Well, I'm surprised "Nuts to You" got picked from my collection. It's good but every time I watch it I just can't help but wonder why he doesn't climb the tree. "Disassembler" was... less of a suprise. However, I was more expecting you to put it in the politics collection rather, rather then giving it a runner up. If you really like that one, I recommend again that you watch the rest of his stuff Tom. It's all obscure and all funny in the politics area. I had a bunch of his stuff but I felt would be pushing that one guy too much so I just picked my favorite of the lot. You know, actually, NONE of my submissions were moved to collections. That's a first. Honestly, the movie I thought was my best chance was "Vlad the Impaler". I thought it hit all the right notes and was really funny too. Didn't place though. Shows what I know.
I know this is sour grapes but I don't see why the standereds should be lowered just because people didn't bother to make sure that their movies fully fit within the perimeters. It grates on me because finding NG gems is really akin to a hobby of mine. I spend a lot of hours looking though it every week and have for years and while I am positive many others do this as well, I seem to be the only one that consciously saves everything I like.
You originally said you were looking for totally undiscovered movies. Only the best of the best. In my mind, that really excludes things that won awards. Of any sort. Only a small number win awards. They got their moment in the sun. Your winner is an artist that just started less then 3 months ago. He's released 2 movies that both got daily places as well, with fantastic scores to boot. Is that really an appropriate winner for this category?
It's nice to have a music video category, I'm glad to see "Across the Universe" (I'd thought it had been on the front page though). I've always loved that one but shouldn't a winner be picked from songs that are not copyrighted or, at least, use obscure bands? Were there any that were able to use a NG music portal song? Other then the one I submitted anyway, which wasn't the greatest. I admit.
You said that you didn't want ones that got front page but changed your mind and have a full category for it along with lesser known works of famous artists? That's a much easier category because people mine what they know. This seems like pandering for people that didn't care to put in the work? You said you wanted the best of the best. This is not it. Should the people be rewarded for not following what you wanted them to do?
I expected you to split for the uncovered games. My fingers are still crossed for winning that. I found a bunch of great games and I really hope that my idea of what is a good game is closer to yours then what I feel a good movie is. "Super Happy Fun Time" is the one I personally think you'd like the best. I'll find out though.
'Undiscovered series' is a surprise though. That was something I checked for actually, every time it was a series, I made sure that it was not just an unpopular episode in a series that got more popular as time went on. I think I could have made it more clear of the episodes that were actually a part of various series though if I had realized that it would get it's own category. If you can make an entire list of that though, I'd guess that my standards were way to stringent because I tended to delete anything that won awards later on and such.
So it's nice to see 2 of my submissions be listed. Thank you for that. I think ALL of my picks are people that deserve more attention but I wonder if the net hasn't been cast too wide to really get the notice that winners would deserve because they are not front paged. Wouldn't it be better if focused on a smaller number of ones that you truly felt were obscure gems and front paged them for maximum attention, as you did the previous 2 years? The purpose, after all, is trying to bring more attention to the undiscovered artist of unknown flashes, right?
