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post #1 of 26
11/16/07 at 11:51am
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It has to be a movie.
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post #2 of 26
11/16/07 at 11:54am
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We're going off of the US Release date.

Between Jan 1st 2000 up to present day (which I suppose will be floating).

[If you're cool enough to see movies in advance of their release date, like maybe you saw There Will Be Blood and want to draft that, that's cool. Cool people get special privileges.]
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post #3 of 26
11/16/07 at 4:18pm
What are the prerequisites to enter a draft?
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post #4 of 26
11/16/07 at 4:41pm
Is a certain trilogy going to be considered three separate movies or (as I think) one giant mega-movie?
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post #5 of 26
11/16/07 at 5:30pm
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Originally Posted by Ratty
Is a certain trilogy going to be considered three separate movies or (as I think) one giant mega-movie?
Unless it's Grindhouse it should be 3 movies. Same with Kill Bill being 2.

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What are the prerequisites to enter a draft?
In the past Nick has had a post/Join date minimum with previous drafters given first chance to sign up. If all the spots weren't fillled then it was open to all. Not sure that applies here. Main thing is that you show up and don't miss picks.
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post #6 of 26
11/16/07 at 6:00pm
It will done in a thread.
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post #7 of 26
11/16/07 at 6:13pm
I'm forgetting if the Babe Draft went in 1 - X, X - 1 order, but I'm hoping that applies to this draft. There're a lot more quality skirts than there are movies.

Edit- Er... especially since my draft order seems to be slipping precipitously.

And how is the Kill Bill thing still a question? It's one movie.
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post #8 of 26
11/16/07 at 7:14pm
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Kill Bill is two movies for this draft. LOTR is three. And anything else like it: same deal.

Draft is done in a thread. There will be one thread for each of the five rounds.

It is a straight draft not a snake draft. So the same draft order repeats every round.
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post #9 of 26
11/16/07 at 7:18pm
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The list of drafters is not the draft order. I'll do that after sign ups are done. Capping it at 30 probably. And then I'll save 5 slots for special guests if any arrive.
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post #10 of 26
11/16/07 at 7:25pm
Thanks for organizing this Kirby! When will this start? After Thanksgiving?
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post #11 of 26
11/16/07 at 7:27pm
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I'd like to start this Monday but then the Thanksgiving holiday kind of blows it all to shit so I'm thinking the following Monday, the 26th and I may split the rounds into two days and then the draft would last two weeks. I'm hoping that's cool because people want to discuss the movies vs. just the mindless drafting of them.

Dissidents and conformists may voice their opinions on this matter in this thread.
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post #12 of 26
11/16/07 at 7:30pm
If we're going off US release date does that mean something like Army of Shadows would apply, but not a reissue of a new cut of an older film?
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post #13 of 26
11/16/07 at 7:31pm
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Originally Posted by Kirby Drummond
It is a straight draft not a snake draft. So the same draft order repeats every round.
It's always been done straight but maybe I'll consider snakin' it due to the nature and content of the draft. I'll sleep on it.
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post #14 of 26
11/16/07 at 7:33pm
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Only first release. Let's not get too technical. I want to represent the best of the 21st Century basically (w/the cheat of the year 2000 and, yes, something like Killer of Sheep or Army of Shadows). But mostly, the best new films is what we want.
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post #15 of 26
11/20/07 at 9:46pm
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If you're seriously going to say that any one of the three Lord of the Rings movies qualifies as one of the top five movies you've seen over the past eight years, then you need to (1) resign your spot in the draft so that I can take it and (2) get busy seeing other movies.

(Yeah, I know the whole "Shhh! That's more good movies for us." rationale would suggest keeping this insight to myself, but still...)
1) yes I would. to each his own.

2) I wanted a general clarification for the rules

3) eat my ass
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post #16 of 26
11/20/07 at 10:10pm
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Originally Posted by R-Lu
If you're seriously going to say that any one of the three Lord of the Rings movies qualifies as one of the top five movies you've seen over the past eight years, then you need to (1) resign your spot in the draft so that I can take it and (2) get busy seeing other movies.
Jeez, we're doing a movie draft. The last I read was that it has to be a movie released in the 00's. What the hell, do we need to only come up with obscure, arthouse movies to be considered legitimate picks? Shit, I think my 5th pick is going to be Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3D. You got a problem with that?
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post #17 of 26
11/20/07 at 10:13pm
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Cool, the heat's starting already. I want people to barb and jab. I want to see the leet vs. the Midwest. Bring it on.
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post #18 of 26
11/20/07 at 10:15pm
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Let's all have thick skins too. I want picks to be ravaged and then defended with no hard feelings afterwards. I don't want to see just pats on the back and nice-nice bullshit.
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post #19 of 26
11/20/07 at 11:40pm
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Let's all have thick skins too. I want picks to be ravaged and then defended with no hard feelings afterwards. I don't want to see just pats on the back and nice-nice bullshit.
Shields up, gentlemen. Shields up.
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post #20 of 26
11/21/07 at 12:48am
There may come a day when the taste of geeks will fail, but not this day.
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post #21 of 26
11/27/07 at 3:03am
Here's another question for the draft: does the movie have to premiere theatrically? If I wanted to choose RUN GRANNY RUN, which is an honest, yet flawed documentary that ran on HBO a while back during the 2000-2007 time frame, would this count?

With everybody focusing in on theatrical releases, just wanted to check if other avenues were available.
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post #22 of 26
11/28/07 at 12:25pm
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Theatrical releases are what I was going for.

Documentaries would be fine.
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post #23 of 26
11/29/07 at 11:27am
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No weekends.
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post #24 of 26
11/29/07 at 11:28am
Can we pick more than one film each round?
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post #25 of 26
11/30/07 at 6:39pm
So, is the´Death Star´ a vehicle, a weapon OR BOTH?
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post #26 of 26
11/30/07 at 6:52pm
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Originally Posted by Graham
So, is the´Death Star´ a vehicle, a weapon OR BOTH?
It's no moon, that's for sure.
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