My Top 100

[afx237vi]

Conveniently, my tier 10 currently has exactly 100 entries. I'm not entirely sure how much overlap there'd be if I sat down and compiled a top 100 without referencing Criticker, though.



By decade. Not much surprising here. I hardly ever watched films until I hit my mid-twenties, which accounts for the low numbers from the eighties and nineties.



By popularity. Again, not very surprising. No very obscure films in my tier 10, despite 56 rankings.

[MmzHrrdb]

I've ranked 101 movies (excluding shorts) 80+, and I've gathered them into this collection: http://www.criticker.com/?fl&filter=e31825

Drama: 64
Comedy: 41
Romance: 28
Crime: 22
Suspense/Thriller: 20
Mystery: 17
Action: 14
Adventure: 13
Horror: 12
Sci-fi: 9
War: 9
Biography: 8
Family/Kids: 8
Musical: 6
Western: 6
Animation: 5
Fantasy: 5
History: 5
Documentary: 1

Comments: I could've predicted the top three for sure. Crime seems overrepresented. I haven't watched many documentaries, good or bad, so minimal representation of that genre is no surprise.

1920s: 1
1930s: 5
1940s: 6
1950s: 16
1960s: 20
1970s: 11
1980s: 17
1990s: 17
2000s: 6
2010s: 2

Comments: I'm a big fan of classic Hollywood's late period, hence the big difference in representation between the '30s-'40s and '50s-'60s. Unlike most, I'm not very enthralled about the '70s. The '80s seem overrepresented, but then again, I do think that was a better decade for movies than most give it credit for.

Very Popular: 67
Popular: 26
Well-Known: 6
Known: 0
Obscure: 1
Very Obscure: 1

Comments: The "obscure" movie is The Notorious Landlady (1962), and the "very obscure" movie is Rockshow (1980), which incidentally is the single documentary on my list.

[zae]

Using my tier 10, which contains 115 movies.

Decades:
1920s: 2
1930s: 3
1940s: 1
1950s: 8
1960s: 10
1970s: 11
1980s: 12
1990s: 22
2000s: 35
2010s: 11

I do tend to prefer contemporary cinema. I think this breakdown is mostly due to me not having got around to watching most of the 60s/70s films generally considered masterpieces, though.

Countries:
Japan: 46
USA: 27
Sweden: 14
France: 11
UK: 7
Germany: 6 (though the only actual german film is Metropolis - the rest are films from other countries produced partially in Germany)
S Korea: 6
Hong Kong: 5

Looks about right. Thought Korea would do better, though.

Genres:
Drama: 83
Suspense/Thriller: 29
Comedy: 26
Action: 23
Romance: 20
Fantasy: 18
Sci-fi: 17
Crime: 16
Adventure: 13
Animation: 11
Horror: 11
Mystery: 9
War: 8
Family/Kids: 4 (all of which are animated)
Musical: 2
Short: 2
History: 1
Western: 1
Adult: 0
Biography: 0
Documentary: 0

Didn't expect Suspense/Thriller to rank that high.
In general, I prefer stylized, fantastical genre fare that instill a sense of wonder, over realist dramas. Seems a bit of a waste to just film reality as it is when the medium has the ability to create whole new worlds to explore.

Popularity:
Very Popular: 59
Popular: 23
Well-known: 26
Known: 6
Obscure: 1 (a Swedish comedy TV series)

[Suture Self]

Interpreted my relationship to your collections through the medium of paint.

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[Suture Self]

Conveniently, my tier 10 currently has exactly 100 entries. I'm not entirely sure how much overlap there'd be if I sat down and compiled a top 100 without referencing Criticker, though.



By decade. Not much surprising here. I hardly ever watched films until I hit my mid-twenties, which accounts for the low numbers from the eighties and nineties.



By popularity. Again, not very surprising. No very obscure films in my tier 10, despite 56 rankings.

Did you seriously just make a graph and pie chart for this thread?

[Suture Self]

Rather than using my top 100 movies, which would require making a decision about which movies scored 90 to include and which to exclude, I have instead used just those movies I consider masterpieces, which means movies with a score of at least 91, a collection of, at present, 83 films. Hopefully I will be up to 100 masterpieces in the not-too-distant future, but with only 83 out of 2296 falling into that category, that means around 3.6%, or one in every 28 movies, so I might need to watch about another 476 movies to make up the 17 masterpieces I need to get to 100 (and that's ignoring the fact that it's now 85 movies since I ranked my last masterpiece).

By genre
Drama: 63/83
Suspense/Thriller: 20/83
Comedy: 15/83
Romance: 13/83
Mystery: 13/83
Crime: 7/83
Musical: 7/83
Horror: 6/83
War: 5/83
Adventure: 4/83
Documentary: 3/83
Sci-fi: 3/83
Fantasy: 2/83
Family/Kids: 0/83
Action: 0/83
Western: 0/83
Animation: 0/83
Short: 0/83

Summary: no family, action, Western, animation, or short movies.

By decade
1930s: 2/83
1940s: 6/83
1950s: 6/83
1960s: 14/83
1970s: 21/83
1980s: 10/83
1990s: 13/83
2000s: 10/83
2010s: 1/83

Summary: nothing before the 1930s; the best decade for masterpieces was the 1970s, easily.

By popularity
Very popular: 37/83
Popular: 28/83
Well-Known: 15/83
Known: 2/83
Obscure: 1/83

Summary: most movies are either popular or very popular.

Filmmakers with multiple entries
Lars von Trier: 6/83
Ingmar Bergman: 5/83
David Lynch: 5/83
Woody Allen: 4/83
Abbas Kiarostami: 4/83
Terrence Malick: 4/83
Robert Altman: 3/83
Werner Herzog: 3/83
Eric Rohmer: 3/83
Adam Curtis: 2/83
Vittorio De Sica 2/83
Federico Fellini: 2/83
Alfred Hitchcock: 2/83
Stanley Kubrick: 2/83
Gaspar Noé: 2/83
Hans-Jürgen Syberberg: 2/83
Andrei Tarkovsky: 2/83
Orson Welles: 2/83

Summary: von Trier, Bergman and Lynch out in front; Malick the only filmmaker with a perfect record of creating masterpieces (about to be re-tested soon).

The films
The 83 masterpieces I am referring to are collected here:

http://www.criticker.com/?fl&filter=e13294

The ultimate movie sperglord post.

[afx237vi]

Did you seriously just make a graph and pie chart for this thread?

The inclusion of a graph and a pie chart in my post would suggest that yes, yes I did.