** BEST MOVIE 2000-2024 TOURNAMENT ***

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9:32p, 1/1/25
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As indicated in the previous thread, there are no seeds. All matchups are a blind draw.
Entries include:
  • Best Picture Winners
  • Box Office Champs
  • Highest ranked films on IMDB
There are a few subs based on duplicates / movies nobody cares about being replaced with several great comedies.
Deadpool & Wolverine and Wicked from 2024 are my personal picks to fill out the field of 128 entries.

VOTE HERE

Voting on the first round will be open until sometime Sunday evening.
Second round begins Monday. If you like predicting brackets, I'm planning on pairing the winner of the first and fourth regionals and the winners of the second and third regionals in the semifinals.

The Regional Brackets

Lt. Aldo Raine Region
Baby Driver vs. Catch Me if You Can
Spotlight vs. Wedding Crashers
No Country for Old Men vs. American Sniper
Kill Bill: Vol 1 vs. Monsters, Inc.
Pan's Labyrinth vs. Moneyball
Shrek 2 vs. Dunkirk
Everything Everywhere All At Once vs. Arrival
Interstellar vs. Walk the Line
Hell or High Water vs. Inglorious Basterds
The Dark Knight Rises vs. Nomadland
Joker vs. The Wolf of Wall Street
Captain America: The Winter Soldier vs. Shutter Island
Skyfall vs. Rataouille
The Wild Robot vs. The Father
Spider-Man vs. The Last Jedi
CODA vs. Revenge of the Sith

Maximus Decimus Meridius Region
Logan vs. In Bruges
Iron Man vs. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Spider-Man: Now Way Home vs. Green Book
Memento vs. Mad Max: Fury Road
Rogue One vs. The Hurt Locker
Avengers: Endgame vs. Get Out
Deadpool and Wolverine vs. Coco
Ocean's 11 vs. How to Train Your Dragon
Training Day vs. The Social Network
The Prestige vs. Superbad
Requiem for a Dream vs. Old School
WALL-E vs. Parasite
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone vs. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Batman Begins vs. Step Brothers
Inception vs. Gone Girl
Secret Lives of Others vs. Gladiator

Captain Jack Sparrow Bracket

The Avengers vs. Gravity
Wedding Crashers vs. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
City of God vs. Whiplash
Black Panther vs. V for Vendetta
Warrior vs. Donnie Darko
Life of Pi vs. Edge of Tomorrow
Blade Runner 2049 vs. Up
District 9 vs. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Dune Part Two vs. Inside Out
The Help vs. Ford v/ Ferrari
Barbie vs. The Force Awakens
Avatar vs. There Will be Blood
Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse vs. Oppenheimer
The King's Speech vs. The Artist
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl vs. 12 Years a Slave
The Pianist vs. The Dark Knight

Les Grossman Bracket
The Departed vs. Anchorman
Inside Out 2 vs. JoJo Rabbit
Million Dollar Baby vs. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
LOTR: Return of the King vs. Tropic Thunder
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse vs. The Incredibles
Master & Commander vs. Argo
Django Unchained vs. Children of Men
Hacksaw Ridge vs. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
1917 vs. Hotel Rwanda
Snatch vs. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Green Book vs. Spider-Man: No Way Home
Prisoners vs. Top Gun: Maverick
Toy Story 3 vs. A Beautiful Mind
The Hangover vs. Slumdog Millionaire
Gran Torino vs. Wicked
Rush vs. Avengers: Infinity War

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toucan82
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9:57p, 1/1/25
I think Wedding Crashers is in twice

Vs. Spotlight and Eternal Sunshine
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In reply to toucan82 • 10:15p, 1/1/25
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Changed it, thanks Toucan
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10:22p, 1/1/25
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Final Four prediction: Interstellar, The Social Network, The Dark Knight, TG: Maverick
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10:23p, 1/1/25
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I believe No Way Home is also twice.
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Brian Earl Spilner
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10:36p, 1/1/25
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Prisoners and Avatar got some horrible first matchups.
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10:51p, 1/1/25
The Departed vs Anchorman is tough. Both are great examples of their genre, but they are so different you can't really compare them. I feel like I'm in a glass case of emotion.
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11:25p, 1/1/25
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Dune Part Two vs. Inside Out....this is EVIL.

Requiem for a Dream vs. Old School....and this made me LOL
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11:34p, 1/1/25
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In voting, I realize again the impact of having kids for most of this time period.

There were some movies that I didn't know that well or hadn't seen. But all those kid movies, and all those cartoons, yep...seen it multiple times.
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11:36p, 1/1/25
Green book is there twice.
I would also suggest removing th requirement to answer every one, there were a couple I hadn't seen one or both. Pretty much made up answers from me on those.
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Sorry for the double ups. I'll figure something out once all the votes are cast. I doubt it will change much of anything.

some of the matchups were truly miserable to see come up on the random # generator and keep there, particularly Training Day vs. the Social Network for me.

A healthy 47 votes cast already. At this point there are none that are at 100%

I'm not going to remove the mandatory vote thing because that makes it too easy to miss a matchup or think you've voted but you really haven't. Even when I was testing it out, I missed several that I thought I had picked.

Within 2-3 rounds, it should be largely movies everyone has seen.
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12:16a, 1/2/25
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Deadpool and Wolverine vs Coco was my toughest match up.
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2:07a, 1/2/25
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Blade Runner Vs Up was my hardest one. Like both movies.
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7:43a, 1/2/25
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Memento vs Fury Road
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7:56a, 1/2/25
No titanic?
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In reply to Grapesoda2525 • 8:25a, 1/2/25
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Grapesoda2525 said:
No titanic?


Titanic came out in 1997.
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In reply to AustinAg2K • 9:11a, 1/2/25
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AustinAg2K said:
The Departed vs Anchorman is tough. Both are great examples of their genre, but they are so different you can't really compare them. I feel like I'm in a glass case of emotion.


Same for Batman Begins Vs Step Brothers
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In reply to Grapesoda2525 • 9:46a, 1/2/25
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Grapesoda2525 said:
No titanic?
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9:54a, 1/2/25
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Since I somehow put Green Book vs. No way Home in there twice, and Green Book is getting doubly slaughtered, the next super hero movie up that didn't make the initial list - Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) will get a second-round replacement bye.
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10:19a, 1/2/25
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There's some big time movies that didn't make the list.
Not really complaining, but just some observations.

Finding Nemo
Black Hawk Down
Zombieland
Almost Famous
Gangs of New York
Minority Report
Boyhood
Drive
Dallas Buyers Club
Sicario
Captain Phillips
Lincoln
Zootopia
Thor Ragnorok
No Mission Impossible movies
No Fast and Furious movies
No Planet of the Apes movies
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10:37a, 1/2/25
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Was Boyhood not there? Didn't even notice, but that's one of my favorites of the 2000's. (Or whatever we call post-2000...)
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In reply to Bruce Almighty • 10:41a, 1/2/25
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Bruce Almighty said:
Not really complaining, but ...
Words spoken by my wife after every meal I've ever cooked
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10:55a, 1/2/25
HOHW v Inglorious Basterds

Come on bro
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OK, let's play the procrastination game a little until the Sugar Bowl

#1) Which movie currently has the highest percentage of votes (98 votes cast)?

#2 Tell me one of the three closest matchups right now. Two are 50-48 and a third is 49-49.

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11:46a, 1/2/25
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Gladiator with most votes
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12:30p, 1/2/25
Most votes: Dark Knight over Pianist

Closest: Hell or High Water vs. Inglorious Basterds
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Hell and High Water vs Inglorious Basterds was my most difficult choice. Both are great. I picked inglorious because of the opening scene, but I went back and forth.
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In reply to The Porkchop Express • 12:59p, 1/2/25
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The Porkchop Express said:
#1) Which movie currently has the highest percentage of votes (98 votes cast)?
Agree with the Dark Knight

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#2 Tell me one of the three closest matchups right now. Two are 50-48 and a third is 49-49.
My aforementioned Dune 2 v Inside Out
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1:07p, 1/2/25
Wait, almost famous isn't There? Can we put that in over another super hero movie? It's better than at least half the movies on this list.
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Bruce Almighty said:
Gladiator with most votes
Bruce knows what's up
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oragator said:
Wait, almost famous isn't There? Can we put that in over another super hero movie? It's better than at least half the movies on this list.
No, because I like Guardians of the Galaxy more
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Micah97 said:
Hell and High Water vs Inglorious Basterds was my most difficult choice. Both are great. I picked inglorious because of the opening scene, but I went back and forth.
I think if more people had seen Hell or High Water it would go really far in this field. I never even heard about it until I saw it on Netflix. It was never in more than 1500 theaters and came out at an odd time of year.

The closest vote is actually

District 9 vs. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - separated by 1 vote right now.
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AustinAg2K said:
The Departed vs Anchorman is tough. Both are great examples of their genre, but they are so different you can't really compare them. I feel like I'm in a glass case of emotion.
Recasting The Departed with the Anchorman cast is a groupthink we need to do.

Ron Burgundy can be Damon's character

Paul Rudd as DiCaprio

Steve Carrell as Nicholson

Champ Kind as Marky Mark with a few WHAMMMMMYS
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In reply to Bruce Almighty • 2:02p, 1/2/25
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Gladiator with most votes
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