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Well between 3 a.m. and 10 a.m. someone voted for Karate Kid and Ghostbusters 59 straight times, so the voting is now locked. The championship between Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Empire Strikes back will commence tomorrow morning.

Thanks for being an anonymous ****** bag.

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MuckRaker96 said:

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Well between 3 a.m. and 10 a.m. someone voted for Karate Kid and Ghostbusters 59 straight times, so the voting is now locked. The championship between Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Empire Strikes back will commence tomorrow morning.

Thanks for being an anonymous ****** bag.

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This is why we can't have nice things.

THE COMPUTER IS VOTING FOR.... ghost busters?

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Well between 3 a.m. and 10 a.m. someone voted for Karate Kid and Ghostbusters 59 straight times, so the voting is now locked. The championship between Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Empire Strikes back will commence tomorrow morning.

Thanks for being an anonymous ****** bag.

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I only voted for karate Kid 27 times so it wasn't me.

I'm boycotting this final contest on the grounds BTTF was and will always be the All-time greatest movie ever ever ever.

Hey guys, here's the final matchup. Thanks for the memories, although after the last couple of rounds of one or more idiots wasting my time, I kinda feel like this.

Also, can we just appreciate the fact that the two best moments for Harrison Ford's two best characters/movies were both created (or co-created) by him?



This alone makes him a legend.

He had the runs during the filming of the scene in Raiders, which was supposed to be a longer, more elaborate fight matching his bull whip vs. the swordsman. Since he had to stay close to the porcelain, he improvised just shooting the guy.

And he came up with "I know" as a response to Leia's "I love you." Original line was "I love you too."

From the Indy wiki:

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The sequence depicting the swordsman in Raiders of the Lost Ark was dramatically shortened from conception. The film's script, written by Lawrence Kasdan, originally intended to have Indy fight the swordsman with lengthy choreography and demonstration of his whip, including a gag where the swordsman accidentally cleaves through a tough piece of meat from the market stall of a grateful vendor who thanks the swordsman afterwards.

However, Harrison Ford, along with most of the crew, was suffering from dysentery. Ford then suggested they "just shoot the sucker", and Steven Spielberg agreed, resulting in the biggest laugh of the film and one of its most memorable sequences.

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Longer article/story: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/raiders-lost-ark-producer-reveals-backstory-films-famous-gun-sword-scene-producer-oscar-roundta

And he hilariously did the voice over in his best cheeseball voice for the original ESB trailer which has a ton of stuff not in the final version of the film.

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Indeed. They re-released Star Wars the summer of 79, I think in early August. I had a scheme where I was going to re-watch the movie several times that day (a scheme that the parental units put the kibash on after only one viewing), and was sitting there listening to the music and watching the credits roll when, at the end of the credits, the screen did not go black but instead that preview started up. I had known the movie was being made, but had no idea there was going to be a preview AFTER the movie.

I honestly had no idea that was Ford doing the voice-over for that trailer. Listening to that just now, I recall a scene in Blade Runner when he did something goofy with his voice while he was tracking the first female replicant, the snake dancer gal, and his voice in the trailer sounds a bit like what he did in BR.

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And he hilariously did the voice over in his best cheeseball voice for the original ESB trailer which has a ton of stuff not in the final version of the film.

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If I had seen this in a theater without warning, they would have had to call an ambulance to revive me.

In the conclusion that was basically foretold the day this whole thing started, the Empire Strikes Back is the winner of the Best 1980s Movie TexAgs Social Distancing I Can't Believe This Is Still Going On Wow There Sure are a Lot of Whiners on Here Contest

Empire 66% of the vote, Raiders 34%. It's the only round where Empire scored less than 80%.

Here's a few gifs to celebrate. I look forward to whomever does something like this next, so I can spend my days saying how stupid your brackets are, preemptively declaring winners that then lose, and griping about my favorites not winning for days afterwards.

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It's the only round where Empire scored less than 80%.

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That's because Raiders is an equally legitimate movie. My top 5 is ... Empire, Raiders, Last Crusade, Alien, and Star Wars.

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In the conclusion that was basically foretold the day this whole thing started, the Empire Strikes Back is the winner of the Best 1980s Movie TexAgs Social Distancing I Can't Believe This Is Still Going On Wow There Sure are a Lot of Whiners on Here Contest

Empire 66% of the vote, Raiders 34%. It's the only round where Empire scored less than 80%.

Here's a few gifs to celebrate. I look forward to whomever does something like this next, so I can spend my days saying how stupid your brackets are, preemptively declaring winners that then lose, and griping about my favorites not winning for days afterwards.

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Muckraker,
I would like to thank you for doing this and tell you how resentful I am of you yet in tune with you because of Big Trouble in Little China.

The rest of you can go straight to hell. Have a good Tuesday everyone!

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It's the only round where Empire scored less than 80%.

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That's because Raiders is an equally legitimate movie. My top 5 is ... Empire, Raiders, Last Crusade, Alien, and Star Wars.

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Exactly. I voted Empire, but I went back and forth a lot. I don't regret my vote, but I wouldn't have regretted voting the other way either. Both are just so ****ing good.

ROTK is not a sequel. I consider LOTR a single movie.