Comments on: Top 100 films of the Nineties - Voting Closed! Results to be announced mid-March

By: Leemoy

Leemoy — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:45:16 +0000

I complete agree with Mat.

By: Mat Thompson

Mat Thompson — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:16:25 +0000

I think you should go with ONE PERFORMANCE by each actor. It is Best Performance, and best does constitute the top of the pile. You may think Andy Lau was great in seven movies, but instead of just fanning out over him, you have to actually think, back up and present what you think is the best they have EVER done, not just your five favorite Tony Leung movies… just because he is Tony Leung.

I back you on two performances per actor, but I will only choose one since the list is asking for the best, not ‘My Favorite Actor and All the Movies He’s Been In”, or else I am going to put everything Louis Koo on my list from Protege and Throw Down down to Why Me Sweetie and Rob-B-Hood.

Just my opinion as it makes people actually work on thier votes this time…

By: Kiddo

Kiddo — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:53:45 +0000

I’m actually really surprised by how young this site’s readers are.

By: Senny

Senny — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:41:47 +0000

oh noo…the 80’s list wouldn’t have enough people..
i mean…i tried voting for the 90’s one but i wasn’t even born yet when half of them came out…i have trouble just naming twenty 90’s films…let alone 80’s…xDD
the worst film ever would be soo much more interesting….

By: doser

doser — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:38:23 +0000

count me in as well as one of the 60-70 voters for a 80’s list. wouldn’t be able to vote for worst movie because i try to avoid those…

By: Webmaster Kozo

Webmaster Kozo — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:36:58 +0000

Hi Marie, I’ll take your thoughts into consideration. I know only 2 votes per actor is very limiting — I’m just wary of what the turnout will be like. The last thing I want to do is start a vote and end up calling it off because an idol is winning “Best Performance Ever” for their latest EEG film.

Maybe what I’ll do is simply IMPLORE people to really think of a “Best Performance” as something truly award worthy, rather than rewarding a favorite. Honestly, I think we’re all smart enough to put Tony Leung’s performance from IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE before Edison Chen in, oh, anything. It just makes sense.

Regardless, a “Best Performance” vote is probably a little ways away. Again, I’d love to run these things more frequently, but it’s just not in the cards.

By: Marie

Marie — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:33:44 +0000

Please don’t limit the “best performances” to only two films, not with actors like Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Leslie Cheung, Chow Yun Fat, etc. doing some really good work that is spread out over more than 2 films. The beauty of HK film is that there is a core group of actors who have acted in a majority of HK’s best films. Every one of the films they worked on may not be a gem, but their batting average is much higher than average. The cream, so to speak, does tend to rise to the top.

By: Webmaster Kozo

Webmaster Kozo — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:44:25 +0000

Hey Glenn, I’ve been thinking on-and-off about a list for performances, but I have this nightmare that I’ll get lists that are all Andy Lau performances or something equally fannish. As such I’d have to create some ground rules (like maybe only 2 votes for a single actor), but it’s not a priority. Maybe after the eighties list? Or before it?

By the way, if I do this many votes/lists, it should last me until 2011. I wish I could up the frequency for these, but it’s just not possible. It’s not like I’m made of time. If I was, there’d be a DC comic about me.

Hi Garvin, your request is also related to time. I will put how many first-place votes a film gets, but I’d prefer not to give away that much. Especially since, at a certain point on the list, everything becomes: Highest Rank = 1. The best thing is if we just know what made it to #1 and how many times.

As usual all this is just IMHO.

By: Garvin

Garvin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:24:43 +0000

Kozo, when you start listing the movies out, would you mind also putting in each movies’ highest position on a particular list? It would be a nice little tidbit to know.

By: Webmaster Kozo

Webmaster Kozo — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:17:47 +0000

A top films of the 80’s vote is doable — I just figured it would be nice to cleanse the palate with a bad movies list first. I’m hoping the bad movies list will have supreme badness, like FUTURE COPS or WESLEY’s MYSTERIOUS FILES, and not forgettable stuff like, um, TROUBLESOME NIGHT 47, HAPPY GO LUCKY or BLESS THE CHILD. Limiting the list to 50 is a good idea, if only to keep myself sane.