2015 MoFo Challenge Completion Thread

There's some great stuff left and some really not great stuff.

I've enjoyed how the stories of Tyrion and Jaime have played out in seasons 3 and 4, and I think it's worth watching for that, but the fantasy elements are much more prominent in these seasons. Judging by the trailer for season 5, which premieres in about a month, that trend isn't stopping.

I'll probably stick it out awhile longer, provided Tyrion continues to survive, but I was really, really annoyed by the big battle at the end of season 4 and also annoyed at where they went with Brandon Stark's story.

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Duly noted. I'm also working under the assumption that this only applies to never-before-seen films because that's more of a challenge, yes?

Same goes for the "seven different countries" challenge because while JayDee decided to lump North America and the UK together, he didn't say anything about Australia and New Zealand. I've seen films from both and thus that'd complete the challenge but it seems a bit of a cop-out since they're still English-speaking countries.

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Just 3 letters left for me then the alphabet challenge is complete.

I can't find the challenge thread! I want to challenge someone.

Yeah, on the never seen before challenge, but I don't see why every English speaking country needs to be lumped together. There are some damned good movies from each country.

I see you found it.

I promise to update both threads in the near future.

My assumption is that this particular limitation is supposed to encourage people to seek out films that aren't in English, thus providing a challenge for people who might otherwise play it safe by sticking to films from English-speaking countries.

I guess the thing to do would to be to get a final answer from JayDee. I'll pm him in a couple of days if he doesn't answer in the thread.

Alright, I've completed a handful of the "for everyone" challenges.

The "Alphabet" Challenge:

Amadeus
Billy Madison
Clueless
Dead Poets Society
Electric Boogaloo
Foxy Brown
Gone Baby Gone
Happy Gilmore
Ipcress File, The
JFK
Kramer vs. Kramer
Lolita
Me and Orson Welles
Nightcrawler
Oliver!
Predestination
Quills
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Spartacus
Troll
Unbroken
Vanishing, The
What We Do in the Shadows
X-Men: The Last Stand
Yakuza, The
Zoolander

The "7 Different Countries" Challenge:

1. Argentina - The Secret in their Eyes
2. Japan - The Wind Rises
3. Italy - Life is Beautiful
4. Hong Kong - Drunken Master II
5. Sweden - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
6. Mexico - Amores Perros
7. Belgium - Two Days, One Night

(for added challenge, I restricted it to countries where English is not the official language)

The "9 Different Decades" Challenge:

30s - Gone with the Wind
40s - Mildred Pierce
50s - The Asphalt Jungle
60s - The Miracle Worker
70s - Saturday Night Fever
80s - Amadeus
90s - Shakespeare in Love
00s - Million Dollar Baby
10s - Birdman

(these are all pretty random and there are plenty more in my movie-a-day thread)

And finally...

The "Complete a MoFo List and Rearrange It" Challenge:
(in this case, the MoFo Top 100)

1. The Blues Brothers
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. Apocalypse Now
4. Jaws
5. Blade Runner
6. Goodfellas
7. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
8. Withnail & I
9. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
10. The Big Lebowski
11. 2001: A Space Odyssey
12. Pulp Fiction
13. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
14. The Princess Bride
15. Die Hard
16. Taxi Driver
17. Lawrence of Arabia
18. Seven Samurai
19. Once Upon a Time in the West
20. A Clockwork Orange
21. The Godfather Part II
22. The Godfather
23. Sonatine
24. Spirited Away
25. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
26. The Shining
27. Chinatown
28. Midnight Cowboy
29. Heat
30. The Wild Bunch
31. The Third Man
32. Unforgiven
33. Fight Club
34. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
35. Reservoir Dogs
36. Raging Bull
37. Magnolia
38. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
39. Naked
40. Se7en
41. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
42. The Matrix
43. Aliens
44. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
45. Casablanca
46. Citizen Kane
47. The Royal Tenenbaums
48. Schindler's List
49. Memento
50. Dark City
51. 12 Angry Men
52. Double Indemnity
53. Léon (The Professional)
54. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
55. The Breakfast Club
56. The Shawshank Redemption
57. The Lord of the Rings
58. City Of God
59. Amélie
60. Fargo
61. To Kill a Mockingbird
62. Singin' in the Rain
63. Cabaret
64. Cool Hand Luke
65. Psycho
66. In the Mood for Love
67. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
68. Being John Malkovich
69. Back To The Future
70. The Searchers
71. The Silence of the Lambs
72. It's a Wonderful Life
73. North by Northwest
74. All About Eve
75. Rear Window
76. The Crow
77. Saving Private Ryan
78. The Last of the Mohicans
79. Quills
80. Vertigo
81. The Dark Knight
82. Black Hawk Down
83. Gladiator
84. Good Will Hunting
85. Dances with Wolves
86. Mystic River
87. Superman: The Movie
88. Lost In Translation
89. Braveheart
90. American Beauty
91. American History X
92. Million Dollar Baby
93. Titanic
94. Forrest Gump
95. Sense and Sensibility
96. Requiem for a Dream
97. Ghostbusters
98. Moulin Rouge!
99. Signs
100. The Departed

In no order

America- The Departed (First film I watched in 2015 I believe)
Italy- 8 1/2
Germany- Das Boot
France- The Illusionist
Sweden- The Seventh Seal
Russia- The Battleship Potemkin
Japan- Rashomon

Finished reading 70,000 pages of fiction between December 26 2014 and with the goal of finishing my own self challenge by December 25 2015. that's about 200 books. Of course, the fact that 95% of the pages were comics made it easier. I would need to get unemployed to read 200 novels in less than 10 months.

so who completed some challenges? i sure didn't.

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I completed one early in the year but then abandoned my other once Gdog vanished