Thank you for the numbers and the kind words GF80, it's good to be back, I don't think my bank balance or my waistline could have took any longer!

Game 5, a new record for the longest game in Tekel Towers history, saw a big win for Big, and a shock exit for all the Star Wars geeks out there (I am crying on the inside) with The Empire Strikes Back striking out. Also a fond farewell to Das Boot, which I can't recommend highly enough, Auf Wiedersehen pet. 

Round 2/Game 6

The dead know only one thing: it is better to be alive
Released: 1987
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Domestic Box Office: $46'357'676
Trivia: The production schedule for the film was so drawn-out that lead actor Matthew Modine (Joker) got married, conceived a child with his wife, the child was born, and then turned 1 year old...all during the course of filming.




The only thing in this world that gives orders...is balls
Released: 1983
Director: Brian De Palma
Domestic Box Office: $44'700'000
Trivia: Oliver Stone wrote this film while fighting a cocaine habit.




Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads
Released: 1985
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Domestic Box Office: $197'902'294
Trivia: Eric Stoltz was originally cast as Marty McFly and completed 5 weeks of filming. Director Robert Zemeckis and Producers Bob Gale and Steven Spielberg felt that Stoltz didn't capture what they had in mind for Marty, and felt things were not working out, and released him from the movie with his full contract paid. Casting Michael J. Fox and reshooting all Stoltz's scenes added another $3 million dollars to the budget. The only scene left in the movie of Eric as Marty McFly, is the scene when Doc Brown is shot by the Iranians, and Marty leaps into the DeLorean.




VOTING CLOSES TUESDAY (21st of July) AT 9AM
Movies through Round 1-                        Movies eliminated from Round 1- 
1: Die Hard                                               1: Short Circuit
2: Das Boot                                               2: Predator 
3: Scarface                                                3: The Princess Bride
4: The Shining                                          4: This is Spinal Tap!
5: Uncle Buck                                           5: Gregory’s Girl
6: Highlander                                            6: Road House
7: Big                                                        7: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
8: The Running Man                                8 : Platoon
9: E.T The Extra-Terrestrial                     9: 48 Hours
10: Police Academy                                 10: Rocky III
11: The Empire Strikes Back                   11: Top Gun
12: The Blues Brothers                            12: Three Amigos!
13: Beetlejuice                                         13: The Karate Kid
14: Aliens                                                 14: Rain Man
15: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure      15: Gremlins
16: The Untouchables                              16: Friday the 13th
17: Trading Places                                   17: Batman
18: Young Guns                                       18: Lethal Weapon
19: Planes, Trains & Automobiles           19: Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan
20: Ghostbusters                                      20: The Thing
21: Back to the Future                             21: The Lost Boys
22: First Blood                                         22: Tron
23: Full Metal Jacket                               23: Raging Bull
24: Airplane!                                            24: Robocop
25: The Naked Gun                                 25: Coming To America
26: Raiders of the Lost Ark                     26: The Terminator
27: Beverly Hills Cop                              27: Poltergeist
28: National Lampoons Vacation            28: Nightmare on Elm Street
29: The Goonies                                      29: Blade Runner
30: Stand By Me                                     30: Evil Dead II 

Movies through Round 2-                       Movies eliminated from Round 2-           
1: Planes, Trains & Automobiles            1police Academy
2: Die Hard                                             2: Stand By Me
3: The Goonies                                       3: Raiders of the Lost Ark
4: Airplane!                                             4: The Blues Brothers
5: Big                                                      5: Highlander                                                                
                                                               6: First Blood                                                                
                                                               7: The Untouchables                                                                
                                                               8: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial                                                                
                                                               9: The Empire Strikes Back                                                               
                                                              10: Das Boot

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