Best Ever Movie - Round One

[JohnT]

I'll play.

Chinatown - 10 points.

A nod to what I consider to be the most perfectly crafted American film ever. Oh, I'll be more charitable towards other films in later rounds, but for now I want to give my favorite movie a big .

[Winston]

Oohh, big spender!

[JohnT]

Well, Chinatown now has 17 points which definitely places it in the top 10 currently (probably the top 3). With my 10 points, we can expect enough Apolytoners to have the taste and discretion to move this most-worthy movie into the next round.

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by Saras
Yup.

Why don't you come to Texas? I can show you the ropes.
No, no. Not THE rope.

[Winston]

I agree, John. It's true what they say: These movie polls require a certain amount of finesse.

[Saras]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Why don't you come to Texas? I can show you the ropes.
No, no. Not THE rope.

[SlowwHand]

I also at this time would like to file a formal protest against JohnT.
IMO, his tactic goes against the spirit of the game.

[Winston]

Objection overruled.

[Saras]

I second that. I could have used my 10 points to promote some obscure pseudo-intellectual crap from a place no one knows.

[Harry Seldon]

I thought the rule was you had to split your vote to three movies. I people are voting for more than three I don't see why people can't just vote for one.

[Proteus_MST]

Star Wars IV (A New Hope) - 3
Star Wars V (The Empire strikes Back) - 1
Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship...) - 1
Lord of the Rings (The Two Towers) - 1
Matrix I - 2
Ran (from Akira Kurosawa) - 1
Kagemusha (from Akira Kurosawa) - 1

[Proteus_MST]

Originally posted by Harry Seldon
I thought the rule was you had to split your vote to three movies. I people are voting for more than three I don't see why people can't just vote for one.

Nope, there doesn´t seem to be a rule that you have to vote for just three movies.

And why they vote for more than three?
Maybee because it is hard to decide, as there are a lot of really good Movies around

Maybe it would make more sense if you had 4, 3, 2 and 1 Points and now could decide, which Movie gets the 4 points, which the three and so on.
Would make the Tactics of Giving just one Film the full 10 points much harder
(of course in this case you should also exclude that one can vote more than once for the movie, so that noone can give 4 Points to Movie A, 3 Points to Movie A, 2 Points to Movie A and finally 1 Point to Movie A )

[JohnT]

Let me quote:

Round One will consist of people dividing 10 points between movies of their choice.

I chose to divide my 10 points by 1 movie, a formula that works like this (see if you can follow, Sloww)

10/1 = 10

Since this formula is within the rules I am unsure as to why you are whining about this?

[Ming]

Shawshank Redemption - 2
Ben Hur - 2
Vertigo - 2
Lawrence of Arabia - 2
Citizen Kane - 2


Edited to correct a typo

[Hot Mustard]

The Shawshank Redemption - 3
American Beauty - 3
The Usual Suspects - 2
Star Wars IV: A New Hope - 2