CP Movie Draft! - FIN

[Prototype]

Gonna work on a worst list... and away we go...

Pre-60s - Plan 9 From Outer Space
- Told you it'd be here.

Best Picture - Howard The Duck
- 1986 Razzie Worst Picture Winner.

Documentary / non-fiction - Overnight
- I actually wish I took this in the actual draft. It didn't suck, but the director of Bondock Saints does... if you've seen this movie, you would understand.

Foreign (any non-US movie) - No Idea
- I don't usually watch Foreign movies. I'd take Crash (1996) as I thought it was considered a Canadian film. Maybe filmed in Canada, and directed by a Canadian. Close enough.

Action - Battlefield Earth
- Do I really need to go into this one?

Animation - Cool World
- I know it doesn't quite fit due to live action, but it sucked... hard. If I have to stick to the rules, Bebe's Kids was horrible.

Black & White - Going with Plan 9 again...

Comedy - Brain Donors
- I remember this one as a kid... I wish I didn't.

Drama - Showgirls
- Great for a kid growing up in the 90s. Horrble for a grown up who's looking for more than just boobies.

Fantasy - Earth Girls Are Easy
- Can't say I've ever seen it. Can't say I'd ever want to. Jim Carey, Damon Wayans, and Jeff Goldblum. One of these things is not like the others.

Musical - Glitter
- Oh Mariah. Did we really need to know your fake life story? Eminem's, yes. Your's, no.

Sci-Fi - Mac And Me
- Cheap ET rip off. Just horrible.

Sports - Ed
- Monkey + Baseball only equals awesome when you're the Anaheim Angel's 'Rally Monkey'!!!

Thiller/Horror - Leperchaun: In Da Hood
- Yes, they went there, twice... (see - Leperchaun: Back In Da Hood, I think it's called). Almost took Leperchaun In Space, but that's more believeable.

War - In The Army Now
- When someone made a their 'staff picks' all Paul Newman movies, back during my Blockbuster days, I made sure I made a Pauly Shore row.

Western - ?
- I don't watch Westerns... at all. Blazing Saddles was a fluke, as it's absolutely halarious.

Wildcard #1 - Spiceworld
- Could I have just mailed them my money, instead of renting and wasting my time watching this one?

Wildcard #2 - Toss up between two sequels. Lawnmower Man 2 and Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles III.
- Lawnmower Man, the original, was awesome. The sequel lacked Pierce Brosnan, and they replaced the guy who played Jobe. I think only the kid was the same actor in both. There was no need for #2.
- So, I can get behind talking turtles who know karate, which was taught by a talking rat, whom all became mutants thanks to Ooze. But once they start time traveling, I'm no longer interested.

[StrayBullet]

What's the story here? Who are we still waiting for?

[Ro]

• Earliest film released: Bicycle Thieves (1948)
• Latest film released: No Country For Old Men (2007)
• Films by decade:
  • 1930s - 0
  • 1940s - 1
  • 1950s - 2
  • 1960s - 1
  • 1970s - 2
  • 1980s - 2
  • 1990s - 2
  • 2000s - 10
• Number of Oscar noms: 60
• Number of Oscars: 22
• Number of Oscar Best Picture nominees: 4
  • One Flew Over The ####oo's Nest
  • No Country For Old Men
  • Annie Hall
  • Brokeback Mountain
• Number of Oscar Best Picture winners: 3
  • One Flew Over The ####oo's Nest
  • No Country For Old Men
  • Annie Hall
• Number of selections on IMDB top-250: 11
  • One Flew Over The ####oo's Nest (#8)
    
  • No Country For Old Men (#86)
    
  • Annie Hall (#127)
    
  • City Of God (#18)
    
  • Bicycle Thieves (#106)
    
  • Vertigo (#41)
    
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (#82)
    
  • Requiem For A Dream (#64)
    
  • Downfall (#74)
    
  • Kill Bill Vol. 2 (#195)
    
  • Rashomon (#71)
    
• Highest grossing film (North America, including re-releases): E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial - $434,974,579 (#5 All-time)
• By Director: Nobody more than once, but I am proud of this list:
  • Hitchcock
  • Kubrick
  • Spielberg
  • Kurosawa
  • Tarantino
  • Forman
  • Aronofsky
  • Coen Brothers
  • Allen
  • Jonze
  • Anderson, Wes
  • De Sica
  • Lee, Ang
  • Newell
  • Bird, Brad
  • Meirelles

More stats to come!

[WindomURL]

Originally Posted by StrayBullet

What's the story here? Who are we still waiting for?

Kind of the reason why I keep the Draft Board up to date

[StrayBullet]

Originally Posted by WindomURL

Kind of the reason why I keep the Draft Board up to date

That much I get... Did they say anything about finishing their picks?

[Flamesguy_SJ]

I had a real blast doing this draft, and think I did great; I got mostly all of the movies I wanted (was really disappointed BOTH Transformers movies went though *shakes fist at Proto*).

Team Direct2Video stats:

• Earliest film released: M (1931)
• Latest film released: The Departed, United 93 (2006)
• Films by decade:
  • 1950's-2
  • 1960's-1
  • 1970's-1
  • 1980's-2
  • 1990's-3
  • 2000's-10
• Number of Oscar nominations: 62
• Number of Oscars won: 32
• Best Picture Oscar Nominees: 5
• Best Picture Oscar Wins: 5
  • On The Waterfront
  • Million Dollar Baby
  • A Beautiful Mind
  • The Departed
  • Patton
• Number of films on IMDb Top 250: 7
  • M (1931)
  • The Departed
  • On The Waterfront
  • Million Dollar Baby
  • The Incredibles
  • The Lion King
  • Patton
• Total Gross Box Office: $1,888,201,843
• Highest Grossing Film: Spider-Man 2 @ $373,585,825 (11th all-time)
• Lowest Grossing Film: M, Hiroshima @ N/A, It’s All Gone Pete Tong @ $120,600
• By director:
  • Kazan
  • Eastwood
  • Greengrass
  • Lang
  • Raimi
  • Bird
  • Resnais
  • Apatow
  • Howard
  • Hanson / Oz
  • Allers / Minkoff
  • Demme
  • Anspaugh
  • Scorsese
  • Schaffner
  • Leone
  • Branagh
  • Dowse
  • Barron
  • Shepard

[ResAlien]

For the sake of ending this I'll take Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back as my last wildcard pick. It's freaking gut busting hilarity. That is all, carry on.

[Coach]

man I cant believe Dooz has 5 ak's. Is he alive?

[WindomURL]

He hasn't logged in for a long time. Maybe we should insert some of Prototype's supplementary picks into the appropriate categories?

P.S. Thanks Res, for finishing your team!

[Flame Of Liberty]

Are we going to have an open poll (where you can see who voted for who) to see who has the best team?

[HalifaxDrunk]

Team Yippie-Kay-Yay stats:

• Earliest film released: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
• Latest film released: Running Scared (2006)
• Films by decade:
  • 1930's-1
  • 1950's-1
  • 1960's-1
  • 1980's-7
    
  • 1990's-4
  • 2000's-6
• Number of Oscar nominations: 35
  
• Number of Oscars won: 20
  
• Best Picture Oscar Nominees: 4
  
• Best Picture Oscar Wins: 3
  
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai
  • Crash
  • All Quiet on the Western Front
• Number of films on IMDb Top 250: 6
  
  • Full Matal Jacket
  • Cool Hand Luke
  • All Quiet on the Western Front
  • Die Hard
  • Crash
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai
• By Director:
  
  • David Lean
  • Paul Haggis
  • Oliver Stone (X2)
  • Edgar Wright
  • John McTiernan
  • Gerald Potterton
  • Lewis Milestone
  • Trey Parker
  • Stuart Rosenberg
  • Wolfgang Petersen
  • John Landis
  • Joss Whedon
  • Bobby Farrelly & Peter Farrelly
  • Stanley Kubrick
  • George P. Cosmatos
  • Bob Clark
  • Shane Black
  • Wayne Kramer
  • Zach Braff

[Got Miikka?]

I'll do the By-The-Numbers thing too.

Average Release Year: 1991
Most Picks Released in the Same Year: 4 (1992; Aladdin, Blown Away, Point Break, White Men Can't Jump)
Average imdb.com Rating: 7.6
(Highest: 8.4, Nights of Cabiria; Lowest: 4.8, Blown Away)
Number of Picks Released in 1990s: 12/20
Recurring Actors: Bill Murray (Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day), Tom Sizemore (Point Break, Heat)

Directors iLike Mini-Sampler:

• Woody Allen (Manhattan)
• Michael Mann (Heat)
• Joel and Ethan Coen (Big Lebowski)
• Neil Labute (Your Friends and Neighbors)
• PT Anderson (Magnolia)
• Frederico Fellini (Nights of Cabiria)
• Kevin Smith (Zack and Miri)

(*note* by no effort of mine own to deliberately avoid their other work, I have only seen 1 film directed by: Godard (Breathless), Mary Harron (American Psycho), Gaspar Noe (Irrversible) and George Roy Hill (Butch Cassidy), which disqualifies these directors from this category)

Number of Bank Robbery Sequences: 3 (Heat: 1; Point Break: 2)
Award-Winners: Who cares
Number of Movies I Must Thank School for Introducing Me To: 3 (Cabiria, Butch Cassidy, Breathless)
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon (who appears in 0 Picks) Featuring: Irreversible *In 4 Moves*

1. Monica Belluci also in The Matrix sequels with Hugo Weaving
2. Hugo Weaving also in Lord of the Rings trilogy with Sean Astin
3. Sean Astin also The Goonies with Josh Brolin
4. Josh Brolin also in Hollow Man with...

KEVIN BACON

Actor Who Has Fallen The Farthest: Val Kilmer (now reduced to V.O. in a lame Knight Rider remake on TV)

Most D.U.I.'s: Mel Gibson
Hottest Lesbian: Lori Petty, Point Break

If I Could Tweak My Team To Have Only Those Movies I Would Pick, Swap:

• Aladdin for This Is Spinal Tap
• Butch Cassidy for Unforgiven
• hmm... no Kubrick - OK, this is one director who I admit I unfairly failed to recognize. But I knew most of his work would get selected so I wasn't worried about him not getting his due from the rest of you fine folks

Thanks for letting me play - and now, the balcony is closed.

[HalifaxDrunk]

I know this means nothing but thought it would be interesting.

I tallied everyone's picks according to IMDB's user ratings:
***habernac's pick "Luther Metke at 94" does not have an IMDB rating (not enough votes)***

Average User Rating:
8.08 - Flame Of Liberty
8.07 - Ro
8.06 - octothorp
7.99 - WindomURL
7.95 - VANFLAMESFAN
7.90 - Jagger
7.86 - sadora
7.84 - liamenator
7.75 - doozwimp
7.74 - getbak
7.73 - Tilley
7.73 - Flamesguy_SJ
7.73 - Eastern Girl
7.67 - HalifaxDrunk
7.64 - Prototype
7.62 - Got Miikka?
7.62 - JerzeeGirl
7.61 - Displaced Flames fan
7.61 - MattyC
7.58 - habernac
7.56 - REDVAN
7.56 - Itse
7.53 - Superflyer
7.51 - czure32
7.40 - MissTeeks
7.40 - StrayBullet
7.38 - ResAlien

Highest User Rated Movie:
9.20 - Jagger
9.10 - WindomURL
9.10 - Prototype
9.00 - Flame Of Liberty
9.00 - Displaced Flames fan
8.90 - VANFLAMESFAN
8.90 - MattyC
8.80 - Ro
8.80 - octothorp
8.80 - sadora
8.80 - doozwimp
8.80 - getbak
8.80 - habernac
8.80 - MissTeeks
8.80 - StrayBullet
8.70 - Tilley
8.70 - Got Miikka?
8.70 - JerzeeGirl
8.70 - Itse
8.70 - Superflyer
8.60 - liamenator
8.60 - Flamesguy_SJ
8.60 - REDVAN
8.50 - HalifaxDrunk
8.50 - czure32
8.40 - Eastern Girl
8.30 - ResAlien

Lowest User Rated Movie:
3.50 - Jagger
4.80 - Got Miikka?
5.50 - MattyC
5.70 - MissTeeks
5.70 - StrayBullet
5.80 - Tilley
5.80 - Itse
5.90 - HalifaxDrunk
6.10 - Prototype
6.10 - habernac
6.10 - ResAlien
6.20 - Superflyer
6.30 - Flamesguy_SJ
6.30 - Eastern Girl
6.30 - czure32
6.40 - JerzeeGirl
6.40 - Displaced Flames fan
6.50 - Ro
6.50 - getbak
6.50 - REDVAN
6.60 - VANFLAMESFAN
6.70 - doozwimp
7.00 - liamenator
7.10 - WindomURL
7.20 - sadora
7.30 - octothorp
7.50 - Flame Of Liberty

Median Rating:
8.25 - Jagger
8.15 - Ro
8.00 - Flame Of Liberty
8.00 - octothorp
8.00 - WindomURL
8.00 - Tilley
8.00 - Got Miikka?
7.90 - VANFLAMESFAN
7.90 - liamenator
7.90 - Flamesguy_SJ
7.90 - HalifaxDrunk
7.85 - getbak
7.85 - Eastern Girl
7.80 - Superflyer
7.80 - sadora
7.80 - habernac
7.75 - MattyC
7.70 - doozwimp
7.70 - Displaced Flames fan
7.70 - Itse
7.70 - Prototype
7.65 - JerzeeGirl
7.65 - StrayBullet
7.60 - ResAlien
7.50 - REDVAN
7.50 - czure32
7.40 - MissTeeks

Standard Deviation
1.17 - Jagger
0.94 - Got Miikka?
0.90 - MattyC
0.89 - StrayBullet
0.80 - MissTeeks
0.76 - Tilley
0.76 - Itse
0.73 - Superflyer
0.70 - Prototype
0.69 - HalifaxDrunk
0.69 - ResAlien
0.69 - habernac
0.67 - Displaced Flames fan
0.66 - doozwimp
0.61 - Flamesguy_SJ
0.60 - REDVAN
0.59 - getbak
0.59 - VANFLAMESFAN
0.58 - JerzeeGirl
0.56 - Ro
0.54 - Eastern Girl
0.53 - czure32
0.52 - WindomURL
0.48 - liamenator
0.45 - sadora
0.44 - octothorp
0.42 - Flame Of Liberty

[Got Miikka?]

Something I was also thinking, if people are still hot 'n' horny enough about this movie draft thing (seems like interest has waned a bit in the final rounds), perhaps an All-Star team could be put together, by voting the best movie for each category out of those chosen? Might take some work, but could be fun...?

[czure32]

Originally Posted by HalifaxDrunk

I know this means nothing but thought it would be interesting.

I tallied everyone's picks according to IMDB's user ratings:

<a bunch of numbers>

what I get from this is I would make a lousy movie critic
but I could bring back the Shermometer!!!

[Jagger]

Originally Posted by Got Miikka?

Something I was also thinking, if people are still hot 'n' horny enough about this movie draft thing (seems like interest has waned a bit in the final rounds), perhaps an All-Star team could be put together, by voting the best movie for each category out of those chosen? Might take some work, but could be fun...?

I'd be up for that. Could be a lot of fun.

[HalifaxDrunk]

Me too!

[Jagger]

Originally Posted by HalifaxDrunk

Highest User Rated Movie:
9.20 - Jagger

Lowest User Rated Movie:
3.50 - Jagger

Median Rating:
8.25 - Jagger

BOOYAH! Highest and lowest. I like it!

Plan 9 got such a bad rap! However, how the heck it managed a 3.5 rating is beyond me. I gave it a 1 and anyone that gave it higher is nuts. It really is the perfect BAD movie.

Thx HD for doing this. It proves that I'm the winner at both ends of the equation!

[octothorp]

Earliest film released: Metropolis (1927)
Latest film released: In Bruges (2008)
Films by decade:
1920s 1
1960s 2
1970s 5
1980s 3
2000s 7

IMDB top 250s: 9
Once Upon a Time in the West (19)
Apocalpyse Now (36)
Alien (49)
Lives of Others (52)
Chinatown (53)
Spirited Away (59)
The Prestige (81)
Dog Day Afternoon (155)
In Bruges (231)

Oscar Nominations: 50
Oscar Wins: 14

Best Picture Nominees: 6
Best Picture Wins: 1



Directors:
Roman Polanski
Francis Ford Coppolla
Sergio Leone
Ridley Scott
Hugh Hudson
Fritz Lang
Hayao Miyazaki
Vittorio De Sica
David Zucker
Wes Anderson
Christopher Nolan
Sidney Lumet
Martin McDonough
Robert Clouse
John Cameron Mitchell
Bennett Miller
John Hughes
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

[Flame Of Liberty]

Originally Posted by HalifaxDrunk

I know this means nothing but thought it would be interesting.

I tallied everyone's picks according to IMDB's user ratings:
***habernac's pick "Luther Metke at 94" does not have an IMDB rating (not enough votes)***

Average User Rating:
8.08 - Flame Of Liberty
8.07 - Ro
8.06 - octothorp
7.99 - WindomURL
7.95 - VANFLAMESFAN
7.90 - Jagger
7.86 - sadora
7.84 - liamenator
7.75 - doozwimp
7.74 - getbak
7.73 - Tilley
7.73 - Flamesguy_SJ
7.73 - Eastern Girl
7.67 - HalifaxDrunk
7.64 - Prototype
7.62 - Got Miikka?
7.62 - JerzeeGirl
7.61 - Displaced Flames fan
7.61 - MattyC
7.58 - habernac
7.56 - REDVAN
7.56 - Itse
7.53 - Superflyer
7.51 - czure32
7.40 - MissTeeks
7.40 - StrayBullet
7.38 - ResAlien

I like what you did there