The Cinema Taste Test!

Okay, Ladies and Gents, here's ten L's and ten D's (not in that order )

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Unforgiven
The Wild Bunch
The Dirty Dozen
The Great Escape
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2001: A Space Odyssey
Bullitt
Dirty Harry
When Harry Met Sally
Spartacus
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Matrix
The Matrix: Reloaded
Gremlins
A Beautiful Mind
Tomb Raider
Fight Club
Braveheart

I'll post results tomorrow afternoon (pacific standard)

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid D
Unforgiven L
The Wild Bunch L
The Dirty Dozen L
The Great Escape D
Fast Times at Ridgemont High L
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon L
2001: A Space Odyssey L
Bullitt D
Dirty Harry D
When Harry Met Sally D
Spartacus D
Breakfast at Tiffany's L
The Matrix D
The Matrix: Reloaded D
Gremlins D
A Beautiful Mind L
Tomb Raider D
Fight Club L
Braveheart L

Jeez....


I was really tempted to answer all L so I could get at least ten on that monster.......

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

Holy Crap!!! There's ten on that list that you don't like??? I like at least fifteen of them.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid L
Unforgiven L
The Wild Bunch L
The Dirty Dozen D
The Great Escape L
Fast Times at Ridgemont High L
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon D
2001: A Space Odyssey L
Bullitt L
Dirty Harry D
When Harry Met Sally L
Spartacus D
Breakfast at Tiffany's L
The Matrix D
The Matrix: Reloaded D
Gremlins L
A Beautiful Mind D
Tomb Raider D
Fight Club D
Braveheart D

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid L
Unforgiven L
The Wild Bunch D
The Dirty Dozen L
The Great Escape L
Fast Times at Ridgemont High D
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon L
2001: A Space Odyssey D
Bullitt L
Dirty Harry D
When Harry Met Sally L
Spartacus D
Breakfast at Tiffany's L
The Matrix D
The Matrix: Reloaded D
Gremlins D
A Beautiful Mind L
Tomb Raider D
Fight Club D
Braveheart L



Man, this is SO hard!!!

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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.

Let's set it at 5 and see how that works.

Kong isn't wild over the 10-L, 10-D rule, but we can run this like a democracy and let the majority rule. Personally, Kong would rather have a more flexible rule on the amount of likes and dislikes each person can have on their list. Maybe no less than 40% of x (L or D depending on your list); this would mean the lists could end up being 10-10, 11-9, or 12-8. What do you guys think?

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It all sounds good to me. I wasn't actually trying to set precedence or anything.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid L
Unforgiven L
The Wild Bunch L
The Dirty Dozen D
The Great Escape L
Fast Times at Ridgemont High L
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon D
2001: A Space Odyssey L
Bullitt D
Dirty Harry D
When Harry Met Sally D
Spartacus L
Breakfast at Tiffany's D
The Matrix L
The Matrix: Reloaded D
Gremlins D
A Beautiful Mind D
Tomb Raider D
Fight Club L
Braveheart L

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid L
Unforgiven L
The Wild Bunch D
The Dirty Dozen L
The Great Escape L
Fast Times at Ridgemont High D
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon D
2001: A Space Odyssey L
Bullitt L
Dirty Harry L
When Harry Met Sally D
Spartacus L
Breakfast at Tiffany's L
The Matrix D
The Matrix: Reloaded D
Gremlins D
A Beautiful MindD
Tomb Raider D
Fight Club D
BraveheartL

Thats more to my liking.

I was planning on messing everyone up with an all L list....but alas....

Also, I think that it should be illegal for someone to guess all L or all D....because it's cheap......and tempting......so if someone doesn't set a rule......I might have to do it.......

That's part of why Kong isn't crazy for the 10L/10D rule. When the quantity of each option is known for certain, the strategies of winning end up revolving around statistics rather than good old fashioned fun. The smart thing to do in a 10-10 system is to pick out 3 or 4 films you are almost certain the person liked and answer L for those, and then D for the rest. That will guarantee a score of 13 or 14 which is often enough to win. So, to prevent this kind of boring strategy we can do two things. (1) Add an unkown element by limited but not strictly setting the amount of L's and D's each person can use when making their list for people to guess at, or (2) control the answers by limiting or setting how many L's and D's someone can use when guessing. Kong likes the first option best because it seems to give the most leeway to both the quizzer and the guesser.

Um, I'll have my lawyers take a look at what you've just proposed, then I'll sue you for malicious fabrication of rule setting and non-disclosure.

Better bring some handy-wipes Kong.

Bring it on. Kong will get Johnnie Cochran to take care of anything you can dish out.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid L
Unforgiven L
The Wild Bunch D
The Dirty Dozen L
The Great Escape L
Fast Times at Ridgemont High D
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon D
2001: A Space Odyssey L
Bullitt D
Dirty Harry L
When Harry Met Sally D
Spartacus L
Breakfast at Tiffany's L
The Matrix L
The Matrix: Reloaded D
Gremlins D
A Beautiful Mind D
Tomb Raider D
Fight Club L
BraveheartL

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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...

ooh i soooo love games. let me see. his name is mark. he is male. he has a small dog called larry living in a box under his bed....I CAN DO THIS.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid L
Unforgiven L
The Wild Bunch L
The Dirty Dozen D
The Great Escape L
Fast Times at Ridgemont High D
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon L
2001: A Space Odyssey L
Bullitt D
Dirty Harry D
When Harry Met Sally D
Spartacus L
Breakfast at Tiffany's D
The Matrix L
The Matrix: Reloaded D
Gremlins L
A Beautiful Mind D
Tomb Raider D
Fight Club L
Braveheart D

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....L
Unforgiven......L
The Wild Bunch....D
The Dirty Dozen......D
The Great Escape......L
Fast Times at Ridgemont High.....L
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon......D
2001: A Space Odyssey......L
Bullitt......D
Dirty Harry.....D
When Harry Met Sally......D
Spartacus.....L
Breakfast at Tiffany's.....D
The Matrix.....L
The Matrix: Reloaded......L
Gremlins......L
A Beautiful Mind.....L
Tomb Raider......D
Fight Club.....L
Braveheart......L

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

Shouldn't the answers come out soon?

I am eager to see the results.

Okay, folks! It's been 24 hours and 30 minutes. I'll post the results so Beale the Rippe doesn't wet his pants

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....L (one of my fav. westerns)
Unforgiven......L (one of my other fav. westerns)
The Wild Bunch....D (read "Mark's Movie Reviews 4 Fun" thread)
The Dirty Dozen......D (I'll discuss this on the MoFo Movie Club thread)
The Great Escape......D (I'm posting "Quick Reviews" on my reviews thread, and this one is included)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High.....L (my fav. 80s film)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon......D (couldn't get into the floating)
2001: A Space Odyssey......D (He's a genious, but each scene was 4 minutes too long)
Bullitt......D (included in my upcoming "Quick reviews")
Dirty Harry.....L (One of the best cop movies of the 70s)
When Harry Met Sally......L (one of the only chick-flicks I like)
Spartacus.....L (included in my upcoming "Quick reviews")
Breakfast at Tiffany's.....D (in the words of LordSlaytan, "Maybe if I had boobs")
The Matrix.....L (One of my top 20 all time)
The Matrix: Reloaded......L (not as good as the first, but I still loved it)
Gremlins......D (uhhh...no)
A Beautiful Mind.....D (A Beautiful Snooze)
Tomb Raider......D (she looked great, but that's about it)
Fight Club.....L (One of my top 20 all time)
Braveheart......L (one of my top 20 all time)

Moviefan20 - 14
Hondo333 - 13
Kong - 12
MinionTV - 10
Aniko - 10
Piddzilla - 8
LordSlaytan - 8
Beale the Rippe - 6

The winner is Moviefan20! Hooooorrrraaayyyyyy!

Foiled again!!!

God damnit.....

14 by Moviefan?? That must be a record.