Wow, look at all those pointless, impossible-to-follow numbers! And associated with meaningless years that have almost no resonance! Maybe, uh... maybe let's break this down a bit so it isn't utter gibberish.

Notable Films: Black Dynamite (#1 | 14.22), Primer (#5 | 9.32), In Bruges (#10 | 9.16), He Got Game (#26 | 6.36), King of Kong (#27 | 6.31), Observe and Report (#210 | -3.68), Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging (#217 | -4.08), Bitch Slap (#235 | -5.50)

Honestly, the bottom films weren't that great, and Year 10 really packed on some heavy negative points with a few awful films. That being said, Bitch Slap is hardly one of the classic flops, so instead let's talk about the top crop.

And man, there are a lot of big names. I've already gushed about Year 10 in length, so not much use in pointing out how utterly it crushed its competition (3 fucking films in the Top 10). Instead let's focus on the votes.

First off, this is one of only two years to receive positive points from every attendee. The most tepid response came from Houdini with a +1.65. The numbers are hard to track so here's a rough conversion: consider a super vote to be either a +/- value of 1.0 and a normal vote either +/- 0.7 (it varies per person, but this is roughly accurate). As such, if 0.00 is a default break-even year, Houdini was roughly one like and one super like vote over a default year. So Houdini enjoyed it, but not exceptionally so.

On the other side of the spectrum is MMZ, with a huge +6.14 for Year 10. This essentially means when compared to a break-even 0.00 year, MMZ super liked six more films in Year 10 than the a "standard" year, which is a pretty hefty swing. Year 10 was so dominant that even if you take out the top two biggest voters for it (MMZ at +6.14 and me at +5.73), it *still* beats out its competition. It is the favorite year of Alaay, TBP, MMZ, TM, and Snobby, and - aside from Houdini - places in everyone else's Top 3. It had more super likes (29) than the bottom year had regular likes (28). It had 19 Top Fifteen appearances, which is 12 over the average. We shall never see its like again.

Notable Films: Dark City (#4 | 9.61), Leprechaun in the Hood (#18 | 6.94), Donnie Darko (#54 | 3.52), Anywhere But Here (#197 | -2.98), How High (#216 | -4.07)

Year 2 would have broken into the positives based on its top films, but it took a wide lead over the pack largely because its worse films really weren't that bad. At -4.07 and the 216th place overall, How High is topped only by SLC Punk! for best-performing Worst Film of the Year. The other stinkers were Anywhere But Here (-3.19) and Ronin (-2.73), neither of which are anywhere close to bottom-tier quality films - though Ronin, certainly, has had its storied history.

Even with its drop, Lep in the Hood is still a big-name film, and Dark City has always been near the top of the overall film list. With quality films in Donnie Darko (3.52), Run, Lola, Run (3.22) and South Park (2.76), Year 2 has a distinct honor of being among MovieFest's finest.

It is not, however, everyone's favorite. Alaay, Elad, and Phil were all sub 0.65, which means they were each a single like vote over a break-even year. MMZ contributed a huge 4.66 points, but it bears mentioning that because MMZ only submitted one film for his Bottom Fifteen, his totals are overall strongly in the positive without all those negative points to balance him out to zero. Year 2's other fans came from TBP, Houdini, and Snobby, who collectively gave it the equivilent of a boost of +6 super likes over its competition. It's a distant 2nd to Year 10, but breaking a 1.00 average is still pretty impressive.

Notable Films: Drive (#2 | 11.33), Kaboom (#15 | 7.70), Troll Hunter (#31, 5.87), Truck Turner (#223, -4.47), A Good Day to be Black & Sexy (#230 | -4.78), The Six Wives of Henry LaFey (#242, -6.23)

So while The Six Wives was utter garbage and we should never let The Man forget it, I was surprised by the heavy dislikes tossed at Truck Turner, which seemed mostly inoffensive and was, as a reminder, turned off about halfway in. But such is the way of the survey.

Year 12 lives by the strength of having the #2 and #15 rated films, which help pull it strongly into the positives. Essentially the non-Drive films cancelled each other out, leaving Drive's massive total to pull it into the positives.

It had its detractor, however, with Snobby (-1.54) considering it overall negative, and both TM (0.37) and Phil (0.39) didn't seem to give much a shit either way. Its biggest fan was Houdini with +3.66 (making this his favorite year), and it's not surprising when you realize he cast a single super dislike compared to nine likes that year, two of them super. The rest of the crew were far more positive, and the Drive-heavy Year 12 was another solid entry into the list.

Notable Films: Staten Island Summer (#6 | 9.29), The Lobster (#12 | 8.00), Green Room (#17, 6.97), The Invitation (#194, -2.96), Creep (#248, -7.69), Chi-Raq (#254 | -9.91)

With three films in the Top 20 and the best new film in the list, it's not surprising to see Year 16 towards the top of the crop. That being said, the top two and bottom two films of that year essentially cancel each other out, what with the massive failures of Chi-Raq and Creep, so frankly Green Room was left to carry a lot of the credit for overall pushing Year 16 into the positive.

This is the highest-ranking year that didn't have all eight attendees, and once again there is a lone detractor, this time in MMZ (-1.61). The other positive votes were all fairly timid except for Phil (+4.08), who only cast five votes that year, all of them likes, and put Staten Island Summer in his Top Fifteen. That and that alone was more than enough to set Year 16 ahead of the pack, though frankly it and the next two years were close enough to roughly be considered a tie. If the top three years were the great ones, these next three were merely good.

Notable Films: Best Worst Movie (#39 | 4.83), Unstoppable (#46 | 4.13), The Expendables (#229 | -4.77)

Year 11 was all about being inoffensive, given that its two best films were abysmally low on the list. Aside from The Expendables, Year 11 didn't accumulate very many negative points, so its smattering of mid-range films easily pushed it into the positives. And while it technically had a lower overall point total than Year 1, my ranking is based on average, so Year 11, with fewer films, just barely eeked its competitor out. (Again, though, Years 16, 11, and 1 are essentially tied.)

That being said, for such a middling year it evoked some strong responses. MMZ and TM both had it above +4.00 and Snobby above +3.00, so it was mostly a combination of TBP and Alaay, the Statler and Wardolf of MovieFest, holding it back. (Elad, with his +0.07, had almost as much impact as Houdini and Phil, who didn't attend.) This was actually The Man's highest-rated year with a total 8 likes, two of them super, and a Top Fifteen entry. (And yes, every movie he proposed that year received one of those likes.)

Notable Films: Cube (#16 | 7.57), Con Air (#43 | 4.29), Saving Private Ryan (#179 | -2.31), SLC Punk! (#198, -3.01)

You've heard me say it all survey: SLC Punk! and its -3.01 average. When your worst film does that well, there's no way you'll wind up in the negatives. Year 1 had a few other weak films (and you guys continue hating on Saving Private Ryan's ten minutes of screen time), but otherwise it was a powerfully inoffensive year. I'm sure it being 16 years ago and us forgetting all the bad moments didn't have any effect whatsoever.

Speaking of forgetting, we kinda forgot about Con Air with it falling out of everyone's Top Fifteen lists, leaving Cube the lone standout for that year among a sea of mediocrity. Still, it was good enough mediocrity to cancel out the bad, which puts Year 1 in that trifeca of "good not great" years.

The results are a cluster of people who didn't care (Alaay, Elad, MMZ), people who were strongly in favor (TBP, TM, Phil), and Houdini (-2.50) alone in his corner hating on our premiere. (His votes were actually identical: four likes, one super, four dislikes, one super, one Bottom Fifteen appearance, one Top Fifteen appearance. The major swing factor is that the one Bottom Fifteen appearance came from his most-hated film, Yellow Submarine, as well as the fact that his dislikes outweighed his likes due to scoring adjustment.) The most emphatically positive voter was TBP, which isn't saying much as he had four likes and ten indifferent votes. But because of my bizarre scoring system that in TBP's case inflated the values of indifferent votes, it ultimately gave Year 1 a strong boost. Hurray for shitty math!

Notable Films: The Virgin Suicides (#14 | -7.87), The Warriors (#21 | 6.63), Princess Mononoke (#22, 6.61), 24 Hours in London (#220 | -4.35), Cat Ballou (#221 | -4.39), From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (#239 | -5.78), Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood (#245 | -6.88)

With three films in the Top 25, you'd think Year 4 would do better for itself, though unfortunately a slew of heavily disliked films undid all the good of its best films, and it stumbled out with a meager +1.54 overall record. (For comparison: remember Year 10 with its +32.68? That shows the massive gap between this two. You want further illustration of Year 10's greatness? Year 4's total (1.54) is less than the votes cast by Year 10's least-liked attendee, Houdini at +1.65.)

Our results are a mixed bag of indifference, mostly in the sub +/- 1.50 range, and the only standout is Snobby at +4.29. He had three super likes and two Top Fifteen appearances this year, explaining the big shift. Year 4 is interesting in that it wasn't a "too old to remember" year, but rather a victim of having a heavy spread of very good and very bad films, pulling it just slightly above average.

Notable Films: Crank (#9 | 9.16), Sad Movie (#40 | 4.59), Glengarry Glen Ross (#49 | 3.89), Red Dawn (#219 | -4.26), Death at a Funeral (#227 | -4.73), The Story of the Weeping Camel (#243 | -6.53)

Year 8 benefited strongly from the recovery of Tampopo (from -5.76 to -1.78) and Lil' Pimp (from -6.36 to -2.13). Even with Red Dawn taking a hit, those two films shedding so many points was enough to just barely keep Year 8 in the positives by a meager 0.96. (Again: remove a single super like vote and it falls into the negatives.)

This was another tepid year, with Alaay, TBP, Houdini, TM, and Snobby all with a score less than +/- 0.40. MMZ, with his inflated positive totals due to not having a proper Bottom Fifteen, carries the year at 2.69 points. While his votes were pretty much straight down the middle, his two Top Fifteen appearances for Crank and Sad Movie were the difference maker in keeping our last positive MovieFest year in the positives.

Notable Films: Everybody Wants Some (#11 | 8.20), Coherence (#20 | 6.80), Weiner (#38 | 5.22), Jackie (#233 | -5.28), The Void (#240 | -5.79), All Hallows' Eve (#244 | -6.54)

Despite deriding it as the worst year ever... I kinda do that every year. Instead Year 17 was as middle of the pack as it gets, averaging out a paltry -0.01. What really surprised me was that it wasn't as middle-of-the-road as I anticipated, with big showings for its top films and equally big showing for its bottom films. A lot of this naturally has to do with recency bias, and this is one year that I expect to shed a lot of points four years from now when I force you all to do this stupid shit all over again.

TBP and MMZ were the big haters this time around, tossing out a combined 16 dislikes, 9 of them super, and two Bottom Fifteen appearances (this is against their 9 likes, and only one of those super). With such resistance, it needed the combined efforts of Houdini, TM, and Phil to keep it in the middle. (This was Houdini's second-favorite year, trailing Year 12 by a mere 0.34.) We'll see what 2021 brings when you've all utterly forgotten every detail of this mind-numbling mess.

Notable Films: Battle Royale (#19 | 6.86), The Squid and the Whale (#37 | 5.22), 11:14 (#42 | 4.31), Cecil B. Demented (#222 | -4.41), Fronterz (#241 | -5.81), Coffee and Cigarettes (#253 | -9.22)

No year wants to turn back the clock as badly as Year 6. Since we first did this survey in 2009, Year 6 has watched Battle Royale fall from 14.20 to 6.86 and 11:14 from 8.45 to 4.31. Both were one-time members of the Top 10, and even Man of the House slipped from 5.30 to 2.17. So as bad as Fronterz and Coffee and Cigarettes may be, Year 6's greatest weakness is our dwindling memories.

The lone holdout is Eladamri, back when he bothered with MovieFest, whose +5.82 for the year easily makes it his favorite. He gave it eight likes, four of them super, and all of those super films factored into his Top Fifteen. He was the only person to put Man of the House, 11:14, and Dorian Blues on a Top Fifteen list. That was all for naught, however, as his efforts were totally cancelled out by Snobhunter, who gave it a -5.52. Snobby's response wasn't quite as extreme, but eight dislikes, two of them super, and two Bottom Fifteen appearances will definitely leave an impact on a year. (This was the least-favorite year for both Snobby and Phil (-2.58).) If Year 17 was pretty much dead in the middle, Year 6 is our first definitive "bad" year, albeit by a meager -0.99, or one super like vote.

Notable Films: The Fall (#23 | 6.55), Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (#24 | 6.54), Let the Right One In (#28 | 6.15), Wendy and Lucy (#44 | 4.27), Brazil (#214 | -3.90), Expelled (#236 | -5.69), Who Made the Potato Salad? (#249 | -7.74)

I had to check the math a couple times, as with a top four that strong I was shocked to find Year 4 in the negatives. True, Dr. Horrible and Let the Right One In both suffered from 2013, but I was still surprised. A lot of this has to do with my continued befuddlement over the perpetual negativity for Who Made the Potato Salad?. It was the fucking Magic film. There's no fucking way any of you guys could name even a single detail about it. (Expelled was garbage and Brazil was an utter failure, but Potato Salad is the one that always puzzles me.)

Much of the downswing this year comes from TBP (-2.66) and Houdini (-4.25). Houdini in particular only had three dislikes for the entire year, but they happened to all be super dislikes and all three made his Bottom Fifteen. The year's primary defender was Snobhunter with eight likes, four of them super, and a Top Fifteen vote. A final interesting note is that our remaining six years were each attended by all eight members, so in general full attendance happened to correlate, however slightly, with negativity. It was almost as though our combined presence makes things suck more.

Notable Films: You're Next (#33 | 5.61), Teen Beach Movie (#34 | 5.52), The Bling Ring (#215 | -4.03), Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (#226 | -4.68)

If Year 1 survived based on having no truly awful movies, Year 14 suffered from having few very good ones. 9 of its 15 films fell into the negatives, and again my wacky scoring system hurt it, as Phil, who voted Indifferent for every film, actually wound up casting a total -0.81.

But that -0.81 is nothing compared to MMZ's -4.99, making this his most-hated year. There may not have been any Bottom Fifteen votes from him, but 9 dislikes, two of them super, compared to a measly two likes is indicative of where he stands. The closest thing you could call a fan would be Houdini at +2.61, which doesn't say much to Year 14's credit. Worth noting that it essentially came into a tie with Year 7 at a -0.44 average. Speaking of...

Notable Films: Elephant (#29 | 6.07), Mysterious Skin (#35 | 5.32), Oldboy (#45 | 4.21), The Guru (#231 | -4.87), Bandidas (#232 | -4.88), Farce of the Penguins(#256 | -10.72)

Yet another year with no real standouts. While Elephant was good, it alone couldn't hold off the titanic disaster called Farce of the Penguins, which, like Galactus, swallowed the better films into a void of suck.

This was MMZ's second-favorite year, clocking in at a huge +6.07. He liked 9 of the first 12 films that year and tossed a Top Fifteen vote the way of both The Baxter and Oldboy. His efforts were cancelled out by Elad (-3.52), Snobby (-3.68), and the man of strong opinions: Houdini (-7.07). That -7.07 makes this the most negative votes cast against a single year for any attendee, and it was done via only five dislikes, all of them super, and three of them on his Bottom Fifteen. Way to hate, Houdini.

Notable Films: Kung Fury (#8 | 9.21), Blood Simple. (#51 | 3.82), Predestination (#52 | 3.80), Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (#228 | -4.77), Don't Be a Menace (#246 | -7.07), Leprechaun: Origins (#247 | -7.46)

Kung Fury alone couldn't save this year, as it consituted the largest drop between a best and second-best film of the year with a comical 5.39 dip before you get to Blood Simple.. Elad and Phil didn't bother voting this year, leaving the burden on everyone else. The only positive votes aside from Alaay's 0.50 came from (you guessed it) Houdini at 3.27. He's blown out of the water by TBP with a -6.84, which easily makes this TheBluePlayer's least-favorite year. (He gave it only two like votes compared to nine dislikes, three of them super, and two Bottom Fifteen appearances.) MMZ (-2.99) and Snobby (-3.60) also weren't big fans.

This was, for the record, the worst-placing of the post-2013 candidates.

Notable Films: Goon (#13 | 7.88), Timecrimes (#36 | 5.28), Premium Rush (#57 | 3.52), Black Butterfly (#225 | -4.62), Give My Regards to Broad Street (#238 | -5.77), Liberal Arts (#255 | -10.39)

When I saw that Goon had once again crushed it, I thought for sure that Year 13 would land on its feet. I was of course forgetting to factor in Liberal Arts, as well as the fact that the bottom six films for this year clocked in at a whopping -30.96. Basically tied with Year 15 as "categorically bad", Year 13 just couldn't work its way out of that batch of negatives.

This one was death by a thousand cuts, coming primarily from Alaay (-2.47), Elad (-4.32), Houdini (-2.22), and Snobby (-3.13). MMZ defended it, marginally, with a 2.67, but its easy to see how the others were able to cancel him out. It was Elad's least-favorite year.

Notable Films: From Dusk Till Dawn (#7 | 9.27), Y Tu Mama Tambien (#48 | 3.92), PCU (#58 | 3.52), I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (#234 | -5.39), Very Bad Things (#252 | -8.15), Gia (#257 | -13.18)

It's honestly a miracle that Year 3 isn't our worst year overall. With the one-two-three punch of Gia, Very Bad Things, and Sucka, that alone should be enough to consitute a catastrophic failure. Luckily From Dusk Till Dawn, even if its points may have dwindled, was enough to keep it from that particular dishonor, though there wasn't much else going for Year 3 aside from the former #1 Film of All Time.

Not surprising given my previous paragraph, I absolutely despised this year at -5.35. All three of the movies I mentioned made my Bottom Fifteen, and I'm the only person not to cast a single super like for any film that year. This isn't to say I'm alone here, with Houdini (-2.93), The Man (-3.74), Phil (-2.53), and Snobhunter (-3.12) all casting heavy votes against it. Oddly for a year this weak, it has two defenders this time: TBP (3.68) and Elad (3.31). It was, in fact, both of their second-favorite years. TBP only cast a single (super) dislike for Gia, whereas Elad tossed eight likes its way, two of them super, and one on his Top Fifteen.

But what, praytell, could be worse than the year that contained Gia...?

Notable Films: The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (#3 | 9.78), Pieces of April (#25 | 6.46), National Lampoon's: Blackball (#58 | 3.46), Urbania (#237 | -5.73), Divorce: Italian Style (#250 | -7.77), Out On Parole (#251 | -7.94)

While not as heavily polarizing as Year 3, what you don't see from Year 5's Notable Films section is that - aside from Chasing Liberty at 0.02 - every other film this year fell into the negatives. So with the top and bottom films cancelling each other out, it fell to the rest of that particular fest to reach a verdict. And the verdict... was doom.

Year 5 was also the lone year with no serious defender. The only positives votes came from Alaay (0.81), MMZ (0.52), and Phil (0.69). That's not much of a defense. Against this came the threesome of Snobby (-3.31), Elad (-4.12), and The Man (-5.30), the latter of whom voted it his least-favorite year. Those three combined for 20 dislikes, only four of them super, but five of them on Bottom Fifteen years. Year 5 in general simply suffered from an overwhelming number of dislikes. There isn't a huge difference between the bottom four films - and not nearly the gap that occurs at the top of this table - but still Year 5 stands out as the clear loser.

Speaking of losers... let's take a humiliating look at how badly I (and perhaps some other people) did!

The King remains the King. While once again The Man outscored Snobhunter based on total points, Snobhunter continues to have a better average. (Because I equalized scores this year I considered not going by average, but then MMZ's lack of Bottom Fifteen caused an inbalance, and frankly the +1.00 average gap between Snobby and TM is worth mentioning.)

Snobhunter continues to survive based on having a very low negative total. His -24.09 is only outclassed by TBP's -22.67, but he did so with nearly twice as many films. While this bottom three films shown above are pretty bad, they constitute 65% of his overall negative votes. Of those 24 films, only 7 are in the negatives, so overall Snobhunter excels at selecting films we will generally enjoy.

That being said, the majority of his worse films have actually come in the recent years. His per-film average slipped from 2.11 in 2013 to 1.89 largely because of the 7 films he has proposed since 2013: 5 are in the negatives, 2 come in below 0.50, and then there is his lone hit: Kung Fury. Frankly he should be doing a lot worse based on that, but the new scoring system significantly helped Snobby, with many of his mid-tier positive films each gaining 1 or 2 points a piece. Ultimately with his closest competitor suffering a noticeable setback, Snobhunter is clearly the king for the time being, but he'll have to rebound from these past few years if he wants to keep that going.

At some point I needed to cut The Man's Best Of films so that table didn't stretch forever, but just know he had several other big hits in Coherence, The Warriors, The Fall, Dr. Horrible, Troll 2, Troll Hunter, and Crank: High Voltage, all coming in within the Top 35. He ultimately wound up with an insane 20 films in the Top 50 list. With so many big-name films to his credit, it's no surprise The Man has a dominant +161.28 positive points to his name, and he stands as the premiere leader when it comes to selecting our most memorable films.

A lot of this is a factor of his film total. His 67 films is a solid +25 over his closest competitor, which is what tends to happen when you bring 8,000 selections to every MovieFest. This double-edged sword comes with a price, namely those -102.92 negative points, a total higher even than the legendary MagicManZach, so let's not pretend that The Man's strategy is foolproof.

The Man also suffered from some sub-par selections since 2013. While Everybody Wants Some!! and Coherence were big hits, they couldn't do much against the emergence of Chi-Raq, Creep, Leprechaun: Origins, and Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead. While the latter will likely improve over the years, I can't see the former three rebounding any time soon, at least not so long as MMZ is there to lambast Chi-Raq.

Ultimately The Man, by sheer virtue of numbers, is capable of producing both wonderful and horrible selections, with plenty falling inbetween. The numbers show that clearly he has brought more good to the table than ill, but that doesn't mean he won't have a bomb every now and then.

Surprise surprise, as Houdini has clawed his way out of the negatives to once-again return to the realm of the above-average proposers. True, his +10.75 total pales in comparison to both Snobhunter and The Man, but that shouldn't take away the signifcant upswing Houdini has made to get himself into the third-place position.

Goon continues to be his champion film, but it's not alone anymore. Houdini benefited the most from these past few years, as of his 9 positive films, a solid 6 came since 2013. His worst-placing post-2013 film is The Bling Ring, which, while bad, is easily canceled out by the various quality films he has added in the past few years. Houdini still has a small sample size, but in general his post-2013 showing has proven that for every Bon Cop, Bad Cop there's a Green Room right around the corner, and I for one will be far more willing to champion Houdini's weird-ass movies until he makes a single blunder, at which point I'll turn on him like a hawk.

There also might be another reason that Houdini did so well this year, but we'll get to that in a little bit....

With our Blockbuster days behind us, it's improbable that we'll see much change in Elad's scores from here forward as he'll never willingly prepare in advance for MovieFest. He added only one movie since 2013, the forgettable Sex and Breakfast back in Year 14, and only 5 of his 25 films came since the 2009 survey. We are looking now at ancient history.

And it's a storied history. Living by the Lep and dying by the Lep, Elad's bookmarkers are important, but they do not define his entire collection. At one point Elad was a titan with some of our biggest hits, but the memory of those films is beginning to fade. His baby, Lep in the Hood has dropped from 11.25 pts to 6.94. The rest continue to hold onto their points, but it's unlikely that Pieces of April or Elephant will ever break back into the Top 25, not with competition continuing to increase with the years.

Ultimately I expect Elad will continue to stay pat. For as many of his films that will fall off of Top Fifteen lists, an equal amount will fall from Bottom Fifteens, until he exists entirely based on yearly points and lost nostalgia. Maybe some day our champion will return, but also he obviously won't because he never really cared that much to begin with. Until chaos can once again gain a foothold in the selection process, we've like to seen our last Eladamri film.

Lo how the mighty have fallen! Alaay, the perennial runner-up to Snobhunter and The Man, has slipped into the negatives. Woe is the darkness that has befallen us!

Plenty was said about the Fall of the House of Alaay so this shouldn't be much of a shock. The past four years have been disastrous, which is amazing when you realize that three of those four years he only proposed a single film. Almost no one faired as worse as he did with this new scoring system, with older films like The Spirit, The Star Wars Holiday Special, Passionada and The Expendables suffering big drops. Coupled with the fact that 3 of his bottom 4 came since 2013 and it's clear that Alaay has definitely lost his footing.

The other negative is that Alaay has simply never had a huge hit like virtually everyone else. 11:14 broke into the Top 10 way back on the first survey, but since then he's been nowhere close, and some of his higher-ranked films are still considered "good but not great". His best film, Princess Mononoke clocks in at #22, which means his "Best Film" places below every other member's Best Film. It used to be that the general weakness of Alaay's better films was offset by a lack of bombs, but the past few years has definitely changed that, and at this rate it won't be long before he will forever be locked in among the weaker candidates. It's almost as though the fact that he stopped watching or caring about movies has in some way hindered his ability to find decent films. Who'da thunk?

If Elad is ancient history, TheBluePlayer is fossilized. With no new films in the past 5 years (and only 2 in the past 8), TBP's involvement in this survey is negligible.

Because of his low number of selections, any slight change will affect TBP considerably, so the big fall-off for Battle Royale and the continued decline of Who Made the Potato Salad? was enough to constitute a noticeable downward shift. Like Elad, it's unlikely we'll ever see a new BluePlayer film, but - that being said - it's also possible he'll bring a bunch next year just to spite me. Such are his ways.

Even though his point total didn't change much from 2013 to 2017 (-27.50 to -25.68), the fact that Phil added nine new films during those four years (nearly 1/3 of his entire selection) without suffering any point loss was enough to bring his average up considerably. His only major success came from Staten Island Summer, but it makes a big difference when you've never been anywhere close to the Top 10. (Last time his best film, Man of the House, clocked in way down at #39.)

Even with Staten Island Summer and a few modest successes, Phil is solidly in the negatives... because the majority of his films are negative. Of those 30 films, 21 are negative, meaning there's more than a 70% chance that a Phil-proposed movie will be below average. The one consolation is that most of his truly awful things are over a decade old, and his duds since Year 7 have mostly been in the -2 to -3 pt range, which is a far cry from Out On Parole's -7.94. So while Phil can't necessarily argue that he's had a smattering of success, at least he can claim not to have made any huge blunders in over a decade, regardless of what you folks may think about November Rule's 8 minutes of screentime.

I spoke at great length in 2013 about MMZ's hefty improvement, and that upward trend continues in 2017, though perhaps not at the same clip as before. Previously his -5.14 average from 2009 was so magnificently awful as to render everything else irrelevent, and simply participating in MovieFest was enough to guarantee one an overall positive place in the ranks. With his point total dropping as he continues to add more films, that average is getting dangerously close to... well, not the positives, but at least below the -1.00 mark.

Unlike Phil, MMZ actually has a few big films to his credit with the #10, #12, and #15 overall. Like Phil, he too hasn't made a blunder in a while, with his worse film since 2013 coming in at #166: American Pie: Reunion (-1.68). Of course MMZ only had four films in those four years, but the low total for Reunion is easily offset by the big showings from The Lobster and Teen Beach Movie, not to mention a big boost for Kaboom and Sex Drive with the new format.

Yeah, OK, he still has a bunch of really, really shitty films, and Farce of the Penguins in particular took a tumble from 2013, but like Phil he can argue that it's been a while since he had a true stinker. (2013 brought us both Liberal Arts and Give My Regards to Broad Street, but otherwise his worse-placing films were all pre-2009.) MMZ's problem is that he both needs to keep up this positive ratio but he also needs to get through more than one film a year or else it'll take a long-ass time for him to break even, which naturally makes me wonder how much of an impact McGruber might have made. All in all we wish MMZ success in his slow climb out of mediocrity, and we'll check back in four years time to see if he's able to leapfrog Phil out of the gutter.

Anyway, it's time to shit all over everyone.