So my idea is to draft movies so that you end up with a collection that fulfills a list of different genres. But the catch is that they can't be too well known.

Why can't they be well known?

So that it's not the same as a bunch of drafts that have come before it and you might actually get a few recommendations about movies you've not yet seen/heard of.

What makes a movie too well known?

Well this is sort of arbitrary, but we have to have a hard line because otherwise people will try to push the boundaries and arguments and chaos will ensue. My idea is so long as it has less than 50,000 ratings on IMDb then we can consider it lesser known. Some might argue that the number is too high, but I want to allow people to pick from a range of movies that they know rather that too harshly restricting them.

I am flexible on this number, but I think that it's a good idea that I come in with an opening suggestion.

What determines the genre of a movie?

Again I'm going to use IMDb as a genre determiner to avoid disagreement on whether something counts as a comedy or not.

The genres that you have to pick from are:
Action
Adventure
Comedy
Crime
Documentary
Drama
Fantasy
Film-Noir
Horror
Musical
Romance
Sci-Fi
Thriller
Western

My idea is that we have a 10 round draft and you pick a new genre each time (meaning that if you hate documentaries or westerns then you can just avoid them entirely).

Things are multiple genres on IMDb. How does that work?

If you pick a movie that is "Action, Comedy, Romance" according to IMDb then you must nominate one of the three to be the category you're crossing off.

If you have a bunch of other action comedies on your list then the clear move is to call this one a romance. You hopefully get what I mean.
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Anyways, if you have extra questions then ask. I think getting 8+ for this draft would be a nice number. We can start as soon as we get the required ins and I might even allow late registration provided we're still on round 1.

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To give a little insight into what 50,000 ratings means here's the number of ratings that have been given to a few highly thought of movies:

Pulp Fiction - 1,517,131
12 Angry Men - 538,854
Moonlight - 191,017
2001: A Space Odyssey - 498,386
The Big Lebowski - 618,192
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - 576,187
The Seventh Seal - 132,126
The Godfather - 1,328,069
Yojimbo - 88,939
Heat - 490,547
The Deer Hunter - 267,219
Star Wars - 1,048,437
M - 117,165
Psycho - 492,802
Casablanca - 443,789
Citizen Kane - 340,278
Gone with the Wind - 247,672
The Wizard of Oz - 331,286
Mary Poppins - 123,997
Spaceballs - 150,796
The Exorcist - 312,574
Carrie - 141,432

There are still plenty of great movies that are below the 50,000 rating mark and you don't need to be a big movie nerd to have heard of them. I would give examples of great movies that are below the 50k mark, but that would be bad for hopefully obvious reasons

I'll play. Love drafts!

Many years ago, I bought passes to dusty independent film houses and even volunteered for the LA Film Fest. If I was still like that, I'd definitely join, but these days, I watch 2 movies a year at most, and that's under considerable social pressure.

IN SO FAR

xander biscuits
mrbaseball

because it would put off people who have no interest in one of the ten categories. The player pool is not deep enough to be putting off people...

In

Well I discovered some cool new videos I had never seen in the music video draft, so this seems like a good way to discover some new movies to watch. I'm in.

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xander biscuits
mrbaseball
Shuffle
Phat Mack
revots33

Edit: wait, not in

In

In

sure, I'll play

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xander biscuits
mrbaseball
Shuffle
Phat Mack
revots33
eleanor60
aaronk56
Dominic

Great, we've got enough to start this thing. I'm travelling pretty soon but will rand this and get it started in the PM

In the meantime and throughout the whole of round 1 we can have other people joining on