EN World Movie Battle Royal! We have our winner!

[ShadowDenizen]

ROUND 2-18
1) Gotta be Brazil. Incredibly thought-provoking and oddly satirical, but still strangely touching. AND, one of the best endings ever. (The original ending, I mean, not the crappy ending tehy shoehorned onto the "Love COnquers All" version of the film.)
2) No doubt City of Lost Children: Jeuneut & Caro are amazing, and the film is breathtaking in all it's eccenticities.
3) Donnie Darko. Two words: Jake Gyllenhall.
4) Metroplis. No contest.
5) Shaun of the Dead: poster says it all: "A Romcom w/ zombies."
6) Videodrome. While, IMO, not as cool as Existenz, this is the film Cronenberg fans remember when they talk about him.
7) Oooh, toughie. Give the edge to Willy Wonka, though, for Gene Wilders antics, not to mention the Oompa-Loompas.
8) The Haunting.

As an aside:
A)I like List 2 better than List 1. More of these movies strike chords with me than the first set.
B) Either "Brazil" or "City of Lost Children" would be my top pick of the 32 so far.
C) Wow! I watch WAY too many movies, because I've seen all the movies listed so far.
D) As an early prayer... please, please don't let Star Wars run away with this! Sure, it's contributed to the pop-culture landscape, and has a huge following, but almost any (Well, excpet maybe "Peter Pan") of the movies from this list rate higher than EIV, IMO!!)
E) Can I take a later round if available? I'd be interested in either doing a round of "Classic Films".

 

[Laurel]

2-19

1. Brazil (1985)
2. City of Lost Children (1995)
3. Donnie Darko (2001)
4. Metropolis (1927)
5. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
6. The Matrix (1999)
7. Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
8. The Haunting (1963)

 

[Gomez]

One more vote and we can go to round three.

Here are the people posting the next few rounds.

Round 3 - Krieg
Round 4 - Tonguez
Round 5 - ShadowDenizen
Round 6 - Wombat
Round 7 - Berandor
Round 8 - Gomez (I will take the last round. Hopefully I can do better than the first!)

 

[Ruined]

Well might as well toss in my opinions:

ROUND 2-20

Delicatessen (1991) vs. Brazil (1985)
City of Lost Children (1995) vs. Peter Pan (2003)
Twelve Monkeys (1995) vs. Donnie Darko (2001)
Gattaca (1997) vs. Metropolis (1927)
Dark Star (1974) vs. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Videodrome (1983) vs. The Matrix (1999)
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) vs. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Spoorloos/The Vanishing (1988) vs. The Haunting (1963)

 

[Pielorinho]

All righty! Let me tally some, and then I'll post results for round 2.

Daniel

 

[Wombat]

I'd volunteer to host a round, but I think my tastes would either be repeats or tolerably obscure...

 

[ShadowDenizen]

I'd volunteer to host a round, but I think my tastes would either be repeats or tolerably obscure.

Try it anyway: it's easy to avoid repeats, and some of the things I'm gonna post are not exactly blockbusters...

 

[Pielorinho]

Okay, here it is:
1) Brazil vs. Delicatessen. I was a little surprised here: when I earlier stated that every movie had been voted for once, I was wrong. Brazil won in a shutout, 19-0. I guess when folks are imagining a dark chaotic future, they prefer it to be bureaucratic than cannibalistic.
2) City of Lost Children vs. Peter Pan. Although the recent adaptation of Barrie's play is my favorite yet, its land of lost boys lost to the City of Lost Children, 15-3. And no wonder: CoLC is beautiful, weird, and wonderful.
3) Twelve Monkeys vs. Donnie Darko. If you're going to tell a logic-defying story of time-traveling doom, leave out the psycho rabbits: Twelve Monkeys wins, 13-6.
4) Gattaca vs. Metropolis. Just to show the future dystopia can be highly ordered, I set up this contest, in which we see that the socialist, proto-Nazi Metropolis edges out the sterile, quiet Gattaca 12-8.
5) Dark Star vs. Shaun of the Dead. Dark Star, about the universe's most solipsistic WMD, started strong--but Shaun of the Dead, everyone's favorite zomromcom, came from behind to win, 10-8.
6) Videodrome vs. The Matrix. If you're going to live in a world comprising images without substance, you've got choices. You can be incredibly dreary, depressing and philosophical--or you can kick major butt. ENWorlders like The Matrix's major buttkicking, 15-4.
7) Something Wicked This Way Comes vs. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Do you prefer your freaky dark children's fantasy to be marketed as such? No: most of you preferred Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory's candy-coated bad trip, 13-6.
8) Spoorloos vs. The Haunting. Rounding it out with two fantastic horror movies in which it's what you don't see that frightens you, The Haunting wins, 13-8.

Thanks for all the responses, and special thanks to Gomez for setting up the contest and letting me host a round! As you can guess, I enjoyed (or at least appreciated) each of these movies; they're among my favorites. It's a lot of fun to hear other folks' reactions to them!

Okay, onto round 3.
Daniel

 

[Gomez]

Here is a revised Scoring for Round 2

1. Brazil defeats Delicatessen - 18-0-2
2. City of Lost Children defeats Peter Pan - 15-3-2
3. Twelve Monkeys defeats Donnie Darko - 13-6-1
4. Metropolis defeats Gattaca - 12-8
5. Shaun of the Dead defeats Dark Star - 10-8-2
6. The Matrix defeats Videodrome - 15-4-1
7. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory defeats Something Wicked This Way Comes - 13-6-1
8. The Haunting defeats Spoorloos - 13-6-1

 

[Krieg]

Round 3

Well so much for my Twelve Monkeys vs. Planet of the Apes, Dark City vs. City of Lost Children, Matrix vs. Tron and 1984 vs. Brazil battles. Gee thanks Pielorinho *sigh*

I decided to get back to basics and throw a few of the “big” names into the mix along with a couple of personal favorites. For the most part I kept the choices vanilla, but it will be interesting to see how the heavyweights do against each other.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) vs. Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) vs. Galaxy Quest (1999)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) vs. Contact (1997)

Superman (1978) vs. Spider-Man (2002)

Dark City (1998) vs. Being John Malkovich (1999)

Fallen (1998) vs. Frailty (2001)

Solyaris (1972) vs. Blade Runner (1982)

Aliens (1986) vs. Predator (1987) (sorry I had to)

Dungeons & Dragons (2000) vs. Battlefield Earth (2000)

Oops…just ignore that last one.

If there is still opening at the end I would love to do another round, there are quiet a few favorites that I had to leave off…