My participation will be very, very limited.
The 70's was pretty rough for me. I just looked through the links above and only found 7 movies that I actually remember watching all the way through. 6 of them are Disney movies. The other one is To Kill a Mockingbird which I watched once in HS.
I recognized a lot of the more famous titles. I've just never seen them.
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?
There are a lot of classics on HBO Max. I highly recommend people check them out, especially, like you say, famous titles you've always heard about but just never seen.Originally Posted by Iwritecode
I looked through the first two links. There are a few that I saw or know about so I can participate. To a degree.
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My participation too will be pretty limited. The 60's films I've seen are the Classics that I have actively sought out; your Space Odysseys, your Good, Bad and Uglies, the Hitchcock's etc. This becomes truer the further back into the decades we go.
My personal opinion is that you can already begin trimming down the nominations list from the 60's and onward. Maybe a %40 reduction, to throw a number out there.
Why not group them all together? Dawn of file to
1969? Then do normal
Amount of nominations?
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Not to toot my own horn or anything, but I can share my Top 30 of the 1960s for each year. I have seen a lot of old movies, I am a silly nerd, yes. I spent all of my 20s and 30s collecting and watching Criterion DVDs and other similar releases. Of course, I would not expect us to nominate 300 '60s movies or anywhere close to that number. So I agree, we should probably reduce the number of nominations, but not drastically so. We did 256 for the 1970s and as always people commented after the fact that we had forgotten some. Maybe an even 200 would work for the 1960s?
My '60s lists...
Because I feel like every decade is so different. Movies from the '60s and '50 are very different, not to mention from the '20s or '30s. Plus, the idea is to do this retrospective of a century of movies (we will end up with ten ranked lists of ten decades that we as a group feel are the best movies of that time), and then have each decade's representative in a round-robin.
Agreed that decades should be kept separate. 200 seems doable, but maybe trim a little further as we move backwards...
My strategy for the remaining decades will be to Google "best films of xyz decade" and I'll actively research and try to watch maybe the top consensus 10-20 or so films from each. I just simply don't have the time to devote beyond that.
Or perhaps 192. Need to do a think on the math and the rounds. But yes, as we go further back, we'll reduce the nominations more and more. Obviously, with the 1920s, that's probably the least-seen decade, and I have seen a bunch of movies from the '20s but right now I couldn't say how many. But definitely not even close to 200. Closer to 100, probably, if not less. So that would very likely be a pretty small tournament.
I'll definitely be participating. I'll have to prepare my lists for the 50s and 60s, but I feel like those are two of my favorite decades of films. There's so many great ones. I'm sure as we move back in time we can decrease the amount of nominations. I have some favorites from back then, but I probably haven't seen a whole lot outside of those. I'll have to start searching out some films now.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
When will this officially start again?
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I totally agree with rolling the numbers back a bit.Or perhaps 192. Need to do a think on the math and the rounds. But yes, as we go further back, we'll reduce the nominations more and more. Obviously, with the 1920s, that's probably the least-seen decade, and I have seen a bunch of movies from the '20s but right now I couldn't say how many. But definitely not even close to 200. Closer to 100, probably, if not less. So that would very likely be a pretty small tournament.
I have 10 already and I know there are more.
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We're almost done with the 1970s, the Finals are next Monday and the winner will be proclaimed May 31. We then usually take a month or so off, so I'll start the 1960s nominations thread some time in July. Maybe early July so we have 2-3 weeks to watch some of the nominees if we want, and voting would start end of July.
Great, I am up to 15 now. Hopefully I can get some more.
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I will probably be a little active in the 60's, but there is a steep drop off between 70's and 60's. Ouside of 007, hitchcock and man with no name trilogy, not much in the 60's I am familiar with. Might nominate a few, but will probably wait until groups are paired down a bit to be more active.
60's will probably be last decade I participate in.
In the 30's we got some classics (dracula, frankenstein, gone with the wind, wizard of oz, king kong), but that's all I got. (never seen gwtw, and with a 4h runtime, probably never will)
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Cut the nominees in half for the 60's, then reevaluate after that.
Going from 256 for the 1970s to 128 for the 1960s seems a touch drastic, but we still have time to figure this out. We can start off with 192 and if nominations stall too much we can always cut back more on the spot.
What if we do something like this:
1960s: 192
1950s: 160
1940s: 128
1930s: 100
1920s: 50
I think that looks good.
We could just play it by ear as we go along with the nomination process for each tournament.
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It's a small difference, but I'd stick with 128 in the 1930s as well - it's actually a pretty good decade of film.
Yeah, I love the '30s movies, lots of really funny comedies!
I would play it by ear and see how the nominations go.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
And just like that our 1970s tournament is over! Thank you, everybody, for your voting and continued participation. We literally couldn’t do this without all of you!
We’re taking a short break as usual, but will be back in about a month to start the nominations process for the 1960s!
TBH, you might as well crown Psycho as the winner of the 1960s now and be done with it. The outcome is beyond inevitable.
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