What is Flickchart?
Flickchart is a website that lets you:
- rank movies to create your own personal list of favorites
by using the Flickchart matchup system
- become part of the Flickchart community and help decide what the "Best Films Of All Time" really are
- take part in discussions about particular pairs of movies
(who doesn't like to
debate whether Star Wars is better than Star Trek?)
- view movie information, and its ranking statistics on Flickchart
- invite friends and make new ones that you can compare your taste in movies with
(Someone out there must share your love for Gigli?)
- view the definitive best-of lists that break down the top movies by popular choice, year, decade, genre, actor,
and director
How does Flickchart work?
Our pairing system shows you two movies, and you decide which of the two you prefer
- whether it be the story, the cinematography, the director, a favorite line by your favorite
actor, or any other traits you may find that qualify it as the better film. If you
haven't seen one, or both, of the films, you use the designated buttons to let us
know you haven't seen them.
You can't decide which movie you like better if you haven't
seen one of them, right?
What happens if I mark a movie as unseen, but I want to rank it in the future?
On your profile you'll see a list of your "Haven't Seen" movies (ranked by order of preference as
ranked by all of Flickchart's users) where you can click "I've Seen It" for any of your unseen films.
You can also go to any movie's information page (by searching for it at the top right of any page, or
by clicking a link on your Top 20 list or on the charts) and rank it immediately by clicking the
"Add To My Flickchart" link.
How does the movie ranking work?
When you first create your account, Flickchart shows you the most popular movies. As you continue to
rank more films, Flickchart will gradually add in more obscure movies to show you.
We also give your rankings a point value that increases the more you rank - so someone with only 75 movies ranked will
have significantly less influence on the global charts than someone with 1000 movies ranked.
Why is there no "skip" button?
Skipping goes against our core belief that you must choose, no matter what. Part of the fun of Flickchart is that we want you to search within yourself to find the answer - every time. Try asking yourself, "Which movie would I rather watch again right now?", or "If I could only watch one of these for the rest of my life, which movie would I choose?"
How do I remove movies from my Top 20 that don't belong?
Just click the movie's title in your Top 20 list in the left-hand column, and it will take you to that movie's information page.
From there, simply click "Remove From My Flickchart" to completely eliminate the film's place on your list, and all of the rankings you've made for it.
Then you have the option of clicking "Add To My Flickchart" to rank it again immediately, or you can choose to wait until the movie comes up again later while you're ranking.
You're missing a movie I want to rank. What do I do?
Just do a search for the movie you're looking for on Flickchart, and if we don't have it on our search results (and it DOES NOT have a "[pending]" at the end of the title when searching for the movie), just click the "Submit a title to Flickchart" link to open the movie submission form.
From there, you can enter the information for the film, and we'll review the submissions and get them added to the site as soon as we can. This is the fastest way to let us know which of your favorite movies we're missing.
Also see our screencast video for a short how-to on how the submission works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpiNcboEvf4
Do you have an app for iPhone, Android, or Blackberry?
We do have a simplified web app for the iPhone, which can be found via iPhone's Safari browser at http://iphone.flickchart.com, or
you can simply go to http://www.flickchart.com and it will automatically redirect you. You won't find it in the App Store, or in iTunes, as it's just a specially formatted version
of the website made to fit well on the iPhone's screen. We'll be working on this more in the future to flesh out its features, and perhaps
even migrate it to a full native application that you can get on the App Store. As for Android & Blackberry users, we've heard from our iPhone
users that it works pretty well on your mobile device too, so give it a shot. If there's enough demand in the future, we'll look into supporting
more devices as well.
Why did you decide to create Flickchart?
We're big movie fans, and we know what movies we like. Great sites such as
IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, and
Metacritic offer excellent ways to learn more about movies, and to see
what the critics, and their users, think about movies. The problem arose that everyone
is rating movies individually with some sort of point value - using stars, a 1 to 10 scale,
percentages, or even tomatoes - that when lumped together to create the all-encompassing
"Best Movies Of All Time" lists, seemed to come short of where we
thought they could be.
Flickchart is our solution to the dilemma.
Flickchart takes any two movies and presents them
to you with the choice of which is better. When you make that choice enough times,
you can start to see what movies are really the best.
A simple idea with a strikingly accurate result. Now with all of you - the Flickchart faithful - we can finally
find out what really are the "Best Movies Of All Time".
Who are you guys?
Check out the About Us page for more info on the founders of Flickchart.
