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The Movie Lists

The idea for making movie lists first started seven years ago, when I began a subscription to Blockbuster.com.  I realized that my account kept track of all the movies I rented for the year, and with that came the idea to rank, in order, every single movie I saw over the course of the year, from worst to best.  So for the last eight years I've ranked every movie I've watched.  This website is a spot for me to put the lists from past years, as well as put together new lists of some of my all-time favorites.  Please feel free to add your comments about different movies or lists on the site - that's kind of the point!

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