Kinematoscope

As I did when I started this journey, I decided to scan the inter-webs for other people who have embarked on similar quests. And while the ones that were limping along more than a year ago have floundered out of regular updating, there are some new people attempting similar epic movie-marathons with me.

A pair of buddies at The 250 Rundown blog announced a two-person contest to watch the whole list at the end of July. They've been posting dueling recaps of a couple of paragraphs or so, with movie posters at the top, and have covered 10 randomly-ordered entries in the top 250 so far. They've also decided to post their own 1-10 ratings to contrast with imdb's (and have collectively rated Sin City an 18 out of 20 and The Graduate 1 out of 20, to give you an idea of their tastes).

And then we have two pronouncements of intention with no followup- essentially the imdb countdown equivalent of orphaned tweets. This blogger preludes her boyfriend's idea to watch the whole list, and her intent to blog along the way- this was post eleven days ago, so perhaps content is forthcoming.

And someone else posted a similar announcement to countdown (actually countdown, like me: 250 to 1) the 250, and they even registered the domain BackBeatFilms.com to do it, which is more than I can say for myself. That was June 22, though, so I'm not going to hold my breath.

In all fairness, a quick search of the internet reveals that I'm not the only one out there to think of the 250 countdown idea:

This guy has got through 29 so far, but he just writes one paragraph and then copies and pastes Wikipedia summaries or somesuch. Plus all of his in between posts are thinly veiled advertisements, or something. Also he started at the beginning- how boring is that?

Another person who started at the beginning and didn't get too far at all. Also she thinks that the AFI top 100 list should have more foreign movies on it...

One more who just did a paragraph and copied a summary, and then stopped at two. Nice.

Also, there's my antonym doing the bottom 100- which is not too bad, but what's with the bears? Though it apparently stalled at #77 back in April, anyway.

Does this mean I'm the de-facto cream of the crop for indulgent imdb-related list blogs? I think it does. But don't take my word for it- tune in tomorrow for Harold And Maude to find out.