Well, with all of the publicity the LCA Cup has had in recent days, I expect plenty of votes this round :D All vote for your favourite, and the one whose film has come last on Saturday evening, will miss out on the final :)

Film 1 - Forrest Gump



Film 2 - Schindler's List



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3jL8isRvpU

Film 3 - The Deer Hunter



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5ENPlaowMQ

There's only one there that I would've personally chosen, so I shall be voting for it :D

Ooh, tough one. I haven't seen Schindler's List, but I've heard such good things about it. I think it may be the best of the lot, but it's hard to vote for a film I haven't actually seen. I have seen the other two, and they're both good films . . . Oh, the pressure. roflmao

Forrest Gump :o

I highly recommend Schindler's List if you haven't seen it yet :ok:

Forrest Gump was a good film. It may appeal more to an American audience, though, as there are a lot of references in there that someone not particularly familiar with American history and culture might miss.

Was I allowet to vote? I see this is round five of something (what???), which has escaped my notice until now.

I voted for Schindler's List - great film, one of Spielberg's best, and he has made some great ones.

Deer Hunter: prety good, too, but definitely second, and then nothing, and then Forrest Gump in fourth :D

Yes, the whole board can take part in this vote scolios :)

Thanks, Dav :D

Hey Dav, dont want to be difficult but i really dont like any of those films. Should i abstain from voting or toss a coin? :(

i'm not a very big tom hanks fan in all honesty - so he annoyed me more than the film.....plus, it was up against Pulp Fiction and Shawshank Redemption for best picture.... :shrug:

Looks like we're all backing Schindlers..

you're such a liar liam - of course you want to be difficult :P

Have you watched them all Liam? As if you have and still wouldn't vote for any then I would abstain personally :)

Whatever you like Liam :D Voting is not compulsory ;)

Yeah, I think I mentioned on another thread that I would have picked Shawshank Redemption that year. But I still think Forrest Gump was a good film, with a lot of clever historical references. One that probably even most international viewers would have caught was when he was in Washington (in the Watergate Hotel) to visit the White House with his winning football team, he called to report something going on in an office across the way. But there were little things like that all through the movie.

but if i dont vote, i cant see whos winning? :rolleyes:

You can as a guest ;)

Well, you could vote for the one that you least disliked. :shrug:

I wanted to pick The Sound of Music or Casablamca, but I see how few people on here like that kind of thing. One of my favourites on the OScars list was Godfather Part 2, but I doubted that would do well after GF part1 flopped. roflmao I expected someone to pick Slience of the Lambs, I hate it but thought it would be popular.

So is anyone else a fan of Amadeus, or is it just me?

My favourite Oscar Winners are Gone with the Wind and Casablanca, I would've voted for either of those :D

ok, ive voted deer hunter because i cant stick tom hanks :P

You could click on 'See Results' :P

Not seen Amadeus Nick, heard great things about it though :)

My fave is ROTK ;) :D

Oh I forgot that won the Oscar :doh:

That is my first favourite :D

i would have voted sound of music, thats one of my fave ever films

Now you tell me! roflmao

I have NEVER seen GWTW I must confess. I may enjoy it, not sure. It's so camp and stilted when when Gable says "frankly my dear don;t give a damn"! roflmao

Two epics I think are on the list -

Lawrence of Arabia and Ben Hur. I LOVE those old epics. :D I've got Spartacus and Cleopatra saved up to watch one afternoon.

Oh I LOVE it. :D Julie Andrews :bow: :bow: :bow: How great to have such a talented musicals singer and actress from England. I love the Goatherd bit, and the hilarious Von Trapp family concert where they sing adieu, adieu to you and you and you! Nuns and Nazis - what a film! roflmao

:bow: to all those films, Spartacus especially :D

I nearly picked Amadeus as my film Nick - absolutely love it. I wrote about Amadeus and Equus and Royal Hunt of the Sun - Peter Shaffer - for my A' level long essay - the one piece of work I truly enjoyed and earnt me my best mark ever - oh, and prompted my english teacher to ask me if I knew what plagiarism was as he didnt believe I had done the work myself!

thats why my mate got me tickets to go and see Equus last Saturday - and truly remarkable it was too. :)

Yes it is great isn't it? :D I forget now but is it Charlton Heston? My mum used to fancy him and then she met him when he visted her cinema to promote Planet of the Apes = another film I love but could not use. That was my Sci Fi choice. :)

Charlton Heston in Ben Hur, Kirk Douglas in Spartacus :D Douglas actually drove the production on that film, he made it to rival Ben Hur as he was pissed off he didn't get Heston's role roflmao

I remember you saying you liked Planets of the Apes, I think it's an amazing film, but it's surprising how many people don't rate it up there with the greats, I find.

Oh yes! It's so long since I saw either that I mix up the actors! I thought Apes was quite well revered as a film, at least most of my friends seem to love it. It deserves a prize for best ending in a movie if you ask me - you really don't realise you are on Earth until the Liberty Statue appears on the beach and how shocking is that? GREAT film. :bow: :bow: :bow:

Well yes it is revered, but I find people don't always give it as much credit as say Dances With Wolves for a random example...simply because it's sci-fi. But yes generally everyone seems to like it :)

I've never seen Dances with Wolves. My mum said it was great, she used to fancy Kevin Costner until she heard him open his mouth and thought he was an air head! roflmao

I really liked Amadeus - watched it in music class a long time ago. Dunno that i would have picked it as my favourite oscar winning film mind you.....

Terrific film, Amadeus, with wonderful music. Great intro, actually, to classical music and opera.

Awfully hard to decide what one's favourite Oscar-winning film is :yikes: GWTW is a film I watch at 15 year intervals with a box of chocolates and a box of tissues. Casablanca a much better film IMO. Can watch that every year :D

I think one of the reasons I loved it so much and nearly picked it, is just because how much I had to think about it when doing it for my essay. It was all about old gods versus new gods in those plays I mentioned - and I just found the whole thing very powerful as a result.

I would love to see it on stage - especially after going to see Equus - took my breath away.

I'd really like to see Amadeus but I've never managed to catch it on TV. Sounds good. :)