EN World Movie Battle Royal! We have our winner!

[Thornir Alekeg]

One more to go:

1) Lord of the Rings
2) Frnakenstein
3) Creature from the Black Lagoon
4) Planet of the Apes
5) The Thing (1982)
6) umm...I'll go with Shrek simply because I have not watched it 500 times with my kids.
7) Akira
8) Didn't see either
9) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

 

[Evilhalfling]

8-20
1. Lord of the Rings: fellowship - common potter was good but this is no contest.
2. frankenistien
3 not seen
4 Plantet of the apes
5. Thing from another world
6. Monsters Inc - meh both bad.
7. Akira
8. Princess Mononoke
9. 20,000 leagues - as I dont remember the other,

 

[MonsterMash]

Great - round 8 closes - bring on the second set of polls.

 

[MonsterMash]

Round 8 result (provisional)

Until confirmed by Gomez:

1. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring beats Harry Potter and the Sorcerors Stone 20-0-0

2. Frankenstein beats The Mummy 14-6-0

3. Creature from the Black Lagoon beats The Wolfman 12-7-1

4. Planet of the Apes beats Forbidden Planet 14-6-0

5, The Thing beats The Thing from another World 15-5-0

6, Shrek ties with Monsters, inc 9-9-2

7. Akira beats Ghost in the shell 11-5-4

8. Spirited Away beats Princess Mononke 9-7-4

9. 20,000 Leagues under the sea beats Jouney to the Centre of the Earth 14-6-0

So we have a tie!

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

And our first 20-0 vote, don't we?

 

[MonsterMash]

And our first 20-0 vote, don't we?

And as we all suspected Gandalf wipes the floor with Harry Potter.

 

[Gomez]

I guess I have to break the tie then! Ouch hard choice. I am going to give the nod to Shrek! While both were great movies, I can sit down and watch Shrek anytime. I don't have that same feeling with Monsters Inc.

 

[Krieg]

How are you going to set up the next round?

The easiest choices would be to...

1. Keep each round's bracket independent until their is only one movie from each round or...

2. Cross bracket & pit rounds against each other.

Round 1 vs 8
2 vs 7
3 vs 6
4 vs 5

Then you would just invert the seeds so that the #1 seed from round #8 would go against the #8 seed from round #1 (again 2v7, 3v6, 4v5).

3. Create a 64 spot bracket, mix all of the movies together & use the first round record for seeding.

Personally I would vote for the second choice as it has the potential to be more interesting by putting movies from different rounds against each other right away. The problem with choice three is that there are going to be a lot of movies with the same overall "record" and it will be difficult to assign a tiebreaker.

 

[ShadowDenizen]

2. Cross bracket & pit rounds against each other.

Round 1 vs 8
2 vs 7
3 vs 6
4 vs 5

I would also vote for this method.

 

[Krieg]

If you do go with method two. The first matchup of the second round (2.1) would look like this:

1. Alien (1.1#1) 19-1 vs Shrek (1.8 #8) 9-9-2
2. King Kong (1.1#2) 16-4 vs Akira (1.8#7) 11-5-4
3. Hellraiser (1.1#3) 14-4-2 vs Creature from the Black Lagoon (1.8#6) 12-7-1
4. Star Wars: Ep IV (1.1#4) 13-6-1 vs 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1.8#5)* 14-6
5. The Exorcist (1.1#5) 13-7 vs Planet of the Apes (1.8#4)* 14-6
6. Pirates of the Caribean (1.1#6) 12-8 vs Frankenstein (1.1#3)* 14-6
7. Total Recall (1.1#7) 12-8 vs The Thing (1.8#2) 15-5
8. Conan (1.1#8) 11-9 vs Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings (1.8#1) 20-0

*Note: 20,000 Leagues, Planet of the Apes & Frankenstein all finished 14-6. I just listed them in the order they were originally posted in.