Adam_S
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This thread is for discussing the revote of the AFI 100 years, 100 movies list. Only those who have participated in the current AFI Challenge thread in the Movies forum (or have seen all 100 films and want to participate before we get started) and have finished the 100 movies list have a vote, though we won't prevent anyone else from commenting in this thread.
Those who have finished the 100 movies list:
Adam_S - participating
Brook_K - participating
Chris Richard - not responded
Dome Vongvises - not participating
Evan Case - participating
George Kaplan - participating
Jim_K - participating
Lew Crippen - participating
Mariano - participating
Matthew Louwrens - not participating
Michael Streeter - not participating
Seth Paxton - Participating
This is meant to be fun. It's not a critique of the AFI, nor does it suggest that our opinion is somehow superior or better. It is a poll of how, overall, the HTF cineastes tastes in American film compare to the AFI's tastes.
There are some films the AFI selected that some of us feel are not great, some we feel don't belong, and some we feel were added for arbitrary reasons. If it were up to each of us as individuals some could probably find half or more of the AFI list to be in question, but as an overall poll the majority of the list is an excellent and representative sampling of great american film.
For this reason, we don't need to start a revote from scratch, by retaining 75% of the original list, and then selecting or reselecting 25 films to fill in the list we create a new list informed by the AFI's overall good tastes, as well as our personal preferences and opinions of great film.
There will be several stages to a revote:
1. Select and order the bottom 25 films from the original 100 AFI lists.
2. Select and order 25 American funded, English language, feature length (40 minutes or longer, academy standard) films not on the original 100 from 1896-1996.
3. After these lists are turned in and compiled I'll release two new lists of 25 films recieving the most votes off the list and the 25 receiving the most votes for, respectively.
4. Take the 50 films in step three and have each participant vote for the 25 best. This may be the longest stage because we'll need to allow time if people want to see or revisit the films from the 25 being added on.
5. After this vote is finished and results are compiled, the 25 films with the highest scores will be added back to the remaining 75 films from the original list.
6. Vote on this final set of 100 films to arrive at the HTF revoted list 2.0
If you have questions or comments on the above outlined process, by all means post and let us debate this to see how we will proceed. Also let us know when reasonable deadlines for the above stages would be. I completed stage one and two today--so they do not necessarily take too long. If you're unsure on what films are eligable for stage 2 or just for ideas asking here might be the best place.
Adam
Those who have finished the 100 movies list:
Adam_S - participating
Brook_K - participating
Chris Richard - not responded
Dome Vongvises - not participating
Evan Case - participating
George Kaplan - participating
Jim_K - participating
Lew Crippen - participating
Mariano - participating
Matthew Louwrens - not participating
Michael Streeter - not participating
Seth Paxton - Participating
This is meant to be fun. It's not a critique of the AFI, nor does it suggest that our opinion is somehow superior or better. It is a poll of how, overall, the HTF cineastes tastes in American film compare to the AFI's tastes.
There are some films the AFI selected that some of us feel are not great, some we feel don't belong, and some we feel were added for arbitrary reasons. If it were up to each of us as individuals some could probably find half or more of the AFI list to be in question, but as an overall poll the majority of the list is an excellent and representative sampling of great american film.
For this reason, we don't need to start a revote from scratch, by retaining 75% of the original list, and then selecting or reselecting 25 films to fill in the list we create a new list informed by the AFI's overall good tastes, as well as our personal preferences and opinions of great film.
There will be several stages to a revote:
1. Select and order the bottom 25 films from the original 100 AFI lists.
2. Select and order 25 American funded, English language, feature length (40 minutes or longer, academy standard) films not on the original 100 from 1896-1996.
3. After these lists are turned in and compiled I'll release two new lists of 25 films recieving the most votes off the list and the 25 receiving the most votes for, respectively.
4. Take the 50 films in step three and have each participant vote for the 25 best. This may be the longest stage because we'll need to allow time if people want to see or revisit the films from the 25 being added on.
5. After this vote is finished and results are compiled, the 25 films with the highest scores will be added back to the remaining 75 films from the original list.
6. Vote on this final set of 100 films to arrive at the HTF revoted list 2.0
If you have questions or comments on the above outlined process, by all means post and let us debate this to see how we will proceed. Also let us know when reasonable deadlines for the above stages would be. I completed stage one and two today--so they do not necessarily take too long. If you're unsure on what films are eligable for stage 2 or just for ideas asking here might be the best place.
Adam