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*barks* Never! ironclad Send a noteboard - 23/02/2012 11:32:59 AM
I am so sick of the elitist crap, where the same old boring films win those kinda things, movies you can hardly sit through muss less watch over and over again.

ROTK for the win and hooray for entertainment.

I love RotK. I am not dismissing the entertainment value, but you just dismiss my enjoyment of Casablanca. I LOVE that movie. I could and would watch it over and over, whereas I have a bit of a limit on something the length of RotK. I'm not saying everyone should feel the same as I do, but I don't think you can judge based on "woohoo, that was fun!" and call that the only valid criterion.

Do you think I'm wrong that there is a chance more modern voters have not watched all the older films? Btw, you may dislike it, but this is why I don't vote in your awards - if I don't know anything about 75% of the entries, it makes no sense for me to vote.

I dunno who put together the field of 16 here, but it's hardly a evenly spread competition when it comes to release years. ROTK, Silence of the Lambs and Platoon as the newest entries? Please. Of course the label "of all time" should contain older films too, but primarily? No.
I simply do not subscribe to the POV that the best films of our time are older than the 1960s. That may be personal taste but the constant "back then everything was better, no special effects but real stories"-whining is a huge pet peeve of mine. Films dealing with themes from so many decades ago hardly ever touch me, their way of acting, writing and filming feels dated and wooden to me. Some of my all-time favorites are from the 70s, but none made this list.
Of course that doesn't mean people don't have the right to vote for Casablanca. But no one should be surprised that people pick a more recent film that represents film-making as it is done today, especially combined with a timeless story loved by readers for decades.
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Return of the King beat Casablanca? - 23/02/2012 10:49:32 AM 1837 Views
Anyone claiming to have more fun with Casablanca than with ROTK is just crazy - 23/02/2012 11:03:14 AM 1197 Views
Calm down, buddy. - 23/02/2012 11:10:35 AM 1131 Views
*barks* Never! - 23/02/2012 11:32:59 AM 1219 Views
*bites* - 23/02/2012 09:18:37 PM 1211 Views
I think it's fair to vote if you love one entry enough to wish for it to win *shrugs* - 23/02/2012 10:08:33 PM 1118 Views
Technically, that's just cheering for the home team. - 23/02/2012 11:09:44 PM 1062 Views
You seem to confuse this with a presidential election - 23/02/2012 11:30:05 PM 968 Views
That might be true too. - 24/02/2012 12:11:51 AM 1123 Views
I'd say it's a pretty fair spread of years. - 24/02/2012 11:15:30 PM 1423 Views
Have you seen Casablanca? - 24/02/2012 12:55:30 PM 1026 Views
No - 24/02/2012 02:21:16 PM 1118 Views
Well, I have seen both - 24/02/2012 02:30:34 PM 1177 Views
He doesn't know yet. - 24/02/2012 05:22:11 PM 1061 Views
Clearly. - 24/02/2012 05:32:40 PM 1204 Views
Movies about romance and love that make female audiences cry = chick flick *NM* - 24/02/2012 05:35:30 PM 573 Views
In that case - 24/02/2012 05:52:37 PM 1273 Views
Lol. - 24/02/2012 06:17:08 PM 1028 Views
LOL - 24/02/2012 09:05:59 PM 1217 Views
Re: LOL - 24/02/2012 09:10:58 PM 1124 Views
Re: LOL - 24/02/2012 09:23:47 PM 1074 Views
Re: LOL - 24/02/2012 09:41:44 PM 1482 Views
Well there goes having a fun movie discussion without someone taking it personally - 24/02/2012 10:19:40 PM 1029 Views
Right. *NM* - 24/02/2012 10:21:02 PM 631 Views
Actually I'd say Casablanca is one of the most masculine films in existence - 24/02/2012 07:37:02 PM 1104 Views
Agreed. *NM* - 24/02/2012 09:08:31 PM 648 Views
I know Bogart is all macho lifting her chin like that and all... - 24/02/2012 09:11:15 PM 1155 Views
You really should stop commenting on it until you have seen it - 24/02/2012 09:38:49 PM 1082 Views
Neither have I. - 24/02/2012 05:55:37 PM 1112 Views
Old movies have a way of shocking you with how modern they are. - 26/02/2012 12:31:16 PM 1178 Views
"Best" to me means "Most Enjoyable." - 23/02/2012 02:09:48 PM 1245 Views
Precisely! - 23/02/2012 02:30:38 PM 1127 Views
I don't disagree with this. - 23/02/2012 09:24:03 PM 1043 Views
In the words of W.B. Yeats You have disgraced yourselves again - 23/02/2012 04:04:56 PM 1172 Views
See, that's why such polls are both fun and unnecessary - 23/02/2012 04:13:25 PM 1153 Views
Pfft, you forgot one crucial point - 23/02/2012 05:51:49 PM 1246 Views
- 23/02/2012 05:04:52 PM 1039 Views
Apart from my not having seen Casablanca, I couldn't agree more. - 23/02/2012 06:23:51 PM 1066 Views
You found it was the weakest - 23/02/2012 07:17:28 PM 1050 Views
Perhaps I phrased that a bit badly, true. Sorry about that. - 23/02/2012 09:39:12 PM 1118 Views
In fairness - 23/02/2012 11:13:41 PM 1176 Views
ROTK isn't really too great of a movie. - 26/02/2012 03:07:58 PM 1058 Views
All sensible points. - 23/02/2012 09:26:27 PM 968 Views
At least On the Waterfront beat Titanic... *NM* - 23/02/2012 06:14:19 PM 523 Views
What's much worse, it beat Gone with the Wind. Sacrilege. - 23/02/2012 06:25:47 PM 998 Views
Um... that is not my favorite movie. - 23/02/2012 09:13:57 PM 1136 Views
Not mine, either, but I do love it. - 23/02/2012 09:41:28 PM 973 Views
Aww crap - 23/02/2012 07:58:31 PM 1143 Views
You might have to hate it on principle. - 23/02/2012 09:09:33 PM 960 Views
Casablanca is my all time favorite movie. This enrages me - 23/02/2012 08:55:30 PM 1108 Views
Heh - 23/02/2012 09:13:09 PM 961 Views
I'm kind of torn on whether I want to see Lawrence of Arabia. - 23/02/2012 09:43:16 PM 1111 Views
Hmm, no Hitchcock? - 23/02/2012 10:04:25 PM 1015 Views
It's only using films which won the best picture oscar - 23/02/2012 10:58:41 PM 1074 Views
Ohh, that explains a LOT - 23/02/2012 11:24:59 PM 991 Views
That does explain a lot - 24/02/2012 03:21:08 PM 1064 Views
Godfather won, you can all rest easy now - 24/02/2012 09:30:02 PM 1027 Views
Phew? - 25/02/2012 12:14:06 AM 1076 Views
THAT CHICK FLICK??!!!?! - 25/02/2012 12:24:28 AM 1011 Views
It feels like "let's be mean to Jens" day. - 25/02/2012 12:49:03 AM 942 Views
Hey, at least we had around 50 decent replies and a nice discussion until things got unpleasant - 25/02/2012 01:24:48 AM 959 Views
Sorry, I meant my comment to be tongue in cheek - 25/02/2012 02:19:34 AM 994 Views
Yeah. - 25/02/2012 12:00:19 PM 1080 Views

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