If you're unfamiliar with this "World Cup" business, you'll get an idea by looking at these threads of previous 'World Cups': Carbonated Beverage, Fruit, Animal, Hot chicks, Elma level, Most hated Elma level, Funniest person, Cartoon, Funniest movie, ryttmästar, Animated series, Martial artists, Hot chicks 2
So, what is my concept then? In order to have the least amount of complications when it comes to which candidates should go through to the next round, the obvious answer would be to have a starting number of candidates that is an exponent of 2. But i find 64 to be a bit too small amount, and 128 to be too many. So the number i settled on, is 80. 96 would also work well, but again, it's a bit too much. Edit: The total number of movies has later been changed to 96.
So we'll have 96 movie candidates in the first round. My idea is that we take 50 of these from the current top 50 of the IMDb top250 list (this top50 is posted further down in this post, and that is the list we'll use even if the IMDb list changes during the next week), and the remaining 46 to be suggested by you. There are a number of reasons for this, mainly:
1. To have a base of movies that are generally accepted to be among the best ever.
2. To have movies from every decade since the '30s.
3. To have movies in a wide variety of genres.
4. A great number of these movies would probably have been suggested by you anyway, so instead of you going with "the obvious choices", you can give it some more thought.
So if I think the IMDb list works so well, why not just pull all the candidates from there? Well, obviously IMDb users aren't perfect, and these World Cups always work better when Mopolauta users have been able to suggest what candidates to have.
I'll give you about a week to suggest candidates in this thread, and then I'll make the first round consisting of 50 movies off IMDb and 46 movies suggested by you. Keep in mind that there is no use suggesting movies already in the top50 list posted below. Also, please include an IMDb link to the movie you are suggesting, so I know exactly what movie you mean. For instance, if you were to just suggest "Scarface", I couldn't know if you meant the 1932 original or the 1983 remake.
This is how the voting rounds will go (ongoing round in bold):
Round 1: 96 movies, 48 pairs
Round 2: 48 movies, 24 pairs
Round 3: 24 movies, 12 pairs
Round 4: 12 movies, 6 pairs
Round 5: 6 movies, 3 pairs
Intermediate round 1: Vote for one of the 3 movies that were excluded after Round 5 to come back in the competition.
Round 6: 4 movies, 2 pairs
Final: 2 movies, one pair
Winner decided!
So, start suggesting movie candidates!Current IMDb top 50 wrote:The Godfather
The Shawshank Redemption
The Godfather: Part II
Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo / The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Pulp Fiction
Casablanca
Schindler's List
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
Shichinin no samurai / The Seven Samurai
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Star Wars
Rear Window
12 Angry Men
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Cidade de Deus / City of God
The Usual Suspects
Goodfellas
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
C'era una volta il West / Once Upon a Time in the West
Psycho
Citizen Kane
North by Northwest
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Memento
The Silence of the Lambs
Lawrence of Arabia
Sunset Blvd.
Fight Club
It's a Wonderful Life
Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain / Amelie from Montmartre
The Matrix
American Beauty
Vertigo
Taxi Driver
Apocalypse Now
Se7en
Léon
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Paths of Glory
American History X
Chinatown
To Kill a Mockingbird
El Laberinto del fauno / Pan's Labyrinth
The Third Man
M
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
A Clockwork Orange
Der Untergang / The Downfall