Flickchart: Your Personal Rating List of the Best Movies Ever
Finding the perfect movie list that fits your preferences can be a chore. With thousands of movies and even more movie lists comprised of "the greatest", most won't amount to your standards. Flickchart is a new service that aims to be your one stop portal for finding the best movies.
Rating and Ranking
A recently launched private beta service, Flickchart works by giving you two movies to choose which is best. The more movies you rate, the better Flickchart can return a valuable list of results. Though you can choose between the two movies, Flickchart keeps in mind that you may not have seen one or even both of the choices and provides corresponding options. You can choose to rank all of the movies on Flickchart, the movies currently showing in theaters, movies by year, or movies by decade. Of course you'll see movies more than once, which helps the rating system better determine the value of your choices. Ratings are quick and simple, though the movies choices may be a bit tough.
Extra Features
After rating movies, you can view your list of rated movies and where they rank. Movies move up and down the list based on your rating. Flickchart also provides you with your ranking and the overall ranking of your most recent movie choices. You can also start a discussion about your choices if it happened to be a tough one. Made a bad choice? Undo it. Can't decide between the two? You can view a trailer of each movie right from the service to help make your decision.The more movies you rate, the better you'll be ranked among other users of the service.
"As you continue to rank more films, Flickchart will gradually add in more obscure movies to show you. We also give your rankings a point value that increases the more you rank - so someone with only 75 movies ranked will have significantly less influence on the global charts than someone with 1000 movies ranked."
The social aspects of Flickchart are a little vague right now. While you can add friends and participate in discussions, there really isn't much more to it. The developers, Nathan and Jeremy, plan to implement commenting on the movies and user profiles in the future. They're actively developing ways for people to be able to easily find one another and form groups around movies. With these future additions, friends could easily set up a group to get together for a movie night that consists of movies that no one in the group has yet to see.
Break Out the Popcorn!
Heading to the personal page of each movie provides movie stats and a link directly to Amazon and eBay in case you'd like to purchase a movie. Netflix integration is on the way. You can view the best or worst movies of all time among a host of other charts. Essentially, the service is great for picking out the perfect movie for a get together or for finding movies that you might find interesting but have yet to see. There's a ton of goodies on Flickchart for the casual movie viewer all the way up to the biggest movie buff.
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Thanks, Corvida, for the review!
So where are the invites?
Posted by: Mark Krynsky
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June 3, 2008 10:32 PM
this is better than http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?votehistory how? Too much work I've put into those ratings over the last 13 yrs
Posted by: Michael W. May
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June 3, 2008 10:47 PM
The Netflix integration will be key. I've already done so much work on Netflix, it would suck to have to start over again.
To me, twofifty.com has a better approach.
Hey, Corvida. I'll repeat what Nathan said -- thanks a lot for taking the time to check out the site and writing up a review for us. We're really glad to see people enjoying the site, and even better to have lots more people piqued.
TweetWire: Agreed. I know just what you mean, and we're working on that.
Thiago: Since you mentioned it, I just signed up on TwoFifty.org. It looks like a streamlined approach to managing those top 250 IMDB movies. That's cool -- it was that kind of thing I always wanted to be able to do when we started work on FlickChart.
I'm also the kind of guy who likes a little bit of a challenge. For some reason, top 20 lists and direct comparisons (often the more different the better) really grab my attention. The core ideas behind FlickChart are that star ratings aren't good enough, that directly comparing two movies is the essential litmus test to put them in an ordered list, and that for a lot of us weirdos, all that direct comparing is a heck of a lot of fun. Die Hard vs. It's a Wonderful Life?
It sure isn't the fastest way to put your movies in a list. But before you know it, 10 minutes here and 5 minutes there, or even a couple rankings at a time (if you're able to resist the addiction :P), you've got a heck of a good list of your favorite flicks. And all without making it the monolithic chore that it could be.
We hope people have fun with it -- not only with the end result, but with the process.
Mark - sign up at http://www.flickchart.com - we'll be sending out invites in batches soon!
Posted by: Nathan Chase
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June 5, 2008 11:18 AM
Michael - sign up for an invite at http://www.flickchart.com and you'll see why our approach is different, and fun.
Posted by: Nathan Chase
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June 5, 2008 11:20 AM
I can see appeal and like the idea, it just isn't for me. I wish you luck with it.
Posted by: Michael W. May
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June 5, 2008 11:34 AM
Nathan, I signed up and expect preferential treatment in obtaining an invite during the first batch :)
Posted by: Mark Krynsky
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June 5, 2008 11:42 AM
looking forward to testing flickchart
Posted by: Baard Overgaard Hansen
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June 5, 2008 12:11 PM
just sent out the latest batch of invites, and launched new features, updates, and bug fixes -> http://snipr.com/2snxs
Posted by: Flickchart
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July 2, 2008 5:02 AM
Flickchart is now also available for iPhone at http://iphone.flickchart.com
Posted by: Flickchart
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July 19, 2008 7:14 PM