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(again, the minor abbrevation in the title is for space)

Last time, "The Phantom of Baker Street" absolutely destroyed, "Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure". This week, in the penultimate contest of Round 1, we have:

Movie 7: Crossroad in the Ancient Capital


vs.

Movie 10: The Private Eyes' Requiem


The current bracket:

I am going with "The Private Eyes' Requiem". I hated both movies with a passion, but something about 7 was insanely odious. It had a nice setting, focused on a likable character and a mystery that was in theory interesting. And yet, the mystery itself proved a sideshow to a lot of disjointed chases and scenic views. The Shinichi/Heiji swap was also terribly predictable and lame, and the ShinRan moment was thrown in without a thought to flow. Also, the whole "a bunch of people die at the very beginning with no buildup" shtick was really annoying, not like a good detective story at all. 10 was terrible, but it was happy about it. 7 was terrible, but yearning to be good.

i liked movie 7 alot because it's got my fav pairing and alot of action compared to move 10. movie 10 was nothing but a mystery that had na overflow of characters

The Private Eyes' Requiem have a lot of romance

sato x takagi
sonoko x hakuba
ran x shinichi
kazuha x hattori

so all kinda push over

Crossroad in the Ancient Capital

is specially heiji x kazuha

so i guess i go with Crossroad in the Ancient Capital

I'll go with movie 7 for now, nothing insanely noticeable about either, I think its just because I like sword fights.

the 7th one because I watched some of it

Crossroad in the Ancient Capital

Private Eyes' Requiem.

GAH! Both are so good, it was hard to choose between the two!

But in the end, I chose "Crossroad in the Ancient Capital" because of all the Heiji goodness, and Kudo wearing Heiji's hat.

Movie 7 for me here, but I'm not a big proponent of it. However, it is up against one of the two worst movies (along with 11), so no-brainer here.

I'm for Private Eyes' Requiem.  It was a good mystery (which is what DC should be all about), with suspense and thrills.  For some reason, I seem to like all the ones other ones don't.

NOT Private Eyes' Requiem. I personally found it worse than Jolly Roger and that's saying something.

wow... it's balancing ...

before pofa fote.

it was 9 vs 1

and now15 vs 8

I actually liked movie 10. If it were not for that horrible villain (Come on, planting bombs on a bunch of kids just to motivate a few detectives to investigate a case for you? They would have done it if you hired them normally, too. Oh sure, it is for the sake of "suspense".  :-\) and basically parking half of the cast in that amusement park (At least they got their own mini-mystery). Otherwise the movie was good.

Movie 7 was just... bad. Way to much Heiji, a silly and unnecessary back-transformation and the mystery itself was weak as well. Even Jolly Roger was better than that movie - aside from the ridiculous escape it was at least fun.

7 for me. movie 10 had too much of a mystery, it felt like a DC special like ep. 304, to me it did not have a movie feel. In short I like the movies with more about the personal lives of the characters.