Oltmans Movie Lists

I think most of you that I’m sending this list to have already read my movie rankings in the past, so I’ll spare the long intro.   Remember that it’s just a list of what I enjoyed the most, not necessarily what I thought was the best quality movie.   A good example from last year was Precious, which I thought was a very good movie, but I didn’t really enjoy it that much, and only ranked it at #39.   I watched fewer movies this year than last, in part because the Blockbuster in my neighborhood went out of business (I still do Blockbuster by mail), and also because it just seemed like there weren’t as many movies I wanted to see.   Last year my top two movies, Inception and True Grit are both probably in my top 50 movies of all time.   This year there was nothing nearly that good.   Really, all of my top 10 are movies that I had fun watching, but nothing stood out as a classic.   The only other change to the list is I didn’t put older movies in the numeric ranking – my first five movie

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!