1941), also with Leslie Howard in the lead, in an updated version of the same story, as an archeologist who goes undercover to fight the nazis (sound familiar? even the name?)

3 Nosferatu (1922) vs Dracula (1931)
Dracula

4 The Big Chill (1983) vs The Breakfast Club (1985)
Umm, oh heck. The Big Chill. I'd have picked St Elmo's Fire over either though.

5 A Man Called Horse (1970) vs Little Big Man (1970)
Little Big Man

6 West Side Story (1961) vs Romeo and Juliet (1996)
Difficult one. Romeo + Juliet

7 Petes Dragon (1977) vs Pufnstuf (1970)
I refuse to vote, they're both awful.

8 Carrie(1976) vs Scanners (1981)
Carrie

 

[shady]

"Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole saturday in detention for whatever it is we did wrong, but we think you're crazy for making us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out, is that each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basketcase, a princess, and a criminal. Does that answer your question? Sincerely yours, The Breakfast Club."

PS I was bullied into writing this by the other 4.
PPS I'll get you Edward Scissorhands!

 

[Gomez]

2, 5 and 6 I'd consider 'low magic Fantasy' (I like my fantasy non-standard). Swashbuckling musketeers is a fantasy staple, Little Big Man vs MCH is 'Western Fantasy', Romeo and Juliet fits in a fantasy world and a world were rival gangs dance and sing is somewhat fantastic don't ya think

I admit 4 doesn't fit but that was a "damn I can't think of any others option" (PS Would Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid vs Who Framed Roger Rabbit meet the criteria? - again Fantasy imho)

If I let those movies into the contest the there might as well be no limits on what movies can be in. They just don't fit in the theme of the contest. Just because something is non fiction doesn't make it fantasy.

 

[MonsterMash]

Well still another 3 votes till we get to round 5 (or is it going to be best of 30 now?)

 

[Gomez]

Well still another 3 votes till we get to round 5 (or is it going to be best of 30 now?)

It is still 20.

 

[Gomez]

1. Beauty and the Beast (1991)

3. Dracula (1931) - Bela is best!

7. Petes Dragon (1977)

8. Carrie(1976) - no contest.

 

[Obad Hai]

1.(Disneys) Beauty and the Beast (1991)

3 Nosferatu (1922)

7 Pufnstuf (1970)

8 Scanners (1981)

 

[Pielorinho]

1.(Disneys) Sleeping Beauty (1959)

2. Cyrano De Bergerac (1990)

3. Dracula (1931)

4. The Breakfast Club (1985)

5 No vote

6 Romeo and Juliet (1996)

7 Petes Dragon (1977)

8 Carrie(1976)

Embarrassingly, my votes on 2, 4, and 7 are defaults, not having seen the other movie. I like the Scarlet Pimpernel story better, but that doesn't count; I hated Disney's massacre of Beauty and the Beast; and Scanners was interesting but unsatisfying, whereas Carrie works on a couple of levels.

One round that I thought of too late was gonna be Errol Flynn's Robin Hood vs. The Princess Bride, basically pitting my two all-time favorite swashbucklers against each other. I'm glad I didn't, given that Robin Hood isn't strictly fantasy.

Daniel