Movies, Actors & Directors (MAD) Tournament: TRAG WINS!!

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What's the point of life?

Relish movies
5
31%
Ogle actors
1
6%
Laud directors
4
25%
Sleep to dream
6
38%
 
Total votes: 16

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Akira is wonderful. Its also a very good adaptation from a very different book. I just love both.
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tragabigzanda wrote:Ruddo that Lady Snowblood movie looks great. And it’s on HBO. I’ll try to check it when I’m solo next weekend.
It’s a classic. I bet Malloy gets me
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Malloy wrote:i'm being deliberately vague, but i would like to say more.
I have two in mind that are overrated but i can see someone here picking. They rhyme with moonblock taints and painblotting
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I will fight you. Brainclotting is a classic.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Blazing Saddles (70s movie)
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Good one MD. That was on my list
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:Good one MD. That was on my list
Not enough comedies taken so far.
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tragabigzanda wrote:Can’t believe I get to pick this still:

Philip Seymour Hoffman
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Ruddo that Lady Snowblood movie looks great. And it’s on HBO. I’ll try to check it when I’m solo next weekend.
It’s a classic. I bet Malloy gets me
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tragabigzanda wrote:Can’t believe I get to pick this still:

Philip Seymour Hoffman
this pick is what I had in mind when I said i couldn’t believe it hadn’t been made
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Except for nic cage
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Burt, you chose Kurt Russell. Remember that?
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Are you stuck in a loop? You might need to be repurposed.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Hoffman was my next choice if Day Lewis were taken
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tragabigzanda wrote:What’s everyone’s opinion on a swap/edit round after the official drafting concludes?
GTFO
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Ello Sailor wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:What’s everyone’s opinion on a swap/edit round after the official drafting concludes?
GTFO
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