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The Fantasy Mogul Film Institute Presents 50 Movies, 50 States

I love the AFI list specials and top whatever lists in general, so I decided to start this. Here's how it goes. We'll do the 50 states alphabetically one at a time--I'll warn you first that this will take forever. I'll open up the state for nominations.

NOMINATIONSTo be nominated as the best movie set in that state, the movie must take place in that state more than any other location including--but not limited to--other states, other countries, at sea, in the air, on another planet, in space, or at the center of the earth (lol). Post nomination, the movies can be seconded.

CONSOLIDATIONI'll take all of the movies that have been seconded and put them in a poll. You must get a majority to win the poll. If no majority happens, I will recreate the poll and drop the low ones until one wins or they tie.

I thought it was more complicated than that, but I guess not. When a movie wins, I will keep a list here for reference.

I am officially opening up nominations for Alabama.

Now that that is done, I'm nominating "Forrest Gump"

Winning Movies
Alabama: "To Kill A Mockingbird"
Alaska: "Insomnia"
Arizona: "Raising Arizona"
Arkansas: "Sling Blade"
California: "Vertigo"
Colorado: "The Shining"
Connecticut: "Beetlejuice"
Delaware: "Fight Club"
Florida: "Scarface"
Georgia: "Gone With the Wind"
Hawaii: "Lilo & Stitch"
Idaho: "My Own Private Idaho"
Illinois: "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"
Indiana: "A Christmas Story"
Iowa: "Field of Dreams"
Kansas: "The Wizard of Oz"
Kentucky: "The Insider"
Louisiana: "The Green Mile"
Maine: "The Shawshank Redemption"
Maryland: "12 Monkeys"
Massachusetts: "Mystic River"
Michigan: "True Romance"
Minnesota: "Fargo"
Mississippi: "O, Brother Where Art Thou"
Missouri: "The Assassination of Jesse James..."
Montana: "Legends of the Fall"
Nebraska: "Boys Don't Cry"
Nevada: "The Godfather: Part II"
New Hampshire: "Jumanji"
New Jersey: "The Wedding Singer"
New Mexico: "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"
New York: "Rear Window"
North Carolina: "Blue Velvet"
North Dakota: "Leprechaun"
Ohio: "Heathers"
Oklahoma: "Rumble Fish"
Oregon: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
Pennsylvania: "Rocky"
Rhode Island: "Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story"
South Carolina: "Full Metal Jacket"
South Dakota: "North By Northwest"
Tennessee: "Walk the Line"
Texas: "No Country for Old Men"
Utah: "Fletch"
Vermont: "Thank You for Smoking"
Virginia: "Silence of the Lambs"
Washington: "WarGames"
West Virginia: "Night of the Hunter"
Wisconsin: "Lars and the Real Girl"
Wyoming: "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"
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Not Quite 50 States

Washington D.C.: "Dr. Strangelove"
American Road Trip: "The Stand"
American Airspace:
American Seaboard:
Americans in Space:
Americans in Foreign Lands:
Manhattan: "Rear Window"
Bronx: "Raging Bull"
Brooklyn: "Goodfellas"
NY Other: "The Godfather"

Sweet Home Alabama

My Cousin Vinny!

What are we going to do for California or New York?

I have 2 nominations:
Talladega Nights (Talladega)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Birmingham)

I will second To Kill a Mockingbird. That was a great movie. I would have went with Gump but so much of it takes place outside of Alabama that I had to disqualify it.

J.I. wrote:

What are we going to do for California or New York?

Something a lot more complicated than usual... lol. Already thought of that. They will take a while.

I pick To Kill A Mockingbird.

Talladega Nights shouldn't count. I don't even think it's even focused in Alabama (in fact, Daytona Nights* would have been more appropriate).

*-in Florida

Donte77 wrote:

I will second To Kill a Mockingbird. That was a great movie. I would have went with Gump but so much of it takes place outside of Alabama that I had to disqualify it.

I didn't realize Mockingbird was Alabama--I thought it was GA. Though MOST of Forrest Gump wasn't set in Alabama, its set there more than anywhere else, but its really the central location for the story. Gump is Alabama and vise-versa. "(I think) you should go back to Greenbow... ALABAMA!!!"... "Where are you boys from in the world?" "Alabama, sir!" "You twins?" "We are of no relation sir."

It starts there, ends there, and always goes back there.

That said, I'm voting for Mockingbird

Gotta go with Mockingbird. My favorite B/W film EVER.

Nominations will close for Alabama at Midnight EST. I'll put a poll up then, although I know who's going to win. I'll also open up Alaska then.

Just so that there are a few options (though I'm for the favourite right now too):

Big Fish
The Miracle Worker
The Tuskegee Airmen

I'm going with Big Fish, though the GF wants me to say Fried Green Tomatoes. It's her guilty pleasure. But Big Fish it is.

Big Fish

wheres Sling Blade?

you have to nominate it... lol I'll second sling blade. I need a second on Forrest to get it into the poll.

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