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I know you're not taking suggestions any more but idgaf, I am suggesting My Breakfast With Blassie.

Next year will be an all-Kaufman poll.

Had fun reading the Shawshank discussion.

In addition to the pie I posted earlier, I thought it'd be nice to also give out some director stats. Five directors had more than three individual films mentioned, and they were: Peter Jackson (4), Stanley Kubrick (4), Martin Scorsese (5), Ridley Scott (5), and finally also with 5...

1.
Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino, USA, 1994.
Last year: #5.

(write-up taken from last year's thread)

Tales indicate that Miramax head honcho Harvey Weinstein first read Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary's screenplay for Pulp Fiction while riding his private jet across the United States. As he updated his associates on his progress, he became more and more excited about what he was reading, until he encountered the death of Vincent Vega (ultimately played by John Travolta). Upon being told to continue reading, he replied with a delighted gasp, "He comes back, doesn't he?". This goes some way to describe the popularity of the film's jigsaw episodic narrative style. While observers may be keen to point out that such a feature was hardly new or "original" in film, like many other techniques Tarantino acquired and made his own in the 1990s it was reinvigorated, expertly holding interests in a number of separate stories. Once again blessed with a skilled and varied cast (as with his earlier film Reservoir Dogs (1992)), Tarantino uses the various personas on show to ease the transitions from story to story, helped in the process of course by a number of decent performances.

Pulp Fiction is often described as Tarantino's finest film because it is emblematic of a theme close to him, that being the open celebration of pop culture itself. In this Tarantino is not attempting to break great new grounds (see what I did there?) with the film but is rebranding many of its traits for a fresh audience, traits such as: rock music, cartoon violence, the undisclosed metaphor of what's in the briefcase two hitmen have been hired to retrieve, and entertaining "meaningless" observations (on topics as far apart as foot massages, pilot episodes, miracles and McDonald's). Such an experiment risks alienating a lot of people, carrying only meaning to the most hardened media geeks or at least those amongst us with a similar mindset to Tarantino himself, but the final product suffers not from this because it takes the label "pulp fiction" to define itself and not the material it's homaging, like it or not.

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Thank you very much for participating everyone! It's been a lot of fun once again. Whether or not this will happen again next year, who knows. Until then, I'm always up for film-related stuff, especially raising its profile as a medium when it comes to Newgrounds.com. Folks can discuss stuff from here on - I probably don't have much more to say unless a discussion that I'm interested in pops up, but I'll still be reading posts :)

Thanks again, hope you all enjoyed it too.

Off the top of my head my favorites are Oldboy, Terminator 2, Back to the Future, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The End of Evangelion, Big Lebowski, Ghostbusters, Eternal Sunshine, The Thing, American Psycho, Wall E, Dr. Strangelove, American Beauty and probably some more.

At 9/11/13 06:36 AM, NuScarab wrote: 1.
Pulp Fiction

I'm okay with this. Definitely my favorite Tarantino film. Might just give it another watch real quick.

At 9/10/13 08:40 PM, Elixur wrote: I can't say I disagree with any of your post, however other titles on this very list would have to be disqualified with that mindset. (mainly Fight Club)

Are you serious?

So, "NG's favourite films" are basically all the same 10 movies on every English-speaking teenage boy's Top10 list on the internet, with last year's favorite thrown in for good measure.

Trainspotting
Blade Runner
Django Unchained
2001: A Space Odyssey
Apocalypse Now
Fight Club
Star Wars
A Clockwork Orange
Taxi Driver
Pulp Fiction.

At 9/11/13 06:36 AM, NuScarab wrote: 1.
Pulp Fiction

That was my next guess!

At 9/11/13 07:54 AM, 24901miles wrote: So, "NG's favourite films" are basically all the same 10 movies on every English-speaking teenage boy's Top10 list on the internet, with last year's favorite thrown in for good measure.

Yup, which is not especially surprising but a bit disappointing. You'd think NGers would be bigger animation fans, at the very least.

The #1 spot on the IMDB is "The Shawshank Redemption". In fact, it's not only #1 there, but on RottenTomatoes (by the audience percentage) it has the highest rating with 98%! Leonard Maltin didn't like it. Of course, Ebert's the only one on RT who didn't like "Brazil" and the only one who liked "Speed 2: Cruise Control", so he wasn't that much better.