Flickchart will pull you in, eat your soul, make you deliriously happy.
By Burbanked on Jul 10, 2009 in Movies, Newest, One-Sheetery | 1,819 views |
I spent an obscene amount of time last night answering the siren call of Flickchart, the new movie-ranking website that’s been causing its share of buzz among my movie blog-minded pals lately. The pure and simple fact about Flickchart is that, well, it’s so very pure and simple. This is exactly the kind of thing that succeeds so well online, because the concept is so quick and basic yet it’s been designed to be so very very easy to get hooked in.
Sign up for Flickchart and it won’t take long at all before you’re forced into making devastating choices between two of your favorite films that you never even contemplated comparing to each other before. The site’s well-designed, amusing and even the ads are clever. And for my money, I’m just so delighted to see how the site uses all manner of movie one-sheet art art both popular and obscure to represent the film choices – it’s a blast anticipating what poster you’ll see next.
Currently my top 20 movie rankings reflect my actual taste in movies pretty well:
Not sure exactly how Goldeneye got in there so high – especially above No Country for Old Men – but give me 17 more hours on the site and maybe I’ll be able to clean up that little anomaly.
Flickchart is quick, free, and a terrific blast for movie fans. Get signed up now and prepare to lose touch with the outside world for a day and a half.
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Craig Kennedy | Jul 10, 2009 | Reply
I obsessed about FlickChart for about 24 hours before I realized they didn’t even have Seven Samurai or Ikiru.
Just for giggles, here’s how my list was shaping up before I was tragically cut short:
1. Dr. Strangelove
2. Casablanca
3. Vertigo
4. Rear Window
5. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
6. Taxi Driver
7. The Big Lebowski
8. No Country for Old Men
9. Barry Lyndon
10. All About Eve
11. A Clockwork Orange
12. Star Wars
13. Singin’ in the rain
14. Ghostbusters
15. Lawrence of Arabia
16. Airplane!
17. Gone With the Wind
18. Chinatown
19. Mulholland Dr.
20. Raising Arizona
Nathan | Jul 11, 2009 | Reply
Craig,
Just so you know, we’ll be adding many more movies soon – we know that our database of film is not complete and working to amend it between launching new features, improving performance, and helping & listening to our users.
You’ll see Seven Samurai, Ikriu, and many, many more titles in the near future.
-Nathan
Co-Founder, Flickchart
Scott | Jul 13, 2009 | Reply
I like it, but there are a few flaws. First movies to come up was The Fugitive and Rounders. I picked The Fugitive, which remains my number one, even though I would pick the next 19 movies before it.
circus monkey | Oct 7, 2009 | Reply
What is this strange human obsession with lists, lists, lists?