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Movie Ranking Fun

5/6/2026 8:09 pm

I have officially added a page to share my top 50 movies based on my MovieRank tool. As the page explains, I built a tool which pulls in movie information and lets me bash them against each other to generate Elo rankings.

The project is inspired by a website, FlickChart.com. As I recently learned, they've updated their system, but the original structure was that when you had two movies face off, if the winner was the lower ranked movie it was placed above the movie that it beat. This ended up with some weird and undesirable movie rankings and it was very hard for movies to drop down in rankings. There are problems with an Elo based system (such as, it takes a lot of matches to generate a comprehensive ranking list) but overall I prefer this method.

As I noted, the system was recently updated, which the site owner actually shared with me on Bluesky:

We heard that from a lot of folks. Even I trailed off random ranking, esp once v2 was in dev.
If it's been a while, it's worth (in my 100% biased opinion) checking out the other new features anyway. If you want to use the new algo on your existing acct, let us know and we'll convert it!
— @prophasi.bsky.social 2026-04-29T14:04:59.194Z

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