Anticipation Rankings: 5/21/12

Well, its time to get started. We have tons and tons of movies that we all want to see in the coming months, am I right? Time to get them into the anticipation rankings. I have an evolution to the Rankings I’d like to add this week. youuuuuuu’ll see! The Amazing Spider-Man MY BOY! Andrew [...]

Fantasy Movie Fight #4: Barbarella vs. Mad Max

Fight for the 41st Ranked Fantasy Movie Barbarella (1-0) vs. Mad Max (1-1) I think this is a classically interesting Moviefight battle. We’ve got a superior movie going up against a movie that fits within the genre far better. Barbarella is a BAD movie. Lets all agree that, minus it’s cult accumen, it’s really just [...]

Family Movie Fight #6: The Gold Rush vs. Toy Story

Fight for the #6th Ranked Family Movie The Gold Rush (8.2) vs. Toy Story (8.1) I’m going to be perfectly honest with you. I know just about every movie. I haven’t seen every movie, but I have seen a lot of them. But if a movie comes up that I haven’t even heard of, it [...]

Family Movie Fight #4: Labyrinth vs The Sandlot

Fight for the 17th Ranked Family Movie Labyrinth (7.3) vs. The Sandlot (7.3) I know which of these movies I love more. That’s a no brainer, even though I love both. Labyrinth though, as a full grown man, is the better movie, mostly due to spectacle and pop-culture relevance. Labyrinth however is a fucked up, [...]

Crime Movie Fight #2: Pulp Fiction vs. The Godfather

Pulp Fiction: 9 The Godfather: 9.2 This is definitely up there as one of the hardest fights I’ve ever had to vote on here on the movie fight. I guess if there’s ever a genre that The Godfather belongs in, I guess it will have to be Crime. I do believe there is something more [...]

Crime Movie Fight #1: Shawshank Redemption vs. The Dark Knight

Shawshank Redemption: 9.2 The Dark Knight: 9 It’s intersting to think about a super hero movie as a “crime movie”. I mean, in just about every case, I’d say that’s technically true, but it never really dawns on me. Fightin’ Crime. That’s Batman’s job. Contrarily, I’m very interested in the idea of Shawshank being a [...]

Documentary Movie Fight #5: Religulous vs. March of the Penguins

Religulous: 7.2 March of the Penguins: 7.7 Religulous is the perfect example of what does NOT make for a good Doc. A good doc shows the story without bias. I’m starting to think that there’s not always a good “other side” but there is an ability to be even handed. There’s a level to which [...]

Documentary Movie Fight #3: Super Size Me vs. An Inconvenient Truth

Super Size Me: 7.5 An Inconvenient Truth: 7.8 This is my first chance to actually debate docs. Ok, what a doc has to be is even handed, informative, interesting and full of information that you previously didn’t have. I think that Super Size Me might be the strongest movie for these categories of all. Morgan [...]

History Movie Fight #4: Gangs of New York vs. The Last Samurai

Gangs of New York: 8 The Last Samurai: 7.7 Lets not be obtuse. There is a clear and undeniable winner here. I have had quite good luck to have good movies going up against one another on many occasions, but this isn’t one of them. I’m not going to sit here and write that The [...]

History Movie Fight #3: 300 vs. Troy

300: 7.8 Troy: 7 The Movie Fight never runs out of amazing fights to have. By no means could these two movies be considered amongst the best “History” movies of all time. Neither of them would I be willing to call “Historically accurate”. But they do both take place in a part of history that [...]

History Movie Fight #2: Titanic vs. Braveheart

Titanic: 7.4 Braveheart: 8.4 I think this fight has a pretty clear winner. Titanic has a certain level of authenticity to it. The ship went in the water, the ship sank, just about everyone on it died. Some poor guy tricking some rich lady into falling in love with him in the course of like [...]

Musical Movie Fight #5: Beauty and the Beast vs. Control

Beauty and the Beast: 8 Control: 7.7 This is going to be a really interesting one. I’m going to tell you now that I am going to vote for Beauty and the Beast, but I can tell you that my vote might not count for much. Here’s my argument though: The songs in Beauty in [...]

Musical Movie Fight #4: The Nightmare Before Christmas vs. Sweeney Todd

The Nightmare Before Christmas: Sweeney Todd: The luck of the draw never ceases to amaze me here on The Movie Fight. Two Tim Burton films, Two equally true musicals. Two very strong films. But, the luck is, there is one that sticks out from the other. I’ll be the type to claim that Sweeney Todd [...]

Musical Movie Fight #3: A Night at the Opera vs. Almost Famous

A Night at the Opera: 8 Almost Famous: 8 It’s a bit of a problem. I don’t know much about the Marx Brothers movies. Are they Music Movies? I thought they were comedies. I don’t know anything about it. Contrarily, Almost Famous is a really interesting movie, but not a Musical in the prototypical sense [...]

Musical Movie Fight #2: Duck Soup vs. The Lion King

Duck Soup:8.1 The Lion King: 8.3 Its been a while since I’ve seen it, but is Duck Soup even a musical? I suppose in the sense that all movies have music, that would make them all musical movies, #amiright? Well, that doesn’t hold court here on The Movie Fight. No sireeee. It doesn’t matter anyway. [...]