BigSoccer Motion Picture Draft Thread

With the first pick in the draft, I select:


Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin

Anyone who's seen the infamous sequence of the baby carriage bumping down the steps in Odessa knows why this film is worthy of a first-round pick, but for those who aren't familiar with it, Eisenstein's film is one of the most important and influential ever made. It effectively invented montage.

 

Hard to argue with that choice, so I won't. I was really hoping you'd start of with something really controversial or stupid so I could get some good digs in early. Benchmark cinema that.

 

This draft order is the suck. Just kidding... we are going 1-19 and then in round 2 19-1 right?

 

I wonder if anyone will have the stones to put TOTW up. There's no doubt that it's stunning cinema. No doubt that it's important (I'd bet William L. Shirer might have said as important as reading "Mein Kampf"). But there's that whole glorification of the nazi thing.

 

If anyone cares I think nazis are bad. It's just the way I am.

 

Eh. I have a tendency to play it safe when I have high draft picks - I had the first pick in the current All-Time Draft thread in the Beautiful Game and went for Pele instead of di Stefano, even though I could easily have made a case for di Stefano. Well, there was the playing safe aspect and the fact that I could play Pele up front or in midfield, whereas I'd have a hard time justifying playing di Stefano anywhere except center forward.

And really, you know me better than to think I'd start off with something stupid.

 

You freakin' commie. You're probably a hippie, too.

 

I'm going to vote in this thread on nothing else but entertainment value and my personal taste. So expect a lot of "yokel" draft choices from me.

 

Oh, just wait till we get deeper into this. I WILL draft a Chinese movie or two, and I won't be held responsible for any propaganda there.

Mao zhu shi wan sui!

 

With the 2nd pick of the 1st round TSO selects:

The 400 Blows



Helping usher in French new wave it brings a mix of humor and sadness while showing the struggles and difficulties of adolescence.

Plus Antoine Doinel is one of my favorite movie characters.

Since I don't know the other participants' thoughts on film I didn't know if this could last into the 2nd round and I didn't want to take a chance.

 

Up to pick 3 and You Got Served is still somehow available

 

Dear lord, two draft choices and I already lose one of the movies on my shortlist.

 

Thanks to the Slipperyone for being the first to make a boneheaded pick. Hackneyed, over sentimental flim making tripe at its worst.

Just kidding, "The 400 Blows" is a great choice. It'll be interesting to see how the rest of the Doinel series fits in or who or if "Breathless" gets claimed. "Shoot the Piano Player" is still out there too folks.

 

i actually thought those 2 would be safe for me to pick in later rounds... holy crap... you guys really know some movies...

so we are going in order and then at the end of each round we will have a summary for all picks, so we don't double pick?

 

I take it there's no rule on talking about unpicked movies, then? In the Beautiful Game draft we aren't allowed to discuss unpicked players.

 

Sheesh. If nothing else, this will flood my Netflix queue. How the hell is The 400 Blows unavailable.

 

Definitely agree.

And I have PM'ed obie that he's up.