Our Top 10's of 2003: Time To Throw Down! - Page 4

Thanks for your efforts Dana. Not surprising that only 2 of my top 10 films made the top 30 list, though I still have Capturing The Friedman's to see.

There are 7 of these I haven't seen. Better than last year when I think it was 10+ from the initial list that I hadn't seen.

Excellent work Dana!

5/10 of my Top 10 are in our Top 10 and 8/10 in our Top 30.

Les invasions barbares (The Barbarian Invasions) is the only one I have'nt seen in our Top 30.

Two of our group's Top 10, X2:X-Men United (B) and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (B+) are not even in my Top 50.

My 2 Top 10 films that did'nt make it to our Top 30 are Etre et avoir (To Be and To Have) and Ying xiong (Hero) which both had 2002 worldwide releases year. I'm not sure if I need to take out Hero out of my Top 10 since it has been rescheduled for a 2004 USA theatrical release. It's only 2003 official theatrical screening in the USA was during the Palm Springs Internationl Film Festival. Etre et avoir had a 2003 NY (or USA) limited release. So lot of voting forum members here have'nt had the chance to see them in theaters. The best way to view them now is by renting or buying their all-region foreign import DVDs.

Keys movies that I should see in order for my Top 10 to be officially declared as final are :

The Son (Le fils)
Ten
The Triplets of Belleville (Triplettes de Belleville, L)
The Last Letter (Dernière lettre, La)
Love & Diane
Bus 174 (Ônibus 174)
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
The Barbarian Invasions (Les invasions barbares)
Lilya 4-ever
Monster
The Company
Divine Intervention (Yadon ilaheyya)
The Cooler
Pieces of April
Japanese Story
Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara,
Buffalo Soldiers
Japan (Japon)

Most of the above (foreign films) had worldwide releases year of 2002 anyway, so I guess by the time I view them this poll will be history and long forgotten. In the end, personally, am making personal Top 10/Greatest all-time/year lists based on their worldwide release year.

Okay, prelim #2. This includes all members here who have posted a full, ranked Top 10 list (there were a couple who had less than 10 or who didn't rank their lists; I did not include those). It still doesn't have the full 2003 Film List entries from everybody, yet -- that'll come with the next update, along with the list of members.

Good thing I finished going through the list -- there've been some changes.

The Top 30 of Our Top 10 of 2003 Contributing, Qualifying Members:60 Includes all member updates through:17 Jan 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	367	37.73	44 : 45	8.33	6.11
2	Kill Bill: Vol. 1	265	26.92	39 : 41	6.79	4.42
3	Lost in Translation	194	20.50	28 : 30	6.91	3.23
4	Finding Nemo	155	16.14	24 : 29	6.46	2.58
5	Cidade de Deus (City of God)	124	13.07	18 : 20	6.86	2.06
6	Mystic River	103	10.55	20 : 22	5.15	1.72
7	The Last Samurai	101	11.03	18 : 22	5.61	1.68
8	21 Grams	91	10.25	14 : 15	6.50	1.52
9	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	91	9.10	18 : 23	5.03	1.51
10	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	88	9.54	19 : 23	4.63	1.47
11	X2	80	8.83	18 : 22	4.44	1.33
12	The Matrix Reloaded	78	8.26	16 : 20	4.84	1.29
13	Irréversible (Irreversible)	77	8.26	13 : 15	5.92	1.28
14	American Splendor	66	6.60	10 : 13	6.60	1.10
15	Elephant	63	7.01	9 : 9	6.94	1.04
16	28 Days Later	53	5.46	12 : 16	4.42	0.88
17	Seabiscuit	48	5.56	10 : 14	4.80	0.80
18	In America	48	4.91	9 : 11	5.33	0.80
19	Capturing the Friedmans	47	4.88	7 : 9	6.71	0.78
20	The Matrix Revolutions	45	4.88	7 : 9	6.36	0.74
21	House of Sand and Fog	43	5.14	9 : 11	4.78	0.72
22	Whale Rider	42	5.32	9 : 14	4.67	0.70
23	Big Fish	42	4.20	9 : 13	4.67	0.70
24	Hulk	40	4.00	10 : 15	4.00	0.67
25	Gerry	40	4.62	7 : 8	5.64	0.66
26	All the Real Girls	39	4.86	7 : 9	5.57	0.65
27	Matchstick Men	33	3.35	8 : 12	4.13	0.55
28	May	32	3.20	7 : 9	4.57	0.53
29	Open Range	30	3.74	8 : 10	3.75	0.50
30	Spellbound	30	3.00	4 : 6	7.50	0.50

Oh that's great, now I've seen everything in that Prelim #2.

# 01 - Swimming Pool


# 02 - Whale Rider


# 03 - Barbarian Invasions


# 04 - Irreversible


# 05 - Elephant


# 06 - Touching the Void


# 07 - House of Sand and Fog


# 08 - Finding Nemo


# 09 - Monte Walsh


# 10 - Fog of War

10. The Human Stain
9. The Barbarian Invasions
8. Lost In Translation
7. House Of Sand And Fog
6. X2: X-Men United
5. Finding Nemo
4. Kill Bill Volume One
3. Seabiscuit
2. Mystic River
1. Return Of The King

Am I reading the table correctly that I'm the only one who didn't put Return of the King in their top 10, at least until Brian posted his list that is? Ditto on 21 Grams.

New list there are 5 I haven't seen and I'll be trying to see Friedman's as soon as it comes out next week on DVD and Seabiscuit is now at the top of my Netflix list but is out of stock. Will try and see Big Fish in the next couple of weeks too. House of Sand is a pretty low priority for me, may not see it until DVD. Matchstick Men I'm not really interested in.

Time to resurrect this thread with the completed stats.

Note that the number of films seen by your name may not match what you have in the 2003 Film List thread -- there are several reasons for this: One, you have a film listed in your 2003 list that wasn't in theatres in 2003; two, you have a film listed twice; three, I could not find an entry on IMDB for that film (or the film name was listed twice for that year and because you didn't provide a director I couldn't distinguish the film); four...well, many other reasons . In any case, the number listed by your name should be pretty close to what you had in your list. If it isn't, or if you notice your name has grey numbers (or only has 11 or so items) but you're sure you posted your list in the 2003 Film List thread, please email me or PM me and I'll address it. Also, if your name isn't in the list at the bottom of the table, but you did post a Top 10 list in this thread, make SURE you have 10 items in your list and that they're RANKED; if so, email/PM me.

Lastly, the stats should include all updates made through 3PM today.

Enjoy

The Top 30 of Our Top 10 of 2003 Contributing, Qualifying Members:62 Includes all member updates through:25 Jan 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	375	41.36	45 : 53	8.32	6.04
2	Kill Bill: Vol. 1	269	33.33	40 : 50	6.73	4.34
3	Lost in Translation	208	25.34	31 : 40	6.69	3.35
4	Finding Nemo	167	20.82	26 : 43	6.42	2.69
5	Cidade de Deus (City of God)	124	15.43	18 : 29	6.86	1.99
6	Mystic River	114	16.49	22 : 36	5.18	1.84
7	The Last Samurai	101	14.56	18 : 33	5.61	1.63
8	21 Grams	99	13.11	15 : 25	6.60	1.60
9	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	91	12.35	18 : 35	5.03	1.46
10	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	88	12.77	19 : 42	4.63	1.42
11	Irréversible (Irreversible)	85	12.26	14 : 26	6.07	1.37
12	X2	84	10.40	19 : 45	4.42	1.35
13	The Matrix Reloaded	74	10.79	16 : 41	4.59	1.19
14	American Splendor	65	8.61	10 : 21	6.50	1.05
15	Elephant	63	8.16	9 : 13	6.94	1.01
16	Seabiscuit	55	7.59	11 : 33	5.00	0.89
17	House of Sand and Fog	53	7.98	10 : 21	5.30	0.85
18	28 Days Later	53	7.58	11 : 37	4.82	0.85
19	Whale Rider	48	7.27	10 : 29	4.80	0.77
20	In America	48	6.63	9 : 20	5.33	0.77
21	Capturing the Friedmans	47	5.98	7 : 12	6.71	0.76
22	The Matrix Revolutions	45	5.08	7 : 31	6.36	0.72
23	Big Fish	44	6.28	9 : 24	4.89	0.71
24	Gerry	40	6.18	7 : 13	5.64	0.64
25	All the Real Girls	39	5.82	7 : 20	5.57	0.63
26	Hulk	38	5.61	10 : 35	3.80	0.61
27	May	35	5.50	8 : 23	4.38	0.56
28	Spellbound	34	4.34	5 : 15	6.80	0.55
29	Raising Victor Vargas	32	5.49	7 : 19	4.57	0.52
30	Matchstick Men	31	5.21	8 : 26	3.88	0.50
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 get full points in each position, so long as the total points for the contributor does not exceed 55 (10+9+...+1); if that happens, remainder of tie will be divided like they were 10th place. 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 : 2002 Film List Appearances: Ratio of a film's appearance in this thread to how many appearances it makes in contributors' lists in the 2002 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 62).

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.
22/30 : 348 Adam_S 10/30 : 010 Alex Spindler 12/30 : 071 Andrew Schwarz 30/30 : 199 Arman 29/30 : 295 Bill Harris 16/30 : 058 Bill J 05/30 : 010 Brian F 05/30 : 010 Brian Lawrence 05/30 : 010 Brook Bowers 24/30 : 084 Brook K 04/30 : 010 Cary T 06/30 : 010 Chad A Wright 10/30 : 010 Chazz_S 06/30 : 010 Chris Atkins 23/30 : 103 Chris_Richard 07/30 : 010 ChristopherDM	13/30 : 083 Colin Hartnett 06/30 : 010 CoreyII 24/30 : 093 Craig S 08/30 : 010 Dalton 11/30 : 034 Damin J Toell 17/30 : 073 Dana Fillhart 07/30 : 010 David Lawson 10/30 : 010 David_Kosovec 09/30 : 012 Doug R 27/30 : 089 Edwin Pereyra 17/30 : 087 Elizabeth S 08/30 : 010 Eman_Ramos 29/30 : 222 Jason Whyte 08/30 : 010 Jeff Adams 18/30 : 050 Jehan 11/30 : 038 John Thomas	08/30 : 010 JonZ 08/30 : 010 Jose Martinez 14/30 : 049 Justin_S 28/30 : 147 Kevin Leonard 26/30 : 096 Kirk Tsai 21/30 : 059 Kristian 04/30 : 011 L. Anton Dencklau 21/30 : 038 Lowell_B 09/30 : 010 Marc_Savoie 27/30 : 223 Mark Pfeiffer 10/30 : 012 Matt Pelham 17/30 : 068 Matt Stone 11/30 : 061 Matthew Chmiel 22/30 : 091 Nick Sievers 30/30 : 140 NickNC 07/30 : 010 Paul Case	13/30 : 050 Raymond_H 07/30 : 010 rhett 05/30 : 011 Rob P S 08/30 : 010 Rob Willey 08/30 : 010 Robert Anthony 09/30 : 010 Ryan_TD 30/30 : 240 Scott Weinberg 18/30 : 051 Scott_MacD 08/30 : 010 Shawn_KE 30/30 : 141 Stephen R 18/30 : 071 Stevan Lay 09/30 : 011 Tim RH 12/30 : 042 Travis_S 20/30 : 050 ZacharyTait

I should be updating in a few days. I'll finally get a chance to see Big Fish, LiT, and The House of Sand and Fog.

I've now seen Big Fish and Capturing the Friedman's. Neither cracks my top 10.

Seabiscuit still out of stock at Netflix. I stuck Matchstick Men on my coming soon list. I really doubt I'll make an effort to see Last Samurai or House of Sand and Fog until DVD.

Quite neat, looking over today's Oscar nod announcement and our top 30, 4 of the 5 best pics found their way into our top 9, with Seabiscuit close behind. This virtually mirrored last year's results, 4 of 5 BP picks in the top 8, with the Hours also close behind (this was, it appears, as far as Dana's tracker was available). From various HTF posts/cries denouncing AMPAS' selections over the years, bought votes and the such, there remains a discernible degree of consensus between AMPAS' and movie lovers' (HTFers') tastes

Also, during this mini-excursion over previous years, noticed that the number of posts in the annual Throw Down/Top 10 threads have decreased steadily every year the past 4 years, from almost 400 to 225, 170, and finally this year, presently at just over 100. Logically with more time to post in each subsequently older thread, the count gets inflated a little, but it remains that the mass majority of posts were made in the few months immediately surrounding the thread. I haven't been around the forum that long, but has the membership dropped, or perhaps, are folks just slowly losing interest?

I've seen some 35 films this year, give or take a few, but I've not been able to update my 2003 film list since mid november... :p

hopefulliy I'll be able to eventually output it and update
may go do that right now actually, I still have this weekends pics to add to the 2k4 list.
I also updated my list with House of Sand and Fog and Peter Pan, two films that surprised the heck out of me, and reordered it, as well as adding an academy rules top ten as well.

Adam

1. Mystic River
2. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
3. Finding Nemo
4. Lost in Translation
5. Open Range
6. Love Actually
7. Thirteen
8. 21 Grams
9. Matchstick Men
10. Monster

Okay, got a few more to see, but let's go with this for right now:

movies:

#1: Cicade de Deus (City Of God)
Since I saw this back in September of 2002, at the Boston Film Festival, it's been the odds-on favorite for that year's best foreign language film, been snubbed, gotten a peculiar 2003 theatrical release, not come out on DVD, received several Oscar nominations, and had it's home video release delayed again. Whew. Making this list, it's hard to look back at a movie I saw sixteen months ago and see where it fits in with the rest. I'd like to review it, but I can't right now.

Still, what does stick in my memory is powerful stuff. That initial scene of the doomed chicken, the great camera work, the chilling cycle of kids become killers at a very young age... I can't think of any other movie that came out in the last year that blew me away like this one, so it gets the nod.

#2: In America
We've all got our little things that we love perhaps more than they deserve. Me, I like stories about people newly arrived to the United States, making a clean break from their own life and ready to take advantage of its opportunities; it's a welcome antidote to the cynicism about one's home that all of us are vulnerable to. In America also gives us two of the best pre-teen performances of the year in the Bolger sisters, and is one of the sweetest, most hopeful movies you will see without becoming trite or sappy.

#3: Finding Nemo
Though many aspects of this film are formulaic, they're the types of things that became formula by dint of working. Meanwhile, Pixar uses that formula to hang a bunch of clever bits - those seagulls killed me - and to create an environment that is beautifully realized. There's a tendency in film review, criticism, and discussion to elevate character above all else, and it is important - but film is a visual medium, and few movies look nearly as gorgeous as Finding Nemo.

#4: Northfork
I realize that this is not for everyone. It can come off as over-artsy and self-indulgent. I think it's also a beautifully filmed and quite poignant meditation on death and loss, on multiple scales, and I was quite surprised by how powerfully it hit me.

#4.5: Ying Xiong (Hero)
Bloody Miramax. I appreciate that they may do more to get foreign and independant movies in front of people than anyone else, but it always seems compromised or unnecessarily difficult. Even though this was nominated for an Oscar last year and Miramax had signed up for distribution even long before that, a bunch of needless battling over cuts to an award-winning/nominated film has delayed it insanely. Which is too bad, because it means few in the US have gotten to actually see this fine film, better in several ways than Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

#5: Intolerable Cruelty
We don't award comedies enough. The aphorism that "dying is easy, comedy is hard" is seldom disputed, but when ranking my films, I routinely find myself thinking that film A shouldn't be so high because even though it's hilarious, it's not as important as film B. But that's rubbish. So, let me just say this: I laughed pretty much continuously through this movie, and admire the hell out of the Coens' craft. The scene where Wheezy Joe exits the picture is probably the most well-directed scene of the year; anything being the slightest bit off would have made it fall flat.

¾ movies:

#6: Lost In Translation
Bill Murray has spent the last few years doing suporting work and basically stealing every scene he's in. In Lost In Translation, it all comes together as he and Scarlett Johansson are confronted by how absurd and confusing life can be as they meet each other in a Tokyo hotel bar. For only her second film (though she's got celluloid in her blood), Sophia Coppola has created an assured, masterful work.

#7: Blue Car
This movie twists the straightforward "talented kid with an inspiring teacher" idea into a pretzel, as the talented kid's drive to win the scholarship contest actually messes her life up worse, and the teacher's interest winds up in creepy territory.

½ movies:

#8: The Hulk
I loved, loved, loved what Ang Lee did with this movie. Like a good adaptation should, it gets to the heart of the work, finds what's important, and rebuilds it to fit the medium - no mean feet when the original work is a comic book that has run for 40 years, had dozens of authors, and as a result occasionally contradicts itself. That he found a way to use comic-inspired visual styles to keep a potentially slow story feeling urgent during a lot of exposition in the first half is icing on the cake. The Hulk is probably my favorite comic-book adapation yet.

#9: Irréversible
A raw, often terrifying film that I can't imagine ever bringing myself to watch again, which uses its reverse structure cannily. Showing the violent confrontations before what leads up to them underscores their randomness and barbarity, and keeps the audience from being able to follow common plot blueprints to what will happen next.

#10: Nirgendwo In Afrika (Nowhere In Africa)
Like In America, a sort of "strangers in a strange land" story, and one I greatly enjoyed. It doesn't necessarily have a whole lot to say, but it features characters who become real as you watch the movie, to the point where you leave hoping things went well for them after the part of their lives that you were privy to.

The other 3.5-star movies which didn't quite make the top 10:

Kill Bill Volume 1: It's a wonderful thing when someone as talented as Tarantino brings all his talents to bear on a pure action movie.
School Of Rock: It's formula, but it's formula at its best.
The Triplets Of Belleville: A kind of masterpiece of animation that uses pictures and motion and sound effects to the almost complete exclusion of words, and doesn't ape American or Japanese styles.
Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World: Authenticity counts for a lot; it's the details that make this adventure movie so watchable.
Lilja 4-Ever: The most terrible kind of horror story, where thoroughly human evil completely breaks a strong person.
Dracula: Pages From A Virgin's Diary: Guy Maddin can be maddening, but also brilliant, as in this gothic, bloody presentation of ballet in a silent film style.
Better Luck Tomorrow: Once a year or so, MTV produces something intelligent for and about its teen audience. This year, it's Better Luck Tomorrow.

The Dregs

¾ movies:

#n-9: Anything Else
Displaying none of the wit of his 70s comedies, Woody Allen made a movie with enough funny lines to fill a trailer. And once back in the context of the movie, they don't feel so funny any more.

#n-8: The Recruit
The year's most boring, but sleekly-produced, studio movie.

#n-7: Koroshiya 1 (Ichi The Killer)
I almost feel bad about putting this import that got its first official US release this year on the same list as the other turds - Takashi Miike is such a great director that even this displays flashes of genius. It's just too unpleasant to sit through, though.

#n-6: The Event
Even if I could stomach this film's advocacy of assisted suicide, I found it to be such a stereotyped, boring piece of propoganda that I'm convinced it would still make my worst-of-the-year list.

#n-5: Avalon
Respected anime director goes to Poland to make a live-action film, and it's no surprise that the end result is a muddled, tentative, pretentioius mess.

½ movies:

#n-4: May
One of those frustrating movies where you can see that everyone involved has talent but they're wasting it on an uninteresting, repugnant story.

#n-3: Love Object
Some nights, going to film festivals isn't a rewarding experience at all; you wind up seeing something unpleasant that doesn't even have much to do with the theme of the festival at all.

#n-2: The Warrior
I don't know if Miramax ever gave this inaction movie I saw at the 2002 Boston Film Festival a release this year as they were scheduled to. If not, just ignore this entry.

¼ movie:

#n-1: Darkness Falls
It's kind of funny; if this movie didn't have an actress I liked in it (Emma Caufield), I would never have seen it, and it wouldn't have made my worst list. There's some kind of irony in there which I can't quite lay my finger on.

movie:

#n: Anger Management
I should know better. But, I thought, Adam Sandler was good in Punch-Drunk Love, and Jack Nicholson is in it; why not give it another chance? Wouldn't be the worst of the year, except for the extraordinary number of people who are better than this showing up for something painfully unfunny.

Okay Dana, I just posted my list back in my placeholder.

I have a few more films to see that could alter it, but I've seen all but 2-3 of the major contenders now.

PS - I love how 3 of the 4 guys who have seen more than 200 films from 2003 still haven't seen all 30 of the films listed in our top 30. What chance do I have for chrissake!?!

Ok, here's the latest, including all updates through about 11am this morning. I went through those who've updated since last week (either here or the 2003 Film List thread) and made sure the items in the list were accurate, and they were, so I'm reasonably sure the stats are pretty accurate. I still may have missed a few members' lists if they posted in the 2003 Film List (Michael Perez is one I know of -- with 384 films seen, I decided to skip all that data entry for the moment -- sorry Michael ). And there are at least 2 members who have posted a Top 10 list here in this thread but have not ranked them (Ted Todorov is one), so they aren't figured into the stats (and their names don't appear in the table).

Anyway, without further ado...

The Top 30 of Our Top 10 of 2003 Contributing, Qualifying Members:65 Includes all member updates through:01 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	395	43.37	47 : 56	8.39	6.07
2	Kill Bill: Vol. 1	278	34.33	41 : 52	6.78	4.28
3	Lost in Translation	216	26.44	33 : 43	6.53	3.32
4	Finding Nemo	175	21.62	27 : 46	6.48	2.69
5	Cidade de Deus (City of God)	135	17.26	20 : 31	6.73	2.07
6	Mystic River	132	19.32	24 : 38	5.50	2.03
7	21 Grams	114	15.07	18 : 29	6.33	1.75
8	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	107	14.81	20 : 38	5.33	1.64
9	The Last Samurai	102	14.57	18 : 35	5.67	1.57
10	Irréversible (Irreversible)	90	13.08	15 : 28	6.00	1.38
11	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	89	13.64	20 : 43	4.45	1.37
12	X2	87	11.29	20 : 46	4.35	1.34
13	The Matrix Reloaded	73	10.76	16 : 44	4.53	1.12
14	Elephant	71	9.20	10 : 14	7.05	1.08
15	American Splendor	65	8.61	10 : 23	6.50	1.00
16	Seabiscuit	59	8.95	12 : 34	4.92	0.91
17	House of Sand and Fog	53	8.00	10 : 22	5.30	0.82
18	28 Days Later	53	7.58	11 : 39	4.82	0.82
19	In America	52	7.56	10 : 22	5.20	0.80
20	Whale Rider	50	8.21	11 : 30	4.55	0.77
21	Capturing the Friedmans	47	6.70	7 : 13	6.71	0.72
22	The Matrix Revolutions	45	5.08	7 : 33	6.36	0.68
23	Big Fish	44	6.29	9 : 25	4.89	0.68
24	Gerry	40	6.66	7 : 13	5.64	0.61
25	All the Real Girls	39	6.22	7 : 20	5.57	0.60
26	Hulk	38	5.61	10 : 37	3.80	0.58
27	Open Range	36	5.77	9 : 24	4.00	0.55
28	May	35	5.50	8 : 25	4.38	0.54
29	Spellbound	34	4.34	5 : 16	6.80	0.52
30	Raising Victor Vargas	33	5.50	7 : 21	4.71	0.51
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 65).

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.
22/30 : 309 Adam_S 09/30 : 010 Alex Spindler 12/30 : 073 Andrew Schwarz 30/30 : 199 Arman 29/30 : 295 Bill Harris 16/30 : 058 Bill J 04/30 : 010 Brian F 05/30 : 010 Brian Lawrence 05/30 : 010 Brook Bowers 27/30 : 087 Brook K 04/30 : 010 Cary T 06/30 : 010 Chad A Wright 10/30 : 010 Chazz_S 07/30 : 010 Chris Atkins 23/30 : 103 Chris_Richard 07/30 : 010 ChristopherDM	13/30 : 083 Colin Hartnett 07/30 : 010 CoreyII 24/30 : 095 Craig S 09/30 : 010 Dalton 11/30 : 034 Damin J Toell 17/30 : 074 Dana Fillhart 07/30 : 010 David Lawson 10/30 : 010 David_Kosovec 09/30 : 012 Doug R 28/30 : 092 Edwin Pereyra 17/30 : 087 Elizabeth S 08/30 : 010 Eman_Ramos 06/30 : 010 Ernest Rister 29/30 : 222 Jason Whyte 09/30 : 010 Jeff Adams 17/30 : 050 Jehan	11/30 : 040 John Thomas 08/30 : 010 JonZ 08/30 : 010 Jose Martinez 14/30 : 049 Justin_S 28/30 : 147 Kevin Leonard 27/30 : 098 Kirk Tsai 21/30 : 059 Kristian 05/30 : 012 L. Anton Dencklau 20/30 : 038 Lowell_B 15/30 : 050 Marc_Savoie 27/30 : 223 Mark Pfeiffer 09/30 : 012 Matt Pelham 16/30 : 069 Matt Stone 11/30 : 061 Matthew Chmiel 08/30 : 010 Michael Perez 22/30 : 092 Nick Sievers	30/30 : 149 NickNC 08/30 : 010 Paul Case 12/30 : 050 Raymond_H 07/30 : 010 rhett 04/30 : 011 Rob P S 18/30 : 041 Rob Willey 08/30 : 010 Robert Anthony 09/30 : 010 Ryan_TD 30/30 : 247 Scott Weinberg 18/30 : 051 Scott_MacD 18/30 : 062 Seth Paxton 08/30 : 010 Shawn_KE 30/30 : 141 Stephen R 17/30 : 071 Stevan Lay 09/30 : 011 Tim RH 12/30 : 042 Travis_S 20/30 : 050 ZacharyTait

Also, good work Dana.

I updated my top 11-20 films in this list. I finally saw M&C: TFSotW. This weekend. It made my 11-20 list just outside of the top 10. This brings me to only 6 of the combined top 30 that I haven't seen.

Hey Dana,
Amazing job... as always!
Just a small note... I should have 28/30 films with 384 total. I'm hoping to reach 30/30 by the end of this week.

Edit: Whoops... I just re-read your post and noticed your note regarding my list. Sorry I missed that... so just ignore this post!

Fantastic job, Dana.

Delayed some good film watching, but hopefully I'll have a chance to catch up this week.

Woo-hoo, Matchstick Men fell off and was replaced by a movie I'd seen. Seabiscuit has changed from a "long wait" to a "short wait" at Netflix, but still not really plannning on seeing Last Samurai or House of Sand and Fog until DVD.

Great job, Dana! Love the chart!

Nice job as always, Dana. One note - you have me at 95 films watched. Actually my count is only 87 (hopefully to grow over the next few weeks as I catch up with a stack of 2003 DVDs). The 24/30 is correct.

Dana,

I've updated my 2003 list.

OK, that makes sense. And hey! thanks for bumping my count!!