I found out about Flickchart from a post on Cinematical and quickly signed up for the beta. I got my invite a few days later and have now been using the site for about a week. To say that I’m addicted to it is a massive understatement. I’ve lost hours sitting infront of my computer deciding who should win in the matchups it throws my way. Some have been easy and some have been painful, but they’ve all been fun. So far I have 958 movies in my list and I’ve done 4036 rankings. There are plenty of films I said I haven’t seen which I actually have, but I wanted to be able to give an honest opinion in each and every matchup so I decided to disregard those that I’d seen but could not recollect very well.
I think my current top 20 is pretty complete. There may be a little rearranging possible within the top 20 but for the most part they’re the right films. The figure in the parenthesis is the global ranking so you can see where my pick matches up with the Flickchart community as a whole. I’ve also listed the top 10 on Flickchart along with where they rank in my rankings for comparison.
My Top 20
1. Back to the Future: Part 2 (77)
2. Almost Famous (119)
3. Wall-E (26)
4. Casino (148)
5. Back to the Future (13)
6. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (807)
7. Forrest Gump (25)
8. Goodfellas (34)
9. Home Alone (262)
10. The Goonies (114)
11. Brewster’s Millions (3035)
12. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (2291)
13. Brick (505)
14. Lost in Translation (108)
15. Die Hard 2 (1746)
16. Scrooged (670)
17. L.A. Confidential (96)
18. Lethal Weapon (150)
19. The Fifth Element (59)
20. The Lost Boys (481)
The Flickchart Top 10
1. The Dark Knight (25)
2. Star Wars (34)
3. The Empire Strikes Back (56)
4. Fight Club (50)
5. The Matrix (934)
6. Raiders of the Lost Ark (206)
7. Pulp Fiction (58)
8. The Shawshank Redemption (111)
9. Return of the Jedi (62)
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (942)
On my top 20 I think that LA Confidential should be higher, probably around the 11 or 12 spot but it hasn’t matched up with those ones yet. As for the Flickchart top 10 the only ones that are drastically wrong in comparison to my list are The Matrix and LOTR. Neither of those should be as low as the 900′s but I don’t think they’ll ultimately make my top 150 either.
