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To make things even, You need to nominate one movie from each given genre in order for your nominations to count. Once we have a winner in each genre we will randomly match them to decide what is the BEST MOVIE EVER! We will have 16 movies in 8 genres for 128 movies total (Open to change). Each round will last 24 hours. Sound good? Questions?

 

If 16 people don't nominate movies, we can have repeat customers.You can choose a musical for whichever category you feel it would fall under. People's picks will be open for debate as to weather they fall under the chosen category or not.

 

Genres and my selections:

 

Action & Adventure: The Terminator

 

Comedy: Chasing Amy

 

Crime & Gangster: Carlito's Way

 

Drama: Fight Club

 

Epics & Historical: Jurassic Park

 

Horror: A Nightmare On Elm Street

 

Sci-Fi: Star Wars

 

War & Westerns: Lawrence of Arabia

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I'm in. I don't know about the genres though. Like, my list would definitely include Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but would it go under comedy, drama, or scifi? Would Aliens be action, horror, scifi, or war? And yeah, how does Jurassic Park count as "epic/historical"?

 

Come to think of it, I wouldn't mind just doing a horror movie tournament. I've seen a larger percentage of those than any other genre I can think of, and it'd be fun. Especially for all the people cussing at me when I vote against Dario Argento in every round regardless of who his opponent is.

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Eh, why not? I think the categories are little off (Lawrence of Arabia isn't a historical epic, but Jurassic Park is?) but I'll put in some noms.

 

Action & Adventure: Raiders of the Lost Ark

 

Comedy: Ghostbusters

 

Crime & Gangster: The Godfather

 

Drama: Casablanca

 

Epics & Historical: Ben-Hur

 

Horror: Psycho

 

Sci-Fi: Blade Runner

 

War & Westerns: Shane

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Action & Adventure: INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE

 

Comedy: NATIONAL LAMPOONS VACATION

 

Crime & Gangster: GOODFELLAS

 

Drama: THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP

 

Epics & Historical: THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIFE

 

Horror: THE WICKERMAN (original)

 

Sci-Fi: 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY

 

War & Westerns: UNFORGIVEN

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Action & Adventure: Die Hard

 

Comedy: There's Something about Mary

 

Crime & Gangster: The Departed

 

Drama: The Dark Knight

 

Epics & Historical: Gangs of New York

 

Horror: Texas Chainsaw Massacre

 

Sci-Fi: Harry Potter series?

 

War & Westerns: Full Metal Jacket

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Action & Adventure: Robocop

 

Comedy: Wristcutters: A Love Story

 

Crime & Gangster: Godfather II

 

Drama: La Dolce Vita

 

Epics & Historical: Schindler's List

 

Horror: Dawn of the Dead (old one)

 

Sci-Fi: Starship Troopers

 

War & Westerns: Roma, città aperta

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Action/Adventure: T-2: Judgment Day

 

Comedy: Mallrats

 

Crime/Gangster: Casino

 

Drama: The Shawshank Redemption

 

Epics/Historical: Gladiator

 

Horror: Silence of the Lambs

 

Sci-Fi: The Empire Strikes Back

 

War/Western: Saving Private Ryan

 

Although, I don't know if I like the breakdown. Drama, Crime, and War/Western seem like they would have more quality representatives for a "best movie ever" poll, whereas it'll be a stretch to get 16 movies from say the comedy category that could legitimately contend for best ever.

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Obviously some movies fall under more than one category. I would put Eternal Sunshine under drama, though I guess it could fit in Sci-Fi. The categories shouldn't be taken too strictly so it will give people some space to move (If there's another sci-fi you wanted you could put it under drama to keep your sci-fi pick open etc.)

 

I thought Jurassic Park would fall under epic as it was a big budget movie with huge sets and special effects/robotics. (Movies can be an epic and/or historical, they don't have to be both to be in this category.)

 

I had to fit all the categories into 8 to make even numbers... I stuck War and Westerns together because I thought they are semi related and around 8 of each would be enough. There's no spot for cartoons, but you can pick a cartoon for whatever other category it'd fall under (Comedy, drama or whatever) if you want.

 

I will keep it how it is since a few people have already picked. It won't be perfect but at least we should end up with 128 good movies in 8 categories to choose from.

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Action & Adventure: INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE

 

Comedy: NATIONAL LAMPOONS VACATION

 

Crime & Gangster: GOODFELLAS

 

Drama: THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP

 

Epics & Historical: THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIFE

 

Horror: THE WICKERMAN (original)

 

Sci-Fi: STAR WARS: EPISODE IV

 

War & Westerns: UNFORGIVEN

 

I nominated Star Wars Episode IV. I should have specified. You can a replacement nomination for Sci-Fi.

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A movie tournament is all well and good (even though they're done to death) but seriously, can we not have "according to TSM" involved here? I just don't like the idea of our forum repping what will quite possibly end up being a piece of shit flick.

 

Yeah, like when you guys picked Jackie as the hottest girl in the world. Ha!

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Ok, "War and Westerns" should not be in the same category. I'm helllllllla splittin' em up.

 

 

Action & Adventure: Kill Bill

 

Comedy: The 40 Year Old Virgin

 

Crime & Gangster: The Godfather, pt. II

 

Drama: Taxi Driver

 

Epics & Historical: 300?

 

Horror: Dawn of the Dead (original)

 

Sci-Fi: Return of the Jedi

 

War: Saving Private Ryan

 

Western: Fistful of Dollars

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But then it turns into the wrong number of nominees... ah, hell with it.

 

Action & Adventure: Hard-Boiled

 

Comedy: Clerks

 

Crime & Gangster: The Godfather

 

Drama: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

 

Epics & Historical: Lawrence of Arabia

 

Horror: Night of the Living Dead

 

Sci-Fi: Aliens

 

War & Westerns: Apocalypse Now

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Action & Adventure: Terminator II

 

Comedy: The Big Lebowski

 

Crime & Gangster: LA Confidential

 

Drama: Memento

 

Epics & Historical: All the President's Men

 

Horror: 28 Days Later

 

Sci-Fi: Children of Men

 

War & Westerns: Black Hawk Down

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Action & Adventure: Sweet Movie

 

Comedy: Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom

 

Crime & Gangster: Anatomy of Hell

 

Drama: Pink Flamingos

 

Epics & Historical: The Opening of Misty Beethoven

 

Horror: The Brown Bunny

 

Sci-Fi: Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS

 

War & Westerns: I Spit on Your Grave

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Just 4 more people need to make nominations. The same movie can be nominated for different categories like what happened with Lawrence of Arabia. If a movie wins in two genres it will go up against itself in round five.

 

Action and Adventure: Total Recall

Comedy: UHF

Crime and Gangster: Gran Torino

Drama: Rocky

Epics & Historical: 300

Horror: Nightmare on Elm Street 3

Sci-Fi: Robocop

War and Westerns: Hotel Rwanda

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