The Culture Cup round 7

Two rounds of the Culture Cup in one week.  I don't usually do anything twice a week so count yourself lucky.  Round 7 brings the poll for 'Best film released in the decade of your birth'.  Before we move on to that, lets round up the results from round 6 and 'Best song with 3 or more words in the title'.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Galted walked away from this round with full points having gone for the shamelessly populist Joy Division pick.  Interestingly, the name Joy Division comes from a sinister background.  Nazi officers used the term to describe young Jewish girls imprisoned at Auschwitz who were forced into the camp brothel and told to 'smile' and 'look happy' by the German officers who subsequently christened them the 'Joy Division'.  I think if you extrapolate it out in a fair and transparent fashion, Galted is probably a Nazi.  Anyway, we digress.  Our two fronts runners, compelling & rich and Hero both picked up 10 points, keeping them just clear at the top of the table.  Decent points hauls for seanmichaels, Adam, Azzy and TopHat keep them in the running.  How TopHat got any points with Bryan Adams, I will never know.

Jeff and superfly keep up their battle for supremacy over each other, with both picking up 7 points and remaining neck and neck in the league.  It says a lot about that pair that they are rooted in mid-table whilst battling each other.  Some people are just destined for mediocrity.  The biggest loser this week was jbeadlesbigrighthand who finished with no votes after the second batch of vote rigging from some lone moron.  If beadle had just kept his one vote, he would have had 3 points and be level with Union.  As it is, he is rock bottom.

Hero (Sitting on the Dock of the Bay): (10) 56
compelling & rich (Don't Look Back in Anger): (10) 52
seanmichaels (The Tracks of my Tears): (7) 45
Adam (A Whiter Shade of Pale): (7) 44
Galted (Love will Tear us Apart): (12) 42
Azzy (Sweet Child of Mine): (7) 40
TopHat (Everything I do): (7) 40
The Womble (There is a light that never goes out): (6) 37
onlytreblewinners (Everytime we Touch): (4) 36
Rowley (I Am the Resurrection): (7) 36
superflyweight (Sympathy for the Devil): (7) 36
bhb (Like a Rolling Stone): (10) 35
Dolphin (You and Me song): (5) 31
The Boss (Ain't no Mountain High Enough): (4) 30
Julius (Bridge over Troubled Water): (8) 30
ChequeredJersey (Hit the Road, Jack): (3) 27
Union (Field of Dreams): (7) 26
jbeadlesbigrighthand: (0) 23

The next round is back to TV and this time I am looking for 'The best ever documentary'. Wide open choice and assuming everyone has seen a documentary, it should be a even field.  If you haven't ever seen a documentary, I suggest you just google a few and then lie. As ever, please PM a couple of choices.

After the second installment of 'votegate' I have had to make some changes this round.  You will only be able to vote for one film and won't be allowed to cancel it either so choose carefully and get it right first time.  It will reduce the volume of votes but will stop them disappearing randomly.  You can all thank the feckless little cretin who messed around for the last 2 rounds for the changes.  Hopefully his mum will catch him with his sticky little fingers on the family PC and tell him off.

To avoid any confusion (Union) you can vote for any film, it doesn't have to be from your decade, that was only for the participants.

Remember the poll is open for the whole forum to vote!

Pretty easy choice for me this round.

The Life of Brian consumes a huge part of my working week as the whole office spends most of the day quoting bits from it. Never gets old, never loses its humour and if the silly UFO part wasn’t in it, it would be the best film ever. It is just so funny and stands up to repeated watching more than any other film in my collection.

I would have loved to have voted for The Wombles choice for sheer comedy value but alas, it has just missed out. Jaws, Godfather II, Cuckoos nest, Pulp Fiction, Cool Hand Luke all deserve a mention as well.

Shawshank Redemption and Scarface are 2 of my favourite films so they get my vote. Felt bad leaving out Die Hard and Lethal Weapon though...

Supergirl? WTF??

Oops didnt realise you could only vote one. Looks like my vote went to Scarface which is about right anyway.

i think i voted twice. went for star wars first and lethal weapon second so my vote probably went to Lethal Weapon which in my opinion is probably the weakest of the 4.

Shot 21 LCFC wrote:Oops didnt realise you could only vote one. Looks like my vote went to Scarface which is about right anyway.

Aww come on!

I went for Halloween and Jaws as they are both the pinnacle of their respective genres (slasher and shark films).

They are also films I can watch over and over again

Adam D wrote:I went for Halloween and Jaws as they are both the pinnacle of their respective genres (slasher and shark films).

They are also films I can watch over and over again

You must be vote rigging then as multiples aren't allowed.

I also tried voting for two so either Jaws or One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is a vote richer because of me.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Adam D wrote:I went for Halloween and Jaws as they are both the pinnacle of their respective genres (slasher and shark films).

They are also films I can watch over and over again

You must be vote rigging then as multiples aren't allowed.

Fairly sure I accidentally voted for two as well. No idea which, if either, counted.

I think my suggestion of sending in your answers on a postcard would have been better.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:Perhaps unsurprisingly, Galted walked away from this round with full points having gone for the shamelessly populist Joy Division pick.  Interestingly, the name Joy Division comes from a sinister background.  Nazi officers used the term to describe young Jewish girls imprisoned at Auschwitz who were forced into the camp brothel and told to 'smile' and 'look happy' by the German officers who subsequently christened them the 'Joy Division'.  I think if you extrapolate it out in a fair and transparent fashion, Galted is probably a Nazi.  

Odd, I always thought I'd be caught out because of the swastika on my Gore-Tex jacket, Hi-Tec jackboots, the Panzer I keep in the garden and the hand signal I use to stop buses.  Who would've thought it would be by naming the first song with three or more words in the title - Simon Wiesenthal should've recruited you, Tino.

Galted wrote:Simon Wiesenthal should've recruited you, Tino.

How do you know he hasn't, Herr Galted.

JAWS is a beauty. Is 'smile ya son of a bitch' 1 or 2?

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Galted wrote:Simon Wiesenthal should've recruited you, Tino.

How do you know he hasn't, Herr Galted.

I vould haff gotten avay mit it if it vasn't for you, you pesky MILF und Nazi hunter.

seanmichaels wrote:JAWS is a beauty. Is 'smile ya son of a bitch' 1 or 2?

Its in Jaws and Jaws:The Revenge

One being the pinnacle of films, the other directed by Spielberg

seanmichaels wrote:JAWS is a beauty. Is 'smile ya son of a bitch' 1 or 2?

1

Godfather II is comfortably the best film on that list and I've voted for it despite the very good chance that it is jeff's pick. I trust that jeff will return the favour and vote for Supergirl.

Galted wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Galted wrote:Simon Wiesenthal should've recruited you, Tino.

How do you know he hasn't, Herr Galted.

I vould haff gotten avay mit it if it vasn't for you, you pesky MILF und Nazi hunter.

 

Adam D wrote:

seanmichaels wrote:JAWS is a beauty. Is 'smile ya son of a bitch' 1 or 2?

Its in Jaws and Jaws:The Revenge

One being the pinnacle of films, the other directed by Spielberg

Is it in both? I never knew that. You live and learn.

seanmichaels wrote:Is 'smile ya son of a bitch' 1 or 2?

Neither, that was my dad trying to get me to pose for a photo on my fourth birthday.

Apart from Brody's missus, and the woman who's son got eaten, I do find the women in Jaws very attractive.

seanmichaels wrote:Apart from Brody's missus, and the woman who's son got eaten, I do find the women in Jaws very attractive.

Yep, wouldn't have minded being the one to discover the corpse of the first victim when it washed up.

I like the old dear whose husband gets forced into the water by the Mayor. In a few years she will be perfect.

onlytreblewinners wrote:

Shot 21 LCFC wrote:Oops didnt realise you could only vote one. Looks like my vote went to Scarface which is about right anyway.

Aww come on!

Sorry mate. I sent through both votes at the same time so its pure luck. Shawshank Redemption is a brilliant film though!

Voted for Raiders - of all of those, it's the film I most enjoy watching over again. Lots of great films in the list.

Oddly, although mine will not get any votes, I actually think it stands up well against most of the entries.

My pick is the second best film on that list but will not get a single vote.

superflyweight wrote:My pick is the second best film on that list but will not get a single vote.  

It's not. And you're correct.

superflyweight wrote:My pick is the second best film on that list but will not get a single vote.  

super-flyweight -> super-girl?

Lethal Weapon > Die Hard ?

Shawshank for me......

Who's young enough to have pulp fiction?!

ChequeredJersey wrote:Who's young enough to have pulp fiction?!

It was 1994. I guess Dolphin if he's still a tax dodger.

jbeadlesbigrighthand wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Adam D wrote:I went for Halloween and Jaws as they are both the pinnacle of their respective genres (slasher and shark films).

They are also films I can watch over and over again

You must be vote rigging then as multiples aren't allowed.

Fairly sure I accidentally voted for two as well. No idea which, if either, counted.

Me too, not sure which was taken but Star Wars and Life of Brian got ticks. Like music polls with the Roses in I can't not vote for a Star Wars episode if one appears (obvs not the later made ones though). Empire is my favourite of them and Life of Brian is, well, still simply brilliant.

Poll appears before instructions so like a dumb teenager not reading the exam quetions before starting I just waded in. A bit like this post before reading the others tbh.

Yes I have a vote!! And it's not my own. To be honest thought it might have walked this round, it's clearly a classic and is way better than anything else on this list.

Voted for Jaws though as its my 2nd favourite film ever.

My film has a vote! Well done someone. I await it's eventual disappearance.

JuliusHMarx wrote:I await it's eventual disappearance.

 

I hate you, Julius. Although that was quite witty.

I'm excited about my round 8 pick. Can you let me if I got it?

I'm quite pleased i'm currently one of the more culturaler people on 606v2.

seanmichaels wrote:I'm  excited about my round 8 pick. Can you let me if I got it?

Yeah you can have it, its a documentary after all.

get in - motor racing > anthropods

You do realise there are no actual prizes for winning, don't you?

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:You do realise there are no actual prizes for winning, don't you?

I didn't no...... Regardless, I'm sure if there is any danger of me winning Union will find a way to rig it again.

As will I.

I'd have more faith in Union being able to pull of something clever.

seanmichaels wrote:I'd have more faith in Union being able to pull of something clever.

What, like Stephen Fry?

My documentary list is mainly sport based, got a feeling im abit late though so reckon wont get first couple of choices at least

compelling and rich wrote:My documentary list is mainly sport based, got a feeling im abit late though so reckon wont get first couple of choices at least

Nope, you're in with your first choice.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

compelling and rich wrote:My documentary list is mainly sport based, got a feeling im abit late though so reckon wont get first couple of choices at least

Nope, you're in with your first choice.

Good stuff, happy with that

If someone puts Tupac Resurrection in there then they will have my vote guaranteed...