My Top 1000 Favorite Films - v1
This list is... bad. Or at least 30/40 precent of it.
Here is my line of thought: I have a list of every movie I had ever watched (as far as I recall), that list is just reached 1100 films (debatably, see notes below).
So let's make my personal top 1000 films... version 1, and like any version 1 - there's room for improvement. So I want to make it a habit, whenever I watch another 100 films, I'll make a new version of this list. Why? self indulgence mostly.
What I count as a film:
Netflix, youtube, the rise of serialized tv, as well as the natural evolution of movies such as Serial Film, interactive movies etc. These all contribute to the confusion and disambiguity of the terms film or movie as opposed to any video. And so here is where I draw the line:
1. I don't care about release platform, be it a cinematic film, tv movie, straight to video or to streaming.
2. I don't think its relevant to distinguish between feature length or short when the technology was more restricting.
and so:
* Up to 1930 I make no distinction between the two.
* From 1931-1950 the piece must be 30 minutes or longer.
* From 1951 onward the piece must be 45 minutes or longer.
3. In my opinion the difference between movies and tv shows comes down to continuity and length. And so I make an exception and count individual episodes of TV anthology series, provided they meet the length requirements previously mentioned (e.g Black Mirror ep1 is 44 minutes - that was a hard one to cut).
Lastly I'll just comment these are meant to be my favorites, not the best. Some of the more questionable choises here are guilty pleasures, or benefiting from nostalgia, and then with some of these films they are here simply because the films that were cut were worse or more accurately just less favorable (e.g The Sixth Sense is a film that really bored me simply because I was spoiled to the twist).
Lastly, this list is not ordered, the movies were selected and then organised by chronological release order (according to IMDB).
Here is my line of thought: I have a list of every movie I had ever watched (as far as I recall), that list is just reached 1100 films (debatably, see notes below).
So let's make my personal top 1000 films... version 1, and like any version 1 - there's room for improvement. So I want to make it a habit, whenever I watch another 100 films, I'll make a new version of this list. Why? self indulgence mostly.
What I count as a film:
Netflix, youtube, the rise of serialized tv, as well as the natural evolution of movies such as Serial Film, interactive movies etc. These all contribute to the confusion and disambiguity of the terms film or movie as opposed to any video. And so here is where I draw the line:
1. I don't care about release platform, be it a cinematic film, tv movie, straight to video or to streaming.
2. I don't think its relevant to distinguish between feature length or short when the technology was more restricting.
and so:
* Up to 1930 I make no distinction between the two.
* From 1931-1950 the piece must be 30 minutes or longer.
* From 1951 onward the piece must be 45 minutes or longer.
3. In my opinion the difference between movies and tv shows comes down to continuity and length. And so I make an exception and count individual episodes of TV anthology series, provided they meet the length requirements previously mentioned (e.g Black Mirror ep1 is 44 minutes - that was a hard one to cut).
Lastly I'll just comment these are meant to be my favorites, not the best. Some of the more questionable choises here are guilty pleasures, or benefiting from nostalgia, and then with some of these films they are here simply because the films that were cut were worse or more accurately just less favorable (e.g The Sixth Sense is a film that really bored me simply because I was spoiled to the twist).
Lastly, this list is not ordered, the movies were selected and then organised by chronological release order (according to IMDB).
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