DPAD Top Movies Face/Off R1 V25: The Right Stuff v The Dark Knight v Rounders v The Life Aquatic v The Wolf of Wall Street v The Pianist

Thread: DPAD Top Movies Face/Off R1 V25: The Right Stuff v The Dark Knight v Rounders v The Life Aquatic v The Wolf of Wall Street v The Pianist

Which one of these movies is your favourite?

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Welcome to the DPAD Top Movies Face/Off competition! :coffee:
This is the 25th vote in the 1st round of the series.

In this competition, you vote via poll for your favourite of the six films provided, and the one with the most votes wins. If there is a tie, the top finishers have a 1 on 1 fight later on in the week to decide the winner. The winner then gets to move on to the 2nd round.

The six movies for this round are:

The Right Stuff (1983)

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The Dark Knight (2008)

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Rounders (1998)

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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

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The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

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The Pianist (2002)

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The Right Stuff is awesome. A informative history lesson on the Space Race plus a great film in it's own right. All movies involving NASA and Astronauts owe a lot to this film.

To be a bit contrarian here, but I find The Dark Knight overrated. Look, I think it's a good film and damn does Heath Ledger give a fantastic performance as the Joker. But I much preferred Batman Begins and it's focus on Bruce Wayne as a character.

I thought The Pianist was good and man did it feel more real in it's depiction of the Holocaust than in Schindler's List. Adrien Brody's Oscar was well deserved and I wish he got better roles after this. I still think Roman Polanski is a raping piece of shit but I can't deny his talent behind the camera.
 
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GreyHorace said:
The Right Stuff is awesome. A informative history lesson on the Space Race plus a great film in it's own right. All movies involving NASA and Astronauts owe a lot to this film.

To be a bit contrarian here, but I find The Dark Knight overrated. Look, I think it's a good film and damn does Heath Ledger give a fantastic performance as the Joker. But I much preferred Batman Begins and it's focus on Bruce Wayne as a character.

I thought The Pianist was good and man did it feel more real in it's depiction of the Holocaust than in Schindler's List. Adrien Brody's Oscar was well deserved and I wish he got better roles after this. I still think Roman Polanski is a raping piece of shit but I can't deny his talent behind the camera.
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I can understand your reasoning for The Dark Knight. It feels like a movie where the hero is overshadowed in his own movie. Batman doesn't even really do anything in the film, with the Joker being the main driver of the plot and being the more interesting character. I think that the more recent Joker film was a better use of the Joker character, as a main character in his own movie. I think the Dark Knight would have been a better movie if there was anything interesting going on with Batman's character, but it seems they just got a really good writer for the Joker character and then just had Batman existing as a character. I'm not taking away from Heath Ledger's performance, but the writers were way too focused on the villain at the expense of the supposed hero/protaganist.
 
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Mickmrly said:
I can understand your reasoning for The Dark Knight. It feels like a movie where the hero is overshadowed in his own movie. Batman doesn't even really do anything in the film, with the Joker being the main driver of the plot and being the more interesting character. I think that the more recent Joker film was a better use of the Joker character, as a main character in his own movie. I think the Dark Knight would have been a better movie if there was anything interesting going on with Batman's character, but it seems they just got a really good writer for the Joker character and then just had Batman existing as a character. I'm not taking away from Heath Ledger's performance, but the writers were way too focused on the villain at the expense of the supposed hero/protaganist.
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Eh, that's the problem to be found in many Batman stories. Usually it's the villain who steals the show most of the time from the hero. Even in videogames like in Rocksteady's Arkham titles the villains are usually the most memorable part of it.

I just find The Dark Knight way overrated amongst comic book movie fans as the GREATEST SUPERHERO MOVIE EVER. Shit, I don't even think it's the best Batman film let alone the best from Christopher Nolan.
 
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The Dark Knight is the most overrated movie in history. Thoroughly mediocre with some mindboggling plot twists that make no sense.

The Pianist is pretty good, but I prefer Schindler's List.

The Wolf of Wall Street is peak Scorcese. Amazing movie from start to finish. Easy vote.
 
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I was torn between rounders and dark knight, and knowing that dark knight was going to win anyways decided to throw Rounders a bone.

If you love poker you really should watch it.
 
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Originally voted TDK, but being that Batman Begins is my favorite Baleman film, and WoWS is like The Big Short with titties and ludes... I'll take WoWS.
 
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QuantumZebra said:
Originally voted TDK, but being that Batman Begins is my favorite Baleman film, and WoWS is like The Big Short with titties and ludes... I'll take WoWS.
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In a way. The Dark Knight Trilogy reminds me of the Mass Effect Trilogy. The first one was genius, the second one overrated, and the third one underrated.
 
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GreyHorace said:
The Right Stuff is awesome. A informative history lesson on the Space Race plus a great film in it's own right. All movies involving NASA and Astronauts owe a lot to this film.
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I'll have to watch it one day. Ed Harris is in a couple of my favorite movies: Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind and Top Gun: Maverick.

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I think it's a good film and damn does Heath Ledger give a fantastic performance as the Joker. But I much preferred Batman Begins and it's focus on Bruce Wayne as a character.
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I totally agree. It's definitely entertaining but I always preferred Batman Begins and seeing the way Bruce transforms into Batman.

Anyway, I voted Rounders for this one.
 
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Arkam said:
How is The Life Aquatic not leading this one?

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It looks like a great cast, but I don't really get the story from the trailer. It seems like it's a bonding with newfound son mixed with Jaws, but then it has comedy as well. What a strange combo.
 
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It looks like a great cast, but I don't really get the story from the trailer. It seems like it's a bonding with newfound son mixed with Jaws, but then it has comedy as well. What a strange combo.
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With Wes Anderson films its pretty much all about the dialogue and characters. The setting is just a backdrop for the dialogue and to spur scenes forward.
 
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Don't laugh but I sometimes get Wes Anderson confused with Paul W. S. Anderson. Totally different directors, I know.
 
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It looks like a great cast, but I don't really get the story from the trailer. It seems like it's a bonding with newfound son mixed with Jaws, but then it has comedy as well. What a strange combo.
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From the "What are you watching?" thread:

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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

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Watched this again for the hundredth time (or more). Still my all time favorite film. Its the perfect combination of humor and melancholy, set to the Wes Anderson picturesque filming and atypical dialogue. And absolute masterpiece on the high seas.

When I watch this I can really relate to Steve. The way he views adventure, leadership, fatherhood, recognition and women. But also that real sense of longing for better times when it felt like the world wanted you. A great character not unlike Gene Hackman's magnificent Royale Tenenbaum. To outsiders they come off as egotistical assholes, but if you have walked a few steps down a similar road it makes them endearing in the purist form.

While I have enjoyed Anderson's work since, I feel he peaked here. Bottle Rocket > Rushmore > Royale Tenenbaums > Life Aquatic was a series of great films with each one getting better than the last. Then Darjeeling happened and they started going (up &) down in terms of my enjoyment. At this point I think Anderson has become like Tim Burton, where he is looking at his old work as templates to reproduce instead of just winging it like they did early in their career and giving a raw take on their style.


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It's really hard to choose, but for me, Wolf of Wall Street just takes it. I've seen it like 3 times now and it's good every time. It'll be what people 20 years from now point back to as a classic movie and "they don't make 'em like this anymore!"
 
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The banter from the clips sort of gives me British entertainment vibes, more focused on the characters and their interactions than what's going on. It works well with good character actors like in this film. It wouldn't work as well with blander actors and actresses though.
 
GreyHorace said:
I'd argue it's the set design that makes a Wes Anderson film stand out. It's the thing most people remember of his films and is part of his quirky charm as a filmmaker.

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Yeah I guess that's what I meant. Vibrant/weird/memorable backdrops for the whacky characters to do whacky things in.

It's his schtick and he overplays it, but no one does it better.
 
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GreyHorace said:
The Right Stuff is awesome. A informative history lesson on the Space Race plus a great film in it's own right. All movies involving NASA and Astronauts owe a lot to this film.
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"Hey Ridley, got any Beeman's?"

The last scene with Yeager attempting to break the altitude record is amazing as is the movie score to go along with it. One my favourite films. Just a fun movie to watch.
 
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Aarbron said:
"Hey Ridley, got any Beeman's?"

The last scene with Yeager attempting to break the altitude record is amazing as is the movie score to go along with it. One my favourite films. Just a fun movie to watch.
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Bill Conti's (Rocky, The Karate Kid) score is incredible. It's a shame he often gets overlooked as a movie composer compared to the likes of John Williams, Alan Silvestri, James Horner and Danny Elfman.
 
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The Dark Knight wins this round by 1 vote, with the Wolf of Wall Street just missing out. I think with all of these close races happening, there should be some sort of second chance at he end of the round to let some of them through.
 
The Wolf of Wall Street if overrated imo. I watched it, didn't think it was great. Everyone was so positive about it. I watched it again, and retained the same opinion.

Would still bang Margot Robbie though.
 
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