If you haven’t noticed by now, we’ve been running weekly lists here at In Contention. They were sporadic for a few months, but I recently decided to make them a mainstay, and we’re going to try to put a little more “umph” into the feature than you tend to find across the web.
We’ve already run lists of the top 10 performances you’re underestimating, the top 10 films of 1999 and the top 10 Paul Newman performances, but in lieu of an actual list today (we’ve got a few on deck), I wanted to throw it out to the readership for some guidance further down the road.
What sorts of lists would you like to see? The kookier the better.
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45 responses to “You name the list”
Top 10 Scores would be nice. Or composers for that matter.
Top 10 animated films, perhaps musicals. Horror with Halloween coming and all.
Top Ten Samuel L. Jackson paycheck movies.
Haha, you’re on the right track, Noah.
And I probably will cook up a best horror films list.
Top 10 actors most likely to win Oscars in the next decade, 2011-2020?
Top 10 full frontals
10 Surprise Limited Fall Releases Most Likely to Break 10 Mil
The top ten films featuring the meanest women characters.
McGuff gave a good one….
top 10 most criminally un-nominated actors (somebody gimme some bale lovin)
top 10 most dispicably bought oscars (great marketing, crap movie… dreamgirls)
top 10 most unfortunately squandered talents (premature death, poor career choices etc.)
but i would also love to do a full bracket of decade 10 bests (movies, perfs) leading to all time bests
I’ll definitely be doing a personal 10 of all time list. Been meaning to commit that to record for years now.
I like Casey’s idea of a bracket poll system… its much more fun to vote for movie head-to-head.
Do…a list OF lists. It would be nice to have a compendium of the best-of lists out there that aren’t pure fluff.
Considering this is an election year, how about top ten political figures in movies?
Top Ten actors you like despite obviously limited talent.
Top Ten characters you wish you’d written yourself.
Top Ten fake directors/actors/musicians in films.
To go back and second a few, I love Chris’ first idea above (which characters you wish you’d written), as well as Casey’s idea about the Oscars that have been bought. I think that’s a side of the business that only few are privy to, so it would be nice to see an insider’s (Kris’) take.
Top 10 Genre-Defining Films
Top 10 Films of The Decades (one from each decade: 1910s-2000s)
Top 10 comedic performances of the new millennium…comedy often gets short shrift from Oscar sites, and it would be great to see some great film comedians recognized.
Top 10 Thelma Ritter performances.
Top ten film adaptations would be good or movies that at first glance didn’t sit well with you that you ended up loving after repeated viewings
Top ten iconic characters of the 90’s
Call me crazy, Kris, but I seem to remember you posting a Top Ten of All Time during the closing days of Oscar Central.
Remember Vincent Vega, Tyler Durden, Dirk Diggler, Neo, Renton, Hannibal Lecter, Nil, Margie, The Dude, Verbal Kynt, Henry Hill, Rose Dawson, Max Fischer etc…
like the political figures in film one. also the likable actors with limited talent… thatd be funny
Top 10 Over the Top Performances of All Time
Top 10 Guiltiest of Guilty Pleasures
Top Ten Worst Movies of All Time.
top ten action sequenses
top ten movies that make no sense in the real world
top ten guilty pleasure movies
top ten worst villains (not as in good villains like lecter, but as in inaffective villains)
top ten novel to movie adaptions
top ten bond’s (guys or movies or both)
top ten guys that could play the riddler in nolan’s world
top ten best pictures or directors or actors or actresses that should of won
top ten detectives of film
Top 10 Oscar-Winning Performances That Should Not Have Won.
Make a different one for each category, and you’re all set for a month!
Top 10
Worst movies to win any Oscar
Top 10 best top 10 reader suggestions?
I really like the most likely to win an oscar in the next decade idea.
also top ten most underdeveloped characters that should’ve gotten more screentime
True enough, Ryan. Five long years ago. It hasn’t changed a lot, but it could use fresh perspective.
10 Worst “Best Original Song” winners…
“You Light Up My Life”
Gag me, please.
This category unfairly takes up almost 30 minutes of each Oscar show. The 4 acting categories don’t even get that amount of time combined.
Isn’t it time this category got bumped right off the air? Or at least reduced to a 15 second sound bite of each nominee.
They wonder why the Oscar ratings decline year after year. This is when everyone changes the channel and loses interest.
Does anyone agree with me that this category receives unfair coverage?
Patrick: It depends who’s nominated in a given year, doesn’t it? For me, the Oscar show would be a lot poorer without the magic moments that artists like Springsteen, Bjork or Hansard/Irglova bring to the stage. Unfortunately, it means we have to sit through the odd bit of drivel too. Such is life.
On the lists: great suggestions, guys. I like the one about actors with limited talent too — you could go further and say the Best Bad Actors.
Top 10 remakes that are better than the original
Top 10 critically hailed masterpieces that simply aren’t up to much
Top 10: great performance, shame about the film
top ten movie mustaches (characters with them)
I saw this once and fell in love with it . We could even change it to facial hair
Top Ten Movies of the Decade (so far)
Me and a friend have been thinking about it, and it would be great if you upload your thoughts about that issue.
(sorry for my english. it isn’t my maternal language)
TOP 10 Movies of the Decade!!! or TOP 10 of the last 10 years
Top 10 Performances by Actors billed without a last name
i would love love love the mustache one… but the whole list would just be Burt Reynolds characters
Top Ten Surprise Endings
Top Ten One-Scene Performances
Top Ten Movies That Start Off Good But Fall Apart
Top Ten Best Edited Movies
Top Ten Movies in Which A Character is Covered in a Messy Substance
Top Ten Movie Presidents
Top Ten Films of 1979
Top 10 actors most likely to win Special Lifetime Achievement Award Oscar
Harrison Ford?
Glenn Close?
Top 10 best actors Ever
Maybe Robert Deniro & Pacino #1. :)