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1980s US Bracket: Resurrections (Round 1)
« on: August 27, 2010, 03:07:48 PM »
There are fourteen spots to fill in order to close out round one of the bracket and begin round two. For expediency's sake, we'll probably handle them simultaneously ... even though that puts the eventual losing films in the eight pending round one matchups at a disadvantage (since they aren't yet eligible for resurrection). Then again, they can always be swapped in after round two, I think, so maybe it doesn't matter. I'm open to argument.

Anyway, here's how the fourteen resurrections will play out. The order is determined by verdict completion time (the average for round one being about 40 days, depending on when exactly the last five [or nine] verdicts come in).

14. Consensus Pick  — The Empire Strikes Back
13. Consensus Pick — Amadeus
12. Consensus Pick — Ghostbusters
11. Consensus Pick — The Times of Harvey Milk
10. Consensus Pick — Who Frames Roger Rabbit?
9. Consensus Pick — Clue
8. Consensus Pick — Manhunter
7. smirnoff — 3rd Most Verdicts (12) — 23.3 Days (avg) — Altered States
6. ses593 — Random Resurrection (Blue Velvet vs. Melvin and Howard) — 14 Days — Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
5. michael x — Random Resurrection (Back to the Future vs. Lightning Over Braddock) — 6 Days — Stop Making Sense
4. Bondo — 2nd Most Verdicts (13) — 4.4 Days (avg) — Three Amigos
3. THATguy — Random Resurrection (Four Friends   vs. Dressed to Kill) — 2 Days — A Christmas Story
2. GothamCity151 — Random Resurrection (The Big Red One vs. Vernon, Florida) — 1 Day — The King of Comedy
1. GothamCity151 — Most Verdicts (27) — 0.6 Days (avg) — A Fish Called Wanda

Here are the films that were voted into the bracket initially. The films in red lost in round one and are eligible for resurrection. The films in green still have their round one matchups pending.

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
After Hours
Airplane!
Aliens
All of Me
Amadeus [Resurrected]
American Gigolo
An American Werewolf in London
Another Woman
Atlantic City
The Atomic Café
Back to the Future
Barfly
Batman
Beetlejuice
Before Stonewall
Better Off Dead
Beverly Hills Cop
Big
The Big Chill
The Big Red One
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Bird
Blade Runner
The Blob
Blood Simple
Blow Out
Blue Velvet
The Blues Brothers
Body Double
Border Radio
Born in Flames
The Breakfast Club
Broadcast News
Broadway Danny Rose
Bull Durham
Burden of Dreams
Caddyshack
Cat People
Chameleon Street
Chan Is Missing
China Girl
Choose Me
A Christmas Story [Resurrected]
The Color of Money
Coming to America
Commando
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
Cracking Up
Crimes & Misdemeanors
Cruising
Cutter's Way
Damned If You Don’t
Dangerous Liaisons
Day of the Dead
The Dead
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Dead Poets Society
Dead Ringers
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
The Decline of Western Civilization
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
Desperately Seeking Susan
Die Hard
Diner
Dirty Dancing
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Do the Right Thing
Down by Law
Dressed to Kill
Drugstore Cowboy
The Drums of Winter
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
Eat a Bowl of Tea
Eight Men Out
El Norte
The Elephant Man
Empire of the Sun
The Empire Strikes Back [Resurrected]
Enemies, A Love Story
Escape from New York
The Evil Dead
Evil Dead II
Eyes on the Prize: Bridge to Freedom
The Fabulous Baker Boys
Far From Poland
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Field of Dreams
The Fly
For All Mankind
Forest of Bliss
Forevermore: Biography of a Leach Lord
Four Friends
The Fox and the Hound
Friday the 13th
Full Metal Jacket
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
Ghostbusters [Resurrected]
Gloria
Glory
Golub
The Goonies
The Great Mouse Detective
Gremlins
Hairspray
Hammett
Hannah and Her Sisters
Hardly Working
Heathers
Heaven's Gate
History of the World, Part I
Hoosiers
Hopscotch
House of Games
Hollywood Shuffle
Housekeeping
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade [Resurrected]
Ishtar
Jimi Plays Monterey [& Shake!…]
The Karate Kid
The King of Comedy [Resurrected]
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Koyaanisqatsi
Labyrinth
Landscape Suicide
The Last Temptation of Christ
Let's Get Lost
Lightning Over Braddock: A Rustbowl Fantasy
Liquid Sky
The Little Mermaid
The Lost Boys
Lost in America
Love Streams
The Loveless
Major League
Mala Noche
The Man Who Envied Women
The Man With Two Brains
Matewan
Melvin and Howard
Midnight Run
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Missing
Model
Modern Romance
Mr. Hoover and I
Ms. 45
My Brother's Wedding
My Dinner With André
Mystery Train
The Naked Gun
Naked Spaces: Living is Round
The Natural
Navajo Talking Picture
Near Dark
Near Death
Never Cry Wolf
New York Stories
A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Ninth Configuration
Oliver & Company
On Golden Pond
Once Upon a Time in America
One From the Heart
Ordinary People
Out of Africa
Out of the Blue
The Outsiders
Parents
Paris, Texas
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure
Pennies from Heaven
Platoon
Poltergeist
Popeye
Predator
Pretty in Pink
Prince of the City
The Princess Bride
Pumping Iron II: The Women
Purple Rain
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Radio Days
Raging Bull
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rain Man
Raising Arizona
Real Genius
Re-Animator
Reassemblage
Reds
Rembrandt Laughing
Repo Man
Return of the Jedi
Return of the Secaucus Seven
The Right Stuff
Risky Business
River's Edge
Robocop
Roger & Me
Rumble Fish
Runaway Train
Running on Empty
Say Anything…
Scarface
Secret Honor
The Secret of NIMH
Sex, Lies and Videotape
Sherman's March
She's Gotta Have It
The Shining
Siesta
Silkwood
Sixteen Candles
Sleepwalk
Slumber Party Massacre
Southern Comfort
Spaceballs
St Elmo's Fire [Resurrected]
Stand by Me
Stardust Memories
Starman
Stop Making Sense
Stranger Than Paradise
Streetwise
Stripes
Style Wars
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
The Sure Thing
Surname Viet Given Name Nam
Swing Shift [original cut]
Talk Radio
Talking to Strangers
The Terminator
They All Laughed
They Live
Thief
The Thin Blue Line
The Thing
This is Spinal Tap
The Ties That Bind
The Times of Harvey Milk [Resurrected]
To Live and Die in L.A.
Tongues Untied
Tootsie
Top Gun
Top Secret!
Tough Guys Don't Dance
Trading Places
Tron
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbelievable Truth
Under the Volcano
The Untouchables
Vampire’s Kiss
Variety
The Verdict
Vernon, Florida
Walker
Wall Street
Wargames
Water and Power
When Harry Met Sally
White Dog
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? [Resurrected]
Who Killed Vincent Chin?
Witness
Working Girl
Working Girls
The World According to Garp
Year of the Dragon
Yes: 9012 Live
Zelig

And here are some notable titles that didn't make it into the bracket:

Absence of Malice
The Abyss
The Accidental Tourist
The Accused
The Adventures of Mark Twain
Alien Nation
Altered States [Resurrected]
An American Tail
Angel Heart
Annie
Back to School
Beaches
Big Trouble In Little China
Black Rain
Bloodsport
The Blue Lagoon
Body Heat
Born on the Fourth of July
Breakin'
Brother from Another Planet
Casualties of War
The Changeling
Children of a Lesser God
The Chosen
Christmas Vacation
Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll
Clash of the Titans
Clue [Resurrected]
Coal Miner's Daughter
The Color Purple
Colors
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Conan the Barbarian
The Cotton Club
The Dark Crystal
Death Wish II
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Driving Miss Daisy
Eating Raoul
F/X
Fatal Attraction
First Blood
A Fish Called Wanda [Resurrected]
Fletch
Flight of the Navigator
48 Hrs.
Frances
God's Country
Good Morning, Vietnam
The Great Outdoors
Harry and the Hendersons
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Highlander
The Hitcher
The Howling
Imagine: John Lennon
Inside Moves
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
The Land Before Time
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Lean on Me
The Legend of Billie Jean
Less Than Zero
Lianna
Lucas
Manhunter [Resurrected]
Micki and Maude
The Mighty Quinn
Miracle Mile
Mississippi Burning
The Muppets Take Manhattan
Mystic Pizza
National Lampoon's Vacation
Nighthawks
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4:The Dream Master
No Way Out
Over the Top
Pale Rider
The Paper
Parenthood
Parting Glances
Peggy Sue Got Married
Personal Best
Pet Sematary
Places in the Heart
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Prizzi's Honor
Red Dawn
The Return of the Living Dead
Rocky II
S.O.B.
Salvador
Say Amen, Somebody
School Daze
Scrooged
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Short Circuit
Shy People
Sid & Nancy
A Soldier’s Story
Some Kind of Wonderful
Something Wild
Somewhere in Time
Sophie's Choice
Splash
Stand and Deliver
Star 80
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
The Stunt Man
Superman II
Tapeheads
Teen Wolf
Tender Mercies
Terms of Endearment
Testament
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
Three Amigos [Resurrected]
Tin Men
Torch Song Trilogy
The Trip to Bountiful
Trouble in Mind
Tuck Everlasting
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Twice Upon a Time
2010: The Year We Make Contact
U2: Rattle and Hum
UHF
Uncle Buck
Used Cars
The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time
Weekend at Bernies
Weird Science
Willow
Young Sherlock Holmes

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Re: 1980s US Bracket: Resurrections
« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2010, 03:13:02 PM »
Oh yeah, so post your lists here. Top ten should do it. You're choosing from the titles in red from the first list and all the titles from the second list (plus films not yet mentioned at all). I'll try to add those not-yet-mentioned titles to the second list as they come in.

I'm in favor of voting for films sight-unseen, by the way. I mean, doesn't matt tomorrow make Model sound great?

edit: Oh, and I haven't yet decided exactly what system to use for this consensus voting. We're just in the nominations stage right now, though, so it's all good. Try to get your lists up this week, 'kay?

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Re: 1980s US Bracket: Resurrections
« Reply #2 on: August 27, 2010, 03:30:32 PM »
So the random resurrection simply lets the person who did the pair pick something, it doesn't automatically resurrect the loser in that pair? Good to know...better that way probably.

Anyway, my top 10 resurrections/additions:
1. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
2. Three Amigos
3. The Times of Harvey Milk
4. Spaceballs
5. Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
6. Tootsie
7. Amadeus
8. Clue
9. Willow
10. Sophie's Choice (because I haven't seen it)

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Re: 1980s US Bracket: Resurrections
« Reply #3 on: August 27, 2010, 03:45:56 PM »
1. The Times of Harvey Milk
2. Drugstore Cowboy


I'll complete the rest later.
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Re: 1980s US Bracket: Resurrections
« Reply #4 on: August 27, 2010, 03:47:44 PM »
1. Aliens (This seriously didn't make it in?)
2. Amadeus
3. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4:The Dream Master
4. First Blood
5. Dream Warriors
6. Tootsie
7. A Fish Called Wanda
8. Stop Making Sense
9. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
10. Heaven's Gate (Haven't seen it.)

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Re: 1980s US Bracket: Resurrections
« Reply #5 on: August 27, 2010, 03:50:15 PM »
1. Aliens (This seriously didn't make it in?)

I can't find its matchup, but it is #5 on the original list.

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Re: 1980s US Bracket: Resurrections
« Reply #6 on: August 27, 2010, 03:53:38 PM »
1. Aliens (This seriously didn't make it in?)

I can't find its matchup, but it is #5 on the original list.

Looking over it I think what is happening is there should be 9 films that aren't paired up (279 films on the original list but only 135 pairs (270 films)...the extra film in each bracket gets paired with a resurrection. So we need to identify those nine that are in the original list but not paired because they are already in and Aliens is one of them.

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Re: 1980s US Bracket: Resurrections
« Reply #7 on: August 27, 2010, 04:01:11 PM »
I need to finish my round one matchup before my vote here counts, but something like:

1. Streetwise
2. The Times of Harvey Milk
3. The Thin Blue Line
4. Glory
5. The Empire Strikes Back
6. The Big Chill
7. Clue
8. Model
9. F/X
10. Stop Making Sense

I might swap in some of these (among others), if they start showing up on other lists:

Colors
Highlander
Manhunter
Parenthood
Stand and Deliver
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Tucker: The Man and His Dream

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Re: 1980s US Bracket: Resurrections
« Reply #8 on: August 27, 2010, 04:07:17 PM »
1. Aliens (This seriously didn't make it in?)

I can't find its matchup, but it is #5 on the original list.

Looking over it I think what is happening is there should be 9 films that aren't paired up (279 films on the original list but only 135 pairs (270 films)...the extra film in each bracket gets paired with a resurrection. So we need to identify those nine that are in the original list but not paired because they are already in and Aliens is one of them.

Hmm, right ... one sec ...

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Re: 1980s US Bracket: Resurrections
« Reply #9 on: August 27, 2010, 04:08:20 PM »
The following films are already in the bracket:

Aliens
For All Mankind
Hollywood Shuffle
Landscape Suicide
Predator
Starman
The Fabulous Baker Boys
Tough Guys Don't Dance
Under the Volcano

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