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C.D.D.B. Stats; nerds only
Topic Started: Jun 29 2006, 08:41 AM (2,543 Views)
Gerardo
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I've seen things...
YancySkancy,Dec 21 2007
08:07 PM
See, this is where some of you guys have it all over me. I've seen only 39 of those.

"You should watch more foreign films."
-- reelerguy, early 21st c.


:lol:






... I have seen 49 out of the list. Broke almost even. Would like to watch 20-30 more from the list that are either famous or sound interesting. I guess my biggest regret is not having seen the top film, Werckmeister Harmonies.
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kid charlemagne
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1 Werckmeister Harmonies
2 The Heart of the World

That is completely awesome.

And I've finally found an area that I've seen more movies than Yancy! It's just a pity that these were among them...
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16t The New World
35t INLAND EMPIRE
38t No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
49t Downfall
54 Children of Men
63 The Company
66 Brick
100 Code: Unknown

Hadn't registered my disdain for a bunch of these, that's now corrected.

I've gotta love these surprises though
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38t Devdas
60t Cat Soup

:)
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Aaron
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vornporn,Dec 21 2007
03:27 PM
I've seen all but 15, and to be honest, some of those 15 have never crossed my mind as something to watch (Kitchen Stories?).

Kitchen Stories is truly a treasure. You should check it out.

I didn't count, but at a glance I think I've missed about 20 of those, but unfortunately haven't updated my cddb ratings in awhile. Will try to catch up over the holiday weekend.
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TBickle
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kid charlemagne,Dec 21 2007
03:04 PM
And I've finally found an area that I've seen more movies than Yancy! It's just a pity that these were among them...
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16t The New World
35t INLAND EMPIRE
49t Downfall
54 Children of Men
63 The Company
66 Brick
100 Code: Unknown

Hadn't registered my disdain for a bunch of these, that's now corrected.

That's absolute madness. Each and every one of those films is fantastic. How does someone with a Rabbits avatar hate Inland Empire??

L'Intrus and Secret Things in the top 50 and The World being on it at all are the most pleasant surprises for me.
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Helen Wheels!
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I count 69 titles that I've seen, which leaves a pretty darn nice list to undertake in '08.
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vornporn
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TBickle,Dec 21 2007
09:03 PM
kid charlemagne,Dec 21 2007
03:04 PM
And I've finally found an area that I've seen more movies than Yancy! It's just a pity that these were among them...
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16t The New World
35t INLAND EMPIRE
49t Downfall
54 Children of Men
63 The Company
66 Brick
100 Code: Unknown

Hadn't registered my disdain for a bunch of these, that's now corrected.

That's absolute madness. Each and every one of those films is fantastic. How does someone with a Rabbits avatar hate Inland Empire??

L'Intrus and Secret Things in the top 50 and The World being on it at all are the most pleasant surprises for me.

Even though I also like each of those films, I can think of reasons why someone wouldn't. Except for the Haneke film. That one stumps me.
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TBickle
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vornporn,Dec 21 2007
09:44 PM
TBickle,Dec 21 2007
09:03 PM
kid charlemagne,Dec 21 2007
03:04 PM
And I've finally found an area that I've seen more movies than Yancy! It's just a pity that these were among them...
Quote:
 
16t The New World
35t INLAND EMPIRE
49t Downfall
54 Children of Men
63 The Company
66 Brick
100 Code: Unknown

Hadn't registered my disdain for a bunch of these, that's now corrected.

That's absolute madness. Each and every one of those films is fantastic. How does someone with a Rabbits avatar hate Inland Empire??

L'Intrus and Secret Things in the top 50 and The World being on it at all are the most pleasant surprises for me.

Even though I also like each of those films, I can think of reasons why someone wouldn't. Except for the Haneke film. That one stumps me.

That's true. It's not any one or two in particular that I found surprising, but all 7 combined into one all-encompassing diss (and from kid c who normally has good taste :)) threw me for a loop.
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kid charlemagne
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and from kid c who normally has good taste

:)

I guess this is more Heresy thread material but here we go anyway...

Dull:
49t Downfall
54 Children of Men
66 Brick
100 Code: Unknown

It's not that there's anything amazingly wrong with these films. All of them have great concepts but, in my opinion of course, just don't do anything particularly interesting with them. Brick in particular, like the concept, but the execution is overly ponderous and takes itself a bit too seriously for the rather silly (but, admittedly, still noir) plot to work.


Downright shocking:
16t The New World
35t INLAND EMPIRE
63 The Company

Malick's film is rather astonishingly awful, but then I thought Thin Red Line was little better. Couldn't see the point to any of it, pretty though.

Yancy comments in his review for Altman's film that people who dislike it seem to do so because "it's a slice-of-life with little in the way of narrative or characterization" which is fine, only Altman brings nothing to the table that you can't find in movies that do have narrative and characterisation. After the n-th interminable scene of people I don't know bending their bodies and getting shouted at by other people I don't know I wonder why I'm watching this and not any old Dancing With The Stars repeat. Malcolm McDowell is the best thing about the film but I'd rather have Bruno Tonioni any day.

I've just put my long review of IE in the DB. As to why I love Rabbits, it's because it appears to have sprung from a single, consistant and outrageously terrifying vision, as opposed to IE which feels like a cut-and-paste job (better explained in my review).
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vornporn
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Dear Mr. Dirt,

How hard would be to get some stats on how many titles each member has rated, and a breakdown of the ratings (PRO, pro, mixed, con, CON)? I remember back when we started and the # of titles was so small, we could poke fun at Mr. Jiggy for being an easy grader. I miss that.

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Dirt
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After all.....
vornporn,Nov 10 2008
05:06 PM
Dear Mr. Dirt,

How hard would be to get some stats on how many titles each member has rated, and a breakdown of the ratings (PRO, pro, mixed, con, CON)? I remember back when we started and the # of titles was so small, we could poke fun at Mr. Jiggy for being an easy grader. I miss that.


piece of cake. I'll make some minor adjustments to the Browse Members selection. (There has *got* to be a better title for that one.)
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Mister Jiggy, Esq.
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vornporn,Nov 10 2008
04:06 PM
.. we could poke fun at Mr. Jiggy for being an easy grader. I miss that.

I recently conned an Antonioni, a Bresson and a Chabrol. I dedicate those to you... :sunny:
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vornporn
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Woohoo! Thanks, Dirt! Now for some stats...

Most CDDB Ratings

1. YancySkancy - 4991
2. Mr. Jiggy - 4230
3. vornporn - 3903
4. Cassius Bean - 3505
5. Dirt - 2951
6. dorado - 2801
7. mreguyinla - 2797
8. Helen Wheels - 2562
9. Richard Sagawa - 2504
10. sharon peters - 2300
11. TBickle - 2270
12. fred savage - 2215
13. cafeman - 2178
14. RaidersOfTheFoundArk - 2012
15. rushmore7 - 1963
16. Nostalghic - 1763
17. The Barber - 1529
18. dissent - 1448
19. Hugh_Grant - 1439
20. Aragorn Exley - 1391
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vornporn
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Top Ten Easy Graders (300 ratings minimum)

1. Mrs. Allison - 4.11
2. jmanin2 - 4.06
3. The Third M?n - 3.96
4. microcosmic - 3.94
5. Aesops_Fable - 3.91
6. Andy Hardy - 3.86
7. Spider J - 3.85
8. Dr. Zira a chimpanzee - 3.85
9. HarryTuttle - 3.84
10. mreguyinla - 3.82

For the record, Mr. Jiggy ranked 31st of the 52 people who had 300 or more votes, so he's actually on the 'tough' side.
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vornporn
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Top Ten Toughest Graders (300 rating minimum)

1. sharon peters - 3.00
2. dr_pretorious - 3.11
3. Cassius Bean - 3.12
4. Aguirre1 - 3.19
5. dissent - 3.22
6. Hugh_Grant - 3.23
7. dorado - 3.24
8. Alex Rogan - 3.32
9. vornporn - 3.34
10. Jaime Christley - 3.37
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vornporn
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I Feel Strongly About This Movie! (% of PRO and CON in total ratings)

1. The Third M?n - 43.9%
2. Andy Hardy - 43.7%
3. Aguirre1 - 41.6%
4. Aesops_Fable - 40.3%
5. Othello - 38.6%
6. jmanin2 - 35.6%
7. Son of HAL - 34.1%
8. Aragorn Exley - 33.5%
9. Mrs. Allison - 33.2%
10. Dr. Zira a chimpanzee - 32.4%
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