DC Movie Contest: "The Time Bombed Skyscraper" vs. "Strategy

[scineram]

I have a winning Strategy!

[Nyarl]

Conan on the Titanic > Conan vs. Howard Roark

[kkslider5552000]

Movie 1. Because I've actually seen it.

And because the climax of the movie had a nice twist.

[Jd-]

Movie 9 is actually winning this?

I thought I knew this community better than that.

Though Movie 9 isn't great by any stretch of the imagination, Movie 1 suffers from the unfortunate problem of being a bad movie with no mystery.

Gonna have to disagree here, simply because--to use your format--Movie 9 is a terrible movie (but "really good" on the 7-11, 13 scale) with a lackluster, predictable, and downright unsatisfying mystery. Movie 1's mystery wasn't particularly engaging, but the pacing and progression of the movie at least lived up to the strengths of the series. Considering it was released after only 52 or so episodes had aired, I think it set a very good formula down for those early movies (whereas 9 just kept the downward spiral going).

Movie 1 definitely isn't great, but if you compare them point for point, I can't really side with Movie 9 in any capacity. The Kudo & Ran romance subplot was much more developed and interesting in the first movie, whereas in the ninth it was the same old tripe that didn't even live up to the comparable moment from the 8th movie. What I liked most about Movie 1 was that it really was perfectly scaled up from the series and warranted the feature film treatment for the time. By the time the 9th movie had hit, we'd already seen 8 much better (and mostly more realistic) plots.

Of course, there's no doubt that 9 is better than 10-11 and 13, but I just don't really come with the opinion that it's even remotely close to anything in the 1-6 area.

[Akonyl]

I voted skyscraper because I keep thinking strategy is movie 11

but skyscraper's still pretty good for a first movie imo.

[scineram]

Conan vs. Howard Roark

I cannot properly express how epic this post is.

[milaneechan]

my vote tied it! 16-16

[Walbuls]

Willing to die with his love > forgetting about her for 1/2 the movie

[Akonyl]

it's up to a tie now :O!

[pika09]

The action scenes in Movie 1 started and ended rather badly for me, so I choose Movie 9.

[randompi314159]

Went with movie 1, I just love all the old movies.

[xGinx]

Movie 1 .... The movie with one of the best Romantics ShinxRan moments

[randompi314159]

Movie 1 .... The movie with one of the best Romantics ShinxRan moments

That too XD

[Conia]

Strategy Above the Depths is my vote. The explanation is in the last Movie Contest thread

[louiemsp]

Strategy is my vote too.... I like it when Haibara teases Mitsuhiko if he likes to join her to take a bath