10,000 rankings on Flickchart and counting
My 10,000th ranking: Batman Returns vs. Tomorrow Never Dies. I chose Batman Returns. All Bond films before Casino Royale are just too tame for me, and besides, I loved Danny DeVito as The Penguin and Michelle Pfeiffer was smoking hot as Catwoman.
I have 1150 movies in my list now but there’s a great deal of ones I said I haven’t seen but actually have. I didn’t want to rank movies that I’d seen but couldn’t remember very well. I thought it would lead to an imperfect list.
As for how I make my choices, I base them on three tests. The first test was which movie I enjoyed more. If the choice was easy then this was how the selection was made. If I had a hard time deciding which I enjoyed more I then looked to which was a better film (however it is that my mind makes that qualification). If I still couldn’t decide then I based my choice on which one I thought should probably win. For example, Braveheart v A Beautiful Mind are both films which I didn’t really enjoy so I can’t base my decision on enjoyment, however both are well made films so that doesn’t help the decision either. That means the third tests was followed and I’d choose Braveheart because it should probably win out. Ultimately making the one on one decisions required by Flickchart is an imprecise exercise for those films in the latter part of your list because they ultimately don’t matter that much. The decision making is both easier and more painful for the first 100-250 films in your list. The real difficulty lies in trying to organise the films in your top 50. I’ve screamed at my monitor so many times.
Below is my current top 50 films. There’s probably a little rearranging that could happen in there, but for the most part I think these are the ones that I’d keep in my top 50. Of course, there are also some in the 50-100 range that could creep in as well as a few movies from this year that I haven’t seen yet (500 Days of Summer and Avatar being two that come to mind).
My Current Top 50
1. Back to the Future: Part 2
2. Almost Famous
3. Terminator 2
4. The Goonies
5. Wall-E
6. Home Alone
7. Casino
8. Back to the Future
9. Forrest Gump
10. Goodfellas
11. Brewster’s Millions
12. Lethal Weapon 3
13. LA Confidential
14. Home Alone 2
15. Brick
16. Lost in Translation
17. Titanic
18. Die Hard 2
19. Back to the Future: Part 3
20. Scrooged
21. Heat
22. Natural Born Killers
23. The Fifth Element
24. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
25. Groundhog Day
26. The Dark Knight
27. Lethal Weapon
28. Anchorman
29. Out of Sight
30. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
31. Die Hard
32. The Truman Show
33. Collateral
34. Shaun of the Dead
35. The Lost Boys
36. Boogie Nights
37. Halloween (1978)
38. Clue
39. The Professional
40. Splash
41. Toy Story 2
42. True Lies
43. Into the Wild
44. Children of Men
45. Seven
46. Black Book
47. The Last Boy Scout
48. Talladega Nights
49. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
50. Fight Club
