What happens when I have a little extra time on my hands...

The obvious flaws with Flickchart are that you can only choose between the two films that they give you to choose from and they choose which films to face off against one another. As soon as Secrets & Lies has to face off against Annie Hall, Memento, Star Wars, or a number of other films in my top 100, I'll have a new #1. And I would definitely rate Kill Bill Vol. II higher than Vol. I or even Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade -- and Seven Samurai would crush all of them -- but neither KB2 or SS are in Flickchart's repertoire (they haven't appeared yet anyway.) Overall, I would agree that all of the films on the list they've created for me based on my ratings thus far would easily make my top 500, or possibly even my 250, but definitely not in the order that they placed them. Not that I'd ever be able to put them in proper order anyway... I change my mind too often as a result of my propensity to overanalyze shit. The scientific method is much better, I think, but it will take some time to get an accurate reading.

I've been playing with it for just over a week and here is where things stand after just under 2,000 ratings:

	Movie Title	Release Year	Director	Rating
1	Secrets & Lies	1996	Mike Leigh
2	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly	1966	Sergio Leone
3	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	1989	Steven Spielberg
4	Citizen Kane	1941	Orson Welles
5	Star Wars	1977	George Lucas
6	Annie Hall	1977	Woody Allen
7	Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan	1982	Nicholas Meyer
8	Being John Malkovich	1999	Spike Jonze
9	Pi	1998	Darren Aronofsky
10	Amadeus	1984	Milos Forman
11	Gandhi	1982	Richard Attenborough
12	The Killing Fields	1984	Roland Joffé
13	Pulp Fiction	1994	Quentin Tarantino
14	Kundun	1997	Martin Scorsese
15	Midnight Cowboy	1969	John Schlesinger
16	Taxi Driver	1976	Martin Scorsese
17	Blow Out	1981	Brian De Palma
18	Fargo	1996	Joel Coen
19	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	2001	Peter Jackson
20	Boogie Nights	1997	Paul Thomas Anderson
21	Memento	2001	Christopher Nolan
22	North by Northwest	1959	Alfred Hitchcock
23	Bringing Up Baby	1938	Howard Hawks
24	On Golden Pond	1982	Mark Rydell
25	Donnie Darko	2002	Richard Kelly
26	On the Waterfront	1954	Elia Kazan
27	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	2003	Peter Jackson
28	The Limey	1999	Steven Soderbergh
29	Dog Day Afternoon	1975	Sidney Lumet
30	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	1977	Steven Spielberg
31	The Empire Strikes Back	1980	Irvin Kershner
32	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	2004	Michel Gondry
33	The Shawshank Redemption	1994	Frank Darabont
34	Vertigo	1958	Alfred Hitchcock
35	Ordinary People	1981	Robert Redford
36	Casablanca	1943	Michael Curtiz
37	Star Trek: The Motion Picture	1979	Robert Wise
38	2001: A Space Odyssey	1968	Stanley Kubrick
39	Crimes and Misdemeanors	1989	Woody Allen
40	Clash of the Titans	1981	Desmond Davis
41	Network	1977	Sidney Lumet
42	Laura	1944	Otto Preminger
43	The Conversation	1974	Francis Ford Coppola
44	The Crying Game	1992	Neil Jordan
45	Deliverance	1972	John Boorman
46	Short Cuts	1993	Robert Altman
47	The Dead Zone	1983	David Cronenberg
48	Chinatown	1974	Roman Polanski
49	Five Easy Pieces	1970	Bob Rafelson
50	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?	1962	Robert Aldrich
51	The World According to Garp	1982	George Roy Hill
52	M*A*S*H	1970	Robert Altman
53	Bound	1996	Andy Wachowski
54	Gosford Park	2002	Robert Altman
55	The Godfather Part II	1974	Francis Ford Coppola
56	The Silence of the Lambs	1991	Jonathan Demme
57	The Apartment	1960	Billy Wilder
58	The Birds	1963	Alfred Hitchcock
59	Amélie	2001	Jean-Pierre Jeunet
60	Spider-Man 2	2004	Sam Raimi
61	Reservoir Dogs	1992	Quentin Tarantino
62	Out of Sight	1998	Steven Soderbergh
63	Capote	2006	Bennett Miller
64	Smokey and the Bandit	1977	Hal Needham
65	Run Lola Run	1999	Tom Tykwer
66	Some Like It Hot	1959	Billy Wilder
67	High Fidelity	2000	Stephen Frears
68	Monsters, Inc.	2001	Pete Docter
69	The Usual Suspects	1995	Bryan Singer
70	The Sting	1974	George Roy Hill
71	Dial M for Murder	1954	Alfred Hitchcock
72	Rocky	1976	John G. Avildsen
73	Terms of Endearment	1983	James L. Brooks
74	Kinsey	2005	Bill Condon
75	Adaptation	2003	Spike Jonze
76	Rear Window	1955	Alfred Hitchcock
77	Doctor Zhivago	1965	David Lean
78	Bananas	1971	Woody Allen
79	Rebecca	1940	Alfred Hitchcock
80	Amores Perros	2000	Alejandro González Iñárritu
81	A Clockwork Orange	1972	Stanley Kubrick
82	GoodFellas	1990	Martin Scorsese
83	Notorious	1946	Alfred Hitchcock
84	Cool Hand Luke	1967	Stuart Rosenberg
85	Marathon Man	1976	John Schlesinger
86	Seven Years in Tibet	1997	Jean-Jacques Annaud
87	Easy Rider	1969	Dennis Hopper
88	Brokeback Mountain	2005	Ang Lee
89	The Straight Story	1999	David Lynch
90	Enter the Dragon	1973	Robert Clouse
91	Kill Bill Vol. 1	2003	Quentin Tarantino
92	The Godfather	1972	Francis Ford Coppola
93	Rope	1948	Alfred Hitchcock
94	Blue Velvet	1986	David Lynch
95	The Shining	1980	Stanley Kubrick
96	Cinema Paradiso	1990	Giuseppe Tornatore
97	American History X	1998	Tony Kaye
98	Escape from Alcatraz	1979	Don Siegel
99	A Streetcar Named Desire	1951	Elia Kazan
100	American Beauty	1999	Sam Mendes

Given the number of films in their database and the current rate that they've been adding films, the percentage of films I've already discarded (haven't seen) and the percentage of films I'll likely discard in future ratings, I've determined that I will need to rate approximately 116,880 more times before having an accurate Top 100. My average rate time is 1.4 seconds, so it will take me 163,632 seconds (or 45 hours and 45 minutes) to accomplish this. I can only devote 20 minutes per day, so I'll have to get back to you around October 30th.

And now the Random Six:

[removed after 7 days]
XTC - Dear God
You're the One - Shane McGowan & the Popes (hey, a repeat! finally!!!)
The Pretenders - Mystery Achievement (my favorite by them, squeee!!!)
Van Morrison - I'll Be Your Lover Too
Ray Charles - Night Time is the Right Time
Jon Brion - Here We Go (not a random six repeat, but I did share this over a year ago I think. If not here, then on Live Journal. I'll have to check.)

The above estimation is all rubbish, by the way. Well the 1.4 seconds part and how long it would take me to rate 116,880 movies is true, but the 118,880 number is bullshit, rendering it all rubbish.