The Mount Rushmore Game

[CiG]

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Been seeing 'Mount Rushmore' discussions a lot on social media lately so I thought we should do it too.

There's also a common misconception about what it means. It's not "most popular" or "your favourite" but instead it's about which 4 things are the most foundational to the subject.

For example if I were to do a personal Mount Rushmore of death metal albums it would look like this:

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Scream Bloody Gore and Eaten Back to Life were the first death metal CD's I ever bought, Severed Survival was my first death metal LP, and the shitty 1998 reissue of Season of the Dead was the first time I bought something without any recommendations and that I'd never heard of. They were big influences on me going forward into the genre and are fundamentally important to my taste in death metal.

The 'Mount Rushmore' game can be about anything though, comedy movies, European power metal, sitcoms, death doom metal bands, it can pertain to your personal taste (like my death metal one) or a more objective statement about something (eg death metal's 4 most foundational albums)---you decide, and just post it in here.

 

[Slammed]

You mean I have to edit a picture.
That's so 1990's dude!

 

[CiG]

You mean I have to edit a picture.
That's so 1990's dude!

Nah you can just do a list lol I know you can't use MS Paint on your flip-phone ya old cunt.

 

[Slammed]

Flip phone? What the fuck does that do?

 

[Slammed]

Alright I'll play your game
Bands that I remember started me on to metal.

 

[Slammed]

The Foundations of Australian Metal!

 

[CiG]

The founding father!

 

[no country for old wainds]

golfers:
ben hogan
gary player
jack nicklaus
tiger woods

NBA players:
bill russell
kareem abdul-jabbar
michael jordan
lebron james

socball players:
pele
maradona
johan cruyff
lionel messi

boxers:
henry armstrong
sugar ray robinson
roberto duran
muhammad ali

cricketers:
don bradman
garry sobers
sachin tendulkar
shane warne

sprinters:
florence griffith-joyner
carl lewis
usain bolt
shelly-ann fraser-pryce

snooker players:
steve davis
alex higgins
stephen hendry
ronnie o'sullivan

darts players:
eric bristow
phil taylor
michael van gerwen
luke littler

chess players:
paul morphy
bobby fischer
gary kasparov
magnus carlsen

 

[no country for old wainds]

sitcoms:
the simpsons
arrested development
peep show
it's always sunny in philadelphia

westerns:
my darling clementine
man of the west
once upon a time in the west
deadwood

horror:
psycho
night of the living dead
the texas chainsaw massacre
alien

 

[CiG]

I've already done my sitcom Mount Rushmore elsewhere but here's my *animated* sitcom Mount Rushmore:


Honourable mention specifically for Futurama's first four seasons.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i'd have space ghost c2c if it's eligible, not sure it is though lol

 

[CiG]

I'd swap out Bron for Larry Legend!

 

[Bloopy]

An attempt at a recipe for brewing your own Mount Rushmore of Bloopy movie taste:

Name your definitive movie for each of the 4 categories below. With the requirement that the most dominant genre of each film is not a comedy genre. That's very subjective: comedy can still be primary if you think a movie's slightly less comedic and slightly more something else. Eg. a 'crime comedy' which is a bit more uh, crime-y.

• campy violence/gore
• black comedy
• whimsy
• absurdist/surrealist comedy

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For me it's Hannibal, Frenzy, The Spanish Prisoner and... Eraserhead, I suppose.

The last category seemed tricky to come up with something for, but there's plenty of amusement in Eraserhead (beyond what I suppose is black comedy about fetal freakiness and death, eg. the oozing chicken carcass or the severed head dream). There's Henry's hair/appearance, the way his neighbour flirts with him while he's trying to conceal the baby, Paul being yelled at at the pencil factory, everything else about the dinner scene etc. A bit of which is whimsical... I guess I just spelled out that gore, black comedy, whimsy and the absurd/surreal all overlap.

 

[no country for old wainds]

An attempt at a recipe for brewing your own Mount Rushmore of Bloopy movie taste:

Name your definitive movie for each of the 4 categories below. With the requirement that the most dominant genre of each film is not a comedy genre. That's very subjective: comedy can still be primary if you think a movie's slightly less comedic and slightly more something else. Eg. a 'crime comedy' which is a bit more uh, crime-y.

• campy violence/gore
• black comedy
• whimsy
• absurdist/surrealist comedy

---

For me it's Hannibal, Frenzy, The Spanish Prisoner and... Eraserhead, I suppose.

The last category seemed tricky to come up with something for, but there's plenty of amusement in Eraserhead (beyond what I suppose is black comedy about fetal freakiness and death, eg. the oozing chicken carcass or the severed head dream). There's Henry's hair/appearance, the way his neighbour flirts with him while he's trying to conceal the baby, Paul being yelled at at the pencil factory, everything else about the dinner scene etc. A bit of which is whimsical... I guess I just spelled out that gore, black comedy, whimsy and the absurd/surreal all overlap.

blonde death (1984)
aaaaaaaah! (2015)
when pigs fly (1993)
brand upon the brain! (2006)

i'll be honest, these aren't my 'definitive' movies at all but just ones i recommend for each category that i expect you won't have seen.

 

[Bloopy]

Blonde Death and Brand Upon the Brain look intriguing. I might take a chance on the other two as well and see whether the recipe is working or just being desecrated.

 

[no country for old wainds]

here's the deal: if you like the majority of them then i get to recommend you another 4!

 

[CiG]

If only you could recommend something like Aaaaaaaah! but there's not much else like it.

Edit: I think I got the gist of your challenge...