World Cup, Season 3, Match 2E: China vs England vs Bolivia (Nov 4th)

[blocho]

Hurlu, I reacted a little too quickly. Perhaps I was a bit harsh. Two factors here:
- I've taken too much stress as a teacher these past two years
- Democracy right now makes everyone in the United States miserable. Next Tuesday, I'm gonna go vote, then go home and start drinking heavily

[hurluberlu]

Hurlu, I reacted a little too quickly. Perhaps I was a bit harsh. Two factors here:
- I've taken too much stress as a teacher these past two years
- Democracy right now makes everyone in the United States miserable. Next Tuesday, I'm gonna go vote, then go home and start drinking heavily

Hey, no worries ! If it doesn’t win, glad it triggered some reaction and discussion.

[edward5]

1. 10 Rillington Place 6/10
2. Yvy Maraey 6/10
3. Please Vote for Me 5/10 three noisy and dishonest kids, and their parents are worse.

A weak round for me.

[Angel Glez]

1. 10 Rillington Place
2. Please Vote for Me
3. Yvy Maraey

[clemmetarey]

1. Please Vote for Me (2007) 7/10
2. 10 Rillington Place (1971) 6/10
3. Yvy Maraey (2013) 5/10

[Fergenaprido]

I'm not sure how I feel about this round. Different, to say the least.

1. 10 Rillington Place - 7.5ish
2. Yvy Maraey - 6.5ish
3. Please Vote for Me - 6ish

British flic was interesting. Attenborough and Hurt were amazing in their roles. Went into this blind and didn't realize it was based on a true story until partway through. Horrific.

Bolivian film was too brooding and emo for me. The main journey part was pretty good, but the intercut scenes took away from the experience. Beautiful countryside.

Chinese doc was manipulative. Toying with children just to make a point or make a film. Not cool. The winner was not the one I would have predicted at the outset. And those parents!

[filmbantha]

1. 10 Rillington Place
2. Yvy Maraey
3. Please Vote For Me

[joachimt]

17 hours left

10 Rillington Place: 1.607 (39-17)
Please Vote for Me: 1.929 (30-26)
Yvy Maraey: 2.464 (15-41)

[Gershwin]

1. Please vote for me
2. 10 Rillington Place
3. Yvy Maraey

I can’t really tell why Yvy Maraey didn’t work for me, because in a certain way it’s straight up my alley, but I think there were a bit too many aforisms in it. I’m not very fond of these semi-philosophical reveries without decent arguments. At least not when I don’t intuitively recognize the truth behind them.

10 Rillington Place was a very fine film. And Please Vote for Me was almost brilliant.

[Mochard]

1. 10 Rillington Place - 8/10
2. Please Vote for Me - 7/10
3. Yvy Maraey - 5/10

I didn't rewatch 10 Rillington Place but I remember really enjoying it. Please Vote for Me was engaging but I couldn't get into Yvy Maraey, not my type of film.

[Mario Gaborović]

8.5 hours left.

[sacmersault]

Barely made it

1. 10 Rillington Place - Really enjoyed the movie. The villain was very well created and acted. There's a creepiness in the ordinary of the character. Hurt was very good too. The story was interesting and it was a good twist on a

Spoiler

serial killer

film.\

2. Yvy Maraey - Really cliché idea and follow through. It's almost offensive that films about how "savages" are different from "normal" people are still being made. It was a bit interesting though for the Guarani ideas and poetry. And had some cinematic value.

3. Please Vote for Me - While I loved the doc and found it very interesting, it's a traditional documentary. The purpose of it being to document a story. There's nothing transcendental or cinematic about it.

[wasabi]

1. Image Please Vote for Me
This movie seemed like a projection of Chinese society: people who have power or come from better families background have more privileges.
2. Image 10 Rillington Place
I expected more at the beginning of the movie, but still an interesting movie, good choice.
3. Image Yvy Maraey
I liked the story and the setting, but I would like it more if the director used a different way to tell the story.

[funkybusiness]

1. 10 Rillington Place
2. Yvy Maraey
3. Please Vote For Me

[mjf314]

1. 10 Rillington Place
2. Please Vote for Me
3. Yvy Maraey

[metaller]

Woopsy. nearly forgot to vote. I'm back in the game.
Good round managers, I liked all three films.

1. 10 Rillington Place
2. Yvy Maraey
3. Please Vote for Me

[joachimt]

Woopsy. nearly forgot to vote. I'm back in the game.
Good round managers, I liked all three films.

1. 10 Rillington Place
2. Yvy Maraey
3. Please Vote for Me

Technically you're 5 minutes late, but it doesn't influence the ranking, so I'll allow it. At least this time mjf314 isn't the last voter.

Final ranking:
10 Rillington Place: 1.543 (51-19)
Please Vote for Me: 1.971 (36-34)
Yvy Maraey: 2.486 (18-52)

England wins.
Congratulations to funkybusiness. Also thanks to hurluberlu and burneyfan for their picks and to the 35 people who voted this match.

[funkybusiness]

thanks hurlu and burneyfan!

and for all the people saying they wished I'd gone with a more daring pick for England...well...just wait. maybe. or not.

[Gershwin]

It's easy though.
https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/of+ ... +the+city/

[Lilarcor]

2. Yvy Maraey - Really cliché idea and follow through. It's almost offensive that films about how "savages" are different from "normal" people are still being made.

This is exactly what the film is criticising! I don't think this revisionist perspective is a cliché, at least not yet..

[blocho]

2. Yvy Maraey - Really cliché idea and follow through. It's almost offensive that films about how "savages" are different from "normal" people are still being made.

This is exactly what the film is criticising! I don't think this revisionist perspective is a cliché, at least not yet..

I have to agree with Lilarcor here. I didn't love the movie, but I thought it was extremely sensitive about the dynamics vis-a-vis author/subject and colonizer/colonized. The La Paz Castellano even spoke at one point about how any movie he made might be an act of destruction.

[sacmersault]

2. Yvy Maraey - Really cliché idea and follow through. It's almost offensive that films about how "savages" are different from "normal" people are still being made.

This is exactly what the film is criticising! I don't think this revisionist perspective is a cliché, at least not yet..

I have to agree with Lilarcor here. I didn't love the movie, but I thought it was extremely sensitive about the dynamics vis-a-vis author/subject and colonizer/colonized. The La Paz Castellano even spoke at one point about how any movie he made might be an act of destruction.

Yet he made one

[blocho]

You're right. He's a monster.

[funkybusiness]

It's easy though.
https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/of+ ... +the+city/

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