Best Movie Eliminator: WE HAVE A WINNER!

Ghost in the Shell. 2001 deserves to be stay in a little longer because of the effects. Dat ferris wheel set :datass:

Ghost in the shell because I want to keep John Wick. Gutted about Jackie Brown but it got higher than others wanted so hey ho.

Jackie Brown gone, a sad day.

Ghost in the Shell next please. John Wick can survive one more day...

Ghost In The Shell. Finally!

Ghost In The Shell

Ghost in the Shell

GITS

John Wick.

Dredd

Ghost in the shell.

Dredd.

GITS today, Dredd tomorrow. Something we can all agree on.

John Wick

Bourne Supremacy

Corazon de Leon

I’ll go with Bourne Supremacy.

We seem to keep coalescing around 2 or 3 movies that someone has brought up recently and not necessarily looking at the whole picture.

Reviewing the list it's clear that there really is some gooseberry fool still left to deal with. I mean come on we've still got the likes of Starship Troopers, Total Recall and Gremlins in here! :fp:

Corazon de Leon

Jenuall wrote:We seem to keep coalescing around 2 or 3 movies that someone has brought up recently and not necessarily looking at the whole picture.

Reviewing the list it's clear that there really is some gooseberry fool still left to deal with. I mean come on we've still got the likes of Starship Troopers, Total Recall and Gremlins in here!

Genuinely one of the most intelligent action movies, one of the greatest action movies, and Gremlins. You've saddened me. There's easily twenty films that have to go before Total Recall and Starship Troopers! :shifty:

Corazon de Leon wrote:
Jenuall wrote:We seem to keep coalescing around 2 or 3 movies that someone has brought up recently and not necessarily looking at the whole picture.

Reviewing the list it's clear that there really is some gooseberry fool still left to deal with. I mean come on we've still got the likes of Starship Troopers, Total Recall and Gremlins in here!

Genuinely one of the most intelligent action movies, one of the greatest action movies, and Gremlins. You've saddened me. There's easily twenty films that have to go before Total Recall and Starship Troopers!

I have tried and tried to understand this perspective on Starship Troopers. There is zero intelligence in it, it's pure trash!

Totall Recall has aged terribly and was nonsense at the time anyway, there are at least 5 Schwarzenegger movies I would watch ahead of it.

And Gremlins is a great, fun watch but is undeniably a worse movie than some of what has already been voted out!

Corazon de Leon

Jenuall wrote:I have tried and tried to understand this perspective on Starship Troopers. There is zero intelligence in it, it's pure trash!

I think it's a really smart look at how propaganda and persuasion can be used to create and enforce a militaristic society. Create a common enemy, start a war, use a tragedy to motivate people when morale starts to dip and offer rewards(Citizenship) to those who participate in conflict.

I believe there's a scene in there that's a shot for shot remake of a Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will. I've actually seen that film and didn't realise until Banjo pointed it out to me years later - it's just a really subtle movie that is almost disguised as action trash, IMO.

I might be a little bit biased; my research interests as an academic fall into propaganda and persuasion, media relations and techniques used by the powerful to further their agendas, so it's absolutely my cup of tea. I also love explosions and loud noises. :oops:

Total Recall is just pure nostalgia on my part as well - one of a series of movies that used to pop up on ITV late at night when I stayed at my grandparents house and was allowed to watch things I shouldn't have been watching. :wub:

Starship Troopers is a masterclass in satire. Just like Total Recall. And Robocop.

Paul Verhoeven :wub:

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