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Like many filmspotting fans I'm sure, City of God came out at just the right time to be THE formative foreign film for me as a budding young 20-something cinephile. It had an immeasurable impact on me. So much so that years later when I was serving on a US Navy aircraft carrier making a port call in Rio De Janiero, while all my other shipmates were relegating themselves to the tourist-y umbrella bars on Ipanema Beach....I jumped in a rusty cab and went straight to the "favelas" with nothing but a backpack and a 35mm camera like Rocket. Maybe not the safest idea, some would say, but I ended up meeting many great people there, all with beauty and warmth and community among crushing poverty, exactly as Fernando Meirelles labored so hard to present it. His passion for authenticity in his portrait of a place and a people make City of God not just one of the best of the 2000's, but one of the best films ever made easily.
Easy choice on my part.
This one is incredibly hard. The fact that two of my top ten favourite movies of all time have to battle it out in the first round breaks my heart. I will have to go with FOTR though, at it was the movie that sparked my obsession with filmmaking. Had TT or ROTK still been with us I might have voted differently, but as they have been incinerated, the choice was clear.
Moscow, Russia
This is madness, insanity and desperation in one package. The pain of losing one of these films makes me want to question the idea of my participation in this merciless affair. But it has to be done. One film is as full of both life and death as a film can be. The other one is the greatest and most epic tale we've ever had, adored by many generations all over the world, done justice and enhanced by its cinematic form. I went for the Fellowship due to its greater universality. By far the hardest choice for me in this round.
I cannot believe this is a first round match up. This is insane. As insane as L'il Ze and Sauron doing battle on Mount Doom and then shrugging if off, shaking hands and sipping a caipirinha as the sun sets over Rio. It is THAT insane. Don't make me vote against either of these films. No. I can't.
I'm pretty confident that City of God will (maybe should) win this one.
But consider this my write-in vote for the whole Lord of the Rings trilogy when I vote for Fellowship.
This is a tough match-up, but FOTR is such an iconic movie that I will revisit periodically for the rest of my life. City of God is great but just not as personal for me.
I'm starting to feel like I must have missed something with City of God because I only thought it was good. Lord of the Rings has a special place in my heart, and even though I'm still disappointed that Two Towers wasn't even considered for Madness, I will be rooting for Fellowship for the duration.
I feel City of God and Moon were both underseeded as neither deserves to be out first round
I really agree with Josh that Fellowship was that movie that lived up to the hype, and I was a huge fan of the novel and read it several times as a child (and re-read it as an adult prior to the movie), but...City of God is just a major, MAJOR work. Adam likes (loves?) to talk about stakes; where in the world are the stakes higher than in the favelas of Rio? It is vivid, it is samba, it is death! You are going to cry watching this movie: from joy, from pain, from love and from grief. I am sorry Frodo, but you would not make it a single day in the favelas.
City of God is more Scorsese than Scorsese's face.
Why do you like hurting me?
It's a shame that City of God is not a higher seed. It's in my top 5 of the 21st century.
City of God is my #2 film of this decade, and I'm fighting its corner as Das Leben der Anderen (my #3) didn't make the bracket. LotR is an undisputed masterpiece and I love (all of) it but, as my daughters frequently tell me when whupping my ass at UNO, it's not about love, it's about winning.
The Fellowship Of The Ring is the only movie in this Madness that is also on the (current) AFI Top 100 List
Wow! Easily the hardest choice in the first round. Fellowship is hands-down the best of the LOTR trilogy and a gorgeous film about doing the right thing no matter how hard. But City of God is such a remarkable work that no amount of Weta Magic can carry the same gravity as this film that questions the line between good and bad, right and wrong. I have to go with City of God, but will be amazed to see Fellowship fall this early in the madness.