Oltmans Movie Lists

For those of you I haven’t sent this to before, this is my fifth annual ranking of every movie I watched in the past year.   For me, the calendar year starts at the beginning of the summer and runs through the end of the school year.   The list isn’t necessarily ranked by how good a movie is, but rather how much I enjoyed watching the movie.   As a case in point, one of the movies near the bottom of my list this year is considered one of the greatest films of all time, but it nearly put me to sleep.   And at the top is a movie with humor that I wouldn’t let my kids or my parents watch, but had me nearly crying I was laughing so hard.   I put together the list mostly because I’m a bit obsessive about things that involve rankings or lists of some sort, but also because I like hearing other people’s opinions of films.   It’s always interesting to see what other people think about movies.   Last year the movie I caught the most grief about was Twilight. ...

This year is my sixth annual movie ranking list.   Every year I keep adding more and more comments to the list, to the point where the whole thing this year is 8,000 words long and took hours to write.   I guess that’s keeping with the Hollywood tradition of sequels being bigger, flashier versions of the original, without actually being any better.   Maybe next year I should just go back to doing the list without all the commentary.   I do the ranking partly because I love movies, and I enjoy going back and thinking about what I watched over the course of the year.   But the biggest reason is to hear what other people think about the same movies, and to start a discussion about the films we loved and hated over the course of the past year.   So if you disagree – great!   Hit ‘reply all’ and tell everyone what should have been ranked higher or lower on the list, and what I should have seen and put on the list. All in all, it wasn’t a great movi...