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

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.

Stay tuned for the next batch in the coming days.

Tags: 250, flickchart, four rooms, Movies, top 250

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