Imaginary (non-official) Awards

[Torgo]

I know what you mean - IMDb fundamentally changed the character of their bottom list when they upped the needed minimum ratings from something like 1500 (no more than 2500, that I'm sure about) to 10,000 votes - effectively killing off all of the vintage trashy B-movies. Very sad.
The previous 100 were stuffed with crazy titles which often gained their notoriety through being featured in MST3K; thus the old Bottom 100 was without doubt skewed too, but in a more pleasing way.

Oh, look at that! mighty still has a version of the unaltered Bottom 100 from 2017 - 50% entries older than 2000, a great part older than 1985, with all the cult ridiculousness. [edit]The current version has 5 titles earlier than 1985
Please never update it!

[edit]Oh, so The Emoji Movie is an official check. Swell.

[Armoreska]

I have bronze on the old one, but 12 down on the new one (with a few movies that I am interested to watch cuz they're on my watched lists). Jaws 3 is available with a riff too, must give it a watch.

[OldAle1]

I know what you mean - IMDb fundamentally changed the character of their bottom list when they upped the needed minimum ratings from something like 1500 (no more than 2500, that I'm sure about) to 10,000 votes - effectively killing off all of the vintage trashy B-movies. Very sad.
The previous 100 were stuffed with crazy titles which often gained their notoriety through being featured in MST3K; thus the old Bottom 100 was without doubt skewed too, but in a more pleasing way.

Oh, look at that! mighty still has a version of the unaltered Bottom 100 from 2017 - 50% entries older than 2000, a great part older than 1985, with all the cult ridiculousness. [edit]The current version has 5 titles earlier than 1985
Please never update it!

[edit]Oh, so The Emoji Movie is an official check. Swell.

Strangely I've actually seen fewer films from the 2017 list, though there are more on it that look at least vaguely watchable to me. I'm also more specific-genre focused when it comes to bad movies - I will watch almost any bad (or good) sci-fi, fantasy or action film but bad comedies? Just not worth the pain. And I think nostalgia plays just as much a role with bad movies as it does anything else; Mac and Me is an eternal favorite for example but apart from Neil Breen's amazing filmography there is little from this century that I have really enjoyed in the same way. And most of the ones I have are, like the Breen films, too little voted to ever make it to the IMDb list. Uwe Boll is kind of a sweet sport for me though, I've kind of loved the three films of his I've seen, so maybe I should check out the ones I haven't that are on the list, or more stuff like them.

[Armoreska]

I already safely have bronze on the new ICM fav list (5000 titles!)
(i never supplied a list for this)

To compare to random others, I checked that these users also got bronze:
Joachimt
mightysparks
xianjiro - 3 to silver!
Tim2460 - silver already
(all very safe)
Torgo
(more recent "acquisition")

no:
albajos (200 to go)
maxwelldeux (800 to go)
Minkin (1200 to go)
Coryn (1500 to go)

[Armoreska]

TimeOut Animated 100/100 by watching Faust!

[Torgo]

TimeOut Animated 100/100 by watching Faust!

Cool.
I'm exactly at Gold and would never randomly go beyond 95 for this.
Goodbye Mr. Christie (2011) looks particularly obscure, 7 checks on ICM, 22 Votes on IMDb. Wow.

[yllow]

Gee that IMDB poster, you’ve intrigued me now

[yllow]

No plot summary either. Armo has seen it and knows what it’s about?

[Armoreska]

It's my only dislike there 2/10
My previous check on this list was in 2016 (Galactic Railroad).
King Kong 1933 was 5th-latest.

with Phil Mulloy you have to start here
https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/intolerance/

[Armoreska]

TimeOut Animated 100/100 by watching Faust!

Cool.
I'm exactly at Gold and would never randomly go beyond 95 for this.
Goodbye Mr. Christie (2011) looks particularly obscure, 7 checks on ICM, 22 Votes on IMDb. Wow.

Kirikou and teh Argonauts are musts

[yllow]

I guess I probably wouldn’t remember a four minute short I saw over 5 years ago either

[Armoreska]

I guess I probably wouldn’t remember a four minute short I saw over 5 years ago either

That's a longish film tho. You can watch his lower rated shorts to get the picture i guess.

[Armoreska]

plan for approaching 50K ratings on IMDb (aka road to 50K):
PragerU riffs (some of them are on IMDb as episodes)
Rage Against The Machine videos
some anime
Suna No Onna (fixture of existentialist lists and also many many lists)
La Grande Illusion (many many many lists)

[Armoreska]

noticed I've dipped under 1000 to go on Ultimate Canon and TrueFilm Canon. interesting.
it doesnt feel though like I'm anywhere closer to running out of movies

I've got 11 to go to bronze on all time TSPDT and 9 on Antti Alanen's 1,100. Will likely miss it when it happens.

One megalist where I'm far far off bronze is Martin Scorsese's Favorite Films.

[xianjiro]

believe I have earned the Bloody Scepter award

[Tim2460]

[xianjiro]

just a little disappointed if was for Theatre of Blood (check #666) and not Sleepaway Camp (#665) but then again, I didn't know what to expect from either

[pitchorneirda]

I've seen as many Palmes d'Or as sol

PS: 50/94

[pitchorneirda]

2500 top list checks

[xianjiro]

[Armoreska]

Pitchfork Media's The 25 Best Music Videos of the 1970s - all recommendations
created the list, completed the list
97/97

[mightysparks]

I know what you mean - IMDb fundamentally changed the character of their bottom list when they upped the needed minimum ratings from something like 1500 (no more than 2500, that I'm sure about) to 10,000 votes - effectively killing off all of the vintage trashy B-movies. Very sad.
The previous 100 were stuffed with crazy titles which often gained their notoriety through being featured in MST3K; thus the old Bottom 100 was without doubt skewed too, but in a more pleasing way.

Oh, look at that! mighty still has a version of the unaltered Bottom 100 from 2017 - 50% entries older than 2000, a great part older than 1985, with all the cult ridiculousness. [edit]The current version has 5 titles earlier than 1985
Please never update it!

[edit]Oh, so The Emoji Movie is an official check. Swell.

Forgot I even had that list so I doubt I will ever update it lol

[Torgo]

Perfect

[xianjiro]

I know what you mean - IMDb fundamentally changed the character of their bottom list when they upped the needed minimum ratings from something like 1500 (no more than 2500, that I'm sure about) to 10,000 votes - effectively killing off all of the vintage trashy B-movies. Very sad.
The previous 100 were stuffed with crazy titles which often gained their notoriety through being featured in MST3K; thus the old Bottom 100 was without doubt skewed too, but in a more pleasing way.

Oh, look at that! mighty still has a version of the unaltered Bottom 100 from 2017 - 50% entries older than 2000, a great part older than 1985, with all the cult ridiculousness. [edit]The current version has 5 titles earlier than 1985
Please never update it!

[edit]Oh, so The Emoji Movie is an official check. Swell.

Forgot I even had that list so I doubt I will ever update it lol

I update this version of that list about once a month for anyone who wishes to compare

[Armoreska]

50 Best Post-Apocalyptic Movies (Ash Tales)
https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/50+b ... ort=checks
i added it, im gonna finish it (finally finish one of the scifi lists)

my last films here are The Postman (watching) and Damnation Alley (least checked here with 220)

541 films to go to finish all scifi lists

[OldAle1]

I remember Damnation Alley really sucking, and The Postman being just really dull. I'm one away from silver on that list but the ones I haven't seen don't look particularly interesting apart from Threads. Eh, I just can't get enthused about big-budget recent SF anymore and what I have left is mostly that. Suppose I'll see Terminator Salvation someday as I've seen the rest of the series, and I do have a little soft spot for Roland Emmerich even though I know Day After Tomorrow will be EXACTLY like half of his other films. I don't think there's ever been a director of action films who has copied himself so relentlessly on such budgets.

[Armoreska]

Salvation is my 2nd worst film on that list probably, a 3/10. The Postman is an alrite film so far, nothing much to it

[gunnar]

I'm at 41/50 on the list with Damnation Alley being one of the 9 films I have left. I liked The Postman, though I enjoyed the book more. I had read the book before the movie came out and read the book again a decade or so later. I also liked Terminator Salvation when I watched it a few years ago.

[Armoreska]

50 Best Post-Apocalyptic Movies (Ash Tales)
https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/50+b ... ort=checks

my 48th check here was on 22 October 2017

[Armoreska]

RollingStone's 100 Greatest Music Videos version 2

finished in great fashion with
Prince & the Revolution:
Kiss
1999

but the road there was frought with many low points, not the best list at all

[Armoreska]

got to 52K checks without watching much of the major stuff or even really watching anything much at all, lets celebrate and roll in another thousand somehow!

[Armoreska]

finished
Slant Magazine's 100 Greatest Music Videos of All Time (2021)
last check:
M.I.A. Borders

this is a more cinematic list

[Armoreska]

finished
Rue Morgue's 25 Ghastliest Music Videos of the Past 25 Years
last check:
The Horrors: Sheena Is a Parasite (Chris Cunningham)

[Armoreska]

and the last for celebration of 52k checks
Slant Magazine's 100 Greatest Music Videos of All Time (2003)

my final 6 checks here are quite well established in the mv canon
Guns N' Roses: Estranged
Olivia Newton-John: Physical
Turn the Page (long 14 minute version with less Metallica and featuring a lot of nudity)
Madonna & Massive Attack: I Want You - i forgot this existed
Jane's Addiction: Been Caught Stealing
R.E.M.: Imitation of Life

[Armoreska]

An Alternate Feminist Cinema
50% 101/201
https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/an+a ... /armoreska

not my favorite feminist list, but im working on it anyway

[Armoreska]

Annecy Grand Prize 51/51
https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/anne ... l/eulalia/
used to be 5 to go when we started over 10 years ago

[Armoreska]

NME 100
https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/nmes ... eos/jf-uk/
at least one of these is a sequel so that's a +1
but some of these are also crappy and should be excised

last checks
18. The Cure: Close to Me (2 videos)
14. Vampire Weekend: A-Punk

[Armoreska]

having to suffer thru the last two on
Total Film's 30 Most Violent Movies
might be my first horror completion!

next one might take years to come

[Armoreska]

https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/film ... armoreska/
finished a music video list and article that i added to icm

final check
#16
The Beatles: A Day in the Life (1967)
pretty much the only list it's on other than the RS songs list

[Armoreska]

Billboard 20th Century Music Videos...done
bit of a challenge
yet not as much as the next one

also recently grabbed bronze on extended Timeout 1000
https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/time ... e+2006/apu