The 2013 MOFO Movie Tournament-- Rules, Regulations, and Procedures

[rauldc14]

In a couple of weeks I'll be getting together what the rules for nominating will be. I'm looking forward to another tournament and hopefully there will be quite a it of participation yet again. The basics will stay the same: 128 movies fighting for the MOFO championship. To begin we will have the same timeframe of a month to vote on the matchups so that people are able to possibly see films they may have an interest in.

Just thought I'd get the thread started so that we will be ready to roll with the nominations, possibly as early as a bit before New Year's. Thanks to all and looking forward to it.

[The Rodent]

I'm in... where does the list of films come from?

[rauldc14]

As in the past 2, everyone will be able to nominate. I'll list the restrictions of the nominees near the end of the month. It won't be restricted much, but obviously restricted a bit for the fact that we don't want the same movies.

[The Rodent]

Righto, I wasn't on the site when the others were done so never done it before.

[HitchFan97]

Sweet! Looking forward to it, this is always a ton of fun.

[Tyler1]

Have the top 10 films honored at least, instead of picking ONE winner.

[rauldc14]

Alrighty, I've decided that the list will be confined to exclude any movies that won a matchup in any of the previous 2 tournaments, therefore, the following movies will be ineligible to nominate:

Movies that CANNOT be used
2011 1st Round Winners
City Lights
Silence of the Lambs
Apocalypse Now
Big Lebowski
Akira
Oldboy
Star Wars Episode 5
Lawrence of Arabia
To Kill a Mockingbird
Yi Yi
Dr. Strangelove
Children of Men
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Contempt
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Alien
The Kid
Wizard of Oz
Citizen Kane
Les Diaboliques
Rear Window
Sunset Boulevard
The Good, The Bad,and The Ugly
Amadeus
Touch of Evil
Out of the Past
Platoon
Pulp Fiction
Midnight Cowboy
Persona
Million Dollar Baby
Jaws
Fanny and Alexander
Casablanca
Die Hard
Taxi Driver
Chinatown
Up
Barry Lyndon
Battle of the Algiers
Blue Velvet
Back to the Future
North by Northwest
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Mulholland Drive
Blade Runner
12 Angry Men
Goodfellas
Lost in Translation
Sunshine
American Psycho
Paths of Glory
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Rashomon
Ran
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Third Man
Terminator 2
Unforgiven
Network
Night and Fog
Stalker
Z
2012 1st Round Winners
Vampyr
Vertigo
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
The Rules of the Game
The Truman Show
Seven
Kind Hearts and Coronets
I am Love
Volver
I'm a Cyborg But That's Ok
Being John Malkovich
Jurassic Park
Le Cercle Rouge
High Noon
King Kong (1933)
The Conversation
Once Upon a Time in the West
I am Cuba
Dancer in the Dark
The Conformist
An American Werewolf in London
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Allegro non Troppo
Sherlock Jr.
1. Woman in the Dunes
Aliens
One Deadly Summer
The Shining (1980)
The Godfather
Airplane!
Psycho
Adaptation
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Goldfinger
Amelie
The Prime of Miss Jean Brody
Deep Red (1975)
Pitfall
Spirited Away
My Winnipeg
Dog Day Afternoon
A Single Man
The Darjeeling Limited
Il Divo
Tampopo
A Clockwork Orange
The 10th Victim
The Thin Man
Terminator
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
M
Once Upon a Time in China
Forest Gump
Elmer Gantry
Leaving Las Vegas
Melancholia
A Streetcar Named Desire
White Heat
It Happened One Night
Sansho the Bailiff
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Ed Wood
Miller's Crossing
Once Upon a Time in America

This leaves out a bunch of solid films, but plenty to choose from yet. Also gives the possibilitity of a 2nd chance for some films that just had downright bad luck.

[The Rodent]

Ok, it's my first one of these and I'm still confused :o ...

... obviously the films above can't go in, but which films are chosen to go into the draws? Do we give a list of our 10/20/30 favourites or are they movies that are taken from some other list that we then vote for?

[mark f]

You'll get to nom two films at a time. You can name any you want except from the list above. Don't worry, it'll be easy once we start; raul makes it all work out.

[HitchFan97]

When do we start nominating?

[Tyler1]

What about now?

[rauldc14]

We will start in the next couple days to be sure. I'll try to possibly alphabetize the list above to make it a bit simpler that nobody nominates one of them.

And Rodent, you can pretty much nominate anything you would like except for the list above as mark stated.

[Thursday Next]

In alphabetical order for ease of browsing:


Adaptation
Airplane!
Akira
Allegro non Troppo
Alien
Aliens
Amadeus
Amelie
Apocalypse Now
Big Lebowski
Casablanca
Children of Men
Citizen Kane
City Lights
A Clockwork Orange
Contempt
The Darjeeling Limited
Deep Red (1975)
Dog Day Afternoon
Dr. Strangelove
Ed Wood
Elmer Gantry
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Fanny and Alexander
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Forest Gump
The Godfather
Goldfinger
The Good, The Bad,and The Ugly
Il Divo
It Happened One Night
Jaws
The Kid
Lawrence of Arabia
Leaving Las Vegas
Les Diaboliques
M
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Melancholia
Midnight Cowboy
Miller's Crossing
Million Dollar Baby
My Winnipeg
Oldboy
Once Upon a Time in America
Once Upon a Time in China
One Deadly Summer
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Out of the Past
Persona
Pitfall
Platoon
The Prime of Miss Jean Brody
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
Rear Window
Sansho the Bailiff
Sherlock Jr.
The Shining (1980)
Silence of the Lambs
A Single Man
Spirited Away
Star Wars Episode 5
A Streetcar Named Desire
Sunset Boulevard
The 10th Victim
Tampopo
Terminator
The Thin Man
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
To Kill a Mockingbird
Touch of Evil
White Heat
Wizard of Oz
Woman in the Dunes
Yi Yi

[rauldc14]

Thanks Thursday! Appreciate the help. Really looking forward to this one. I promise that we will start up the nominations a bit after Christmas!