World Cup, Season 3, Match 2B: Greece vs Spain vs Brazil (Sep 23rd)

[joachimt]

This is match 2B of the third season of iCM Forum's Film World Cup.

Country	Original Title	English Title	Year	Manager	IMDB	ICM
Greece	O drakos	The Ogre of Athens	1956	tommy_leazaq	link	link
Spain	Belle Epoque	The Age of Beauty	1992	beavis	link	link
Brazil	Bicho de Sete Cabeças	Seven-Headed Beast	2001	Gorro	link	link

Screenshots

O drakos


Belle Epoque


Bicho de Sete Cabeças

Voting Rules:
- You must watch all 3 films before you vote.
- To vote, rank the 3 films from most favorite to least favorite. (note: you're ranking the individual films, not the countries)

Voting deadline = Sep 23rd
Countdown till deadline

The country that ends at 1st place proceeds to the next round. The ranking of the match will be decided using these rules:
- Ranked by lowest average ranking.
- In case of a tie between two movies, head-to-head determines the winner (how many people thought A>B and how many thought B>A).
- In case there's still a tie after the previous rule or there is a tie between all three movies, most #1-votes determines the winner.
- Still a tie? Fewest #3-votes determines the winner.
- Still a tie? The match will have a 3 day extension (except when the tie is only between #2 and #3).

Here's a quick summary of how the tournament works

We start with 48 films from 48 countries. Each country has a manager who determines which movie will be watched. In the first round the countries are divided into 12 groups of 4. From each group the countries that end up at #1 and #2 proceed to the next round. In the 2nd round the 24 remaining countries will be divided into 8 groups of 3. The managers pick a new movie. The winner of each group proceeds to the next round. The final 8 countries compete one-on-one in the quarter finals (with a new movie of course) and so on till the final.

iCM-list of all movies in this World Cup

List of all topics related to the World Cup including previous seasons

[Mario Gaborović]

1. O drakos
2. Belle Epoque
3. Bicho de Sete Cabeças

[72aicm]

1. Bicho de Sete Cabeças
2. O drakos
3. Belle Epoque

[jdidaco]

1. O drakos
2. Belle Epoque
3. Bicho de Sete Cabeças

[Muellwind]

1. O drakos
2. Bicho de Sete Cabeças
3. Belle Epoque

[beavis]

1. Belle Epoque - 8
2. O drakos - 8
3. Bicho de Sete Cabeças - 7

[Pretentious Hipster]

Weak round tbh

1. Ο Δράκος [The Ogre of Athens] (1956)
2. Bicho de sete cabeças [Brainstorm] (2001)
3. Belle Epoque [The Age of Beauty] (1992)

[Cocoa]

Close match for me between the three films. Not amazed by any of the films, but no major complaints.

1. Belle Epoque 7/10
2. Bicho de Sete Cabeças 6/10
3. O drakos 6/10

[klaus78]

1. O drakos (Greece) 7/10
2. Belle Epoque (Spain) 5/10
3. Bicho de Sete Cabeças (Brazil) 4/10

[Angel Glez]

1. The Ogre of Athens
2. The Age of Beauty
3. Brainstorm

[joachimt]

1. The Ogre of Athens
2. The Age of Beauty
3. Brainstorm

Brainstorm?
It really helps for me if people just use the original title, that's listed above. Even if people use the English AKA I often need to check which is which. And you are not even using the title that is listed in this thread.

[Armoreska]

Maybe he means the other movie felt like a horrible brain storm and he prefers not to mention its name again?

Spoiler

[Angel Glez]

And you are not even using the title that is listed in this thread.

Which is not used anywhere. Don't worry I'll take original titles next time.

[Armoreska]

It's the literal translation. Can't get no closer than that.

[Cocoa]

The subtitles for the film called it Brainstorm and that is the English title that IMDB gives me for the film as well.

[Armoreska]

And that's why the "reference" view with the "original" title setting is better.

[zhangalan]

1. O drakos
2. Belle Epoque
3. Bicho de Sete Cabeças

A clear #1.

[joachimt]

So far it looks like this will have a clear winner. But you never know. The Last Command managed to get back as well, so anything is possible.

O drakos: 1.4 (16-4)
Belle Epoque: 2.1 (9-11)
Bicho de Sete Cabeças: 2.5 (5-15)

[joachimt]

The subtitles for the film called it Brainstorm and that is the English title that IMDB gives me for the film as well.

I just updated it on iCM (because the year was off) and now the AKA on iCM says "Brainstorm" as well.

[Gorro]

1. Bicho de Sete Cabeças
2. O drakos
3. Belle Epoque

[Smoover]

1. O drakos 8.0
2. Bicho de Sete Cabeças 6.0
3. Belle Epoque 5.0

[joachimt]

1. O drakos 8/10
2. Bicho de Sete Cabeças 7/10
3. Belle Epoque 6/10

[Mochard]

1. Bicho de Sete Cabeças - 8/10
2. O drakos - 7/10
3. Belle Epoque - 6/10

Only had Brazil to watch and I really enjoyed it.

[RBG]

1. O drakos


2. Bicho de Sete Cabeças
3. Belle Epoque

either way on the last two

[Mate_cosido]

1. Belle Epoque
2. O drakos
3. Bicho de Sete Cabeças

I didn't expect to like Belle Epoque as much as i did

[filmbantha]

1. Bicho de Sete Cabeças
2. Belle Epoque
3. O Drakos

[jvv]

1. Belle Epoque - 7.5/10
2. Bicho de Sete Cabeças - 6.5/10
3. O drakos - 6/10

[Gershwin]

1. Belle Epoque
2. O drakos
3. Bicho de Sete Cabeças

[joachimt]

O drakos: 1.632 (26-12)
Belle Epoque: 2.158 (16-22)
Bicho de Sete Cabeças: 2.211 (15-23)

[beavis]

nice times are breaking through
it's the beauties against the beasts

[Armoreska]

More accurately, a beauty is sandwiched between the beasts.

[Gershwin]

More accurately, a beauty is sandwiched between the beasts.

More than one actually. They totally won me over.

[sacmersault]

1. Belle Epoque - Saw this movie a long time ago and loved it
2. O drakos - Interesting but kind of confusing at the beginning, especially since the subtitles don't explain anything about the newspapers so I had to look into why everyone was acting weird with him and stuff
3. Bicho de Sete Cabeças - I really disliked this movie

[hurluberlu]

1. O drakos 7+
2. Bicho de Sete Cabeças 7
3. Belle Epoque 7-

[zuma]

This was the hardest match for me to rank since the World Cup began. It is because I felt all three films were really bad (apologies to the managers). I would rank the films and second guess my first choice given it's flaws. I would reorder them and have the same doubts/problems. I wish I could rank all three of them third.

Anyway...

01. Belle Epoque

02. O drakos

03. Bicho de Sete Cabeças

[clemmetarey]

1. Bicho de Sete Cabeças (2000) 7/10
2. O drakos (1956) 6/10
3. Belle Epoque (1992) 5/10

[lynchs]

easy one,

1. Bicho de Sete Cabeças (2000)
2. O drakos (1956)
3. Belle Epoque (1992)

[Renegade]

1. O drakos
2. Belle Epoque
3. Bicho de Sete Cabeças

[burneyfan]

1. O drakos (Greece)
2. Belle Epoque (Spain)
3. Bicho de Sete Cabeças (Brazil)

I could have gone either way on the last two. Thanks to tommy, beavis, and Gorro!

[joachimt]

O drakos: 1.615 (36-16)
Belle Epoque: 2.154 (22-30)
Bicho de Sete Cabeças: 2.231 (20-32)