The Put Your Arbirary Rankings in Here Thread

[Qrazy]

Put it in here. Thanks.

edit: Mods please fix the thread title.

[Sven]

Arbirary!

[NickGlass]

Arborary.

1. Giant Sequoia
2. Weeping Willow
3. Sabal Palm
4. American Elm
5. Ponderosa Pine
6. Ohio Buckeye

[Watashi]

1. Qrazy
2. Rowland
3. Melville
4. Spinal
5. Russ
6. Derek
7. Dead & Messed Up
8. Stay Puft
9. origami_mustache
10. Ezee E

What is the context behind this ranking? You will never know....

[Dukefrukem]

1. Qrazy
2. Rowland
3. Melville
4. Spinal
5. Russ
6. Derek
7. Dead & Messed Up
8. Stay Puft
9. origami_mustache
10. Ezee E

What is the context behind this ranking? You will never know....

Damn I didn't make the list. :-/

[Dukefrukem]

Top 10 Things That Annoy Me at Work.


10. The guy who does this (http://match-cut.org/showthread.php?p=367230#post36 7230)
9. The fucking intentionally slow internet
8. People who back into parking spaces
7. The guy who is incapable of breathing through his nose
6. The guy who calls the help desk weekly
5. The lady who coughs without covering her mouth (smoker)
4. The Clock-Watchers
3. The Intern who clears his throat once a minute (not an exaggeration)
2. My Boss micro-managing me
1. People who don't wash their hands after using the bathroom (I'm in the stall when this happens so it could be 1 person, or it could be 10 people)

[MadMan]

Damn I didn't make the list. :-/Neither did I. Maybe its a good thing. Maybe it doesn't matter because Wats made that list :P

[Dukefrukem]

Top 10 People's Lists I don't Want to Be On

10. Pop Trash
9. Baby Doll
8. That guy who was banned a few years ago
7. Zac Efron
6. Irish
5. Barty
4. megladon8
3. number8
2. Sycophant
1. Watashi

[Spun Lepton]

Five movies that people overreact to my not having seen.

1. Apocalypse Now
2. Blue Velvet
3. Godfather II
4. Shawshank Redemption
5. Raging Bull

[transmogrifier]

Top 5 Qrazy Quirks

1. His strangely precious stewardship of what is and is not acceptable in a general discussion film thread
2. His speling
3. His oddly reassuring negativity
4. His qute belief that formalism is valuable in and of itself divorced of context, and therefore makes analysis of the construction of the film as a whole irrelevant.
5. His debates with Svensos

[Spun Lepton]

Top 5 Qrazy Quirks

2. His speling
...
4. His qute belief that formalism is valuable in and of itself divorced of context, and therefore makes analysis of the construction of the film as a whole irrelevant.

:P

[transmogrifier]

1. Trees
2. A spoon
3. Goldfish
4. A second-hand copy of The Recruit on DVD
5. Reluctance

[Sven]

1. Trees
2. A spoon
3. Goldfish
4. A second-hand copy of The Recruit on DVD
5. Reluctance

I remember your list of lists. One of my favorite threads.

[Thirdmango]

2. This should be in the kitchen sink.
1. See above

;)

[Ezee E]

1. Gravity
2. Django Unchained
3. Dark Knight Rises
4. 1908
5. The Master
6. Creed of Violence
7. Only God Forgives
8. Stoker
9. Cosmopolis
10. Looper

[Dead & Messed Up]

Things I do with ranked lists.

01. Ignore them.
02. Parse them for the one thing I disagree with and manufacture some outrage.
03. Give them a cursory once-over and offer token approval.
04. Respond with my own list and thereby add to my post count.
05. Realize how little I have in common with some posters here.

[chrisnu]

Five movies that people overreact to my not having seen.
1. GoodFellas
2. 8 1/2
3. The Seventh Seal
4. Ladri di biciclette
5. L'Avventura

[Sven]

Things I do with ranked lists.

01. Ignore them.
02. Parse them for the one thing I disagree with and manufacture some outrage.
03. Give them a cursory once-over and offer token approval.
04. Respond with my own list and thereby add to my post count.
05. Realize how little I have in common with some posters here.

Haha. I owe you rep.

[B-side]

Most anticipated films for 2012 and beyond that Ezee didn't already list:

Love (Haneke)
The Lines of Wellington (Ruiz)
Silence (Scorsese)
Emma's War (Scott)
Cogan's Trade (Dominik)
A Igreja do Diabo & O Gebo e a Sombra (Oliveira)
Gambit (Hoffman)
Bad Love (Breillat)
The Grandmasters (Wong)
The End (Kiarostami)
Lotus Community Center (Korine)

[Mara]

Any colored candy.

1. Pink
2. White
3. Yellow
4. Purple
5. Green
6. Red
7. Black
8. Orange

[Mara]

Seriously. Screw orange.

[megladon8]

Things my cat wants me to stop doing so I'll pay attention to him

1.) Reading
2.) Typing
3.) Drawing
4.) Watching my portable DVD player
5.) Writing

[Watashi]

Any colored candy.

1. Pink
2. White
3. Yellow
4. Purple
5. Green
6. Red
7. Black
8. Orange
Purple is clearly the best.

[Spinal]

Purple is clearly the best.

Gotta go with Wats here.

[Mara]

Mods, please don't change the thread title. I've become emotionally attached to it.

[transmogrifier]

1. a
2. b
3. d
4. c
5. e

[transmogrifier]

I remember your list of lists. One of my favorite threads.

People Whose Approval I Quite Like

1. Svensos
2. My father
3. The cute coffee-house girl with the bangs
4. My cat
5. The plumber

[chrisnu]

I remember your list of lists. One of my favorite threads.
Best Best List List. (http://match-cut.org/showthread.php?t=894&highlight=best+best+list+list)

[Spinal]

Things there is nothing wrong with:

1. The sex scene in Munich
2. The wake scenes in Ikiru
3. The third act of Sunshine
4. The ending of War of the Worlds
5. Haneke's use of direct audience address in Funny Games

[transmogrifier]

1. Qrazy
2. Rowland
3. Melville
4. Spinal
5. Russ
6. Derek
7. Dead & Messed Up
8. Stay Puft
9. origami_mustache
10. Ezee E

What is the context behind this ranking? You will never know....

Posters you most want to watch Hook with?
Posters you've seen naked?
Posters who aren't as cool as transmogrifier?

[transmogrifier]

Things there is nothing wrong with:

1. The sex scene in Munich
2. The wake scenes in Ikiru
3. The third act of Sunshine
4. The ending of War of the Worlds
5. Haneke's use of direct audience address in Funny Games

1. Disagree
2. n/a
3. Disagree
4. Disagree
5. Agree

[Spinal]

1. Disagree
2. n/a
3. Disagree
4. Disagree
5. Agree

No, no, no. Read the first line again.

[transmogrifier]

No, no, no. Read the first line again.

People who can't tell me what to do:
1. Spinal
2. God
3. Innocent bystanders
4. Frankie
5. The voice of reason

[MadMan]

Things I do with ranked lists.

01. Ignore them.
02. Parse them for the one thing I disagree with and manufacture some outrage.
03. Give them a cursory once-over and offer token approval.
04. Respond with my own list and thereby add to my post count.
05. Realize how little I have in common with some posters here.I agree completely with 2,4, and 5 (in fact 5 is something I've come to realize very quickly over the past couple of weeks, and is making me wonder if a hiatus wouldn't be a bad thing), and somewhat with 3. 1 is something I'd never do, unless the subject is really boring.

[Spinal]

People who can't tell me what to do:
1. Spinal
2. God
3. Innocent bystanders
4. Frankie
5. The voice of reason

Oh yeah! I beat God!

[MadMan]

Reasons I Hate Movies

1) God awful plot lines
2) Bad endings
3) Terrible acting
4) Horrible dialogue
5) Michael Bay

Reasons I Love Movies:

1) Awesome directors
2) Great actors/actresses
3) The Oscars (for better or for worse)
4) Movie theaters (I guess)
5) They're the main reason I post at most message boards

[Dukefrukem]

Things there is nothing wrong with:

1. The sex scene in Munich
2. The wake scenes in Ikiru
3. The third act of Sunshine
4. The ending of War of the Worlds
5. Haneke's use of direct audience address in Funny Games

My favorite days

5. Sat
4. Sun
3. Sat-Sun
2. Birthday
1. Opposite Day!

[Watashi]

Posters you most want to watch Hook with?
Posters you've seen naked?
Posters who aren't as cool as transmogrifier?
All the above.

[B-side]

Things there is nothing wrong with:

3. The third act of Sunshine
4. The ending of War of the Worlds

Yup.

[MadMan]

Oscar Thoughts:

1) Stop bitching about under deserving best picture winners. Chicago won in 2002. Dances With Wolves beat out Goodfellas in 1990. Deal with it.

2) I really don't have a problem with weak performances winning the acting categories. What I don't like is token nominations. When was the last time Morgan Freeman and Meryl Streep was truly worthy of being nominated? Give someone else a chance, man.

3) Just because your favorite director doesn't win Best Director, doesn't mean you should bitch about it. Guess what folks: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Sergio Leone, and Stanley Kubrick all didn't win Best Director. Neither has Wes Anderson, QT, David Fincher, etc.... I rest my case.

4) Technical wins=meh. Yes they are important to a movie's success, but I'm in favor of not showing them during the telecast. If you want an even more shorter, compact show then drop boring categories. No one cares who won Best Animated Short Film.

5) Supporting Actor/Actress is underrated. Best Actor/Best Actress is overrated. Only in terms of rewarding more interesting performances. These days, it seems that a deserving actor/actress is more likely to win Supporting. Why, I really donno. Maybe the Academy is afraid to nominate more risky leading performances. I'm not really sure.

[Derek]

Any colored candy.

1. Pink
2. White
3. Yellow
4. Purple
5. Green
6. Red
7. Black
8. Orange

Move purple to 6 and green and red each up a spot and I am 100% behind you.

[Gizmo]

Things you can put in the corner
5. Fireplace
4. Pet bed
3. Tv Stand
2. A Misbehaving kid
1. Not Baby

[Spinal]

Oscar Thoughts:

1) Stop bitching about under deserving best picture winners. Chicago won in 2002. Dances With Wolves beat out Goodfellas in 1990. Deal with it.

2) I really don't have a problem with weak performances winning the acting categories. What I don't like is token nominations. When was the last time Morgan Freeman and Meryl Streep was truly worthy of being nominated? Give someone else a chance, man.

3) Just because your favorite director doesn't win Best Director, doesn't mean you should bitch about it. Guess what folks: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Sergio Leone, and Stanley Kubrick all didn't win Best Director. Neither has Wes Anderson, QT, David Fincher, etc.... I rest my case.

4) Technical wins=meh. Yes they are important to a movie's success, but I'm in favor of not showing them during the telecast. If you want an even more shorter, compact show then drop boring categories. No one cares who won Best Animated Short Film.

5) Supporting Actor/Actress is underrated. Best Actor/Best Actress is overrated. Only in terms of rewarding more interesting performances. These days, it seems that a deserving actor/actress is more likely to win Supporting. Why, I really donno. Maybe the Academy is afraid to nominate more risky leading performances. I'm not really sure.


This thread is not for lists of rants. It's for arbirary rankings!

[Boner M]

Top 2 spellings of arbitrary:

1. Arbirary
2. Arbitrary

[MadMan]

This thread is not for lists of rants. It's for arbirary rankings!I'm just ragin' against the machine, man.

Favorite 90s TV Shows (excluding animated/kids shows)

1. The Simpsons
2. The X-Files
3. Seinfeld
4. Saturday Night Live
5. News Radio
6. Home Improvement
7. Family Matters
8. Boy Meets World
9. Step By Step
10. Wings

[Ezee E]

Things there is nothing wrong with:

1. The sex scene in Munich
2. The wake scenes in Ikiru
3. The third act of Sunshine
4. The ending of War of the Worlds
5. Haneke's use of direct audience address in Funny Games
Disagree with all but 2.

Number 2 that is.

[B-side]

Favorite 90s TV Shows (excluding animated/kids shows)

1. The Simpsons

http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz70/SalvadorDali_2010/mfw/65.jpg

[Ezee E]

1. Spinal
2. Kurosawa Fan
3. Watashi
4. number8
5. Scar
6. winston
7. DavidSeven
8. Benny Profane
9. philosophe_rouge
10. babydoll

Reviews/Thoughts that I enjoy reading, whether I agree/disagree. Rankings are interchangeable.

[transmogrifier]

Top 5 Slang for Faeces:

1. Shit
2.
3. Turd
4. Butt nugget
5. Sewer trout

[Boner M]

Criticisms that are annoying and/or almost always misapplied:

1. Self-Indulgent
2. The Emperor's New Clothes
3. Unlikeable Characters
4. Style over Substance
5. Preten... et al

[Spinal]

Top 5 Slang for Faeces:

2.


:lol:

[transmogrifier]

People Who Suck Right Now:

1. Ezee E

[B-side]

1. Spinal
2. Kurosawa Fan
3. Watashi
4. number8
5. Scar
6. winston
7. DavidSeven
8. Benny Profane
9. philosophe_rouge
10. babydoll

Reviews/Thoughts that I enjoy reading, whether I agree/disagree. Rankings are interchangeable.

I'll make it one of these days.:sad:

[Boner M]

1. Spinal
2. Kurosawa Fan
3. Watashi
4. number8
5. Scar
6. winston
7. DavidSeven
8. Benny Profane
9. philosophe_rouge
10. babydoll

Reviews/Thoughts that I enjoy reading, whether I agree/disagree. Rankings are interchangeable.
Top ten items on this list that do not not in fact constitute a review or a thought:

1. Spinal
2. Kurosawa Fan
3. Watashi
4. number8
5. Scar
6. winston
7. DavidSeven
8. Benny Profane
9. philosophe_rouge
10. babydoll

[Winston*]

What I don't like is token nominations. When was the last time Morgan Freeman and Meryl Streep was truly worthy of being nominated? .

I've had enough of affirmative action at the Oscars too. It's like they have a quota of female nominations they have to fill.

[Ezee E]

People Who Suck Right Now:

1. Ezee E
Oh tranny. We talk a plenty, so you know I'm reading.

[Raiders]

Top five ways to skin a cat:

1. Start with the tail
2. Start with the ears
3. Ask Scar
4. Don't
5. Drop them from a great height upside down and right before they flip over, make a very loud noise causing their bodies to spontaneously move in every direction and thus combust

[Dukefrukem]

I'll make it one of these days.:sad:

I'll never make it because I cna't spell.

[Fezzik]

Top 5 Movies i only saw because a Cutter recommended them:

1. In the Mood for Love
2. Modern Times
3. Chungking Express
4. Pan's Labyrinth
5. Millennium Actress


Top 5 Movies most people are shocked I haven't seen:

1. The Godfather
2. The Black Cauldron
3. Before Sunrise
4. 9 1/2
5. Gone with the Wind

[Fezzik]

1. "He's going to suck his way through the entire town!"
2. "I'm tired, can't we all just be Death Eaters?"
3. "Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal."
4. "And I dance dance dance and I dance dance dance."
5. "You have the emotional maturity of a blueberry scone."

Category: Lines from movies/tv shows/pop culture that have become inside jokes with my writing group :D

[Ezee E]

Top 5 Movies i only saw because a Cutter recommended them:


Good one. I'll have to look into this myself.

[MadMan]

I've had enough of affirmative action at the Oscars too. It's like they have a quota of female nominations they have to fill.I can't tell if this post is serious or not. But I agree.

1. Spinal
2. Kurosawa Fan
3. Watashi
4. number8
5. Scar
6. winston
7. DavidSeven
8. Benny Profane
9. philosophe_rouge
10. babydoll

Reviews/Thoughts that I enjoy reading, whether I agree/disagree. Rankings are interchangeable.I'd bitch about missing this list, but then I don't write reviews enough to be even considered. Damn my laziness ;)


http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz70/SalvadorDali_2010/mfw/65.jpgSo I cheated :P

And that looks a bit like a buddy of mine who moved to Chicago last year. Eerie.

[Spinal]

I can't tell if this post is serious or not.

Here is your first clue ...


.

[Winston*]

Did MadMan just agree that men should be able to be nominated for best actress? How progressive.

[MadMan]

Did MadMan just agree that men should be able to be nominated for best actress? How progressive.Heh, no. I was just referring to the fact that certain actors and actresses get nominated almost every year.

Ah, fuck it. Let the trannies get a shot at an Oscar :P

Yeah I figured that Winston* was joking. I really never know with that guy. Must be cause he's from bloody New Zealand ;)

[Ezee E]

transmogrifier should be nominated for an Oscar.

[Fezzik]

2) I really don't have a problem with we winning the r categories. What I don't like is token nominations. When was the last time Morgan Freeman and Meryl Streep was truly worthy of being nominated? Give someone else a chance, man.


I agree on Freeman, but IMO, Streep deserved her nomination for The Devil Wears Prada, and that was just a few years ago.

[MadMan]

transmogrifier should be nominated for an Oscar.Hell no. He gets nominated every year for Oscar Bait.

Top 5 Favorite Sequels:

1. Tremors 2
2. The Godfather Part II
3. Return of the Jedi
4. Gremlins 2
5. Crocodile Dundee II

[SirNewt]

1. girlfriend
2. vacuum
3. glory holes
4. garbage disposals
5. this thread

[Qrazy]

1. girlfriend
2. vacuum
3. glory holes
4. garbage disposals
5. this thread

What are things you like to put your dick in?

[SirNewt]

What are things you like to put your dick in?

:D

[Dukefrukem]

1. :rolleyes:
2. :lol:
3. :|
4. :frustrated:
5. :)

[transmogrifier]

1. Helium
2. Neon
3. Radon
4. Xenon
5. Argon
6. Krypton

[Lucky]

1. Helium
2. Neon
3. Radon
4. Xenon
5. Argon
6. Krypton

Why no love for Argon? Aside from Helium, it's arguably the most widely used noble gas.

[transmogrifier]

Why no love for Argon? Aside from Helium, it's arguably the most widely used noble gas.

I used to like it, but it became too popular.

[Fezzik]

1. :rolleyes:
2. :lol:
3. :|
4. :frustrated:
5. :)

1. :pritch:
2. :pritch:
3. :pritch:
4. :pritch:
5. :pritch:


6. :pritch:
7. :pritch:
8. :pritch:
9. :pritch:
10. :pritch:

[Mysterious Dude]

My favorite elements based on how cool their names are:

1. Xenon
2. Ytterbium
3. Molybdenum
4. Einsteinium
5. Zirconium
6. Yttrium
7. Dysprosium
8. Praseodymium
9. Rubidium
10. Ununquadium

[Dukefrukem]

My favorite elements based on how cool their names are:

1. unobtainium
2. Ytterbium
3. Molybdenum
4. Einsteinium
5. Zirconium
6. Yttrium
7. Dysprosium
8. Praseodymium
9. Rubidium
10. Ununquadium

Fixed.

[Ivan Drago]

Ten Great Films I Wouldn't Have Heard Of/Seen If It Wasn't For This Site

1. Irreversible
2. Play Time
3. Exit Through The Gift Shop
4. Happy-Go-Lucky
5. Let The Right One In
6. Dogtooth
7. F For Fake
8. Come and See
9. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
10. Dogville

Thanks, guys!

[Scar]

Ten Great Films I Wouldn't Have Heard Of/Seen If It Wasn't For This Site

1. Irreversible
2. Play Time
3. Exit Through The Gift Shop
4. Happy-Go-Lucky
5. Let The Right One In
6. Dogtooth
7. F For Fake
8. Come and See
9. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
10. Dogville

Thanks, guys!

What are nine movies I haven't seen?

[Ivan Drago]

My Ten Favorite LCD Soundsystem Songs

1. All I Want
2. Losing My Edge
3. Us V Them
4. Get Innocuous!
5. Throw
6. Someone Great
7. Dance Yrself Clean
8. All My Friends
9. New York, I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down
10. Daft Punk Is Playing At My House

My 10 Most Anticipated Movies of 2012

1. The Dark Knight Rises
2. The Master
3. Lincoln
4. The Amazing Spider-Man
5. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
6. The Avengers
7. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
8. The Wettest Country In The World
9. Django Unchained
10. Prometheus

[Spinal]

8. The Wettest Country In The World


Gosh, I wonder what the porn version of this will be called.

[MadMan]

Gosh, I wonder what the porn version of this will be called.The Wettest Vagina in the World?





Yeah, I got nuthin' :|

[Spinal]

Over the past week, I've re-watched the Back to the Future trilogy and have a new respect for it as a series of three successful films. In particular, my appreciation of the third film grew quite a bit. The mechanism for getting Marty back to 1985 using 19th century machinery is just ingenious. Sure, you can find plot holes here and there, but, in general, it's so well-conceived, exciting and funny. I especially love how far the writers are willing to push the various things that can and do go wrong during Marty's various adventures.

Anyway ...

I DEMAND YOUR ARBIRARY RANKINGS!!!

I'm still pondering where to settle, but for now, I'm thinking something like ...

Part one ****
Part two ***1/2
Part three ***1/2

It's just a shame that they lost Crispin Glover for the last two. Could have been some great stuff there.

[transmogrifier]

I - 70
II - 73
III - 50

[Spinal]

I - 70
II - 73


Explain.

[transmogrifier]

1. The Great Eastern
2. Hate
3. Peloton
4. Domestiques
5. Universal Audio

[transmogrifier]

Explain.

Haven't seen either in an age, and just going from the scores in my Excel sheet, but I guess I found the free-wheeling anarchy of the second one more bewitching, and admired the balls it took to literally revisit the original and find new angles to play with. But beyond that, I ain't got much else to offer in terms of defence.

The last one was rather boring though, I remember that.

[Spinal]

Haven't seen either in an age, and just going from the scores in my Excel sheet, but I guess I found the free-wheeling anarchy of the second one more bewitching, and admired the balls it took to literally revisit the original and find new angles to play with. But beyond that, I ain't got much else to offer in terms of defence.


Fair enough. Yes, it's really quite clever in the way it folds back in on itself.

[Watashi]

I think it's impossible to dislike Back to the Future.

Though I'm sure they're out there.

[Boner M]

Though I'm sure they're out there.
I mean, it's fine for what it is, but on the basis of this and Cast Away (2000), Zemeckis isn't really doing anything particularly interesting with his mise-en-scene. I prefer Marker's La Jetee (1962), and especially Resnais' Je Taime, Je Taime (1968).

[Spinal]

I mean, it's fine for what it is, but on the basis of this and Cast Away (2000), Zemeckis isn't really doing anything particularly interesting with his mise-en-scene. I prefer Marker's La Jetee (1962), and especially Resnais' Je Taime, Je Taime (1968).

This is such a baby doll post. I love it.

But it has no arbirary rankings.

[Raiders]

Best posters to "homage"

1. baby doll
2. MadMan
3. Irish
4. Qrazy
5. Rowland

[Boner M]

4. Qrazy
Ehhh homageable maybe but also formally crap. B-

[MadMan]

Best posters to "homage"

1. baby doll
2. MadMan
3. Irish
4. Qrazy
5. RowlandI'm not worthy of being on such a list. Also, I'm ranked too damn high :P

Back to the Future-95
Part II-75
Part III-80 or 83, or whatever. Its good.

While I understand the reasoning for having rushed the last two movies, had they taken a bit more time on the sequels the trilogy could have been truly great. Still its one of my favorite series, and I love all of them, even Part II. Oh and yes I'm waiting for the eventual sequel where Doc's evil son (if you've seen the ending of Part III you know what I'm talking about) facing off with Marty's offspring.

[Ivan Drago]

I wish I were on a 'top _____ posters' list. :sad:

[Ezee E]

Top Posters named Ivan Drago:

1. Madman
2. Ivan Drago

[MadMan]

Top Posters named Ivan Drago:

1. Madman
2. Ivan DragoOh man that's just harsh :lol:

[Ivan Drago]

Oh man that's just harsh :lol:

Harsh, but funny.