Got turned on to flickchart.com a couple days ago, and have wasted way too much time on there the last couple days.

Here's my profile.

Anyone else on there?

Yup. Whenever I have free time, I go on a ranking spree.

My profile: http://www.flickchart.com/Paco

Completely awesome website!

http://www.flickchart.com/omoplata618

Not really sure why Toy Story 2 and Contact are even on my list let alone in the top 20. Hopefully that will even itself out in due time.

http://www.flickchart.com/ksheppard51

Not too bad, I'm hoping it even's out, because my top 20 is a bit skewed from what I think it is.

Man, if Sporcle is cocaine, Flickchart is crack. I keep telling myself, just one more ranking, one more ranking...



You can always click on the title and force-rank it with three other movies. That helped get Die Hard 2 and Traffic out of my top 10, which while I enjoy both of them, don't even belong in my top 100.

Awesome site, just signed up.

Holy fuck, it just made me choose between Serenity and The Simpson's Movie.

Bastards. Yup, I'm hooked.

Yay, something to do at work when I'm bored. Like right now.

It's total crack, but also cracked -- I can't get Home Alone out of my top-twenty, a film that wouldn't even register if I did a top 500.

I'm learning a lot from this. For instance, 2005 was a crappy year for film, and I like Harry Potter movies more than I thought I did.

It does have a lot of little problems in the selection process. If you happen wind up with a bad movie high up on your list, which you will, a lot, it takes aeons and aeons to slooooowly move that sucker downwards by process of individually bumping up every better movie below it. Shooting a great movie up the list is easy, but dropping a stinker down is a chore and a half.

I also found out things about myself that I didn't know. Return of the Jedi is just embarassingly high on mine.

Anyone else also find that it tends to ask about the same movies over and over and over again? Stop asking me to rate Shrek 2 already! I swear that one's come up dozens of times, and there are plenty of others like it. I don't really think that Run Lola Run or Brotherhood of the Wolf are top-20 material, but they end up there anyway just because of the sheer number of times it's brought them up. Also, it seems the lower a movie is down your list, the less you get asked about it. I've got about a thousand on mine, and there are countless titles towards the bottom which never come up again after they're stuck down there. Yeah, you can go through the list and select them manually, but that's more effort than I wanna spend.

Anyone else remember a site called MovieCritic.com from about a decade back? They had a Netflix-esque deal where you rated movies, and eventually it would start predicting what you'd think of any given film, and got really perceptive once you'd fed it enough data. I miss that one, better system than Flickchart.

I just went to moviecritic.com and it took me directly to Adobe's website.

Yeah, while I do like Slumdog Millionaire and American Beauty a lot. They aren't my number #1 & #2 favorite movies and I can't get them out of those spots. They rarely come up as a choice and when they do, it is against crap like Toy Story 2 (which comes up all the time for me) or Dude? Where is my Car?.

I never heard of the moviecritic site, but I always liked how Netflix was set up and wish there was a site like that strictly rating all the movies you seen. I just like to see every movie I ever saw, and see it ranked. OCD nerd stuff I know, but I like it.

So what's your current Top 20? Here's mine:

1. Children of Men
2. Seven
3. The Big Lebowski
4. The Departed
5. Star Wars
6. Return of the Jedi
7. There Will Be Blood
8. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
9. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
10. 3:10 to Yuma
11. The Shawshank Redemption
12. Finding Nemo
13. Fight Club
14. Full Metal Jacket
15. Spider-Man 2
16. The Exorcist
17. The Untouchables
18. The Empire Strikes Back
19. Jaws
20. The Professional

I'm not really embarassed by any of those Top 20 as I think they're all great, but I probably would rank quite a few other movies above Jaws or The Exorcist. Both are great movies, but I wouldn't put either on my All Time Top 20 list or anything

It really is hard to move movies you like up the list and get crappy movies off. For a period of time, I had "Interview With a Vampire" as number 11. I'm rating like this, though. I think of it like, if these two movies were put in front of me tonight, which one would I rather watch. Sometimes it's a hard choice, like "Shawshank Redemption" or "The Departed" and other times it's "Predator" or "Ed Wood". But then you get something like "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" and "Schindler's List". Both great movies for completely different reasons. How do you choose??

Anyway, yeah, way addictive and lots of fun

1. American Beauty
2. The Blair Witch
3. Rocky
4. Dr. Strangelove
5. Slumdog Millionare
6. Snatch
7. Fargo
8. Terminator 2
9. Juno
10. Die Hard
11. Chinatown
12. Predator
13. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
14. Donnie Brasco
15. The Nightmare on Elm Street
16. The Godfather II
17. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
18. Reservoir Dogs
19. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrells
20. Back to the Future

Yeah, while this isn't exactly my top 20 movies of all time or the correct order of ranking. But It helped me realize how much I liked certain movies (Back to the Future, Terminator 2, Roger Rabbit, and Blair Witch).

But it is a good judgment of what type of movies I like.

My (current) Top 20:

1. Back to the Future II
2. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
3. A Nightmare on Elm Street
4. Scream
5. Se7en
6. Zodiac
7. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
8. Rocky
9. The Silence of the Lambs
10. The Dark Knight
11. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
12. Ghostbusters
13. Fight Club
14. Batman Begins
15. Home Alone
16. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
17. Star Wars
18. Jurassic Park
19. Psycho
20. Clerks


A pretty good list with only a few things out of place (ex: I like the Kills Bills & Star Wars...just not that much).

This motherfucker...made me choose between Monty Python and the Holy Grail and FUCKING CLOSE ENCOUNTERS. THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT?

I took Monty Python. But still...this site is incredible.

EDIT: Yep, it just made me choose between Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. This site is going to make me take my love for movies to another level.

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. Aliens
3. The Seven Samurai
4. Apocalypse Now
5. Clerks
6. Children of Men
7. Evil Dead 2
8. Shaun of the Dead
9. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
10. Wall-E
11. Star Wars
12. Jaws
13. Schindler's List
14. Terminator 2
15. Chinatown
16. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
17. Taxi Driver
18. Brotherhood of the Wolf
19. Alien
20. South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut

It's not perfect, but it's close enough. I would still quibble and doubt if I had the rest of 'em in the right spots, but I'd just change my mind again tomorrow anyway.

Hey, here's another one which produces much weirder results. What's your bottom 20 list look like? You can select it to show movies listed by crappiness instead of awesomeness.

1. From Dusk Til Dawn
2. The DaVinci Code
3. The Game
4. Quantum of Solace
5. Independence Day
6. Hannibal
7. Equilibrium
8. Natural Born Killers
9. Dumb and Dumber
10. Inside Man
11. Home Alone
12. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
13. Platoon
14. Ocean's Eleven
15. Batman & Robin
16. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
17. A Clockwork Orange
18. 300
19. There's Something About Mary
20. Liar Liar

And now we see the flaws in this website. Pretty much none of those movies are the kind of thing I'd consider "worst of all time". Heck, if given a "wave the magic wand" option, I'd transport all of them up the list, at least a tiny bit (Natural Born Killers) if not a whole hell of a lot (Platoon). Unless you just spent hours and hours painstakingly going over the whole list manually and rating every individual movie over and over again, there's no way to get the true worst movies to sink to the bottom.

I just created an account and started ranking so eventually I will figure out how to share.

We will see how this goes - it hasn't been afraid to make me choose between two movies that I thought were OK and will never watch again.

Just for the record - it made me choose between Gone in 60 Seconds and Spiderman 3 and I so wanted to find the "I have unfortunately seen both, choosing which one is better really is a douchey thing to do for someone who already has a had a long day" button

It does indeed seem to lean hard on stuff like "Jaws 2 vs Dangerous Minds: Whoever Wins, We Don't Care".

You would think that it would learn that after I have picked Usual Suspects over at least 6 films so far that they might want to move it up my list

That's part of the annoying thing with the rating process. Basically, every time you rate one movie better than another one, all it does is movie the better-rated movie in the next spot in front of the lesser-rated one. Problem is, if the movie you liked better is already higher on the list than the one you didn't pick, then absolutely nothing happens and neither one move at all.

My current top 20 on Flickchart:

1- E.T.
2- Pulp Fiction
3- Terminator 2
4- Rocky
5- Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
6- The Princess Bride
7- Back to the Future
8- Wall-E
9- Good Will Hunting
10- American Beauty
11- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
12- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
13- Ocean's Eleven (2001)
14- Tropic Thunder
15- Dumb and Dumber
16- The Seven Samurai
17- High Fidelity
18- Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey
19- Chasing Amy
20- Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

Pretty damn close...needs some Shawshank as well as Monty Python and the Holy Grail in there though.

I did this obsessively for a few days a week or two ago. I got rid of all the movies I hadn't seen and ranked and re-ranked the movies on my list a number of times. I'm pretty happy with it overall. Now I'm just waiting for them to add more movies so I can rank some of the older and foreign movies they don't have yet.

http://www.flickchart.com/trostlerp

My biggest problem is (or at least I haven't figured out how to fix it yet) is if you make a mistake you pay for it for awhile. Like the 2nd Austin Powers is in my Top 10 because I clicked the wrong button and it appears to be staying there no matter what I rank.

Oh and the third Bad News Bear is the movie that all other sports movies are getting judged against for me.

Stupid weird site

(Yes - I am on my 4th hour of ranking)

Rippa,

If you catch that you've made a mistake immediately, you can "undo" it's on the bottom left.
You can also search for the movie (i.e.: Austin Powers 2) and find "remove from my flickchart". You can re-rank it again later.

Oh thank God. I tried to do the "re-rank" thing and all it did was move it down two spots (Of course - two of the things it compared it against were Van Helsing and Girl Next Door)

My top 20 that's not close to my all time, but hey:

1. American Beauty
2. Shindler's List
3. Alien
4. The Princess Bride
5. The Bourne Identity
6. 28 Days Later
7. Good Will Hunting
8. Raiders of the Lost Ark
9. The Empire Strikes Back
10. Citizen Kane
11. Wall-E
12. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
13. To Kill a Mockingbird
14. Back to the Future
15. The Big Lebowski
16. Ratatouille
17. Beauty and the Beast
18. Evil Dead
19. Shrek 2
20. The Return of the Jedi

Yeah, some of these movies (Mockingbird, Citizen Kane, Princess Bride, Empire, Wall-E) would make my real Top 20, but I don't like American Beauty enough to put it number 1. I gotta do more playing. I would kill for a "Do Not Want" button though

Goddammit.

Breakfast at Tiffany's vs. The Lion King. SO HARD.

I noticed that I tended to be favoring a lot of movies of my youth so I decided to rate by date and put it for the 80s and now I am getting Sophie's Choice decisions left and right.

I've been able to improve my list somewhat by using the filter options and moving from my Top 250 to the Top 100, to the Top 50, to the Top 20.

Of course, Mystery Men is still sitting at No. 1 in my list, so it's not perfect yet.

Damn you all for bringing this to my attention. I feel like George Clooney getting the shit beat out of him in Syriana.

I asked my wife what the hell I'm supposed to do with the choice of HIGH FIDELITY vs. SIN CITY.

She said quit. But I can't. I just can't.

Much like everybody else, this took up my entire night. I just spent three straight hours in front of the computer ranking movies.

Thanks a lot.

I'll share my top 20 a little later...it's a bit out of place right now. With movies like Finding Nemo, (which was ranked number one for like an hour because it was the first one I ranked and then didn't come up again forever), Deep Blue Sea and Dan in Real Life all in the top 20, things may need to shift a bit.

I just feel bad for this thread...all by itself, down at the bottom of the front page of the folder.

http://board.deathvalleydriver.com/index.php?showtopic=49593

I think what this site does it tell me that I need to see a lot more movies that I just haven't yet.

appens

There's nothing more aggravating than ranking films and then an underrated movie you really love pops up, and then it gets matched with one of your top 10 films.

Really unfair that the first time Burn After Reading appears, it gets matched with Fargo. Yet Die Hard 3 gets Armageddon and The Fifth Element on a regular basis.

Heat debuting against The Departed REALLY pissed me off.

20s too much. Here's my Top 10:

1. Taxi Driver
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
4. Boogie Nights
5. No Country for Old Men
6. Brazil
7. Heat
8. Dog Day Afternoon
9. The Departed
10. Goodfellas


I don't completely agree, but it's hard for me to disagree. #9 & #10 are too high. Rearrange the top 8 and I won't complain too much.

Without going into detail, this site affirmed that Heat really is one of the 10 best movies I've ever seen. I can quote dialogue, I know where I was when I first saw it, I can even hum the bank heist music, and I don't even own the movie. Yet until now, I would never have admitted that I love it that much.


If you want to link, I'm sydonesia. Obviously.

Let me also add: If a movie comes up, and you only "sorta" remember seeing it, just click "haven't seen it." It will save you SO much time.

I almost feel like the site knows what films you are lying about. They just keep popping up. I barely remember Die Hard 3 (I just remember the N****R sign and the water jugs test yet that damn movie pops up every 10 rankings) and Mission Impossible 2 keeps showing up (Cruise on the ledge and jumping off the motorcycle.)

If it's a film, everyone saw it, you saw it, but can't remember more than the trailer for it, click "didn't see it" anyway. It will save you a lot of time.

I'm done for the night after putting the first 452 movies on my list. Top 20

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Mystic River
3. 12 Angry Men
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
5. Citizen Kane
6. Apollo 13
7. The Graduate
8. Magnolia
9. Little Miss Sunshine
10. The Shawshank Redemption
11. No Country For Old Men
12. The Departed
13. Modern Times
14. Blood Diamond
15. Planet of the Apes
16. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
17. Scarface
18. Ocean's Eleven
19. Seven Samurai
20. The Breakfast Club

This is a decent list but missing at least two of my top 5 movies, the first two Godfather films. It's like they don't believe me about Little Miss Sunshine or Blood Diamond being favorites as they really run the gauntlet.

I cheated to get On The Waterfront on my list. But I just flat out can't get it to put it against the 3 movies still ranked above it. (Which are good and all. Vertigo, Groundhog's Day, and No Country For Old Men, but, dammit, I want Waterfront at the TOP.) Otherwise, I spent half of last night just doing comic book movies, so it's nearly all superheroes most of the rest of the way down.

EDIT: FIGHT CLUB VS. A BEAUTIFUL MIND?!? Must kill whoever invented flickchart.

Maybe it is because I am sleep deprived but I laughed way too much when it gave me Raiders of the Lost Ark vs. National Treasure

I think it also likes taunting me over the fact that I have seen What Women Want because I swear it shows up like every third chart

I didn't think I'd ever have to choose between HERCULES IN NEW YORK and HONEYMOON IN VEGAS. I feel I better understand myself after being forced to make that decision.

This isn't too far off from what I'd normally list. I wish half of my favorite films weren't missing from the site.

1. Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn
2. Miller's Crossing
3. Wild at Heart
4. Ed Wood
5. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
6. Dawn of the Dead
7. Heavenly Creatures
8. Barton Fink
9. Amélie
10. Night of the Living Dead
11. Phantom of the Paradise
12. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
13. Blood for Dracula
14. Blue Velvet
15. Ms. 45
16. The Killing
17. Videodrome
18. The Host
19. Freaks
20. Happiness

Amélie's hanging with a rough crowd.

You can filter the voting so it's your top 20 going against each other if you really want On the Waterfront on top.

A lot of movies aren't coming up for me at all. I see some of you have Barton Fink, and that would easily be a Top 50 for me. Fast Pussy Cat Kill also hasn't come up at all for me. The Killing is an easy top 50 for me either that I haven't seen.

Devil's Rejects should be in my top 20 but I can't get it out of the top 250. It only came up twice against crap like The Forgotten and Ghost Ship.

Yeah - specifically rating by genre and year helps.

I went in a got a lot of my sports movies that way.

Of course - I don't know how it knew that all I seemed to watch the last 5 years were animated kids movies.

Okay - I also just realized that you can change the thingys at the bottom so it isn't user comments but things like stats

So it is good to know that it has given me Pulp Fiction almost 20 times so far

What's cool is that this site seems pretty extensive in terms of moving specific movies. I had Boogie Nights in the mid 100s because it came up like once. So I went for it specifically and got it up into the 80s.

I apologize if all this was stuff mentioned earlier in this thread.

It made me choose between Princess Bride and Major League

I never thought that day would come it.

It was like asking me who my favorite child was.

You can search for movies by title and add them to your flickchart.