Home Theater Forum - View Single Post - Our Top 10's of 2003: Time To Throw Down!

Dana Fillhart · 02-13-2004, 06:57 AM

Ok, this update includes everybody's updates in this thread, and those who've posted in this thread that they've updated their 2003 Film List posts. (I was being slightly lazy this time; I didn't go through every member in this list and check their 2003 Film List post for updates, so the counts may be slightly off.) I have good news, though (and it's not "I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to Geico"

): I finally finished entering Michael Perez' 388 films!

Just a couple notes:

I ran a query to return the top 300 films (I snuck into my database and changed the stored proc to return the top 300, just for a moment so I could check out what the list would be like). Only 127 films have been ranked, out of 648 titles marked in my database for 2003 (the vast majority of the 648 are film-festival/non-U.S. films). I'm quite pleased that my #2 film (the only film in my top 10 that's not in our Top 30 list) is at #49, just squeaking into the top 50

The five that just missed the list are May (33), Love Actually (26), Cabin Fever (25), Cold Mountain (25), and The Station Agent (24).

Also, I compared this year's member count to this time last year, and we're not that far off (I posted an update Feb. 26th that had 77 members; this post has 73).

Thanks, Seth, for that lesson on vote-splitting (in the Oscars thread) -- it was pretty fascinating (though I admit I'd seen something similar to that before). The whole "select your #1 favorite" method doesn't always tell the whole story, which is why I've tried to provide as many options in the stats as I can (while still retaining my sanity

). Hopefully the additional columns beyond the simple total-tally add some meaning to our Top 10 lists.

[EDIT: D'oh! I had somehow forgotten to enter Jason Seaver's Top 10 list! I actually entered his films seen from the 2003 Film List, but didn't enter his Top 10 list, and by default anybody with less than 10 films RANKED doesn't appear in the list. I've corrected my gaffe, and there are now 73 members listed.]
Ok, enough rambling. Here ya go...

The Top 30 of Our Top 10 of 2003 Contributing, Qualifying Members:73 Includes all member updates through:13 Feb 2004
#	Film	Total Score	Fractional Weighted Total	Top 10 List Appearances : 2003 List Appearances	Weighted Average	Unweighted Average
1	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	450	48.98	54 : 63	8.32	6.16
2	Kill Bill: Vol. 1	306	37.15	45 : 58	6.80	4.19
3	Lost in Translation	252	31.95	39 : 50	6.46	3.45
4	Finding Nemo	208	24.75	31 : 52	6.71	2.85
5	Cidade de Deus (City of God)	144	19.03	21 : 32	6.86	1.97
6	Mystic River	136	20.53	27 : 42	5.04	1.86
7	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	126	16.62	22 : 43	5.70	1.72
8	21 Grams	117	14.68	19 : 34	6.16	1.60
9	The Last Samurai	110	14.85	19 : 41	5.79	1.51
10	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	106	15.60	23 : 48	4.61	1.45
11	X2	104	13.30	23 : 51	4.52	1.42
12	American Splendor	92	12.09	14 : 29	6.57	1.26
13	Irréversible (Irreversible)	89	14.48	16 : 29	5.56	1.22
14	In America	79	11.10	13 : 27	6.08	1.08
15	Elephant	77	10.18	11 : 15	6.95	1.05
16	The Matrix Reloaded	71	9.49	16 : 48	4.44	0.97
17	Seabiscuit	66	9.17	14 : 40	4.71	0.90
18	Whale Rider	66	9.05	12 : 33	5.50	0.90
19	House of Sand and Fog	57	8.97	11 : 25	5.18	0.78
20	Big Fish	55	7.09	11 : 31	5.00	0.75
21	The Matrix Revolutions	54	6.11	9 : 37	6.00	0.74
22	28 Days Later	53	7.83	12 : 42	4.42	0.73
23	Capturing the Friedmans	46	5.88	6 : 17	7.67	0.63
24	Raising Victor Vargas	42	6.50	9 : 25	4.67	0.58
25	Spellbound	41	5.04	6 : 20	6.83	0.56
26	Hulk	40	6.55	11 : 39	3.64	0.55
27	Gerry	39	6.65	7 : 15	5.50	0.53
28	Open Range	38	5.97	10 : 29	3.80	0.52
29	All the Real Girls	37	6.29	8 : 23	4.63	0.51
30	Matchstick Men	35	5.85	10 : 31	3.50	0.48
Columns: Position Film Title Total Score: A summation of each film's position in each contributor's top 10, with points given as follows: 1st place = 10, 10th place = 1. 10th place ties get .5 points per tie, limit to 2. All ties above 10th place have the points averaged for the positions (i.e., a 2-place tie for first would give 9.5 points for each place: 10+9, divided by 2). Fractional Weighted Total: The total combined fractional weighted scores of each contributor's film. Fractional weighted scores are computed for each contributor by the position of the film against the total number of films seen -- i.e., if a contributor saw 50 films, 1st place is 50/50 (1.00), 10th place is 41/50 (0.82). This gives more weight to lists with higher film totals. Top 10 List Appearances : 2003 Film List Appearances: Ratio of a film's appearance in this thread to how many appearances it makes in contributors' lists in the 2003 Film List thread. This gives better value to the Weighted Average (and Total Score) numbers. Weighted Average: Total Score divided by Top 10 List Appearances. This is considered weighted because it only takes into account those contributors who have the film in the top 10. Unweighted Average: Total Score divided by total number of Top 10 contributors (currently 73).

Contributing members [Number of Films in Top 30 Seen/30 : Total Films Seen]; if your name is not on here, and you are sure your list is complete, email me. Grey numbers beside names denotes 10 or less -- if you have only those listed here in the Top 10 list, then you didn't post a list in the 2003 Film List.
23/30 : 311 Adam_S 09/30 : 010 Alex Spindler 11/30 : 073 Andrew Schwarz 30/30 : 231 Arman 29/30 : 295 Bill Harris 17/30 : 059 Bill J 05/30 : 010 Brian F 04/30 : 010 Brian Lawrence 04/30 : 010 Brook Bowers 26/30 : 088 Brook K 03/30 : 010 Cary T 06/30 : 010 Chad A Wright 10/30 : 010 Chazz_S 07/30 : 010 Chris Atkins 26/30 : 112 Chris_Richard 07/30 : 010 ChristopherDM 13/30 : 083 Colin Hartnett 07/30 : 010 CoreyII	25/30 : 096 Craig S 09/30 : 010 Dalton 11/30 : 034 Damin J Toell 19/30 : 078 Dana Fillhart 07/30 : 010 David Lawson 10/30 : 010 David_Kosovec 09/30 : 012 Doug R 27/30 : 092 Edwin Pereyra 18/30 : 087 Elizabeth S 08/30 : 010 Eman_Ramos 07/30 : 010 Ernest Rister 10/30 : 011 Fred Bang 09/30 : 010 George See 09/30 : 010 GregGS 22/30 : 136 Jason Seaver 30/30 : 224 Jason Whyte 09/30 : 010 Jeff Adams 18/30 : 050 Jehan	11/30 : 040 John Thomas 08/30 : 010 JonZ 08/30 : 010 Jose Martinez 07/30 : 010 Justin Hargis 13/30 : 049 Justin_S 28/30 : 147 Kevin Leonard 28/30 : 100 Kirk Tsai 22/30 : 059 Kristian 05/30 : 012 L. Anton Dencklau 22/30 : 044 Lowell_B 15/30 : 051 Marc_Savoie 28/30 : 223 Mark Pfeiffer 07/30 : 010 Matt Butler 10/30 : 012 Matt Pelham 22/30 : 075 Matt Stone 11/30 : 061 Matthew Chmiel 30/30 : 388 Michael Perez 23/30 : 094 Nick Sievers	30/30 : 149 NickNC 02/30 : 010 Pascal A 08/30 : 010 Paul Case 13/30 : 050 Raymond_H 07/30 : 010 rhett 05/30 : 011 Rob P S 18/30 : 043 Rob Willey 08/30 : 010 Robert Anthony 09/30 : 010 Ryan_TD 30/30 : 247 Scott Weinberg 18/30 : 051 Scott_MacD 22/30 : 067 Seth Paxton 08/30 : 010 Shawn_KE 30/30 : 141 Stephen R 20/30 : 083 Stevan Lay 09/30 : 011 Tim RH 15/30 : 046 Travis_S 10/30 : 010 Wesley Mead 21/30 : 054 ZacharyTait