Oh I'm sorry, Did I Break Your Conversation........Well Allow Me A Movie Thread by S&T

We could have like 7/9/11 people (an odd number) that frequent this thread that don't decide to participate in the draft cast a vote on who they think has the best list and then you'll just add em up or whatever.
 
^ true, I woulda forgot to put a Sports movie, for sure.
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CP1708, recently gave me a heads up about this thread so I thought I'd contribute. Other than the obvious suggestions for films to watch, I suggest True Romance. I've been going back and forth reading screenplays and watching the films that are developed afterwards. Even though it's not a "great" film, I thoroughly enjoyed it. The final product was very, very close to the original script. Screenplay was written by Quentin Tarentino and directed by Tony Scott. The cast is real strong as well. It was released after Tarentino's first major hit (Reservoir Dogs), and you can see a lot early influences that carried to his future work.
I've also started watching some of Federico Fellini's films, notably La Dolce Vita and 8½. La Dolce Vita basically overtook Girl on the Bridge as my favorite foreign film of all time, but it's tough for me to recommend because it's 3 hours long and to be frank, neorealism isn't for everyone. 

If any of you wanted to nice foreign flick to watch though, Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal is great and more recently I re-watched Y Tu Mamá También (a coming of age film) which is solid.
 
CP1708, recently gave me a heads up about this thread so I thought I'd contribute. Other than the obvious suggestions for films to watch, I suggest True Romance. I've been going back and forth reading screenplays and watching the films that are developed afterwards. Even though it's not a "great" film, I thoroughly enjoyed it. The final product was very, very close to the original script. Screenplay was written by Quentin Tarentino and directed by Tony Scott. The cast is real strong as well. It was released after Tarentino's first major hit (Reservoir Dogs), and you can see a lot early influences that carried to his future work.
I've also started watching some of Federico Fellini's films, notably La Dolce Vita and 8½. La Dolce Vita basically overtook Girl on the Bridge as my favorite foreign film of all time, but it's tough for me to recommend because it's 3 hours long and to be frank, neorealism isn't for everyone. 

If any of you wanted to nice foreign flick to watch though, Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal is great and more recently I re-watched Y Tu Mamá También (a coming of age film) which is solid.
 
I guess it depends how deep we want this draft to go. Here are some genres to choose from. I'm sure Westerns will get hated on but it's the most American genre and the most historic. Musicals are really important but I know that's not going to happen. We could probably merge Drama/Crime/Action/War to some extent. There's also the option for bench and utility spots. I think we get it to 10 spots in all, times ten players, that's 100 movies per decade. Very doable with lots of movies to choose from.

Drama
Comedy
Horror
Crime
Action
Science Fiction
War
Western
"Indie"
 
I guess it depends how deep we want this draft to go. Here are some genres to choose from. I'm sure Westerns will get hated on but it's the most American genre and the most historic. Musicals are really important but I know that's not going to happen. We could probably merge Drama/Crime/Action/War to some extent. There's also the option for bench and utility spots. I think we get it to 10 spots in all, times ten players, that's 100 movies per decade. Very doable with lots of movies to choose from.

Drama
Comedy
Horror
Crime
Action
Science Fiction
War
Western
"Indie"
 
On second thought Westerns probably aren't a good idea for this draft. I know someone's going to take Wild Wild West. My goal is for no Will Smith movie to be taken but that's probably a pipe dream.
 
On second thought Westerns probably aren't a good idea for this draft. I know someone's going to take Wild Wild West. My goal is for no Will Smith movie to be taken but that's probably a pipe dream.
 
Yeah even if we expand to 12 owners, 10 movies per with 8 agreed too genres and 2 wildcards per owner, that's 120 movies total for the entire 90's decade. We could also have dual positions, but that might be a stretch. Saving Private Ryan could be action-war-drama. You could slot it in any spot. Scream could be horror or comedy. Something like that.
 
Yeah even if we expand to 12 owners, 10 movies per with 8 agreed too genres and 2 wildcards per owner, that's 120 movies total for the entire 90's decade. We could also have dual positions, but that might be a stretch. Saving Private Ryan could be action-war-drama. You could slot it in any spot. Scream could be horror or comedy. Something like that.
 
Exactly. Some movies get roster flexibility.

If you want to go Saving Private Ryan for Drama and Three Kings for War that's like the guy who drafts Chris Paul at PG and Felton at SG.

It'll be interesting to see how different managers round out their team. Instead of a sports category though I think the managers should just make an effort to put sports films in their team, or at least have an explanation as to how their choices pertain to sports. I mean even Billy Madison has wrestling in it so it shouldn't be too hard.
 
Exactly. Some movies get roster flexibility.

If you want to go Saving Private Ryan for Drama and Three Kings for War that's like the guy who drafts Chris Paul at PG and Felton at SG.

It'll be interesting to see how different managers round out their team. Instead of a sports category though I think the managers should just make an effort to put sports films in their team, or at least have an explanation as to how their choices pertain to sports. I mean even Billy Madison has wrestling in it so it shouldn't be too hard.
 
Originally Posted by JPZx

We could have like 7/9/11 people (an odd number) that frequent this thread that don't decide to participate in the draft cast a vote on who they think has the best list and then you'll just add em up or whatever.
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I have an idea...

after the draft is finalized, maybe we publicize it on my blog and have people vote that way, so it's more out there.

everyone would have to push it so everyone knows of it.

then after a couple weeks we can see where everyone stands
 
Originally Posted by JPZx

We could have like 7/9/11 people (an odd number) that frequent this thread that don't decide to participate in the draft cast a vote on who they think has the best list and then you'll just add em up or whatever.
Click to expand...

I have an idea...

after the draft is finalized, maybe we publicize it on my blog and have people vote that way, so it's more out there.

everyone would have to push it so everyone knows of it.

then after a couple weeks we can see where everyone stands
 
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