Vote now in round 3 of the 2023 Close Reads Bracket!
Vote now in round 3 of the 2023 Close Reads Bracket!
Okay, so. Round three is here and now that the greatest movies of all time have been eliminated maybe we can settle in and accomplish something. This round we have a barn burner between Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, a matchup between Anne of Green Gables and Mary Poppins, and more Muppets, and much more.
So get to it: scroll down, vote, argue, mourn, celebrate. The bracket carries on!
Eliminated in previous rounds: Emma (2020); One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; West Side Story (1961); Twelve Years a Slave; Wuthering Heights (2011); Clueless; The 39 Steps; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979); Emma (1996); 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; Hamlet (1990); Dr. Zhivago (1995); Atonement; A River Runs through It; Anna Karenina (2012); Romeo + Juliet; A Passage to India (1984); Children of Men; Fantastic Mr. Fox; Casino Royale (2006); Master and Commander; The Color Purple; War and Peace (2016); Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011); Les Mis (2012); The Shining; Strangers on a Train; Apocalypse Now; Rebecca (1940); Bridget Jones’s Diary; Babe; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; The Hunt for Red October; Emma (2009); The Great Gatsby (2010); The Count of Monte Cristo (2002); Charlottes Web (1973); Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1973); Les Mis (2018); Jane Eyre (2011); Little Women (1994), The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh; True Grit (2010); The Godfather; Princess Bride; No Country for Old Men; Watershed Down; The Big Sleep; Lonesome Dove miniseries; Ben Her; Jurassic Park; Roots; Pride and Prejudice (2005); Remains of the Day; Wizard of Oz; Henry V (1989).
I think I’m going to have to round up more voters who think like me.
I don’t understand how Hunt for Red October got beat out. It was such a close adaptation to the book and in my top 10 of all time movies. It was well acted and had a great cast. I was truly disappointed with the second movie which bore a resemblance to the book only in the title bring the same.
Of course, it’s not a love story or a book one reads as a child so maybe that has something to do with it. 🤷🏻♀️
This is quite an eye opening and puzzling contest. I really want to go and watch all these movies as they appear in the bracket against each other and see what I think. I think it would be surreal considering the pairings.