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The Dark Knight Falls

20, May 2012
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Flickchart at its core is about two big things: helping you discover and rank movies to develop a coherent chart of your favorites, and mashing everyone’s individual charts into a globe-straddling list of the greatest movies of all time. All the other stuff — social features, recommendations, and so on — flow from these overarching pair of concepts. If either are broken, it’ll ripple through the site in ways small and large.

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The 1st Annual Flickcharters’ Choice Awards Winners!

26, Feb 2012
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After years of being disappointed by awards shows and complaining about snubs, we at Flickchart decided to make our own awards. Many of the Flickchart bloggers voted on the nominees and once those were agreed on, we opened it up to you – the public – to vote on your favorites. 

Now that you’ve voted and picked your favorites, here are your nominees, comments on the nominees from some of our writers, and your first annual winners at the Flickcharters’ Choice Awards!

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Vote In The 1st Annual Flickcharters’ Choice Awards!

15, Feb 2012
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Every year around this time, awards are given to the greatest in films, yet they always disappoint. The Oscars mostly avoid the mainstream, Golden Globes’ choices are a bit unexpected, and the Critics’ Choice Awards… where to even begin?

This year though, Flickchart decided to create their own awards for you – the Flickchart audience. We let the Flickchart blogging staff vote in twenty different categories. The five nominees in each category with the highest total of votes became the nominees in each of the categories. Now that the nominees have been chosen, it is up to you to decide who the winners are. Read the rest of this entry »

Find The Perfect Movie To Watch With Your Friends or Loved Ones With Group Filters!

14, Feb 2012
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Our Valentine’s Day gift to you… GROUP FILTERS!

Now you can filter the Charts by any number of people to get the best, the worst, or very specific combinations of your combined film tastes! Here’s how to do it:

  1. Just click Filter By Users under the Build A Custom Chart section of the Charts page
  2. Click Choose Friends
  3. Type in some of your friends’ usernames
  4. Optionally, set any other parameters you’re interested in (year/decade, by actor, by director, by franchise, by genre) 
  5. Then click Apply Filters
  6. You’re done!

It’s the perfect way to find a great film that you and your loved one haven’t seen, or if you’re planning a movie night with friends, or if you’re just insanely curious what your mutual favorites are in any year, decade, or genre of cinema.

Here’s a few examples:

You can have 2, 3, or even 30 people combined.. Any number of your friends can be put together in a group, on-the-fly, to see what you all think about movies, or find out what the best movies you haven’t seen yet are – in any genre, or from any year… any combination… millions of possibilities…
 
Also, if you happen to be strolling by someone’s profile on Flickchart, there’s handy links to see what your mutual favorite films are, or see what you both mutually can’t stand! Check ‘em out!

We’ve been wanting this for a long time, and we’re very proud to bring it to you today. Enjoy and have fun! Click over to our Charts and start adding your friends to the mix! If your friends aren’t on Flickchart yet, now’s the time to invite them! The more you both rank, the better your combined recommendations will be!

Over 50 Million Rankings Decide Flickchart’s Top 20 of 2011

29, Dec 2011
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Over 115,000 film fans worldwide have been adding all the movies they’ve seen from the year onto their Flickcharts and pitting them head-to-head against the best movies of all time. The following list is the product of those rankings – generating a combined list of the best movies of 2011 that are ranked the highest by each and every Flickchart user.

Don’t forget too that once you’re there, you can further filter the list to get the best of 2011 combined with any of your favorite actors, directors, genres, and franchises. If they seem in need of rearrangement, you can also rank any of these combinations and make sure the 2011 films you’ve seen are in just the right order on your list. Remember, if you watched and ranked these movies on your Flickchart, you helped to create this list! The higher your favorites of 2011 are on your list, the more you’ll be influencing their positions. If you haven’t yet, be sure to rank your favorites of 2011 to make changes to this list for the future! 

You can expect some major new features to arrive early in 2012, so keep your eyes peeled for some amazing things yet to come for Flickchart!

Without further adieu – out of 807 total movies released this year – here is your Top 20 of 2011:

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