**** THE UNOFFICIAL SOCIAL DISTANCING 1980s BEST MOVIE TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS ****

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In reply to Fat Bib Fortuna • 12:15p, 4/10/20
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MuckRaker96 said:
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God f'ing Dammit. I missed the sci-fi round. Complete horsesh^t.


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#4 Superman II 56%, #19 The Abyss 44%


And this is a terrible, terrible win. Superman II is unwatchable. I tried to watch it not too long ago. Actually turned it off.
Clearly you've never been to Planet Houston.

How I feel right now:

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12:16p, 4/10/20
Screw all you people who voted against Star Trek.
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In reply to YouBet • 12:22p, 4/10/20
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YouBet said:
God f'ing Dammit. I missed the sci-fi round. Complete horsesh^t.


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#4 Superman II 56%, #19 The Abyss 44%


And this is a terrible, terrible win. Superman II is unwatchable. I tried to watch it not too long ago. Actually turned it off.
The **** is wrong with you?

KNEEL BEFORE ZOD
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In reply to Brian Earl Spilner • 12:28p, 4/10/20
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The Abyss is 1000% times better than Superman II.
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In reply to TCTTS • 12:33p, 4/10/20
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General, would you care to step outside?
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In reply to TCTTS • 12:38p, 4/10/20
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The Abyss is 1000% times better than Superman II.
Can it, Old Sport!

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12:48p, 4/10/20
Looking forward to week 16 of the lock-in, when Muck will create the 1.1 million-entry "every movie ever made" bracket and BES does the "best facial expression by an unnamed background extra in Star Wars" tournament.
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1:00p, 4/10/20
Will eventually culminate in a 256-seed "Best Entertainment Board Poster" Bracket where every single person will only vote for themselves like in the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie.
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1:15p, 4/10/20
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Well, if we're nominating Muck to start setting up all these brackets for us, I do believe we need an 80's cartoon tournament of champions. I know what I'll be voting for.
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In reply to Deleted User • 1:28p, 4/10/20
Prime0882 said:
Well, if we're nominating Muck to start setting up all these brackets for us, I do believe we need an 80's cartoon tournament of champions. I know what I'll be voting for.

Thats not bad. Although i would vote for dungeons and dragons
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In reply to Deleted User • 1:29p, 4/10/20
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I'll take on that challenge
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In reply to Fat Bib Fortuna • 1:32p, 4/10/20
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I was literally googling that d&d cartoon yesterday trying to remember how it ended.
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In reply to ChipFTAC01 • 1:40p, 4/10/20
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ChipFTAC01 said:
I'll take on that challenge
Do it.
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In reply to ChipFTAC01 • 1:48p, 4/10/20
ChipFTAC01 said:
I was literally googling that d&d cartoon yesterday trying to remember how it ended.


One of my 8 year old daughters absolutely loves it. We watch one every saturday. Definitely read the script of the unmade series finale!
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In reply to YouBet • 1:58p, 4/10/20
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I'll start working on it. Muck, when will this one be over? Need a deadline to work towards.
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2:16p, 4/10/20
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Man, I'm surprised how many movies in the action bracket I've never seen or heard of.

Shame I'm not locked at home in need of things to do with my spare time, or anything like that.
Thanks and gig'em
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2:25p, 4/10/20
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Rocky IV vs Silverado?!

**** YOU
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In reply to ChipFTAC01 • 2:28p, 4/10/20
ChipFTAC01 said:
I'll start working on it. Muck, when will this one be over? Need a deadline to work towards.
let's see - first round comedies tomorrow, first round drama/horror on Sunday

Round of 64 Monday
Round of 32 Tuesday
Round of 16 Wednesday
Round of 8 Thursday
Final Four on Friday
Championship on Saturday - you've got 9 days.
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2:32p, 4/10/20
Only one Action/Adventure movie is still at 100%, who wants to guess?
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In reply to Fat Bib Fortuna • 2:35p, 4/10/20
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Either Top Gun or Die Hard. I lean Die Hard.
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2:37p, 4/10/20
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Raiders
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In reply to Zombie Jon Snow • 3:19p, 4/10/20
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Zombie Jon Snow said:

Damn was hoping for some upsets there in the bottom few.

Give me

Mad Max over Bill and Ted
The Abyss over Superman II
Khan over ET
Conan over TRON

But they won't matter much in the next round. Pretty much as expected.


That's exactly how I voted.
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3:22p, 4/10/20
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Rocky IV vs Silverado. Damn that's tough
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In reply to AggieChemist • 3:23p, 4/10/20
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Exactly!!!!!
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3:58p, 4/10/20
You people clearly have no clue about what is best in life.
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In reply to Fat Bib Fortuna • 6:07p, 4/10/20
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MuckRaker96 said:
ChipFTAC01 said:
I'll start working on it. Muck, when will this one be over? Need a deadline to work towards.
let's see - first round comedies tomorrow, first round drama/horror on Sunday

Round of 64 Monday
Round of 32 Tuesday
Round of 16 Wednesday
Round of 8 Thursday
Final Four on Friday
Championship on Saturday - you've got 9 days.


Clear that work schedule and make it happen ChipFTAC01!
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In reply to AtlAg05 • 7:46p, 4/10/20
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I've got a list of about 45 so far. Not sure I can stretch it to 64 without really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
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In reply to ChipFTAC01 • 7:57p, 4/10/20
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ChipFTAC01 said:
I've got a list of about 45 so far. Not sure I can stretch it to 64 without really scraping the bottom of the barrel.


80s and 90s. Lots of 80s kids watched 90s cartoons as well.
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In reply to Fat Bib Fortuna • 9:59p, 4/10/20
MuckRaker96 said:
Thats why they made all those dune sequels.

Better cast
Better scifi
Better score
Better production value

The only thing terminator has going for it was the audience being meatheads who liked robots and guns.
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In reply to The Debt • 10:25p, 4/10/20
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The Debt said:
MuckRaker96 said:
Thats why they made all those dune sequels.

Better cast
Better scifi
Better score
Better production value

The only thing terminator has going for it was the audience being meatheads who liked robots and guns.

duh......

Dune was a $45 M big budget major studio film. Of course it had more production value, also based on a classic story, and they paid for the cast too.

Terminator was a low budget independent sci-fi movie made for 6.4M or roughly 1/7th the cost.

You can have higher production value, cast, score and all the things money buys - doesn't mean squat.

Dune bombed. Considering an additional 50% for distribution and marketing it cost about $72M total. So it lost probably $42M.

Terminator made $78M and cost less than $10M with marketing and distribution costs. So it made probably $68M which funded the next several Cameron projects. Success.

End of story.



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In reply to Zombie Jon Snow • 10:39p, 4/10/20
Let me remind you of this criteria of this game:

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The contest is best movie of the 1980s

Maybe you are reading "best box office success" into it, but that ain't there.

Next you're gonna say Britney Spears is a better musical talent than the foo fighters because of record sales.
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10:40p, 4/10/20
....and she didnt have any of those fancy guitars either
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In reply to The Debt • 10:50p, 4/10/20
The Debt said:
Let me remind you of this criteria of this game:

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The contest is best movie of the 1980s

Maybe you are reading "best box office success" into it, but that ain't there.

Next you're gonna say Britney Spears is a better musical talent than the foo fighters because of record sales.
The voting ran for 24 hours. Terminator got 253 votes, Dune got 28. Close one.
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In reply to The Debt • 11:10p, 4/10/20
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The Debt said:
Let me remind you of this criteria of this game:

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The contest is best movie of the 1980s

Maybe you are reading "best box office success" into it, but that ain't there.

Next you're gonna say Britney Spears is a better musical talent than the foo fighters because of record sales.

The BO is another indicator of success........not the only one. You can go look at IMDB ratings if you want another 8 to 6.4 is another data point.

you're trying to argue for a film that BOMBED being better. I mean if it was even mildly successful you might have a point. Which is why your Britney Spears vs Foo Fighter argument is dumb - Foo Fighters are a highly successful and respected band. Dune is a BO Bomb. Apples to Bananas.

I was there in 1984..... people walked out of Dune it was so bad. I barely sat through it. Terminator was a genuine surprise smash - and a low budget independent film. It was ground breaking in many ways. Dune was a formulaic hollywood snoozefest.

But you keep on arguing in favor of the film that is joked about because it is so bad. So brave.

On any real list of best films of the 80s...... Dune would be out of the top 100. I'm not sure how it even made this list in the first place. I guess cuz sci-fi was so weak in that era. It's just barely ahead of Flash Gordon on IMDB sci-fi 80s films, another joked about BOMB.





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12:20a, 4/11/20
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There's someone unironically arguing that Dune is a better movie than Terminator.

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