Match Cut Madness 2: Best of the 90s

[Idioteque Stalker]

Voting for Round Two is now open! Vote now by posting in this thread or sending me a PM.

Pulp Fiction vs. Saving Private Ryan
Toy Story vs. Schindler’s List
Fight Club vs. Leon: The Professional
Lost Highway vs. Princess Mononoke
The Silence of the Lambs vs. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Heat vs. Basic Instinct
Boogie Nights vs. Malcolm X
The Big Lebowski vs. Groundhog Day
Goodfellas vs. Jurassic Park
Magnolia vs. Being John Malkovich
Unforgiven vs. Trainspotting
The Matrix vs. Hoop Dreams
Fargo vs. L. A. Confidential
Before Sunrise vs. Three Colors: Red
Rushmore vs. The Shawshank Redemption
Ed Wood vs. Seven


The Smoldering Aftermath of Round One

-- With nearly a fourth of all match-ups ending in upsets, the massive destruction of round one has left Madness 2.0 a fetid and hopeless wasteland from which MC can only pray to recover. If you feel like blaming/thanking someone, the posters who went with the underdog most frequently (while voting in over half the match-ups) were Yxklyx (50% of the time), Peng (48%), and Mal (40%). Leave some iconoclasm for the rest of us, you agents of chaos!

-- 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. Amidst what seems to be a board-wide re-evaluation, might even their heavy hitters be at risk?

-- After its historic and humiliating win over There's Something About Mary -- which may as well have been knifed repeatedly in a trunk by Joe Pesci -- Goodfellas exits round one as the movie no one wants to go up against. (Sorry Jurassic Park!) It may be too early to predict Goodfellas as Madness Champion, but does anyone have the guts to say otherwise?


Find out when voting closes in five days!