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Polanski/Landis is a living experiment of "separate the art from the artist." I don't even know how I'd vote with them. Like Rosemary's Baby is one of my favorite films of all time, even though I haven't been compelling to rewatch it in years. I don't know how I'd feel about it on a rewatch and I don't know if I'd vote against it if it wasn't going against something really great. Its a weird question, but one I'm not uncomfortable with us testing. The problem is getting them past the nomination seeding on director name value. And if you team them with someone make sure it isn't someone you want to go down with the ship. So Team rear end in a top hat might be the best solution. Although part of me wants to team Polanski with the Jeepers Creepers guy as Team Pedophile to not brush past that. But also I don't want to nominate "Team Pedophile."
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"Not worth it" is my personal opinion on all of them. But also like... do what you feel.
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That's the thing. I feel like if we put them on the list they'd just end up losing the seeding vote and the best they'd get is a play in where they'd have to out class whoever they faced... which might end up being a 3 or 4 way. So like... I dunno, seems like a waste of time and ethical awkwardness.
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Deadline for Nominations is Monday, Dec 14th 12 noon EST We have a whopping 98 nominees and they'll all go into the vote to determine seeds and maybe all get a chance to play in based on what we decide. But we abandoned self control a long time ago and there's still tons of names and films out there. You can find some of them on the spreadsheet's second page but there's more out there for sure. Remember, rules are simple. You can add directors together until you get to 6+ films. You can have as many films as 10 (if its 2 with 5). Just don't cherry pick their lists to make it work. Good and bad films, on and off theme. We're watching it all. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rzRuxycZQQAkq1VjkgDyqTpmhrN_uVRSyk5d4D0I7Ig/edit#gid=0 For now I'm proposing but not nominating these three teams. They loosely work and I think all 6 guys should have a go, but if someone else has other ideas go for it. Team #1: Something, Something Silent Film Founding Fathers Tod Browning Freaks The Devil Doll The Unknown Mark of the Vampire Alfred Hitchcock Psycho Shadow of a Doubt Frenzy Rear Window Rope Team #2: Something, Something Universal? James Whale The Old Dark House Bride of Frankenstein Jack Arnold Creature From the Black Lagoon The Incredible Shrinking Man It Came From Outer Space Tarantula Monster on the Campus Team #3: Something, Something Cat People? Robert Wise The Haunting Curse of the Cat People The Body Snatcher Audrey Rose A Game of Death Jacques Tourneur Cat People Curse of the Demon The Leopard Man The Comedy of Terrors
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That's my bad. You had expressed ambiguity as to whether you'd use Haneke or Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala so I left it blank and meant to ask you. It just fell through the cracks.
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You know what my favorite part of stuff like this is? TRADES! Team Skellington - While Burton has nothing to do with Coraline and Monkeybone Nightmare Before Christmas is basically his opus despite the fact that he didn’t direct it. So Deb was kind of enough to do some horse trading and let me pair the two of them up for a collection of weird and dark, and yet family safe films. Tim Burton Beetlejuice Mars Attacks! Corpse Bride Dark Shadows Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Henry Selick Nightmare Before Christmas Coraline Monkey Bones That adapts Deb’s Family Friendly team from Selick and Hayao Miyazaki to Miyazaki, Don Bluth, and Jim freaking Henson Which I gotta say, I kinda love. Hayao Miyazaki Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Princess Mononoke Spirited Away Jim Henson Dark Crystal Labyrinth Don Bluth The Secret of NIMH
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And some guys I don't want left out. The Silent Founders - Two legends. Legends who started in silent film and moved to sound. Two guys who I can not leave out of this. Tod Browning Freaks The Devil Doll The Unknown Mark of the Vampire Alfred Hitchcock Psycho Shadow of a Doubt Frenzy Rear Window Rope Team Universal - Another two legendary directors of the early days who I can’t leave out. Sure, there’s like 20 years separating them and they’re not all that similar, but hey, they both made s plash with Universal and this list includes 2 of the greatest films of the dynasty. James Whale The Old Dark House Bride of Frankenstein Jack Arnold Creature From the Black Lagoon The Incredible Shrinking Man It Came From Outer Space Tarantula Monster on the Campus
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Nominations lock at noon EST Monday, tomorrow! Last Chance to get in teams or old directors! There’s still a lot of names in play. I added another 5 directors with 6+ last night. Adam Green, Joe D’Amato. Hideo Nakata. Takashi Shimizu, and Sergio Martino. We’re up to 107 nominees now, but why stop? You can see who’s in, and a few who aren’t yet here. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rzRuxycZQQAkq1VjkgDyqTpmhrN_uVRSyk5d4D0I7Ig/edit?usp=sharing Meanwhile here’s a few more teams I was waiting to see if anyone found places for but want in the pool. Team… I don’t know… Cat People? - I don’t know, i just really can’t leave them out. The Haunting, Curse of the Demon, Cat People. Our pool feels heavily more biased to the modern so I want to balance it a bit and get these two in. Robert Wise The Haunting Curse of the Cat People The Body Snatcher Audrey Rose A Game of Death Jacques Tourneur Cat People Curse of the Demon The Leopard Man The Comedy of Terrors Raiders of the Tomb - Ok, these aren’t legends by any means but As Above So Below is one of my favorite films and The Mummy Films are great and Basebf wanted Sommers in and loves Van Helloing but Spielberg had too many films and forced him off the team. So lets team up our horror finding explorers like their names were Indy and Lara. Stephen Sommers The Mummy The Mummy Returns Van Helsing Deep Rising John Erick Dowdle As Above So Below Devil The Poughkeepsie Tapes Quarantine Team “Ladies Night” - Just some notable and interesting films from women directors, which I think are worth adding to the pool. Ana Lily Amirpour A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night Anna Biller The Love Witch Issa Lopez Tigers Are Not Afraid Juliana Rojas Good Manners Hard Labor Rose Glass Saint Maud Team “More 👏 Women 👏 Directors” - They may not be the best, but hey they’re an under-represented pool. The Soska Sisters American Mary Rabid See No Evil 2 Dead Hooker in a Trunk Sophia Takal Black Christmas (2019) Always Shine New Year, New You
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Can't stop, won't stop. Just Two Weirdos Writing About Quirky Ladies Clumsily Lucky McKee May All Cheerleaders Die The Woman The Woods Kindred Spirits Tyler MacIntyre Tragedy Girls Patchwork Good Boy
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Ok, nominations are now locked. Sure, a bunch of people didn’t get listed but we do have a whopping 113 nominations! So the next step is whittling that down. I’ve got a Jungle Primary ready to go where you’ll have a chance to vote for as many as 40 of the 113. Why 40 instead of last year’s 25? Because that will give a wider field of votes and possibly set up an easy Play In set of nominees who got votes but not enough to get in. The plan right now is 60 seats will be filled and the final 4 will go to Play Ins. But that could change and we’ll talk about it once we have the numbers. But first our Automatic Bids. 8 nominees will get the #1 and 2 seeds in the tournament and get to skip the voting process. Each Council member will be able to choose one nominee. The council members were chosen by the top 8 posters in the last thread Debbie Does Dagon: Takashi Miike TrixRabbi: Shinya Tsukamoto Basebf555: Mario Bava Franchescanado: Dario Argento married but discreet: Wes Craven Shrecknet: Team “Dad Was Always Quiet” (Christoper Landon & Oz Perkins) Burkion MacheteZombie: John Carpenter So make your picks and when we have our 8 I’ll put up the vote and we’ll keep that open until after Christmas. Here's the nominees. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rzRuxycZQQAkq1VjkgDyqTpmhrN_uVRSyk5d4D0I7Ig/edit#gid=0 And yes, you can pick a team. I was gonna set a rule that says you can’t pick your own nominee but then if you were smart you’d just cut a deal with someone else so… whatever. You do you. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 05:33 on Dec 15, 2020 |
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Franchescanado posted:I am very glad Jack Hill got added. Total luck because I happened to watch Spider Baby last night.
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married but discreet posted:There's at least one duplicate entry (Sergio Martino).
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Yeah, I have a whole vote form ready to go just like last year. Just waiting to see which 8 nominees to take off the list.
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I think Argento probably would have made the pool even without the seed, but yeah its gonna be a tough road for him. We saw last time around that having a high seed doesn't really guarantee you much especially with these directors with large pools. And that's probably gonna be more random and tougher now that I'm counting all their films. If they're going up against a hand curated team they might be at the same basic disadvantage they had last time against the niche but selective directors. What I'm saying is Wes is totally gonna draw My Soul To Take 1st round and be eliminated again. Ok, I've PMed Burkion and Shreck since they're the last two and they haven't posted in this thread. I know Burk's around and aware. Shreck I'm not sure. If they don't respond to me by tonight I'll consider giving their spots to someone more active in here.
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God bless you for hilariously justifying the days I spent building hypothetical teams. And glad to have you on board. Just need Burkion now and I'll finalize and post the poll.
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Curveball! That's 8. Here's your top seeds. Debbie Does Dagon: Takashi Miike TrixRabbi: Shinya Tsukamoto Basebf555: Mario Bava Franchescanado: Dario Argento married but discreet: Wes Craven Shrecknet: Team “Dad Was Always Quiet” (Christoper Landon & Oz Perkins) Burkion: Agents Provocateur (Brian DePalma & Paul Verhoeven) MacheteZombie: John Carpenter That leaves 104 nominees we have to work down to 58. Jungle primary. You get up to 40 votes. When its all said and done we'll add them up, see who's in and where they seed, and figure out what we're doing with Play Ins. My thinking is that with 40 votes each it maybe gives us justification to ignore anyone who has 0 votes, especially since a lot of them were people I added automatically without being officially nominated. We'll see how that plays out but that means even if you think your favorite is a long shot it will be worth throwing them a vote. Even 1 vote might make the difference in giving them a chance. I'll leave the poll open until Dec 26th so we can just go through Christmas and then figure out our final format the last week of December. I've left the poll open to edits so you can go back and change your picks over the next 10 days if you change your minds or someone wins you over. So vote, feel free to share it, the more the merrier. And here's a link to the Nominations spreadsheet so you can check movie lists for directors/teams you're unsure of. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rzRuxycZQQAkq1VjkgDyqTpmhrN_uVRSyk5d4D0I7Ig/edit?usp=sharing And sorry that I'm even wordy in poll questions. Vote: https://forms.gle/khghFmLAf2FzCaYt8
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I was thinking "40 is too many" and then I just went through and picked everyone I liked just by name and figured I'd go back and check movies. Turns out I clicked 38 just by name. edit: gently caress, that WAS hard. I had to make cuts. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Dec 15, 2020 |
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28 of my 40 were teams. Also without giving anything away, 8 people have voted. No nominee has received 8 votes. 3 nominees have received 7 votes and only 2 of them are teams. Also of the 10 nominees to get 0 votes 0 of them are teams. So far I think the team experiment is a success.
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TrixRabbi posted:Oddly enough I've been thinking of rewatching Salo for awhile. Something something the rising tide of fascism. I don't hate it. Something to keep in mind after Christmas.
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20 have voted. Its been interesting. There's been some surprising results, both in the poll questions and in who is racking up the votes and who is trailing behind. Most interesting to me is that there's only 1 nominee with 16 votes and no one with more. The total votes are also spread across 100 of the 104 possible candidates. So tough luck for those 4, but its a real wide spread of votes. So much for that idea where I could just eliminate anyone who has 0 votes from the Play Ins and make that easy. There's a weird outlier of 4 votes marked "Other." I can't figure out what that's about. There is no "Other" option from what I and another could tell. I went through the ballots and there was no "Other" marked. I checked the nominees with odd characters like emojis but their votes seem to match. If it's an issue when this is over I can audit all the ballots and hand count or something. But it also strikes me that maybe 4 people with 0 votes and 4 Other votes isn't a coincidence. I'm not sure how that explains where there were 3 yesterday... but I guess if it doesn't go up to 5 that might be the answer. I dunno. We'll see. I still intend to keep it open until Christmas. I doubt we're in any rush to start this through the holidays. I'll pimp it around a little and feel free to do the same. The more the merrier.
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I gotta admit, I've been running some math on Play Ins and Schedules and The Void/Crab Bucket would solve some problems. I have a working theory but its not worth putting out there until we have the final vote tallies. The numbers can still change. How about a little fun? I set up the bracket and grouped the 1/2 seeds as everyone expected. Carpenter/Craven, Argento/Bava, Miike/Tsukamoto, and Agents Provocateur/Team "Lankins". I dubbed the Carpenter/Craven branch the "American Slasher Division" and split it between Hadonfield and Woodsboro. I dubbed the Argento/Bava branch the "Giallo Division" and split between Freiburg and Moldovia. Haven't figured the other two out yet. I'm open to change. Thoughts? Ideas? Just trying to have some fun while we wait. I also worked out the theoretical schedules for the 3 format options in the poll. I went with the idea of 2 weeks of Play Ins but that obviously could change depending on what we decide. The gist is that 8 films in 7 days would finish up just around May, 4 in 7 days would go through August, and 8 in 10 days would go into June. I just thought that might be useful to see if anyone is unsure about their vote. I dunno. I have a hard time sitting still. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rzRuxycZQQAkq1VjkgDyqTpmhrN_uVRSyk5d4D0I7Ig/edit#gid=590551869 STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 20:18 on Dec 18, 2020 |
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Divisions named (until someone comes up with something better). Tokyo Conference: #1 Takashi Miike in the Champions Division, #2 Shinya Tsukamoto in the Rookies Division. Doubles Conference: #1 Agents Provocateur (Brian DePalma & Paul Verhoeven) in the Disco & Dystopia Division, #2 Team Lankins (Christopher Landon and Oz Perkins) in the Prairie & Psychos Division. Italian Conference: #1 Dario Argentio in Giallo Division, #2 Mario Bava in Gothic Division. American Slasher Conference: #1 John Carpenter in Haddonfield Division, #2 Wes Craven in Hillsboro Division. If you got something better lay it on me. They're just names, although maybe we'll use them to settle tiebreakers when it comes to seeding. But I'm not gonna automatically put every Italian film in one division. That would be unfair/less fun IMO. M_Sinistrari posted:Sounds like we'll need to work on a Special Effects Maestro bracket at some point. If we had thought of it when we started I would have suggested a looser creative category than "Director". Just "Artists" or something. Directors, writers, producers, special effects, actors. Probably could have made for more fun team building and creativity. I just went with the Director thing since it felt like the easiest way to structure this without turning it into "build your own super team" or limiting the wide diversity of films. That probably would have worked just as well. There's always next year. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Dec 18, 2020 |
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It was two things. 1) I couldn't remember the town in Elm Street off the top of my head. 2) Letterboxd listened Scream as his most popular. Which I found odd and made me question the people of Letterboxd. Division now Springwood. EDIT: Also I just remember Miike lost the last one so "Champions" Division changed to "Veterans." I still don't really like that but can't think of better. I'm unfamiliar with the directors. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Dec 19, 2020 |
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Ok, fair. Champions again. I'm a pushover.
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I've had a rough couple of days. I'm hopeful things are getting better but just in case I gave Deb editing access to the spreadsheet. She'll probably be streaming for us and involved in this anyway but if something does happen I trust her to figure out the next step. But knock on wood, I'll be here at Christmas to get the ball rolling. 4 more days to vote. Pimp it out to your friends and family. 2020 was a tough one but one good thing it brought us was this fun movie club. So I for one am jacked to kick 2021 off with a new exciting round. But first we gotta vote. https://forms.gle/a3QguP4rHQLRvS4A9
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Thank you for your kind words. Things are looking better. Fingers crossed, knock on wood, all of that. Today I feel more like myself and my life feels more stable and back to normal and like I'll be able to do this. Hopefully it stays that way. And Merry Christmas! You might have run out of time for your Christmas shopping but you have one day left to make your votes for the 2021 Spook-A-Doodle Horror Bracketology. We'll be starting Jan 1st (life changing events allowing) but votes lock up Dec 26th. So if you haven't gotten them in yet now's your chance, and if you've had second thoughts on something now's your last chance to change it up. https://forms.gle/a3QguP4rHQLRvS4A9
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Voting is now closed. I'll work on results as I wake up. I'll tell you my first looks. There are 51 nominees with 8+ votes. That fills 59 of 64 spots. There are 15 nominees with 8 votes. So if my brain is working right that means 5 3-ways play ins for those last 5 slots. But I'll figure that all out when I wake up. I'll also reveal the #1 vote getter with 21 votes on 77.8% of ballots... George Romero! That top spot traded with a bunch of people the whole time but Romero made a late charge. Ok, I'm gonna find coffee and food and then you'll hear more later.
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Its a long shot but he still has Night, Creepshow, and the Crazies so I don't think he's drawing dead. He's also got a relatively small catalogue compared to some of his fellow "Masters of Horror" so that might help his odds of drawing a good film vs a bad.
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I was one of the 17 and not one of the 11. Because like... its right there in the name. It was a trick!
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Ok, lets break things down a little Rules   The “redrawing a hard to find film” rule change proved uncontroversial. Only 3 people out of 27 didn’t like it. Sorry guys. The “run the original if the sequel is drawn” rule proved much more divisive. While I could claim a victory for it on the numbers it seems clear the group is pretty evenly divided on it. So I’ll tread softly with it and be very open. If people think its being applied unfairly to help or hurt a nominee I’ll relent. My only intention was to eliminate a situation where some crazy person like me might feel compelled to watch a bunch of movies to be caught up. But we’ll see how it goes. Right now with the way the Format rules went I’m leaning towards not using it all since we’ll have more time to watch stuff. Format   These results surprised me a bit. The field was near universal in wanting us to be “slow and methodical” with things with just 4 people preferring “fast and ruthless.” And much to my surprise the plurality of votes went for “4 movies in 7 days”. With 48% of the field preferring that and another 26% voting for 8 in 10 days its clear the majority wants less films over more time. So I guess we’re doing 4 films a week. By my math that should take us into late August which might actually be kind of perfect since it means we’ll finish up with a month to chill before October. It makes this a whole year project but hey, why not? It certainly relieves the pressure of trying to fit in 8 films in 7 days.  Everyone also prefers a middle ground on the Play Ins. I probably worded that question terribly. I apologize for that. But the message seems relatively clear. We’re willing to take some time but we don’t want to drag it out too much. And I think the math actually works out perfectly for that. I kept trying to game out what the Play Ins would look like and how I’d seed and it kept changing dramatically. A couple of days ago I thought we were gonna have to run 7 1vs1, 1 3way, and have 4 wildcard slots. It was crazy. The final results were actually the cleanest I’ve seen. What we ended up with was 51 nominees with 9 or more votes and 15 with 8 votes. That math sets up for a clean 5 Play In spots for the 60th-64th spots in 3 ways. I think the best way to do that would be 2 a week so we don’t string it out so 6 films in 2 matchups Jan 1st, 6 in 2 Jan 8th, and then the last 3 in 1 Jan 15th. Then we’ll start our true tourney with 4 films a week in Jan 22nd. Does that sound good? Seeds There were 27 voters. The last ballot was submitted at 11:54 PM, 6 minutes before the official deadline (although 8 hours before I actually woke up and locked it). No one made all of the ballots with Romero coming closest at 21. There were big jumps this whole time Fulci, Hooper, Dante, Team David, and for a time Queer As In gently caress You as the top vote getter. A lot of diversity of ballots meant a lot of changes. I’m working on the full brackets. If you want to sneak ahead you can find the full vote counts and seeds on the Spreadsheet. When it came to seeds I simply used a random number generator to break ties. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rzRuxycZQQAkq1VjkgDyqTpmhrN_uVRSyk5d4D0I7Ig/edit#gid=0 Also, there’s 5 votes marked “Other” and I don’t know what the gently caress that is. For awhile I was thinking it was nominees with 0 votes since it was holding at 4 and there were 4 with 0. But last night it moved to 5 with still just 4 0s. So I dunno. Maybe there’s a 5th person with 1 vote? Maybe the Google algorithm just recognizes that as statistically insignificant and groups it all together? If people think its really an issue I’ll do a full audit but I rather not because that sucks. And all the weird character entries that might have been hurt by it are in. So I dunno. If you mind tell me. Not bad considering I still haven’t had my breakfast or coffee. But also I gotta go exchange some presents. So I’ll be back.
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I think he may have been my 41st. Sad, sad lack of a pity vote.
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We have a bracket! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rzRuxycZQQAkq1VjkgDyqTpmhrN_uVRSyk5d4D0I7Ig/edit?usp=sharing   Everything was done completely without bias. I started playing around with matchups but was convinced to entire randomize it. There’s some I love and some I don’t but its all on the up and up. I simply drew random numbers and lined them up. Tokyo Conference / Doubles Conference   Italian Conference / American Slasher Conference   We’ve got 5 three-way Play In matchups to fill the last 5 slots of the tournament (of everyone who got 8 votes). Since we said we wanted to do 4 films a week and 2-4 weeks of Play Ins tops I think the best approach is the 1 15 seed matchup of 3 films Week 1 and then 2 3-ways for 6 films a week in Weeks 2 and 3. So this would be our schedule theoretically. January 1st - 7th: Italy #15 Seed: Mary Lambert vs. Ruggero Deodato vs. STAC Goat's Radio Silence (Joe Swanberg, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Glenn McQuaid, Tyler Gillett, Justin Martinez, and Chad Villella) Jan 8th - 14th Tokyo #16 Seed: Franchescanado’s Team Vulgær (Gaspar Noe & Lars Von Trier) vs. Charles Band vs. married but discreet’s Top Giallo Schmorgasboard (Aldo Lado, Duccio Tessari, & Giulio Questi) Doubles #16 Seed: Tarnop's Predation (Jonathan Glazer, Tomas Alfredson, David Robert Mitchell, Michael Powell, Gerald Kargl, and Alice Lowe) vs. married but discreet's Giallo B Team (Emilio Miraglia & Massimo Dallamano) vs. M. Night Shyamalan Jan 15th - 21st Italy #16 Seed: TrixRabbi's Andrzej Żuławski & Other Poles (Jerzy Kawalerowicz) vs. Debbie Does Dagon's Silent Scream (FW Murnau, Robert Wiene, & Teinosuke Kinugasa) vs. STAC Goat's In Russia Doodle Spook You (Egor Abramenko, Georgiy Kropachyov, Konstantin Ershov, & Svyatoslav Podgaevsky) American Slasher #16 Seed: STAC Goat's Block Party (Joe Cornish, Oz Rodriguez, Ernest R. Dickerson, & Austin Vesely) vs. Tarnop's Lost & Found (Erik Kristopher Myers, Elliot Goldner, Phil Guidry, Simon Herbert, and David Whelan, Zachary Donohue, Joel Anderson, & Christopher MacBride) vs. Steven Spielberg Jan 22nd - 28th Field of 64 Begins What do we think? STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Dec 27, 2020 |
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Hahaha. I just worked out the schedule and we'll finish the first round on May 13th. We voted. You wanted it slow and methodical. Democracy works.
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And Lloyd Kaufman is gonna knock out Wes. I have cursed this tournament.
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The problem is the alternative is 9 movies in a week. The votes were pretty clear that we wanted more time than 8 movies a week so starting with a tighter crunch feels like the wrong move. Sure, they're "play ins" but the whole reason we're doing them is so we can watch more movies. If someone has a better idea I'm all ears.
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Yeah, I was surprised by the popularity of the 4 movie week when I was watching results but I had a couple of weeks to get used to it and realized I love it. Yeah, trying to squeeze 8 movies in can be a rush and fun but over the course of months its exhausting and consuming. It kind of feels great to knwo I can do this and also do other stuff.
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