Tournament: Greatest movies of the Sci-Fi / Fantasy Genre (WINNER ANNOUNCED!)

Oh good. Then I select...20,000 Leagues Under the Sea



EDIT:

There's still...

Frankenstein (1931)
Things To Come (1936)
When Worlds Collide (1941)
Them! (1954)
This Island Earth (1955)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Journey To The Center of the Earth (1959)
Village of the Damned (1960)
Gorgo (1961)
The Day of the Triffids (1963)
Fantastic Voyage (1966)
Fantastic Planet (1973)
Logan's Run (1976)
Escape From New York (1981)
Brainstorm (1983)
The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai Across The Eigth Dimension (1984)
Trancers (1985)
The Blob (1958)
Jaws (1975)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

 

I only nominated 2 before, so I'll add Escape From New York and The Day of the Triffids.

 

You can nominate more if you want. Remember my requirements that I posted a few posts above this one. We need like 5 Sci-Fi Films and 10 or so Fantasy Films. I would like to have the nominations process over by tonight so that we can get the tournament going. Whatever we're missing by tonight, I'll fill in with a few more of my own nominations.

 

King Kong (1930's version)
King Kong (PJ's version)
Has Metropolis been nominated yet?

 

No, it has not. I'll add that.

 

How about Masters of the Universe, Fantastic Voyage, Journey To The Center of the Earth, and has Gattaca been added? Pardon my laziness for not looking.

 

Okay. Here we go. 128 Movies in total. 64 Sci-Fi Movies and 64 Fantasy Movies. There are 8 Brackets with 16 movies in each. Movies were placed in brackets randomly. Voting begins Friday. Your brackets are as followed:


Bracket #1 ? (Fantasy) (The Atlantis Bracket)

Spiderman 2
Harry Potter: Prisoner of Azkaban
Superman: The Movie
Brazil
X-Men United
The Never-ending Story
LotR: Fellowship of the Ring
Legend
Conan the Barbarian
Batman Begins
Flash Gordon (1980)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Bubba Ho-Tep
The Dark Crystal
The Frighteners
Big Trouble in Little China


Bracket #2 ? (Science Fiction) (The Deus ex machina Bracket)

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn
2001: A Space Odyssey
Alien
Blade Runner
The Matrix
Stargate
Independence Day
12 Monkeys
Serenity
THX-1138
War of the Worlds (1953)
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
Mad Max: The Road Warrior
Total Recall
Cocoon
Galaxy Quest


Bracket #3 ? (Fantasy) (The Astral Plane Bracket)

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Time Bandits
LotR: The Return of the King
Men in Black
Spider-Man
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Dragonslayer
Highlander
Pitch Black
Superman II
Time Bandits
The Incredibles
Batman
Monty Pythons Holy Grail
Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Hawk the Slayer


Bracket #4 ? (Science Fiction) (The Photon Torpedo Bracket)

Matrix Reloaded
Tron
Minority Report
Predator
Event Horizon
Alien III
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
The Abyss: Special Edition
Back to the Future
Fifth Element
The Time Machine (1960)
Mad Max (1979)
Equilibrium
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
The Invisible Man (1933)
Robocop


Bracket #5 ? (Fantasy) (The Fountain of Youth Bracket)

Superman Returns
Dune
LotR: The Two Towers
Willow
The Mummy Returns
Gremlins
Krull
Excalibur
Army of Darkness
Batman Returns
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
The Princess Bride
King Kong (1933)
Big Fish
Masters of the Universe
Son of the Mask


Bracket #6 ? (Science Fiction) (The Bracket from the Future Bracket)

Akira
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Matrix Revolutions
Bride of Frankenstein
Donnie Darko
The Terminator
Star Trek - First Contact
The Last Starfighter
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome
Transformers: The Movie
Cube (1997)
The Fly
Gattaca
Moonraker
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Escape from New York


Bracket #7 ? (Fantasy) (The Mythical Bracket)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Underworld: Evolution
Heavy Metal
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Clash of the Titans
End of Evangelion
The Mummy
Ghostbusters
E.T.
Labyrinth
King Kong (2005)
Shrek
Ghoulies IV
Excalibur
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure


Bracket #8 ? (Science Fiction) (The Holographic Bracket)

Jurassic Park
Aliens
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
John Carpenter's The Thing
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Gundam F91
Dark City
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Forbidden Planet
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Starship Troopers
V For Vendetta
The Day of the Triffids
Frankenstein
Contact
Solyaris

 

I like it

 

nicely done. Hard to pick a winner

 

QFT <-- I always wanted to use that.

 

Good, and well mixed up to have a few big hitters in each bracket. #4 is the only one that seems noticeably weaker and that's probably just my imagination and lack of movie knowledge

Looking forward to the start of voting!

 

506, I just noticed some apparent errors:

You've got Time Bandits listed twice in Bracket #3.

Excalibur is listed in both Brackets 5 and 7.

 

replace one Time Bandits with Stargate!

This will be very tough to pick a winner.

dkt

 

Thank you for finding those errors. I will replace those two and amend the brackets. Voting still begins tomorrow!

 

This is shaping up to be a heck of a contest.

 

Okay, I replaced one of the Time Bandits with Toy Story. I also replaced one of the Excalibur movies with Stargate.

 

Then you've got Stargate in two brackets

#2 and #7

IMO its definatly more Sci-Fi then Fantasy so it should probably stay in #2

Toy Story doesn't seem very fantasy-ish to me but thats a different story for a different thread

How about throwing Dragonheart in Stargate's bracket #7 spot?

Edit: And Solaris (last bracket) has a 'y' that shouldn't be in it.

 

Why don't you just shoot me? Do you enjoy watching me die slowly with this tournament?

 

Voting for only one movie per bracket? That'll really sweep some decisiveness out of play. A movie only has a one in 16 chance of moving forward. If all the good movies get voted out early, I might request some html egghead to make an digitized bracket where each movie is in a 1 on 1. That would be too much to handle via PM, but it would give more accurate results and could be done via a mouse click.

 

There are contests within the brackets. Each bracket has 16 movies, each will randomly be paired with another movie. After everyone votes for their favorite movie out of each of the 8 battles, there will be 8 movies left. And then so on and so on through each bracket.

 

Poor 506. It will be over soon.

 

The tournament or me?

 

Well I only ment that we're closer to getting the brackets figured out.

Voting is going to be a whole new nightmare for you.

Have fun with that

 

QFT. prepare for a new wave of PMs