#ot3 ship bracket

[ot3showdown]

MAY THE BEST OT3 WIN!!!

#ot3 showdown #ship propaganda #ot3 bracket #ot3 ship bracket #ot3 ship #round 5 #finals #polls #tumblr bracket #star trek #the triumvirate #the ot3 #leverage #leverage parker #alec hardison #eliot spencer #james t kirk #spock #leonard mccoy #bones mccoy #star trek tos #parker eliot hardison #hitter hacker thief #yes i now know the leverage words. im on season 3 #kirk spock bones #mcspirk

[winx-episodes-battle]

Rivusa/Muri, Sky x Diaspro, Oritel x Marion, Jim x Bloom were NOT nominated yet.

#winx club #winx ships #winx ships bracket #no ot3 either #polls #tumblr polls

[ao3topshipsbracket]

Would y’all consider making an OT3 poll? I’m realizing that most of my fave ships aren’t actually OTPs lol

This bracket exists in large part because the data had already been compiled and organized— if someone publishes stats on the most-written three-way ships, we might consider it, but currently it doesn't look like it's in the cards.

#not a poll #asks

[monster4monster-bracket]

Welcome to the Monster4Monster ship bracket! (Work in progress, for now)

This will be a poll bracket blog dedicated to ships between monstrous/non-human characters.

Currently work in progress for now as I’m busy with uni work and would also love more submissions from all of you!

If you’d like to submit a ship, please click the read more below and read the rules first:

Rules

What I’ll include

any ship involving all partners being visibly monsterous/non-human characters!

Both canon and fanon ships

Crossover ships

Polyamorous/ot3+ ships

Any ship involving all characters passing the harkness test

What I won’t include

anything that doesn’t pass the harkness test. (beastiality, basically). (I might make an exception for m4m ships where both are feral or something, but that’s it)

Ships between underage (18 or under) characters and adult characters. (Ships between teenagers/young characters of the same/similar age are ok, though)

Incest ships

Any ship involving irl historical figures, celebrities or real life people in general.

General etiquette things

no ship wars on this blog! You can post propaganda about your fave ship, but tearing down someone else’s ship, or personally attacking/harassing them over it just isn’t cool.

No harassment/bullying in the notes or askbox. Anyone trying that will be blocked.

If you have any ships you want to submit, please do so through the Google docs forum down below, not the ask box or messages. The ask box is only for questions, nice comments about the blog and/or ship propaganda.

You can submit multiple ships, but do not spam the doc with the same ship.

Also, credit for the monster4monster flag in my icon goes to @kiruliom

#Halloween #monsters #monster #aliens #robots #furries #furry #sfw furry #terato #transformers #monster high #undertale #deltarune #shrek #Sci-fi #fantasy #horror #shipping #vampire #vampires #werewolf #werewolves #ship bracket #shipping bracket #polls #tumblr polls #poll bracket #monster4monster #google docs #poll submittions open

[thebiballerina]

Suggestions for More Varied Polyamorous Ship Tournaments

For me, half the fun of fandom-focused brackets is to learn about media that people are passionate about, maybe even ones that you are totally unfamiliar with. While I love Leverage (2008) with all my heart, it has gotten a little repetitive to see Hardison/Parker/Eliot win or place in so many OT3 or polyamory poll tournaments (at least five that I know of—see footnote), when I know there are so many interesting polyamorous ships out there. Since I understand the appeal of the H/P/E OT3 and I know Leverage fans will be dedicated no matter what, I propose that it could be helpful (and fun) to see a wider variety in types of polyamory poll tournaments. After all, there are many different ways that fans might consider a ship to be "best".

Thus I have developed a list of suggestions (thank you @doctorbeverlycrusher and @mary-louise4760 for your assistance here). This includes a mix of aspects that a ship can be ranked as "best" in, and specific ship dynamics. Feel free to ask for clarification or examples of any of the list items, add your own suggestions, and use these as inspiration for poll tournaments. (Some of these might need to be combined/altered to get enough potential contestants.)

Aspects/Dynamics to Rank Polycules By

"Do not separate them.": It is difficult to imagine any relationship within the group without the whole set being involved, whether romantically or queerplatonically. e.g. Many fans say this is why they would favor the Leverage OT3 over other polyamorous ships.

"Please do separate them.": Two or more partners should keep other partners firmly in-between them at all times. Keeping the polycule together is essential to continued civil interaction.

Rejection of canon love triangle/infidelity: Fandom took one look at that plotline and said, "No way. They have two hands." Or whatever the equivalent statement is when one runs out of hands for applicable partners.

Shipping Wars: The best resolution. Fixes many things.

Shipping Wars: The best non-resolution. Fixes nothing, but is good anyway.

Shipping Wars: Worst but technically effective resolution. Fixes the war, but creates new issues.

Shipping Wars: The funniest resolution. May overlap with some of the above three.

In-Universe Wars (or Conflict/Politics): The best resolution. Diplomatic!

In-Universe Wars: The best non-resolution. Undiplomatic!

In-Universe Wars: Worst but technically effective resolution. Diplomatic with respect to this issue, but also creates new ones.

Unexpected package deal: Essentially, the opposite of the identity porn trope where someone has feelings for multiple people that turn out to be a single person.

Seduction plans rapid-pivot: e.g. Sometimes your plans require seducing someone that turns out to be happily in a relationship, so clearly the only choice is to seduce both them and their partner.

Jealousy plot rapid-resolution: Sometimes you think someone will be angry or jealous about you having feelings for or ending up in an encounter with someone they also have feelings for, but they are very much not upset. Maybe even the opposite of upset.

Fake relationship rapid-resolution: Life hack! Turn the fake/arranged partner(s) into additional real partner(s). Often a subset of the above bullet point.

Hands-on instruction: So dedicated to helping their friend with romance/sex that they end up demonstrating. Thoroughly.

Couples (or established polycule) bonding exercise: We can fix them. Or make them worse. Or just seduce them.

Couples (or established polycule) unbonding exercise: Have you ever seen a couple mildly argue about how one of them caught up on a TV show alone when they were supposed to be watching it together? This, but with seduction.

Organization/scheduling proficiency: Have you ever tried to handle finding overlaps between multiple schedules? It's difficult. So I think there should be a competition for polycules that handle that best.

Sneak attack potential: "What's this? It's their third, with the steel chair!"

Heist crew

Band: This one can work for many different sizes of polycules, if you are flexible with the type of music group.

Ship^2: The ship crew. Works for ocean ships, starships, airships, and any other varieties.

Witch coven or assorted magical circle

Supernatural leaders: e.g. vampire colony, fairy council, werewolf pack where the alpha wolf only exists as much as it does in real wolves, etc.

Competition champions: The ideal team. Could be sports. Could be trivia night. Could be that they are just killing it at karaoke.

Competition contestants that somehow make everyone lose

Accidental legal polygamy: They weren't trying to all end up legally intertwined, but untangling that seems more effort than it is worth.

Canon co-parents: A canon plot means a kid has 3+ parents or parental figures. The ship writes itself.

"It takes a village," ("and the village takes each other"): One child (or set of children) takes so much wrangling that the polycule is just efficient.

Most awkward stepparent(s) configuration

Most chaotic potential family gatherings: e.g. In-laws who have to awkwardly try to get along when they hate each other, now with even more in-laws!

Best pet owners: Sometimes joint custody of a pet is a lot of work, and consolidation is ideal.

Using These Suggestions

All are welcome to use these ideas, altered or unaltered, in your own poll tournaments/games. No additional permission is required, though I would appreciate it if you linked this post somewhere on the poll blog, so others can find it. Also, if you let me know you have a tournament along these lines (whether directly inspired by this list or not), I will be happy to give you a shout out in the notes.

Footnote

Here are the poll tournaments I'm referencing when I say Leverage's H/P/E has won or placed in five that I know of.

Champions

@powerpolyculeshowdown (2023-03-09): Won in the final against Yoo Jonghyuk/Han Sooyoung/Kim Dokja from Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint.

@polyam-ship-showdown (2023-02-28): Won in the final against Ninth Doctor/Rose Tyler/Jack Harkness from Doctor Who.

@throuple-tournament (2024-04-04): Won in the final against Thanatos/Zagreus/Megaera from Hades and Nathan/Vlad/Ursula from Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites.

Placed

@ot3showdown (2023-05-12): Runner-up, lost in the final 49%-51% to Kirk/McCoy/Spock.

Ongoing

@bestpolyshipbracket: Currently in the final round, so H/P/E will either be in second or first place.

#poll tournament #poll tournament ideas #polyamory #polyamorous shipping #poll game #poll meta #leverage us tv 2008

[firefighterbracket]

Officially Opening Up Submissions for the Ships Bracket!

It's been a while since I've done this, so bear with me here! But we are finally getting started on the next bracket over here on this blog! Last time it was blorbos (sorted by fandom), and this one will be ships (with a different seeding method).

There are a few rules, of course, and some will be restated when the polling starts:

Be nice. If there is hate in the tags or replies of any poll throughout the bracket, I will delete it or you will be blocked or both. It's a bracket about fictional characters. It's not that deep.

Canon doesn't matter! To quote the 911 team motto: who cares!? It can be canon, it can be a headcanon, it can be a crack ship if you want, there's no judgement* here! (if a character is canonically gay/lesbian, do not submit a ship with them and the opposite sex, the submission will be ignored)

At least one member of the ship has to be a firefighter or a paramedic. This blog was created to support our favorite fictional first responders, and that will continue!

Pairings and OT3+ are encouraged!

Submissions will close Saturday, April 27th, 2024 at 12pm PDT, and the bracket will be posted within the following few days, May 1st at the latest.

The inbox, of course, is open for questions and comments and curiosities, but please do not submit ships there. They will be ignored and not considered when I make the bracket.

Submissions can be sent in through the google form here.

#polls #bracket #firefighterbracket #911 #chicago fire #one chicago #station 19 #skymed #etc etc etc

[onepiece-polls]

One Piece Shipping War - Round 1 Poly Bracket

Propaganda under the cut.

Propaganda for Strawhat polycule:

I mean, why settle on any singular ship when polycules exist?? Let them all love each other? No fighting! There’s enough love to go around!

They love each other so much 🥺

Propaganda for ZoLuNa:

romance dawn trio... they are the sun (luffy) the earth (zoro) and the seas (nami)... their dynamic is so good i love them...

the og 3 the ot3 how else can i describe it...........

My Romance Dawn Trio

#one piece #strawhat polycule #straw hat polycule #strawhat pirates #zoluna #op shipping war #round 1 #poly bracket #tournament poll

[dathen]

lowkey want to make an OT3 bracket to spread the good word of the best ship format… contestants like Singin in the Rain trio and Corpse Bride and ofc the Ankh-Morporkh Times, include others I know are beloved like those Leverage folks…

#but also I’d actually like. make a separate blog or something and have to put in EFFORT ugh #i just love ot3’s very much #should Suitor Squad count? is it fair to break off bits of the polycula?

[bestshipsmackdown]

Round One Masterlist

Hello everyone! I’ve been having a lot of fun with participating in poll blogs for the last few weeks, and I wanted in on the madness! And silly me decided that this was the best topic for me! Shipping!

Of course there’s the general ground rules:

No real people.

No ships in familial relation.

No ships between a minor and adult.

No characters shipped with themself.

No more than four people per ship.

No crossover ships (unless there is a canon crossover of those two universes).

Use internet etiquette: curate your own experience. If you can’t simply block the blog and move on, when you don’t like something, you’re too young/immature to be on the internet unsupervised.

Inspired by blogs such as:

@losersbracketofficial @certified-dumbass-competition @cinnamon-roll-competition @scared-and-horny-showdown @catgirlgames @rock-swag-tournament @dead-character-showdown @catpeople-tournament-2023 @2023himbotournament

I figure this competition can have multiple different brackets, once we start straying away from popular media, we can have a final deciding bracket that pits all the bracket winners against each other.

As a rarepair shipper, I already know y’all are about to break my heart.

Here is the form to submit your OTPS, OT3s, and OT4s! [Closes April 4th, 11:59pm EST]

Here’s to the only place where shipping wars have a chance of actually having a victor!

Master-list for pre-qualifying rounds

#polls #bracket #poll blog #poll bracket #tododeku #klance #ladynoir #killugon #BNHA #HxH #ml #rarijack #mlp #gravity falls #demon slayer #voltron #haikyuu #destiel #dabihawks #bakudeku #djwifi #zukka #atla #shinkami #dc comics #marvel #death note #lawlight #attack on titan #jujutsu kaisen

[kirby-rarepair-tourney]

Submissions have CLOSED!

Thanks, everyone, for entering their rarepairs! We've received 50 in total, which is amazing!!

Later today, a new form will go up, containing a list of all the ships that received more than one submission, or that are bordering on the cusp of being less rare. Here, you can vote for which of them YOU would consider a rarepair!

After three days (More if necessary, but I will see what the results look like), I can start making the brackets, and the tournament can begin!

The ships that are getting submitted during this preliminary round are:

Taransusie (3 submissions)

Sailorgala (2 submissions)

Magoranza (2 submissions)

Metalor (2 submissions)

Magochilly (Rarepair status contentional?)

Morphogala (Rarepair status contentional)

This DOES NOT mean that they're out of the tournament! If more people agree that they're rarepairs, they'll be included in the brackets! I understand my views of these ships and my exposure to them may be different to the average Kirby fan, hence allowing for public opinion to decide!

If you disagree with any of these, please drop me an ask! I'll respond best I can, but I am but one teen doing this in his free time, hah!

Rest of the ships submitted under the cut!

Dark Meta Knight x Flamberge

Hyness x Morpho Knight

Kirby x Bandana Dee

Knuckle Joe's Father/Jecra x Meta Knight

Taranza x Dedede

Bandana Dee x Taranza

Chilly x Taranza

Void Termina x Zero

Zan Partizanne x Fecto Elfilis

Taranza x Zan Partizanne

Ribbon x Bun/Tuff

Meta Knight x Escargoon

Twinkle Popopo x Void

Flamberge x Susie

Francisca x Marx

Bandana Dee x Prince Fluff

Francisca × Meta Knight × Susie (Rarepair due to being OT3!)

Shadow Dedede x Parallel Susie

Taranza x Daroach

Axe Knight x Mace Knight

Drawcia x Paint Roller

Bandana Dee x Ribbon

Susie x Sectonia

Hyness x Nightmare

Nightmare x Customer Service/NME Salesman

Hyness x Zero

Shadow Kirby x Prince Fluff

Marx x Adeleine

Daroach x Drawcia

Yin-Yarn x Dark Crafter

Parm/Sir Ebrum x Knuckle Joe's Father/Jecra

Flamberge x Taranza

Ripple Star Queen x Drawcia

Meta Knight x Taranza

Meta Knight x Marx

Birdon x Capsule J2

Wiz x Zero Two/02

Dark Meta Knight x Dark Taranza

Claycia x Elline

#not a poll #kirby #kirby series #kirby ships

[polyam-ship-showdown]

Welcome to the Polyam Ship Showdown! Following the grand tradition of @t4tswagcompetition, @polyamorous-swag-tournament, @magnificent-mlm-matchup and more you'll find on the @competition-list , we will find out, through a series of polls, which is the best polycule of them all!

Unlike the other polyamorous tournaments, this time we want a SHIP.

So we're gonna need some submissions! But first, some rules:

No real people, please.

The ship does not have to be canon! It just has to be an OT3+ that you truly believe in with all your heart. It being canon may give you more credibility, but it's not a deal breaker.

It's not limited to triads. You can have as many characters in a ship as you wish! There are no limits here.

If there aren't enough submissions for a 32 ship bracket, I do have a list of predetermined ships to put in the competition, but only if there is space for them.

Submissions will be open for a while, and I will give a heads up for when it will close.

Got all that? Good. Submission form HERE.

Have fun!

#polls #tumblr polls #tumblr tournament #ot3 #polycule #polyam ships #polyamshipshowdown2023

[ot3showdown]

#round 4 #semifinals #ot3 showdown #ot3 bracket #ot3 ship bracket #ot3 ship #leverage #leverage parker #alec hardison #eliot spencer #leverage ot3 #avatar the last airbender #atla #zuko #sokka #suki #zukki #i call this one. the jock and her boyfriends

[powerpolyculeshowdown]

how do people get an audience for brand new bracket blogs so quickly? are there specific tags to use? do they go around asking for boosts from bigger blogs? i had a good time running a bracket out of my fandom blog recently and would like to try a bigger one, but this part has me baffled, cause on MY blog i already HAD an audience.

uuuh idk tbh? when i made this one, for the original polycule showdown, i @ed blogs that inspired me, since thats what everyone was doing, and sometimes those blogs reblog your post so you gain some visibility. in my case i also have a very specific target audience. i didnt think id get many followers at all, but as it turns out a LOT of people have polyships and a lot of those people make content for their polyship, and have followers who share the ship. so, for example, one of my first interactions in my askbox was w non-fantasy, who from my understanding is rlly big in the liphiyo community. then froggers came w caballeros propaganda and a lot of other caballeros fans showed up. leverage was a surprise but theres a lot of leverage ot3 fans silently watching and following each other.

so i guess like, as a start you should @ the blogs that inspired you in your introduction post, people you tagged will probably reblog that post; in turn their followers are definitely ppl who either run polls or love voting on polls, and those ppl will also reblog it. the subject of your poll might affect how many people become interested. if it's too niche it might get less attention, but that doesnt mean you shouldnt run it! the main thing is have fun tbh, dont worry too much about the numbers cause that shit can drive you insane.

also, since you already have an audience, reblog your own post to your main too!! i did it and i didnt rlly have many followers at all tbh

#polyasks #long post

[tempkiriri]

For the fandom ask game, for Tiger & Bunny: could I please have 1, 3, 12, 22 for *rolls mental dice* Antonio and Ryan, and 23, please? 😊🩷

Alrighty! 1: OTP This is honestly a tricky one for both men, and people may be surprised by the answer. Who I pair Antonio with may change later since I still need to read the Manga, but I do picture him as having a 'buried so deep he doesn't acknowledge it' crush on Kotetsu and used to have one on Tomoe as well but of course kept his lips shut (which also answers the OT3 question for him as well haha). With *just* the anime taken into account, his crush on Agnes isn't belivable, you 100% need supplementary material to even have his 'I'm trying to get *Agnes* a gift' thing at the end of S2 come across as believable and not just a cheap expectation divergence for the sake of it. So right now it's kind of, no OTP for him, but Antonio/Kotetsu is crammed into a little box in the corner in my head. As for Ryan, I don't ship him with anyone too strongly bc the only 'older' (aka mid 30s at youngest in my head) women in the show are Agnes and Nathan, and whilst either could be interesting in theory I don't think it would work out for either of them lol. I'm a Ryan Milf Hunter truther, meaning I don't ship him with Karina at all. Like, I dunno man, him flirting with her mother right in front of her is kinda sending clear signals to me. Someone please write Golden Ryan x MILF!Reader fics I think that would be funny.

3: NoTP This one is also tricky. I classify a NOTP as something that is able to render me physically uncomfortable if discussed, which aside from some generally obvious child / adult ships and similar ships in here, I don't think I have that reaction to anything. Closest is for Antonio is that I think Ivan is allowed to have a crush on him but Antonio would like, nephew-zone him, much like how Kotetsu has niece-zoned Karina at least twice now. And similarly while not exactly an NOTP for Ryan, I again just don't see him with Karina, she's not in the age bracket he's interested in; too young.

12: Funniest/Craziest AU? Honestly there's not a lot of AUs I can think of that revolve specifically around a character. Antonio has a bit of a sad one I have saved for him so it's not applicable here, but for Ryan I *did* write a fic where he and Ivan go to the beach bc he wants to help Ivan 'hunt for babes', that was pretty fun to write. Molly comes with, btw. But I don't consider that an AU bc I tried to keep it canon compliant, so...yeah, don't have much for ryan, at the moment.

22: Give us a HC Antonio - He's secretly semi-fluent in Japanese because he wanted to learn due to being friends with Kotetsu and Tomoe and wanting to communicate with them in private when in public (at least when in Sternbild). Ryan - Everyone seems to make fun of just how *fake* of a shade of yellow his hair is, but it's also very hard to get it to that colour if your hair is naturally dark (everyone remember Morita's The Live Incident? Bleached his hair so hard by best he could achieve was some cherry red-brown). Naturally, Ryan is a Platinum Blond like Ivan is, but with the colour being so un-vibrant combined with Ryan's desire to stand out, he dyes it a horrific yellow.

23: Has Fav ship changed overtime? Across all fandoms and my time being alive, certainly. As a young kid I got into Avatar, as one does, and something both outright turned me off from Katara with Aang and hooked me on Katara with Zuko. I don't know, I think it's just a difference of how chemistry can be forced in terms of writing. Tunnel of Love is the bane of like 8yo me's existence is all i'm gonna say.

Next I moved onto sonic and oh man there were so many goddamn ships. Sticking strictly to Canon on Canon, I think my first fav sonic ship was Tails and Cream, and currently it's Sonic with either Blaze or Knuckles (though for Sonaze specifically I view it as starcrossed and I do have a fic idea on exploring that *evil laughs*). If anyone wants a thicker rundown of the sonic ship timeline feel free to ask for 23 again and state sonic only lolll

Then I caved into despair like lord Enoshima would have wanted and got a double whammy of Hetalia and Danganronpa around the same timeframe. For Hetalia, you can rip the old bickering married couple of France and England from my cold dead hands, and then I had several for Danganronpa but the one I think I championed for the hardest out of sheer 'it's getting drowned out by the less interesting shit' was Shuichi x Kaito. Like, my guys, Shuichi catches HIS GAY THOUGHTS ON KAITO IN THE MIDDLE OF AN FTE. I genuinely don't know how other ships have stronger bases bc of that one moment. But also, that would require the DR fandom to know how to read, so (/j).

And then came Persona 5. So many good ships in here, I still adore stuff like Joker with both Yusuke and Ryuji, and I also got a soft spot for Ryuji with Yusuke or Haru. (In fact I have an AU fic I promise I havent abandoned abt Ryukita. The two men are early 20s in the fic with jobs and Ryuji is even a single father.)

And now we arrive at present time, where these petty argument idiots have taken over my brain, send help. Honourable mention will have to go to Keith with Cis bc that episode completley destroyed me it's like a brain worm and I cannot pluck it out.

[comshipbracket]

Comship Bracket!

Antis DNI

Do you have certain ships that may fall under the category of "Comship" that you'd like to see fight against other ships, seeing which is the most popular of all on tumblr? Well, I may have just the thing for you!

This bracket works similar to most brackets, but rather than sending in one character, you'll send in a ship and let me know which characters the ship is between, which franchise the characters are from, why it falls under "comship" for you, and a little bit of propaganda for the ships!

While we want all participants of this bracket to be kind to each other and to not put down any of our ships, we know how some tumblr users can be. I would advise not looking at some notes if you can't handle the way certain individuals may talk about these ships. Block and report is the easiest way to deal with those that are cruel.

Now! Some Character guidelines:

Characters MUST be fictional in their entirety, this means no character depictions of real people (so no DSMP ships, no YouTuber ships, etc.)

Your ship MUST count as a Comship in some manner, whether that's through age gap, relation, species, etc. It's important we keep this bracket a comship bracket.

Unfortunately, no crossover ships. Characters MUST be from the same franchise, but not necessarily the same series. (Examples Yoko Sakaki x Mokuba Kaiba from Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc V and DM would be permitted, but Yoko Sakaki x Ash Ketchum from Yu-Gi-Oh! and Pokémon would not.)

You can submit as many times as you like, but you may only submit each ship one time.

While we support polyamorous ships on this blog, we're only going to be accepting couple ships, to reduce the bracket's difficulty - sorry to all the OT3 and OT4 lovers, I feel your pain.

Satou Matsuzaka X Shio Kobe is a guaranteed entry because it's my blog and I do what I want.

Submission link below:

#Tumblr Bracket #Bracket Poll #Tumblr Tournament #Antis DNI #Antis Do Not Interact #Comship #Comship Bracket #Proship Safe #Proship #Comship Safe

[laiqualaurelote]

Rules: Post 10 of your favourite movies and tag 10 people! Thanks @glamorouspixels for the tag. I’ve actually been thinking about this of late because I’ve listening to Brett Goldstein’s podcast Films To Be Buried With. These are in the order I watched them:

1. Lord of the Rings

My favourite films of all time, based on my favourite book of all time. Also I consider them to be one very long 11.5h movie (yes, I refer to the extended editions).

2. Chicago

One of the first movie musical adaptations I ever saw, which left an indelible impression on me. To this day I could probably describe the Cell Block Tango scene shot by shot. Catherine Zeta-Jones! 

3. Once Upon A Time In Mexico

This bonkers finale to Robert Rodriguez’s El Mariachi trilogy has everything. It has Antonio Banderas as a brooding guitar-playing hitman. It has peak Johnny Depp in the era when it was not weird to have a Johnny Depp phase. It has Salma Hayek looking absolutely smoking. It has Enrique Iglesias, whose guitar has a flamethrower. It has Danny Trejo! Willem Dafoe! Eva Mendes! Mickey Rourke! all playing these absolutely unhinged roles. I adore it. 

4. Sin City

So there are two Rodriguez films on this list, but I don’t think I could do without either. Sin City is perhaps one of the best graphic novel screen adaptations of all time. I was obsessed with this film from quite possibly too young an age, especially with Rosario Dawson as a dominatrix with a machine gun. It’s utter pulp and I’m not sorry.

5. Brick

I maintain this high-school neo-noir with baby Joseph Gordon-Levitt is still Rian Johnson’s best film, and this is despite the fact it was so low-budget they had to fake a transition by pulling a garbage bag over the camera and then playing it in reverse. It also contains a scene with a chicken jug that will live in my heart forever.

6. Singing’ in the Rain

Do they make them like this any more? They do not. I can’t begin to pick what I love most about this - the hysterically funny script, the OT3 vibes, the fact that nearly every musical number is a colossal achievement of its own (Donald O’Connor running up the walls in Make ‘Em Laugh! The tap-dancing in Moses Supposes! Cyd Charisse in that green dress in Broadway Melody!) or even just the comic genius of Jean Hagen, which could sustain an entire film on its own.

7. Inception

This film managed somehow to be both a cinematic masterpiece and fandom catnip, which is rare. As an architecture/urbanism geek who also loves heists and devastatingly competent men in suits, I feel like this film was made for me. Also, Arthur/Eames! One of my all-time ships. 

8. 28 Days Later

Best second-generation zombie film, for my money - both stunningly shot and horrifying. The way the final mansion massacre is filmed while John Murphy’s soundtrack builds on that eerie four-note crescendo - chills. Also, young Cillian Murphy and Naomie Harris! really the most beautiful zombie film ever. 

9. The Maltese Falcon

I dithered over whether to put this or The Big Sleep in the bracket of “classic book-to-film noir adaptation starring Humphrey Bogart” - I love them both equally - but went with this because it is, marginally, the better film (and the better book - Raymond Chandler could write the hell out of a novel but he could not tie up his plots). It also has the fantastic villain duo of Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet, as well as a young Elisha Cook Jr as the gunsel who gets played for a sap. That ending! “If they hang you, I’ll always remember you.” 

10. In the Mood for Love

This is, hands-down, the greatest film on this list. Definitely one of the greatest films ever made. Every single shot is a work of art. That iconic scene of Maggie Cheung buying noodles in a dark high-collared cheongsam, walking down a smoky alleyway swinging her tingkat to the strains of the plaintive violin of Shigeru Umebayashi’s theme, brushing past Tony Leung in his steam-rumpled suit - it gives me shivers. I’ll never be over the ending of this film. I’ll also never be normal about buying noodles.

So I’m not going to tag 10 people because I’m too tired but like talk about your favourite movies if you want to! 

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