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Post by MGH on Mar 13, 2012 9:52:36 GMT -5
I commend you three for three fantastic fight scene choices. I enjoyed all three tremendously.
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Post by Triple H buried SnS on Mar 13, 2012 10:32:56 GMT -5
Hindsight being 20/20, I realize now that there were probably other options than spiderman that would have better suited me. After two "already picked, try again" responses... and probably the reason this round was so delayed... i sent in three to try to get the process going, stating if the first was taken, go to the next one... and so on. Spiderman 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpgrOgypc9gSin City: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKFLrTYKIXk The Descent: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mujk825LXkWould have been interesting to see how Descent faired as it was my favorite of the three, but I'm not submitting for myself to judge but for a panel of judges with their own opinions. So I felt I needed to stick to a more mainstream option if possible. Spiderman 2 I liked the movie, but this trailer didn't do it for me. I liked the trailer for Spidey 1 (and oddly, Spidey 3) a lot more. Just my input to create some conversation, as I'm not upset in the slightest with how it scored. I watched all three spidey trailers, and this the 2nd one stuck out to me for the following. Spiderman 1: This was ok, but some of the action sequences looked rather cheesy. Based solely on the trailer, you knew it was an origin story, but nothing more than that. The music was rather 'meh' to me. And although there was some fun dialog at the end, I felt that didn't make up for alot of the faults. Spiderman 2: They had began to figure out how to make the action sequences a little more believable and scenematic. There was fun dialog and you knew exactly what story you were getting into. His inner struggle with being spiderman, his struggle to create/maintain a relationship, and his struggles with maintaining a friendship... all on top of dealing with the threat of a (single) new supervillian. The music seemed to fit with what was going on. Add to it I felt this was the strongest of the three movies(more on that next) and I had to make it my choice. Spiderman 3: Despite how it turned out, I remember being super psyched about this movie... and was the first of the three trailers I looked at thinking it would be the one I would submit. But as I was watching it I realized that it was hard to tell what was really going on with the movie. It looks like it might have been trying to still build on what Spiderman 2 had been doing with the inner turmoils... but who was the super villian here? Osborn? That 'suit'? That guy that got the 'suit' later?(which unless you know spiderman story, you wouldn't realize what any of that meant). What was with the sandstorm? Are all these people working together against spiderman? Music again was just 'meh' to me. And knowing the movie, it deflates the 'epicness' of it. I know judges are supposed to judge soley on the trailer, but I'm not sure if I could ignore the movie as a whole... so I was not going to submit something expecting the judges to do so. Though, hopefully it wasn't judged based on how well it stacked up to the other two spidermans, but how it stacked up to the other submitted entries.
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Post by Big Bad Brad on Mar 13, 2012 15:19:49 GMT -5
I like that Sweet n' Sour sending in three trailers I did the same actually well I used the Mulligan and sent in a Third pick in case I couldn't use one of the other two and this was my third choice. Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrGWooNDPiEI was also debating on a few other trailers and here are some that I was thinking about using before I settled on Water Boy and Nutty Professor and in hindsight I'm sure I made a mistake The Mask www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mKFH0Om1tsThe Wizard of Oz www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkZcYMy85lYSpace Jam www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7AYd8uGG6E*Was strongly considering this one but since a Michael Jordan clip was already used and Bugs Bunny was already used I figured this one might not of been allowed. I had some other trailers in mind but those are three I can remember off hand. I was going to go with The Mask but I talked myself out of it and went with Water Boy and Nutty Professor I think The Mask might of done better. It would of been interesting to see how a classic like Wizard of Oz would hold up in this competition since I'm sure it would of been the oldest trailer last round if I had used it since the movie came out in the 30s. I thought the Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure trailer was pretty well done but I wasn't sure if it would hold the Judges interest. I'll ask everybody this (or everybody who cares to answer) In hindsight what trailers do you think I should of used last round between the ones I mentioned, don't answer if you don't want to just interested in what some others think.
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Post by pegasuswarrior on Mar 13, 2012 17:20:47 GMT -5
And now, your bottom three results:
Wolf Hurricane, you chose Romeo Must Die. J, you chose The Forbidden Kingdom. Big Bad Brad, you chose Married With Children. (Just in case, you all forgot, ya know.)
Wolf Hurricane exhausted his nomination in the last set of Bottom 3, so the next in line was Big Bad Brad and he chose FIGHT SCENES!
Judge 1 had this to say:
Romeo Must Die in 1st Place. Married with Children is my 2nd Place choice. Forbidden Kingdom in 3rd.
Judge 2 decided:
Forbidden Kingdom should be in the #1 slot. Married With Children was fine in 2nd Place. Romeo Must Die was Romeo must be 3rd.
-------------------------------------------------------------------- After 2 judges, the scores are DEADLOCKED! --------------------------------------------------------------------
Judge 3 had this to say: Married With Children was Kellying it, yo, for 1st place.
Judge 4 said this: Married With Children was AL-right: 2nd place.
Both Judge 3 and 4 flip-flopped on Forbidden Kingdom, having it in 1st and 2nd respectively. But both agreed on Romeo Must Die in 3rd.
------------------------------------------------------------------- This means Romeo Must Die is on the block. It needs a 1st place score here to stay alive. --------------------------------------------------------------------
Judge 5 said ...
In 1st Place ....
The Forbidden Kingdom.
That means
Forbidden Kingdom takes the round, and unfortunately, we have to say goodbye to Wolf Hurricane and Romdeo Must Die.
We loved having you in the competition. Thanks for your picks. I enjoyed the heck out of them.
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Post by Big Bad Brad on Mar 13, 2012 17:29:01 GMT -5
I feel like Daniel Bryan after winning a match
YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!
I was really worried about what the results would be I was very afraid I would be eliminated but thank God I'm still in this glad everybody liked that Married With Children fight scene enough to keep me in this I always love to see the Bundy's kick ass and that was a great moment.
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Post by pegasuswarrior on Mar 13, 2012 17:38:19 GMT -5
After 2 eliminations and a wealth of terrific picks so far .... [glow=gray,2,300]WELCOME TO ROUND SIX![/glow]Bro! You Gotta Come See This!This is a MEDIUM-SPECIFIC round. Choices must come from an video game.Contestants, your task is to select a moment from a video game that knocks your socks off. This may be an impossible achievement you have to pull off, a cut scene that just blows you away, or any generally epic moment that's part of the game. Again, for the sake of creativity and originality, we ask that you avoid the video games that have already been used thus far in the game. This has been violated once already in a previous round. This is the World Series of Pop Culture, so show that you have a little more range than a second clip of Final Fantasy, for example. Each round's picks are featured in the ORIGINAL POST of the thread. You submit your picks to pegasuswarrior and Cageking via PM (both of us just in case one of us were to go missing in action for an annoying period of time so that the other one could pick up the slack). We'll sort it out, send it to the judges, and all that. PAY ATTENTION TO THIS Please submit your picks in the following format: Title of Video Game - Description Ex: Final Fantasy - Victory Dance ALSO, when you send your PMs, please include the actual web address link of the pick you choose. This would reduce my management time 10 minutes or so, no joke. You can still embed the videos, but you MUST copy and paste a link in there -- definitely helps me out. As always, if you have a question, just ask. Please get these in ASAP, but definitely no later than Thursday.
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Post by Big Bad Brad on Mar 13, 2012 17:41:58 GMT -5
Being a big video game fan this is going to be fun but with Mario and Final Fantasy already used before I'll have to think about this one for a little while shouldn't take to long.
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Post by MGH on Mar 13, 2012 17:48:01 GMT -5
Heh, I hope nothing submitted ruins a storyline from a game I haven't played yet, but we'll see.
Props again for the Bundy pick Brad. It wasn't as in your face obvious as a martial arts scene (no disrespect meant though. I actually greatly enjoy all three submissions from that round) and it brought some really good comedy.
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Post by Jazzman on Mar 13, 2012 18:52:49 GMT -5
I'll probably have my pick in later, in a fantasy baseball auction tonight.
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Post by Big Bad Brad on Mar 13, 2012 19:08:25 GMT -5
I sent in my pick after much debate I'm hoping the judges like it as much as I do.
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Post by pegasuswarrior on Mar 13, 2012 19:59:09 GMT -5
Don't forget about the possibility of the Mulligan if you want it:
We have 8 contestants left and have thought of the game at this point as having a "play it where it lies" set of rules. Now, however, any of those 8 contestants can--AT ONE POINT AND ONE POINT ONLY--submit an additional entry for any given theme and it will be submitted to the judges along with their first choice. Whichever of the two entries that the judges rank higher cumulatively among the full list of that round's anonymous entries will be the one that "counts" in that round's rankings for that player. BUT, you must choose wisely. This privilege will be in effect until the round just before we enter the elimination challenge to cut for the Top 5. But, you do not have to wait that long to use your Mulligan. The strategy for how you use it is entirely up to you.
ALSO ...
If you, contestants, haven't suggested your theme, you might want to do that. You all, by now, have figured out why that could come in handy.
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Post by stinger on Mar 13, 2012 20:21:00 GMT -5
Sent mine in, but I don't know...thinking of using a mulligan this round. I was never great at video games, so I have a feeling there is a lot of stuff I didn't see because of that.
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Post by Wolf Hurricane on Mar 13, 2012 20:29:58 GMT -5
Sucks to be eliminated, but I thoroughly enjoyed myself while I was in it. Best of luck to everyone still in the running!
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Post by Big Bad Brad on Mar 13, 2012 20:33:28 GMT -5
Sucks to be eliminated, but I thoroughly enjoyed myself while I was in it. Best of luck to everyone still in the running! Sorry to see you go Wolf you were a good player.
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Post by Big DSR Energy on Mar 13, 2012 23:29:39 GMT -5
RE The trailers round: I love Aunt May's "I believe there's a hero in all of us speech" and she said it right at the beginning. And the trailer was just an awesome build-up of moments. It honestly made me want to re-watch SPIDER-MAN 2.
RE The Fight Scene eliminations: What? No love for the back alley brawl from THEY LIVE? At any rate, the Bundy fight scene was a lot of fun. The other two were good, though Jet Li isn't exactly my favorite action hero. *shrug*
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Post by Jazzman on Mar 13, 2012 23:39:32 GMT -5
I'm shocked it wasn't picked too Megalon, as I would have gone that route if I was in that bottom 3.
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Post by pegasuswarrior on Mar 15, 2012 12:15:54 GMT -5
5 contestants are in.
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Post by pegasuswarrior on Mar 16, 2012 13:03:48 GMT -5
I've never seen ANYthing like it. You all are going to have to start sending in two or three picks at a time in your order of preference. I'll get three submissions almost immediately, and then pretty much all the remaining players submit duplicates (or near duplicates) of those three or four first picks. There are literally thousands of choices in each of these categories, yet 8-10 people choose the same things. And then on the resubmissions, people STILL pick the same things. It's uncanny (and not the XMen kind).
I'm not mad about it, so don't read it the wrong way up there. This is just the biggest head-scratching mess I've seen in games of this type. After submissions and resubmissions and re-re-submissions, we're sitting at 6 entries received and waiting for two more to get their stuff straightened out.
Like I said, there's no malice in the above report. I'm mixing laughter with utter disbelief. Unbelievable.
We'll get picks to judges when we get our remaining two in.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2012 15:07:12 GMT -5
Haha. Great minds think alike is the moral of this story.
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Post by Triple H buried SnS on Mar 16, 2012 15:10:47 GMT -5
Haha. Great minds think alike is the moral of this story. In terms of these picks... there's alot of good picks to be had, but you begin to figure out if you stray too far off of the most popular ones, that you will not score as well. This pick specifically, there's only a handful of universally known moments in VG history that nearly everyone liked. It becomes "who can turn it in faster" rather than "who can come up with the best idea". I immediately knew what I wanted to use, only to find out someone else beat me to it. So now I'm struggling to find something I think is even close to it.
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