Braveheart/Gladiator/T2/Matrix/Speed/TrueLies

Pick 1 from each category

  • Braveheart

  • Gladiator

  • The Matrix

  • Terminator 2

  • True Lies

  • Speed


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These debates keep coming up in my life and I'm curious where people's preference come down between these various match ups in terms of quality and or viewing experience:

Braveheart vs Gladiator

T2 vs The Matrix

True Lies vs Speed


Pick one from each.


My preference for example being:

Braveheart
T2
Speed
 
Didn't vote for TL vs Speed as I don't remember Speed.

T2 > Matrix, but not by much. T2 has a better human interest story, it has characters, Matrix has low-rent philosophy.

Gladiator > Braveheart, but both are overrated.
 
True Lies and Braveheart are no brainers for me. But damn, T2 vs. The Matrix is a tough one. Both are some of my favorite films ever made. They not only are some of the greatest science fiction films ever made but they are both revolutionary in pop culture. I guess I'll vote for T2. It has better replay value.
 
Braveheart - Far more engrossing the Gladiator. "Freedooooooom!!!"

The Matrix - This was a tough choice until I noticed The Matrix had zero votes. Shame on all of you. The Matrix is not jut a basic interpretation of Plato's "The Cave" it also has sociopolitical and spiritual layers with a counter-cultural cyberpunk theme. Oh and the movie is perfect from start to finish. "Zero votes"...smh.

Speed - I found this more fun than True Lies which I only like at the beginning and very end.
 
Gladiator (speaks to me on a more profound level than the other films listed)
T2
TL
 
Matrix
T2
Gladiator.

I am surprised that so few selected Matrix as a choice. It was the bomb when it came out.

True Lies < all : it's a remake of a French film, no interested but the film was ok and JL Curtis was gorgeous.
 
First category.. I haven't seen Braveheart actually, so not fair to vote. I thought Gladiator was a well made and good movie, but I don't love it like a lot of other people do.

Second category.. really hard choice. T2 and The Matrix are both so amazing, and both are probably in my top15 movies of all time. I voted for The Matrix, but they are both perfect 10's in my book.

Third category.. I really like Speed, but I went with True Lies because of Arnold.
 
True Lies

Also, if you're watching Braveheart for Scottish history... :csad: :ba:
 
The Arnold vs Keanu rivalry of the 90's.
 
Gladiator - (Love both Braveheart and Gladiator, really tough choice but overall I think Gladiator is more watchable on a regular basis)

T2 - ( What a tough choice...T2 was my action film as a kid growing up. I was in love with that film. Would rewatch it every week. When I discovered The Matrix it changed me...but I went with Nostalgia of T2)

True Lies - ( Overall True Lies is a superior film to Speed in every way. The action, dialogue, characters, everything!)
 
Minor tidbit
As a script doctor in Hollywood, it was often Whedon’s job to look at the screenplays that someone else had written, and make them better without getting credited for it. Speed is the first of those scripts that was made into a film with a good chance that you’ve actually heard of it. Although his work wasn’t credited by 20th Century Fox on the final product, it has to be noted that that the writer who was, Graham Yost, freely admitted that “Whedon wrote 98.9 percent of the dialogue”. Perhaps being uncredited isn’t all bad however, as the film led to Yost later being referred to in Hollywood as the “Bus Guy”.

Although it isn’t known as a film he was involved with, Speed is one that everyone remembers fondly. Back in 2001 Whedon himself stated that it was “one of the few movies I’ve made that I actually like”, but if you want praise from a more objective writer/director though, then that comes from Quentin Tarantino. The noted cinephile placed it on his list of top 20 favourite films, which, containing entries from all over the globe, makes Speed’s appearance even more illustrious.

Read more at http://whatculture.com/film/10-film...-on-joss-whedons-cv.php/4#z8FdmVBYtm5ADyuE.99
:yay:
 
These debates keep coming up in my life and I'm curious where people's preference come down between these various match ups in terms of quality and or viewing experience:

Braveheart vs Gladiator

T2 vs The Matrix

True Lies vs Speed


Pick one from each.


My preference for example being:

Braveheart
T2
Speed

Couldn't agree more with your picks.

Minor tidbit

:yay:

That "minor tidbit" makes me appreciate the film a whole lot more, I knew about Tarantino placing it on his Top 20 films, but I had no clue that Joss Whedon wrote that dialogue. That's incredible. I love that movie.
 
Braveheart but Gladiator right there
The Matrix but again T2 right there
True Lies easily, never thought much of Speed.
 
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