The Sly Silver Fox Challenge - Creeping Up to the Top...

[Kasparius]

The Sly Silver Fox Challenge




Fly under the radar by picking up the silver loot. A nice reward for those giant lists, where there is quite a long way from Bronze to Platinum.

Rules:
- Same as the other challenges for length, etc...
- Unofficial lists are fine.

3eyes (Lists completed:0; Films Watched:1)
AdamH (Silver Awards Gained:1; Films Watched:5)
HVM (Lists completed:1; Films Watched:4)
Kasparius (Lists completed:0; Films Watched:5)
Jerome St. Jacques (Lists completed:0; Films Watched:3)

[Kasparius]

I'll probably work on Vogel (50 to Silver), Cahiers du cinéma (45), Weird Movies (16) & Harvard non-fiction (12),

[AdamH]

If I'm aiming for platinum in the Academy Award Best Foreign Pictures list but only have a bronze at the moment should I start off with it in the silver challenge and move up to gold after or just start in the platinum challenge?

[Kasparius]

If I'm aiming for platinum in the Academy Award Best Foreign Pictures list but only have a bronze at the moment should I start off with it in the silver challenge and move up to gold after or just start in the platinum challenge?

Whichever works for you. Someone says that a Gold challenge would be redundant (90% vs 100%) so I would suggest moving from one challenge to the next, the more participants the merrier

[AdamH]

If I'm aiming for platinum in the Academy Award Best Foreign Pictures list but only have a bronze at the moment should I start off with it in the silver challenge and move up to gold after or just start in the platinum challenge?

Whichever works for you. Someone says that a Gold challenge would be redundant (90% vs 100%) so I would suggest moving from one challenge to the next, the more participants the merrier

I think it would be more fun to go for silver first as it would give me more motivation. I've just installed themagician's iCM script as well to see what lists I'm close to an award on.

[Cippenham]

I may as well join this as well, just working on one list at a time though. Work on The Criterion Collection (need 1) not sure when I will see it though.

[funkybusiness]

I may as well join this as well, just working on one list at a time though. Work on The Criterion Collection (need 1) not sure when I will see it though.

Might I recommend Antonio Gaudí (1985)? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwC6RsEtX7U Linked by you in the comments on iCM?
Or something shorter. Marty (1953) starring Rod Steiger http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDiwOxvmJOw

[3eyes]

Goody. Harvard narrative films, 3 to go.

[Kasparius]

1. Final Flesh (2009) Ike Sanders (1/10)

from 366 Weird Movies list (15 till silver)

This easily ranks as one of the worst films I've seen because of ICM. Imagine a porn movie (without sex scenes) directed by Don Hertzfeld, if you can you've seen the film. Horrendous... It feels like a bunch of witless philosophy students who think they're being clever, but it's so god damn bad and cringe inducing.

Arthur might love it.

[Gershwin]

Rules:
- You can't work on a list once you get silver
- Same as the other challenges for length, etc...
- Unofficial lists are fine.

What do you mean by this first rule? You can't use the list in the "Finish 'em off" Challenge, once you've used it here?

[HVM]

1. This Island Earth (1955) 6/10

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1. This Island Earth (1955) 6/10

[Kasparius]

Rules:
- You can't work on a list once you get silver
- Same as the other challenges for length, etc...
- Unofficial lists are fine.

What do you mean by this first rule? You can't use the list in the "Finish 'em off" Challenge, once you've used it here?

No I meant once you get silver you can't work on it here.

Took the rule down, it's sort of assumed by the challenge.

[Kasparius]

2. KISS Meets the Phantom in the Park (1978) Gordon Hessler (1/10) (Badmovies:26 to go)



Turdtastic!!

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366 Weird Movies (15 to go):
1. Final Flesh (2009) Ike Sanders (1/10)

Badmovies (26 to go)
2. KISS Meets the Phantom in the Park (1978) Gordon Hessler (1/10)

[Pretentious Hipster]

I'll join and I'll get the silver for iCheckMovies - Most Favorite. I need at least a day off to recover from the comedy list.

[Kasparius]

I'll join and I'll get the silver for iCheckMovies - Most Favorite. I need at least a day off to recover from the comedy list.

Stop doing silly lists!!

[Pretentious Hipster]

I'll join and I'll get the silver for iCheckMovies - Most Favorite. I need at least a day off to recover from the comedy list.

Stop doing silly lists!!

It's only 3 films and this time I'll only do ones that actually look good (Random Harvest, Oslo, 31. august, and O Bandido da Luz Vermelha) rather than just the highest ranking ones.

[brokenface]

I'll join and I'll get the silver for iCheckMovies - Most Favorite. I need at least a day off to recover from the comedy list.

Stop doing silly lists!!

says the guy who just watched KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park to make progress on the badmovies list

[AdamH]

I'll join and I'll get the silver for iCheckMovies - Most Favorite. I need at least a day off to recover from the comedy list.

Stop doing silly lists!!

says the guy who just watched KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park to make progress on the badmovies list

Still beats Munnabhai M.B.B.S. and Hababam Sinifi!

[Kasparius]

Stop doing silly lists!!

says the guy who just watched KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park to make progress on the badmovies list

Still beats Munnabhai M.B.B.S. and Hababam Sinifi!

Well now I have Rock 'n' Roll All Night stuck in my head for 10 days...

I love so bad it's good stuff. Some of it was highly laughable and it was not pretentious.

[Pretentious Hipster]

That list doesn't have Deadly Prey so it loses my respect.

[Kasparius]

That list doesn't have Deadly Prey so it loses my respect.

Well, it might just be an omission...

[Kasparius]

3. Beast from Haunted Cave (1959) Monte Hellman (5/10) (Badmovies 25 to go)

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366 Weird Movies (15 to go):
1. Final Flesh (2009) Ike Sanders (1/10)

Badmovies (26 to go)
2. KISS Meets the Phantom in the Park (1978) Gordon Hessler (1/10)
3. Beast from Haunted Cave (1959) Monte Hellman (5/10)

[AdamH]

Was it decided that there will be no "Going for Gold" challenge?

[Kasparius]

Well it was a mild decision, I would be happy to do a There's Gold in them there hills!!! Challenge.

[Kasparius]

4. Santa Claus (1959) René Cardona (1/10) (Badmovies 24 to go)

Putrid.

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366 Weird Movies (15 to go):
1. Final Flesh (2009) Ike Sanders (1/10)

Badmovies (26 to go)
2. KISS Meets the Phantom in the Park (1978) Gordon Hessler (1/10)
3. Beast from Haunted Cave (1959) Monte Hellman (5/10)
4. Santa Claus (1959) René Cardona (1/10)

[AdamH]

Academy Award Best Foreign Pictures-3 to go

1. La vie devant soi (1977)
2. La diagonale du fou (1984)

I've now seen eight out of the ten least checked films on the list. Aiming for the other two next (Monsieur Vincent and Preparez vos mouchoirs).

[Kasparius]

Préparez is damn good!

[Kasparius]

5. The Accused (1949) William Dieterle (5/10) (250 Noirs (25 to silver)

This was a very mediocre noir, the voice over scenes were highly unnecessary, the psychological naiveté was off the charts and the plot about as unbelievable as it gets. The film was made more palatable by the ever fantastic Wendell Corey and the delightfully quirky Sam Jaffe who I had just seen be remarkably great en Français in Clouzot's fantastic Les espions.

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366 Weird Movies (15 to go):
1. Final Flesh (2009) Ike Sanders (1/10)

Badmovies (26 to go)
2. KISS Meets the Phantom in the Park (1978) Gordon Hessler (1/10)
3. Beast from Haunted Cave (1959) Monte Hellman (5/10)
4. Santa Claus (1959) René Cardona (1/10)

250 Quintessential Noir Films (25 to go)
5. The Accused (1949) William Dieterle (6/10)

[HVM]

2. Gojira (1954) 6/10
3. Tetsuo (1989) 7/10
4. Moon (2009) 7/10

First down.

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1. This Island Earth (1955) 6/10
2. Gojira (1954) 6/10
3. Tetsuo (1989) 7/10
4. Moon (2009) 7/10

[AdamH]

Academy Award Best Foreign Pictures-2 to go

3. Monsieur Vincent (1947)

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1. La vie devant soi (1977)
2. La diagonale du fou (1984)

[3eyes]

Rules:
- You can't work on a list once you get silver
- Same as the other challenges for length, etc...
- Unofficial lists are fine.

What do you mean by this first rule? You can't use the list in the "Finish 'em off" Challenge, once you've used it here?

No I meant once you get silver you can't work on it here.

Took the rule down, it's sort of assumed by the challenge.

ICM seems to want us to watch x%+1 in order to get an award (what happens when we get to 100%?) -- so I guess we either have to watch an extra one or (gasp!) use our common sense.
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al-Mummia (Egypt 69) - thanks to whoever put me onto Pegleg. Not your slam-bang actioner; I loved it.

Harvard narrative silver, 2 to go.

[jeroeno]

Quentin Tarantino's Coolest Movies of All Time

10 to go :

01. Willard (1971) ***
02. The Driver (1978) *** 1/2
03. Magnificent Obsession (1954) ** 1/2

[Gershwin]

I'll join this challenge too, and the first weeks, I'll be working on these four lists:

The Top 100 Silent Era Films (75/101, 1 to go)
A.V. Club - The Best Films of the '00s (35/50, 3 to go)
Roger Ebert: The Great Movies (303/408, 3 to go)
Top 100 Spiritually Significant Films (73/104, 5 to go)

Feel free to give me recommendations!

[AdamH]

Academy Award Best Foreign Pictures-1 to go

4. Ieri, oggi, domani (1963)

My fourth De Sica film and this one ranks a distant fourth. Love Bicycle Thieves, Umberto D and Sciuscia.

One left for silver. Aiming to complete the list ASAP.

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1. La vie devant soi (1977)
2. La diagonale du fou (1984)
3. Monsieur Vincent (1947)

[AdamH]

Academy Award Best Foreign Pictures-Silver award

5. Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto/Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)

I thought this was one of the better ones.

Onto the gold/platinum award for this list.

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1. La vie devant soi (1977)
2. La diagonale du fou (1984)
3. Monsieur Vincent (1947)
4. Ieri, oggi, domani (1963)

[Kasparius]

Ok I decided to make a Gold challenge because for the big list the difference between gold and Plat are some 100+ titles, so it will keep things cleaner and more rewarding.

[AdamH]

Ok I decided to make a Gold challenge because for the big list the difference between gold and Plat are some 100+ titles, so it will keep things cleaner and more rewarding.

When moving to gold, do I keep my count from the silver challenge since it is the same list?

[Kasparius]

Ok I decided to make a Gold challenge because for the big list the difference between gold and Plat are some 100+ titles, so it will keep things cleaner and more rewarding.

When moving to gold, do I keep my count from the silver challenge since it is the same list?

Nice try

Different challenge, dear sir.

[AdamH]

Ok I decided to make a Gold challenge because for the big list the difference between gold and Plat are some 100+ titles, so it will keep things cleaner and more rewarding.

When moving to gold, do I keep my count from the silver challenge since it is the same list?

Nice try

Different challenge, dear sir.

My intention was always to for platinum but nice to have smaller targets first.

Ah well, who cares as long as I finish it. Still got the 7-hour epic War and Peace left.

[Kasparius]

You should read the 70 hour epic book first.