Match Cut Madness 2: Best of the 90s

[baby doll]

Pulp Fiction vs. Schindler’s List
Fight Club vs. Princess Mononoke
Terminator 2: Judgment Day vs. Heat
Boogie Nights vs. Groundhog Day
Goodfellas vs. Magnolia
Unforgiven vs. The Matrix
Fargo vs. Three Colors: Red
The Shawshank Redemption vs. Ed Wood (not crazy about either of these)

[Idioteque Stalker]

-- Only three directors with multiple movies have emerged unscathed: PTA, Fincher, and Spielberg -- who, with Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, and Jurassic Park, now has the most movies left in the tournament. And while Tarantino and the Coens may have technically survived round one, a few high-profile upsets have left them battered, sore, and distraught, with two fewer movies each going forward.

In round two Fincher lost Seven, the Coens lost Lebowski, and Spielberg lost both Saving Private Ryan and Jurassic Park. There is now only one director with multiple films left in the tournament: Paul Thomas Anderson.

Have we had two movies from the same director go head to head?

This could still happen but is extremely unlikely because, due to how the brackets were set up, Magnolia and Boogie Nights can only match up in the championship.

[Ezee E]

Pulp Fiction vs. Schindler’s List
Fight Club vs. Princess Mononoke
Terminator 2: Judgment Day vs. Heat
Boogie Nights vs. Groundhog Day
Goodfellas vs. Magnolia
Unforgiven vs. The Matrix
Fargo vs. Three Colors: Red
The Shawshank Redemption vs. Ed Wood

[transmogrifier]

Pulp Fiction vs. Schindler’s List
Fight Club vs. Princess Mononoke
Terminator 2: Judgment Day vs. Heat
Boogie Nights vs. Groundhog Day
Goodfellas vs. Magnolia
Unforgiven vs. The Matrix
Fargo vs. Three Colors: Red
The Shawshank Redemption vs. Ed Wood

[megladon8]

Pulp Fiction vs. Schindler’s List
Fight Club vs. Princess Mononoke
Terminator 2: Judgment Day vs. Heat
Boogie Nights vs. Groundhog Day
Goodfellas vs. Magnolia
Unforgiven vs. The Matrix
Fargo vs. Three Colors: Red
The Shawshank Redemption vs. Ed Wood

[Pop Trash]

Pulp Fiction vs. Schindler’s List
Fight Club vs. Princess Mononoke (abstain ... I don't care)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day vs. Heat
Boogie Nights vs. Groundhog Day (real tough, both are in my top ten o' the '90s)
Goodfellas vs. Magnolia
Unforgiven vs. The Matrix
Fargo vs. Three Colors: Red
The Shawshank Redemption vs. Ed Wood (both are top 5 of 1994 tho)

[Idioteque Stalker]

Pulp Fiction vs. Schindler’s List (OUCH)
Fight Club vs. Princess Mononoke (ouch)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day vs. Heat (yawn)
Boogie Nights vs. Groundhog Day (YAWN)
Goodfellas vs. Magnolia (OUCH)
Unforgiven vs. The Matrix
Fargo vs. Three Colors: Red
The Shawshank Redemption vs. Ed Wood (yawn)

[Lazlo]

Pulp Fiction vs. Schindler’s List
Fight Club vs. Princess Mononoke
Terminator 2: Judgment Day vs. Heat
Boogie Nights vs. Groundhog Day
Goodfellas vs. Magnolia
Unforgiven vs. The Matrix
Fargo vs. Three Colors: Red
The Shawshank Redemption vs. Ed Wood

[Peng]

Pulp Fiction vs. Schindler’s List
Fight Club vs. Princess Mononoke
Terminator 2: Judgment Day vs. Heat
Boogie Nights vs. Groundhog Day (Sad this is getting semi-trampled)
Goodfellas vs. Magnolia (this one I have to look up my own 90s ranking, because they're very close in my mind, although it's been over a decade and a half since I last saw the latter)
Unforgiven vs. The Matrix
Fargo vs. Three Colors: Red
The Shawshank Redemption vs. Ed Wood

[Spun Lepton]

Pulp Fiction vs. Schindler’s List
Fight Club vs. Princess Mononoke
Unforgiven vs. The Matrix

[Idioteque Stalker]

Boogie Nights vs. Groundhog Day (Sad this is getting semi-trampled)

Don't be so sure. Groundhog Day made a more wild comeback in round two.

[StuSmallz]

What Lee thinks is irrelevant when considering the film itself. Only the film is canon, now you can go ahead and include other things not part of the film as part of your analysis but then you're analyzing something more than the film. That said I've flip-flopped on the interpretation myself.

I don't think what he thinks is irrelevant, but a director's intentions are never the starting point of my arguments anyway, because a filmmaker can obviously deliver a message poorly, give off mixed signals, or deliver one they never even intended to, etc. But, the way I approach interpreting movies is, I first look at the movie on its own in a vacuum, and try to come to my own conclusions just based off that, and then I take the filmmakers' intentions into account. So, on top of Lee saying that he never intended the motivations behind Mookie's actions to be to protect Sal from the crowd, I never saw any evidence for that interpretation in the film itself, and arguing for it just feels like indulging in wishful thinking, and hoping that Mookie had been "heroic", rather than the angry man he was in that moment, IMO (although since you feel differently, I'd be interested in hearing the case for the opposite viewpoint).

[DFA1979]

Pulp Fiction vs. Schindler’s List-Only seen Pulp
Fight Club vs. Princess Mononoke-Only seen Fight Club
Terminator 2: Judgment Day vs. Heat-Heat
Boogie Nights vs. Groundhog Day-Boogie Nights
Goodfellas vs. Magnolia-Goodfellas, easily
Unforgiven vs. The Matrix-Unforgiven of course
Fargo vs. Three Colors: Red-Only seen Fargo
The Shawshank Redemption vs. Ed Wood-Ed Wood no question

[Yxklyx]

... and hoping that Mookie had been "heroic", rather than the angry man he was in that moment, IMO (although since you feel differently, I'd be interested in hearing the case for the opposite viewpoint).

Well, I've flip-flopped. I thought the opinion I mentioned was a general consensus but when I first watched it I had the opposite opinion (same as you) so I'm ambivalent now. I never take the director's intent into consideration for the same reason that David Lynch doesn't talk about his movies. Donnie Darko would be a classic case of director had no idea what he was doing I have the director's cut on blu-ray but refuse to watch it. I couldn't stand those GoT creator commentaries after each episode where they start explaining things - noped right out. I do watch Director's cuts though in general and commentaries for some shows/movies are fine.

[Ivan Drago]

Pulp Fiction vs. Schindler’s List
Fight Club vs. Princess Mononoke
Goodfellas vs. Magnolia
The Shawshank Redemption vs. Ed Wood

[quido8_5]

Pulp Fiction vs. Schindler’s List
Terminator 2: Judgment Day vs. Heat
Boogie Nights vs. Groundhog Day
Goodfellas vs. Magnolia
Unforgiven vs. The Matrix
Fargo vs. Three Colors: Red
The Shawshank Redemption vs. Ed Wood

[Mal]

Pulp Fiction vs. Schindler’s List
Fight Club vs. Princess Mononoke
Terminator 2: Judgment Day vs. Heat
Boogie Nights vs. Groundhog Day
Goodfellas vs. Magnolia
Unforgiven vs. The Matrix
Fargo vs. Three Colors: Red
The Shawshank Redemption vs. Ed Wood

[Philip J. Fry]

Pulp Fiction vs. Schindler’s List
Fight Club vs. Princess Mononoke
Terminator 2: Judgment Day vs. Heat
Boogie Nights vs. Groundhog Day - Not seen Boogie Nights
Goodfellas vs. Magnolia
Unforgiven vs. The Matrix
Fargo vs. Three Colors: Red - Not seen TC:R
The Shawshank Redemption vs. Ed Wood - Not seen Ed Wood

[Idioteque Stalker]

Fight Club vs. Princess Mononoke

I was hoping you'd pop in to support Mononoke.

[Philip J. Fry]

I was hoping you'd pop in to support Mononoke.

[Idioteque Stalker]

From Madness 1.0:

Raiders vs. Aliens is now the tightest race of the tournament so far.

With MC Madness 2.0's record-setting voter participation in the Sweet Sixteen, we now have a match-up that's even closer:

Terminator 2: Judgment Day vs. Heat

With 24 hours left in the Sweet Sixteen -- if you've been thinking about voting and have a preference in this match-up (or any others -- this isn't the only close match-up), now would be a great time to vote by posting in this thread or sending me a PM.

[Skitch]

Pulp Fiction vs. Schindler’s List
Fight Club vs. Princess Mononoke
Terminator 2: Judgment Day vs. Heat
Boogie Nights vs. Groundhog Day
Goodfellas vs. Magnolia
Unforgiven vs. The Matrix

The Shawshank Redemption vs. Ed Wood

[Idioteque Stalker]

Madness Milestone: twenty voters!

Fight Club vs. Princess Mononoke

Aaaaand you're a monster.

[Skitch]

Aaaaand you're a monster.

You're the bigger monster making me sophies choice this shit lol

[Idioteque Stalker]

The Sweet Sixteen is now closed. Here are MC's results:

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Pulp Fiction vs. Schindler’s List
Fight Club vs. Princess Mononoke (UPSET)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day vs. Heat (UPSET + NAILBITER)
Boogie Nights vs. Groundhog Day
Goodfellas vs. Magnolia (BLOWOUT)
Unforgiven vs. The Matrix (UPSET + NAILBITER)
Fargo vs. Three Colors: Red
The Shawshank Redemption vs. Ed Wood (UPSET + BLOWOUT)

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