Blu-ray.com Film Tournament Idea Thread!! Suggestions Are Needed??

[Briscogun]

Originally Posted by jhiggy23

I actually think it's a great idea, not sure why someone automatically gave your thread 1 star.


What's gonna be difficult is getting the 64 movies that will compete. I would say pick only best picture winners, but not everyone has seen all those films (not even myself!). So maybe the top eight films in each of the following eight categories. Then you seed them all like for a normal tourney. To get the top eight, look back at some of the old threads. You def can find the top eight for sci-fi, romance/romantic comedy, and horror because we've had threads about them.



War
Sci-Fi
Comedy
Romance/romantic comedy
Action/adventure
Animated (even though it's not a genre, but a medium)
Drama
Horror

I love the concept, however... the problem with this format is that certain genre's are going to have many more worthy entries, such Drama versus Comedy. We could come up with 64 worthy drama films alone. Even though a horror movie may be "good", I don't think anyone can make a cogent arguement for a "Horror Movie as Best Film of All Time" debate, though.

Most "bracket style" tournaments have 4 quadrants, so realistically, you would need 4 "categories", or genres. There is a radio station out where I live that is doing this exact same thing right now, but they are breaking it up into decades (last year they did movies, this year it's TV shows). So it's: 70's, 80's, 90's and 00's. If you did that here, though, that would leave a TON of worthy movies off the list.

And don't just default to Best Picture winners. Time has shown that the winners are not always the best film, but merely the "winner" in that moment.

There is a lot of merit to keeping genre versus genre, though, as stated above. I mean, it's easier to pit sci-fi vs. sci-fi. Aliens vs. Blade Runner? There's a good debate! Aliens vs. Airplane? Get's a little stickier... maybe that's the best option? Do one "tournament" for each genre, then put those top seeds up against each other in a "final bracket"? Would take longer, but would silence the critics?

This is the problem: no matter what "format" you come up with, 100 people will always find 100 things or entries that you omitted. Just know going in that you will NOT be able to please probably even half the people involved. If you do the work, though, I will happily and quietly participate, no complaints from me. If we're not organizing it, we lose the ability to throw Czar under the bus when we don't like the results!