Round one is here. 61 years of film with 3 convenient ties. What film will come out on top? For this round, we start with: THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, the film that gave us a villain so devious that he has become synonymous with calculating killers, despite being not much more than a supporting role. Against... DIE HARD, the action film that defined a generation of imitators. Yippee-ki-yay. The winner will move on to the next round. The full bracket is attached below.
I just checked the matrix of the movies... some of these are seriously unfair. That we have to choose between 2 beauties.... Both of these movies... Without either one, we would not have a lot of other movies. These have spawned so many others , similar to their style... And the catch phrases from both of them - a tossup: from chianti to yippie kai yay
noun DEROGATORY•INFORMAL a boring, studious, or socially inept person Die Hard put Bruce Willis on the map. There could be no Pulp Fiction, 12 Monkeys, Armageddon, or 6th Sense.... Forget Christmas.... Maybe Bruce Willis isnt the best actor, sure, but this movie deserves some credit. But Silence of the Lambs? This isnt fair at all. Die Hard deserves SOMETHING. Are there ANY negatives to Silence though? I dont think so.
... said no one, ever. (full disclosure: have no idea what it is but based on IMDB, Id choose the other 2 over this one). JMTC IMDB says this: Humans in a fascist, militaristic future wage war with giant alien bugs. So like... yeah....
And I mean it’s not like being towards the bottom tier of this collection of films is a bad thing, most of these are really strong
Watching Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets right now for the bracket and this is definitely my pick for weakest, its the only film I don't really like. Die Hard is probably bottom 5 but I still love it. Starship Troopers is fantastic, check it out.
Die Hard, easily. It is endlessly watchable even after nearly two decades of seeing it at least once a year.