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Bracket regrets?
« on: February 15, 2009, 03:34:55 PM »
Anybody have any?

Not that it's going to change anything, but does anyone have any verdicts that time has made them wish they could flip?

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Sometimes I think back to my choosing Dead Man over In The Company of Men. I think I'm just surprised I came to the decision I did. Dead Man just doesn't strike me as my kind of movie.

What I mean is, these days I find life itself (work, relationships, etc) provides all the complications I could want. I don't really need any more riddles, I spend plenty of time thinking over the ones I've got. I like a movie that comes to its own conclusions. A movie that can say "here's a key, try it". If it works it works, if it doesn't it doesn't. It's like a mingling of philosophies, the filmmakers and my own. Two heads are better than one. I like a filmmaker who's not afraid to make a point.

I find the "figure it out yourself" attitude of some movies unnecessary. It's like, "here's a challange for you, there's no right answer because we never came up with one, you'll have to come up with your own conclusion". That feels like a waste of time to me. I could spend that time thinking over my own life, not some make believe one of no consequence. I get it... I'm suppose to find my own answers to the movie and then in a moment of revelation I am suddenly blessed with a clearer understanding of the real world!  ::) That's romantic, but not very thorough. All I'm really doing is having a discussion with myself. I can do that without a movie on.

I'm rambling a bit. It's not as big an issue as I'm making it out to be.

All that said, I don't know if I would or wouldn't pick Dead Man again.  ;)
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Re: Bracket regrets?
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2009, 03:39:31 PM »
I regret not joining earlier.

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Re: Bracket regrets?
« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2009, 03:39:58 PM »

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Re: Bracket regrets?
« Reply #3 on: February 15, 2009, 04:55:53 PM »
I regret the mistakes made by others.
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Re: Bracket regrets?
« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2009, 04:56:57 PM »
I regret the mistakes made by others.
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Re: Bracket regrets?
« Reply #5 on: February 15, 2009, 05:02:26 PM »
I regret having to choose between Ghost Dog and The Insider a few weeks back (eventually knocking out The Insider).

I regret having to choose between Passage to Buddha and Sting of Death last week (knocking out Sting of Death)

I regret having knocked out Big Night.

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Re: Bracket regrets?
« Reply #6 on: February 15, 2009, 05:27:58 PM »
Regret not writing up some of my verdicts as well as other due to laziness.  I also regret the absence of the big red STAMP.

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Re: Bracket regrets?
« Reply #7 on: February 15, 2009, 05:36:11 PM »
I regret choosing Boogie Nights over Fargo. Fargo is better, but I was blinded by the light of my first PTA experience. I see now that Fargo is second only to Magnolia and maybe a few others in the 90's.

I regret that I had to watch Natural Born Killers. That was stupid.

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Re: Bracket regrets?
« Reply #8 on: February 15, 2009, 05:38:37 PM »
There are three movies I regret having to kick out, but I still think I made the right choices.

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Re: Bracket regrets?
« Reply #9 on: February 15, 2009, 05:43:57 PM »
I regret picking Little Odessa to be in the bracket instead of Carlito's Way, though still not as much as I regret that I had to choose between the two in the first place.
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