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[Onderhond]

I don't think mathiasa was talking about the shorts on TSPDT or S&S. You can't use the same argument every time.

Of the 1817 official shorts on iCM, only 24 are on TSPDT. 11 of those 24 are also on our forum's favourite movies. Those 24 shorts are not there because of historical significance. The 1817 official shorts come from a lot of different lists, but there are a few lists that have a lot more shorts than other lists. The lists with a lot of shorts are not canon lists, but they indeed include shorts for historical significance in some cases. I really fail to see the connection with canon/TSPDT/S&S in this.

Probably because I'm looking at the 3+ list right now and because these lists are so connected that if a short appears on one, it is likely to appear on others too. Also don't forget we have 2000 TSPDT films now.

I've mostly seen technical experiments that are hopelessly outdated by modern standards, some documentaries with a POINT to make and lots of animation that is doing its very best to be as unanimated as possible. The few narrative shorts I've seen are mostly silents. I'm sure there's a vast reservoir on ICM containing modern genre and/or experimental shorts I haven't tapped into yet, as I've been complaining that I find it a difficult area to navigate, please do point me in the right direction.

[joachimt]

please do point me in the right direction.

Uh, no. The last thing I plan to do is give YOU recommendations.

[Onderhond]

I checked the handy ICM list. A massive 60 shorts from the 21th century (that's 3.2% if I'm generous). 10 of which are from the past decade.

I wasn't looking for specific titles, just something contemporary. I've seen almost half of those 60 btw, clicked on a few of the remaining ones and hit a lot of Rosenbaum checks. The epitome of contemporary cinema!

[Ebbywebby]

I've seen 1,557 official shorts from the "All Shorts" list, plus about 4,000 unofficial shorts. I find unofficial shorts to watch in many ways. Originally, I looked up a lot of pet directors' credits to see if they made shorts too. Then I gradually accumulated 20 or so shorts-heavy ICM lists that I draw ideas from. Also, I try to see every unofficlal short on 13+ lists (I currently have 55 left). Lately, I've been watching a load of experimental shorts streamable at lightcone.org -- that's a new pursuit for me.

I have about 70 extra-coveted shorts left on my watchlist, but most of them are near-impossible to find so they just sit there. I rarely add to this list anymore, but I did insert two early Vera Chytilova shorts the other day.

Let's see...what were the inspirations for recent shorts I've watched? This goes back about three weeks.

lightcone.org: about 60 films
shorts that were on 13+ ICM lists: 11
the Chaotic Cinema list on Letterboxd: 10
official checks: 8 (a lot of fresh discoveries lately...I still have two more to watch)
DTC nominations: 3 (Qortsili was terrible)
shorts I came across while skimming someone else's checks: 2
the Parker Tyler's Underground Film list: 1
something I came across on a director's Vimeo channel while looking for something else: 1
something I came across on https://uloz.to: 1
something I came across on YouTube: 1

I don't see many contemporary shorts that mean anything to me. They tend to be little character studies, cutesy novelties or self-important "issue" films -- not so much about filmmaking concepts.

[RBG]

haven't been watching a lot of official checks and my position has been quite static but a week or so ago i noticed greennui is creeping up on me and not sure when it happened but he has officially passed me. congratulations rnilsson a fine effort. now off to watch the alligator people

[Ebbywebby]

I'm now down five slots since the box-office lists were radically expanded.

[WalterNeff]

Not a ranking update, but today is my 9th anniversary on iCM.

[tazz_85]

Shorts are your friend

#500 on this list is only 6 minutes long, so, you could get to under 4000 in less than a couple days, if you really wanted to.

As a point of reference, watching 500 off that list, will put you around 2500, a vast majority of the real short ones are available on Youtube.

Thanks! that 'll be a big help

I ended 2016 ranked #8366, and ended 2017 ranked #1701, thanks in very large part to that list.

Well, i've come a long way since january. I've watched a lot of shorts since then. Now on rank #1985
Excellent rank/year btw

Didn't know i was born in the same year as Ronaldo and Bruno Mars. Don't know the others though

[erde]

87 ranks since the beginning of the year. Expanding the box-office lists did its best to wreck my ranking, but it was no match to my TSPDT project, and watching shorts during coffee breaks while working remotely because of the pandemic.

[Ebbywebby]

Expanding the box-office lists did its best to wreck my ranking

It did a swell job on me...I'm five slots below where I was and am about 25 checks behind the person directly above me.

[Tasselfoot]

Expanding the box-office lists did its best to wreck my ranking

It did a swell job on me...I'm five slots below where I was and am about 25 checks behind the person directly above me.

I'm waiting for things to open up again, because despite having 730/1000 checks, 15 of the bottom 17 are unchecked. Will make progress just as they fall off to new films.

[sol]

New high ranking:

[OldAle1]

Not my highest ranking, but a climb back onto page 3 for the first time since last fall or winter.



More significantly I move into the ranks of



for the first time (well, on my personal page anyway - on the profile charts I'm still listed as "nominee" - what's up with that?)

Anyway I'm expecting my new Lamborghini, my suitcase full of caviar, and the deed to my new private island any day now. Thanks guys, couldn't have done it without you!

[nimimerkillinen]

Back to 195

[sol]

Everybody keeps telling me to slow down with the number of films I am getting through this year...

[PUNQ]

Half-year check-in and I've actually lost 22 spots since New Year. That after checking over 900 films (including shorts). In other words, not many official check compared to the hardcore "off-checkers". I did tick 88 official ones and still fell down the lists so rumors of "icm" death is a little premature. The site still has it's core base addicted to the experience.

[clemmetarey]

So I was at 584 on January 1rst, 591 on April 2nd, and now I'm at 581 (with 3144 checks).

[Obgeoff]

1571

Think I've gone up roughly 300 roughly places in the last 6 months but no way of checking.

Just over 10 months later, I'm at 901.

Less than three months later, I'm the devil's envoy at 666.

[xianjiro]

for the first time (well, on my personal page anyway - on the profile charts I'm still listed as "nominee" - what's up with that?)

you've read the FAQs, right? https://www.icheckmovies.com/help/faq/#profiles-

How is my rank calculated?

Your rank is calculated based on the percentage of movies currently in at least one top list you have seen. Thus, a movie that was once in a top list but now is not is not taken into account. The thresholds for moving up a rank are as follows:

Walk of Fame
Seen at least 70% of the top list's movies
Oscar winner
Seen at least 40% of the top list's movies
Oscar nominee
Seen at least 25% of the top list's movies
Movie star
Seen at least 15% of the top list's movies
Lead role
Seen at least 10% of the top list's movies
Actor
Seen at least 5% of the top list's movies
Extra
Seen less than 5% of the top list's movies

Let's see, nymets is the lowest Walk of Famer with 11473 top list checks so that means I've only got to watch about 2500 more official checks. Might be doable if we don't add any more official lists.

[MMDan]

Only 50 checks to go up a rank.....even more to get to the first page.

[Tasselfoot]

Jul 25, 2014: 1463
Oct 13, 2014: 996
Jan 30, 2015: 735
Oct 25, 2015: 499
May 7, 2016: 399
Sept 6, 2016: 299
April 17, 2017: 250

Hit 200th with this post, Sept 19th, 2017. Think I peaked around 184, maybe?
Dropped to 236th, but slowly climbing back... 232nd now. Was gone for about 500 days, at (conservatively) 2 films/day... had I not taken a break, would be around 130th.

Back in the top 200.

[hurluberlu]

[Cocoa]

It took six months to move up a page.

The same has happened again. Now at 125.

It took more than a year to move up a page, but now I'm in the top 100. Currently tied at #99.

Previously

December 28th, 2013: 9991
January 25th, 2014: 7994
March 1st, 2014: 6946
April 17th, 2014: 5999
May 23rd, 2014: 4947
June 20th, 2014: 3957
July 23rd, 2014: 2945
September 14th, 2014: 1998
December 12th, 2014: 1499
January 6th, 2015: 1241
January 26th, 2015: 1000
February 25th, 2015: 899
April 20th, 2015: 792
May 26th, 2015: 677
August 1st, 2015: 497
October 4th, 2015: 365
October 6th, 2015: 380
December 31st, 2015: 325
April 13th, 2016: 300
June 11th, 2016: 268
September 7th, 2016: 248
March 7th, 2017: 223
June 19th, 2017: 200
October 12th, 2017: 173
April 9th, 2018: 150
October 21st, 2018: 125
July 26th, 2020: 99

[Harco]

Almost 3.5 years later. Pretty bad progress. Definitely haven't watched as much as I wanted to.

[matthewscott8]

I am doing very poorly at #1750. That said it's almost all feature films I gave my undivided attention to. I can't see myself hammering in low quality short films anytime soon!

[Onderhond]

I am doing very poorly at #1750. That said it's almost all feature films I gave my undivided attention to. I can't see myself hammering in low quality short films anytime soon!

I wouldn't recommend it either. I've seen around a 100 I think and there were 2 or 3 decent/nice ones.

[beasterne]

Woo, just cracked the top 3000--new rank is #2976. This is also apparently a shoe model at Doc Martens, because it's the only thing that comes up on a google image search

[RBG]

damn i lost two spots

[sol]

I have moved up a total of ONE SPOT since... June?

Been watching way too many Unofficial films of late, but hopefully I will continue to climb as I work on the Empire Russia list.

Back to business now!

[Torgo]

Spoiler

This pretty much covers my ranks of the last half year or so.

I need 10 more checks for 1 rank, 20 more for 2 and 40 more checks for 3 ranks. You guys in the 100s and 50s might laugh about this, but for me this is not possible at this point of time. Probably going to be stuck there unless a new list like anime , another Japanese list or surrealism will get adopted.

Wow, so at the time of my last post here, I've been pretty close to a #200-rank for a while. Only 4,5 years later with nearly no checks and I'm down to #339. Think my lowest was about #350?
Might watch a couple shorts someday, as many have been adopted in the meantime, but I might just as well skip and continue to ignore the ranks at all.

[Torgo]

Note to myself:
#325: 69 checks needed
#300: 191 (!) checks needed
#275: 361
#250: 530
#222: 702
#215 (apparently my former best of all time): 755 needed

Wow, I can pretty much forget any of this without shorts or, at all, actually

[joachimt]

Well, you're still in a spot where you can actually make progress by watching some movies. It's boring in the top 50. No matter how many I watch, I don't move at all. The only move of me in the last four months or so was one down when the checkcounts-bug was corrected.

[dirty_score]

It's boring in the top 50. No matter how many I watch, I don't move at all. The only move of me in the last four months or so was one down when the checkcounts-bug was corrected.

Here's an idea to makes things interesting and exciting again: start removing official status for the oldest lists, remove the Anthology Film Archives and witness the fallout

[MMDan]

I don't move ranks much anymore either joachimt, but cheers to when I do. Almost to the first page.

[xianjiro]

Here's an idea to makes things interesting and exciting again: start removing official status for the oldest lists, remove the Anthology Film Archives and witness the fallout

[Torgo]

Spoiler

This pretty much covers my ranks of the last half year or so.

I need 10 more checks for 1 rank, 20 more for 2 and 40 more checks for 3 ranks. You guys in the 100s and 50s might laugh about this, but for me this is not possible at this point of time. Probably going to be stuck there unless a new list like anime , another Japanese list or surrealism will get adopted.

I had the chance to look up my rank just a while after I joined ICM, which has been around the end of 2010.
I was baffled to see that I stood at .. #340.
5 years later, I rose up to #215.
5 more years after that, I'm at #339 AGAIN.

10 years of checking activities have been futile!

[xianjiro]

Please don't be discouraged! Here's why:

It's got to be a function of everyone else checking movies as well. Basically, if most users are watching within the range of an average number of films, then it makes sense that one isn't going to advance in the rankings all that much, right? Who's left to conquer? Basically the dormant accounts.

IF one wants to advance in the rankings, then one must clearly be watching more than everyone else above them in the rankings. My personal experience and watching a handful of users surge during lockdown suggests 3-4 official checks a day minimum are needed for meteoric rankings rises. See where the logic is going?

It's one of the difficulties of waging a game of this sort. I wish there was more emphasis placed on something like percent of total official checks seen. That would allow users to gage their progress against a target - granted, a moving one. The only way to do that now is to watch one's "rank title" (Walk of Fame, Oscar Winner/Nominee, Movie Star, etc). When that changes, one can be assured one has accomplished something.

Think in terms of running a marathon: runners do want to beat other competitors, but they also seek to better their own times both in a given race (even though actual courses may change year after year), but also against the marathon itself, which is a static length. For most runners who know they logically have little to no chance of winning, it's about their time and finishing.

What is the iCM equivalent? I would hope it's enjoying a much wider range of cinema that one would if one only relied on what was delivered through streaming and the cineplex. Also, we each have lists we want to finish, for example, many have expressed interest in "completing" the IMDb Top 250 or TSPDT.

The other thing, I know my total checks is higher than when I joined iCM. Don't remember exactly how many total checks I had, but know it was well below 10,000 (mostly because I remember crossing that threshold but also since I know I'm checking at something over 1,000 titles per year). Let's say I doubled my number of checks (including unofficial) in just over six years. If that isn't an accomplishment in the eyes of others, I'd call it running a good race.

[Ebbywebby]

I had the chance to look up my rank just a while after I joined ICM, which has been around the end of 2010.
I was baffled to see that I stood at .. #340.
5 years later, I rose up to #215.
5 more years after that, I'm at #339 AGAIN.

10 years of checking activities have been futile!

Despite adding official checks at a fairly regular rate (I've added 14 this month so far), I'm 11 slots below my peak rank (#116 -> #127) and would need about 150 checks immédiatement to regain my former rank. I can't match the pace of the users ranking around me, and the recent expansion of those two box-office lists cost me five or six slots.

[tazz_85]

Never tought i'd make it into the top 1000 at the start of this year, but watching +1000 shorts in 10 months does that

[Torgo]

Gratz, tazz!
That's quite the milestone