June 02, 2009
Welcome to your addiction.
Meet Flickchart, a nifty little web gadget that will determine your favorite movies by relative ranking. It's sort of genius -- rather than pick your top five, ten, or twenty films, it just gives you side-by-side comparisons one at a time and tallies the results for you in the sidebar:
Click through to see where I've gotten so far. Obvs, you have to rate a whole bunch of movies for the list to shake out properly (I have no idea what Armageddon is doing up there, other than being better than Napoleon Dynamite, which, what isn't?), but if this sucks as much of your morning as it did my afternoon, that shouldn't take long. Sign up here.
Last time I did a pairwise comparison exercise was for a cost model at work using some crazy expensive dedicated system, about 8 years ago. This has to be more interesting.
Posted by: dc trojan at June 2, 2009 09:56 AMGlad you're enjoying the site! Keep ranking and your top movies list will definitely start shaking out soon. :)
Posted by: Nathan at June 2, 2009 10:05 AMAt this point, I'm not sure I could stop if I wanted to. This is a fantastic time-suck.
Posted by: Holly at June 2, 2009 10:08 AMso, what did you like better, sleepers, clockers, watchers or hackers?
Posted by: rhys at June 2, 2009 10:19 AMOh, man, I hadn't thought of that. I'm completely fucked if any of those come up. (You forgot Sounder, Rounders, and Slacker.)
Posted by: Holly at June 2, 2009 10:22 AMSo far, I am at about 5:2 ratio of movies not seen to movies seen. Might be time to give up.
Posted by: dc trojan at June 2, 2009 02:56 PMIt's definitely addictive, but it could use an "I'd rather go to bed" button for when you're forced to choose between Armageddon and Independence Day.
Posted by: Eric Angevine at June 2, 2009 05:37 PMI made all of my picks to screw over Garden State and Sidekicks. I mean, why are these two even in the discussion?
Posted by: tolsun at June 4, 2009 03:48 PMThey need a site like this for books.
Posted by: j at June 5, 2009 12:29 PM