The Best Movies of 2009 and 2008

[CJackson]

2009



2008



2008 box office - ranked qualitatively from one to ten; with box office rank to the right of quality rank.

[Fighter]

'Tyson' is an excellent film.....highly recommended

[Sixx]

I wanna see the Hurt Locker bad!!!!!

[Elvis]

Wow no Gran Torino on the 2008 list?

Where are you pulling this stuff? Rotten Tomatoes?

[CJackson]

Originally Posted by Elvis

Wow no Gran Torino on the 2008 list?

Where are you pulling this stuff? Rotten Tomatoes?

Rotten tomatoes, MRQE and Metecritic, to be exact. I find movies that have one hundred or more reviews, 80% and higher popularity, and ratings that exceed 7/10. This is combined with data from MRQE and Metacritic so that pictures can be balanced out. For instance, if a movie got a higher number on one aggregate and a lower number on another, a third aggregate is used to determine that movie's balance.

See below:

The Dark Knight 94, Average Rating: 8.5/10 | MRQE: 87 | Metacritic: 82
Man On Wire 100, Average Rating: 8.4/10 | MRQE: 85 | Metacritic: 89

RT lists MoW as being 100% and TDK as 94%. The average for each film is 8.5 and 8.4 respectively. Though, MoW rates higher on the tomatometer it has a lower average. MRQE lists TDK at 87 and MoW two points behind, with 85. The score so far is TDK: 2; MoW: 1. BUT WAIT! Metacritic has MoW seven points ahead of TDK. Now the score is even at 2 - 2. Many films are like this, and come down to personal preference as to which picture is better. What isn't subjective is that critics consider TDK and MoW to be among the best films released last year.

This is just a brief introduction to my system for determining a movie's worth. It's not perfect, hence my altering it into different gro$$ groups and then using the superior-inferior system (it's not really fair to have indy films no one has heard of clogging up the top few spots).

To conclude, I'll not consider watching a film in theater, or purchasing it on blu-ray unless it is 90% or higher and 7.5/10+ at RT, 75+ at MRQE and 75+ at Metacritic; 5.0 out 5 overall and 5.0 out of 5 for video here at blu-ray.com

[coralfangs]

I did not expect Ponyo to make that much

[jhiggy23]

Originally Posted by CJackson

Rotten tomatoes, MRQE and Metecritic, to be exact. I find movies that have one hundred or more reviews, 80% and higher popularity, and ratings that exceed 7/10. This is combined with data from MRQE and Metacritic so that pictures can be balanced out. For instance, if a movie got a higher number on one aggregate and a lower number on another, a third aggregate is used to determine that movie's balance.

See below:

The Dark Knight 94, Average Rating: 8.5/10 | MRQE: 87 | Metacritic: 82
Man On Wire 100, Average Rating: 8.4/10 | MRQE: 85 | Metacritic: 89

RT lists MoW as being 100% and TDK as 94%. The average for each film is 8.5 and 8.4 respectively. Though, MoW rates higher on the tomatometer it has a lower average. MRQE lists TDK at 87 and MoW two points behind, with 85. The score so far is TDK: 2; MoW: 1. BUT WAIT! Metacritic has MoW seven points ahead of TDK. Now the score is even at 2 - 2. Many films are like this, and come down to personal preference as to which picture is better. What isn't subjective is that critics consider TDK and MoW to be among the best films released last year.

This is just a brief introduction to my system for determining a movie's worth. It's not perfect, hence my altering it into different gro$$ groups and then using the superior-inferior system (it's not really fair to have indy films no one has heard of clogging up the top few spots).

To conclude, I'll not consider watching a film in theater, or purchasing it on blu-ray unless it is 90% or higher and 7.5/10+ at RT, 75+ at MRQE and 75+ at Metacritic; 5.0 out 5 overall and 5.0 out of 5 for video here at blu-ray.com

I appreciate the effort you put in and your careful consideration of movies but it is absolutely ridiculous to me that you would possibly consider this inherently flawed system as being the sole predictor of a film's "worth" and whether you will even consider viewing it.

[CJackson]

[jhiggy23]

Has anyone here seen The Cove? I realllly want to see it and hurt it was fantastic.

[surfdude12]

The Fall was my favorite of '08

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by jhiggy23

Has anyone here seen The Cove? I realllly want to see it and hurt it was fantastic.

Nope. That and 500 Days of Summer, Moon and The Hurt Locker never made it to my area.