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Movie Viewing Survey for India

2011-06-18T11:27:00.001-07:00

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New York City Films

2011-04-09T09:56:00.000-07:00

Inspired by New York Magazine's recent piece 'At Home on Screen' and the passing of Sidney Lumet, a legendary 'cinematic captor' of NYC, I took a shot at ranking my favorite films set in New York City. With such a vast number of NYC movies, I ended up with a ranking that looks very much like the scores of others who have identified their favorite iconic NYC pictures: Manhattan (or almost

Congratulations to our January/February Ranking Promotion Winners

2011-03-01T07:47:00.000-08:00

One quick note before we get to the Promotion Winners, we have added a couple of "Badges" on the site. It is a searchlight badge with either white lights or gold lights. You will earn the white searchlight badge when you rank at least 25 movie categories and the gold searchlight badge when you rank at least 100 movie categories. You can see an example of the gold badge our top ranker's profile

Any HBO True Blood Fans Out There?

2011-02-01T07:57:00.000-08:00

I thought this was pretty funny. They are selling an orange drink at HBO.com inspired by Bill's synthetic blood drink. They come in bottles that look surprisingly like the bottles on the show. Pretty cool novelty gift for crazy True Blood fans.

Best Jim Carrey Movies

2011-01-29T15:54:00.000-08:00

Check out this Squidoo lens that we wrote on the 8 best Jim Carrey films as they appear on the Composite Ranking of Rankography movies. Members ranked their favorite Jim Carrey movies and we compiled the rankings to create this collective rank. The excellent movie The Truman Show topped the list but I think you will find that there are several other great lesser known Carrey films on the

New Ranking Promotion Through the End of February 2011

2011-01-10T19:26:00.000-08:00

ANOTHER PROMOTION!! We are running another rankings promotion from January 10th through the end of February. We will be giving away four (4) more Amazon gift cards to certain members in a Rankings promotion during the rest of January and February. We loved all the activity during the promotion in November and again we hope to dramatically increase the number of rankings per category to benefit

7 Great Films You Likely Didn't Know Existed

2010-12-29T19:11:00.000-08:00

type="text/javascript"> Discovery was the main reason we started Rankography. We thought that if lots of knowledgeable movie fans started ranking their favorite movies in different categories, then we could find great unknown movies. Well, for me at least, that has been true in spades. Since we launched in May, my Netflix queue has tripled in size and I have watched many outstanding movies

Congratulations to Our Contest Winners

2010-12-01T10:53:00.000-08:00

Well November has ended and so has our rankings contest. Congratulations to garv who ran away with First Place in both the Total Ranked Categories and Incremental Ranked Categories contests for a total of $80 ($40 in each contest) in Amazon gift cards. Garv started the month with only 3 ranked categories and ended with a whopping 269 ranked categories. WOW! Here is a link to all of Garv's

November Ranking Promotion for Rankography Members

2010-11-01T08:30:00.000-07:00

EXCITING NEWS! We are giving away four (4) Amazon gift cards to certain members in a Rankings promotion during November. We know that increasing the total number of rankings per category increases the discovery value of the site for all users. We also know that our members' time is valuable so we are creating an incentive for you to rank more categories. Specifically, we have created two

Six Classic Halloween Favorites

2010-10-31T17:37:00.000-07:00

Happy Halloween, Rankography! I'm sure you've read plenty of lists about horror films this year, but what's the harm in one more? 1. Nosferatu (1922): This is one of the most genuinely creepy movies I've ever seen. If the Maltese Falcon is the stuff dreams are made of, Nosferatu is the stuff nightmares are made of. The scene where Nosferatu is coming up the stairs and all we see is his

Shocktober: 5 Horror Films Worth a Watch

2010-10-25T17:37:00.000-07:00

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The 7 Best Baseball Movies

2010-10-14T08:32:00.000-07:00

Tweet In tribute to the baseball playoffs which are in full swing, I thought I would highlight my favorite seven movies about baseball and the fall classic. If you want to add your own two cents, you can rank the category here. And also check out our member rankings for other great Sports Movies. Before I get started, lets talk a little bit about criteria. I was looking for the baseball

Take the DiCaprio Quiz

2010-09-30T12:50:00.001-07:00

Tweet Take the quiz to see how well you know Leo and come see member rankings if you are looking to find the Best Leonardo DiCaprio Films. <p>&amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp

The Not So Hot Top Ten of 2010

2010-09-01T09:58:00.001-07:00

The Not So Hot Top Ten Of 2010 The summer is officially over and so the summer of 2010 movie numbers are finally in. While the Summer movie offering was way under par from what we have come to expect in recent years, we still recording one of the largest money making Summer’s when it comes to movies in 2010. There are plenty of reasons why this was able to occur and yet it occurred for all the

You + Me & Rankography Movies Make 3

2010-08-30T13:35:00.001-07:00

You + Me & Rankography Make 3 It is not too often that I am going to spend my time writing an article about another website, well not a website in full. However this website is not just any old website that I have come across on the internet. A little while ago now my former website (MdotMovieMan Reviews) caught the attention of the team over at Rankography Movies. I was asked to join this

The Enjoyment Of A 3D Remake!

2010-08-24T11:57:00.000-07:00

With a market flooded by 3D movies and remakes 2010 has been without a doubt the worst year for movies at the box office in a long time. Movies in 2010 have been boring, dismal, and nothing to tell your friends about. There have been a few gems in amongst the garbage pile, but there just has not been enough movie magic to keep audiences from yawning their way through the summer. 3D or Not 3D,

Quintessential Modern Movie Soundtracks

2010-08-19T13:06:00.000-07:00

Utilizing the recent Rankography's Best Movie Soundtracks Composite Ranking list as inspiration, I felt compelled to highlight my top modern (post 1990s) soundtracks. For me, the best soundtracks manage to play like a favorite mixtape: While each song should contribute to the picture as viewed, the album should also stand alone as an exciting auditory experience. Three contemporary directors

The Art of Placing One Film Ahead of Another

2010-08-15T09:24:00.000-07:00

When I was first invited to guest blog for Rankography movies, I wasn’t sure exactly what to write about. So I went over to the website and browsed around for a little while, hoping to find something interesting that I could discuss. Thirty minutes later I had looked at many lists of movies and had created two of my own. Let’s face it: ranking movies is fun! The critics get to rank their

Introducing Composite Rankings!

2010-08-12T07:45:00.000-07:00

We are introducing Composite Rankings for any category with at least five member-ranked lists. We already have over 20 categories with Composite Rankings. The Composites are calculated using a weighted scale, meaning that if a movie is rated #1 on somebody's lists it is going to receive more points than a movie ranked #5 on the same or another list. So both the number of times a movie is

Should we Blame Ourselves for the Lack of Originality in Hollywood?

2010-08-02T21:11:00.000-07:00

My god I am sick of the remakes and endless cycle of sequels coming out of Hollywood the days. It seems that for every truly original movie, such as Inception or Dinner for Schmucks, we have at least 4 or 5 remake/sequels. Do we really need to remake a movie, like Halloween or Let the Right One In, that were both incredible the first time around. What does the medium gain by doing it? I would

Great Article 30 Things You Might Not Know about Caddyshack

2010-07-25T08:08:00.000-07:00

Bill Murray as Carl Spackler in Caddyshack It is the 30th Anniversary of Caddyshack, an 80's Comedy Classic and Erik Larnick did a great piece on this classic movie. If you love Caddyshack as much as I do, you will love reading through his 30 tidbits about the movie that you probably did not know. And if, god forbid, you have never seen Caddyshack...get it to the top of your rental list

Christopher Nolan Thinks Therefore He Is.....Brilliant!

2010-07-20T11:43:00.001-07:00

Christopher Nolan has cemented his name in the minds of many movie goers these days as he continues his strings of remarkably wonderful movies. This weekend saw the release of Nolan's latest piece of work "Inception" Inception takes the viewers through a dream world and leave us with much speculation of what is going on, and in the end what truly happened? The movie leaves many questions and

The Year That Film Forgot

2010-07-19T15:37:00.000-07:00

Is it possible that the year 2010 could down in history as the worst year for movies? This is a thought that has plagued my movie mind for quite a good portion of the year so far. I am just finding that the more large release movies that I see this year, the more I find myself disappointed with what has been put out. More and more remakes and sequels seem to be the large portion of movies

Vampire Fever

2010-07-06T11:59:00.000-07:00

With the incredible success of Eclipse this past weekend, it looks like the US has blood-sucking fever. As a nation of movie-goers we have long had a fascination with Vampires. I am not sure what draws us to these stories -- maybe the allure of eternal youth, the danger of forbidden love, or simply the magnetism of dark, brooding characters -- but the US has the fever bad. As a result, I

Highlighted Ranking Profiles for new Movie Bloggers

2010-06-29T14:14:00.000-07:00

One of the cools things about Rankography is the deep knowledge of the members its attracting. Many movie bloggers have been joining the site and creating new categories and great rankings. I wanted to highlight some of the ranking profiles of members which have been adding a lot of value. DVDSpinDoctor Is a movie blogger who has ranked many categories and added the Vampire categories (and no