Results:

First, a note about the icons. The Top/Blorg films have three different icons now: one if they were unchanged from the 2017 survey (/), one if they are a new entry in the 2022 survey but weren't a Top or Blorg film in 2017 ( / ), and one if they were on a Top/Bottom List in 2017, but have since fallen (or "faded") off ( / ). Hopefully this gives a visual clue as to the shifting scores of some of these films since the Top & Blorg Lists are a big factor in final scoring.

Secondly, I invited everyone during this year's survey to update their old scores, expecting that no one would. To my surprise, The Man and Elad actually revised a number of their old ratings. TBP, meanwhile, set about the lofty task of reviewing his entire list and made it halfway through Year 1 before giving up. Any time someone changed a regular vote, it will have icon to indicate. You'll see, for instance, those two "No Vote" votes for TBP up above (they were previously Indifferent). He made these changes since according to him he was playing basketball during that time. That should, theoretically, mean that Elad's votes should also be thrown out but... eh.

Thirdly, ties. I can't tell you how bizarre it is that there are ties. A Dislike vote for The Man counts as -0.751540616 points. A Dislike vote for MMZ, meanwhile, counts as -0.66736947. How any combination of these various scores could result in ties - let alone having it happen multiple times - is insane to me. I don't consider it a big deal as it mostly only affected the mid-tier films, but just know it haunted me for hours.

With that out of the way, let's talk about our inaugural year.

The adjustments to narrow the point gap between Super and Non-Super votes has led to some slight shifting, though that will be consistent across the board. Otherwise, not much has changed. Cube is still the #1 film, though it lost a lot of shine, mostly by suffering big losses in the Top Films lists. Back in 2013, Cube clocked in at 10.74 pts to make it the #7 Overall Film. The point system isn't necessarily super consistent from year to year, but it hasn't changed enough to where a film should shed half its point total. It's unlikely it will ever fall out of the top spot since Con Air's glory days are behind it, but that doesn't mean Cube hasn't heavily suffered since our first survey.

SLC Punk! got roughed up a bit since 2017, but that's only because it didn't make it onto any Bottom Films lists back then. Even without Elad's lone Blorgo Ball, it would have been the clear loser this year. Last time around it was the lowest-scoring Worst Film of the Year. That one Blorgo was enough to change that, but SLC Punk!'s -4.27 is still well below the Worst Film of the Year average, though we'll save that discussion for a little bit.

Best Film of the Year: Cube, proposed by The Man

Worst Film of the Year: SLC Punk!, proposed by MMZ

On the Rise: Yellow Submarine, as Houdini's Blorgo ball wasn't enough to counter Elad's very high ranking for it in his Top 17 list

Best/Worst Film Records Thus Far
Alaay: 0-0 | TBP: 0-0 | Elad: 0-0 | Houdini: 0-0 | MMZ: 0-1 | TM: 1-0 | Phil: 0-0 | Snobby: 0-0

Results:

This was quite the positive revision for Year 2, as a lot of the films had big boosts from five years ago. Alaay and The Man re-jiggered a lot of their votes to be more positive, and while three films fell of Top 17 lists compared to only one being added, two of those three fading films were from Phil. (Spoilers: I removed his entire Top/Bottom list, so all of his 2017 results will be considered "fading").

What also helps Year 2 is that not a single film earned a Blorgo ball. While there will be a few year that only had one Blorg-worthy film, Year 2 is the only year to go completely Blorg-less.

Dark City easily held on to the top spot, and actually picked up a new Top Films appearance from The Man. Despite The Man also changing his vote for Donnie Darko, this time around Donnie Darko actually fell below Run, Lola, Run for the first time ever. Lep in the Hood, which was once the #4 Overall Film of All Time back in 2009, continues to languish in a respectable second place, its glory days long behind it. And while Lep lost MMZ's Top Film vote, it also recovered from Phil's bizarre Bottom Film pick back in 2017 (where he put every Lep film in his bottom category).

Speaking of 2009, way back then, How High was the FOURTH worse film of that year, with Fear and Loathing in the bottom. I'm giving it the tiebreaker against Anywhere But Here since it was the previous Worst Film, but I was actually tempted to go the other way as it would mean Year 2 would have had four different Worst Film of the Years over the course of four surveys (Fear and Loathing -> Ronin -> How High -> Anywhere But Here). That would have been funny.

Lastly, I leave you with some math. The average score of a Worst Film of the Year was -7.08, meaning How High was a little less than half as bad as the AVERAGE Worst Film, which really speaks to how volatile Year 2 has been with its bottom film spot. This is also a good demonstration that SLC Punks's -4.27 was similarly well below average. Don't worry, we'll have some real stinkers in the future to bring those numbers closer to its average.

Best Film of the Year: Dark City, proposed by The Man

Worst Film of the Year: How High, proposed by Phil

May All Its Sins Be Forgiven: Ronin, which was the Worst Film of the Year back in 2013 and is now nearly in the positive

Best/Worst Film Records Thus Far
Alaay: 0-0 | TBP: 0-0 | Elad: 0-0 | Houdini: 0-0 | MMZ: 0-1 | TM: 2-0 | Phil: 0-1 | Snobby: 0-0

Results:

Time for some Train Talk.

While riding the train to Bridgeport with The Man, we had a talk about Three Colors: White. Ever since the very first survey in 2009, White had not only been The Man's least-favorite film of this year, it was his least-favorite film of All Time. It has never once not been his #1 Bottom Film pick.

Yet having recently watched the entire Three Colors series, he realized the movie wasn't that bad and changed his vote to an Indifferent (which I couldn't symbolize due to overlapping icons, since he ALSO didn't even Blorgo it). This led to a discussion about whether votes should be cast based on how one felt about the film in the moment or if outside watchings should factor into the scoring. Which lead to an even deeper discussion of whether changing votes is, at its core, wrong. Shouldn't we respect our initial perspective rather than bowing to the whims of time? Or is it OK to accept that tastes change and update our results accordingly?

Anyway, it was all theoretical, and just a way of pointing out that White has shifted significantly.

Speaking of significant shifts... Gia with its garbage -12.44 score actually IMPROVED. It faded off Snobby's and Phil's Bottom Films list (like all of Phil's films), but it was still far too despised not to be the Worst Film of the Year. In second place, Very Bad Things and its -7.54 score was, as you now know, below the Worst Film of the Year average (of -7.08), but it's still nowhere close to unseating Gia from its Crown of Suck. The only question is... did a film in a different year manage to take the Worst Film of All Time prize, which Gia has never once surrendered?

Not much point talking about the top end of this year. From Dusk Till Dawn, the #1 Film of All Time from the 2013 survey, has never fallen out of the Top 10, though time will tell if its 8.97 score will be good enough to break that mark this year.

Meanwhile, Mr. Fischer is letting out a sigh of relief as I'm the only person still willing to cast a Blorgo Ball at I'm Gonna Git You Sucka.

Best Film of the Year: From Dusk Till Dawn, proposed by The Man

Worst Film of the Year: Gia, proposed by MMZ

Step Into the Light, My Child: The Faculty, which both Alaay and The Man shifted to a Like vote, putting it into the positives for the first time ever

Best/Worst Film Records Thus Far
Alaay: 0-0 | TBP: 0-0 | Elad: 0-0 | Houdini: 0-0 | MMZ: 0-2 | TM: 3-0 | Phil: 0-1 | Snobby: 0-0

Results:

So the first time this survey, we have a change to a Top or Bottom Film of the Year. With Lep Back 2 tha Hood shedding two Bottom Film appearances since 2017, From Dusk Till Dawn 2 is our new loser of Year 4. It managed this feat despite being Blorg-less, thanks mostly to MagicMan's lone Super Like keeping Lep Back 2 tha Hood afloat.

The Virgin Suicides continues to cling to the top. There was a time when The Warriors gave it a run for its money, but with both Houdini and The Man dropping it from their Top Films list, it doesn't have a prayer compared to Virgins' stronger scoring. The first of Sofia Coppola's two MovieFest films hangs on to that top spot.

Why am I randomly talking about directors? No reason, I'm sure....

Finally, The Man's three-year streak of picking the Best Film of the Year was snapped by Snobby, his near-constant MovieFest rival for the Best Proposer. We'll see if anyone can best his three-year streak in the eighteen years to come.

Best Film of the Year: The Virgin Suicides, proposed by The Man

Worst Film of the Year: From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money, proposed by the Group

And Fuck You In Particular: Malibooty with the most Blorgo Balls cast at it in Year 3

Best/Worst Film Records Thus Far
Alaay: 0-0 | TBP: 0-0 | Elad: 0-0 | Houdini: 0-0 | MMZ: 0-2 | TM: 3-0 | Phil: 0-1 | Snobby: 1-0 | Group: 0-1

Results:

I want to say, from the bottom of my heart: HOW DARE YOU NOT BLORGO OUT ON PAROLE! HOW AM I THE LAST PERSON HATING ON THAT TRASH FILM? FUCK YOU. FUCK ALL OF YOU.

Out On Parole, the Fifth Worst Overall Film in 2009, made it on to four Bottom Films list that year (including Alaay's #1 Worst Film of All Time, where it has stayed ever since). It and Divorce: Italian Style have been in a back-and-forth dance ever since, and this time around Divorce, even with Snobby no longer deeming it Blorg-worthy, is still the uncontested Worst Film of the Year. It even managed to widen its lead.

Most of the other negative films aren't worth mentioning except for a few stray MMZ Blorgo Balls that barely changed the needle much. Instead we look to the top of the list, where for the first time ever, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys is actually starting to sweat. With Pieces of April jumping on Elad's Top Films list and Dangerous Lives falling off Phil's, the gap between the two is narrowing, though spoilers: Dangerous Lives ranked MUCH higher on the Top Films lists where it appeared, earning it way more points. It we ever move to a rank-less format for Top Films, however (like we're doing with Blorgo Balls), then Dangerous Lives might be in trouble.

We won't, though. As I'll discuss in a bit, the Blorgo Ball Gimmick was an unmitigated disaster.

Best Film of the Year: The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, proposed by The Man

Worst Film of the Year: Divorce: Italian Style, proposed by MMZ

Seriously You Guys, I Hate This Movie: Out On Parole

Best/Worst Film Records Thus Far
Alaay: 0-0 | TBP: 0-0 | Elad: 0-0 | Houdini: 0-0 | MMZ: 0-3 | TM: 4-0 | Phil: 0-1 | Snobby: 1-0 | Group: 0-1

Results:

The rise and fall of Battle Royale has been incredible. It was the #1 Overall Film in 2009 at 14.2 points. It then plummeted to #9 in 2013 at 10.00 points and fell even harder to #19 and 6.86 points in 2017. This time it's back with a vengeance. With The Man and Snobby added it to their Top Films list, it had a huge boost to maintain a solid grip on the Best Film of the Year. We'll see where it lands in the Final Results, but this has definitely been a welcome boost to an old classic. For those curious about point scaling, without it, Battle Royale would be at 8.05 (instead of 8.32), so you get an idea of how small of a boost the scaling actually adds.

As one film rises, another must fall. 11:14 was #9 in 2009, #26 in 2013, and #42 in 2017. With it falling off Elad's Top Films list this year, God only knows how much more it will tumble in the Final Results.

Even with it dropping from two Bottom Films lists, Coffee and Cigarettes is still easily the Worst Film of the Year. It shed a few points, but I can't see a time when it'll ever lose out to any other film in this list given its universal disdain, though Frontez still has an outside chance to leapfrog it depending on its Blorgo-status in the next survey.

Best Film of the Year: Battle Royale, proposed by TheBluePlayer

Worst Film of the Year: Coffee and Cigarettes, proposed by MMZ

You Keep Me Hanging On: The Squid and the Whale, still on both TheBluePlayer's and Elad's Top Films list all these years later

Best/Worst Film Records Thus Far
Alaay: 0-0 | TBP: 1-0 | Elad: 0-0 | Houdini: 0-0 | MMZ: 0-4 | TM: 4-0 | Phil: 0-1 | Snobby: 1-0 | Group: 0-1

Results:

My experiment was a failure.

I decided, in a naive way, to try two competing scoring methods. Top Films were ranked, often ranging from 1 to 17 (though as we'll see, that wasn't always the case), while Bottom Films were assigned Blorgo Balls, a cute buzzword that, in a mathematical sense, just meant "they all receive an equally distributed amount of negative points". Ranked vs. Unranked.

Except the problem with this system is there has to be a rough correlation between the number of Top Films and the number of Bottom Films or your math begins to have some problems. If the total of all Top Films is, say, +10 additional points divided between 17 films, then the Blorgo system should distribute -10 points to counter balance. Simple, right?

It is...... if people assigned an amount of Blorgo balls consistent to how many Top Films they had picked. But if you're Snobhunter, who has a full Top 17 but only cast 3 Blorgo Balls, the math becomes a nightmare. Those +10 points distributed among his Top 17 films yield small boosts of +0.50 or +0.60 (depending on their rank). Those boosts can make minor adjustments in the overall rankings, but they can't single handedly jump certain films multiple spots.

But those same theoretical -10 points spread out over only 3 films would be another issue altogether. Snobhunter, simply by being more reserved with his Blorgo Balls, would have wildly shifted the positions of the three films he most hated. So to counter this, I had to put a cap on just how many negative points a Blorgo Ball could yield. Otherwise it would have been a total mess.

Ultimately, I decided the most negative points a Blorgo Ball could generate wouldn't exceed the highest possible points any film could get from a Top Films appearance. Since there were WAY fewer Blorgo Balls cast than Top Films, we'll ultimately have more positive points than negative in the survey as a result, but this usually happens for one reason or another (mostly people not filling out complete Top/Bottom Lists). So fine, whatever. I don't care about that.

All this is to say that - if Blorgo Balls had never been capped - Farce of the Penguins would have been our new #1 Overall Worst Film of All Time, surpassing even Gia. Because The Man only cast five Blorgo Balls, his Blorgos were capped and the cap was just enough to keep Farce of the Penguins out of a very tight competition for that bottom spot.

In the end, that's probably for the best. Gia received a Super Dislike from every single participant, whereas Farce didn't. The both received three Blorgo's, so based on that fact alone, it doesn't feel fair that Gia should benefit from my faulty math. So congratulations, Farce of the Penguins: you live to fight another day.

This isn't to say that Gia is the Worst Film Overall of this survey. It has been in every past survey, but there's still plenty of films to come. Perhaps something post-2017 could snatch the mantel that Farce of the Penguins just narrowly missed.

Regarding the rest of Year 7, there's not much to say. Elephant won, but that's nothing new. Even though it has the same Like/Super Like points as Mysterious Skin, it's always ranked in more Top Film lists by a quite higher margin. And Oldboy continues to be in a hotly contested third place.

Best Film of the Year: Elephant, proposed by Eladamri

Worst Film of the Year: Farce of the Penguins, proposed by MMZ

Never Gonna Give You Up: Dorm Daze 2: Semester @ Sea, which The Man continues to keep in the red

Best/Worst Film Records Thus Far
Alaay: 0-0 | TBP: 1-0 | Elad: 1-0 | Houdini: 0-0 | MMZ: 0-5 | TM: 4-0 | Phil: 0-1 | Snobby: 1-0 | Group: 0-1

Results:

Congratulations to Death at a Funeral, leaping past Weeping Camel to take the Worst Film of the Year this time around.

Death benefited greatly from The Man revising his vote for The Story of the Weeping Camel to a Super Like - being the only person to like Camel - and though there's narry a Blorg cast Death's way, six of seven dislikes was enough to put it in that bottom spot.

The top films of Year 8 all suffered quite a bit. Crank fell off two Top Films lists (I'll have more on that later in the survey), Sad Movie (even with Alaay's change to the math of Super Likes) lost a Top Film appearance, and Glengary Glen Ross picked up a Blorgo Ball from Elad. So while the ranking didn't change, the year as a whole suffered a big point drop from 2017.

Speaking of suffering, someone needs to help Lil' Pimp deal with its whiplash. It was positive in 2009 (with no Bottom Films appearances) then dropped way into the negatives to become the 11th Worst Film Overall in 2013 with three Bottom Films appearances (including, somehow, TheBluePlayer's #1 Least Favorite Film of All Time), then fell off all but Snobhunter's Bottom Films list in 2017, then had The Man change his vote to a Super Dislike now in 2022. This is the little movie that just can't seem to catch a break.

Oh, and about the cap on points for Blorgo Balls? Just pointing out that if I didn't, Lil' Pimp - one of Snobhunter's three Blorgo films - would have easily claimed the Bottom Film of the Year based solely on that single Blorgo Ball.

Finally, while The Man has claimed five of the past seven Best Film of the Year awards, this is his first Bottom Film of the Year winner. Will he continue his excellent run or is this the beginning of a backslide? Stay tuned to find out! (Ironically, he earned that Worst Film of the Year because he changed his Weeping Camel vote to a Super Like. Womp womp.)

Best Film of the Year: Crank, proposed by The Man

Worst Film of the Year: Death at a Funeral, proposed by The Man

Rise From The Ashes: Tampopo, the Bottom Film of the Year in the 2009 survey, is close to climbing its way back to the positives

Best/Worst Film Records Thus Far
Alaay: 0-0 | TBP: 1-0 | Elad: 1-0 | Houdini: 0-0 | MMZ: 0-5 | TM: 5-1 | Phil: 0-1 | Snobby: 1-0 | Group: 0-1

Results:

Some could say The Fall suffered quite a............ drop. Without those Top Film points to sustain it, Let the Right One In easily eclipsed it, especially with MMZ's Blorgo Ball against Dr. Horrible holding it back from taking over the top spot. Though we've seen a couple Bottom Films change since the 2017 survey, this is the first time a Top Film has shifted, though it's admittedly always been a tight race between the top three films of Year 9.

Even with TheBluePlayer holding off Blorgo'ing it this year, Who Made the Potatoe Salad? was so universally derided as to easily hang on to that bottom spot. Meanwhile the bloodbath that is Repo! The Genetic Opera continues its unceasing battle. Reaching the positive for the first time ever (at a meager 0.06), it greatly benefited from the shift to unranked Blorgo Balls, as it was Alaay's #2 Least Favorite film in 2017 and likely would have stayed in the negatives if we were still using a ranked system.

Houdini continues to really drag Year Nine through the mud with three Blorgo'd films to only one Super Like (exactly as in 2017). Among all of the attendees, Houdini was the most consistent with his Top and Bottom Favorite films, so don't expect much shuffling where he's concerned. Aside from Malibooty, he hasn't had any new entrants into either list between now and 2017, though a few did fall off along the way.

Best Film of the Year: Let the Right One In, proposed by Alaay

Worst Film of the Year: Who Made the Potatoe Salad?, proposed by TheBluePlayer

All Tied Up: Sydney White, Eating Out, and Loving Annabelle still forming a three-white tie for mediocrity

Best/Worst Film Records Thus Far
Alaay: 1-0 | TBP: 1-1 | Elad: 1-0 | Houdini: 0-0 | MMZ: 0-5 | TM: 5-1 | Phil: 0-1 | Snobby: 1-0 | Group: 0-1

Results:

If you recall from the 2017 survey, Year 10 was EASILY the Best Year of All Time, with an average film value of 2.04 (it's closest competitor, Year 2, had an average of 1.18). It's still obviously well loved, but it's worth noting that it lost all of its Top Films selections from both TBP and Phil this year, which will almost certainly hurts its overall score. (In both of their cases the losses makes some sense, as four of those six weren't even for films they Super Liked). Combined with the two new Blorgo'd films and it'll be interesting to see how many points Year 10 has lost in the second half of our survey when we rank the Best and Worst Years.

Black Dynamite remains on the top, to little surprise. Black Dynamite - which was only the Third Overall Best Film of the Year in the 2013 survey - had huge gains when we shifted to a Like/Super Like system, but with it falling off Elad's Top Films list it's definitely lost some shine. How much shine? Let's just say I've got a little segment on that way down below. Meanwhile, In Bruges got a solid boost with both Alaay and The Man changing their votes from Likes to Super Likes, further narrowing the gap between these two films. We'll have to wait and see if Black Dynamite's still impressive score is enough to re-claim the title of #1 Overall Film of All Time this year or if a new contender has emerged to supplant it.

There were two other films that had big shifts in the top half of this year: He Got Game, plumetting from 4th to 7th place, and Troll 2 have rebounding from 6th to 4th. It was, if you're remember, the #2 Top Film of the Year back in 2013 before the Anti-Troll Wave of the 2017 survey knocked all of those films down a peg. We'll see if the Trollessaince continues with its sister films.

Bitch Slap is still in the basement and even has another Blorgo Ball from MMZ to ensure Observe and Report doesn't leapfrog it. As much as we talk about what a powerhouse Year 10 was, it really had some garbage films in the bottom half.

Best Film of the Year: Black Dynamite, proposed by Snobhunter

Worst Film of the Year: Bitch Slap, proposed by Houdini

Bye Bye Forever: Book of Love, losing Phil's Top Film vote and likely never to see another one again

Best/Worst Film Records Thus Far
Alaay: 1-0 | TBP: 1-1 | Elad: 1-0 | Houdini: 0-1 | MMZ: 0-5 | TM: 5-1 | Phil: 0-1 | Snobby: 2-0 | Group: 0-1

Results:

As the first year with six people, I feel compelled to point out what some of these films would have been without point scaling. Best Worst Movie would've been 6.16 (compared to 6.64), Unstoppable would've been 4.13 (instead of 4.27) and The Expendables would've been -4.29 (instead of -4.63). So if you're worried about the scaling making huge changes, don't be.... except for two key exceptions that we'll get to later.

Year 11 is almost the definition of boring and I can't even pretend to care about analyzing it. Best Worst Movie got another point jump by showing up on The Man's Top Films list (much like Troll 2 did a year ago), so it looks as though he's single-handedly bringing the Troll films back to their former glory.

Even though it added a Top Films appearance by Elad, Rubber actually did worse this year, thanks in large part to it being fairly low on both of its Top Films lists and the unranked Blorgo Balls casting more negative points against it than it had in 2017. This is one of those films whose ranking pretty heavily depends on my scoring methodology.

The Expendables takes the Worst Film spot just like the last two times, ushering in Alaay's first Worst Film of the Year winner. Even though 30 of Alaay's 47 films are behind us, he's not yet done making an impact on Top and Bottom Films.

Best Film of the Year: Best Worst Movie, proposed by The Man

Worst Film of the Year: The Expendables, proposed by Alaay

Out of the Shadows: The Other Guys, leaping from 5th to 3rd thanks to some love from Snobby

Best/Worst Film Records Thus Far
Alaay: 1-1 | TBP: 1-1 | Elad: 1-0 | Houdini: 0-1 | MMZ: 0-5 | TM: 6-1 | Phil: 0-1 | Snobby: 2-0 | Group: 0-1

Results:

The Trollessaince has finally run out of steam. Trollhunter, which was on four Top Films lists in 2013, has lost its last supporter as Elad has turned his back on it. Pour one out for our boy.

It's not the only film to lose some steam. Drive was the #2 Overall Best Film back in 2017, but even with MMZ re-appreciating it, it still dropped from two Top Films lists and is fairly low on two of the three that it's still on. Even so, it was more than enough to hold on to be the Best Film of the Year. If, however, it continues to slip, I could envision a day where it falls below Kaboom, what with the fact that I don't expect Elad or MMZ to ever drop that film from their Top Films lists.

The other big winner was Tucker and Dale, both in The Man's point revision and Houdini's newly added Top Film appearance. Considering it only amassed 2.2 points in 2013, this is certainly a big shift for it.

Speaking of recoveries, The Six Wives of Henry LaFey, despite being the Worst Film of the Year, has only done better and better as the years progress. It was the #9 Worst Overall Film of All Time back in 2013 (where recency bias may have played a part) and now if it ever gets un-Blorgo'd by Elad, Black & Sexy would overtake it for the bottom spot. (This is largely a result of the changes to the Super/Regular scoring system, as LaFey has far more Super Dislikes, but Phil's lone Like does a lot of work.)

I mentioned before that Houdini's Top/Blorgo Lists stayed fairly consistent, but Year 12 was a big exception, with a number of films changing hands.

Best Film of the Year: Drive, proposed by Snobhunter

Worst Film of the Year: The Six Wives of Henry LaFey, proposed by The Man

And Have The Droid's Memory Wiped: The Star Wars Holiday Special, while still sucking, fell off two Bottom Films lists and is no longer a contender for that Worst Film spot

Best/Worst Film Records Thus Far
Alaay: 1-1 | TBP: 1-1 | Elad: 1-0 | Houdini: 0-1 | MMZ: 0-5 | TM: 6-2 | Phil: 0-1 | Snobby: 3-0 | Group: 0-1

Results:

So far you've seen a lot of shifting allegiances. While one person drops a film from their Top Films list, another person coincidentally added it to theirs. Or, conversely, a deeply disliked film lost one or two detractors, pushing it a bit more towards center.

Well that's not the case for Liberal Arts, as the three people who hated it in 2017 still hate it now. It's not as bad as Gia or Farce's -12 points, but Liberal Arts is still deeply in the disliked category. As a refresher, the average Worst Film of the Year had a -7.08, so that -10.53 is a pretty big deal.

Goon, meanwhile, remains atop a pretty meh year with no real viable challenger. For the most part there have been very few changes in Year 13, with the big exception of...

Gayby. Once again, Snobhunter strikes, casting one of his three Blorgo Balls. Combined that with it falling off MMZ's Top Film list from 2017 and Gayby was dragged solidly into the gutter.

And with Goon handing Houdini a Best Film of the Year win, it leaves only Phil and MMZ without one to their name. You won't have to wait long for at least one of those two to earn theirs.

Best Film of the Year: Goon, proposed by Houdini

Worst Film of the Year: Liberal Arts, proposed by MMZ

No Longer Regarded: Give My Regards to Broad Street, which, though still right behind Liberal Arts, is at least Blorgo-less this time around

Best/Worst Film Records Thus Far
Alaay: 1-1 | TBP: 1-1 | Elad: 1-0 | Houdini: 1-1 | MMZ: 0-6 | TM: 6-2 | Phil: 0-1 | Snobby: 3-0 | Group: 0-1

Results:

Houdini and Houdini alone controlled the fate of this year. By dropping You're Next from his Top Films list and adding Teen Beach Movie, he effectively crowned the new champion all by himself (and robbed himself of a Best Film of the Year award in the process). Instead that honor goes to, believe it or not, the MagicMan, who had six of the previous thirteen Worst Films of the Year. We'll see if his 1-6 record gets any better in the years to come, as well as if Phil will go without a Best Film of the Year.

Houdini wasn't the only one changing things up, as The Man made some big re-votes, updating two Super Likes and adding You're Next to his Top Films list to really help Year 14's scoring. Sofia Coppola got a slight reprieve with Bling Ring avoiding Snobhunter's hate this time around, though as the Second Worst Film of the Year, it certainly hurt the shine from Virgin Suicides nearly a decade earlier.

In a fun twist, every single Top/Bottom Film from the 2017 survey faded away and was replaced with new entrants, so the scattered few favorites (and one Blorgo) are all brand new this year. Funny Games in particular was the recipient of both a Top and Blorg appearance to continue balancing out its perfectly mediocre score.

Speaking of mediocre: this entire year. Just look at all those Indifferent votes! Part of this was a result of Year 14 having to wait until 2017 for everyone to vote on it as I wasn't doing yearly mini-surveys back then. This, not surprisingly, is the result of your woeful memories.

While there were no major changes in the bottom films, the adjustments to my point scoring definitely hurt all of them, and Ewoks once again sits squarely in the basement. Snobhunter's 3-0 record was finally snapped with Ewoks handing him his first Worst Film of the Year.

Best Film of the Year: Teen Beach Movie, proposed by MagicManZach

Worst Film of the Year: Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, proposed by Snobhunter

I Coulda Been a Contendah: The Raid: Redemption, which had some positive revisions but still was far too meh to break the Top 3

Best/Worst Film Records Thus Far
Alaay: 1-1 | TBP: 1-1 | Elad: 1-0 | Houdini: 1-1 | MMZ: 1-6 | TM: 6-2 | Phil: 0-1 | Snobby: 3-1 | Group: 0-1

Results:

Turns out people still love Kung Fury. Even with it losing a Top Films appearance, it actually has MORE points than in 2017, thanks to scoring adjustments and it moving up the few lists it's on.

While Alaay had a bad year here (taking the #2 and #3 Worst Films spots), at least he didn't have the #1 Worst Film of the Year, which goes to Leprechan: Origins, thanks mostly to Don't Be a Menace falling off of two Bottom Films lists. If Blorgo Balls hadn't been point capped then The Man's lone vote against all fifteen minutes of I'm a Cyborg But That's OK would actually have put it in the bottom spot, but alas for The Man, instead he'll get his third Worst Film of the Year award, continuing to diminish his lofty 6-0 start. Some might say I manipulated the point system to unfairly benefit myself, and to those people I say: it's funnier when The Man loses.

Really not much else to say about this year unless you want to focus on Maggie going from a Like to Super Like by Alaay. But you shouldn't because it's Maggie.

Best Film of the Year: Kung Fury, proposed by Snobhunter

Worst Film of the Year: Leprechaun: Origins, proposed by The Man

Getting Better All The Time: Blood Simple., which only boosts its Second Place standing thanks to a Top Film appearance from MMZ

Best/Worst Film Records Thus Far
Alaay: 1-1 | TBP: 1-1 | Elad: 1-0 | Houdini: 1-1 | MMZ: 1-6 | TM: 6-3 | Phil: 0-1 | Snobby: 4-1 | Group: 0-1

Results:

Year 16 - only one year removed from the 2017 survey - is an excellent example of how sometimes you need a little distance to see a year clearly. Collectively, seven Top Films appearances faded away while four new ones were added, with a number of Bottom Films shifting as well. The result? Both the Top and Bottom Film of This Year have changed hands since the 2017 survey.

Let's start in the gutter. If you're remember from last survey, MMZ had only a single film in his Bottom Films list: Chi-Raq. And while Chi-Raq still made his "fuck you" list, because he spread his Blorgo's out more evenly this year, Chi-Raq didn't suffer quite the same point loss. Combined that with it falling off TBP and TM's Bottom Films list and it regained a lot of lost points.

It couldn't have done it on its own, however. Unlike Chi-Raq, the people who hated Creep still really fucking hate Creep, and even The Man updated his Dislike into a Super Dislike, helping it easily take the Worst Film of the Year. That's now back-to-back stinkers for The Man, dropping him down to a 6-4 record in my stupid gameification of MovieFest.

Meanwhile, Houdini joins the two-time club as Green Room got some big love between surveys to take the Best Film of the Year award. Houdini has only picked 19 out of MovieFest's 329 films, so his 2-1 record so far is actually pretty wild.

It wouldn't have gone down that way without every single person turning their back on Staten Island Summer. It dropped off all three Best Film lists and lost Phil a chance at having his first Best Film of the Year win. We'll be hearing from DeLuca's lawyers about this.

The Lobster had its own revisionary swing, dropped from three lists but popping up on two others. It might seem odd that Staten Island is still above it despite having no Top Films points, but Phil's lone Indifferent vote for The Lobster really dragged its score down.

Even so, those top three films did very well for themselves. We've already talked about the average score of a Worst Film of the Year (-7.08), so now's a good time to talk about the inversion. Most Best Films of the Year winners averaged 8.14 points, and with The Lobster being very close to that number, Year 16 nearly had three films above the Best Film average. We'll see how that translates in the second part of the survey when we compare the years against each other.

In case you're wondering, the lowest-placing Best Film of the Year so far was actually way back in Year 1 with Cube at 5.89. I tried to emphasize how badly Cube has suffered since its first appearance in the 2009 survey and hopefully this hammers home how mediocre it's become among the All-Time greats. We'll see if any Best Film of the Year in the coming years will manage to place below it.

Best Film of the Year: Green Room, proposed by Houdini

Worst Film of the Year: Creep, proposed by The Man

They Stay the Same Age: The Guest, which is the only film to have the exact same score it had in the 2017 survey

Best/Worst Film Records Thus Far
Alaay: 1-1 | TBP: 1-1 | Elad: 1-0 | Houdini: 2-1 | MMZ: 1-6 | TM: 6-4 | Phil: 0-1 | Snobby: 4-1 | Group: 0-1