🏀 PIB MARCH MOVIE MADNESS - SELECTION TUESDAY 🏀
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I don’t know if you can get this film in the US, but please try: Letter to Brezhnev. It’s a love story based in Liverpool in the 80s. I know you’ll love it. You’ll need subtitles and a box of tissues 😂😂😂❤️
I’m from Liverpool 🇬🇧 btw
I thought of a potential prize for the top 3 patrons in March Madness—The winner nominates 3 movies for a poll, 2nd place nominates 2, 3rd place nominates 1...giving us a 6-movie poll patrons can vote on
With the second day of 1st round games completed, we now know the 2nd round schedule for Sunday. I took the liberty of creating a viewing guide, including which channel each game can be seen on (in the U.S.). All times are Central Standard Time. The 8 games scheduled for Saturday are as follows: 11:10 AM CBS The Rocketeer (Purdue) vs The Quick and the Dead (Miami) 1:45 PM CBS Crimson Peak (Iowa State) vs Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Kentucky) 4:15 PM CBS Cruel Intentions (Kansas) vs Mystic River (St. John’s) 5:10 PM TNT Pitch Black (Virginia) vs Night of the Living Dead (Tennessee) 6:10 PM TBS Real Genius (Florida) vs In Bruges (Iowa) 6:50 PM truTV Last Boy Scout (Arizona) vs The Book of Eli (Utah State) 7:45 PM TNT Gone with the Wind (UConn) vs Devil’s Advocate (UCLA) 8:45 PM TBS The Insider (Alabama) vs The Hitcher (Texas Tech)
Rooting for the Miami Gunslingers, the Kentucky Pod People, the Tennessee Zombies, the Florida Geniuses, and the Texas Tech Hitchhikers!
3:20 Afternoon R.I.D The Great Wall The Pained Vell Rise of the foot soldier Moneyball winner Oscar Movie
Hey - Ladyhawke has brought me luck so far ;-) Go Longhorns! Do they stand any chance against Gonzaga in the next round?
Upsets can happen, but Gonzaga is a #3 seed....so very unlikely for a #11 to take them down.
With the first day of 1st round games completed, we now know the 2nd round schedule for Saturday. I took the liberty of creating a viewing guide, including which channel each game can be seen on (in the U.S.). All times are Central Standard Time. The 8 games scheduled for Saturday are as follows: 11:10 AM CBS US Marshalls (Michigan) vs They Live (St. Louis) 1:45 PM CBS Regarding Henry (Michigan St.) vs Casino (Louisville) 4:15 PM CBS The Next Three Days (Duke) vs Elephant Man (TCU) 5:10 PM TNT This is Spinal Tap (Houston) vs American Graffiti (Texas A&M) 6:10 PM TBS Ladyhawke (Texas) vs RED (Gonzaga) 6:50 PM CBS Little Shop of Horrors (Illinois) vs Nine to Five (VCU) 7:45 PM TNT Three Amigos (Nebraska) vs High Fidelity (Vanderbilt) 8:45 PM TBS Scott Pilgrim vs the World (Arkansas) vs The Last Starfighter (High Point)
Well, BYU didn't last very long in the tournament
The betting thing will be very interesting for me. Absolutely no idea which teams are actually good enough to upset the top-ranked teams. So I’m betting on the movies I like - I’m sure that is exactly the winning strategy.😄
Well, at least it ups the chance that I look into one or two games. Never really liked playing basketball myself. Having your nose closer to the ground (175 cm or 5'9"), like all the others, didn’t help either. As a German, it was more or less obligatory to play football/soccer anyway, which I did and liked. And concerning the movies: if I’m honest with myself, I don’t really care what movie Cassie watches. I’m here for her. And I’m sure that after making it through Sense and Sensibility, I’m ready for even scarier things she might watch. Fried Green Tomatoes will be the next challenge for me ;-)
Even though my pick-a-flick nominee "Dark City" has crawled it's way into the Top 25, it wasn't picked. Then again there was no Science Fiction Region, so it may not have qualified.
The “genres” were rather loosely defined. Pacific Rim made into the action category, even though it’s more of a sci-fi/monster movie. And Pitch Black got picked for horror, but it’s really sci-fi/action. Dark City could have been placed in drama with those loose parameters.
Cassie- you watched The Quiet Man (John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Ward Bond) wayyy back in 2022. I will concede you have watched other Irish themed movies at different times of the year- most recently In The Name of the Father (Sept. '25), and Far and Away (PPotM- Valentines/Love month 2022), and Gangs of New York (livestream Pillowcase Pull May '23) Recs for the repeatedly neglected St. Patrick's Day viewing😀☘️: The Commitments (1991) Colm Meaney. music/comedy (you know Colm from Star Trek TNG + DS9, and Mystery Alaska) The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006) Cillian Murphy. Historical drama Michael Collins (1996) Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Alan Rickman. Historical drama The Boys from County Clare (2003) Colm Meaney, Andrea Corr. Music/ comedy/ drama/ romance. The Boxer (1996) Daniel Day Lewis, Emily Watson. Drama/sports Shadow Dancer (2012) Clive Owen. Political thriller. '71 (2014) Historical drama/thriller Black '47 (2018) Hugo Weaving. Historical drama
+1 for The Commitments. She'll need subtitles on, but it's a great little flick.
Two of the best movies- Sleepers and Mystic River, are up against each other- so one will cancel the other out- but neither has a whisper of a prayer.
The winner of MM will almost certainly be one of the films assigned to a #1 or #2 seeded team. Very rare for a #3 or #4 seed to win, it’s only happened 6 times in 41 years (since 1985). #1 Duke – The Next Three Days #2 UConn – Gone with the Wind #1 Florida - Real Genius #2 HOU – This is Spinal Tap #1 Arizona – The Last Boy Scout #2 Purdue – The Rocketeer #1 Michigan – U.S. Marshalls #2 Iowa St – Crimson Peak
US Marshalls is a “triller” somehow, I guess.
First time I'm hearing of St. Patrick's Day becoming a children's holiday. Leprechaun traps? Gold coins? In my day you wore something green to school (if you felt like it) and you had corned beef and cabbage for dinner (if you had Irish heritage). That was pretty much it. Shamrock Shakes....sure. Absolutely. But to hell with competitive parenting on Instagram and Facebook.
Are we sure these are top requested films? Did you ask Gemini to tally them? 😅
Cassie, here's a thought. Maybe set aside one reaction each month to catch-up on the backlog of your "prom, proms" and other films you mention often on the LIVEs that you want to watch.
How many reaction slots set aside that week (for that one day) for the catch-up -- 1, 2, or 3?
"Commando"... in the words of "Lloyd Christmas", "You're telling me there's a chance... yeah!"
She would love that one.
I put up a notice for Ben in the Discord that the March Madness bracket up on Popcorn Requests is mistakenly showing that Jack Reacher advanced due to Texas beating NC State last night. But Ladyhawke was chosen for Texas, at 46:23 in the selection YouTube video. I really noticed the movie pick for NC State, because that is my "hometown" team that sadly lost their play in game last night. Two years ago in NC State's epic Cinderella run to the Final Four, they gave us Tom Cruise/Spielberg's War of the Worlds for Cassie to react to. I was shocked in the selection show when NC State got paired with Tom Cruise yet again!
Cassie was trying to hurry through the whole thing (due to family necessities, understandable) which made it a bit chaotic. Not surprised that mistakes were made.
Hi Cassie. I have a request of a different kind. Been watching your normal channel for a few months and now decided to invest in Patreon, partially to rewatch some stuff that was removed. Since I travel a lot I prefer the condensed version on YT. Unfortunately I couldn't find those on your Patreon. Would it be possible to make those deleted standard YT videos available on your Patreon, please? Thanks 🙂
Every YT edit she still has is here on Patreon, some were lost I think.
I was hoping a horror film would win the “wildcard” pull. Too bad it was 28 Weeks Later, an unnecessary sequel. While It’s not a bad movie, it’s definitely not a great sequel either. Just kind of meh.
“Unnecessary” describes it perfectly. When I saw it in the theater, I thought to myself “Don’t go there, that would be stupid.” Then they went back to the British Isles and I lost all interest. I’d assumed we’d see the rage virus escape confinement in some way and what was going on in the rest of the world. Not just the zombie version of “it’s pitch dark and I just heard a suspicious noise, I’ll go investigate it all by myself.”
Saw that the Buffy reboot fell thru. Thank god for that. I was a fan of the original show, watched the entire series two or three times. Trying to revisit it after twenty years was almost certainly doomed to failure, especially without Joss Whedon at the helm. Let Buffy and Willow and Spike rest in peace. As for the Firefly news, I share Cassie’s trepidation. Again, it’s been too long and Whedon isn’t involved. Making it animated makes some sense (how do you bring back Wash unless it’s either a prequel to or contemporaneous with the original series?), but its lack of a home doesn’t bode well. And Whedon really was the driving force behind the show. Whatever the truth may be about his behavior on and off set, it was his world.
Agree. Both the Buffy and Firefly revisits reek of desperation and attempting to cash in on the nostalgia of their fans (of which I am one). Both series were some of the greatest on television, and both revisits would almost certainly be decidedly inferior to the originals.
My memory goes back back to 1965: UCLA- Michigan but back then it was just only 23 teams in the tournament. Some autistics are good at Math some are good at remembering certain names, dates. Me I am good at certain sports statistics from Baseball, NFL, and college basketball, classic cars and the classification of animals, I use mnemonics for that though. Anyway did I hear you say Battlestar Galactica? Yeah I promised my gf, that I would bite my tongue. Sounds good Texas just won I know someone who is going to be happy, and Is texting me now.
I think Apocalypse Now won last year, but not totally sure.
The year before last. 2024. Purdue (Apocalypse Now) was in the Final 4 but lost to Connecticut.
As a lover of March Madness and tournaments in general I wish when folks did tournaments at this time of year that are clearly inspired by March Madness to not do the four quadrants of the same stuff facing off together. Every genre should be in each quadrant, but the same genre can’t meet up earlier than the third round. Stuff like that.
If you didn't know, Cassie will watch the Final Four, she did last year. Her brackets insure a movie from each of the genre categories gets a reaction. Also, she does a Poll of the leftover Round of 16 teams.
I did not hear Horror of Dracula called in the Horror/Thriller picks. Does this mean it's one of the ones Cassie has slated for October?
Did she go off of the new or old request list?
It might have been mentioned later in the broadcast, but I think the version of Kingsman was the wrong year. I think they were the 15 or 16 seed as it was so it probably won't make an impact.
Ben, make sure you fix the seedings (Iowa State and Kentucky are backwards for one) before we start betting our extra valuable popcorn butter bucks :D
Waiting patiently for the YT version of Sense & Sensibility. Regarding the tournament, a little disappointed that Duke is a movie I'm not familiar with. They're always in the mix and a fair bet to win. Not feeling confident for whoever Michigan was, they don't have the guard play to win no matter how good Yaxel, Morez and Mara are.
I hope Clay gets here soon so he can recap, quantify, and explain everything that just happened here. Lol. Would be much appreciated.
Yes, I could do with a little well-structured recap myself ;-)
Hawaii 5-O and Miami Vice NOT same difference!!
That was fun-somewhat. From the point of view of a Bavarian who has no knowledge of NCAA basketball at all, it was rather confusing.🤔 I was however somewhat disappointed that The Court Jester didn’t even make it into the draw. All the scheming and plotting to get it into the top ten of the request list was seemingly for naught.🦹♂️
Very briefly: University sports teams are HUGE in the U.S. Every year, the top division of basketball, Division 1, which comprises nearly 200 teams of varying strength, has a 64 team single-elimination tournament. To speed the process, the top 4 teams lead four individual brackets. Each bracket has 16 teams. Each team in each bracket receives a ranking based on record and strength of schedule. The teams then play ranked matches, i.e 1 vs. 16, 2 vs 15, etc.) The teams play two rounds the first weekend with winners advancing and reducing the total number of teams at the end of the weekend to 16. Then they play two rounds in the next weekend, reducing the total field to 4. The final four play the following weekend to determine the national champion.
There's too many promised movies. Declare Year Zero and all commitments null & void with a blank slate Each week watch the top-rated movie from the website and do a random poll from the top-250 It makes it more exciting than slogging through catch-ups, and ends all the faffing with polls, polls of polls, picking DVDs out of hats—free up more time in Cassie's life too
Or start watching the promised movies. Two a month and she should be good by next year. A lot of them are good, so we don't need to skip them. And - Yes! - to the second paragraph.
For the love of Zeus. Florida won last year! You couldn't remember and nobody was telling you...it hurt my soul as a life long Gata. And they will this year again 🤩🐊 Was hoping they would get Out Of Sight...no luck. Did it get assigned to anyone? Saw couple regions in between work...saw it was high up on the request hope it got a good team if it did get drawn
28 weeks later winning the march madness picks was off guard. My Halloween gift from pick a flick list came earlier
Even though invasion of the body snatchers is PERFECT for a scary but not too scary october, I wouldn't complain getting it early. Do your thing, Kentucky! Lol
Being a lifelong Tennessean, I was gonna root for UT anyway. But the fact it was paired with the best movie in the brackets, Night of the Living Dead, will just make me root for them that much harder. Right up until they lose in the first or second round. 😢
You poor bastard. I'm a Gator. Other half of my family lives in Knoxville went to UT. At this point I just feel sorry for y'all you can't make a final four...it's amazing with as many good teams as you have had you haven't. Least you had baseball last year I guess lol
Aight Here we go fam 👍🙏💪❤️