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The Countdown: 30% Done!
I realized that I've covered precisely 75 movies for the countdown, so I thought I would generally rank my feelings for them so far. Ordering them all would take too long, and plus I can do a whole "Countdown of the countdown" when I'm done. For now I've grouped them into five categories and just listed the groups alphabetically.
Ranking things like this is always weird- I tend to make snap judgments based on whether or not I'd feel like watching that movie over and over, which can be unfair to some more emotional films. That said, I'm always going to favor comedies over tragedies, and well made films over melodrama.
I'd provide links to each entry, but that seems like a ton of work (plus they're all linked on THE MASTER LIST, which also has fun pullquotes!).
TIER ONE: WHY THE F*&K ARE THESE SO LOW
Arsenic and Old Lace
Bringing Up Baby
Casino Royale
Children Of Men
The Diving Bell and The Butterfly
Duck Soup
The Gold Rush
His Girl Friday
Howl's Moving Castle
In Bruges
The Kid
Once
Pirates Of The Carribean
The Princess Bride
Shaun of The Dead
TIER TWO: ALL-TIME CLASSICS
The African Queen
Big Fish
Ed Wood
Good Will Hunting
Harvey
The Incredibles
Let The Right One In
Letters From Iwo Jima
Manhattan
The Philadelphia Story
Planet of the Apes
Safety Last!
Stalag 17
Sweet Smell Of Success
Young Frankenstein
TIER THREE: I CAN SEE THE APPEAL
The Best Years Of Our Lives
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Dial M For Murder
The Exorcist
Grave Of The Fireflies
Harold and Maude
The Hustler
Infernal Affairs
In The Heat Of The Night
Judgment at Nuremberg
Kill Bill Vol. 2
Magnolia
The Night Of The Hunter
Rocky
Roman Holiday
TIER FOUR: WELL, I GUESS
All Quiet On The Western Front
Changeling
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Frankenstein
In Cold Blood
King Kong
The Lost Weekend
Out Of The Past
Rope
Rosemary's Baby
The Searchers
Shadow Of A Doubt
Sleuth
Spartacus
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
TIER FIVE: NOT MY CUP OF TEA
Bonnie and Clyde
Brief Encounter
The Conversation
Crash
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Killing
Kind Hearts and Coronets
La Dolce Vita
Les Diaboliques
Little Miss Sunshine
Mystic River
Network
A Streetcar Named Desire
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
The Wild Bunch
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Hey Duncan,
Nice movie project. Quite an undertaking but I enjoy the read.
Sorry to contact you through comments but I could not find any other way to do it.
We just launched a movie ranking website, Rankography.com and we have a lot of other movie bloggers that have joined.
On RG, you can set up a profile with a description of and a quality link back to your blog. Members create categories, rank movies in their favorite categories and browse other members rankings to find great movies.
Please come check it out.