Greatest Movie of All Time Tournament: Suggestion Thread
If this has already been done let me know, and I will stop now.
Here is my idea: I am going to set up a huge tourney to determine our favorite movies of all time. I know we can probably guess many of the winners(Godfather and so on), but the fun part will come in the upsets. Format for the tourney: 256 Prelimanary rounds(The 256 groups will each have one of the imdb top 250, six other movies will be picked to headline the other groups) with 8-10 Movies per group with the top 2 from each group advancing. That will weed it down to the top 512 and I will seed according to the results of the prelimanary rounds. #1 will face #512 and so on bracket style. The absolute cap for this is 2560 movies. So here is where you come in, I need suggestions for movies. I will cover all the big ones, but I need your suggestions for some of the wildcards you would like to see in there. Foreign movies, Horror movies, and so on. So please suggest up to 10 movies you would like to see included. As soon as I get up to the limit I will randomly seed the preliminary rounds and we can get started. Let me know if you like the idea or not. If it is a big waste of time and you think I won't get much input I will stop now. |
Re: Greatest Movie of All Time Tournament: Suggestion Thread
Sure, here's kinda my top 10
Casablanca JFK Pulp Fiction Hunt for Red October Young Frankenstein Heat Raiders of the Lost Ark Some Like it Hot North by Northwest Rear Window |
Re: Greatest Movie of All Time Tournament: Suggestion Thread
Here's my 10, roughly:
Treasure of Sierra Madre Third Man Viridiana Chimes at Midnight Black Narcissus Vertigo The Wild Bunch Pinocchio French Connection Raging Bull |
Re: Greatest Movie of All Time Tournament: Suggestion Thread
The Dark Knight wins this!
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CK or Godfather
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Re: Greatest Movie of All Time Tournament: Suggestion Thread
It's not The Godfather and it's definitely not The Dark Knight.
Here are mine: Janghwa, Hongryeon (A Tale Of Two Sisters) Dead Man's Shoes Citizen Kane Shadow Of A Doubt Mou Gaan Dou (Infernal Affairs) Rebecca El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan's Labyrinth) Dawn Of The Dead Rear Window Pulp Fiction |
Re: Greatest Movie of All Time Tournament: Suggestion Thread
Originally Posted by woody5254
(Post 9292833)
If this has already been done let me know, and I will stop now.
Here is my idea: I am going to set up a huge tourney to determine our favorite movies of all time. For instance, I have no problem with calling CITIZEN KANE the greatest movie ever made, but I don't know that it would go in my top ten list of favorites. Maybe my top 50. Can you clarify? Thanks. |
Re: Greatest Movie of All Time Tournament: Suggestion Thread
2560 movies? That's going to be 256 polls. That's going to:
A) Take Forever B) Clog up the Forum We've had "best" movie discussions ad nauseum. We need more "your favorite" movies. The Godfather is an excellent, excellent film. But I've seen Sahara three times as much as I've seen The Godfather. It would be interesting to see other results if it is made very clear to us which movie we enjoy watching more or have seen more, etc. This will still have some clear favorites (Star Wars, a lot of Kurt Russell films), but at least it will be different than "the best" movie. We don't need 2560 movies to know what the Top 10 will look like. People can include The Outlaw Josie Wales and Last Starfighter and Snatch. and Bad Day at Black Rock but these movies won't make the Top 10. It's an exercise in futility. |
Re: Greatest Movie of All Time Tournament: Suggestion Thread
Shawshank Redemption
25th Hour Saving Private Ryan Collateral The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Memento No Country for Old Men The Departed The Dark Knight A Few Good Men |
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I have no problem with this, but as previously stated The Dark Knight is going to win so you can save yourself a lot of trouble.
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Re: Greatest Movie of All Time Tournament: Suggestion Thread
another fucking dark knight thread.
i'd also like to add that i think this is not a good idea. |
Re: Greatest Movie of All Time Tournament: Suggestion Thread
I'd recommend substituting "most popular" for "greatest" in your thread title.
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DO the RIght THing
The LIfe Aquatic Kwaidan Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Titus There WIll Be Blood Paris, Texas Magnolia Once Upon A time in the West One Upon A Time in AMerica |
Re: Greatest Movie of All Time Tournament: Suggestion Thread
Originally Posted by The Bus
(Post 9293053)
2560 movies? That's going to be 256 polls. That's going to:
A) Take Forever B) Clog up the Forum We've had "best" movie discussions ad nauseum. We need more "your favorite" movies. The Godfather is an excellent, excellent film. But I've seen Sahara three times as much as I've seen The Godfather. It would be interesting to see other results if it is made very clear to us which movie we enjoy watching more or have seen more, etc. This will still have some clear favorites (Star Wars, a lot of Kurt Russell films), but at least it will be different than "the best" movie. We don't need 2560 movies to know what the Top 10 will look like. People can include The Outlaw Josie Wales and Last Starfighter and Snatch. and Bad Day at Black Rock but these movies won't make the Top 10. It's an exercise in futility. And yes you do need to define favorite vs. greatest. I say favorite is the way to go with this kind of poll. Try doing this: Ask everyone to post their personal top 25 films, in no particular order (get this thread deleted and start a new one). After that weed out the 8 or 16 (for tournament purposes or however else you'd like to do it) that appear the most. Create a tournament with those movies. The one that appears the most is the #1 seed, second most is the #2 seed and so on. |
Re: Greatest Movie of All Time Tournament: Suggestion Thread
you could probably do something with one or most of these:
Greatest: http://forum.dvdtalk.com/movie-talk/...film-ever.html http://forum.dvdtalk.com/movie-talk/...t-scripts.html http://forum.dvdtalk.com/movie-talk/...time-poll.html Favorite: http://forum.dvdtalk.com/movie-talk/...-all-time.html http://forum.dvdtalk.com/movie-talk/...ie-decade.html Every Dark Knight Thread Ever! |
Re: Greatest Movie of All Time Tournament: Suggestion Thread
For Your Consideration:
City of God Children of Men Almost Famous The Thing Gone Baby Gone A bout de souffle Pierrot le fou Killer of Sheep Pandora's Box Diary of a Lost Girl |
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I don't want to clog up the forum. So I am going to use Goat's idea and go for either 32 or 64 movies.
I will clarify with it being favorite movie, meaning which movie would you rather watch on a given night. I was gonna do the large amount of movies just to see which surprises we would find in the earlier rounds. I realize that for the most part the top 10-20 or so will probably remain the same. I jut thought an individual matchup of say Snatch vs Casablanca would be interesting regardless of whether they have a chance to be #1 overall. I will restart the thread. I will try to do 2-4 matchups per thread to keep the forum clear. |
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This would only work if you have a poll that could carry that many things.
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Re: Greatest Movie of All Time Tournament: Suggestion Thread
Originally Posted by woody5254
(Post 9293220)
I don't want to clog up the forum. So I am going to use Goat's idea and go for either 32 or 64 movies.
I will clarify with it being favorite movie, meaning which movie would you rather watch on a given night. I was gonna do the large amount of movies just to see which surprises we would find in the earlier rounds. I realize that for the most part the top 10-20 or so will probably remain the same. I jut thought an individual matchup of say Snatch vs Casablanca would be interesting regardless of whether they have a chance to be #1 overall. I will restart the thread. I will try to do 2-4 matchups per thread to keep the forum clear. When doing the poll threads: Do 5 match ups per thread. You have 10 poll options. Make it so that you can select multiple options and stack the poll so that it is in tournament order. Ask everyone to pick their winner from each match up. They'll make 5 choices. The poll should look like this: #1 seed - movie #32 seed - movie #2 seed - movie #31 seed - movie #3 seed - movie #30 seed - movie #4 seed - movie #29 seed - movie #5 seed - movie #28 seed - movie That way you'd get discussion and good tournament flow without clogging the forums up. |
Re: Greatest Movie of All Time Tournament: Suggestion Thread
Originally Posted by Goat3001
(Post 9293335)
The poll should look like this:
#1 seed - movie #32 seed - movie #2 seed - movie #31 seed - movie #3 seed - movie #30 seed - movie #4 seed - movie #29 seed - movie #5 seed - movie #28 seed - movie That way you'd get discussion and good tournament flow without clogging the forums up. |
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This should be interesting....
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Re: Greatest Movie of All Time Tournament: Suggestion Thread
Maybe substitute "greatest" for "most popular".
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Re: Greatest Movie of All Time Tournament: Suggestion Thread
Originally Posted by UngersPride
(Post 9294264)
Maybe substitute "greatest" for "most popular".
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Jaws
Titanic Back to the Future Jurassic Park First Blood The Shawshank Redemption |
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Billy Wilder's 'The Apartment' is the greatest film ever made...
(according to me) |
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