Anyway, not too much out of the ordinary happened in the first 8 matches, at least nothing equivalent to Goonies over Forrest Gump (#neverforget). The biggest bracket-buster was The Breakfast Club’s victory over Jaws. I am getting less and less shocked each time an 80s nostalgia movie takes down a consensus classic. Jaws is after all the grandfather of the summer blockbuster. But there are other movies kinda like Jaws in the tournament. There’s horror (The Ring), a creature flick ( Jurassic Park), and even another open water disaster movie (Titanic). But there is no other teen angst movie in the tournament. Unless Don’t Be a Menace… is about teen angst. Truthfully, I’ve never seen it and unless something terrible happens, I don’t plan to. But I think we all know that it’s because of the movie’s release date and its synthesizer-driven signature song.
Also, a quick congrats to Silence of the Lambs for exercising its comedy demons, taking out UHF this year after losing a tightly-contested first round game last year to Office Space. In fact, of the 8 victorious movies, only 5 have previous tournament wins (The Matrix, Shawshank Redemption, and Goodfellas). So what were the biggest surprises or the most satisfying victories to you?
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| Player Rankings after the first round - Midwest region (Note: I forgot to actually add the rankings. Oops.) |
