Exactly why we should have a gap of time between nominations and the tournament and lengthen the nomination process. If people who haven't seen the art films and classics have time to watch some of them, we may have people voting differently. It seems people are more interested in nominating films that are less serious than more serious movies that are hilarious. I'm pretty sure you seconded Almost Famous after I nominated it, where as pablo and others didn't think it was much of a comedy. Dramedies stood no chance in this tournament most because of why people are voting for certain films. I think, in general, a lot of people don't watch comedies for anything arty and aren't considering that aspect much. Me and someone else had that discussion in the nominations thread, in that some people are voting because they laughed, and others are voting because of why they laughed. Most of the smart comedies haven't fared well because of this, I think.
Like I said above, if people had more time and it wasn't a week long whirlwind of nominations and the start of the tournament, people would have a chance to watch them. Loaded up a tournament with a bunch of films the majority hasn't seen is almost guaranteeing those films won't get votes. The problem isn't that films a lot of people haven't seen get into the tournament, the problem is that so many did.Originally Posted by pathoftheturtle
I've always seen these tournaments not just as fun or as a vehicle to discuss a wide variety of films, but as a means to introduce a variety of new films for people to watch. When 100 films are eliminated two weeks after the nominations begin, it defeats people's drive to watch those 100 films since they're already gone. Some of those films I'll still try to watch, but any motivation to watch them soon is kind of gone. When it comes to classics and obscure movies, short of downloading (and even then, classics are much harder to find), they're limited to the Netflixes of the world who might not have them anyways, or knowing someone who has them. Even going into a store specifically to buy them isn't as easy as finding copies of popular, more contemporary movies. Half the reason I haven't seen as many classic films is lack of access, not just to the film, but knowing about them in the first place.