The Cinema Taste Test!

So, here is how the game will work. Kong will post a list of 20 films, and you folks guess wether or not you think Kong liked or disliked the film. Kong will then come back tomorrow and give the answers. Whoever gets the most correct answers will take over and make their own list of twenty films for people to guess at.

Hopefully this game will catch on. It should be interesting, and will help us learn everyone else's tastes in film.

Here's the list:

The French Connection
The Recruit
Kids
Shanghai Knights
Hard Eight
Welcome to the Dollhouse
The Thing
The Apostle
The Spanish Prisoner
Speed
Jurassic Park
The Hours
Ghosts of Mississippi
Independence Day
The Insider
The Great Mouse Detective
A Few Good Men
Ali
Ghost World
Moulin Rouge

Answer "D" if you think Kong disliked it, and "L" if you think that Kong did like it.

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Kong's Reviews:
Stuck On You
Bad Santa

The French Connection L
The Recruit D
Kids D
Shanghai Knights L
Hard Eight L
Welcome to the Dollhouse D
The Thing L
The Apostle L
The Spanish Prisoner D
Speed D
Jurassic Park L
The Hours L
Ghosts of Mississippi L
Independence Day D
The Insider L
The Great Mouse Detective L
A Few Good Men D
Ali D
Ghost World L
Moulin Rouge L

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"Today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."

Sounds fun...
I'll take a stab at this....


The French Connection~ L
The Recruit~ [COLOR=dark red]D[/color]
Kids~ [COLOR=dark red]D[/color]
Shanghai Knights~ [COLOR=dark red]D[/color]
Hard Eight~ [COLOR=dark red]D[/color]
Welcome to the Dollhouse~ L
The Thing~ L
The Apostle~ L
The Spanish Prisoner~ [COLOR=dark red]D[/color]
Speed~ [COLOR=dark red]D[/color]
Jurassic Park~ L
The Hours~ L
Ghosts of Mississippi~ L
Independence Day~ [COLOR=dark red]D[/color]
The Insider~ L
The Great Mouse Detective~L
A Few Good Men~ L
Ali~ [COLOR=dark red]D[/color]
Ghost World~ L
Moulin Rouge~ [COLOR=dark red]D[/color]

The French Connection L
The Recruit D
Kids L
Shanghai Knights D
Hard Eight L
Welcome to the Dollhouse L
The Thing D
The Apostle L
The Spanish Prisoner L
Speed D
Jurassic Park D
The Hours L
Ghosts of Mississippi D
Independence Day D
The Insider L
The Great Mouse Detective L
A Few Good Men D
Ali D
Ghost World L
Moulin Rouge D

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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good".

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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.

The French Connection L
The Recruit D
Kids D
Shanghai Knights D
Hard Eight L
Welcome to the DollhouseL
The Thing D
The Apostle L
The Spanish Prisoner L
Speed D
Jurassic Park L
The Hours L
Ghosts of Mississippi L
Independence Day D
The Insider L
The Great Mouse Detective D
A Few Good Men L
Ali D
Ghost World L
Moulin Rouge D

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It's a god-awful small affair, To the girl with, the mousy hair, But her mummy is yelling "No", and her daddy has told her to go, But her friend is nowhere to be seen, Now she walks through her sunken dream, To the seat with the clearest view, And she's hooked to the silver screen, But the film is a saddening bore, For she's lived it ten times or more...

The French Connection-L
The Recruit-D
Kids-D
Shanghai Knights-D
Hard Eight-L
Welcome to the Dollhouse-L
The Thing-(which version? I will assume John Carpenter) D
The Apostle-L
The Spanish Prisoner-L
Speed-D
Jurassic Park-D
The Hours-L
Ghosts of Mississippi-D
Independence Day-D
The Insider-L
The Great Mouse Detective-L
A Few Good Men-L
Ali-D
Ghost World-L
Moulin Rouge-L

Are we doing this like, the person who gets it correct first, or closest gets to go next?

Nice game Kong.

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"I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!" - Howard Beale

Yes...great idea Kong...

The French Connection---L
The Recruit---L
Kids---D
Shanghai Knights---D
Hard Eight---L
Welcome to the Dollhouse---D
The Thing---L
The Apostle---L
The Spanish Prisoner---L
Speed---D
Jurassic Park----L
The Hours---L
Ghosts of Mississippi---L
Independence Day---D
The Insider----L
The Great Mouse Detective---D
A Few Good Men---L
Ali---D
Ghost World---L
Moulin Rouge---D

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Seek me, for comfort, call me, for Solace, I'll be waiting, for the end of my broken heart..

Plus a lady fan of PimpDaShizzle V2.0 and Most importantly JRS

Whoever is closest goes next.

Kong will post the answers soon.

Ah comaaaaaaawn!!!!!!!! You said you were going to announce the winner TODAY!!!

Okay, okay.

These were the right answers:

The French Connection D (Ha! Everyone got it wrong!)
The Recruit L (A Very guilty pleasure.)
Kids D
Shanghai Knights D
Hard Eight L
Welcome to the Dollhouse L
The Thing D
The Apostle L
The Spanish Prisoner D
Speed L
Jurassic Park L
The Hours L
Ghosts of Mississippi D
Independence Day D
The Insider L
The Great Mouse Detective D
A Few Good Men D
Ali D
Ghost World L
Moulin Rouge L


The scores were:

LordSlaytan = 12
Aniko = 11
Piddzilla = 12
Hondo333 = 13
Beale the Rippe = 13
moviefan 20 = 12

There was a tie between Hondo333 and Beale the Rippe. They both got 13 of 20 right. Kong figures that Hondo333 should go next since his post came before Beale's.

All is not right in this world after all.

What's wrong with Speed? It's supposed to be a tense, fun ride and little more. It's not a great film by any means, but it's entertaining.

Speed is alright, but to like it and not like one of the most suspensful films in history??? I can't stop now!

The Thing just didn't do it for Kong. There are some pretty good scenes (the blood testing scene is great), but overall it was just average to Kong.

Kong should should mention that he doesn't generally like horror films.

So close.......

Oh well.

I loved a bunch that you disliked, least of which being The Great Mouse Detective, my personal favorite animated movie. But Hey! To each his own. (Again compliments Kong on the great idea for a game).

On the Thing, that was the 1982 version, correct?

And I too liked the Recruit. The first half was brilliant, (or at the very least, very enjoyable). The second half started downhill and ended with a so-so ending. I'd still give at 2.5 out of 4 though (that is for me, the minimum for a good movie that I liked, and thus a movie I consider good).

ok Here Goes

Desperado (1995)
Human Traffic (1999)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Alien (1979)
The Matrix (1999)
Scent of a Woman (1992)
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
Face/Off (1997)
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Slacker (1991)
Rumble Fish (1983)
The Two Jakes (1990)
Scary Movie (2000)
Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999)
Romeo + Juliet (1996)
Speed (1994)
Billy Madison (1995)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Magnolia (1999)

PS when do i announce the winner

Desperado (1995) L
Human Traffic (1999) D
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) L
Alien (1979) L
The Matrix (1999) L
Scent of a Woman (1992) D
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996) L
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) D
Face/Off (1997) L
Natural Born Killers (1994) L
Slacker (1991) D
Rumble Fish (1983) D
The Two Jakes (1990) D
Scary Movie (2000) L
Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999) D
Romeo + Juliet (1996) L
Speed (1994) D
Billy Madison (1995) D
Rebel Without a Cause (1955) L
Magnolia (1999) D

Give it a day

Desperado (1995) L
Human Traffic (1999) L
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) L
Alien (1979) L
The Matrix (1999) L
Scent of a Woman (1992) D
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996) L
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) D
Face/Off (1997) L
Natural Born Killers (1994) L
Slacker (1991) D
Rumble Fish (1983) L
The Two Jakes (1990) L
Scary Movie (2000) L
Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999) L
Romeo + Juliet (1996) D
Speed (1994) L
Billy Madison (1995) D
Rebel Without a Cause (1955) L
Magnolia (1999) D

That was really, really hard. Honest.

Yeah, I agree... Don't know why but I thought it had to be ten L's and ten D's - but maybe I misunderstood.