Poll 2022: Top 250 Favourite Film List conducted and proudly presented by HelenWelonmelon (Letterboxd)
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HelenWelonmelon:
"Dear film friends,
stimulated by Adrian Tofei's big poll for the best films of all time, I would also like to start a poll to determine the best films. In my opinion, most surveys have always suffered from the fact that the participants were only allowed to name 1, 10 or maybe 25 titles. Although the result is of course interesting, it is not really meaningful. The famous Sight and Sound poll in particular is pretty silly, as it forces film critics and film historians to name only 10 films out of thousands seen. Basically it's like a lottery and actually only tells you which film is most often named as favorite film and not whether the film is generally rated as outstanding. For example, if you ask a survey about the most overrated films, many of the supposedly best ones would also be named there. That's why a Top 250 survey among film connoisseurs make a lot more sense, since then it is not only decisive for the result which films are named, but also which of the typical poll champions are not named. A Top 250 also offers the advantage that probably mostly people who are somewhat familiar with the history of film vote. That's why this survey is primarily aimed at people who have actually seen many films themselves, who have their own opinions and who don't just bluntly copy internet best lists. Please link your Top 250 lists below. I will then evaluate them by the end of the year. There is no need for a ranking within the Top 250, as each film named gets one point at the end. In any case, I'm very curious to see how many letterboxd users post their Top 250 here. I hope, of course, that there will be many. Please think carefully about which titles you choose and make sure that you don't forget a favorite film, as subsequent changes will no longer be taken into account. Please draw the attention of many potential participants to this survey. I hope that Adrian Tofei will allow me to promote this survey here and not delate my comment."
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Note:
- It is very time-consuming to import a list presented by Letterboxd to ICM, hence the restriction to all titles with at least 3 votes instead of the 2 votes on Letterboxd.
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Poll 2023: Top 500 Favourite Film List
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HelenWelonmelon:
"Dear film friends,
many thanks again to all 224 participants in the last survey. As already announced, the Top 500 survey will follow this year. All 224 participants in the last survey are cordially invited. Please create a list of your 500 favorite films and link them below in the comments.
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-> no ranking is necessary
-> each film named gets one point
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Of course, Letterboxd users who did not take part last year can and should also submit a Top 500 list. The more people take part, the more differentiated the end result. However, since this survey is primarily aimed at people who have seen a large number of films, the first-time participants should have seen at least 3000 films. This is to prevent that only the most popular films have a chance of a good placement. The main problem with all film surveys is that films have varying degrees of popularity and therefore popular films always have an advantage. Logically, films that 80-100% of all participants have seen have a much better chance of being placed in the overall list than films that only 10-20% have seen. Especially since these 10-20% are usually the people who have seen a great many films, which further reduces the chance of being named. Because for someone who has seen 1000 films, the chance of a film ending up in the top 500 is 1 in 2, 3000 is 1 in 6, 5000 is 1 in 10, 10,000 is 1 in 20, etc. However, since, in contrast to most other polls, many relatively unknown films are also included in the overall list at the end, this means that such films also receive more attention and may achieve a higher ranking next year. Inevitably, over the years, some popular films will fall in the overall ranking and some unpopular films will rise. If this Top 500 survey is successful, it is planned to repeat it next year. I hope that through word of mouth the number of participants will increase every year.
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-> Why 500 Films?:
Since this survey is planned annually and is primarily aimed at film experts who have seen a large number of films, it is important that a larger number of films are named because:
1. Even people who have seen well over 5000 films still have enough space for annual changes, which is not the case to this extent in a new TOP 250 survey and the end result for 2023 and the following year will hardly change.
2. The total number of titles mentioned in the poll will increase significantly, which is the very purpose of this poll.
3. A top 500 survey leads to a much more nuanced end result. If there were 56,000 individual votes for 224 Top 250 lists, it would be 112,000 for 224 Top 500 lists.
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-> Why no ranking and one point for each film?:
Sometimes there were suggestions that the survey could be done on ranked lists with different points depending on the placement. Experience has shown that three points speak against this.
1. A ranking with a corresponding distribution of points would once again unassailably favor the popular films. Because in the vast majority of cases, everyone's absolute favorite films (top 20-top 100) will be the films they saw relatively early and essentially caused them to engage with films. And these are usually popular films, which fall in front of you relatively quickly.
2. Requiring each participant to rank their favorite films and rack their brains over whether a film is 175th or 176th would certainly discourage many from posting a list. And probably especially those who have seen an extremely large number of films and who have trouble limiting their favorite films to only 500 titles.
3. Evaluating the lists would be much more time-consuming and complicated, and I wouldn't be able to do it that easily in terms of time.
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I hope now that probably many will submit a top 500 by the end of the year (Deadline is December 31st, 2023) and that this survey and the result at the end will be entertaining and exciting. Of course, no one will completely agree with the final result, but each participant can at least try to influence the result in their favor and support their favourites."
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Raging Bull
1980, in 34 top lists Check -
217 new
Rocky
1976, in 20 top lists Check -
359 new
The Hustler
1961, in 15 top lists Check -
593 new
Hoop Dreams
1994, in 15 top lists Check -
634 new
Million Dollar Baby
2004, in 12 top lists Check -
720 new
Kes
1969, in 11 top lists Check -
754 new
Rocco e i suoi fratelli
1960 — a.k.a. Rocco and His Brothers, in 19 top lists Check -
892 new
Moneyball
2011, in 3 top lists Check -
949 new
The Wrestler
2008, in 3 top lists Check -
1145 new
The Color of Money
1986, in 3 top lists Check -
1192 new
The Fighter
2010, in 2 top lists Check -
1222 new
The Set-Up
1949, in 10 top lists Check -
1387 new
Breaking Away
1979, in 8 top lists Check -
1569 new
A League of Their Own
1992, in 5 top lists Check -
1601 new
Speed Racer
2008, in 4 top lists Check -
1675 new
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
1962, in 6 top lists Check -
1721 new
Chariots of Fire
1981, in 14 top lists Check -
1729 new
Hoosiers
1986 — a.k.a. Best Shot, in 2 top lists Check -
1789 new
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
2006, in 1 top list Check -
1804 new
Warrior
2011, in 4 top lists Check -
1912 new
Fat City
1972, in 9 top lists Check -
1929 new
Rocky II
1979, in 1 top list Check -
1950 new
Rocky IV
1985, in 2 top lists Check -
1966 new
Major League
1989, in 0 top lists Check -
2150 new
The Harder They Fall
1956, in 3 top lists Check -
2242 new
Caddyshack
1980, in 5 top lists Check -
2366 new
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
2004, in 3 top lists Check -
2381 new
The King of Kong
2007 — a.k.a. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, in 1 top list Check -
2427 new
Creed
2015, in 4 top lists Check -
2460 new
The Freshman
1925, in 7 top lists Check -
2562 new
Tôkyô orinpikku
1965 — a.k.a. Tokyo Olympiad, in 6 top lists Check -
2623 new
Rollerball
1975, in 4 top lists Check -
2624 new
The Bad News Bears
1976, in 2 top lists Check -
2632 new
The Black Stallion
1979, in 7 top lists Check -
2666 new
The Natural
1984, in 3 top lists Check -
2687 new
Bull Durham
1988, in 8 top lists Check -
2732 new
Happy Gilmore
1996, in 0 top lists Check -
2759 new
Siu Lam juk kau
2001 — a.k.a. Shaolin Soccer, in 5 top lists Check -
2933 new
Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker
1938 — a.k.a. Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations, in 14 top lists Check -
3052 new
This Sporting Life
1963, in 9 top lists Check -
3157 new
Hard Times
1975, in 1 top list Check -
3212 new
Rocky III
1982, in 1 top list Check -
3254 new
Rad
1986, in 0 top lists Check -
3326 new
White Men Can't Jump
1992, in 2 top lists Check -
3337 new
Rudy
1993, in 2 top lists Check -
3375 new
When We Were Kings
1996, in 7 top lists Check -
3409 new
Remember the Titans
2000, in 2 top lists Check -
3469 new
Rocky Balboa
2006, in 0 top lists Check -
3543 new
Foxcatcher
2014, in 1 top list Check
Last updated on Mar 18, 2023; source