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A New Knockout?

post #1 of 12
9/9/07 at 8:48pm
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I was thinking of setting up another Knockout, possibly a larger one this time. If there is enough interest of course. Also, I'd like to know what genre people might want to look at. We did Horror and Comedy, so maybe Action should come next. And then-would that include Westerns or Sci-Fi and the like with action elements?

There was talk of a Crime knockout, but I think that might be dealing with too many different styles. How much do Hard Target and The Godfather really have in common?
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post #2 of 12
9/9/07 at 9:01pm
Musicals! I would love to pit Hedwig & the Angry Inch against Oklahoma!
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post #3 of 12
9/9/07 at 11:14pm
I'm done with knockouts. They're arbitrary and pointless, and people gang up to eliminate things for ridiculous reasons. I don't see the point anymore.
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post #4 of 12
9/10/07 at 12:15am
Greg David vs. Knockouts!
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post #5 of 12
9/10/07 at 12:58am
Well, in http://chud.com/forums/showthread.php?t=92425 we had decided on the top three next knockouts, with Animation taking the top honors... but that was over a year ago. I'm all for another knockout. As pointless as they are, they can be a lot of fun and start some good debates and conversations. Sure, people gang up and unfairly knock things out, but it's not as if we're voting for president or anything of any real importance.
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post #6 of 12
9/10/07 at 1:57am
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Well, yes, they are totally pointless. By far my favorite thing about them is the different way people approach them. Some people will seriously consider which is the best and worst film, objectively, while others will vote purely out of spite.

And I was looking for that thread, so thanks.
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post #7 of 12
9/10/07 at 2:45am
It was when people decided that Alien didn't deserve any votes for horror because it had already won science fiction that I pretty much gave up.
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post #8 of 12
9/10/07 at 12:24pm
An animation one would be fun.
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post #9 of 12
9/10/07 at 4:20pm
Agreed, but how to handle it? Do we just go by American animation, do we include anime - which would probably overpower the list? And then there's the blurred lines with movies like A Scanner Darkly - would that be considered animation?
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post #10 of 12
9/14/07 at 12:32pm
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Originally Posted by Anjin
Well, in http://chud.com/forums/showthread.php?t=92425 we had decided on the top three next knockouts, with Animation taking the top honors... but that was over a year ago. I'm all for another knockout. As pointless as they are, they can be a lot of fun and start some good debates and conversations. Sure, people gang up and unfairly knock things out, but it's not as if we're voting for president or anything of any real importance.
I agree with that. The Knockouts are arbitrary to the extreme, but the conversations and debates that spill out of them are fun. (And the feuds can often be amusing from a distance.)
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post #11 of 12
9/14/07 at 12:36pm
Let's get meta and do a Knockout knockout.
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post #12 of 12
9/14/07 at 1:16pm
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson
Let's get meta and do a Knockout knockout.
We already did that here.
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