Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Nine to Five

Nine films in our last Top 25 list have been replaced. Nine of the films we added in this new competition have replaced previous entries to form the new top 25. Coincidence? I think not.

In 6 of the 8 round two groups I was outvoted a little bit. Group B was obvious, everyone agrees on that. The votes for group H also agreed with me, in general. In the other six groups, I was somewhat outvoted, but I used my rescue vote on Cool Hand Luke, so only five of my picks lost out.

You can look at the previous post to see how the groups played out, but the net result is that

Dr. Strangelove
The City of Lost Children
Scarface
Run Lola Run
Baraka
Alien
Memento
Blue Velvet
The Deerhunter

have dropped out of our competition forever. They have been replaced, in the new top 25, by

The Godfather
Psycho
Citizen Kane
The Wizard of Oz
To Kill a Mockingbird
MASH
On the Waterfront
Ran
The Exorcist.

Yes, it's an imperfect process. It's meant to be. The new top 25 is, in no particular order,

Cool Hand Luke
M
Blade Runner
The Godfather
Bombay
Brazil
Seven Samurai
A Clockwork Orange
The Third Man
Psycho
Straw Dogs
2001: A Space Odyssey
Citizen Kane
The Lord of the Rings
A Face in the Crowd
The Wizard of Oz
Midnight Cowboy
My Life as a Dog
To Kill a Mockingbird
Yojimbo
MASH
On the Waterfront
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Ran
The Exorcist


I will post the groups for the final round tomorrow-ish. Vote soon.

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