davidh777

{sd}s just increase the multiplier: one {sd} doubles, two {sd}s triple. Each one doesn't double the score.

Crocker Jarmen

14 + 14 + 14 = 42

davidh777

Casablanca is my favorite movie but I didn't use it as an answer. I thought about dunking Crash but was afraid it wasn't a universal answer. Not like Chris Rock, anyway.

Crocker Jarmen

I thought it worked well in Edward Scissorhands. And such a device made The Princess Bride a much better movie.

dino88

Hey, I'll take 4th for my first time ever playing. Thanks for the game, Crocker. And congratulations Sauce.

sauce07

Drexl

My problem with some of these is that I couldn't remember which older films had won and which hadn't. For instance, I would have answered Casablanca for the best B&W movie, but I couldn't remember if it had won BP or not. It's funny because although I didn't want to be wrong, the answer I ended up giving (The Grapes of Wrath) was incorrect; it lost to Rebecca.

Likewise with the screenplay question - I couldn't remember if movies such as Citizen Kane or Sunset Boulevard had won (although I knew CK didn't win BP). I'm not sure if I would have picked one of them anyway, since I had a feeling it was better to choose modern answers on the sheep questions. That's why I picked Scorsese over someone like John Ford or Billy Wilder.

davidh777

I was in the same boat. While wrong answers don't matter in Sheep, if everyone *else* knows that Casablanca didn't win, then it wouldn't get a good score. So I went conservative.

Decker

Seriously! Christoph Waltz isn't even more popular than George Clooney in Vienna.

jjcool

Gotcha.

It's that new fangled math stuff.
Thanks for running the game Crocker.

Groucho

Congrats to Crocker Jarmen for running the game, and thanks to sauce07 for winning this thing.

orangecrush

I am only now able to catch up on this. Just to clarify, when someone bootsy's an answer, they are slamming a unique answer on a reverse. Let's not demean the good name of Bootsy.

Count Dooku

Thanks to Crocker Jarmen for running the game, and congratulations to sauce07 for winning it.

orangecrush

I am the only hipster in this group.

orangecrush

Thanks Crocker Jarmen for a good themed game. Congrats to sauce07.

Count Dooku

I'm surprised how people interpreted #10:

The Academy sucks ass! Name the worst movie to ever win the award for Best Picture.

While I agree that Pulp Fiction should have won over Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan over Shakespeare In Love, and Brokeback Mountain over Crash, I don't think for a moment that FG, SIL, or Crash are bad movies.

From Wikipedia:

At the 25th Academy Awards, The Greatest Show on Earth won Oscars for Best Picture (earning that recognition over films such as High Noon and The Quiet Man and the classic Singin' in the Rain) and for Best Story. It received nominations for Best Director, Best Film Editing, and Best Costume Design, Color. It is the last "Best Picture" winner to date that won less than 3 Academy Awards. It was also the last movie to win Best Picture without winning an Academy Award for both Best Director and "Best Screenplay" (Original or Adapted) until Gladiator in 2001.

Many consider this film among the worst to have ever won the Academy Award for Best Picture. The American film magazine Premiere placed the movie on its list of the 10 worst Oscar winners and the British film magazine Empire rated it #3 on their list of the 10 worst Oscar winners. It has the second lowest spot on Rotten Tomatoes' list of the 81 films to win Best Picture.

davidh777

Not sure that's correct. Wasn't the original bootsy answer a dunk of Dan Marino for best QB of all time?

Slamming uniques on reverses was, er, you twice in Beatles Sheep. You have of course won a number of these games.

TomOpus

5th place not too shabby for my first time. Thanks for running a fun game, Crocker. Congrats to sauce07 for running away with it.

Groucho

According to IMDB user reviews, the worst movie ever to win Best Picture is Cimarron (1931).

davidh777

Congrats to sauce for the win, and thanks to Crocker for kicking off Sheep 2014!

I definitely interpreted it as undeserving winner rather than flat-out bad film. But seriously, how many people remember The Greatest Show on Earth? I sure don't, nor do I remember that it won. But as I said earlier, I don't consider myself an Oscar historian by any stretch.

Shannon Nutt

Man, I feel like Burt Reynolds when he lost to Robin Williams.

Congrats sauce07 - and thanks CJ for a great game (wish we had more questions, but it was fun!)

Decker

I would have like to seen some david777-type reverse sheep questions where there are a small finite number of correct answers and you never know what the best answer is going to be : things like "Name a Best Actor winner from this century".

TomOpus

This is what I was also thinking. I sure didn't think of this movie at any time. Even if I knew it was held in such low regards by critics, when you play sheep it's about picking what others will pick.

sleepyhead55

Yeah, that was the Dan Marino in the football sheep game. He complained about that when he basically should have just let it go.

Anyway, a bootsy (to me) is whenever a player uses a dunk on a sheep answer that isn't matched by anyone and nets that player a zero and a wasted dunk.

Congrats to Sauce07 for winning this. And to Crocker Jarmen for running this.

Decker

I can see why Crash won (one word : Homophobia). I still have no idea why The King's Speech won -- my best guess is deference to all things British. That film was just so unremarkable and unmemorable - it might as well have been a play.