No voting will occur in this round. Instead, MC posters (up to a maximum of three times each) are invited to suggest a replacement for any movie that is considered "on the bubble," so long as the suggested replacement
has more views on Letterboxd. This way MC can trend toward greater participation while still customizing the brackets (which are again based on Filmspotting's) to reflect its own unique taste.
The 32 movies that are "on the bubble," and therefore able to be replaced: [
Arranged in order of Letterboxd views, then separated into groups in order to keep movies competing in their own "weight class," so to speak, since Forrest Gump has no business picking on The Sweet Hereafter.
Fat Chance! (no maximum)
The Truman Show 724k
The Lion King 712k
Jurassic Park 697k
Good Luck (no maximum)
Edward Scissorhands 460k (Replaced by Titanic -- Idioteque Stalker)
Saving Private Ryan 448k
The Sixth Sense 406k
Leon: The Professional 405k
Clueless 369k (Replaced by The Nightmare Before Christmas -- Yxklyx)
Princess Mononoke 328k
Give It Your Best Shot (500k Max)
The Usual Suspects 292k
The Iron Giant 272k
Blair Witch Project 258k
There’s Something About Mary 149k
Office Space 145k
Starship Troopers 141k (Replaced by Scream - Ezee E)
Shouldn’t Be Too Hard (300k Max)
The Thin Red Line 103k
Three Colors: Blue 100k (Replaced by Contact -- Peng)
Boyz N the Hood 86k (Replaced by Ed Wood -- Peng)
My Own Private Idaho 81k (Replaced by Lost Highway -- Yxklyx)
Wild at Heart 80k (Replaced by Three Colors: Blue -- Baby Doll)
All About My Mother 77k
JFK 61k
Glengarry Glen Ross 60k (Replaced by Run Lola Run -- Yxklyx)
Dead Man 59k
Ripe for the Picking (200k Max)
The Piano 52k (Replaced by Three Colors: Red -- Peng)
The Insider 51k (Replaced by The Piano -- Baby Doll)
The Player 48k (Replaced by Basic Instinct -- Baby Doll)
Close-Up 44k
Naked 41k (Replaced by La Haine -- Ezee E)
Safe 31k
You Monster! (100k Max)
Metropolitan 17k (Replaced by Three Kings -- Ezee E)
The Sweet Hereafter 15k
For example: if you would like to suggest The Lost World: Jurassic Park (266k views) you may NOT replace The Iron Giant (272k views) because the movie you suggest has to have more views than the movie you're replacing. Additionally, you may NOT replace The Piano (52k views) because movies in the "Ripe for the Picking" group can only be replaced by movies with fewer than 200k views. You are left with the thirteen movies in between -- plenty of options for a militant evangelizer of The Lost World!
Barton Fink
Before Sunrise
Being John Malkovich
The Big Lebowski
Boogie Nights
Chungking Express
Dazed and Confused
Eyes Wide Shut
Fargo
Fight Club
Goodfellas
Groundhog Day
Heat
Hoop Dreams
Jackie Brown
LA Confidential
Magnolia
Malcolm X
The Matrix
Miller’s Crossing
Out of Sight
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Rushmore
Schindler’s List
Seven
The Shawshank Redemption
The Silence of the Lambs
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Toy Story
Trainspotting
Unforgiven
In the end, I alone shall bear the full weight and responsibility of determining which replacements are accepted. As supreme ruler I will always strive to remain fair and impartial, but there are certain ways you can increase/decrease the likelihood your suggestion goes through:
Your film is more likely to be chosen if:
-- Other MC posters chime in with support.
-- You give an impassioned plea.
-- You have seen the movie you are trying to replace.
-- It is part of an underrepresented group: documentaries (only 2 in current bracket), animated films (4), non-English language films (5), cast/crew are minority groups, etc.
Your film is less likely to be chosen if:
-- Other MC posters chime in with dissent.
-- Your main reason for replacing a film is it is too popular or too obscure.
-- You have not seen the movie you are trying to replace.
-- You are trying to replace a film in an underrepresented group (see above) with a film in a group already sufficiently represented (normie films, you know the type). Theoretically, if you tried to replace Hoop Dreams with The Boondock Saints, I’d tell you to save your energy.
If your film is chosen, I HAVE to vote for it in round 1. But don't dilly dally -- once a film has been replaced it can't be replaced again!
