EXCLUDING the Top 10 Indie films of 2009:
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/12/the_best_films_of_2009.html
Even though I have completed this list, it only shows me having completed 99 percent of it. I have scrolled up and down it to make sure all the boxes are all checked several times, refreshed the page, signed out and back in my account and yet it still only says I have completed 99 percent of the list. Is there any way anyone can tell me what could possibly be wrong? If the problem doesn’t resolve itself I’ll just remove it from list as it is very annoying there is a list at the top of my lists in which I have already completed and am no longer working on. Wow, I know I sound pretty OCD. Haha.
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081205/COMMENTARY/812059997/1023
Ebert Says:
Look at my 20 titles, and you tell me which 10 you would cut. Nor can I select one to stand above the others, or decide which should be No. 7 and which No. 8. I can’t evaluate films that way. Nobody can, although we all pretend to. A “best films” list, certainly. But of exactly 10, in marching order? These 20 stood out for me, and I treasure them all. If it had been 19 or 21, that would have been OK. If you must have a Top 10 List, find a coin in your pocket. Heads, the odd-numbered movies are your 10. Tails, the even-numbered.
I changed it to:
1. Synecdoche, NY
2. Milk
3. Happy-Go-Lucky
4. Frozen River
5. Rachel Getting Married
6. Doubt
7. Slumdog Millionaire
8. Revolutionary Road
9. The Dark Knight
10. Frost/Nixon
If Ebert had actually made out a top 10 of the year, instead of 35 I think his list would have gone something like this.
1. Happy-Go-Lucky
2. Milk
3. Synecdoche, NY
4. Rachel Getting Married
5. Frozen River
6. Doubt
7. Slumdog Millionaire
8. The Dark Knight
9. The Fall
10. Shotgun Stories
Not so sure about the order but I think these would be a more accurate 10 for Ebert, personally. And definitely not what I would choose, seeing as how I did not like The Fall and wasn’t crazy about Happy-Go-Lucky but I am simply basing what I would think would be Ebert’s tastes…
Okay, I just read the top. By “removing the ones you don’t like” it’s really just you picking your favorite 10 of his 35 choices. That hardly seems accurate of what Ebert would pick. I am almost positive about how much he boasted about Happy-Go-Lucky and Doubt and The Fall he would have included those and perhaps Shotgun Stories, since he made the comparisons to David Gorden Green. They may not be “your tastes” but they certaintly are Eberts. I don’t think he would have put Wall-E on his top 10, seeing as how he gave it 3.5 stars. I’m curious as to what his real list would have been.
Ebert did not have a top 10 of 2008. He had a top 20 English language films, top 10 Foreign Language Films, top 5 documentaries, totaling to 35 films. He said the year was too good to narrow it down to 10 and that he felt like boxing things up in a 1-10 order is too conforming for who he is now or something of the sort and no longer wants to just make a top 10. I’m curious as to where you got your source of his “top 10,” because I have yet to find anything other than his “top 35.”
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