Note: Three Colours trilogy has to be split out if you’re going to use any films from it. They’re three separate movies:
Three Colours: Blue (1993)
Three Colours: Red (1994)
Three Colours: White (1994)
It’s to my great shame that I have not actually seen any of these yet even though they’ve been on my radar for a good while. Juliette Binoche consistently picks really interesting work to do, so I’m strongly guessing they’ll land for me.
Additional Note: When you submit, I’ll press like on the incoming PM as a read receipt, but I may or may not be near my computer where I’m populating these on an Excel spreadsheet. When I catch up and add your entry to the compilation, I will send a message saying “tallied” in reply.
Your check is in the mail.
I probably should have read the OP before proposing changes. Apologies
Willing to negotiate in some strategic vote trading to keep some favorites off the board. If American Beauty or Magnolia win this thing I am going back to 2+2
I vehemently oppose any type of vote trading or the like for this.
But I would say there’s some merit in assigning negative values to films we don’t like.
For example, if 10 of us have a movie rated #1 and the other 10 absolutely hate it, is that “better” than 20 people who have all have it ranked #12? I’d say no, but under this system the former would score higher.
(Not that I think that will happen here; I’m just spitballing)
I hear you, but the label is favorite rather than better, and I think assigning overall scores to every contending movie is just a separate question. If a movie has enough shooters to make the collective favorites list, so be it. And obviously I say that realizing that I myself could get rustled by some nonsense making the final list.
I decided that secret ballot was probably the best way to do this so that later votes aren’t responding to a leaderboard developing in plain sight, and having secret ballot also doesn’t really enable people to try to bring contending movies down since people won’t even really know what they are.
Basically I don’t think this is a workable idea without converting this to open ballot and/or creating undue additional work for, well, me. Some movies that people hate may make the list, people may be rustled, they may express their rustle in entertaining ways. I think it’s fine as is.
Lost Highway
Maniac Cop II
Chunking Express
Leprechaun
Space Jam.
I put a progress update in the OP and added the master list from above to it. We are in the ranking phase now.
Contender for greatest soundtrack for sure.
I went through the colors cinematic universe last year and I think my rankings were Blue > Red >> White
I’m glad this is “favorite” and not “best”. As I was making my exclusions and dragging titles around to approach the final order, I considered that for those of us of a certain age, the '90s were basically our 20s and early 30s, and a lot of important foundational stuff happens during that phase of your life.
Some of my movies are not necessarily great or even that good, but they resonate on a personal level due to some association with people, with important life events, even with places.
For example Miller’s Crossing ranks high for me partly because one of my college roommates (who later became a professional film critic!) made us all watch it at least 20 times in the early 90s. So while I think it’s a fine movie anyway, it’s one of my favorites because of these external factors.
Miller’s Crossing is also awesome even as someone who took until the 2000s to get to it. Obviously nostalgia and context can still help even an already-great movie, but I think it hits even if a person just watches it for the first time today. At least if a person is into the Coens.
Agreed. I have some movies ranked high that most would not consider great but they mean something to me at a moment in time. The 90s was my peak movie viewing era. I would go to see 5-7 movies in the theater a week. Living in north Texas this sometimes got hard to even find movies. I wanted to see as we didn’t have any/many art house theaters back then. But some of my movies I only ever saw on ppv.
Submitted. Harder than expected even though I didn’t actually feel too strongly about the bottom half of my list. I’ve only seen like a third of the nominated movies. I guess I’m not really a movie guy.
It’s the age-old debate, but I just don’t shy away from calling a movie great if I love it enough to say so. It resonated with me. It probably didn’t do it by accident. What is greatness in a movie if not that? Art isn’t figure skating.
I first whittled down my list to 60-70 movies that I thought had a chance to be in a top 20. Then I took that list and chose all the movies I knew I wanted in my top 20. This left me with thirty one movies. I then started placing them 1-20. The first few were easy as I have a top five I always have had. Then I started slotting the rest. Was kind of surprised at some of the final 31 I cut. I thought some of them would be in my top twenty for sure.
I believe I have tallied all incoming entries. 10 entries so far.
Some tough cuts but I like my list