The most interesting thing that happened when creating this list was me identifying just how much I loved ‘The Planet of The Apes’. If someone had asked me my top ten before using flickchart I don’t think I would have mentioned it. But through the voting process I really discovered my thoughts on it. It was very hard to vote against.
A last minute vote saw ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Return of the King’ change positions. It was too hard to pick, but I think the re-watch-ability and personal history with ‘Star Wars’ made it the only number one.
Hiya! This post is an continuation from this one in case you are wondering about the weird numbers.
I look down this list and I’m like “woah!” what an amazing couple of months in the house that would be. Really brilliant. In my opinion of course.
Some people might say that The Godfather is too low. For having a name like Mario, you be surprised to hear that I’m not really one for Gangster movies. Goodfellas isn’t in my top 250. Or even The Departed. I’m happy enough with the final place that he old Don has been given.
There is a fair few blogs I follow. Some of them are written by good friends. We constantly talk (and sometimes blog) about movies. My good friends at swordfishtrombones.com, chasethehaggis.com and murphyslaw.com have recently been doing the IMDB challenge; where they attempt to watch as many movies in the official imdb top 250 as possible. I was really opposed to the idea because the movies that I have left to watch (110) are really not appealing to me.
Our friend over at Pontiac Dream then pulled the cat out the bag by announcing that he was going to create his OWN top 250 movies ever. I liked the idea, but I thought it was an almost impossible task. Just the thought made my mind boggle.
I was kinda leaning towards the idea, then I came across the site flickchart.com. This site has made the idea possible. It uses movie by movie comparison and creates a chart of your movies based on the results of the comparisons you have made. So,8300 movie comparisons later, I have my official top 250. I’m really happy with it and has even opened my eyes to the opinions I had about some movies. The stats don’t lie people.
I’m sorry for steeling your idea Keith. Most sincere form of flattery n’all that.
250to200
Position
Movie
250
Stakeout
249
Wolf Creek
248
The Mist
247
Last Action Hero
246
Dead Poets Society
245
Serenity
244
Toy Story 2
243
The Exorcist
242
Juno
241
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
240
300
239
The Hills Have Eyes
238
Schindler`s List
237
12 Angry Men
236
Four Rooms
235
American Pie
234
My Cousin Vinny
233
Planet Terror
232
Top Gun
231
Poltergeist
230
White Men Can`t Jump
229
Iron Man
228
Life Is Beautiful
227
Stranger Than Fiction
226
Donnie Darko
225
Commando
224
Trainspotting
223
The Cable Guy
222
Hot Fuzz
221
Superbad
220
Reservoir Dogs
219
[Rec]
218
Invasion
217
The Elephant Man
216
Amores Perros
215
1408
214
Bad Boys
213
The Princess Bride
212
American History X
211
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
210
The Godfather Part II
209
Funny Games
208
A Bronx Tale
207
Skeleton Key
206
The Running Man
205
Titanic
204
Revolutionary Road
203
Wayne`s World
202
Primal Fear
201
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
200
Uncle Buck
Yes. Titanic is in there folks. I thought it might even come in a little higher, but I’m pretty happy with that.
I tried to be as honest with myself as possible when voting. I didn’t change anything to look cool or controversial. I based my votes on the impact the movie had on me at the time and also if I was struggling to decide I would think “which one would I prefer to watch now on a rainy Sunday?”.
Looking at the list I supposed the most ‘out there’ movie is Four Rooms. It’s basically a movie which brings together a few directors and they each have a 35/40 min short story about something bizarre that is happening in one of the rooms of the hotel. Great fun. The last story with Bruce Willis is the best of the four.
Just after Christmas I bought myself a BluRay player and had been really enjoying the immense picture quality. It made me want more. The next thing, I thought, would be to get the best standard of sound available. So I started doing some research into home cinema systems. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I realised that I had to get myself a 5.1 speaker package and also an amplifier to decode the digital signal from my BluRay into 5.1. I went to richer sounds and bought the Yamaha RX-V365 (see above) and went for Yamaha Speaker set up too (NSP-270).
NS-P270
After about 3 hours of setting up the amp and speakers in my house, I sat back, stuck an episode of Band Of Brothers on and was totally blown away. I had heard surround sound before. But I was fooking amazed at how good my sound was. I totally didn’t realise just how much more of an immersing experience watching a movie is with this get-up. The last few nights I’ve been having a great time surrounding myself with sound. I can’t recommend it highly enough.
Since getting the setup I have also connected my PC up to the 5.1 and also my Virgin+ Cable TV box. Amazing!
Wires and Plugs
Which kinda leads me onto my next point. I have everything in my life in one room. DVD, BluRay, TV, PC (and peripherals), Cable TV, Amp, 5.1, Router, Modem, Speakers and a Wii. I’m all out of plugs. I have two wall sockets on the side of my room where everything is. Connected to these sockets are two 1:4 sockets. With another 1:4 connected to one of the 1:4’s. That gives me 11 plug slots. On one of the slots I have a 1:2 adapter giving 12 plugs. Every one is in use as I type this.
