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Greetings. Wasn't the Millenium Countdown fun? Even though most of you picked the wrong movies I still enjoyed it. Picking the crazy decade of the nineties as our next countdown is an obvious choice, chances are it will members here have seen more from this decade than any others, from the previous century/millenium that is. So here we go. And don't worry about which films you pick, if I feel you've made the wrong choice(s) I'll simply change it to something that I feel is more deserving. And just to get things started right, American Beauty is the wrong choice. You have been warned.
Rules
-Submit your top 25 movies to me in a PM with the title "Username - Mofo Top 100 of the Nineties"
(of course, don't put "Username" in the title, I want you to include yours. I think this will make it easier for me to search through if need be, so thanks in advance)
-Your top 25 must be ranked 1-25, and no ties, those are lame anyway.
-Deadline for entries is July 1st, 2013. No exceptions.
-No changes to the list once it has been submitted! You don't have to submit your list until July 1st so take your time, especially if you're the indecisive type. None of this, "I just saw Three Colours: Blue for the first time and want to add it to my list." or "I completely forgot about American Beauty!" You see, that last quote is double-lose, for one you're making post-submission changes, and two you're voting for American Beauty. Not good.
-I think I'll keep Brodinski's rule of "New members can send in their Top 25 as soon as they've been on the MoFo for one month. This measure is taken so that the list isn't influenced by members who've been on here for a week and then pack their bags and never come back. If we get too many of such lists, the Top 100 wouldn't be really representative of the MoFo's taste." I like this rule.
-And this one as well: "Films that are part of a series (Three Colours Trilogy) must be regarded as SEPARATE films. It is not permitted to submit an entire trilogy as one entry."
-Films will be given points as follows: 1st gets 25 points, 2nd gets 24 points, 3rd 23 points, and so on until 25th gets 1 point.
-As for which films will be eligible for inclusion into the countdown I'll keep it simple, any film with an imdb year between 1990-1999.
Examples:
Mystery Train: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097940/ - Not allowed.
Night on Earth: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102536/ - Allowed!
Get it? Great.
-NEW RULE - Do not post your lists until after the complete top 100 has been posted. If you do, as of Feb 20th, 2013, your list will be disqualified.
So I think that's it for the rules, but as I am dictator of this little project I'll change them as I see fit, should anyone question my authority. Okay, I'm joking about that, and while I'm confessing about my joking I'll add that (being uncertain everyone will get that I was joking - you never know) of course I won't be changing people's lists, and of course you can vote for whichever film you like, even American Beauty.
So let's thank Brodinski for the great work he did for our last countdown. And I'll thank Yoda too, our fearless leader, who has kindly volunteered to help.
May the best film win!
(probably Goodfellas or Pulp Fiction, but that's okay)
Rules
-Submit your top 25 movies to me in a PM with the title "Username - Mofo Top 100 of the Nineties"
(of course, don't put "Username" in the title, I want you to include yours. I think this will make it easier for me to search through if need be, so thanks in advance)
-Your top 25 must be ranked 1-25, and no ties, those are lame anyway.
-Deadline for entries is July 1st, 2013. No exceptions.
-No changes to the list once it has been submitted! You don't have to submit your list until July 1st so take your time, especially if you're the indecisive type. None of this, "I just saw Three Colours: Blue for the first time and want to add it to my list." or "I completely forgot about American Beauty!" You see, that last quote is double-lose, for one you're making post-submission changes, and two you're voting for American Beauty. Not good.
-I think I'll keep Brodinski's rule of "New members can send in their Top 25 as soon as they've been on the MoFo for one month. This measure is taken so that the list isn't influenced by members who've been on here for a week and then pack their bags and never come back. If we get too many of such lists, the Top 100 wouldn't be really representative of the MoFo's taste." I like this rule.
-And this one as well: "Films that are part of a series (Three Colours Trilogy) must be regarded as SEPARATE films. It is not permitted to submit an entire trilogy as one entry."
-Films will be given points as follows: 1st gets 25 points, 2nd gets 24 points, 3rd 23 points, and so on until 25th gets 1 point.
-As for which films will be eligible for inclusion into the countdown I'll keep it simple, any film with an imdb year between 1990-1999.
Examples:
Mystery Train: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097940/ - Not allowed.
Night on Earth: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102536/ - Allowed!
Get it? Great.
-NEW RULE - Do not post your lists until after the complete top 100 has been posted. If you do, as of Feb 20th, 2013, your list will be disqualified.
So I think that's it for the rules, but as I am dictator of this little project I'll change them as I see fit, should anyone question my authority. Okay, I'm joking about that, and while I'm confessing about my joking I'll add that (being uncertain everyone will get that I was joking - you never know) of course I won't be changing people's lists, and of course you can vote for whichever film you like, even American Beauty.
So let's thank Brodinski for the great work he did for our last countdown. And I'll thank Yoda too, our fearless leader, who has kindly volunteered to help.
May the best film win!
(probably Goodfellas or Pulp Fiction, but that's okay)
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"Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
Last edited by Harry Lime; 05-30-13 at 03:35 AM.
