Tekel Towers » Tek Towers 'Ultimate 80's Movie'

Sieb22 · 25/6/2015 9:18 am

Thank you for the very apt numbers doontheroadarab

Game 11 had the early bookie's favourite, Back to the Future trounce the competition and hit 88mph to go straight through to the next round. Joining Doc and Marty is John Rambo who will live on, unseeded that is, into the next round. The Lost boys were well and truly lost and Tron's floppy disc crashed, we wish everyone well in their future endevours.

Round 1/Game 12

Dead or alive, you're coming with me!
Released: 1987
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Domestic Box Office: $53'424'681
Trivia: Special effects guru Phil Tippett was in charge of all the ED-209 sequences in the movie. Infamously he was also credited for his work in Jurassic Park as 'Dinosaur Supervisor', with some fans blaming him for not doing his job properly, due to the dinosaurs escaping and eating everyone. Phil was then 'demoted' for his recent work on Jurassic World and is now credited as 'Dinosaur Consultant'.

I bet you're the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around. I'll be watching you
Released: 1987
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Domestic Box Office: $46'357'676
Trivia: R.Lee Ermy a former marine and Vietnam veteran was hired as a technical advisor for the actor who was to play the role of the drill instructor, but he did such a good job at it that Ermy himself was hired for the part and most of his lines were improvised.

You didn't get me down, Ray
Released: 1980
Director: Martin Scorsese
Domestic Box Office: $23'383'987
Trivia: Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci are really punching each other in the famous "hit me" scene.

Joey, do you ever...hang around the gymnasium
Released: 1980
Directors: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker
Domestic Box Office: $83'400'000
Trivia: Airline company Aeromexico was the only airline company to buy the film for their in-flight entertainment.

VOTING CLOSES TOMORROW (Friday 26th June) AT 9PM

Movies eliminated from Round 1-
1: Short Circuit
2: Predator
3: The Princess Bride
4: This is Spinal Tap!
5: Gregory's Girl
6: Road House
7: Ferris Bueller's Day Off
8: Platoon
9: 48 Hours
10: Rocky III
11: Top Gun
12: Three Amigos!
13: The Karate Kid
14: Rain Man
15: Gremlins
16: Friday the 13th
17: Batman
18: Lethal Weapon
19: Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan
20: The Thing
21: The Lost Boys
22: Tron

Movies through Round 1-
1: Die Hard (S)
2: Das Boot
3: Scarface (S)
4: The Shining
5: Uncle Buck (S)
6: Highlander
7: Big (S)
8: The Running Man
9: E.T The Extra-Terrestrial (S)
10: Police Academy
11: The Empire Strikes Back (S)
12: The Blues Brothers
13: Beetlejuice (S)
14: Aliens
15: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (S)
16: The Untouchables
17: Trading Places (S)
18: Young Guns
19: Planes, Trains & Automobiles (S)
20: Ghostbusters
21: Back to the Future (S)
22: First Blood

Macho Man · 25/6/2015 9:31 am

Ragin Bull, I found it dull and slow paced, if I'm honest.

Robocop - good film, I wanted an Ed209.

Airplane, I could quote that film til the cows come home and still laugh at it everytime I see it.

Full Metal Jacket is a tremendous film, no if buts or maybe's.

I vote for Full Metal Jaikit!!

arabchanter · 25/6/2015 10:57 am

Robocop not to fussed, the other 3 are the hardest choice so far but going to go for Airplane as it still makes me laugh even though I've seen it countless times

Sieb22 · 25/6/2015 11:13 am

Just to say real quick, I do the main part of the competition on a desktop computer and have no control of the size (fnar, fnar) of the posters or images, it's not a representation of what movie I want to go through, I would do that on the comments further down when I'm voting with everyone else. Everything is above board, some images look smaller/bigger on my phone to that on my tablet and desktop so I apologise in advance if it looks a bit messed up but I'm trying to make it look as decent as possible. It takes me about 30-40mins for each game, getting the images, gifs and other info, this morning was a real bitch due to slow 't'internet connection and took over an hour, thought I lost it all when I finished it, was ready to do a De Niro in Raging Bull!

european_bob · 25/6/2015 11:21 am

"You had best unfuck yourself or I will unscrew your head and shit down your neck!"

SIR, FULL METAL JACKET, SIR!

Sieb22 · 25/6/2015 11:25 am

As for Raging Bull, I thought it was just ok.

Full Metal Jacket feels like two movies in one, the training part then in combat in Vietnam. The first half when they are in training is absolutely electric and fascinating, rate it very highly, but then it really sags and doesn't hit the same heights when they are in Vietnam. Shout out to Kubrick and his team for filming the entire movie in England and make it look like Vietnam!

Robocop is absurd, silly, gross, over the top and everything else that made 80's movies great! Robocop!

But my vote goes to possibly the funniest movie I have ever seen Airplane! One of the most difficult parts of doing this competition was actually trying to find just one quote to use before the movie poster, too many to choose from. So many classic scenes, it's my sort of silly humour, but it's not for everyone. It tickles me that Aeromexico did buy it to show on there airplanes for in-flight entertainment, would have loved to see the passengers reactions!

Hamiltonarab · 25/6/2015 11:32 am

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: How tall are you, private?Private Cowboy: Sir, five-foot-nine, sir.Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Five-foot-nine, I didn't know they stacked shit that high!

Full Metal Jacket. Think I first watched it when I was about 11 and was the first serious/non-blockbuster film I had really seen and made me realise I could watch proper real films.

Hamiltonarab · 25/6/2015 11:34 am

Sieb22 wrote:
Just to say real quick, I do the main part of the competition on a desktop computer and have no control of the size (fnar, fnar) of the posters or images, it's not a representation of what movie I want to go through, I would do that on the comments further down when I'm voting with everyone else. Everything is above board, some images look smaller/bigger on my phone to that on my tablet and desktop so I apologise in advance if it looks a bit messed up but I'm trying to make it look as decent as possible. It takes me about 30-40mins for each game, getting the images, gifs and other info, this morning was a real bitch due to slow 't'internet connection and took over an hour, thought I lost it all when I finished it, was ready to do a De Niro in Raging Bull!

You expect us to accept that?! Just unfucking-acceptable!

I can't say I have even noticed. Good job so far.

Hamiltonarab · 25/6/2015 11:37 am

Sieb22 wrote:
Full Metal Jacket feels like two movies in one, the training part then in combat in Vietnam. The first half when they are in training is absolutely electric and fascinating, rate it very highly, but then it really sags and doesn't hit the same heights when they are in Vietnam. Shout out to Kubrick and his team for filming the entire movie in England and make it look like Vietnam!

I meant to actually mention this to. Definitely felt like that to me as well and still does. Some how not quite as dark and sinister when they are actually at war in the middle of it in Vietnam. Mental.

Foo Kin Twat · 25/6/2015 11:52 am

Quite a diverse spectrum there Siebby!

Have to agree with all the sentiments above, so Airplane gets my vote, but it was run extremely close by FMJ, which gets the silver!

huntedbyafreak · 25/6/2015 3:04 pm

Full Metal Jacket

lifesanocean · 25/6/2015 4:38 pm

Full Metal Jacket

PatReilly · 25/6/2015 5:12 pm

You ever seen a grown man naked?

Has to be Airplane.

Tek · 25/6/2015 9:15 pm

Sieb22 wrote:
Just to say real quick, I do the main part of the competition on a desktop computer and have no control of the size (fnar, fnar) of the posters or images, it's not a representation of what movie I want to go through, I would do that on the comments further down when I'm voting with everyone else. Everything is above board, some images look smaller/bigger on my phone to that on my tablet and desktop so I apologise in advance if it looks a bit messed up but I'm trying to make it look as decent as possible. It takes me about 30-40mins for each game, getting the images, gifs and other info, this morning was a real bitch due to slow 't'internet connection and took over an hour, thought I lost it all when I finished it, was ready to do a De Niro in Raging Bull!

BOOO.........FIX......CONSPIRACY

You're doing a grand job mate.I can entirely sympathise with the slog these competitions are.When i was doing them on Mad i lost count of the amount of times where i would write a comp up for 45-50 minutes and hit 'send' and the site would either crash or it would log me out...was infuriating.After awhile i learned to scroll over the entire text before submitting it and copying it just incase.Don't have the same problem anything as much thankfully on here.

Once you get by the 1st Round it's a lot easier.I just use the search bar and by and large copy'n'paste.

Keep up the good work Siebby,enjoying the comp.

Tek · 25/6/2015 9:16 pm

My vote goes to RAGING BULL.

St Obswell · 26/6/2015 6:20 am

Full Metal Helmet

One, two, three, four, pump that pussy till it's sore

doontheroadarab · 26/6/2015 10:10 am

airplane

Sieb22 · 26/6/2015 10:18 am

Score update:

Robocop: 0
Full Metal Jacket: 6
Raging Bull: 1
Airplane!: 5

Voting closes 9pm tonight.

Sieb22 · 26/6/2015 10:19 am

Can I also get 4 numbers from 1-12 please for Game 13.

Foo Kin Twat · 26/6/2015 10:53 am

8465

Sieb22 · 26/6/2015 8:04 pm

Full time:

Full Metal Jacket: 6
Airplane!: 5
Raging Bull: 1
Robocop: 0.