Perhaps this should be done decade style because the alternative of rehashing decade lists is what 10% difference in title and resorting of placement. When you only give people 25 slots cuts are made that's just the fact of the matter. I think most film fans have seen 20 films per year from say the 70's-10's.
Yes, but if you're going by decade anyway a full decade refresh will effectively do the same thing. As we have seen in other refreshes, the order changes, the top of the list might not seem radically different, but especially in the bottom half there are lots of switch outs. If or when we do a 1990s Refresh I am sure there will be anywhere from fifteen to twenty-five new titles, at least. More than 10%. That to me is a much more effective way of adding titles Not On Previous Lists by decade. Otherwise you essentially get a Top 101-200 List, and when we get to that point it is eliminating the point of consensus.
Or conversely you would have more commercial films make these lists. I don't think a single Harry Potter film showed up on a list yet. How many Marvel films have shown up on these lists? What about animated films. But you have genres that have never been touched and won't be taken seriously by doing a list like this you would get a better idea of what direction future lists should go.
Harry Potter films have been eligible for the initial Millennium List, the 2000s (six of the eight), the 2010s (both parts of
Deathly Hallows), plus either MoFo Top 100 (where essentially everything is eligible). No Potter film has made a list, yet. Which may tell you more about the lasting impact of that film series on MoFo voters than it does about the voting process or categories?
By "Marvel films" I assume you mean the official MCU entries and not the SONY Spider-Man or FOX X-Men franchises nor one-offs like
Ghost Rider or
Blade? The MCU titles have been eligible for the same lists as Harry Potter plus of course the Top 50 Comic Book Movies. MCU titles and superhero movies more broadly have made our lists.
We had an official MoFo Top 100 Animated Films.
So not sure what your point with all of that was?
When was the last Hall of Fame you participated in? You don't know the list is going to be filled with esoteric choices they might be more commercial picks.
The Neo-Noir one, just before we did the Neo-Noir List. You can make the Hall of Fame topics and parameters be whatever you want. If you want to run one that is 1990 Movies That Did Not Appear On Any MoFo List And Have a TomatoMeter Score Less Than 50 and Fewer Than 500 IMDb Ratings...you absolutely can. Knock yourself out. But to run an official MoFo List that way is, in my opinion, a huge waste of time and effort.
I think if you set it up as a decade style list that won't happen. But you were also against the noir lists and didn't we end up with 200 films and decent lists at that. Do you feel like you were right to argue against doing noir lists?
I was against doing a melded Noir and Neo-Noir List, with no distinction between the classic period and what came after. I think it worked much, much better the way we did it. So yes, I feel like I was correct to argue for the separation. Thanks for asking!