Okay, I can't keep this to myself. I tallied all the lists. I have no idea how to list them from most to least in Open Office, so I just went through and copied anything with more than 8 mentions. (It counted them for me, I just can't get the numbers in order automatically.)
This is just for knowing. It's not a poll. I'm probably not going to update it. Don't say, "I support Miss Congeniality, add my vote" and try to increase the numbers. That's not the point. The point is, without bias, this is what people chose individually as their most wanted riffs. These are the ones that the most people wanted. After this is published of course, any further data is skewed by knowing what the top 10 is. Anything at the top is likely to stay at the top anyway. Only the top few have overwhelming numbers.
What I counted: I counted lists, that's it. I didn't try and count anyone saying "me too" or commenting on other people's lists. These are just the lists from the sticky thread. I wasn't a Nazi about whether it was 10 movies or not, since no one stuck to that rule. I included updates, but did not delete anything from any lists that an update was replacing, since a want is a want.
Many of these are tied, so I decided to just list the top 25. I'll list the "place" and the number of picks, but not the number (#25) since the actual order within the places is arbitrary.
In dramatic fashion (but not like, in a Greg McDuck kind of way):
Eleventh Place:
Tron (16)
Snakes on a Plane (16)
Tenth Place:
War of the Worlds (2005) (17)
Starship Troopers (17)
Star Wars: A New Hope (17)
Jaws: The Revenge (17)
Ninth Place:
Van Helsing (18)
The Village (18)
Red Dawn (18)
Planet of the Apes (2001) (18)
Krull (18)
Eighth Place:
Superman Returns (19)
Resident Evil (19)
Commando (19)
Seventh Place:
Street Fighter (21)
Dune (21)
Catwoman (21)
Sixth Place:
Total Recall (22)
Masters of the Universe (22)
Fifth Place:
The Hulk (25)
Armageddon (25)
Fourth Place:
Godzilla (1998) (28)
Third Place:
Super Mario Bros. (30)
Second Place:
Titanic (32)
First Place:
Waterworld (33)
And because you'll want to know, here's what didn't make it (10 or more picks):
15 Superman IV: The Quest For Peace
15 Labyrinth
15 House of the Dead
15 Flash Gordon
14 League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
14 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
14 Die Hard
14 Bloodrayne
13 The Wizard of Oz
13 Judge Dredd
13 Face/Off
12 Zardoz
12 The Running Man
12 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
12 National Treasure
12 Lost in Space
12 Logan's Run
12 Ghost Rider
12 Doom
12 Beastmaster
12 Alone in the Dark
11 X3
11 Willow
11 Tomb Raider
11 Star Trek: The Motion Picture
11 Speed
11 Signs
11 Minority Report
11 Legend
11 Conan the Barbarian
10 V for Vendetta
10 The DaVinci Code
10 Star Trek: Nemesis
10 Showgirls
10 High School Musical
10 Fight Club
10 Donnie Darko
10 Demolition Man
10 Deep Blue Sea
10 Cobra
10 Alien vs Predator
10 2001: A Space Odyssey
Topic: This is it, the official Top 25 Most Wanted Riffs (Read 41174 times)
