Christian Bale Defeats Brad Pitt

Hey gang. Just wanted to give you an update on the game we played last spring. Thanks to your voting, we were able to successfully create a proper rankings of the movies of these two actors in comparison to one another. I think there is a lot to be debated here, but that’s for you to do, and me to then follow through and address your concerns.

At this point, the only way to change these rankings is to voice your opinion either here or with an @ reply on twitter to @themoviefight.

So, here are The Christian Bale v Brad Pitt rankings:

Actor v Actor
Rank		Actor	Film	Role	Wins	Losses	Win %	AMF#
1		Christian Bale	Batman Begins	Bruce Wayne/Batman	3	0	100%	11.3
2		Christian Bale	The Dark Knight	Bruce Wayne/Batman	2	0	100%	10.9
3		Christian Bale	The Prestige	Alfred Borden	2	0	100%	10.4
4		Christian Bale	The Machinist	Trevor Reznik	2	0	100%	9.8
5		Christian Bale	American Psycho	Patrick Bateman	2	0	100%	9.4
6		Brad Pitt	Snatch	Mickey O’Neil	1	1	50%	8.2
7		Brad Pitt	Twelve Monkeys	Jeffrey Goines	1	1	50%	8.1
8		Christian Bale	3:10 to Yuma	Dan Evans	1	1	50%	7.9
9		Brad Pitt	Fight Club	Tyler Durden	0	1	0%	7.8
10		Brad Pitt	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	Jesse James	1	1	50%	7.7
11		Brad Pitt	Seven	Detective David Mills	2	3	40%	7.6
12		Brad Pitt	Burn After Reading	Chad Feldheimer	0	0	N/A	7.3
13		Brad Pitt	Thelma and Louise	J.D.	0	0	N/A	7.3
14		Brad Pitt	Sleepers	Michael Sullivan	0	0	N/A	7.3
15		Christian Bale	I’m Not There	Jack/Pastor John	0	0	N/A	7.2
16		Christian Bale	Terminator Salvation	John Connor	0	0	N/A	7.2
17		Christian Bale	Howl’s Moving Castle	Howl	0	1	0%	7.1
18		Christian Bale	Little Women	Laurie	0	0	N/A	7.1
19		Brad Pitt	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Benjamin Button	0	1	0%	7.1
20		Brad Pitt	A River Runs Through It	Paul Maclean	0	0	N/A	7.1
21		Brad Pitt	Legends of the Fall	Tristan Ludlow	0	0	N/A	7.1
22		Christian Bale	Harsh Times	Jim Luther Davis	0	0	N/A	7
23		Brad Pitt	Troy	Achilles	0	0	N/A	7
24		Brad Pitt	Ocean’s Thirteen	Rusty Ryan	0	0	N/A	7
25		Christian Bale	The New World	John Rolfe	0	0	N/A	6.9
26		Brad Pitt	True Romance	Floyd – Dick’s Roommate	0	1	0%	6.9
27		Brad Pitt	Spy Game	Tom Bishop	0	0	N/A	6.9
28		Christian Bale	Equilibrium	John Preston	0	1	0%	6.8
29		Brad Pitt	Meet Joe Black	Joe Black	0	0	N/A	6.8
30		Christian Bale	Empire of the Sun	Jim ‘Jamie’ Graham	0	1	0%	6.7
31		Brad Pitt	Babel	Richard Jones	0	1	0%	6.7
32		Brad Pitt	Seven Years In Tibet	Heinrich Harrer	0	0	N/A	6.7
33		Christian Bale	Rescue Dawn	Dieter	0	1	0%	6.6
34		Brad Pitt	Ocean’s Eleven	Rusty Ryan	0	1	0%	6.6
35		Brad Pitt	Kalifornia	Early Grayce	0	0	N/A	6.6
36		Brad Pitt	Interview With the Vampire	Louis de Pointe du Lac	0	1	0%	6.4
37		Brad Pitt	Mr. & Mrs. Smith	John Smith	0	0	N/A	6.4
38		Christian Bale	A Midsummer Night’s Dream	Demetrius	0	0	N/A	6.3
39		Christian Bale	Newsies	Jack ‘Cowboy’ Kelly	0	0	N/A	6.1
40		Brad Pitt	Ocean’s Twelve	Rusty Ryan	0	0	N/A	6
41		Christian Bale	Reign of Fire	Quinn Abercromby	0	0	N/A	5.9
42		Christian Bale	Shaft	Walter Wade Jr	0	0	N/A	5.9
43		Brad Pitt	The Mexican	Jerry Welbach	0	0	N/A	5.9
44		Brad Pitt	The Devil’s Own	Rory Devaney	0	0	N/A	5.8
45		Christian Bale	Captain Corelli’s Mandolin	Mandras	0	0	N/A	5.7
46		Brad Pitt	Cool World	Detective Frank Harris	0	0	N/A	4.3

Arnold Schwarzenegger Fight: Day 4

Twins	3	4	Conan the Destroyer
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines	2	3	The 6th Day
True Lies	2	5	Jingle All the Way
Last Action Hero	6	2	Hercules in New York

John Cusack Movie Fight: Day 4

Being John Malkovich	5	4	High Fidelity
Stand By Me	3	4	Grace is Gone
Map of the Human Heart	2	3	The Ice Harvest
True Colors	3	2	Shadows and Fog

Pitt vs. Bale: Round 5

Brad Pitt is down to his last performance to try to get the win…. He will have to win each of these four fights in order to continue the fight! Can he pull it off?

Detective David Mills Seven 4 5 Bruce Wayne/Batman Batman Begins
Detective David Mills Seven 2 5 Trevor Reznik The Machinist
Detective David Mills Seven 3 4 Patrick Bateman American Psycho

Pitt vs. Bale: Round 4

Ok, here I’m going to list the movies that made it to the second round.  Those you don’t see here were eliminated last round:

BRAD PITT MOVIES:

Seven	Detective David Mills
Snatch	Mickey O’Neil
Twelve Monkeys	Jeffrey Goines
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	Jesse James

CHRISTIAN BALE MOVIES:

The Dark Knight	Bruce Wayne/Batman
The Prestige	Alfred Borden
Batman Begins	Bruce Wayne/Batman
3:10 to Yuma	Dan Evans
The Machinist	Trevor Reznik
American Psycho	Patrick Bateman

Detective David Mills	Seven	3	2	Dan Evans	3:10 to Yuma
Jesse James	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	2	3	Bruce Wayne/Batman	The Dark Knight
Mickey O’Neil	Snatch	2	3	Bruce Wayne/Batman	Batman Begins
Jeffrey Goines	Twelve Monkeys	2	3	Alfred Borden	The Prestige

Steve Martin Movie Fight: Day 2

The Spanish Prisoner	0	5	Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Shopgirl	4	2	All of Me
Leap of Faith	3	1	Novocaine
The Pink Panther	3	2	Mixed Nuts

Pitt v Bale: Round 3

Jesse James	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	4	3	Howl	Howl’s Moving Castle
Jeffrey Goines	Twelve Monkeys	7	2	John Preston	Equilibrium
Floyd – Dick’s Roommate	True Romance	2	6	Dan Evans	3:10 to Yuma

Howl & John Preston – Eliminated

Floyd – Eliminated

Pitt vs Bale: Round 2

Rusty Ryan	Ocean’s Eleven	2	8	Alfred Borden	The Prestige
Mickey O’Neil	Snatch	6	2	Jim ‘Jamie’ Graham	Empire of the Sun
Richard Jones	Babel	2	6	Bruce Wayne/Batman	Batman Begins
Benjamin Button	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	1	8	Trevor Reznik	The Machinist

Rusty Ryan, Richard Jones & Benjamin Button – Eliminated

Jamie Graham – Eliminated

Bout #1: Brad Pitt v Christian Bale – ROUND 1

Lets start this off by introducing the teams.
For Brad Pitt:

1	Fight Club	Tyler Durden
2	Interview With the Vampire	Louis de Pointe du Lac
3	Seven	Detective David Mills
4	Ocean’s Eleven	Rusty Ryan
5	Snatch	Mickey O’Neil
6	Babel	Richard Jones
7	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Benjamin Button
8	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	Jesse James
9	Twelve Monkeys	Jeffrey Goines
10	True Romance	Floyd – Dick’s Roommate

& For Christian Bale:

1	American Psycho	Patrick Bateman
2	The Dark Knight	Bruce Wayne/Batman
3	Rescue Dawn	Dieter
4	The Prestige	Alfred Borden
5	Empire of the Sun	Jim ‘Jamie’ Graham
6	Batman Begins	Bruce Wayne/Batman
7	The Machinist	Trevor Reznik
8	Howl’s Moving Castle	Howl
9	Equilibrium	John Preston
10	3:10 to Yuma	Dan Evans

So Here are the fights in Round 1:

Tyler Durden	Fight Club	3	5	Patrick Bateman	American Psycho
Louis de Pointe du Lac	Interview With the Vampire	3	6	Bruce Wayne/Batman	The Dark Knight
Detective David Mills	Seven	7	3	Dieter	Rescue Dawn

Tyler Durden & Louis de Pointe – Eliminated

Dieter – Eliminated

The Movie Fight Presents: Championship Bouts!

Hey everybody.

Today, I’d like to introduce a new game that I’m going to try out over the next few weeks. To go along with our normal voting, and the upcoming tournaments that are coming down the pipeline, I’d like to start a new side project that, for now, I will call “Bouts!”

Generally on the site, we have fights between movies that last one round. The movies go up, you vote on them for 6 days, and then the results are tabulated.

OK, so after discussing this further, I’ve decided to change this to more of a SURVIVOR SERIES Type thing. Each actor gets 10 performances in. They battle in 10 rounds. When a performance loses it has been eliminated. When the first 10 fights are over, Those movies that are still alive fight again until all of one actor’s movies have been eliminated, thus being crowned the winner!!

Kinda crazy, but I think you’ll get it when you see it in action. Point is, I need your votes more than ever! So stop by and vote!

John Cusack Movie Fight: Day 3

Being John Malkovich	8	4	Better Off Dead
Sixteen Candles	10	1	The Thin Red Line
Runaway Jury	6	4	Identity
The Journey of Natty Gann	3	6	Adaptation

Arnold Schwarzenegger Fights: Day 3

Twins	4	7	The Terminator
Conan The Destroyer	4	2	Collateral Damage
Raw Deal	3	5	Jingle All the Way
Junior	1	3	The 6th Day

New Releases 04/24/09 – Obsessed

Well, I think I’ll keep at this. This time, we’re going to go with the widest release of the weekend, Obsessed…

Synopsis: “THE WIRE’s Idris Elba stars in this thriller as a man who seems to have a perfect life. He is married to Sharon (Beyoncé Knowles), and he has just earned a promotion at work. But destruction looms when a pretty temp (HEROES’ Ali Larter) grows a little too fond of him.”

Here’s a link to the Trailer

So, your job is to Fit this movie into as many rankings as you can COMPLETELY UNSEEN! Your job is to rank the following lists:

Writer David Loughery’s Films: Passenger 57, The Three Musketeers, Money Train, Tom and Huck, Lakeview Terrace, and Obsessed

Beyonce’s Films: Austin Powers Goldfinger, The Fighting Temptations, The Pink Panther, Dreamgirls, Cadillac Records, and Obsessed

and
Ali Larter’s Films: Varsity Blues, House on Haunted Hill, Final Destination, Legally Blonde, American Outlaws, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Final Destination 2, Resident Evil: Extinction, and Obsessed

Last but not least, our Keyword Fight is….:

Stalking Movies: City of God, There’s Something About Mary, Zodiac, Disturbia, Halloween, Basic Instinct, Wicker Park, Cape Fear, Red Eye, and Obsessed

OK, I’ll chime in with my rankings, but you should do so as well. Just one ranking will do; you dont need to do all 4. There’s no need to be shy. If you haven’t seen em, rank em on how much you want to see them, how much they appeal to you, so on so forth. Have some fun with it. I look forward to hearing from you…

New Releases 04/24/09 – Fighting

Hey everyone…

Ok, I think this was somewhat unavoidable, like fate, but the first movie that we are going to discuss is Fighting…

Synopsis: “Small-town boy Shawn MacArthur (Channing Tatum) has come to New York City with nothing. Barely earning a living selling counterfeit goods on the streets, his luck changes when scam artist Harvey Boarden (Terrence Howard) sees that he has a natural talent for streetfighting.” –© Universal Pictures

Here’s a link to the Trailer

So, what we are going to do is try to fit this movie into as many rankings as we can COMPLETELY UNSEEN! Your job is to rank the following lists:

Director Dito Montiel’s Films: A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Fighting

Channing Tatum’s Films: Coach Carter, Supercross, Havoc, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, She’s the Man, Step Up, Step Up 2: The Streets, Stop Loss, Fighting
and
Terrence Howard’s Films: The Best Man, Big Momma’s House, Angel Eyes, Glitter, Hart’s War, Biker Boyz, Crash, Ray, Hustle & Flow, Four Brothers, The Brave One, August Rush, Awake, Iron Man, Fighting

So, I figure on adding at least one keyword for each movie as well as these few actor/director credits… so this movie’s Keyword is:

Mixed Martial Arts Movies: Unleashed, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Bloodsport, Never Back Down, Mortal Kombat Annihilation, Cradle 2 the Grave, Redbelt, The Quest, and Fighting.

OK, I’ll chime in with my rankings, but you should do so as well. Just one ranking will do; you dont need to do all 4. There’s no need to be shy. If you haven’t seen em, rank em on how much you want to see them, how much they appeal to you, so on so forth. Have some fun with it. I look forward to hearing from you…

John Cusack Movie Fight: Day 2

Johnny C is back my friends. Here are four more fights for you to argue over. This time, there was a small amount of method to my madness of how I picked them. I looked at the movies that had the closest MF# and selected those movies because they I consider them a situation where the fight could go either way. Maybe that’s true. Maybe not. I guess the idea is, as always, to wait and see.

Please vote. Please vote for all of them. And please tell all of your friends to stop by as well.

Eight Men Out	7	4	Martian Child
War Inc.	7	1	Igor
Grace is Gone	7	5	Sixteen Candles
1408	6	2	Runaway Jury