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Reel Rumbles #41: ‘Gremlins’ vs. ‘Bad Santa’
21, Dec 2011
by Nigel Druitt
In This Corner…
Everybody wants to make sure they remain on Santa’s “Nice” list, to ensure a lack of charcoal in the stocking on the big day. But let’s face it: Sometimes being Naughty can just be a lot more fun. Spend some time this holiday season with some of cinema’s naughtiest Christmas creations as Reel Rumbles presents: Gremlins vs. Bad Santa. Read the rest of this entry »
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Directors Who Dominate: Steven Spielberg
27, Jan 2011by Nigel Druitt
Since last fall’s revamping of Flickchart‘s global ranking system (see the official announcement about that here), many films have found themselves moved around on the global charts. But one thing remains consistent: the Directors Who Dominate continue to do so. Previously covered in this series, Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino remain at the top of the charts (with their highest-ranked films at #1 and #4, respectively.) But the biggest change is that their newest efforts (Inception and Inglourious Basterds) have a much stronger presence on the chart, where they now appear at #2 and #13. And this brings us to another director who continually dominates, the man who is widely regarded (for good or ill) as the father of the modern blockbuster: Steven Spielberg.
- In: Directors Who Dominate
- Tags: 1941, 1975, 1981, 1984, 1993, 2001, 2005, 2009, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, Amistad, Best Picture, Box Office, Catch Me If You Can, Christopher Nolan, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Empire of the Sun, film, films, Flickchart, George Lucas, Gremlins, Harrison Ford, Hook, Inception, Indiana Jones, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Inglourious Basterds, James Bond, Jaws, jurassic park, Leonardo DiCaprio, Minority Report, movies, Munich, Peter Jackson, Quentin Tarantino, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Shakespeare in Love, Star Trek, Star Wars, Steven Spielberg, Super 8, The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, The Color Purple, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, The Terminal, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, War Horse, War of the Worlds
by Dan
The homepage of Flickchart states “If they’re all 5 star movies, which one is the best?” I put that to the test to determine just how effective their system is, and just how broken traditional rating methods are.
I keep a running diary of all the films I watch, complete with date, film, rating, and check marks indicating whether it’s the first time I’ve seen the movie and if I watched it on TCM. There are very few other things to do with the “Latino Images in Film” spiral notebooks I won from TCM a while back. I’m almost positive Cantinflas would have done the same thing. I watch a movie, record it in the diary an hour later after it has sunk in, and then get it on Flickchart when I get the chance. The current book is at over 500 movies since July ’09. Now, it would make sense that the relationship of the ratings I come up with after seeing a movie and their positions on Flickchart would match, right?
Well, no.
- In: User Showcase
- Tags: 7 Brides for 7 Brothers, 9, Back to the Future II, Cabin in the Sky, Cantinflas, Coraline, Duck Soup, film criticism, Flickchart, Gremlins, Ice-T, Latino Images in Film, Lena Horne, Peeping Tom, Ricochet, Rocky III, Roger Ebert, Rotten Tomatoes, Star Trek, Stormy Weather, TCM, The Big Lebowski, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Innocents, The Narrow Margin, The Set-Up