OK, following on the heels of the Greatest Album Survivor I had several requests to start another survivor thread, a couple people thought maybe a movie survivor would be fun so over the last week or so I've posted way too many threads to try and iron out a format, and the response has been great so let's go!!
Here is the outline (Modified format from the Album Survivor which was derived from Ignatus' Frontman survivor
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First off...based on an informal vote I've decided to go with Decades and Genres to break this bad boy down.
the decades will be:
2000's
1990's
1980's
1970's and beyond
The Genres will be:
Action/Adventure
Comedy
Drama
Horror
The way that I will determine if a movie is eligible for each Genre or Decade is by using IMDB.? For ease of access (and to jog memories) I'll supply a link at the beginning of each nomination thread:
http://www.imdb.com/chart/2000shttp://www.imdb.com/chart/1990shttp://www.imdb.com/chart/1980shttp://www.imdb.com/chart/1970shttp://www.imdb.com/chart/1960sIf (and only if) a movie doesn't contain at least one of the genres listed then I'll use sub-genres to determine where it qualifies:
the classification of the Sub Genre's are as follows:
Action/Adventure (Animation; Family; Fantasy; Sci-Fi; Sport; War; Western)
Comedy (stands alone)
Drama (Biography, Crime; Film-Noir; History; Music; Musical; Mystery; News; Romance)
Horror (Thriller)
(Note: ....Animation and sci-fi movies come in a wide variety of genres...if it is a horror/anime/sci-fi - then it's a horror...comedy/sci-fi - nominate in comedy....anime/action/fantasy....it's action)
By the same turn there are movies that are listed as having multiple genres...those are allowed to be nominated in each category that they fall under.? (Action/Comedy for example qualify as both an Action and a Comedy)
I'll start with Action/Adventure flicks in the 2000's.
So for the Nominations thread, just supply a list of the 10 movies, from the decade and genre listed, that you think should be considered to enter the Best Movie of all Time Survivor. Once you cast the votes, I'll then provide the list with the most voted Movies from the appropriate decade/genre based on your votes. We will then vote off our least favorite (as done in the Frontman and Album survivors) to get to the top 3 of each decade/genre. We will then move to the 90's, and so on and so forth. once we get a top 3 for each category then we will determine the top 2 movies of all time for each genre.
once those 8 are determined then we will go one by one until we have a sole survivor
Rules.-
1.- As said, we all make the list. Majority wins. (I'm voting in this one
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2.- We can each nominate only 10 movies per category. That's all. If you can't come up with 10, just supply as many as you can. The purpose of these nominations is to have as many people involved as possible. If you supply more than 10 I take into account only the first 10 you type
3.- If a movie advances in one round then it is ineligble for further rounds.
4.- Orig release dates only....no special editions and redux's
5.- Documentaries or anything resembling them are not going to be included in this Survivor
6.- Live concerts or stand-up comedies....not allowed
7.- Television shows...not allowed
Once we start voting movies off we'll undoubtably come up with a tie here or there...after a round of voting, if two or more movies are tied, the tiebreakers will go as followed:
1. I will go by past votes in other rounds. (most previous votes is eliminated)
2. if they are still tied, i will go by Number of nominations (more nominations advances)
3. if they are still tied I will go by whether or not i nominated the album (if i got it in my list then it stays)
4. if there is still a tie i will do a mini-thread
I think that's all.
If any of you have any suggestions or comments, feel free to pm me or post them here. (everything is still open for discussion, most importantly the Sci-Fi genre and exactly how many decades we'll go with)
Also we can use this thread to discuss the events as they unfold...I'll bump it as it is pushed off page 1