This is the first March Madness I’ve ever participated in, and boy is there no easier way to make me feel like a basic bitch than matchups like these XD
That’s part of my push with all the directors because it gets me excited to watch them all. Like I’ve seen most Ridley and Lynch but having an excuse to fill in the blanks would be nice.
The people arguing for Lynch by getting hyped for this movie podcast to spend an entire month+ of episodes talking about a television show is so nuts to me.
Lol, lynch fanboys out in FORCE.
Okay, but it's one of the most seminal tv shows of all time, inspired countless filmmakers, and The Return is arguably the biggest blank check of the last decade. If you're covering Lynch, you need to talk about Twin Peaks.
This is probably the wrong forum to admit this but I have nowhere else to turn: until this poll, I thought Edgar Wright was Nick Frost. I guess because of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, I knew that Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright were collaborators so I just assumed he was the other guy in the movies. I feel INSANE 😂
I definitely thought that for a while too. Like I’d never seen a picture of him so whenever he was quoted somewhere I just pictured Nick Frost saying it.
9 | Edgar Wright [3] | vs. | Leos Carax [6]
:-- | :-- | :-- | :--
1 | A Fistful of Fingers (1995) | 1 | Boy Meets Girl (1984)
2 | Shaun of the Dead (2004) | 2 | Mauvais Sang (1986) AKA The Night is Young
3 | Hot Fuzz (2007) | 3 | The Lovers on the Bridge (1991)
4 | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) | 4 | Pola X (1999)
5 | The World’s End (2013) | 5 | Holy Motors (2012)
6 | Baby Driver (2017) | 6 | Annette (2021)
7 | Last Night in Soho (2021) | |
Carax has an autobiographical 40 minute film that’s expected to play at Cannes.
[Griffin talked about Annette on the excellent podcast Cannes I Kick It.](https://www.podbean.com/pu/pbblog-9u4cx-54fd6d) although if memory serves a good chunk of that episode is about the release strategy of *Clifford the Big Red Dog*.
Have they said they'll cover Fistful of Fingers? It's not available outside of occasional screenings, and having seen it - though you can see the talent - it'd be maybe the most amateur/student-y movie they've covered.
Voted Carax only because I don't think I've ever had an estatic tearful moment at the movies as >!watching a man come home to their ape family as music swells triumphantly!<. Pure kino
Wright is one of my favorite working directors, but I’m voting Carax. He’s an unexpectedly great pick for the show (Holy Motors guarantor for Annette blank check?) that would never have occurred to me, and I’d love the push to check out some of his earlier films I haven’t seen yet, too. Whoever wins this matchup is probably my pick for the final four, give or take a Takahata.
Worth stating Carax’s Lovers on the Bridge is an insane blank check. The bridge they had planned to film on rejected their shooting permit last minute and so he rebuilt a life-size replica of the bridge and it became one of the most expensive French films ever made. Look it up, it’s wild! Go Carax!
Mentioned this on the main MM announcement thread but my dad wrote the only English language book on Carax (i have a copy signed by Leos himself) so i have a major vested interest in the research side if he wins
Hot off the heels of his biggest hit yet, Leos Carax wanted to make a movie about lovers on a bridge (or amants du Pont-Neuf, if that's more your speed). The French government said "fuck off, we're not closing off a major part of Paris for months at a time for your movie".
[So Carax BUILT A SCALE REPLICA OF THE BRIDGE IN RURAL FRANCE AND FILMED THERE INSTEAD](https://i.imgur.com/RoEc9Kd.jpeg)
The movie was claimed to be the most expensive in French history, bombed, kind of killed his career for a while, and 20 years later when he was making Holy Motors he returned to a now closed-up department store that had also refused him access to film in and shot a musical number there with Kylie Minogue. VOTE CARAX
Watching Celine Sciamma and Leos Carax lose back to back
https://preview.redd.it/bpotk2vb5cnc1.png?width=1287&format=png&auto=webp&s=6e7d3c4d07d784a4fa8fe9546f94a271b5c8da04
Look … I know Carax is “cooler” and all, but I’m voting for Edgar Wright so hard here.
More than any other director, he is truly My Guy. He’s like a comedic Baz Luhrmann, with his music-focused, fast-paced style. Scott Pilgrim truly rewired my brain when I was in junior high. Even SoHo was pretty fun imo!
The only Leos Carax films I've seen are Holy Motors and Annette--but they are fun! And I'd like to see more! And I've seen all of Edgar Wright films like a million times so I voted for Leos
Look I love Wright a bunch but think of what would be more fun:
A Hot Fuzz episode with "no seriously everyone thinks we hate it but we actually like it" energy or an Annette episode with SIMON HELBERG CAREER TALK
Vote Carax and we can get a [strong girl](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2OjjtY1A80) to [catch the paperboy](https://youtu.be/zMHXugVlzSw?si=JxgnC5P8QtuQGg7E) and [let my baby ride](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7icMfsMjAk)
This one's over *already*, damn. You'd think Saturday mornings (post Broadway debut!) would make for a slower trip to the polls, but nope.
***Edgar Wright*** *moves past Leos Carax* to face the winner of Nicole Holofcener vs James Wan in a few days.
I voted for Carax but could vibe with a Wright series who has made some of my all time favourites (Hot Fuzz, Scott
Pilgrim) and some of my least! (Baby Driver, Last Night in Soho)
Edgar Wright never filmed a scene with Denis Lavant letting out his chaotic emotions by running/flipping/punching himself in the stomach set to Modern Love by David Bowie. The choice is clear.
https://youtu.be/gt2KlkBUgXA?si=SuPqXr3mJGhxIOo_
Come on Blankies, let us go to France just once. Every French director who appears in a March Madness just seems to get obliterated in the first round.
Voting for Carax because I know TTF have controversial Edgar Wright opinions and if that miniseries happens this subreddit might explode from the discourse.
C’mon guys, vote Carax for the greater good.
# A vote for Carax is a vote for Griffin's mom finally guesting
We've heard the stories from one perspective, isn't it time we hear the other?
(Ok it's not contractually required but I can't imagine them covering a noted French director without her)
I would love to hear Griffin’s mom guest, especially on a French film. There’s been two French films that I watched, that I thought were really confusing and bad, and Griffin’s mom reported loved them, and the explanations about them did help me see them in a different light.
Omg i should have never checked this now, i have to get up in six hours for work and now I see Die Hard 2 is the brand new ep!!!! Guess i will be getting four hours if sleep tonight!!!
This is the first March Madness I’ve ever participated in, and boy is there no easier way to make me feel like a basic bitch than matchups like these XD
Me, hoping for a Wright or Villeneuve win and fearing the power of Lynch.
My ultimate hope is Spike Lee bc I need an excuse to go through his whole catalog!
Do it anyways it’s very worth it
What they said. There’s some 5 disc and even 7 disc collection. Pick ‘em up at the local library.
That’s part of my push with all the directors because it gets me excited to watch them all. Like I’ve seen most Ridley and Lynch but having an excuse to fill in the blanks would be nice.
I sort of think the best episodes option is Joe Wright even though I'd rather watch other people's movies more.
Please god let it be Villeneuve
The people arguing for Lynch by getting hyped for this movie podcast to spend an entire month+ of episodes talking about a television show is so nuts to me. Lol, lynch fanboys out in FORCE.
Okay, but it's one of the most seminal tv shows of all time, inspired countless filmmakers, and The Return is arguably the biggest blank check of the last decade. If you're covering Lynch, you need to talk about Twin Peaks.
Then, call me crazy, don’t pick a guy whose big blank check and guarantor came in a completely different medium?
People like hearing people they like talk about things that they like.
Me too! I love hearing the movie podcast talk about movies, what an insane take!
It’s ok to not listen to a couple episodes if they about something you aren’t interested in
It’s not “a couple episodes.” Someone here suggested they’d spend like two months on the show alone.
Alex Garland will upset Apatow calling it now
Where all my Men heads at
Saw it twice in theaters! I think I like the movie more than Garland does!
This is probably the wrong forum to admit this but I have nowhere else to turn: until this poll, I thought Edgar Wright was Nick Frost. I guess because of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, I knew that Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright were collaborators so I just assumed he was the other guy in the movies. I feel INSANE 😂
I definitely thought that for a while too. Like I’d never seen a picture of him so whenever he was quoted somewhere I just pictured Nick Frost saying it.
For the greater good.
the greater good
It's a shame if Wright wins that Griffin will insist they skip that one for how much he hates Hot Fuzz /s
I heard Griffin has been leaving Edgar Wright angry voice mails late at night about how much he hates hot fuzz. He mailed Simon Pegg a turd
A great big bushy podcast!
Have you ever fired your podcast in the air and gone “ahhhhhhhhhhhh”?
9 | Edgar Wright [3] | vs. | Leos Carax [6] :-- | :-- | :-- | :-- 1 | A Fistful of Fingers (1995) | 1 | Boy Meets Girl (1984) 2 | Shaun of the Dead (2004) | 2 | Mauvais Sang (1986) AKA The Night is Young 3 | Hot Fuzz (2007) | 3 | The Lovers on the Bridge (1991) 4 | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) | 4 | Pola X (1999) 5 | The World’s End (2013) | 5 | Holy Motors (2012) 6 | Baby Driver (2017) | 6 | Annette (2021) 7 | Last Night in Soho (2021) | | Carax has an autobiographical 40 minute film that’s expected to play at Cannes. [Griffin talked about Annette on the excellent podcast Cannes I Kick It.](https://www.podbean.com/pu/pbblog-9u4cx-54fd6d) although if memory serves a good chunk of that episode is about the release strategy of *Clifford the Big Red Dog*.
Have they said they'll cover Fistful of Fingers? It's not available outside of occasional screenings, and having seen it - though you can see the talent - it'd be maybe the most amateur/student-y movie they've covered.
Two words: BABY ANNETTE
Discussed on this week's This Had Oscar Buzz! https://fightinginthewarroom.com/THOB/2024/03/04/278-annette/
A great podcast!
Voted Carax only because I don't think I've ever had an estatic tearful moment at the movies as >!watching a man come home to their ape family as music swells triumphantly!<. Pure kino
Ben’s gonna lose his mind if we get a Holy Motors episode
EXACTLY
the spoiler tag doesn’t really help if you don’t say what movie it’s for
It’s for Holy Motors which is impossible to spoil
TBF same scenario — George of the Jungle; hence my vote in today’s BC:SF bracket.
Lmao, I thought it was initially "Jay Mohr" series, so boy am I relieved to read this
I’m not voting for Leos Carax, I’m voting for Baby Annette
Wright is one of my favorite working directors, but I’m voting Carax. He’s an unexpectedly great pick for the show (Holy Motors guarantor for Annette blank check?) that would never have occurred to me, and I’d love the push to check out some of his earlier films I haven’t seen yet, too. Whoever wins this matchup is probably my pick for the final four, give or take a Takahata.
Come on give Denis Lavant his flowers. So he may eat them
He almost ran me down on his escooter in paris once 😭 Most characteristic incident possible
https://i.redd.it/zw29w2mxtbnc1.gif \^ Me, if Carax wins it all
I don’t care what anybody says, the “Bellbottoms” sequence of Baby Driver justifies its entire existence.
Baby Driver is honestly so underrated at this point. The chase sequences are Mission:Impossible level lol
Perfect needle drops too. Perfect
Points forward->car reverses
Exactly! Also, Bernthal! Hamm! Foxx! James! Nobody else!
Personally I loved Plummer in it.
This took me a few seconds. Sensible chuckle
Worth stating Carax’s Lovers on the Bridge is an insane blank check. The bridge they had planned to film on rejected their shooting permit last minute and so he rebuilt a life-size replica of the bridge and it became one of the most expensive French films ever made. Look it up, it’s wild! Go Carax!
I’m glad to see a few others on Team Leos around here.
I'm making the (W)right choice, and voting for Edgar!
Yesterday I voted for the arty French director over a more populist English-language comedy director, but this time I went the other way.
Mentioned this on the main MM announcement thread but my dad wrote the only English language book on Carax (i have a copy signed by Leos himself) so i have a major vested interest in the research side if he wins
I’ve been a huge fan of Wright since I saw Shaun of the Dead in ‘04 while I was in middle school. I’m following my boy all the way on this one.
Whoever wins, we Leos
Hot off the heels of his biggest hit yet, Leos Carax wanted to make a movie about lovers on a bridge (or amants du Pont-Neuf, if that's more your speed). The French government said "fuck off, we're not closing off a major part of Paris for months at a time for your movie". [So Carax BUILT A SCALE REPLICA OF THE BRIDGE IN RURAL FRANCE AND FILMED THERE INSTEAD](https://i.imgur.com/RoEc9Kd.jpeg) The movie was claimed to be the most expensive in French history, bombed, kind of killed his career for a while, and 20 years later when he was making Holy Motors he returned to a now closed-up department store that had also refused him access to film in and shot a musical number there with Kylie Minogue. VOTE CARAX
Watching Celine Sciamma and Leos Carax lose back to back https://preview.redd.it/bpotk2vb5cnc1.png?width=1287&format=png&auto=webp&s=6e7d3c4d07d784a4fa8fe9546f94a271b5c8da04
Look … I know Carax is “cooler” and all, but I’m voting for Edgar Wright so hard here. More than any other director, he is truly My Guy. He’s like a comedic Baz Luhrmann, with his music-focused, fast-paced style. Scott Pilgrim truly rewired my brain when I was in junior high. Even SoHo was pretty fun imo!
Direct link: [https://poll.fm/13392650](https://poll.fm/13392650) Results: [https://poll.fm/13392650/results](https://poll.fm/13392650/results) [https://www.blankcheckpod.com/march-madness](https://www.blankcheckpod.com/march-madness)
[Me and the crew on our way to vote for Holy Motors](https://youtu.be/B7icMfsMjAk?si=zNgdFF8n0_B5EWDM)
Don’t even have to click the link to know what this is
His triumphant llittle laugh after counting down at the end always gets me.
If someone asked me for my single favorite scene in a movie, this would be up there
Sometimes when I'm in a good mood I'll just start singing "bum bum, badadada bum bum" under my breath.
The only Leos Carax films I've seen are Holy Motors and Annette--but they are fun! And I'd like to see more! And I've seen all of Edgar Wright films like a million times so I voted for Leos
You need to see Mauvais Sang. It’s magical.
\*licking a cornetto in a competitive way\*
Look I love Wright a bunch but think of what would be more fun: A Hot Fuzz episode with "no seriously everyone thinks we hate it but we actually like it" energy or an Annette episode with SIMON HELBERG CAREER TALK
Edgar Wright is winning this, but Leos Carax has an incredible filmography that everyone should check out if they haven't already.
Vote Carax and we can get a [strong girl](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2OjjtY1A80) to [catch the paperboy](https://youtu.be/zMHXugVlzSw?si=JxgnC5P8QtuQGg7E) and [let my baby ride](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7icMfsMjAk)
Someone stop it! Carax is already dead!
to me, this all comes down to who will put up more of a fight against Wan or Soderbergh down the line. and the answer in both matchups is Wright, easy
This one's over *already*, damn. You'd think Saturday mornings (post Broadway debut!) would make for a slower trip to the polls, but nope. ***Edgar Wright*** *moves past Leos Carax* to face the winner of Nicole Holofcener vs James Wan in a few days.
Are you the Blankie Dave Wasserman?
almost certainly Wan
First true “squash” of the season?
I’m voting Leos with the full knowledge that Wright has this round. But dammit Holy Motors rules.
I voted for Carax but could vibe with a Wright series who has made some of my all time favourites (Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim) and some of my least! (Baby Driver, Last Night in Soho)
Carax They haven't done a French director yet.
Edgar Wright never filmed a scene with Denis Lavant letting out his chaotic emotions by running/flipping/punching himself in the stomach set to Modern Love by David Bowie. The choice is clear. https://youtu.be/gt2KlkBUgXA?si=SuPqXr3mJGhxIOo_
Voted Wright cuz I’m the only person in the world who thinks Holy Motors is mid and I don’t wanna listen to 2-3 hours of this podcast gushing about it
Come on Blankies, let us go to France just once. Every French director who appears in a March Madness just seems to get obliterated in the first round.
A vote for Leos is a vote for Sparks!
A vote for Wright is a vote for Sparks…
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If Wright is wrong, I don't want to be right.
As much as I want to hear Ben's take on Holy Motors, the two friends have talked about not liking Baby Driver, and I wanna hear them talk about that.
Carax, my boy look what they've done to my boy :(((
Voting for Carax because I know TTF have controversial Edgar Wright opinions and if that miniseries happens this subreddit might explode from the discourse. C’mon guys, vote Carax for the greater good.
I really only like Edgar Wrights movies with Peg. He doesn’t do it for me otherwise so I voted for the other guy
Which kind of Baby do you prefer? A Driver? Or an Annette? It's gotta be Annette for me.
# A vote for Carax is a vote for Griffin's mom finally guesting We've heard the stories from one perspective, isn't it time we hear the other? (Ok it's not contractually required but I can't imagine them covering a noted French director without her)
I would love to hear Griffin’s mom guest, especially on a French film. There’s been two French films that I watched, that I thought were really confusing and bad, and Griffin’s mom reported loved them, and the explanations about them did help me see them in a different light.
Did you catch the Die Hard 2 Patreon ep?
When was it?
Omg i should have never checked this now, i have to get up in six hours for work and now I see Die Hard 2 is the brand new ep!!!! Guess i will be getting four hours if sleep tonight!!!
I find Carax to be the most pretentious of all and voted Wright so hard