Comedy / Satire (Round 1) - #4 The Big Lebowski vs #5 The Graduate
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GrundleStiltzkin
New Fish
Might as well not even open the polls
Brutally difficulty choice here. 10 years ago I would have gone with Graduate in a romp. But Lebowski is a movie that gets better and better with every viewing and I think it holds up as one of the greatest comedies of all time. There's not a weak moment front to back and the sqwuad was fucking amazing!!
The Graduate is a 1967 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols[4] and written by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham, based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Charles Webb, who wrote it shortly after graduating from Williams College. The film tells the story of 21-year-old Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), a recent college graduate with no well-defined aim in life, who is seduced by an older woman, Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), and then falls in love with her daughter Elaine (Katharine Ross).
The film was released on December 22, 1967, received positive reviews and grossed $104.9 million in the U.S. and Canada. With the figures adjusted for inflation, the film's gross is $789 million, making it the 23rd highest-ever grossing film in the U.S. and Canada.[5] It won the Academy Award for Best Director and was nominated in six other categories. In 1996, The Graduate was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." Initially, the film was placed at number 7 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies list in 1998. When AFI revised the list in 2007, the film was moved to number 17.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Graduate
Dennis_DeYoung
New Fish
This is one of those choices - it's so hard, but everyone ultimately makes the same one. The Graduate is incredible.
Lebowski is one of the most watchable movies of all time.
Lebowski is one of the most watchable movies of all time.
No way old school wins this one but I voted for the nylons anyway. Never made it through Lebowski
