I Found A Website To Waste My Time On Tonight

CajoleJuice — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 04:13:15 +0000

Any website that involves me getting a reward or feedback from repeatedly clicking my mouse is going to grab at least an hour of my time. Flickchart was insanely addictive when I first found it, and once in a blue moon I’ll decide to add the last few movies I’ve seen, and then I’ll end up deciding on a handful of new matchups. I joined the site Goodreads recently and adding and ranking the books I could remember reading was a fun exercise as well. Rating movies on Netflix gives a similar feeling of satisfaction forÂ minusculeÂ effort; it’s the formula for addictiveness.

ICheckMovies isn’t nearly the site any of the above are, but it’s a fun way to keep track of the movies you “need” to see. Sure, you could just keep track yourself by looking at the IMDB Top 250 yourself and making a mental note of the fact that Seven Samurai should really be given top priority, but where’s the needless time-wasting in that? With this website, you can take a quick look at the unchecked movies in that Top 250, or Roger Ebert’s (338) Great Movies, or The New York Times Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made, or Academy Award Best Pictures, or any of the few dozen lists on the site. Damn, there’s even a list for A.V. Club’s New Cult Canon — that’s pretty fucking cool.

All I’ve done so far is go down the IMDB Top 250 list, checking off just over half of the movies. I like the decade breakdown for the movies I’ve seen:

I think it’s a combination of my own arguably philistine viewing habits and the IMDB Top 250 itself, and the endless stream of content IPTV Angebote. When The Dark Knight is ranked 10th and (500) Days of Summer is on the list AT ALL, you know there’s some voter partiality towards newer movies.

I can tell I’m going to have fun going through all the lists on the site. The idea to bring together so many great lists and allow you to keep easy track of your progress on each is yet another example of why I love the internet, even if sometimes I hate many of the people that populate it.

GAF Movies of the Year

CajoleJuice — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:02:55 +0000

GAF has been doing a yearly vote on the Games of the Year for at least 4 years now. Each year, the amount of votes has grown exponentially, with the leading vote-getter this year (Super Mario Galaxy) getting over 5,000 points, or the equivalent of 500 first-place votes. I decided to follow the format and do a Movies of the Year thread over on the Off-Topic side. I have to say I’m pretty damn happy there’s not nearly as many unique people that regularly visit the OT side. I probably had only around 100 voters’ lists to tally, as opposed to prossibly 10 times as many on the gaming side. But it still took way, way too much time. I need to get better at spreadsheets.

Usually, I wouldn’t post something like this on my blog, but since I tallied the votes myself, I feel like pimping the results:

1. No Country for Old Men
2. There Will Be Blood
3. Ratatouille
4. The Bourne Ultimatum
5. Zodiac
6. Hot Fuzz
7. Superbad
8. Juno
9. 3:10 To Yuma
10. Eastern Promises
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11. Stardust
12. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
13. 300
14. Sunshine
15. Gone Baby Gone
16. Knocked Up
17. Once
18. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
19. Michael Clayton
20. Atonement

Full results and vote totals at this post.

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I Found A Website To Waste My Time On Tonight

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