Topic: Movie Draft Tournament - Semifinals Complete

[charlie]

Time for the semi-finals...

Participants

• axon (1)
• KnuckleBuckett (5)
• Dalamar (2)
• ober (4)
• charlie (7)
• Perspective (6)
• PJYelton (3)

Please only vote for one option in each section. You can vote for yourself.

The poll expires in 3 days. At that time the winners will be matched up against each other in the final round.

I changed this one so you can see the results after you vote since admins and mods can see the tallies anyway.

Quarterfinals
Draft Thread

(individual lists copied below...)

[charlie]

Perspective

Pulp Fiction (1994)	Back to the Future (1985)
Braveheart (1995)	The Matrix (1999)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)	Into the Wild (2007)
Forrest Gump (1994)	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)	Jurassic Park (1993)
Pi (1998)	Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)	The Fugitive (1993)
Toy Story (1995)	The Negotiator (1998)
Insomnia (2002)	U-571 (2000)
Changing Lanes (2002)	Days of Thunder (1990)

vs.



PJYelton

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)	Fight Club (1999)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)	The Sixth Sense (1999)
Amélie (2001)	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Extended) (2002)	Memento (2000)
A Christmas Story (1983)	The Dark Knight (2008)
The Legend of Drunken Master (1994)	Aliens (1986)
The Big Lebowski (1998)	The Incredibles (2004)
Sin City (2005)	Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Die Hard (1988)	Frailty (2001)

[charlie]

axon

Taxi Driver (1976)	Léon: The Professional (European Version) (1994)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)	Apocalypse Now (1979)
Legends of the Fall (1994)	Raging Bull (1980)
Goodfellas (1990)	The Departed (2006)
The Boondock Saints (1999)	A Few Good Men (1992)
The Deer Hunter (1978)	The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Beetle Juice (1988)	Office Space (1999)
Seven Samurai (1954)	Heat (1995)
American History X (1998)	The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Platoon (1986)	First Blood (1982)

vs.



charlie

The Godfather (1972)	The Usual Suspects (1994)
There's Something About Mary (1998)	Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
Gladiator (2000)	Rudy (1993)
Rounders (1998)	And the Band Played On (1993)
Good Will Hunting (1997)	Airplane! (1980)
The Hunt for Red October (1990)	The Bourne Identity (2002)
The Princess Bride (1987)	South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (1999)
The Rock (1996)	The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)	The Emperor's New Groove (2000)

[ober]

Perspective and Charlie.  I actually tallied the number of movies I agreed with for each person that time.  Close for both.

[Bassy]

ohh axon has a great list there - i think he has quite a few of my all time top 10 filums

[charlie]

Yeah, axon's got a good list, but I prefer a little more variety so I voted for myself.

And Perspective vs PJYelton was really close. I graded all the movies 1-3 and PJ just barely won.

[Jake]

Yeah, axon's got a good list, but I prefer a little more variety so I voted for myself.

yep - I didn't go for strategy in this draft hopefully it wont bite me in the ass at the end

Perspective vs PJ - I used the same grading scheme as before and came up dead even! one movie made all the difference.....but I'll tell you which one after we're done.

[charlie]

It's not strategy... it's just assuming that I had to watch these movies and only these movies for the rest of my life.

There were quite a few movies I would consider to be much higher quality than some I chose, but I wanted stuff I'd like to watch a lot. Of course, the point of this is that there are no rules to how you approach picking or voting, so I wouldn't be surprised if picking great films is actually a better strategy.

[PJYelton]

Wow as of right now both races are tied 3-3.  Had to choose Charlie, while axon certainly has a lot of high quality choices they weren't quite movies I'd want to be watching over and over again for the rest of my life.

[Perspective]

oooooh, the race is on!

[Bassy]

Perspective v PJ - hmm fraid that ace ventura made my vote go to PJ - though PJ also had some great movies I have watched soooo many times

[ober]

WTF, my votes got wiped out... oh well, voted again.

[PJYelton]

Congrats Perspective, damn, I knew I should have voted for myself.

[charlie]

WTH? Why didn't you vote for yourself?

Anyhoo, I'm surprised I won this easily... axon had a nice list. And I guess there won't be a repeat winner now.

[PJYelton]

I'm joking, of course I voted for myself