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For the wildcard, does it negate the whole director or genre restriction or is it just the decade?

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No I meant I wanted it myself :)
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No I meant I wanted it myself :)

Oh right, fairy nuff then :P

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I love the Lord of the Rings movies, but not enough to even consider them in what is essentially a greatest movies ever poll.

I am sure some of my picks will be the same with others though. This is a bloody hard to judge draft.

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For the wildcard, does it negate the whole director or genre restriction or is it just the decade?
I assumed it was one of each.

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I assumed it was one of each.


Yeah that's the way I saw it - but I suppose you can use both wildcards at the same time for the same film if you wanted to
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For the wildcard, does it negate the whole director or genre restriction or is it just the decade?

I understood it as genre and decade is free for wildcard, but director and lead not. The former being selection criteria, and the latter being overall draft rules.
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I love the Lord of the Rings movies, but not enough to even consider them in what is essentially a greatest movies ever poll.

I am sure some of my picks will be the same with others though. This is a bloody hard to judge draft.

I fell asleep both times I tried to watch Lord of the Rings. Each to their own.  ;D
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I assumed it was one of each.

I did too - hopefully this is the case.
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I did too - hopefully this is the case.

Remember you recommended me Esmé - for love and squalor a good while back? Not sure if I thanked you for it. It's the best short story I ever read. Last year I got my first dog. Her name is Esmé.
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Remember you recommended me Esmé - for love and squalor a good while back? Not sure if I thanked you for it. It's the best short story I ever read. Last year I got my first dog. Her name is Esmé.

I'm glad, but not surprised, that you liked it. It really is the best. If you haven't yet, try to find an annotated copy of "Entropy" by Thomas Pynchon - that's maybe the second best. It's in his collection "Slow Learner," but you really want one that has all the notes.

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Picked up my original first choices for the 80's and 2010's drafts and my second for the 2000's. That'll do.

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I did too - hopefully this is the case.

Just to clear up, the wildcard is an unpicked film from any decade AND any genre. But the no repeat leads, no repeat directors still stands.

e.g. I have Blade Runner in sci-fi and the 80s, so for my wildcard I could pick another 80s sci-fi film if I wanted (or any other decade) but I couldn't pick Alien in the 70s because Ridley Scott directed it or any Indiana Jones films from the 80s (or again any decade) because Harrison Ford would be in both.

Hope that makes sense.
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Just to clear up, the wildcard is an unpicked film from any decade AND any genre. But the no repeat leads, no repeat directors still stands.

e.g. I have Blade Runner in sci-fi and the 80s, so for my wildcard I could pick another 80s sci-fi film if I wanted (or any other decade) but I couldn't pick Alien in the 70s because Ridley Scott directed it or any Indiana Jones films from the 80s (or again any decade) because Harrison Ford would be in both.

Hope that makes sense.

It does, but it's not really the question I had, I don't think  ;D

I have "True Romance" for the 90s and Crime. If I wanted to pick another 90s film for my Drama, say, could I call that my "Drama Category, Wildcard Decade." I have "Aliens" for my 80s and Sci Fi. Let's say I wanted to pick another Sci Fi film for my 70s decade, say, could I call that my "Wildcard Category, 70s Decade" - you see what I mean? Can the wildcards cover two different films? (I don't even know if the math works out in that scenario.)
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I have "True Romance" for the 90s and Crime. If I wanted to pick another 90s film for my Drama, say, could I call that my "Drama Category, Wildcard Decade." I have "Aliens" for my 80s and Sci Fi. Let's say I wanted to pick another Sci Fi film for my 70s decade, say, could I call that my "Wildcard Category, 70s Decade" - you see what I mean? Can the wildcards cover two different films? (I don't even know if the math works out in that scenario.)
Could be wrong here, but my reading is that the answer to the first question is no.

Wildcard is Category 9 (and this pick can be any decade), while Drama is Category 4.

For the second q, Hazell's post says:
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So each drafter will pick movies from the following decades:
1x pre-50s, 1x 50s, 1x 60s, 1x 70s, 1x 80s, 1x 90s, 1x 00s, 1x 10-20s and one wildcard, which can be an extra one in any decade.
which I think means that our choices for Categories 1-8 must line up with those in bold above.

But obviously after all picks, there will be one decade with two films - and the decade with the duplicate has to be because of the wildcard pick

ie Category 9 picks are the only way to have a wildcard decade [obviously you can pick Wildcard cat before Drama cat - but if you have two films from the 1960s, one has to be the Wildcard]

Is that the right interpretation Hazell & Betty?
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Could be wrong here, but my reading is that the answer to the first question is no.

Wildcard is Category 9 (and this pick can be any decade), while Drama is Category 4.

For the second q, Hazell's post says: which I think means that our choices for Categories 1-8 must line up with those in bold above.

But obviously after all picks, there will be one decade with two films - and the decade with the duplicate has to be because of the wildcard pick

ie Category 9 picks are the only way to have a wildcard decade [obviously you can pick Wildcard cat before Drama cat - but if you have two films from the 1960s, one has to be the Wildcard]

Is that the right interpretation Hazell & Betty?

Yep, that's how I saw it when I set out the draft idea. I think the other way just makes things a bit too complicated and leads to more potential for fuck ups.
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Yep, that's how I saw it when I set out the draft idea. I think the other way just makes things a bit too complicated and leads to more potential for fuck ups.

I'm OK with however we do it, and I think I've figured it out now. You have to feel pity for those of us who simply cannot comprehend maths.
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I'm OK with however we do it, and I think I've figured it out now. You have to feel pity for those of us who simply cannot comprehend maths.

After I read my post back, I realised that on my list of a handful of potential future picks I've managed to misinterpret my own interpretation! :butt ;D

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I'm OK with however we do it, and I think I've figured it out now. You have to feel pity for those of us who simply cannot comprehend maths.

If everyone prefers it the other way then I don't us going with that. Honestly, it took me several read throughs to even follow what you were suggesting  :D
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The way I understood it was a wildcard was any pick from any decade in any category as long as you hadn't picked it before in the other draft and it doesn't break the other rules of duplicate actor or director.

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If everyone prefers it the other way then I don't us going with that. Honestly, it took me several read throughs to even follow what you were suggesting  :D

I did a lot of editing and deleting and still didn't know what I was saying  ;D I just counted and there were nine categories and nine decades, and one of each was a Wildcard. The fucking nuns always told me that I had a bad attitude, but I was just confused.
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I did a lot of editing and deleting and still didn't know what I was saying  ;D I just counted and there were nine categories and nine decades, and one of each was a Wildcard. The fucking nuns always told me that I had a bad attitude, but I was just confused.
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Do they have fucking nuns in Thailand, Mongsy? Truly a wild place it is.  ;D

 ;D Probably. Call them "Ping Pong Penguins." I'm going to Hell for saying that.
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;D Probably. Call them "Ping Pong Penguins." I'm going to Hell for saying that.
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I fell asleep both times I tried to watch Lord of the Rings. Each to their own.  ;D

Cant believe the shit slinging has already began.. ;)

The lord of the rings trilogy is my most watched films, just like reading the books! They did well at the box office and at the Oscar’s.

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Cant believe the shit slinging has already began.. ;)

The lord of the rings trilogy is my most watched films, just like reading the books! They did well at the box office and at the Oscar’s.

The Lord of the Rings is the only time that I've sat through an absolutely packed film in a cinema with loads of kids and families and random peoples with my missus and no one said a word for the entire film - just absolute enthralled silence and then everyone got up at the end and clapped and cheered.

Never seen anything like it before or since. No one even went to the bog and people stopped stuffing their faces.

Marvellous film. I'd like to say 'I can see why people wouldn't like it' - but. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Alien Cowboy hat levels of nope.
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If everyone prefers it the other way then I don't us going with that. Honestly, it took me several read throughs to even follow what you were suggesting  :D

Just seems to me that you shouldn't be able to pick the actual film that you picked before. Wouldn't it be better if the director, lead actor and other stuff reset for this?

Doesn't affect me because I only did one before, but seems massively unfair (And fairly stupid :) ) to limit everyone else. Isn't this just the 'best and most favourite' films that you love?
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The Lord of the Rings is the only time that I've sat through an absolutely packed film in a cinema with loads of kids and families and random peoples with my missus and no one said a word for the entire film - just absolute enthralled silence and then everyone got up at the end and clapped and cheered.

Never seen anything like it before or since. No one even went to the bog and people stopped stuffing their faces.

Marvellous film. I'd like to say 'I can see why people wouldn't like it' - but. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Alien Cowboy hat levels of nope.

Totally agree, me and my dad went and I was spell bound. I think that's the beauty of films though, so much variety such different tastes these drafts have given me a list of at least 20 films I've not seen but will see this year. New films for the most part aren't a pinch on anything before 2010 imo.

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Doesn't affect me because I only did one before, but seems massively unfair (And fairly stupid :) ) to limit everyone else. Isn't this just the 'best and most favourite' films that you love?
Just a small bit hyperbolic there mate ;)

I don't see it as a list of best films, personally - but I'm also just a newbie. I like seeing people curate their lists with interesting picks that show their tastes (and hopefully expose me to something new to try or a recommendation to get me to watch something long on a watchlist) - the internet is full of lists of best films!

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I don't see it as a list of best films, personally - but I'm also just a newbie. I like seeing people curate their lists with interesting picks that show their tastes (and hopefully expose me to something new to try or a recommendation to get me to watch something long on a watchlist) - the internet is full of lists of best films!

100% how does one define "best", most oscars, biggest cultural or technological impact, highest revenue?

I've gone for my favourite ones which have blown me away.. Watching Star Wars as a kid on Christmas day with my family will sit with me for all time.

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Agree with you both. I try to pick the best 9 films from my own taste. Films I love, and hopefully one or two of them can be a decent tip for someone else to watch. (It was easier in the pre-80's one that can tend to include more obscure picks though.)
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Cant believe the shit slinging has already began.. ;)

The lord of the rings trilogy is my most watched films, just like reading the books! They did well at the box office and at the Oscar’s.

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So, the wildcard, we can pick a movie previously selected on another draft?

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So, the wildcard, we can pick a movie previously selected on another draft?

If we can then I’m changing my pick

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So, the wildcard, we can pick a movie previously selected on another draft?

Not one you've previously picked in this series, no. Who started this rumour  :D
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Not to pick the film even if you haven't picked it before. Got it.

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Not to pick the film even if you haven't picked it before. Got it.

That's the next draft  ;D
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