The MoFo Westerns List

I'm not sure if I follow?...How would one know that a #4 movie would've been #24 on a person list if they hadn't bumped that up?

For myself my Top 10 are not my top 10, they are 10 movies that I really like and represent my type of movie interest. Personally I have a real hard time saying what my top 10 movies? I don't really relate to movies that way.

I think I’m pretty much the opposite lol. I have a ranked list of everything I’ve seen, so my top 25 would be so easy to just copy and paste.

I must have seen 10,000 movies! Well almost and none of them are logged, but even if they were logged how can I say if Jaws is better than Citizen Kane or Blade Runner or even Valley of the Dolls, as I love all of those films.

I'm fine if we do a Top 100 btw.

Some people will place films that are somewhat obscure but not unpopular higher up on their lists than they ought to be in order to increase the chances of those films making it onto the (tail end of) the list. So in other words, if there's a movie that someone loves that is kind of obscure they might put it at #4 in order to give it 22 points when really if they were being totally honest it belongs at #24 on their ballot.

I know people do this sometimes but I doubt it's widespread enough to make a significant difference.

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Maybe if everyone submits their own top 50 list it would be easier to get to a full top 100 countdown.


I never place a movie strategically based on how many points it will need to make it on the countdown, but I sometimes place a lesser known movie in the #25 spot just to get it on the 1-pointers list. But it's always a movie that would have made my top 25 list anyway, and would have been somewhere in the lower portion of my list. If a movie is ranked high on my list, I never lower it to the #25 spot just to get it on the 1-pointers list.


My list will never match my top 10 in my profile because those are just 10 movies that I love, and they were on my mind the day I placed them in my profile. I think I have a bunch of westerns in my top 10 in my profile right now, but they're not ranked 1 to 10. They were just western movies that I knew I already liked when I started to watch movies for the westerns countdown. They might not even make my final list.

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Submitted an embarrassing list.

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You and me both, man. I didn't get to nearly as many as I'd hoped, but so be it. I guess I'll use the final list for recs, too. It's all good in the end if we all watch a bunch of great westerns.

Yeah, it's true. It's all too easy of a temptation to adjust one's list, maybe bumping down ones that a person thinks are more common in favor of giving more points to something a little more obscure and things like that. But I think when people cheat, they ultimate are cheating their self. So in that sense I just try to worry about myself and not worry about other people.

I sent in my list.

Surprisingly, I found that it was harder to rank some of the movies on the list than it was to narrow the list down to my top 25 movies.

Does the list need to be 25?

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No. It's been said many times that even 10 will be accepted, so I think 10 is the minimum. But I'm not sure what the minimum is.

@cricket I think that top lists and rating movies are somewhat fickle things to begin with. They're very subjective, as we think about how we feel about certain movies. Feelings constantly change. I think quality is objective, though most people would probably disagree. At least for me personally, when I assess movies, there is a huge distinction I make when I try to look at them objectively from when I look at them subjectively. I can make two separate lists. One of movies I like based on how I feel about them and my personal enjoyment, subjectively. And one of movies I think are great objectively. My top 100 personal favorites is a very different list from my top 100 greatest movies of all time list. That being said, I think these kind of top 100 community lists as a game or activity is especially subjective. Though it varies from person to person as some people will try to be more objective and other people will be highly subjective. I try to have a balance of both when it comes to things like this.

I've been very critical of the MoFo top 100 lists over the years. But as I've come to think about it all these years, I've finally realised that I just want to be a part of this community. Even though I can be a jerk sometimes. I'm glad that Miss Vicky, Iroquois, and other people I've butted heads with, are here. And when all is said and done, I want to get along with everyone in spite of any grievances. And I want everyone to know, maybe especially Vicky, but not only her, that I forgive everyone for everything. And I love you all.

This Western theme over these recent months has given me some perspective into participating in the community here. And I'm really grateful for that. I'm reminded of a time some years ago when @Swan said, this is more than just a community, or a group of people who like movies. It's a family. I actually feel that in some way. It is like a family, of those who come and go, and those who choose to participate in being connected while we live our lives.

No, a few partial lists have already been submitted.
From the OP:

Just in case I later get accused of 'gaming' my ballot I'll say now that I omitted a fillum that ought to have featured in the upper echelons of my list. This was not a deliberate move however, I simply forgot to flag it with the 'Western' tag in my records so it wasn't included in the list of fillums extracted in order to garner the Top 25 ... and sadly it failed to occur to me that it was missing until after I'd already submitted that list. That's just called getting old and God willing it will happen to all of us.

Personally I think the one-pointers is a fun 'tradition' and where possible I'll happily try to get a passing mention in the countdown thread for something I think is deserving of one but unlikely to get one otherwise.

Awesomesauce! I woke up to a mailbox full of lists. I have not tallied them yet but I now have fifty-two ballots and I know there are at least another 10+ MoFos who have said they are still working on theirs.

Thank you, Amigos!

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I have tabulated all the ballots received, so far. Fifty-three MoFos have participated, naming 248 different titles, the top sixty-nine all have at least 50 points, the top forty-three have at least a hundred, twenty-six movies have managed at least 200 points, and our top thirteen all have over 300 points.

We ain't done yet. Keep 'em comin', Y'all!

I just rewatched Hud, it was pretty excellent.


I have a question which contains spoilers about the film for those who remember it.


Oh and btw I'll send my list when I wake up tomorrow (yeah I know, it's 6AM and I don't sleep yet haha)

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I'm so excited to turn my list in, but I am seriously waiting till the last possible moment. I'm re-watching El Topo right now to get an up-to-date vibe on my old favorite. It's only the second time I've ever watched it.

Enjoy some Neil Young noodling on the gee-tar for those MoFos still working on lists...