Vote for Serenity in io9's March Movie Madness.
"This planet's greatest scifi films" compete in the "most important tournament of our time". Voting begins tomorrow at 11 AM PST.
Wednesday, March 16 and Friday, March 18: First Round
Monday, March 21 and Wednesday, March 23: Second Round
Friday, March 25: Sweet Sixteen
Monday, March 28: Elite Eight
Wednesday, March 30: Final Four
Friday, April 1: Final Four
Monday, April 4: Championship
March 15 2011
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The Goose | March 15, 16:58 CET
I've always wondered how they decide which two contenders to match up. A Clockwork Orange vs. Ghostbusters and Wall-E vs. Gattaca are just... weird.
BreathesStory | March 15, 18:49 CET
redeem147 | March 15, 18:54 CET
BreathesStory | March 15, 19:14 CET
The Goose | March 15, 19:38 CET
Tumnus | March 15, 20:40 CET
BreathesStory, if you look at the second paragraph, it sounds like they ranked them all and then arranged them by seed like in a regular tournament.
Serenity's doing well so far but it's not winning by as much of a landslide as I'd like. Come on guys! ;)
Rachelkachel | March 15, 23:30 CET
io9 appears to load-balance based on geography. When I first clicked the link I ended up being taken to "http://uk.io9.com..." which displayed the titles but no radio buttons, after a couple of attempts it stuck on the actual URL linked (http://io9.com...) which shows the titles with radio buttons and a 'Vote' button to the left of each entry. Maybe that's true for Canada too (now's probably a good time BTW since the US will be a bit quieter at the moment, it being between 2 ish and 5 ish am over there).
Man, some toughies on there, 'District 9 vs Robocop' for instance and the 'Serenity' one would've been a real conundrum if it was against 'Spider-man 2'. Mainly went with most enjoyable too (rather than trying to decide 'greatest' criteria).
(also, slightly OT but io9 seem to have really broadened their remit since I last looked, some pretty interesting looking science-ish articles on there, i'll have to start checking their site out more regularly)
Saje | March 16, 03:27 CET
Simon | March 16, 03:52 CET
BreathesStory | March 16, 07:04 CET
It might help if it said whether they were original films or remakes (ie Tron, Invasion of the Body Snatchers.) Or maybe it did say and I missed it.
redeem147 | March 16, 07:54 CET
embers | March 16, 09:03 CET
It might help if it said whether they were original films or remakes (ie Tron, Invasion of the Body Snatchers.) Or maybe it did say and I missed it.
It says "'Invasion of the Bodysnatchers' (1978)" so it's the Donald Sutherland one (not the Kevin McCarthy original). Also, there's only one 'Tron' (i.e. the 'remake' is actually a sequel and is called 'Tron: Legacy').
Saje | March 16, 09:37 CET
redeem147 | March 16, 10:29 CET
Saje | March 16, 11:01 CET