Battle of the Best Picture Nominees

George Bush steals another election

I switch my vote back to Avengement. I had my fun.

In a decision that will upset half of us (myself included), and make the other half happy (Doomsday), the final verdict is in. The final has been up 3 days, and the last 3 pages are primarily back and forth, nonsensical discussions. As much as I love it, after 2 months, I just want this to end so we can move on to the next tournament.

With that being said, and taken into account Godzilla's decision to retract their vote, I am crowning the winner of the Best Action Film of the Decade to....

Also, thank you for putting this together. It was a ton of fun, and I seriously hope we can schedule an Avengement watch party.

I will host if no one else will. We'll just have to reset it every 45 minutes cause I'm not paying $150 for educator-version Zoom.

 A quick follow-up on the next idea as well. I won't go in much detail now, but safe to say, I had been going back and forth the last couple ideas of what would follow this. I'll start by saying I won't be doing the Best Action Films of the 2000's, at least not yet. Safe to say that I will revisit this later on, but for now I want to do something else. 

I thought of continuing the Best of the Decade idea with my favorite performances of the decade, and while I want to do this one, I need to do some more thinking on who I want to put in, and how many performances. It will most likely be beyond the traditional 64. After putting that aside for the time being, I started thinking about more film based tournaments. It was back and forth between another themed idea, such as Best Action movies, or more of a random list of films, based off ones I watched during quarantine. 

Ultimately, I settled on doing another theme, as it sort of helps me narrow my options down and the planning becomes a little more  organic. The theme for this tournament will be The Franchise Film tournament based off of, you guessed it, existing Film Franchises that have a minimum of three movies or more. Ideally I want to select franchises that have closer to 4-5 films minimum, but depending on the numbers I need to complete the bracket, I will allow a trilogy. 

I'll quickly explain some of the decision making on how I view the franchises for this as well. To make things easy, I won't be splitting up these franchises that have had reboots, or aren't apart of some original canon. There won't be the Christopher Nolan Batman versus the Burton/Schumacher renditions. In this tournament, they are all under the same roof. Same goes for franchises like Alien or Lord of the Rings. I won't split Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit up, and I will count the two Promethus movies.

For the first go round, we have 8 different franchises, and while I will the keep the other 7 a secret, I will tell you the main one, in terms of numbers will be The James Bond Franchise. The Bond films will be spread out evenly on both sides of the bracket. As for the rest, they have for the most part been assigned to one side of the bracket or the other. I am still working on the final version of the bracket, so there could be some slight changes in that regard.

That is it for now. Again, I appreciate everyone's voting thus far along with the lively discussion. I hope to see it continue.

You don't have to watch Riki-Oh!

If it makes you feel any better, I appoint you as the head of the Supreme Court.






I know, but I still need more time for that. And I guess its similar to Ian's, but I think different enough. And also, I have the franchises picked and the bracket almost done, so I think that's what's next.

We could always use Discord.

I’ve heard from people who try to screenshare Zoom movies with friends is that there’s significant lag and stuttering.

Avengement watch party planning thread in the Community forum.

I'm placing my early bet on "Emmanuelle in Space"