And now, let’s look ahead to Week 9. We’re in the thick of summer movie season, the moment when the studios usually pull out all the stops, so it’s a more competitive week than ever. For this reason, I am going to do what I did in Week 6 and give you not 16 but 24 films to choose from initially. We’ll vote our way through them all and end with an exciting three-way finale.
Seeding movies can be a tricky process. This week, I threw my already far-from-traditional bracket metrics out the window and went with a series of themed match-ups, simply because this week’s movies lent themselves to it. Here are our 12 opening match-ups:Warren Beatty! Meryl Streep! Heaven vs.
Eddie Murphy, two ways — or rather, 11 ways, if you count all the different roles he plays between these two movies.Spike Lee’s searing panorama of racial animus and Danny Boyle’s tour de force zombie thriller: two very different portraits of rage and social collapse.NASCAR vs. baseball. I’d give the edge to baseball, but Tom Cruise fans will get another chance to back him this week with “War of the Worlds.
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Both are set in NYC so both are winners. 😉🗽
They're just so similar, it's hard to pick one