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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #4810 on: November 12, 2016, 05:09:44 AM »
Some recommendations that could help with that method:
1. Giving a rating to each category instead of just clicking "yes" or "no". All cinematic movies are cinematic but some are more cinematic than others. You could then multiply the rating by a variable that would account for your hierarchy of categories.
2. Having a "coup de coeur" category for those movies you just like but cannot account for why.
3. Use conditional functions if you want to reward underrepresented genres.

Now I am looking for sorting algorithms on the internet and websites that will do that for me, so that's what my Saturday becomes when I log into this forum.
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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #4811 on: November 13, 2016, 03:23:12 AM »
Now I am looking for sorting algorithms on the internet and websites that will do that for me, so that's what my Saturday becomes when I log into this forum.

Found anything good?
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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #4812 on: November 13, 2016, 03:53:04 AM »
The search query wording was trickier than I thought it would be. I decided to outsource and ask help from some engineer friends.
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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #4813 on: December 04, 2016, 01:04:52 PM »
I haven't done a proper top-100 in a long while, as I've been eschewing set lists in favor of the more amorphous Bondo Collection. Turns out that changed my thinking a fair amount because when I finished picking out the obvious top-100 films I was at about 60 films. Easy to pick 20 films a year that I think people should watch because they are interesting or overlooked, quite another thing to say this film is absolutely indispensable to me. Thus the rating gets less relevant in the second half as I kind of filled the list out with what I felt was kind of most Bondo Collectiony.

1.     Children of Men
2.     In Bruges
3.     Jurassic Park
4.     Shortbus
5.     Fish Tank
6.     Innocence
7.     The Hunchback of Notre Dame
8.     They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
9.     Let The Right One In
10.   The Barbarian Invasions
11.   Lars and the Real Girl
12.   12 Angry Men
13.   Leave It On The Floor
14.   28 Days Later
15.   The Woodsman
16.   Her
17.   1776
18.   Minority Report
19.   Juno
20.   American Beauty
21.   The Prestige
22.   Metropolis
23.   Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight
24.   Irreversible
25.   Dear Zachary
26.   As Good As It Gets
27.   In The Loop
28.   Memento
29.   Les Miserables (2012)
30.   The Breakfast Club
31.   Sundays and Cybele
32.   Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
33.   High Strung
34.   F*cking Amal
35.   The Matrix
36.   Skallamann
37.   Hypocrites
38.   Looper
39.   In The Heat of the Night
40.   It Follows
41.   5 Centimeters Per Second
42.   Rear Window
43.   Pretty Baby
44.   Inception
45.   T2: Judgment Day
46.   The Apartment
47.   The Cabin in the Woods
48.   Bend It Like Beckham
49.   12 Years A Slave
50.   Toys
51.   After Life (1998)
52.   Gravity
53.   Boy Meets Girl (2014)
54.   Spirited Away
55.   Ink
56.   My Fair Lady
57.   The Lobster
58.   Arabian Nights (2000)
59.   Brooklyn
60.   Demolition Man
61.   Sing Street
62.   Do The Right Thing
63.   Trainspotting
64.   Melancholia
65.   The Truman Show
66.   Moonlight
67.   Sideways
68.   Modern Times
69.   Blind
70.   The Matador
71.   Clouds of Sils Maria
72.   Ruby Sparks
73.   Belle
74.   Brotherhood (2009)
75.   Calvary
76.   Tangerine
77.   Atonement
78.   Kontroll
79.   My Name Is Khan
80.   The Class
81.   Metropolitan
82.   XXY
83.   North Country
84.   Vera Drake
85.   Murder on a Sunday Morning
86.   A Summer’s Tale
87.   Say Uncle
88.   The Idiots (1998)
89.   The Cherry Orchard
90.   State Legislature
91.   Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
92.   Babette’s Feast
93.   Dirty Dancing
94.   The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes
95.   A Time For Burning
96.   Diary of a Lost Girl
97.   Victim
98.   The Truth About Women (1957)
99.   Stage Door
100. Bachelor Mother
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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #4814 on: December 04, 2016, 01:12:04 PM »
Didn't realize you loved Babette's Feast. Nice!

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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #4815 on: December 04, 2016, 04:09:17 PM »
Didn't realize you loved Babette's Feast. Nice!

Being French and Norwegian (which we'll round to Danish here for convenience), I feel like the film symbolizes the cultural tension inherent inside me. Or to put it in your language: "Mother, father; always you wrestle inside me." :)

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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #4816 on: December 04, 2016, 05:16:13 PM »


4.     Shortbus


Huh. Haven't seen that in years, I'll have to re-watch it. Certainly a unique movie.
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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #4817 on: December 04, 2016, 05:26:30 PM »
I like to call it a narrative adaptation of Dan Savage's podcast.

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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #4818 on: December 04, 2016, 05:28:00 PM »
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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #4819 on: December 04, 2016, 08:26:56 PM »
Bondo's list

1.     Children of Men-- Fascinating choice for top slot.  I can't disagree with it, but I never would have thought it for the number one position.


4.     Shortbus-- The film that screams out "Bondo approved" before anything else.

7.     The Hunchback of Notre Dame-- The Disney, right?

11.   Lars and the Real Girl-- This used to appear regularly on my top 100.  Under praised by most in my opinion.


17.   1776-- A childhood favorite of mine.  I never thought to consider it for a recent favorite, though.

23.   Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight-- A cheat.  But a solid one.  I can't choose between them.

24.   Irreversible
25.   Dear Zachary-- Two excellent, horrible films.

32.   Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind-- yes!

33.   High Strung-- I don't think I know this one.  Have a review?

37.   Hypocrites-- I feel bad because I promised to watch this one, had it on my shelf and returned it to the library before watching it.

42.   Rear Window-- In my permanent top 10


50.   Toys-- It's been many years since I watched this.  I need to re-watch it to see if it holds up.

51.   After Life (1998)-- good choice

54.   Spirited Away-- too low on your list

57.   The Lobster-- So I see that you have a couple of this years' films on your list.  I put The Witch on my recent list, but I still wonder at the wisdom of putting a movie that I've seen less than a year ago on my list.  I feel that I don't really know the impact of a film on me in less than a year.  I'm wondering about only allowing movies that I've let gel in my mind for a while stay on my list.  What do you think about that?
61.   Sing Street
66.   Moonlight

75.   Calvary-- A surprise that I see this on your list.  Great film.

79.   My Name Is Khan-- I really liked it, but it so often returned to cliche that I couldn't put it on my top list.


91.   Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story-- Just saw this this year.  You and 1SO have it on your list.  What makes it top 100 worthy?  Was the style of the film offputting, or did you find that it drew you in?

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