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Choose your fighter!
Well, we got ourselves a good old fashioned heavyweight showdown. Sinners secured 16 nominations, the most ever. One Battle After Another picked up 13. By the end of Oscar Night, we’d be shocked if things end in a tie, but hey, it could happen. We all remember back in 1988 at the 60th Academy Awards when Moonstruck and Fatal Attraction both got 6 Oscar wins. Yes, that’s something we all know and recount often. That same night, The Last Emperor walked away with 9 though, including the big boy. It’s unlikely OBAA or Sinners walk off into the night like Moonstruck and Fatal Attraction though right? Surely one of the two is gonna win. Unless…
Last Week’s Highlights
Not one movie cracked the A Grade threshold this week, but Michael J. Fox’s TEEN WOLF stood at the free throw line and, with cold-blood in his veins, sunk both to come out on top with a 86.1%. win rate. Question for you 14 percenters out there: when you heard a gymnasium full of people chanting “WOLF WOLF WOLF”, instead of Teen Wolf did you think they were egging on Jack Nicholson’s wolfman, Benicio del Toro’s wolfman, or some other movie altogether maybe with a shirtless Robin Williams?
Aaaaaaa-oooooooooooooo the call rings into the full moon night
We saw CAPE FEAR way too young and were hoping it wouldn’t be the Top, Bottom, or Ace of the Week so we wouldn’t have to dive back into our nightmares and write much about this movie. So, thanks everybody for sinking this thing to the bottom of the river (babbling as it went) with a 55.5% win rate. Not too many movies have DeNiro using a Southern accent (we counted 3), so if you were able to deduce it was Bobby, and didn’t fall victim to picking the original Cape Fear from the 1960s, then you had a chance. Unfortunately we only see the title of this movie as a road sign, and it’s never uttered aloud. Perhaps we should have added it ourselves as some kind of omniscient narrator just to rocket up the score a bit…
Richard the Second, SHREK THE THIRD, Henry the Fifth. Shakespeare’s Histories are among the finest work ever written.
There are 61 different Mission Impossible movies. MI2 had a rough go and probably self destructed on a few of you. We probably needed to make that day one where you could have guessed an extra time provided your previous guess was a MI movie. “Hmm, not quite! But you’re almost there… guess another one of those!”
BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI defied the Sunday Stumper trappings and rocketed to an impressive 71.4%. Limited WWII movies set in Asia, coupled with winning the Academy Award certainly helped.
We thought more people would figure out SUPER 8, but a 61.5% win rate suggests we… were… wrong. Hey, I wonder what that little 12 year old girl from this is doing now.
 Harry Dean Stanton as Brett | Ace of the Week12.1%“...I feel that the bonus situation has never been on an equitable level.” |
You still don’t understand what you’re dealing with, do you? Perfect... Movie. We admire its purity. A survivor…
There are only seven people in this movie (plus the giant Nigerian kid in the suit), and we had a hard time finding a tough ace as everybody feels like a main character with a recognizable voice. But good old Harry Dean Stanton ended up being our pick as the sweet-natured Brett, who appreciated the feel of rivulets of water splashing down on his face, even up until the end.
Here are the numbers for all the games last week.
CineQuote Movie | Win % | Ace % |
|---|---|---|
Teen Wolf (1985) | 86.1% | 2.8% |
Alien (1979) | 82.7% | 12.1% |
Shrek the Third (2007) | 80.6% | 3.2% |
Mission: Impossible II (2000) | 73.0% | 2.7% |
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) | 71.4% | 10.1% |
Super 8 (2011) | 61.5% | 5.0% |
Cape Fear (1991) | 55.5% | 5.1% |
CQ Recommends
Jones sees all. He sees everything. Ask him for a recommendation if you grow weary of mine.
 Shakedown (1988) | A legal-aid lawyer (Peter Weller) and an undercover officer (Sam Elliott) check a drug dealer's story of police corruption. This could have been a generic “bad cops vs. drug dealers vs. District Attorneys vs. Public Defenders vs. bad cops” story but thanks to Weller and Elliott (two guys who I wish we got ten movies together out of) it’s way more fun than it has any right to be. My hot take is that the success of Robocop deprived us of many a Peter Weller performance, but he was off shooting creeps in the junk and producers stopped seeing him as what he was, a good actor with a lot of human nuance. And my lord, was there ever a finer mane of salt ‘n pepper hair than that of Sam Elliott? -Sean |
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