Geek Wars Weekly Wrap Up

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Our weekly Geek Wars Film Wrap Up for the week that was...

The first four qualifiers for the Geek Film Wars were selected this week in the Old School Sci Fi Film category and quite frankly, Bob, there weren't any upsets.

None were really expected.

The top seeded Star Wars cruised to an easy victory as did the 4th Seeded E.T. and the 5th seeded Blade Runner. In fact, Blade Runner had the easiest time of it, crushing its opponent 5-0. The only tight contest in the entire early old sci-fi round was the #8-#9 match up between Close Encounters and The Day The Earth Stood Still. Apparently, Spielberg still has his touch, as Close Encounters came away with a close 2-1 victory.

Also in early action this week, the #1 seeded Return of the King knocked off the #16 seeded Neverending Story, but the contest was a far closer 2-1 final, that nobody really expected. What do you think happened Bob?

Well, too many people just love Neverending Story from their childhood, Tom. I think the story of Atreu and the giant rock dude and the snail that goes faster than a Ferarri plus all those 80's clothes and music - what's there not to love. But ultimately the first geek Best Film winner won out. But ROTK is in a tough bracket and will next have to contend with the likes of either Clash of the Titans or Time Bandits, and the likely winner of the Wizard of Oz/Pan's Labyrinth match up from the second round. This is no easy bracket with lots of potential bracket busters and the end of too many people's fantasy picks.

And on tap for this weekend, two picks for Friday (Friday and Saturday's), that should help round out the early Fantasy category by Monday. And then we move on next week to New School Sci-Fi (post CGI) and the finally, by Thursday of next week, the Action Film Category. And that bracket ought to be really explosive.

Sorry, Bob, I couldn't resist.

And that's it for us tonight. Stay tuned to ESPN for our continuing award winning coverage of the Stallone Report on Steroid Use in Hollywood Films...