Flick Fights: The Official Flickchart Podcast
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March, 2010 Archive
Runtime: 69:34 – Download > – Subscribe with iTunes >
The Hosts
Travis Betz and Devin Barry are two movie lovers, who are also obsessed fans of the film ranking website, Flickchart. Join them as they pit movies against each other, waging verbal cinematic war while building a “best of” list on the blood of the defeated.
Special Guest
This episode’s special guest: Actor/Writer Brian Klugman
Flick Fights On The Web
Follow Flick Fights on Twitter: @flickfights
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Interested in checking out Travis and Devin’s movie, Lo? They made it all by themselves.
Visit the official website at: http://thedemonlo.com/
Your Flickchart Top 20: Gift or Curse?
29, Mar 2010
by Nigel Druitt
If you’re an avid Flickcharter, you’ve no doubt got a list of hundreds — if not thousands — of films ranked. From your all-time favorites to the dregs of cinema that you only wish you could un-see, to those middle-of-the-chart, ho-hum, so-so films whose ranks, while fun to try and get into their proper order, become somewhat interchangeable as they all share a common air of mediocrity.
Indeed, when it comes to your Flickchart, do you truly care whether Movie #667 is better than Movie #668? Does it even matter if Movie #236 is better than Movie #247?
What about global rankings? Does it matter to you if Flickchart’s users have V for Vendetta ranked higher than There Will Be Blood? Or that District 9 ranks higher than Best Picture Oscar-winner The Hurt Locker? Be honest: Does it really, really concern you that The Dark Knight outranks Star Wars as the #1 movie of all-time? As a movie fan, you know this fact to be either true or false; global rankings can be very useful in helping you find good movies that you haven’t seen yet, but when it comes to the films you do and don’t like, they aren’t necessarily going to sway your opinion.
In fact, I’d be willing to bet that, for most Flickcharters, the only list that really matters is that one that stares you in the face every time you come to the site: your personal Top 20. It’s the list that’s on-screen every time you rank; either causing you to constantly question it, or reaffirm that yes, yes these are, in fact, my favorite movies of all-time. The cream of the crop. The films that will smack down any others they come against in your Flickchart rankings.
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Flick Fights #17 – “One Week Till Reboot!”
24, Mar 2010Runtime: 41:46 – Download > – Subscribe with iTunes >
The Hosts
Travis Betz and Devin Barry are two movie lovers, who are also obsessed fans of the film ranking website, Flickchart. Join them as they pit movies against each other, waging verbal cinematic war while building a “best of” list on the blood of the defeated.
Flick Fights On The Web
Follow Flick Fights on Twitter: @flickfights
Subscribe to the Flick Fights YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/FlickFights
Become friends with Flick Fights on Flickchart:
http://www.flickchart.com/flickfights
Interested in checking out Travis’s recently released movie, Lo?
Visit the official website at: http://thedemonlo.com/
Find out where you can get it at Travis’s site: http://travisbetz.com/lodvd/
Flickchart: The Movie?
22, Mar 2010
by Dan
I’ve been waiting patiently for a Hampster Dance movie for over a decade. We can get a movie called the “Squeakquel“, and a spy flick starring talking guinea pigs, but I can’t watch an uplifting dance competition movie with CG hampsters that were subjected to harrowing nuclear testing? If there’s one reason for us not to trust the corporate fat cats coldly dictating which movies we do and don’t get to see annually, this is it.
We get movies based off toys, action figures, pseudo-action figures, board games, psuedo-boardgames, videogames, computer games, movies from 62 years ago, movies from 2 years ago, etc… But why haven’t they tapped into internet time-killers yet? Sure, there’s a Facebook movie coming soon, but there really isn’t much outside of that. A Farmville movie could become our generation’s “Of Mice and Men” or “The Grapes of Wrath,” themselves adaptations of the popular media of the day. The romantic comedy potential in Chatroulette is off the charts.
Flickchart is no different, and not as some distasteful Sophie’s Choice parody. It’s been a while since we had a good frustrated-13-year-old-big-sister-yells-at-baby-brother-who-then-get’s-sucked-into-a-computer-and-then-she-has-to-get-him-back-before-mom-gets-home-movie. Kinda like a digital Labyrinth but without all the David Bowie crotch bulge.
The Guilty Pleasures
19, Mar 2010
We need to be clear from the beginning here. We’re not talking about bad movies you can admit you like. These are the movies you know you’re going to be teased for admitting you like it, and you don’t care. In fact, sometimes you mention you like the movie just so you can have a chance to see how people react to your confession. One of mine is Grandma’s Boy. I love the party scene, and the competitive guy obsessed with The Matrix cracks me up every time.
But then there are the guilty pleasures. We all have them. They come up in conversation, and no matter what you say, you feel bad about it. Did you praise it? You shouldn’t have; you know it’s a bad movie. Did you put it down? You shouldn’t have; you know you love it. I like Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. I wish I didn’t. The movie really doesn’t have a lot of redeeming qualities, and yet I enjoy it immensely.