Final day of the group stage, right? I may have miss the day it was in a group, where is Lawrence of Arabia?

I know it not easy to put together any of this but it was nominated.

These are people I don't care to know, know about, or associate with.

jkag89 said:

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Final day of the group stage, right? I may have miss the day it was in a group, where is Lawrence of Arabia?

I know it not easy to put together any of this but it was nominated.

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There's a few that we all missed.

Edward Scissorhands
Spider-Man
Lawrence of Arabia (never seen it)

And I'm sure a few others.

It happens, I guess.

But Lawrence was nominated.

jkag89 said:

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Final day of the group stage, right? I may have miss the day it was in a group, where is Lawrence of Arabia?

I know it not easy to put together any of this but it was nominated.

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The AFI top 25 scores of all-time list has a lot of older films which didn't even make our list. Lawrence, at #3, included.

Top 25 AFI Scores, 2005 vote

Rank
Film title
Studio
Year
Composer
1.
Star Wars
Twentieth Century Fox
1977
John Williams
2.
Gone With the Wind
MGM
1939
Max Steiner
3.
Lawrence of Arabia
Columbia
1962
Maurice Jarre
4.
Psycho
Paramount
1960
Bernard Herrmann
5.
The Godfather
Paramount
1972
Nino Rota
6.
Jaws
Universal
1975
John Williams
7.
Laura
Twentieth Century Fox
1944
David Raksin
8.
The Magnificent Seven
United Artists
1960
Elmer Bernstein
9.
Chinatown
Paramount
1974
Jerry Goldsmith
10.
High Noon
United Artists
1952
Dimitri Tiomkin
11.
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Warner Bros.
1938
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
12.
Vertigo
Paramount
1958
Bernard Herrmann
13.
King Kong
RKO
1933
Max Steiner
14.
E.T. the Extraterrestrial
Universal
1982
John Williams
15.
Out of Africa
Universal
1985
John Barry
16.
Sunset Blvd.
Paramount
1950
Franz Waxman
17.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Universal
1962
Elmer Bernstein
18.
Planet of the Apes
Twentieth Century Fox
1968
Jerry Goldsmith
19.
A Streetcar Named Desire
Warner Bros.
1951
Alex North
20.
The Pink Panther
United Artists
1964
Henry Mancini
21.
Ben-Hur
MGM
1959
Miklos Rozsa
22.
On the Waterfront
Columbia
1954
Leonard Bernstein
23.
The Mission
Warner Bros.
1986
Ennio Morricone
24.
On Golden Pond
Universal
1981
Dave Grusin
25.
How the West Was Won
MGM, Cinerama Releasing
1962
Alfred Newman

Maybe we can throw in a group AB ad hoc? Muck, want me to do it?

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World has an underrated soundtrack. Probably doesn't belong in this tournament, but it's pretty outstanding in its own right.

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MuckRaker96 said:

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Group Z ends up a tie between Superman and The Man From Snowy River

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This is shocking to me. In my life, I've never heard someone hum the theme from Snowy River. Superman's is an all-timer and beloved by all. If a dark horse emerged from that group and it had been Rudy, I could have seen that. It is really popular with folks who were in school during the 90's.

I listened to all 3 tracks since I've actually never seen the film... What am I missing with Snowy River? Does it have a big following?

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The tracks without the movie would lack context of course.

It's a beautiful film but was an Aussie picture and had a small but devoted cult following here. It was mostly word of mouth and more of an adult interest and specifically horses. Horse lovers and riders and people that are interested in ranching or that lifestyle liked it a lot. It was a huge movie in my family - we raised and rode horses most of my life. I kinda left behind the horse world after college but not my sister and her family. Easily one of the most beloved movies for many in my family.

And I would say you haven't heard the music because you didn't know it - I've seen it used in various things like ice skating routines, background music in public events, played at piano bars, and was used in the opening ceremony of the 2000 Olympics in Australia of course.

And collectively I would say myself and most of my family at that time were not superhero movie fan types. I loved Star Wars fo course, but never got into superhero movies. Batman was better imho.... and just some of the MCU movies really grab me.

I'm not surprised at the result at all - when some on here were talking about Superman running away with it I was like.... doubtful. There are a lot of Snowy River fans out there. Its sort of akin to Last of the Mohicans to me - great nature scenes, great music, romantic back story and conflict of course. Not a war in this case but still.

speaking of which... Man From Snowy River won the AFI for soundtrack in 1982.

Thanks, ZJS. I'll have to add this to my list to check out. I'm a TX boy, but the suburbia kind. Can count the number of times I've been on a horse with one hand.

Zombie Jon Snow said:

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speaking of which... Man From Snowy River won the AFI for soundtrack in 1982.

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You're talking Australian Film Institute, not American, right? I know Williams won the Oscar for e.t. In '82.

Yoda said:

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Thanks, ZJS. I'll have to add this to my list to check out. I'm a TX boy, but the suburbia kind. Can count the number of times I've been on a horse with one hand.

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It's set in 1880 by the way.

Since you know nothing about and he is not shown on the posters, etc...you may be surprised to discover one very famous person in it.

Kirk Douglas plays two roles in the film - not just one. He plays very different brothers. One a rich rancher the other a peg leg gold miner who lives in the mountains. Thats not a spoiler.

He infamously came up with the idea for the peg leg brother on his own. And he was known to be quite domineering on the set as the only bonafide American star. He was rough on the cast and crew that he considered green and naive, and argued for many script changes that he got because he was Kirk Douglas. He later sued for the profits from the film too.

Anyway. Hope you enjoy it. It's got a 7.3 on IMDB and 85% on RT.

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Zombie Jon Snow said:

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speaking of which... Man From Snowy River won the AFI for soundtrack in 1982.

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You're talking Australian Film Institute, not American, right? I know Williams won the Oscar for e.t. In '82.

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I just saw AFI but yes apparently Australian - makes sense.

Chipotlemonger said:

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Maybe we can throw in a group AB ad hoc? Muck, want me to do it?

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You can, but I'm not going to include it in the 64.

jkag89 said:

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But Lawrence was nominated.

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I didn't include it or a few others based on my own judgement that most people on this board had not seen them and they would be a waste of a space. And I needed to get to a number that was divisible by 4.

Fair enough, your tournament.

Man From Snowy River is a fantastic movie. It is on Disney+. The song the girl plays about halfway into the movie, Jessica's Theme. That song is played in many a wedding.

You sure it's still on Disney+? Just tried to add it to my watchlist, but couldn't find it on a search.

Aww man. I watched it a few months ago on D+

I'll keep my eyes open for it. I had hopes that D+ would have a more stable library than other services given I'd think they own catalog rights.

caleblyn said:

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Man From Snowy River is a fantastic movie. It is on Disney+. The main, featured song, the girl plays about halfway into the movie. That song is played in many a wedding.

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Jessica's Theme

caleblyn said:

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Aww man. I watched it a few months ago on D+

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currently on Starz and Starz on Amazon.

But it is for rent most places for 2.99 or 3.99 like Vudu, Amazon and Apple TV

The last group

Like ZJS said, if you grew up around horses Man from Snowy River was a household favorite. Pretty sure my mom wore out the VHS we had of it.

If you love Friday Night Lights, congrats, looks like it's going to sneak in at #64.

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Chipotlemonger said:

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Maybe we can throw in a group AB ad hoc? Muck, want me to do it?

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You can, but I'm not going to include it in the 64.

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That's fair.

I declare the Group AB champ to be Lawrence of Arabia!

Also FNL related, if you need a little music to take you into the evening, might I suggest Daniel Lanois and his nutso steel guitar playing Sonho Dourado live.

I'm planning something special for the very end of the tournament.

It will be sort of like what TCTTS did for the release of the last Star Wars movie poster, except his was the result of a lot of hard work and talent, and mine is going to be thrown together and really stupid. Still, should be fun. You can thank me going to HEB at 7 a.m. on a Sunday after getting 3 hours of sleep and listening to my Spotify while staggering from aisle to aisle trying to think what food my family eats as the visionary genius behind this project.

Chipotlemonger said:

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MuckRaker96 said:

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Chipotlemonger said:

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Maybe we can throw in a group AB ad hoc? Muck, want me to do it?

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You can, but I'm not going to include it in the 64.

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That's fair.

I declare the Group AB champ to be Lawrence of Arabia!

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No Prisoners!

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If you love Friday Night Lights, congrats, looks like it's going to sneak in at #64.

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Glad to hear- the soundtrack was phenomenal and made me a huge Explosions in the Sky fan

Still gotta finalize the positions for the 3 movies from AA that are going to be moving on the round of 64, but I just laid out the tentative brackets and suddenly watching that Grammarly ad 630 times on YouTube is worth it. Tomorrow is going to kick off a fun few days, folks. Will probably close AA and get the big enchilada started early in the morning. Someone break the news to George Martin.