Mitten Film Nerd

Category: Thunderdome

  • A Look at Rewards Programs

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    Pretty much everywhere now there is a rewards program for that business. That fact is no different for theater chains. Each chain knows that if you can give people a way to feel they are being rewarded for their loyalty, people will take it. So, I decided to take a look at the four major…

  • Box Office Classic 2 Recap

    Box Office Classic 2 Recap

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    Last year, when I was just starting the Instagram page for this site, I came up with the Box Office Classic. It was formatted after the NCAA tournament that takes over my attention each year. In that inaugural Classic, it was just me that picked the winners. Since then, I have opened up my tournaments…

  • Best Picture Tournament Recap

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    The Champions Tournament next year now has half of its competitors after Jurassic Park won the 1993 tournament last month. Now we start filling out the second half of the bracket. Next week, this year’s Oscar nominations are announced, and with them we will learn who will be up for Best Picture this year. For…

  • 1993 Tournament Recap

    1993 Tournament Recap

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    Hard for me to believe it, but we are now at the one year mark of this blog. To celebrate the occasion, I held tournament #8 this past week over on my Instagram. I made people do the thing I can’t do. Let me explain. For this 8th tournament, I went with the theme of…

  • Horror Movie Tournament Recap

    Horror Movie Tournament Recap

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    This past week was my 7th entry in my tournament series. You can find all of my future tournaments as they are happening over on my Instagram page. Since the 6th one in September (the Tim Burton one) I have left it to all of you to decide the winners of each matchup. That way,…

  • The Marvel Tournament

    The Marvel Tournament

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    Since Iron Man debuted 16 years ago, This tournament will work just like last month’s Pixar one: I have enlisted two others with opinions on the Marvel library, and we will go through each match and vote on a winner. Majority takes the win. You will notice the Mutants are involved in the bracket. We…

  • Concession Wars – Round 3

    Concession Wars – Round 3

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    Two rounds in and we have had two different winners. This round, we take a look at all the options for food outside of popcorn. It’s going to get a little strange. Starting with AMC, there are 11 options. My go to here are the mozzarella sticks, but they are not great once in a…

  • The Pixar Battle Royale

    The Pixar Battle Royale

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    Pixar has been part of my life since the beginning. I can still remember seeing Toy Story at a theater in Florida as one of the first movies I saw in a theater, if not the very first. I’ve found out, like so many others, that as I grow up, most of the movies just…

  • The Birthday Tournament

    The Birthday Tournament

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    Memorial Day for some is referred to some as the official start of Summer. The studios must think that too because that weekend is one of the weekends each year the big movies are released. Marvel taking over the first weekend of May aside, the biggest movie of the month usually is released that weekend.…

  • The 1987 Tournament

    The 1987 Tournament

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    Last month, I concluded the inaugural Box Office Classic. I have always liked tournaments, real and fake. It always is a good way to have new and strange discussions. So, each month, I will have a new tournament that will most times themed to something next month. For example, June’s theme is Pixar because Inside…