Flickchart

[megladon8]

Flickchart.com (http://www.flickchart.com)

Sick of rating movies?

Rank them instead!

Deliciously addictive.

[MacGuffin]

You can do this on rateyourmusic, too.

[Kurosawa Fan]

You can do this on rateyourmusic, too.

Are they paying you or something?

[trotchky]

If they're all "5 stars", which one's the best?

Flickchart is your answer.

That god, I've been wondering about that for years.

[Dukefrukem]

jesus I'm going to be on this site all day....

[megladon8]

As of now, this is what my top 20 looks like on here...

1.) The Big Lebowski
2.) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
3.) No Country For Old Men
4.) The Sixth Sense
5.) Halloween
6.) The Dark Knight
7.) Goldfinger
8.) The Mist
9.) Jaws
10.) Team America: World Police
11.) The Shawshank Redemption
12.) Boogie Nights
13.) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
14.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
15.) GoldenEye
16.) Eyes Wide Shut
17.) Forrest Gump
18.) Die Hard
19.) Trainspotting
20.) The Royal Tenenbaums

[Dukefrukem]

just got in the beta... im addicted to this

[Ezee E]

I like this site as well. Even if the new Dawn of the Dead always gets crappy matchups.

[Dukefrukem]

I like this site as well. Even if the new Dawn of the Dead always gets crappy matchups.

That comes up a lot for you too?

[Ezee E]

That comes up a lot for you too?
I seem to get that, The Lost World, and Ghostbusters II all the time.

[Dukefrukem]

Animal House vs Ace Venture! hard choice!

[Dukefrukem]

What is this Night movie?

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/9690/flickchart.jpg

[Ivan Drago]

Yup this is awesome despite the years being wrong on most of their movies. There Will Be Blood did NOT come out in 2008, dammit!

[Cult]

How long does it take to get the invite? It's been about five hours.

[balmakboor]

How long does it take to get the invite? It's been about five hours.

Yeah, it's been a while for me too. Hopefully they aren't running a background check.

[Ezee E]

Seemed like it took a few days.

[eternity]

It's a noble idea, but it doesn't really work all that well. It took me about 4000 ratings to fully realize it, though it should have been sooner. Meh.

[Kurosawa Fan]

It took at least a week before I got my invite.

[balmakboor]

It took at least a week before I got my invite.

Yeah, I'm still waiting. They must only tend to things on weekends, those slackers.

[Kurosawa Fan]

It's kind of an addicting site, but the ranking system doesn't work very well. It's not terribly accurate.

There's also a noticeable dearth of foreign films.

[Ezee E]

It's kind of an addicting site, but the ranking system doesn't work very well. It's not terribly accurate.

There's also a noticeable dearth of foreign films.
Agreed on both counts. With 5000+ movies there, its tough for the right movies to face each other unless you narrow it down to years, genres, etc.

But it's fun to pass time.

[Spun Lepton]

Damn this EVIL, EVIL WEBSITE! I can't stop rating movies and I've already wasted hours of time on it. It's a love/hate relationship. Thanks to Meg for pointing it out to me.

http://www.flickchart.com

Barring some movies that don't appear to be in their database yet (many of Bava's films, the 60s version of The Haunting, Ringu), here's my Top 20 according to Flickchart. I massaged the results as much as their system allowed. The Thing should be at the very top, but they haven't asked me compare it to Life of Brian or Raiders. They have me compare Raiders to EVERYTHING but The Thing. Drives me a batty ... uh ... battier.

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Monty Python's The Life of Brian
3. John Carpenter's The Thing
4. Dawn of the Dead ('78)
5. Evil Dead 2
6. The Evil Dead
7. Ghostbusters
8. Fight Club
9. The Exorcist
10. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
11. Amélie
12. Videodrome
13. The Godfather
14. Alien
15. Monty Python and The Holy Grail
16. No Country for Old Men
17. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
18. A Christmas Story
19. Shaun of the Dead
20. Die Hard

Yours?

[balmakboor]

Yeah, they're evil all right. This post reminded me that I've given them my email address three times over the past three weeks and never gotten an invite.

[Spun Lepton]

Yeah, they're evil all right. This post reminded me that I've given them my email address three times over the past three weeks and never gotten an invite.

Hrm, they got back to me in 3 days. Have you checked your spam folder?

[balmakboor]

Hrm, they got back to me in 3 days. Have you checked your spam folder?

Yep. I clean through it daily actually.

[Kurosawa Fan]

I gave up on the site. It gets stuck loading way too much and has next to nothing in the way of foreign films. It takes up a lot of time and doesn't really reflect my taste without including more older foreign stuff.

[Spun Lepton]

Gahh! I even posted in this thread. For shame, me.

Let me cut and paste my Top 20 from the site...

EDIT: Ah, it's been merged. Sweet.

[Spun Lepton]

I gave up on the site. It gets stuck loading way too much and has next to nothing in the way of foreign films. It takes up a lot of time and doesn't really reflect my taste without including more older foreign stuff.

It's still in Beta.

[Spun Lepton]

Do you prefer ...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2
or
I Know Who Killed Me

Me: :confused:
I haven't seen I Know Who Killed Me

OK, in that case, do you prefer:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2
or
YOUR #1 MOVIE RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK?

Really, Flickchart? I have hundreds of other movies on the list, why must you ask me to compare every crapfest with Raiders? Raiders has yet to lose against ANYTHING, why would you think it would lose against TMNT2?

:lol:

[EyesWideOpen]

Got my invite today and been messing around for about an hour. It's incredibly addictive, it took like 6 times of asking me Grease vs. other movies before I finally got it out of my top twenty so now i'm a little happier.

Here's my top twenty:
1.The Seven Samu...
2.Pulp Fiction
3.Psycho
4.Schindler's List
5.Minority Report
6.Wall-E
7.The Matrix Rel...
8.The Fountain
9.It's a Wonderf...
10.Blue Velvet
11.21 Grams
12.American Psycho
13.Titanic
14.Kung Fu Hustle
15.No Country for...
16.The Lion King
17.The Wizard of Oz
18.A Bug's Life
19.South Park: Bi...
20.Casablanca

[Dukefrukem]

my top 20 doesn't make any sense

Adaptation
Hellboy
Indiana Jones ...
Back to the Fu...
Collateral
Return of the ...
The Thing
The Godfather
2001: A Space ...
The Prestige
Fight Club
Alien
The Exorcist
Blade Runner
GoodFellas
Indiana Jones ...
Superbad
Men in Black
Cloverfield
Liar Liar

[Spun Lepton]

my top 20 doesn't make any sense

Adaptation
Hellboy
Indiana Jones ...
Back to the Fu...
Collateral
Return of the ...
The Thing
The Godfather
2001: A Space ...
The Prestige
Fight Club
Alien
The Exorcist
Blade Runner
GoodFellas
Indiana Jones ...
Superbad
Men in Black
Cloverfield
Liar Liar

You can influence the list a little bit by selecting the movie title on your Top 20 list, then clicking re-rate. OR, you can remove it and then add it back with a more accurate rating.

[balmakboor]

I can easily see how someone could waste hours doing this. I also keep waiting for my list to make sense simply by clicking posters.

[balmakboor]

Well, after 338 rankings, it isn't looking too bad.

Schindler's List
Brazil
The Wizard of Oz
Eyes Wide Shut
Amores Perros
Reservoir Dogs
It's a Wonderful Life
Full Metal Jacket
The Thin Red Line
Beetlejuice
12 Angry Men
Back to the Future
The Shawshank Redemption
Match Point
GoodFellas
William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
Taxi Driver
The Seven Samurai
There Will Be Blood
Contact

Time for bed.

[Spun Lepton]

My eyes are bleeding, I've been wasting time at this site almost all evening.

I got The Thing up to #2, at least.

I gotta step away!!

[Barty]

Direct link to sign up (http://tinyurl.com/flickchartreg)

:)

[EyesWideOpen]

My eyes are bleeding, I've been wasting time at this site almost all evening.

I got The Thing up to #2, at least.

I gotta step away!!

I'm having the same problem. The Seven Samurai has been #1 on my list since I started and while I think it's a fantastic film I doubt it would make my top 50 favorite movies. Yet everytime it comes up they put it up against something like Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian or Austin Powers 3 so it has no chance of dropping.

[Dukefrukem]

You can influence the list a little bit by selecting the movie title on your Top 20 list, then clicking re-rate. OR, you can remove it and then add it back with a more accurate rating.

No shit? Ah i see. Badass.

[balmakboor]

The ability to drop movies and re-rate them etc. just seems like a cheat to me. I want to see if their pick one algorithm works.

[Dukefrukem]

The ability to drop movies and re-rate them etc. just seems like a cheat to me. I want to see if their pick one algorithm works.

I doubt it. They just keep providing different movie titles for eternity, or so it seems. Then they'll compare one of your top 20s, with something you wouldn't put in your top 2000. Very rarely have I seen two of my top 20s compared with each other.

[Kurosawa Fan]

It's still in Beta.

Oh, I know. And I may go back in the future. But I've ranked over a thousand films, and my top twenty still doesn't look that great. That's when I realized I needed to step away.

[NickGlass]

What a waste. What's the point of ranking your favorites if the only films they constantly ask you to compare are terrible, terrible films?

[Spinal]

Oh, I know. And I may go back in the future. But I've ranked over a thousand films, and my top twenty still doesn't look that great. That's when I realized I needed to step away.

Yeah, I quit when I realized that I was using a methodically slow process to try to recreate a list that already existed.

[balmakboor]

I doubt it. They just keep providing different movie titles for eternity, or so it seems. Then they'll compare one of your top 20s, with something you wouldn't put in your top 2000. Very rarely have I seen two of my top 20s compared with each other.

That's kinda what I'm talking about. From what I've seen so far, their algorithm needs a lot of work. It should get to a point where it is mostly comparing movies in your top 20 and when it introduces a new movie it should always compare it against number 20 and then allow it to filter up from there. Or something like that.

I keep getting stuff like Zoolander vs Old School which doesn't have any affect on things. Or I get 10 Things I Hate About Her vs The Seven Samurai which also seems pointless.

I did use the remove a movie cheat once. Early on, I rated Borat above something or other and from then on it seemed forever stuck in my top 10.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Yeah, I quit when I realized that I was using a methodically slow process to try to recreate a list that already existed.

This is also a good point.

[EyesWideOpen]

Yeah, I quit when I realized that I was using a methodically slow process to try to recreate a list that already existed.

For me it's recreating my top films list of maybe 7 years ago due to it's lack of foreign and more obscure films.

[balmakboor]

Any predictions on how long I would have to rate things before anything in my actual top ten would appear?

I mean other than Full Metal Jacket of course.

[Spinal]

I rated films for about half an hour and my #1 was Platoon.

[balmakboor]

I rated films for about half an hour and my #1 was Platoon.

I don't recall what you thought about Platoon, but it certainly could've placed something worse as your number one.

Now I'm still waiting for the site to even show me WR.

I have to say one thing good about the site though. Some of those movie posters are pretty cool. I've seen some for Close Encounters and Apocalypse Now that I've never seen before.

[Spun Lepton]

Yeah, I quit when I realized that I was using a methodically slow process to try to recreate a list that already existed.

You've got a Top 1000 list?


From what I've seen so far, their algorithm needs a lot of work.

Why is everybody expecting this site to be so much when it hasn't even been out of the gate? Of course it needs work. I'm sure it'll always be a work-in-progress. Hell, Netflix is still perfecting their algorhithm and they've been around for almost a decade.


For me it's recreating my top films list of maybe 7 years ago due to it's lack of foreign and more obscure films.

They say in their FAQ that their database is still unfinished, so this complaint seems a little premature to me.


Any predictions on how long I would have to rate things before anything in my actual top ten would appear?

I mean other than Full Metal Jacket of course.

You'll be waiting for a while. Those cheats I suggested earlier will massage the results without giving you exactly what you want. The site isn't a mind-reader, if you want something specific you'll have to cheat a little.

[Sycophant]

I don't know if I have use for these kinds of things anymore.

[Spun Lepton]

I don't know if I have use for these kinds of things anymore.

You have no need for time-wasting fun? :P

[Spinal]

I don't recall what you thought about Platoon, but it certainly could've placed something worse as your number one.


Nothing wrong with Platoon.

[Spinal]

You've got a Top 1000 list?



I have a Top 100 and quick access to every film I've ever rated 4-stars. But yes, if my life depended on answering the question "What is your 657th favorite film of all time?", I would be screwed.

[Dukefrukem]

Actually this is a pretty neat feature. It keeps track of the movies you haven't seen and ranks them in terms of the average community rank. A great way to make a queue!!

[balmakboor]

Why is everybody expecting this site to be so much when it hasn't even been out of the gate? Of course it needs work. I'm sure it'll always be a work-in-progress. Hell, Netflix is still perfecting their algorhithm and they've been around for almost a decade.

I'm not really expecting that much. And it is admittedly a fun way to while away some time.

I'm a programmer by profession and am thinking about how it is working and how I think it should be working and what not. Hell, we should put our heads together and come up with a match-cut algorithm and create a rival site. (And I'll make sure that WR is the first movie added to the database. :) )

In other words, I'm not picking on the site. I'm just having fun with it in my own geeky sort of way. And thanks again for helping me get on the site.

[balmakboor]

After 800 rankings, it's admittedly looking a lot better. Nothing I'm ashamed to see on there at least.

Schindler's List
Brazil
The Deer Hunter
The Wizard of Oz
Eyes Wide Shut
Star Wars
Amores Perros
Reservoir Dogs
Vertigo
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Fountain
It's a Wonderful Life
Full Metal Jacket
The Thin Red Line
This Is Spinal Tap
Almost Famous
Gattaca
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
City of God
Blade Runner

[EyesWideOpen]

I've slowed down my use but it's still fun to mess with for a few minutes a day.

I doubt they see very many people pick Perfume: The Story of a Murderer over Citizen Kane.

Also you would think that when they showed you a movie ten plus times and you haven't picked it once that they would give it a rest. About every twenty posters I get it's either a Star Wars or Indiana Jones film.