[Courtney]

Can we please knock out Empire already so Serg and I can be friends again? It really hurts me that he won't speak to me.

American History X



v.

Empire Strikes Back



Polls close Saturday at 8 PST!

[Batman]

I'm not mad atcha.

[The Canadian Content]

Empire's the better movie. It gets my vote yet again.

[National Champion Chris Cole]

Empire keeps going against movies I've not seen. Therefore I'm forced to continue voting for Empire.

[DevSop]

Serge, I'm abstaining unless you absolutely need this vote. I can not force myself to click on Empire when its going against the curb stomp. I just can't. So please people, vote AHX.

[Batman]

Welsher. At least I can get your abstention.

And if I'm reading your post right, you'll vote Empire if it comes to a tie. Good enough for me.

[The Jewish Cunthead]

Curbstomp + Fairuza getting nailed in the opening credits + Ethan Fucking Suplee > Slicing open a Tauntaun.

[The Canadian Content]

I disagree.

[Stu]

AHX, even though I haven't seen it. If Serenity doesn't advance in Sci Fi, Empire doesn't advance in Drama.

[Krydor]

No one rocks more than Lando.

[Jack Quinn]

AHX is way better. Fuck Empire.

That is my scientific evaluation

[The Jewish Cunthead]

Please just accept that he is right.

[dsolo1986]

I thought they smelled bad...on the outside!

[Lori]

There you go, Courtney. I love Empire, but as far as drama I want to see AHX win more.

[DevSop]

Keep it up guys, make my potential vote for Empire useless. It needs to go down.

[National Champion Chris Cole]

AMX still makes me shake my head because unlike many other movies I haven't watched in the throwdowns I've never even HEARD of this movie prior to showdown. It makes me wonder how I could not have even heard of a movie that apparantly everybody thinks is so good.

[creepy]

I like the ESB, but AHX is one of the better movies of the past 10 years. I haven't re-watched any of these movies since this tourney thingie started, but I'll probably pop this is tonight.

Damnit, I got Clerks II in. Hmmm.....

[docx]

American History Mouse gets my vote.

In the drama category.

Over Empire.

In the drama category.

[Courtney]

Yes! Guys, this is so heartwarming. My faith in this showdown is being restored. Even though AHX will most likely go against PF or Shawshank in the next round, just having Empire out is great.

[Chris Eco]

I'm giving the vote to Empire, but I don't begrudge AHX moving on at all.

[Lucky]

metallikid said:

AMX still makes me shake my head because unlike many other movies I haven't watched in the throwdowns I've never even HEARD of this movie prior to showdown. It makes me wonder how I could not have even heard of a movie that apparantly everybody thinks is so good.

Your taste in movies really fucking sucks, man. You know you're my bud. But the answer is simple. You've watched far too many shitty movies and far too few good movies. The result is you think really shitty movies are good and have no idea about the good ones.

And these are showdowns. Throwdowns are that other thing you're obsessed with.

[National Champion Chris Cole]

I don't think my taste sucks. I'm just easy to please. I like almost anything. It isn't like most of the "good" movies I think are crap. I'll admit I missed more then I should have but I'm going back and watching them now. But I've heard of Shawshank, Die Hard, Airplane, etc and never got around to actually viewing it. I've never even heard of American History X before the showdown. I just find that really weird. It is easily the highest rated movie in any showdown that I had no knowledge of. I'm just wondering where the hell I was when it came out.

And you are spot on about the throwdown/showdown thing. I spend WAAAY to much time over on that other site. I haven't even participated much the last few weeks and still find myself reading and commenting. I think I'm adidcted to Sports Talk. I should really quit my job and call up a friend of mine in the news business and try and become a Sports Analyst or something.

[docx]

metallikid said:

I should really quit my job and call up a friend of mine in the news business and try and become a Sports Analyst or something.

It's good to have a plan. Let me know how that works out, because I've been thinking about doing the same thing.

Only I don't want to be a sports analyst. I want to be a princess.

[National Champion Chris Cole]

You should have my job I have right now. Just down the road we have a place that can make you a princess. For a small fee of course.

[Lucky]

I was mostly kidding anyway. My impression is you're right. You're easy to please. But that's in no way a bad thing. And as long as you're getting enjoyment from the easily accessible stuff you're watching you're good. And you have limited time to devote to watching movies so it doesn't seem like you've sought a ton out. Basically, you don't seem like a elitist or wanker or whatever you'd call it. And that's probably a good thing. But yeah, I think if you watch more films and start to see some of the better ones that aren't always in the mainstream then it would probably lower your opinion of some of those ones you like. You know? The more movies you watch the more particular you're probably going to get picking and grading them. Of course if that's true you probably won't be as easy to please anymore so that might not be a good thing in the end. Because there's nothing wrong with you getting more enjoyment out of Temple of Doom than I. You come out the winner there.

Or maybe you'll just continue to not judge things too harshly. Which will probably give you a lot more enjoyment than I.

As for why you never heard of AHX, I dunno. Not a high level cast and didn't get a ton of fan fare. No Oscar noms. It was still very early in Ed Norton's career before Fight Club. The director never did anything else notable and actually was warring with the film when it came out. I don't think its unreasonable to not have heard of it.

I rewatched it last night. Love it.