That’s why i voted on some where i hadn’t seen both. There are a lot of movies i haven’t seen because i know i won’t enjoy them. I hope that doesn’t mess up the results. 
Also, thanks. This is a fun poll.
Not at all! This poll is purely subjective!
For purposes of this, absolutely; but as someone who has run movie leagues for years (which includes pulling IMDb and Metacritic data), I can tell you that (the unpaid versions of) chatGPT and Sonnet are incredibly frustrating, because they both pull wrong values even when you tell them to scrape the web. ChatGPT actually does the better job, but I just tested it again, and it’s still off.
Hah, very true. If your goal is complete accuracy, any of the agents will fall short. But for low-stakes things like this, 90% is close enough.
Do we know for sure that any of the agents will fall short? Like, I keep thinking a better version might pull it off.
You might be a little startled at how much time I’ve spent on this since so many websites moved to dynamic scrolling of their tables…all my scoring used to be automated, now, alas… 
Polls are now closing.
Results from Round 1 have been tabulated and seed numbers assigned for the winners and losers. I’ll begin working on the polls for Round 2A (winners bracket) this afternoon. Round 2B (losers bracket) will be a separate thread posted soon thereafter. I made a mistake earlier in the matchups for R2A and R2B - it will be 1 vs 128 etc in 2A and 129 vs 256 etc in 2B.
Here are the standings after Round 1:
1 Raiders of the Lost Ark
2 The Princess Bride
3 Jaws
4 Dr. Strangelove
5 Schindler’s List
6 Naked Gun
7 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
8 Stand By Me
9 The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
10 Young Frankenstein
11 The Big Lebowski
12 Das Boot
13 The Fifth Element
14 Office Space
15 The Maltese Falcon
16 All the President’s Men
17 Clue
18 Groundhog Day
19 Blazing Saddles
20 Pulp Fiction
21 The Great Escape
22 Breakfast Club
23 The Dirty Dozen
24 Animal House
25 The Terminator
26 The Blues Brothers
27 Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
28 The Silence of the Lambs
29 The Sting
30 The Return of the King
31 Harvey
32 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
33 The Bridge on the River Kwai
34 Breaker Morant
35 Spirited Away
36 Forbidden Planet
37 Ghostbusters
38 Beetlejuice
39 Lawrence of Arabia
40 Kill Bill Pts. 1 & 2
41 Slap Shot
42 The Bourne Identity (2002)
43 Casablanca
44 Seven Samurai
45 The Martian
46 In Bruges
47 Aliens
48 2001: A Space Odyssey
49 The Godfather Part II
50 The Rocky Horror Picture Show
51 Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit
52 Silverado
53 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
54 The Hunt for Red October
55 Project Hail Mary
56 The Thing (1982)
57 Shaun of the Dead
58 Animal Crackers
59 Best in Show
60 Taxi Driver
61 The Magnificent Seven
62 The Empire Strikes Back
63 Fight Club
64 Reservoir Dogs
65 The Fugitive
66 Airplane!
67 Fargo
68 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
69 Citizen Kane
70 A Room With A View
71 Gran Torino
72 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
73 The Incredibles
74 Top Gun
75 The Third Man
76 For a Few Dollars More
77 Planes, Trains and Automobiles
78 The Godfather
79 Back to the Future
80 Top Secret!
81 Princess Mononoke
82 Wait Until Dark
83 Unforgiven
84 Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers
85 You Only Live Twice
86 The Descendants
87 Support Your Local Sheriff
88 This Is Spinal Tap
89 The Abyss
90 La Femme Nikita
91 What’s Up Doc?
92 Good Will Hunting
93 Murder by Death
94 Vertigo
95 Rock and Roll High School
96 King Kong (1933)
97 LA Confidential
98 Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
99 Tombstone
100 Endless Summer
101 Monty Python and the Holy Grail
102 Rocky
103 His Girl Friday
104 Clash of the Titans (1981)
105 The Hangover
106 The Shawshank Redemption
107 Rat Race
108 The Birds
109 Some Like It Hot
110 The Apartment
111 Master and Commander
112 The Searchers
113 The Caine Mutiny
114 Free Solo
115 From Russia With Love
116 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, 1971
117 To Kill a Mockingbird
118 Almost Famous
119 The Package
120 The Fellowship of the Ring
121 Apocalypse Now
122 The Quiet Man
123 Charade
124 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
125 Pretty in Pink
126 Pygmalion
127 The Drop (2014)
128 RocknRolla
129 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
130 Dumbo (1941)
131 Who’s Harry Crumb
132 Persuasion (1995)
133 It follows
134 Toy Story
135 The Usual Suspects
136 Witness for the Prosecution
137 Repo Man
138 North By Northwest
139 The Matrix
140 The Longest Day
141 Stalker (1979)
142 Trainspotting
143 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
144 Captain America: The First Avenger
145 Leon: The Professional (AKA The Professional)
146 Spaced Invaders
147 Inglourious Basterds
148 Grease
149 Help!
150 Apollo 13
151 Les Miserables
152 Star Wars: A New Hope
153 It’s a Wonderful Life
154 Bad Santa
155 Hobson’s Choice
156 Top Hat
157 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
158 True Grit (2010)
159 Sixteen Candles
160 Weekend at Bernie’s
161 A Good Year
162 Grosse Point Blank
163 Bruce Almighty
164 The Exorcist
165 Cold Mountain
166 Goodfellas
167 My Man Godfrey
168 Silver Linings Playbook
169 Amarcord
170 A Clockwork Orange
171 Breathless (1960)
172 The Cocoanuts
173 Mostly Martha (Bella Martha)
174 Paul
175 The Adventures of Robin Hood
176 My Cousin Vinnie
177 Saving Private Ryan
178 The Wages of Fear (1953)
179 Big Wednesday
180 Locke
181 12 Monkeys
182 Goldfinger
183 Father Goose
184 Rashomon
185 Sleuth (1972)
186 Galaxy Quest
187 The Producers
188 Road House (1989)
189 The Deer Hunter
190 Phantom of the Paradise
191 The Castle
192 12 Angry Men
193 The Cabin in the woods
194 Inception
195 Contact
196 The Emperor’s New Groove
197 Christmas Vacation
198 Sideways
199 Braveheart
200 The Outfit (2022)
201 Bull Durham
202 Arthur
203 The Best Years of Our Lives
204 Poltergeist
205 The Little Girl That Lives Down The Lane
206 Strange Cargo (1940)
207 The Oxbow Incident
208 Hot Fuzz
209 A League of their Own
210 To Have and Have Not
211 The Shining
212 Tootsie
213 Papillon
214 A Midnight Clear
215 Old Henry
216 Return of the Living Dead
217 Greyhound
218 Winter’s Bone
219 Layer Cake
220 Notorious
221 Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
222 Kongo (1932)
223 Yankee Doodle Dandy
224 Swordsman II (1992)
225 Before Sunrise
226 Bottle Shock
227 Come and Get It
228 Rain Main
229 Touch of Evil
230 On Golden Pond
231 Moonrise Kingdom
232 All That Jazz
233 Mildred Pierce
234 Naked Lunch
235 Persona
236 Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
237 Kiss Me Deadly
238 Zulu
239 Double Indemnity
240 The Grey Man
241 Invasion of Astro-Monster (AKA Monster Zero)
242 Evil Dead 2
243 Oscar
244 Queen Christina
245 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
246 North Dallas Forty
247 Last Year at Marienbad
248 Lost Highway
249 Anger Management
250 Out of the Past
251 Beat The Devil
252 Kiss the Blood off my Hands
253 Bikini Beach
254 Dinner for Schmucks
255 Snatch
256 Madagascar II
Can you post links here to the new thread(s) after you’ve set them up?