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Re: GnREvolution Movie Madness - Discussion and Results Thread
Round 1 Stats
Most Lopsided Victory: 14 votes, Aliens (15) over Lost Highway (1)
Closest Battle: Tie, Wizard of Oz (9) over Ghostbusters (9) in a tiebreaker
Most Votes: 21, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (12) over Texas Chainsaw Massacre (9)
Least Votes: 13, Apocalypse Now (11) over Die Hard (2); The Exorcist (8) over First Blood (5); Misery (11) over Neko no Ongaeshi (2)
Users with 2 nominations moving on to round 2: Aussie, Axlin08, downliner, Saikin, russtcb
Users with 2 nominations voted off from round 1: A Private Eye, AtariLegend, Olorin, slashsfro, NY Giants82
Users with 1 nomination remaining: Mikkamakka, monkeychow, Axl S, Handsome B. Wonderful, Communist China, James Lofton
movies moving on to round 2
Aliens (1986)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Fight Club (1999)
Goodfellas (1990)
Misery (1990)
Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
Psycho (1960)
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
The Dark Knight (2008)
The Exorcist (1973)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Toy Story (1995)
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Re: GnREvolution Movie Madness - Discussion and Results Thread
What I think is the problem is alot of WEAK films were nominated. Where is Halloween or Dawn of the Dead or The Empire Strikes Back or Apollo 13 or Heat or Goodfellas, etc.
All of which are better films than TDK.
The tourney was flawed from the start. Nomination process blew, and I think we should have used neemo's old Survivor format from years ago at HTGTH and sectioned it off into decades and genres. Would have been more drawn out obviously, but would have been more interesting.
Re: GnREvolution Movie Madness - Discussion and Results Thread
^well when i asked peopel to just nominate a bunch of stuff we were getting tons of movies with just one nomination, then it woulda fell on me to select basically the entire list, and then everyone woulda been mad. I jsut thought at least this way peopel will get a chance to nominate and vote for movies they enjoyed, i dont fully understand some of the nominations myself but thats the way it fell
anyway i did some stats of round 1 t hey kinda got lost when you posted right after i did 
Round 1 Stats
Most Lopsided Victory: 14 votes, Aliens (15) over Lost Highway (1)
Closest Battle: Tie, Wizard of Oz (9) over Ghostbusters (9) in a tiebreaker
Most Votes: 21, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (12) over Texas Chainsaw Massacre (9)
Least Votes: 13, Apocalypse Now (11) over Die Hard (2); The Exorcist (8) over First Blood (5); Misery (11) over Neko no Ongaeshi (2)Users with 2 nominations moving on to round 2: Aussie, Axlin08, downliner, Saikin, russtcb
Users with 2 nominations voted off from round 1: A Private Eye, AtariLegend, Olorin, slashsfro, NY Giants82
Users with 1 nomination remaining: Mikkamakka, monkeychow, Axl S, Handsome B. Wonderful, Communist China, James Lofton
movies moving on to round 2
Aliens (1986)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Fight Club (1999)
Goodfellas (1990)
Misery (1990)
Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
Psycho (1960)
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
The Dark Knight (2008)
The Exorcist (1973)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Toy Story (1995)
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Re: GnREvolution Movie Madness - Discussion and Results Thread
Were Superman 1 and 2 not more successful than that Dark Knight pish?
Yes, Superman and Superman II were both not as successful as The Dark Knight.
Even if you adjust for inflation, Superman isn't even as successful as Batman '89. Here's some of the most successful in each franchise, in rank of success. It's worth noting that Superman Returns was more successful than Batman Begins, but that's the only film that was, in relation to the fact both were released right at the same area, Begins in 2005, and Superman Returns in 2006.
THE DARK KNIGHT
Domestic: $533.3 million
Foreign: $468.6 million
Worldwide: $1 billion
BATMAN
Domestic: $251.2 million
Foreign: $160.2 million
Worldwide: $411.3 million
BATMAN BEGINS
Domestic: $205.3 million
Foreign: $167.4 million
Worldwide: $372.7 million
BATMAN FOREVER
Domestic: $184 million
Foreign: $152.5 million
Worldwide: $336.5 million
SUPERMAN
Domestic: $134.2 million
Foreign: $166 million
Worldwide: $300.2 million
SUPERMAN II
Isn't even in the ballpark, so I won't list it
SUPERMAN RETURNS
Domestic: $200.1 million
Foreign: $191 million
Worldwide: $391.1 million
Re: GnREvolution Movie Madness - Discussion and Results Thread
the only reason that the box office #'s are so big is cuz Ledger died, otherwise it would've likely done batman begins, superman returns or x-men type numbers
X-Men
Domestic: $157,299,717
Foreign: $139,039,810
Worldwide: $296,339,527
X2: X-Men United
Domestic: $214,949,694
Foreign: $192,761,855
Worldwide: $407,711,549
X-Men: The Last Stand
Domestic: $234,362,462
Foreign: $224,997,093
Worldwide: $459,359,555
Spiderman is way up there on box office #'s....for the life of me, i'll never know why
Spiderman
Domestic: $403,706,375
Foreign: $418,002,176
Worldwide: $821,708,551
Spiderman 2
Domestic: $373,585,825 47.7%
Foreign: $410,180,516 52.3%
Worldwide: $783,766,341
Spiderman 3
Domestic: $336,530,303 37.8%
Foreign: $554,341,323 62.2%
Worldwide: $890,871,626
Re: GnREvolution Movie Madness - Discussion and Results Thread
I get so sick of that Ledger argument.
Heath Ledger is not a big enough actor to make those numbers. Arnold Schwarzenegger is a FAR BIGGER and will be a MUCH more LEGENDARY guy in the business, and even he didn't save Batman & Robin.
The Dark Knight did what it did, because it was an amazing fucking film. Without Ledger, i'd be willing to subtract, maybe, $200 million off the Worldwide numbers. It still would've done WELL OVER a half billion worldwide, even if Jack Nicholson was playing The Joker again.
As for Spider-Man, I agree with you. None of those movies garners what they made at the box office, whatsoever. Spider-Man 3 was the weakest of the three, and it did the best. Go figure.
