[Sportsguy]

Draft 24 Movies:

Black & White Classic
Animated or Family
Romantic Comedy
Documentary
Comedy
Drama
Sci-Fi
Action
Horror
Sequel
Sports Movie
Summer Blockbuster
12 Wild Cards

8 hour clocks

No budgets

Who's in? Or who has suggestions?


In so far:
Sportsguy
Dev
Solly
Gator
Hodgey
Habs
Mayhem
Eric

[Deleted]

IN

[Road Warrior Shark]

I suck at movies, but I'll play along.

I can draft Jaws 24 times, right?

[The Canadian Content]

Jan 9, 2014 15:55:44 GMT -5 @gatorbait said:

IN

[Road Warrior Shark]

Jan 9, 2014 15:34:20 GMT -5 Sportsguy said:

Draft 24 Movies:

Black & White Classic
Kids Animated
Romantic Comedy
Documentary
Family
Drama
Sci-Fi
Action
Horror
Sequel
Sports Movie
13 Wild Cards

Really, I was just spitballing most of these. Family & Kids Animated are really similar categories now that I look at it.
Black & White Classic might be better off as Pre-1940 or something, since there are more recent black & white films that aren't exactly classics.

[DevSop]

In

[DevSop]

Get rid of Kids Animated and make it just Animated, add Summer Blockbuster this way it's 12 categories and 12 wild cards.

[Sportsguy]

Jan 9, 2014 16:53:57 GMT -5 DevSop said:

Get rid of Kids Animated and make it just Animated, add Summer Blockbuster this way it's 12 categories and 12 wild cards.

Done and done, I was trying to think of another category to add to make it an even split. Not sure how I didn't come up with Summer Blockbuster. Thanks Dev

[The Jewish Cunthead]

What about keeping it Comedy? If you want to draft a Romantic one, by all means.

And I would suggest using imdb as the judge of what's considered to be drama, horror, etc.

[DevSop]

I'd keep RomCom and then just add in some other type of comedy (Slapstick, General) and remove documentary. I really don't want to research documentaries.

[Sportsguy]

I'm actually a documentary fan, so I'd like to keep that category. So how bout this: Keep romantic comedy, combine 2 categories and make it Family OR Animated, and add a general comedy category

[The Jewish Cunthead]

Jan 9, 2014 16:53:57 GMT -5 DevSop said:

Get rid of Kids

Are the cops coming?

I was thinking this:

Black & White
Family/Animated
Comedy
Romantic Comedy
Documentary
Drama
Sci-Fi
Action
Horror
Sequel
Sports Movie
Summer Blockbuster
12 Wild Cards

Documentaries aren't that tough to research. You'd be surprised at what qualifies as one.

[Deadly]

Sequel to something you've already drafted? Or just in general?

[Deleted]

Why do we have to have an even number of categorized ones and wild cards? I'd be all for, say, 16 categories then 8 wild cards or 15/9 or 20/4. Any combination works for this, really. I do like the 24 total, though.

Also, will we then be pitting the categories against each other? I would definitely be in favor of that. And I would almost think we would "have to" to avoid somebody drafting something like "Ocean's 11" and slotting it in as their sports movie because there is a scene at a horse track.

[Road Warrior Shark]

Jan 10, 2014 1:29:31 GMT -5 Deadly said:

Sequel to something you've already drafted? Or just in general?

My thought when I put that out there was just a sequel in general, i.e. Police Academy 6. not sure how Folzie will interpret it

[The Canadian Content]

Jan 10, 2014 8:28:48 GMT -5 Road Warrior Shark said:

Police Academy 6

Dude. Namedrop.

[Habs]

in, since I could probably wing it and not look like a total fool

[MayhemNX]

Waffling on this one. Feck it, I'm in.

[The Jewish Cunthead]

Where are we on this, SG?

[Sportsguy]

we're up to 9 now, I'll keep signups open til Friday to see if anyone else is interested. I'll put a draft order up Saturday and clocks will officially start Monday

[Habs]

What is summer Blockbuster? Meaning is there a date that needs to be respected and a minimum budget? (Like came out between May and August and had a budget of 75M+) or should the income decides if it's a blockbuster (made more than 100M$)

The numbers are only for example purposes

[Eric O'Mac]

I'm in. It would be a nice distraction from all the crap going on in my life.

[Sportsguy]

To Habsy's question, I'd define Summer Blockbuster as released between May and August with a gross of over 100 million.

[DevSop]

I don't know if that's how I'd define it. Summer blockbuster to me are big action movies that are all about popcorn viewing. Most will wind up making over $100 million but so will a lot of other movies that I wouldn't define as Summer Blockbuster. Just as an example in 2013 Monsters University, Despicable Me 2, The Butler, This is the End all made over $100 mil but I don't consider any of them summer blockbuster by definition. Meanwhile something like RIPD which only made 60 mil is something that the studio definitely planned as a blockbuster type movie. But its your call how you define.

[Deleted]

The "what movie defines this category" questions could be solved by just making the drafted movies for said category all face each other. If you want to draft The Horse Whisperer as your summer blockbuster, go for it, but you likely won't get any votes for it being the best/favorite movie in that category.