View Full Version : MC Yearly Consensus (A Redo of 2007 only)
Spinal
05-31-2009, 09:03 PM
The 2007 consensus thread was the last thread we did for the grand MC Yearly Consensus project. At the time of the results, it seemed like perhaps we didn't quite have enough perspective on the year yet. We had a three way tie for 10th place and there were many films that folks hadn't had a chance to see yet. Enough time has passed, so I'd like to revisit this one (and this one only). Feel free to vote for the same films if you like, but I have a feeling that we might get more accurate results this time. I will update the consensus blog after we are done.
A reminder of the rules:
Submit your five favorite films from this year and in a week I will give you a top ten. IMDb dates will be used.
The point system is as follows
1st Place-5 points
2nd Place-4 points
3rd Place-3.5 points
4th Place-3 points
5th Place-2.5 points
There will be no restrictions on short films. A minimum of three films must be listed. You may edit your post freely up until the time that the voting is closed, which will be in about a week. I will give at least 24 hours warning before tallying votes.
You may begin now.
IMDB Power Search (http://www.imdb.com/list)
Grouchy
05-31-2009, 09:09 PM
1. I'm Not There
2. Zodiac
3. There Will Be Blood
4. Secret Sunshine
5. The Mist
Spinal
05-31-2009, 09:09 PM
1. Lars and the Real Girl
2. Sunshine
3. California Dreamin'
4. There Will Be Blood
5. The Last Mistress
Melville
05-31-2009, 09:12 PM
1. There Will Be Blood
2. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
3. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
4. Flight of the Red Balloon
5. My Winnipeg
soitgoes...
05-31-2009, 09:16 PM
1. You, the Living (Roy Andersson)
2. In the Shadow of the Moon (David Sington)
3. Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)
4. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
5. Secret Sunshine (Chang-dong Lee)
Stay Puft
05-31-2009, 09:18 PM
1. Flight of the Red Balloon
2. Useless
3. The Edge of Heaven
4. Encounters at the End of the World
5. Sunshine
MacGuffin
05-31-2009, 09:32 PM
Ooh, this is fun. We should do all of them all over. ;)
Watashi
05-31-2009, 09:45 PM
1. Ratatouille
2. Zodiac
3. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
4. There Will Be Blood
5. Paranoid Park
MacGuffin
05-31-2009, 09:59 PM
1. I'm Not There
2. La France
3. No Country for Old Men
4. Mister Lonely
5. Zodiac
StanleyK
05-31-2009, 10:01 PM
1. No Country for Old Men
2. There Will be Blood
3. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
4. Atonement
5. Ratatouille
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6. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
7. Sunshine
8. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
9. Paranoid Park
10. The Savages
HMs: The Bourne Ultimatum, Hot Fuzz, Zodiac, Sicko, Elite Squad
I think we should be allowed to pick ten movies to vote for a top 10.
Huh. Nobody liked 5 cents?
Weeping_Guitar
05-31-2009, 10:29 PM
1. No Country For Old Men
2. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
3. The Bourne Ultimatum
4. Ratatouille
5. Atonement
Ezee E
05-31-2009, 10:41 PM
1. There Will Be Blood
2. No Country For Old Men
3. The Assassination of Jesse James by Coward Robert Ford
4. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
5. Zodiac
Boner M
05-31-2009, 10:43 PM
1. Zodiac
2. There Will Be Blood
3. Flight of the Red Balloon
4. Import/Export
5. Forbidden Lies
Raiders
05-31-2009, 11:31 PM
1. There Will Be Blood
2. Paranoid Park
3. Persepolis
4. No Country for Old Men
5. We Own the Night
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6. I'm Not There
7. Ratatouille
8. 28 Weeks Later
9. The King of Kong
10. Zodiac
Raiders
05-31-2009, 11:34 PM
Huh. Nobody liked 5 cents?
Haven't seen it. Considering I loved The Place Promised in Our Early Days and Voices of a Distant Star, I definitely need to see it.
baby doll
06-01-2009, 12:12 AM
2007:
1. I'm Not There. (Todd Haynes)
2. Les Témoins (André Téchiné)
3. Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi)
4. In the City of Sylvia (José Luis GuerÃ*n)
5. Hairsrpay (Adam Shankman)
6. Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
7. Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck)
8. Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach)
9. We Own the Night (James Gray)
10. You, the Living (Roy Andersson)
bubblin' under...
11. The Man From London (Béla Tarr)
12. La France (Serge Bozon)
13. The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
14. Boarding Gate (Olivier Assayas)
15. Lust, Caution (Ang Lee)
16. Milyang (Secret Sunshine) (Lee Chang-dong)
17. Le Voyage du ballon rouge (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
18. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet)
Yxklyx
06-01-2009, 01:43 AM
1. Planet Terror (Robert Rodriguez)
2. Ratatouille (Brad Bird & Jan Pinkava)
3. My Kid Could Paint That (Amir Bar-Lev)
4. Sicko (Michael Moore)
5. Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino)
Pop Trash
06-01-2009, 02:16 AM
1. Planet Terror (Robert Rodriguez)
2. Ratatouille (Brad Bird & Jan Pinkava)
3. My Kid Could Paint That (Amir Bar-Lev)
4. Sicko (Michael Moore)
5. Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino)
I seem to remember asking this question in the last 2007 thread, but shouldn't you just put Grindhouse as a whole in there?
Pop Trash
06-01-2009, 02:20 AM
1. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2. No Country for Old Men
3. I'm Not There
4. Grindhouse
5. Ratatouille
6. Paranoid Park
7. Knocked Up
8. Hot Fuzz
9. My Blueberry Nights
10. Stuck
MacGuffin
06-01-2009, 02:43 AM
I seem to remember asking this question in the last 2007 thread, but shouldn't you just put Grindhouse as a whole in there?
Grindhouse includes shorter versions of the two movies if I understand correctly (I haven't seen them separately) and the fake trailers.
Pop Trash
06-01-2009, 03:08 AM
Grindhouse includes shorter versions of the two movies if I understand correctly (I haven't seen them separately) and the fake trailers.
Right, which is even more awesome. It just seems like if you liked both movies enough to put them both in your top five, just say Grindhouse, and then you have an extra space for another movie. But I can understand if someone really liked one more than the other, but that's not the case here.
MadMan
06-01-2009, 04:03 AM
I'll post a list, even though since 2007 I'm still behind in viewing movies from that year. Most notably absent is There Will Be Blood, which I will try to see this week (maybe), plus Hot Fuzz and I'm Not There. Also not a single 100 in the bunch, which is interesting.
1. No Country for Old Men
2. Sicko
3. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
4. The Simpsons Movie
5. Ratatouille
Yes I have two animated movies in the Top 5. Didn't think twice about this before, either.
Sycophant
06-01-2009, 04:09 AM
1. No Country for Old Men
2. The Darjeeling Limited
3. Hot Fuzz
4. 5 Centimeters Per Second
5. Sunshine
Man, in these recent years, 5 just doesn't seem to be enough.
ledfloyd
06-01-2009, 04:16 AM
1. Zodiac
2. No Country for Old Men
3. I'm Not There
4. The Assassination of Jesse James
5. Diving Bell and the Butterfly
soitgoes...
06-01-2009, 04:23 AM
Huh. Nobody liked 5 cents?
I didn't realize that everything outside my top 5 constitutes a film I don't like. ;)
Seriously though, it's number 17 out of 105 films seen.
B-side
06-01-2009, 04:27 AM
1. I'm Not There
2. There Will Be Blood
3. No Country for Old Men
4. Zodiac
5. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
This is shameful. I'm painfully lacking in the foreign department in '07.
EyesWideOpen
06-01-2009, 04:33 AM
1. Death Proof
2. Ratatouille
3. No Country For Old Men
4. The King of Kong
5. Juno
chrisnu
06-01-2009, 04:54 AM
1. No Country for Old Men
2. Zodiac
3. Persepolis
4. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
5. There Will Be Blood
Bosco B Thug
06-01-2009, 06:16 AM
You're gonna put me through this again, eh, Match-Cut? ;)
1. Death Proof
2. Zodiac
3. Gone Baby Gone
4. Ratatouille
5. Sweeney Todd
6. Paranoid Park
7. Assassination of Jesse James...
chrisnu
06-01-2009, 06:35 AM
Updated to include 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.
balmakboor
06-01-2009, 12:23 PM
1. Death Proof
2. There Will Be Blood
3. Paranoid Park
4. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
5. I'm Not There
Great year.
Ivan Drago
06-01-2009, 05:22 PM
1. Grindhouse
2. Superbad
3. There Will Be Blood
4. No Country For Old Men
5. Atonement
trotchky
06-03-2009, 06:39 AM
1. There Will Be Blood
2. I'm Not There
3. No Country For Old Men
4. Paranoid Park
5. Frownland
Amazing year.
Spinal
06-04-2009, 04:18 PM
Anyone else want to weigh in? 25 participants so far. That's pretty good.
Ivan Drago
06-04-2009, 04:21 PM
Edited for Southland Tales. Removed Atonement.
Pop Trash
06-04-2009, 07:32 PM
Edited for Southland Tales. Removed Atonement.
IMDB=2006. Otherwise it would make my list as well. It played at Cannes that year to universal acclaim and fandfare.
MacGuffin
06-04-2009, 07:36 PM
IMDB=2006. Otherwise it would make my list as well. It played at Cannes that year to universal acclaim and fandfare.
You're kidding, right? There were literally like two critics who liked the movie at Cannes and it was widely regarded to be a complete career-ending failure.
Ivan Drago
06-04-2009, 07:43 PM
You're kidding, right? There were literally like two critics who liked the movie and Cannes and it was widely regarded to be a complete career-ending failure.
:shrug: I loved it.
Edited Atonement back in.
Sycophant
06-04-2009, 07:44 PM
CSC's point was that Pop Trash must've been being facetious, because everyone who saw it at Cannes hated it supremely.
MacGuffin
06-04-2009, 07:44 PM
:shrug: I loved it.
It's a good movie.
Pop Trash
06-04-2009, 07:45 PM
You're kidding, right? There were literally like two critics who liked the movie and Cannes and it was widely regarded to be a complete career-ending failure.
Amy Taubin, Nathan Lee, J. Hoberman, and Manohla Dargis (to an extent) all loved it. In this case, I'll pretend those are the only critics that exist in the universe.
MacGuffin
06-04-2009, 07:49 PM
Amy Taubin, Nathan Lee, J. Hoberman, and Manohla Dargis (to an extent) all loved it. In this case, I'll pretend those are the only critics that exist in the universe.
I didn't know about Nathan Lee or Manohla Dargis, I was thinking of the other two. But yeah, those critics seem to be a part of The Only Critics Who Matter Today group.
Pop Trash
06-04-2009, 07:51 PM
I didn't know about Nathan Lee or Manohla Dargis, I was thinking of the other two. But yeah, those critics seem to be a part of The Only Critics Who Matter Today group.
I believe it also made the top twenty of indiewire's critics poll for 2007 (it was released in the US then) So there had to be plenty of others that liked it.
MacGuffin
06-04-2009, 08:01 PM
I believe it also made the top twenty of indiewire's critics poll for 2007 (it was released in the US then) So there had to be plenty of others that liked it.
I'm just saying Cannes didn't like it, man. No need to get defensive. I liked the movie. I doubt many of the critics on "indiewire" even went to Cannes.
Pop Trash
06-04-2009, 08:03 PM
I'm just saying Cannes didn't like it, man. No need to get defensive. I liked the movie. I doubt many of the critics on "indiewire" even went to Cannes.
I'm just putting out info, maaaan. No need to get snippy.
thefourthwall
06-04-2009, 08:06 PM
1. There Will Be Blood
2. Gone Baby Gone
3. Across the Universe
4. Sunshine
5. Eastern Promises
Sycophant
06-04-2009, 08:06 PM
If Southland Tales was actually worse at Cannes 2006, then ohmygod.
dreamdead
06-04-2009, 08:29 PM
Still need to locate a copy of Secret Sunshine. So depressing that that film still has no R1 release...
Otherwise,
1. There Will be Blood
2. No Country for Old Men
3. Sunshine
4. Paranoid Park
5. Zodiac
Duncan
06-04-2009, 08:32 PM
1. The Man From London
2. There Will Be Blood
3. Zodiac
4. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
5. My Winnipeg
That was actually pretty hard. It kind of looks like No Country might get owned here, from a quick glance.
Mysterious Dude
06-04-2009, 09:04 PM
1. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2. 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days
3. Waitress
4. The Assassination of Jesse James
5. No Country for Old Men
trotchky
06-04-2009, 10:05 PM
I loved Southland Tales, as well.
Spinal
06-05-2009, 07:50 AM
Initial tally is just what I was hoping for. Not too different, but just a little more clearly defined. Last minute ballots are welcome. I'll finalize this sometime tomorrow.
Watashi
06-05-2009, 08:37 AM
Oh shit. I forgot about Jesse James.
Watashi
06-05-2009, 08:38 AM
2007 might be my favorite year of my generation.
Nearly my entire Top 10 is all four star films.
Watashi
06-05-2009, 08:40 AM
My 11-20 list is stronger than most of my Top 10's from other years this decade.
EvilShoe
06-05-2009, 08:44 AM
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
There Will Be Blood
Sunshine
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
No Country For Old Men
Kurosawa Fan
06-05-2009, 01:02 PM
1. Zodiac
2. There Will Be Blood
3. No Country for Old Men
4. Sunshine
5. The Darjeeling Limited
BuffaloWilder
06-05-2009, 03:53 PM
1. There Will Be Blood
2. Before The Devil Knows You're Dead
3. Sunshine
4. Zodiac
5. Ratatouille
Rowland
06-05-2009, 04:20 PM
1. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2. Gone Baby Gone
3. Into the Wild
4. Flight of the Red Balloon
5. Stuck
Overrated year, though I'd like to revisit a few movies. My list looks completely different with U.S. premiere dates.
Spinal
06-05-2009, 05:44 PM
Oh shit. I forgot about Jesse James.
What did you take out?
Spinal
06-05-2009, 05:45 PM
Overrated year
Only one 4-star film for me. As opposed to 2006, where I've got nine.
Spinal
06-05-2009, 05:48 PM
4. Paprika
2006.
baby doll
06-05-2009, 06:02 PM
Only one 4-star film for me. As opposed to 2006, where I've got nine.I must be really generous with the ratings, because I can think of at least twelve four-star films from 2007, and another nine from 2006 (Black Book, Brand Upon the Brain!, Coeurs, The Fall, Find Me Guilty, Marie Antoinette, Le Science des rêves, Still Life) plus another five close calls (Half Nelson, Inland Empire, Offside, A Scanner, Darkly, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts). And I still haven't seen Bamako, Colossal Youth, or Honor de cavalleria.
Spinal
06-05-2009, 06:15 PM
What did you take out?
Never mind. It was Lars.
Rowland
06-05-2009, 06:16 PM
If I used the four-star rating system, I'd have three movies qualify from 2007 if going by U.S. premiere. Still none from 2008, I hate to say. Mind you, I'd give out just as few one-star ratings, since I view both as being rarefied polar ends of the spectrum.
Kurosawa Fan
06-05-2009, 06:16 PM
2006.
Shit. Fixed.
baby doll
06-05-2009, 06:22 PM
Still none from 2008, I hate to say.Have you seen Adoration, Entre les murs, La Frontière de l'aube, Gran Torino, Happy-Go-Lucky, Hunger or Tony Manero?
Spinal
06-05-2009, 06:22 PM
OK, so this was your old 2007 list:
1. There Will Be Blood (P.T. Anderson)
2. No Country for Old Men (Coens)
3. Zodiac (Fincher)
4. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Dominik)
5. I’m Not There (Haynes)
6. Ratatouille (Bird/Pinkava)
7. Grindhouse (Rodriguez/Tarantino)
8. Into the Wild (Penn)
9. Atonement (Wright)
Honorable Mentions:
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Schnabel)
Persepolis (Paronnaud/Satrapi)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Mungiu)
And this is your new one:
1. There Will Be Blood (P.T. Anderson)
2. No Country for Old Men (Coens)
3. Zodiac (Fincher)
4. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Dominik)
5. I’m Not There (Haynes)
6. Ratatouille (Bird/Pinkava)
7. Sunshine (Boyle)
8. Death Proof (Tarantino)
9. Paranoid Park (Van Sant)
10. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Schnabel)
Honorable Mentions:
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Mungiu)
Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou)
Interesting to me is that there was a shift from Grindhouse votes to mostly Death Proof votes this time around. Consequently, half of the 8 points for Grindhouse were added into the larger Death Proof total to determine its final placement. Imperfect logic perhaps, but the best estimate I could manage.
Spinal
06-05-2009, 06:31 PM
I must be really generous with the ratings ...
I don't think I lack generosity when it comes to 4-star ratings. I just don't have many from that year.
Four-star ratings by year:
2000 - 8
2001 - 12
2002 - 7
2003 - 7
2004 - 7
2005 - 9
2006 - 9
2007 - 1
2008 - 3 (so far, this will undoubtedly rise)
Kurosawa Fan
06-05-2009, 06:36 PM
Good to see Into the Wild vanish from our list.
Bosco B Thug
06-05-2009, 06:37 PM
Oh, I forgot Into the Wild! It would probably knock Sweeney Todd off my list, for the record.
Spinal
06-05-2009, 06:38 PM
Oh, I forgot Into the Wild! It would probably knock Sweeney Todd off my list, for the record.
So that would have given it two votes.
Spinal
06-05-2009, 06:40 PM
Good to see Into the Wild vanish from our list.
Paranoid Park and Sunshine are certainly a step up, in my opinion.
Pop Trash
06-05-2009, 06:40 PM
I think it's interesting Sunshine made it on this time around, considering the bad juju Danny Boyle has been getting for Slumdog Millionaire around here.
Spinal
06-05-2009, 06:41 PM
I think it's interesting Sunshine made it on this time around, considering the bad juju Danny Boyle has been getting for Slumdog Millionaire around here.
Benjamin Button sucked and that didn't hurt Zodiac at all.
Pop Trash
06-05-2009, 07:00 PM
Benjamin Button sucked and that didn't hurt Zodiac at all.
True dat...but it seemed to be better liked around here than Slumdog. Also, Zodiac stayed where it's been and Sunshine actually went up.
Grouchy
06-05-2009, 07:13 PM
Funny. Both Boyle and Fincher made awesome movies last year, and then they inmediately made lackluster ones that were nominated for Oscars.
StanleyK
06-05-2009, 07:15 PM
Into the Wild dropping off is definitely an improvement, even though it's a shame that so did Atonement. Still, with these additions:
7. Sunshine (Boyle)
9. Paranoid Park (Van Sant)
10. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Schnabel)
There's not much to complain about.
I still think better results could be achieved by allowing to vote for 10 movies.
Grouchy
06-05-2009, 07:16 PM
I still think better results could be achieved by allowing to vote for 10 movies.
I agree with this.
Pop Trash
06-05-2009, 07:19 PM
Funny. Both Boyle and Fincher made awesome movies last year, and then they inmediately made lackluster ones that were nominated for Oscars.
Not suprising really, other than Milk the BP noms for last year were poopoo. They did good for 2007 though IMO.
The Mike
06-05-2009, 07:24 PM
1. Zodiac
2. The Mist
3. No Country for Old Men
4. Juno
5. The Kingdom
DavidSeven
06-05-2009, 08:34 PM
I still think better results could be achieved by allowing to vote for 10 movies.
Disagreed. Seems to me that most of the middle-of-the-road mainstream stuff would be used to fill out 7-10 on many lists and receive an artificial boost in the rankings. This is how films like Benjamin Button and Slumdog Millionaire, while generally disliked on this forum, still received placements on the MC 2008 Top 20. Top five system is better IMHO.
Pop Trash
06-05-2009, 08:53 PM
Disagreed. Seems to me that most of the middle-of-the-road mainstream stuff would be used to fill out 7-10 on many lists and receive an artificial boost in the rankings. This is how films like Benjamin Button and Slumdog Millionaire, while generally disliked on this forum, still received placements on the MC 2008 Top 20. Top five system is better IMHO.
I think so too. It raises the passion index higher. If you really like a movie, it's going in your top five.
transmogrifier
06-05-2009, 09:43 PM
So that would have given it two votes.
I would have made it three. Still the best film of that year.
Spinal
06-05-2009, 10:17 PM
Disagreed. Seems to me that most of the middle-of-the-road mainstream stuff would be used to fill out 7-10 on many lists and receive an artificial boost in the rankings. This is how films like Benjamin Button and Slumdog Millionaire, while generally disliked on this forum, still received placements on the MC 2008 Top 20. Top five system is better IMHO.
This, plus it's twice as much time to count it up.
Spinal
06-05-2009, 10:28 PM
OK, so while I do not think that cycling through all the years again is necessary at this point, I would not object to doing the occasional fine tuning every once in a while if there is a compelling reason to reset a year. If you have a strong reason why a certain year should be redone, then feel free to PM me with your argument.
An example of this would be as follows:
"Hey Spinal, [Great Director]'s previously unreleased film got released 5 months ago on DVD for the first time and I think that enough people have seen it now. I'd like to see if it would make the list."
An example of a request that would get rejected is:
"Hey Spinal, Return of the Jedi the best film of '83? WTF???? We totally gotta redo that one, man, it's embarrassing."
In other words, I can't do anything about making the consensus lists fit your taste, but if there is reason to believe that a piece of the puzzle is missing due to the list being outdated, then let's talk.
If I get some requests, then I might break one out every couple of weeks or so.
Rowland
06-05-2009, 10:31 PM
"Hey Spinal, Return of the Jedi the best film of '83? WTF???? We totally gotta redo that one, man, it's embarrassing."...was that really the result? LOL
Spinal
06-05-2009, 10:33 PM
...was that really the result? LOL
Yes, not one of our finer moments. :lol:
Raiders
06-05-2009, 11:22 PM
We should have just recounted right then and not counted Watashi and Barty's votes.
transmogrifier
06-05-2009, 11:51 PM
Yes, not one of our finer moments. :lol:
Of all the 1983 films I've seen (22), it's still the best.
baby doll
06-06-2009, 12:04 AM
Funny. Both Boyle and Fincher made awesome movies last year, and then they inmediately made lackluster ones that were nominated for Oscars.Conversely, the Coens followed No Country for Old Men (which I liked) with Burn After Reading (which I liked better), but it wasn't as enthusiastically received. What's up with that?
MacGuffin
06-06-2009, 12:12 AM
Conversely, the Coens followed No Country for Old Men (which I liked) with Burn After Reading (which I liked better), but it wasn't as enthusiastically received. What's up with that?
No Country for Old Men is the more ambitious movie and got better the second time I saw it, as it revealed more about the characters (and you got to give props to a movie of this intellect masquerading as a typical Hollywood action/chase movie); whereas Burn After Reading, which was hilarious don't get me wrong, stayed the nihilistic comedy it was the first time around.
StanleyK
06-06-2009, 01:30 AM
Disagreed. Seems to me that most of the middle-of-the-road mainstream stuff would be used to fill out 7-10 on many lists and receive an artificial boost in the rankings. This is how films like Benjamin Button and Slumdog Millionaire, while generally disliked on this forum, still received placements on the MC 2008 Top 20. Top five system is better IMHO.
I think that's only partially true for older years, but most people have seen a large amount of great films from recent years and probably really like even more than 10.
This is my suggestion:
#1 - 10 pts.
#2 - 8 pts.
#3 - 7 pts.
#4 - 6 pts.
#5 - 5 pts.
#6 - 3 pts.
#7 - 2 pts.
#8 - 2 pts.
#9 - 1 pt.
#10 - 1 pt.
It's the same system for the top 5, and #6-10 receive at least a mention. Of course, if one wanted to, they could only list 5 as a minimum.
Duncan
06-06-2009, 01:36 AM
But we've already gone through every year of film (with a few of the really early ones grouped together) so I think we'll probably just accept the top 5 system as passable rather than redoing the entire thing.
Raiders
06-06-2009, 01:40 AM
Of all the 1983 films I've seen (22), it's still the best.
I'm sorry?
transmogrifier
06-06-2009, 01:52 AM
I think that's only partially true for older years, but most people have seen a large amount of great films from recent years and probably really like even more than 10.
This is my suggestion:
#1 - 10 pts.
#2 - 8 pts.
#3 - 7 pts.
#4 - 6 pts.
#5 - 5 pts.
#6 - 3 pts.
#7 - 2 pts.
#8 - 2 pts.
#9 - 1 pt.
#10 - 1 pt.
It's the same system for the top 5, and #6-10 receive at least a mention. Of course, if one wanted to, they could only list 5 as a minimum.
In my opinion, the only consensus system that provides satisfactory, robust results is where everyone has to list the same number of films, and then they have a set number of points they can distribute among those films (with a minimum and maximum number of points).
For example, let's say everyone provides a Top 10 list, and they have 100 points they can distribute over the list, with a minimum score of 5 and a maximum score of 20 for any one film. My list could look like:
1. Film A - 20 points
2. Film B - 20 points
3. Film C - 12 points
4. Film D - 10 points
5. Film E - 9 points
6. Film F - 7 points
7. Film G - 7 points
8. Film H - 5 points
9. Film I - 5 points
10. Film J - 5 points
It's a great system that incorporates the level of enthusiasm for certain films from individuals.
Spinal
06-06-2009, 02:25 AM
Still arguing the point system. That's fairly comical.
transmogrifier
06-06-2009, 03:54 AM
Still arguing the point system. That's fairly comical.
Just an opinion, my old squire. I don't even know what the point system for these yearly things is.
Ezee E
06-06-2009, 05:54 AM
We had the same top 5 when we did the "top ten" as well I believe. Only No Country was #1.
Pop Trash
06-09-2009, 10:50 PM
"Hey Spinal, Return of the Jedi the best film of '83? WTF???? We totally gotta redo that one, man, it's embarrassing."
AW HELL NAH. BEST OF THE TRILOGY BITCHES!!!
Spinal
06-09-2009, 10:59 PM
AW HELL NAH. BEST OF THE TRILOGY BITCHES!!!
This is crazy talk. Defined as: talk which is crazy.
trotchky
06-10-2009, 03:28 AM
Conversely, the Coens followed No Country for Old Men (which I liked) with Burn After Reading (which I liked better), but it wasn't as enthusiastically received. What's up with that?
They're both really good, but I agree with the consensus that No Country for Old Men is a lot better.
Sxottlan
06-10-2009, 08:21 AM
1. No Country for Old Men
2. Zodiac
3. There Will Be Blood
4. Paprika
5. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
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