Just as an aside, halfway through the tournament we have went through 1344 nominated films with an additional 301 nominations that were not seconded.
Also, thinking ahead to the second half, I have been playing around with math and round structure, and I'm thinking this could work:
- 1960s: 192 nominations (skipping regular Round 1, starting with the regular Round 2: 32 groups of 6 titles - top 4 move on; rest the same)
- 1950s: 160 nominations (skipping regular Round 1, starting with the new Round 1: 32 groups of 5 titles - top 4 move on; rest the same)
- 1940s: 128 nominations (starting with the new Round 1: 32 groups of 4 titles - top 3 move on; new Round 2: 32 groups of 3 - top 2 move on; new Round 3: 16 groups of 4 - top 2 moves on; new Round 4: 16 groups of 2 - top 1 moves on; skipping regular Round 5; rest the same)
- 1930s: 96 nominations (starting with the new Round 1: 32 groups of 3 titles - top 2 move on; new Round 2: 32 groups of 2 - top 1 moves on; new Round 3: 16 groups of 2 - top 1 moves on; skipping regular Rounds 4 and 5; rest the same)
- 1920s: 80 nominations (starting with the new Round 1: 16 groups of 5 titles - top 3 move on; new Round 2: 16 groups of 3 - top 2 move on; new Round 3: 16 groups of 2 - top 1 moves on; skipping regular Rounds 4 and 5; rest the same)
Hope that makes sense to everyone and I think we can definitely come up with this many nominations. The only issue might arise with the 1920s, and I would like to shoot for 80, but we could drop that to 64 worst case (though that seems like really short-changing that pioneering decade). But, we are still a long way away from the '20s, and since this is the 100th anniversary of those films, I challenge everyone to try and watch some films from the 1920s you may have always heard about but never watched. A lot of them can be found freely on YouTube.
One added cool bonus to this, we would end up with an even 2000 nominated films for this entire event.
And finally, to elaborate further, once all ten decades are done, we will take the ten decade winners and first place them into a round-robin for seeding purposes, so each movie will face off against every other movie once (not sure if we should do points or combined percentages again) and then they will be seeded accordingly as such: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:10TeamBracket
Or we could skip the round-robin, as the pairings would be the same both in the round-robin and playoff sections of this final phase (so we'd be essentially voting twice on the same polls), and simply rank and seed based on the overall percentage earned during that film's decade tournament.
Can't wait!
By the way, in addition to HBO Max having lots of classics to stream, you can also stream with TCM and your cable provider: https://www.tcm.com/watchtcm (Right now I'm watching the new restoration of the 1926 comedy So This Is Paris, directed by the great Ernst Lubitsch, and it's pretty hilarious!)
Just do them by percentages earned during their respective tournaments.
Hi everyone! Just a quick reminder that the 1960s nominations begin July 1!
I have about 60 ready to go.
I jotted down about 35, limiting myself to movies I scored 4 - 5 stars out of 5. If I opened it up to 3 - 3.5 stars, I'd have another handful.
Almost all of my top list are Japanese.
I have one. Rosemary’s Baby. 😂 sorry guys… I love love movies but just don’t do well with the older ones. I’ll be around to see but won’t be much help. And don’t have a fav to win. Does anyone have one they think is a shoe in to win?
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Insomnia #459
ANY S/L #459
I only have 19 . But I am sure people picked some that I forgot about .
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So the 1960s nominations have been completed and as I mentioned in the nominations thread, voting will begin on August 2!
Shame Manos: The Hands of Fate didn't make it but still a pretty darn good list! Thanks Mae!!
Can't wait to get started!
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
Hearts are tough, she said, most times hearts don't break, and I'm sure that's right . . . but what about then? What about who we were then? What about hearts in Atlantis?
The director of Manos was a fertilizer salesman that bet someone he could make a movie. He used his own dog, his wife did the wardrobe and the painting I think, a friend did the song. The servant guy, Torgo, was tripping on acid the entire shoot and killed himself before the thing even aired at one drive-in and most of the male voices were done by the same guy and most of the female voices by the same woman because the director didn't understand sound mixing or anything like that. I don't know how MST3K managed to find that thing back before the internet but they did.
Given all that, I'd still rather watch it again over Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. (I've seen both on the big screen). Manos isn't the worst film ever but it belongs in the top 10 for sure.