Joe Lunardi would be....proud?
November 6, 2010 10:20 AM Subscribe
What are some clever ways to categorize movies? Each category needs at least sixteen items.
How do a pair of indecisive data nerds, faced with overwhelming options and a desire to make things more complicated than they ought to be settle on a movie? We make a bracket. Lousy photo, sorry. That was before I got very good at drawing lines.
My boyfriend has a giant movie library (like, 1700 movies, plus netflix instant), I haven't seen that many movies. It works, but we want to do more themed brackets. We did some all-horror brackets, an all-James Bond bracket, an all-San Francisco bracket, things like that, but we wanted to poke the hive mind for some further suggestions. Any ideas?
Bonus points if it can be divided into conferences.
How do a pair of indecisive data nerds, faced with overwhelming options and a desire to make things more complicated than they ought to be settle on a movie? We make a bracket. Lousy photo, sorry. That was before I got very good at drawing lines.
My boyfriend has a giant movie library (like, 1700 movies, plus netflix instant), I haven't seen that many movies. It works, but we want to do more themed brackets. We did some all-horror brackets, an all-James Bond bracket, an all-San Francisco bracket, things like that, but we wanted to poke the hive mind for some further suggestions. Any ideas?
Bonus points if it can be divided into conferences.
Post Apocalyptic
Super Heroes (Marvel vs DC conferences?)
Incredibly Grim Endings
TVtropes.org would be a good resource for constructing your brackets too.
posted by Scoo at 10:44 AM on November 6, 2010 [1 favorite]
Super Heroes (Marvel vs DC conferences?)
Incredibly Grim Endings
TVtropes.org would be a good resource for constructing your brackets too.
posted by Scoo at 10:44 AM on November 6, 2010 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Movies about/featuring manic/depressives
Movies where the actor playing the villain usually is the good guy in other roles
Movies about young people engaged in social justice
ballet movies
Movies with a big ol' plot twist
Movies that begin with the concluding scenes
Movies set in coastal New England
Movies where a character is pushed too far and finally fights back
Movies with multiple storylines that intersect tangentially
Movies about women folk, especially ones with a witty or dark streak
50's low budget B-movies
And that's just from the first couple pages of film. Here's movies.
posted by carsonb at 10:48 AM on November 6, 2010 [1 favorite]
Movies where the actor playing the villain usually is the good guy in other roles
Movies about young people engaged in social justice
ballet movies
Movies with a big ol' plot twist
Movies that begin with the concluding scenes
Movies set in coastal New England
Movies where a character is pushed too far and finally fights back
Movies with multiple storylines that intersect tangentially
Movies about women folk, especially ones with a witty or dark streak
50's low budget B-movies
And that's just from the first couple pages of film. Here's movies.
posted by carsonb at 10:48 AM on November 6, 2010 [1 favorite]
Movies that all feature an actor who plays a wide range.
For instance, Kevin Spacey Movies (there's a big difference, for instance, in the character he plays in American Beauty and the character he plays in Seven), Jack Lemmon Movies (big difference between Some Like it Hot and Death of a Salesman), and so on. Some more guys who have been in a lot: Nic Cage, Tim Robbins, Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood, Samuel L Jackson...
posted by phunniemee at 11:11 AM on November 6, 2010
For instance, Kevin Spacey Movies (there's a big difference, for instance, in the character he plays in American Beauty and the character he plays in Seven), Jack Lemmon Movies (big difference between Some Like it Hot and Death of a Salesman), and so on. Some more guys who have been in a lot: Nic Cage, Tim Robbins, Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood, Samuel L Jackson...
posted by phunniemee at 11:11 AM on November 6, 2010
Best answer: Teen movies based on Shakespeare plays.
As an employee of Joe's in both of our day jobs, I can tell you he'd find your title wildly entertaining.
posted by moviehawk at 11:48 AM on November 6, 2010
As an employee of Joe's in both of our day jobs, I can tell you he'd find your title wildly entertaining.
posted by moviehawk at 11:48 AM on November 6, 2010
Best answer: Movies with a smart-ass child character
Movies where a younger woman falls in love with a man old enough to be her father/grandfather
Movies that have a signature famous quote ("I'll be back", "I am Spartacus", etc.)
Remakes (and you could have two conferences, The Original Films and The Remakes)
Remakes of foreign films (ditto)
posted by SuperSquirrel at 4:50 PM on November 6, 2010
Movies where a younger woman falls in love with a man old enough to be her father/grandfather
Movies that have a signature famous quote ("I'll be back", "I am Spartacus", etc.)
Remakes (and you could have two conferences, The Original Films and The Remakes)
Remakes of foreign films (ditto)
posted by SuperSquirrel at 4:50 PM on November 6, 2010
Consult VideoHound for some fun ideas. It's listeriffic!
posted by scratch at 6:08 PM on November 6, 2010
posted by scratch at 6:08 PM on November 6, 2010
Movies where the hero successfully runs from a nuclear explosion.
(Seriously. There are a surprising number of these.)
posted by Ahab at 2:33 AM on November 7, 2010
(Seriously. There are a surprising number of these.)
posted by Ahab at 2:33 AM on November 7, 2010
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