DPAD Top Movies Face/Off R1 V8: Man Bites Dog v The Hunt v The Great Escape v Arrival v Bride of Frankenstein v The Last Unicorn

[Mickmrly]

Welcome to the 8th vote in the 1st Round of the DPAD Top Movie Face/Offs.


Vote for your favourite out of the 6 movies in the poll, and if you haven't seen any which do you think looks best based on the trailers and posters?


Below are the next 6 Films to fight it out for the votes of DPAD members:

Man Bites Dog (1992)

The Hunt (2012)

The Great Escape (1963)

Arrival (2016)

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

The Last Unicorn (1982)

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[Mickmrly]

Its time for Bronies across DPAD to unite!!!

And vote for the Last Unicorn!

 

[Vyse]

Arrival gets my vote.

 

[GreyHorace]

Voted for The Last Unicorn. Great adaptation of a classic fantasy novel and a criminally underrated animated film.

I liked Arrival and consider it one of Denis Villenueve's better films, but it's no Dune or Blade Runner 2049.

The Great Escape is a classic, but I'd hardly call it one of my favorites.

 

[Ascend]

100% Arrival. One of my favorite movies of all time.

 

[teezzy]

Great Escape > Arrival

 

[FactsAreDead]

The Last Unicorn is a masterful classic and Schmendrik is THE archetypical sorcerer that I always associate with dungeons and dragons.

Also, the unicorn triggers my furry senses.

It's a shame that this movie will lose to the other dreck. Arrival, srsly?! :/

 

[O-N-E]

You posted the wrong the hunt. I thought you'd go with the first thing that comes up on IMDb.

It's The Hunt with Mads Mikkelsen directed by Vinterberg.

 

[Mickmrly]

You posted the wrong the hunt. I thought you'd go with the first thing that comes up on IMDb.

It's The Hunt with Mads Mikkelsen directed by Vinterberg.

Since it was your pick, I'll change the info in a sec. I just went with google search on my end, I'll switch to IMDB next time.
Edit: Its switched now.

 

[Mickmrly]

The Last Unicorn is a masterful classic and Schmendrik is THE archetypical sorcerer that I always associate with dungeons and dragons.

Also, the unicorn triggers my furry senses.

It's a shame that this movie will lose to the other dreck. Arrival, srsly?! :/

I guess as a 90s kid I missed movies like the Last Unicorn. Would you say it has a more serious tone? 80s cartoon movies seemed to be a lot more serious than their 90s equivalents which were usually more sing songy.

 

[HE1NZ]

Bride of Frankenstein. A twisted and macabre comedy, one of the best sequels. A perfect 80s movie that was made in 1930s. Sam Raimi and Tim Burton took everything from it. This was so ahead of it's time. Even music doesn't sound like anything from the era:



It probably won't win because few people seen it but I highly recommend it. It's good:

 

[FactsAreDead]

I guess as a 90s kid I missed movies like the Last Unicorn. Would you say it has a more serious tone? 80s cartoon movies seemed to be a lot more serious than their 90s equivalents which were usually more sing songy.

Absolutely! Lol, it's the kind of cartoon that aired in a time before people acknowledged that cartoons could be for adults, too. It's comparable to "Watership Down", not exactly as brutal, but still very dark. You should absolutely watch it if you have an even passing interest.

 

[Snes nes]

The Last Unicorn is a masterful classic and Schmendrik is THE archetypical sorcerer that I always associate with dungeons and dragons.

Also, the unicorn triggers my furry senses.

It's a shame that this movie will lose to the other dreck. Arrival, srsly?! :/

I knew you were gay.

 

[Dr. Farnsgoth]

Voted for the one that got censored in Australia

 

[teezzy]

God, Arrival is great though

I might have to watch that tonight

 

[teezzy]

KINO

 

[Bonfires Down]

Because I have nothing better to do with my life, I made bets on which movies will win each round.

Spoiler: List

9	Marvels Avengers	The Wild Bunch	Source Code	Warrior	13 Assassins	The Social Network
10	This is the End	Mrs Brisby and the Secret of Nimh	Pans Labyrinth	The Game	Saw	Avengers: Endgame

11	The Lion King	Little Children	Logan	The Godfather 2	Dirty Harry	Idiocracy
12	Pink Flamingos	Kingdom of Heaven	Skyfall	Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky	We need to talk about Kevin	Platoon
13	Cars	Ace Ventura 1	The Martian	Muppets from Space	The Walk	Shutter Island
14	The Rock	Its a Wonderful Life	Rambo: First Blood	Drunken Master 2	Triangle	Spiderman (2002)
15	Goldeneye	Bittersweet Life	Vanilla Sky	The Hateful Eight	Late Spring	Spaceballs
16	Whiplash	Bloodsport	The Little Mermaid (1989)	Rear Window	Prisoners	King of Comedy
17	The Hunger Games	The Faculty	Casino Royale	The Blair Witch Project	Airplane / Flying High	A Few Good Men
18	The Yellow Sea	Collateral	Sin City	Zootopia	The Fast and the Furious	12 Angry Men
19	Rat Race	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)	Tropic Thunder	Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls	Clerks 2	Birdman
20	Shrek 2	Kes	IP Man	A Short Film About Love	Shaun of the Dead	Kung Fu Panda 2

21	The Innkeepers	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home	The Chaser	Willow	Million Dollar Baby	Central Intelligence
22	Inside (2007)	Breaking the Waves	The Departed	Eraserhead	Syriana	28 Days Later
23	Sonatine	Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace	A Bridge Too Far	Fiddler on the Roof	Apollo 13	Training Day
24	Monty Pythons Life of Brian	Queen Margot	Kill Bill	The Untold Story	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2	Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
25	The Right Stuff	The Dark Knight	Rounders	The Life Aquatic	The Wolf of Wall Street	The Pianist
26	Thor: Ragnorak	Waynes World	Kung Fu Panda 3	Transformers (1984)	Blazing Saddles	Minority Report
27	Once Upon A Time in the West	Dawn of Planet of the Apes	American Beauty	Life of Pi	The Patriot	Alien 3
28	As Above as Below	Broly: Second Coming	Who Dares Wins	Interview with the Vampire	Robocop 2	Planet of the Apes (1964)
29	Motorama	Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens	Taxi Driver	Grave of the Fireflies	The Butterfly Effect	Fight Club
30	Robocop	North by Northwest	Con Air	Pitch Black	Airport 75	Shrek

31	Graveyard of Honor	Macross Do You Remember Love	Day of the Jackal	The Tree of Life	A Bugs Life	Pierrot Le Fou
32	The Pagemaster	Guyver 2: Dark Hero	Evil Dead 2	The Grey	Yakuza Demon	Don't Look Up
33	Broly: The Legendary Super Saiyan	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	Howls Moving Castle	Top Gun	Wings of Desire	The Sound of Music
34	American Movie	Ben Hur	The Killer	The Beach	Clerks (1994)	Match Point
35	Battle Royale	Office Space	Fargo	The Woman King	Hot Fuzz	The Usual Suspects
36	Commando	O Brother Where Art Thou	Amelie	Batman Returns	Zoolander	Starship Troopers
37	The Sixth Day	Dawn of the Dead (2004)	Spies Like Us	Prince of Egypt	Bad Guy (2001)	Musa the Warrior
38	Prometheus	Grumpy Old Men	Sunshine	Porky's	Z	Avengers: Infinity War
39	Blow Up	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Dogma	Love and Other Drugs	Andrei Rublev	Gone in 60 Seconds
40	Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2	The Raid	Batman (1989)	The Boondocks Saints	George of the Jungle (1997)	Excalibur

41	Ronin	Larry Flint	The Man in the Iron Mask	Trick r Treat	Black Hawk Down	The Last Samurai
42	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days	The Fist of the North Star	The Siege	Persona	The Dark Crystal	Buried
43	Papillon (1973)	Firefox	UHF	Sweet Movie	End of Evangelion	Dances with Wolves
44	Perfect Blue	Le Mepris	Dead Poets Society	Casino	Avatar	Chasing Amy

 

[Mickmrly]

I knew you were gay.

No, he said he didn't vote for Arrival. Please read his words carefully before you post.

 

[Mickmrly]

Absolutely! Lol, it's the kind of cartoon that aired in a time before people acknowledged that cartoons could be for adults, too. It's comparable to "Watership Down", not exactly as brutal, but still very dark. You should absolutely watch it if you have an even passing interest.

I like that description. I'll never fully watch Watership Down after seeing a bit of the burying. Reading about stuff like that in history is enough, I'm not going to watch a movie about it.

Early 80s animated movies are a bit hit and miss for me, when I rewatched the Little Toaster a year ago it was a lot more negative than I remember and was basically the same story as Toy Story 3.

Seeing as we have had a few movies in common, I think that I'll try and see The Last Unicorn in the future if I can. I'll also switch my vote to give it a fighting chance.

While looking into it a bit, I found a bit of trivia. Apparently the animation of The Last Unicorn was outsourced to what would become Studio Ghibli animation studios:

"Here's how it is: Financed in England, produced by Rankin/Bass, American company...but all of the work was being done in Japan, which was a process of Rankin/Bass going to less expensive animators in another country. And they hired –most of the animation was done by a company called Topcraft. And the minute they finished The Last Unicorn, Miyazaki hired them...And in fact, he didn't just hire them, the studio top rep was in financial difficulties, he came in and took them over and bought them up and turned it into Studio Ghibli. So most of the animators and designers who worked on The Last Unicorn, became the core team of Studio Ghibli. And all of those – 'Nausicaa,' 'Kiki,' all of them, the great Miyazaki early movies, were done by many of the same people as who worked on The Last Unicorn."

Read More: https://www.slashfilm.com/751443/tu...-secret-studio-ghibli-film/?utm_campaign=clip

 

[Snes nes]

No, he said he didn't vote for Arrival. Please read his words carefully before you post.

I got no clue what the movies even are I just said he was gay for liking a unicorn movie

 

[FactsAreDead]

I like that description. I'll never fully watch Watership Down after seeing a bit of the burying. Reading about stuff like that in history is enough, I'm not going to watch a movie about it.

Early 80s animated movies are a bit hit and miss for me, when I rewatched the Little Toaster a year ago it was a lot more negative than I remember and was basically the same story as Toy Story 3.

Seeing as we have had a few movies in common, I think that I'll try and see The Last Unicorn in the future if I can. I'll also switch my vote to give it a fighting chance.

While looking into it a bit, I found a bit of trivia. Apparently the animation of The Last Unicorn was outsourced to what would become Studio Ghibli animation studios:

Wow, amazing trivia. You just made one of my favorite movies even better. Thx <3

 

[Hinedorf]

Great Escape is a classic with a classic soundtrack none of the others on the list even compare for me

 

[HE1NZ]

Wow not a single vote for the Bride.

 

[Mickmrly]

I got no clue what the movies even are I just said he was gay for liking a unicorn movie

Now I have insulted all those people for nothing. Not that I meant anything serious, but I have got to stop hanging around brap, he is a bad influence...

 

[Mickmrly]

Wow not a single vote for the Bride.

I guess people are too focused on the three way contest between The Great Escape, Arrival and The Last Unicorn. I did read the storyline of Frankenstein's bride and it did seem a bit grim.

 

[Mickmrly]

Because I have nothing better to do with my life, I made bets on which movies will win each round.

Spoiler: List

9	Marvels Avengers	The Wild Bunch	Source Code	Warrior	13 Assassins	The Social Network
10	This is the End	Mrs Brisby and the Secret of Nimh	Pans Labyrinth	The Game	Saw	Avengers: Endgame

11	The Lion King	Little Children	Logan	The Godfather 2	Dirty Harry	Idiocracy
12	Pink Flamingos	Kingdom of Heaven	Skyfall	Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky	We need to talk about Kevin	Platoon
13	Cars	Ace Ventura 1	The Martian	Muppets from Space	The Walk	Shutter Island
14	The Rock	Its a Wonderful Life	Rambo: First Blood	Drunken Master 2	Triangle	Spiderman (2002)
15	Goldeneye	Bittersweet Life	Vanilla Sky	The Hateful Eight	Late Spring	Spaceballs
16	Whiplash	Bloodsport	The Little Mermaid (1989)	Rear Window	Prisoners	King of Comedy
17	The Hunger Games	The Faculty	Casino Royale	The Blair Witch Project	Airplane / Flying High	A Few Good Men
18	The Yellow Sea	Collateral	Sin City	Zootopia	The Fast and the Furious	12 Angry Men
19	Rat Race	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)	Tropic Thunder	Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls	Clerks 2	Birdman
20	Shrek 2	Kes	IP Man	A Short Film About Love	Shaun of the Dead	Kung Fu Panda 2

21	The Innkeepers	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home	The Chaser	Willow	Million Dollar Baby	Central Intelligence
22	Inside (2007)	Breaking the Waves	The Departed	Eraserhead	Syriana	28 Days Later
23	Sonatine	Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace	A Bridge Too Far	Fiddler on the Roof	Apollo 13	Training Day
24	Monty Pythons Life of Brian	Queen Margot	Kill Bill	The Untold Story	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2	Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
25	The Right Stuff	The Dark Knight	Rounders	The Life Aquatic	The Wolf of Wall Street	The Pianist
26	Thor: Ragnorak	Waynes World	Kung Fu Panda 3	Transformers (1984)	Blazing Saddles	Minority Report
27	Once Upon A Time in the West	Dawn of Planet of the Apes	American Beauty	Life of Pi	The Patriot	Alien 3
28	As Above as Below	Broly: Second Coming	Who Dares Wins	Interview with the Vampire	Robocop 2	Planet of the Apes (1964)
29	Motorama	Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens	Taxi Driver	Grave of the Fireflies	The Butterfly Effect	Fight Club
30	Robocop	North by Northwest	Con Air	Pitch Black	Airport 75	Shrek

31	Graveyard of Honor	Macross Do You Remember Love	Day of the Jackal	The Tree of Life	A Bugs Life	Pierrot Le Fou
32	The Pagemaster	Guyver 2: Dark Hero	Evil Dead 2	The Grey	Yakuza Demon	Don't Look Up
33	Broly: The Legendary Super Saiyan	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	Howls Moving Castle	Top Gun	Wings of Desire	The Sound of Music
34	American Movie	Ben Hur	The Killer	The Beach	Clerks (1994)	Match Point
35	Battle Royale	Office Space	Fargo	The Woman King	Hot Fuzz	The Usual Suspects
36	Commando	O Brother Where Art Thou	Amelie	Batman Returns	Zoolander	Starship Troopers
37	The Sixth Day	Dawn of the Dead (2004)	Spies Like Us	Prince of Egypt	Bad Guy (2001)	Musa the Warrior
38	Prometheus	Grumpy Old Men	Sunshine	Porky's	Z	Avengers: Infinity War
39	Blow Up	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Dogma	Love and Other Drugs	Andrei Rublev	Gone in 60 Seconds
40	Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2	The Raid	Batman (1989)	The Boondocks Saints	George of the Jungle (1997)	Excalibur

41	Ronin	Larry Flint	The Man in the Iron Mask	Trick r Treat	Black Hawk Down	The Last Samurai
42	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days	The Fist of the North Star	The Siege	Persona	The Dark Crystal	Buried
43	Papillon (1973)	Firefox	UHF	Sweet Movie	End of Evangelion	Dances with Wolves
44	Perfect Blue	Le Mepris	Dead Poets Society	Casino	Avatar	Chasing Amy

Do you mind if I cross post this on the main thread? Comparing the results to your post there should be lots of fun. I do find it interesting how A bugs life makes it through but not one single comedy.

 

[HE1NZ]

Do you mind if I cross post this on the main thread? Comparing the results to your post there should be lots of fun. I do find it interesting how A bugs life makes it through but not one single comedy.

I bet Pan's Labyrinth and Godfather 2 are going to week next couple of weeks.

 

[Bonfires Down]

Do you mind if I cross post this on the main thread? Comparing the results to your post there should be lots of fun. I do find it interesting how A bugs life makes it through but not one single comedy.

I did include a few comedies; Tropic Thunder, Shaun of the Dead and to some extent Evil Dead 2 and Fear and Loathing. A Bug's Life is mostly there because I haven't even heard of the other movies in that round except Tree of Life.

 

[Bonfires Down]

I bet Pan's Labyrinth and Godfather 2 are going to week next couple of weeks.

You may well be right. For Saw over Pan's Labyrinth I based it on Texas Chainsaw Massacre being rather popular plus I guess my own bias. Godfather 2 - because it's such an obvious movie I would have expected it to get more than one nomination so that's my hesitation.

 

[Arkam]

Love me some Last Unicorn. When I was a kid I had a VHS Watership Down, The Dark Crystal and The Last Unicorn on it. Good lord did that tape get a lot of play.

The great escape is pretty good, and arrival is decent too. But, sorry the animated adventure gets my vote here.

 

[Snes nes]

Now I have insulted all those people for nothing. Not that I meant anything serious, but I have got to stop hanging around brap, he is a bad influence...

brap has issues for sure

 

[FactsAreDead]

"Come on, you fools, don't ya see where ya vote must go?"

"Don't you see her beauty?!"

"Those alluring, otherworldly eyes!"

"Now, come, hurry and follow this most magical creature, the last of its kind."

"And don't ever let her go again, ahahahaahahaaaaaa!"

"Now, BRING ME SOME MORE WINE!!!11"

 

[Mickmrly]

brap has issues for sure

He's just having a hard time because he's not into one of his famous influencers anymore. I know the feels, its just like when my favourite member of a KPOP girl group leaves and I just don't care that much about that group anymore.

 

[GreyHorace]

When the last eagle flies
Over the last crumbling mountain
And the last lion roars
At the last dusty fountain

In the shadow of the forest
Though she may be old and worn
They will stare unbelieving
At the Last Unicorn

When the first breath of winter
Throught the flowers is icing
And you look to the north
And a pale moon is rising

And it seems like all is dying
And would leave the world to mourn
In the distance hear her laughter
Of the Last Unicorn

I'm alive, I'm alive

When the last moon is cast
Over the last star of morning
And the future has passed
Without even a last desparate warning

Then look into the sky where through
Through the clouds a path is torn
Look and see her how she sparkles
It's the Last Unicorn

I'm alive, I'm alive

 

[Arkam]

For those who have never seen it. The Last Unicorn is significantly better than you would expect. It's one of those "made for kids" films that has much deeper concepts than the kids ever grasp. Also features a great VO cast!

 

[Bonfires Down]

Alright already, I will watch The Last Unicorn If nothing else then at least I'm a sucker for well made 2D animation

 

[GreyHorace]

For those who have never seen it. The Last Unicorn is significantly better than you would expect. It's one of those "made for kids" films that has much deeper concepts than the kids ever grasp. Also features a great VO cast!

I'm still amazed they were able to get people like Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, Alan Arkin, Angela Lansbury and Tammy Grimes to voice the characters. Christopher Lee though is no surprise, as he is a HUGE fan of the book and insisted scenes from it be kept intact in the film.

 

[Snes nes]

He's just having a hard time because he's not into one of his famous influencers anymore. I know the feels, its just like when my favourite member of a KPOP girl group leaves and I just don't care that much about that group anymore.

I understand his anguish on that I truly do. K-pop idols are very important people. I can't name one of them but they are of the utmost of importance. I support him as a fellow K-pop Stan let's go brap!

 

[regawdless]

"Come on, you fools, don't ya see where ya vote must go?"

"Don't you see her beauty?!"

"Those alluring, otherworldly eyes!"

"Now, come, hurry and follow this most magical creature, the last of its kind."

"And don't ever let her go again, ahahahaahahaaaaaa!"

"Now, BRING ME SOME MORE WINE!!!11"

It's pretty dark and a great movie. Classic.

 

[Stifler's Mom]

Would you say it has a more serious tone?

It's called "the last Unicorn" and it means it.
Yes, it's dark, broody and serious.

But crazily enough, adults and kids can both watch it and get different things from it.