Show Time: A Statistical Recap of Filmsplosion 2022

Well, it’s been several weeks since Filmsplosion 2022 came out. Have you finished listening to it yet? If not, don’t read the rest of this post, as we’ll be looking at all the Nerds’ Top 10 lists.

So, in putting this together, I basically assigned every movie a scored based on where it was on a Nerd’s list. If it was their #1 film, I gave it 10 points; if #2, 9 points; and so on until our #10 films received 1 point each. If it was one of the eight films that appeared on more than one list, then it has a combined score.

(In case you forgot, I did this for Filmsplosion 2019, Filmsplosion 2020, and Filmsplosion 2021.)

Now, we’ll get to which of the eight movies had the highest average score, but first, we’ll look at the movies that scored the highest overall.

So, here are the HIGHEST SCORED MOVIES of Filmsplosion 2021:

  1. Top Gun: Maverick – 42 points (a record high)
  2. Glass Onion – 30
  3. The Batman – 29
  4. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story – 18
  5. Everything Everywhere All At Once – 13
  6. Pearl – 12
  7. Belle – 10*

The asterisk denotes that Belle only appeared on my list. The two other movies that appeared on multiple lists, Marcel The Shell With Shoes On and RRR, had 9 and 8 points, respectively.

Unsurprisingly, if we look at these films’ average scores (total score divided by number of lists it appeared on), it doesn’t look all that different.

So, THE AVERAGE SCORES for the eight films that appear on multiple lists are:

  1. Top Gun: Maverick – 8.4
  2. Glass Onion – 7.5
  3. The Batman – 7.25
  4. Everything Everywhere All At Once – 6.5
  5. TIE: Pearl and Weird – 6

Of the 10 highest-grossing movies of 2022, in terms of domestic box office, two of them appeared on multiple lists (Top Gun: Maverick and The Batman) and one of them appeared on just my list (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever). Looking at 11-20 at the 2021 domestic box office, three more appear in Filmsplosion 2022 (Elvis, Uncharted and Nope).

One more thing I wanted to examine is how our selected films break down by genre. How many action movies do we have? How many dramas? Super-hero flicks? etc.

So, for this assessment, I went by each film’s most basic genre. Our choices are: animation, action, comedy, drama, horror and superhero. No documentaries in the running this year, although that has been a category in the past.

I’m generalizing which category it’s in based on my own experience in either seeing the movie or watching the trailer, and most were pretty straightforward to categorize. In the few cases where I was uncertain, I went by which genre was listed first on its IMDB page.

So, without further ado, let’s look at the BREAKDOWN OF THE FILMSPLOSION LISTS BY GENRE:

  1. Drama (9)
  2. Comedy (7)
  3. TIE – Action and Horror (5)
  4. Animation (4)
  5. Superhero (2)

Dramas lead for the fourth consecutive year, and Comedies took silver again this year after getting bumped off the podium last year. Horror did much worse after coming in second last year, and surprisingly, Animation beat out Superheroes! The only other time that’s happened was 2020, when hardly any superhero movies came out.

I do find it interesting that only two Superhero movies were on our lists at all – The Batman and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. The guys all had Batman of course, and I was the sole BPWF entrant and even that was a last-minute decision.

After reigning supreme for so many years, the MCU has definitely taken a tumble in our esteem, it seems. No Multiverse of Madness from Ryan and no Thor: Love & Thunder from anyone… which, sadly makes a lot of sense. We’ll see if Superhero does better at Filmsplosion 2023, as we’ve got Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3, Shazam 2, The Flash and others dropping this year.

Anyway, thanks to Brad, I put all the Nerds’ Filmsplosion lists below so you can see for yourselves which genre I categorized each movie as.

Give the lists a look, in case you forgot what everyone picked. I also think looking over everyone’s lists by genre is very interesting, as you can see some Nerds lean more on one genre than others. Again, not a bad thing — just something to take note of.

Zach

  1. Everything Everywhere All At Once – drama
  2. Nope – horror
  3. The Fabelmans – drama
  4. Pearl – horror
  5. Halloween Ends – horror
  6. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On – animation
  7. Top Gun: Maverick – action
  8. The Batman – superhero
  9. X – horror
  10. Elvis – drama

Ryan

  1. Top Gun: Maverick – action
  2. Weird – comedy
  3. Prey – action
  4. The Batman – superhero
  5. Glass Onion – comedy
  6. Pearl – horror
  7. Tar – drama
  8. (Guillermo Del Toro’s) Pinocchio – animation
  9. Hustle – drama
  10. Barbarian – horror

James

  1. Top Gun: Maverick – action
  2. The Batman – superhero
  3. Glass Onion – comedy
  4. Prey – action
  5. See How They Run – comedy
  6. The Banshees of Inisherin – drama
  7. Thirteen Lives – drama
  8. Weird – comedy
  9. Uncharted – action
  10. RRR – action

Corinne

  1. Belle – animation
  2. Top Gun: Maverick – action
  3. Glass Onion – comedy
  4. Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero – animation
  5. Hadestown – stage show
  6. Operation Mincemeat – drama
  7. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – superhero
  8. Everything Everywhere All At Once – drama
  9. Stadium Fluffy – comedy
  10. Spirited – comedy

Brad

  1. The Batman – superhero
  2. Top Gun: Maverick – action
  3. Glass Onion – comedy
  4. RRR – action
  5. Weird – comedy
  6. New York Ninja – action
  7. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On – animation
  8. CODA – drama
  9. Clerks III – comedy
  10. #ShakespeareShitstorm – comedy

Well, that’s all I got, folks. Hope you enjoyed this statistical breakdown of the 2022 Filmsplosion episode! 🙂