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0:04:07 ROUND 1 What classic director would have the best career in Hollywood today?
0:17:02 ROUND 2 Best pre 1980 animated movie of all time?
0:27:06 ROUND 3 Best song-and-dance number from any musical?
0:40:04 ROUND 4 What classic movie remains most relevant in 2016?
0:53:32 ROUND 5 What’s the all-time best decade for movies?
1:04:40 SPEED ROUND

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  1. The 1940's is my favorite decade. As show below why.

    1940- The Philadelphia Story, The Great Dictator, Rebecca
    1941- Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Maltese Falcon, Citizen Kane, Sullivan's Travels
    1942- Casablanca, Yankee Doddle Dandy
    1943 – Shadow Of A Doubt
    1944 – Gaslight, Laura Double Indemnity
    1945 – Spellbound, Mildred Pierce
    1946 – Notorious, Humoresque, The Best Years Of Our Lives
    1947 – Possessed
    1948 – Rope, The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
    1949 – All The Kings Men, The Third Man

  2. COMMENT FIGHTS

    Classic Director today: Sergio Leone
    Best Pre-80’s Animation: 101 Dalmatians
    Best Song and Dance Number: Man of Constant Sorrow, O’ Brother Where Art Thou (not entirely a dance number, but it is choreographed)
    Most Relevant Classic: Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
    Best Movie Decade: 70’s (if I lost coin toss) the 90’s

  3. My answers

    Question 1 – Frank Capra. Wonderful movies that take you from despair to euphoria with laughter and tears. Great morality tales.

    Question 2. – Victory through Air Power. Disney gets serious with air combat training films and that end scene is heartwarming.

    Question 3 – agreeing with Leonard. Fred & Ginger 'pick yourself up'. It's a wonderful scene made even better when Helen Broderick and Victor Moore tries the same thing afterwards….and fails.

    Question 4 – 12 Angry Men – whilst tastes and styles change, the American Judicial system and people's prejudices have remained the same for decades. Still relevant today. A voice of reason trying to cut through all the assumptions, falsehoods and bigotry.

    Question 5 – 1930's. The talkie genre was new, stars like Cagney, Gable, Bogie, Cooper, Astaire and Grant. 1938 & 1939 produced more movies now considered classics than at any other time.

  4. Why in the hell are we all supposed to worship at the shrine of Singin in the Rain? OK, it's very popular. I consider the song mediocre, and have never been able to sit through the movie.

  5. fired for not fighting during the speed round? Roth you should be fired for not fighting at all. the whole time. and Alicia I hope is band for judging any form of movie fights least she take hard core notes from watching Andy. Sasha also needs to rethink her fighting strategy.

  6. Alicia Malone may know how to fight movie fights but she hardly knows how to jude one. she needs to go and watch some fights and take serious notes on what Andy does. Also having two fighters with a major boner for the guest fighter makes for a lame fight.

  7. Leonard is great gotta love his Deep knowledge and passion for film but I felt like Sasha and Roth argumented better their choices. Roth should have won! Her argument for the 50's being the best era was stellar.

  8. Network was an unexpected choice but it fits so damn well. Every protest or riot I see reminds me of that scene where one of the characters opens their window and hears everyone hollering "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" Chilling stuff.

  9. I liked the 'classic' theme of this episode, but it wasn't movie FIGHTS, rather movie cirlcejerk. I love Alicia Malone, but she is too nice to be a judge, Signore can make the figthers actually fight. I'm a little disappointed.

  10. I love the black and white effect. I'm personally not as keen on the question screen though (the graphic that displays each question – the font is maybe a bit boring).
    Also, you forgot the fight sequence intro.

    Best song-and-dance number from any musical?

    – The only "classic" musicals I've seen are 'Oliver Twist' (a number of versions) and 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' but I'm going to go with the song 'You Can't Stop The Beat' from 'Hairspray' because it's just so feel-good and everything comes together through the duration of that song.

    Best pre 1980 animated movie of all time?

    – I'm partial to the original, 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'.

    What’s the all-time best decade for movies?

    – I'm a particular fan of the 1980's.
    'E.T.', 'The Goonies', 'Ghostbusters', 'The Empire Strikes Back', 'Raiders of the Lost Ark', 'Gremlins', 'Blade Runner' (which I find really dull but it's great artistically), 'Aliens', 'The Thing', 'Back to the Future', 'The Neverending Story', 'The Terminator', 'Beetlejuice', 'Batman', 'A Nightmare on Elm Street'… Okay, let's face it, you could list the great films of any decade. As a big science fiction and horror fan though, I do feel drawn to the 1980's from its music to its effects. I can list some films that I love from the 1970's that have a similar feel but I tend to find more films from that period too dated unfortunately.

    When thinking about this in relation to sci-fi, I want to also bring up the 1960's but in terms of television purely because it brought us 'Doctor Who', 'Star Trek' and 'Thunderbirds'. Given that I think they're all I've seen of that era, I won't call it my favourite but still very worthy of note. Also 'The Twilight Zone' actually which I haven't seen but it's led to numerous imitators (I say presuming it's the first).

    What is the best film noir?

    – Having only seen 'The Maltese Falcon' and 'Double Indemnity' (not including neo-noir), I am definitely going to go with 'Double Indemnity'.

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