Others might have taken a bit of a.meandering path to get there, but we still love the destination-basically anything Marvel, but especially Thor, Iron Man, and Spider-Man. Some of these movies are so tightly woven that they absolutely were made as one cohesive piece of art-think Lord of the Rings and the Before Sunrise movies. These are for the movie lovers who enjoy a good story told over the course of a few films-and TBH, the stories may not even be that good all the time, but the characters and set pieces are fun, k? I will defend my love of movie trilogies and franchises to the death, y'all. Even if you haven't been miraculously gifted several days of free time to binge-watch, these movie series are the ones to start catching up as soon as possible. Keep up to date with our local arts and events coverage.Do you have a bunch of free time and a couple of streaming services to divide it between? Or maybe a bunch of those classic movies you're supposed to watch by the time you're 30 to get through? Well, you've come to the right place. “And even though it’s new, I expect Creed will be a lot higher on this list in a few weeks or months.” Check out the full list of Philly films here. “ Rocky at the top is no surprise,” he says. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)įor the Philly films, Godfrey says he grabbed movies that Wikipedia says are set in Philadelphia and ordered them using his aforementioned method.Want more? Godfrey has been kind enough to do more data-crunching to rank films that are set in Philadelphia. 57 alongside The Graduate and To Kill a Mockingbird. So now you can start filling up your Netflix queue with, say, the best Charlie Chaplin films (there are four of them in the Top 25), or give some silent movies a go without risking an evening of no-sound boredom (hint: those are films, roughly, made before 1929). What about Philly films, you ask? Not surprisingly, the highest-ranked locally set film is the original Rocky, which weighs in at No. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977).You’ll have to go to his list to see all 250, here. Here’s the Top 25: “What wins out instead are lots of cool, important older films that are standouts from their era - The Great Train Robbery, Sherlock Jr., Man with a Movie Camera - that also happen to be really watchable and interesting to modern audiences.” The staples, like Citizen Kane, Vertigo and 12 Angry Men are all still there, but there are only three from this century that managed to make the cut: The Dark Knight and the first and third Lord of the Rings. His Top 250 has 132 in common with IMDb’s. So, using IMDb’s database of downloadable text files he was able to rework the same vote base “to get at something approaching a real populist, crowd-sourced canon that better honored the whole 120-year span of cinema.” He measured films based on the number of votes from other films of their era to essentially improve upon IMDb’s list. The list he consulted most was IMDb’s Top 250. “I’ve never thought of as a canonical list of great films, but I liked the idea that a bunch of movie lovers from all over the world were aggregating a list of what they thought was really good.”īut many of the films on that list “are just solid or okay,” he says, “and there’s always been a tendency for new stuff to crowd out classics that I felt were more deserving.” He’s come up with a list of the 250 all-time best films by crunching data from film sites where critics and regular viewers alike have been plugging in ratings for years. Ryan Godfrey works as a product manager for a local software company, surrounded by the kind of numbers and data that most of us will never be able to comprehend. Since the late-90s, however, he’s been working on a little side project that - while just as baffling in the backend - is about to make our lives a little easier, at least where it concerns our Netflix queues.
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