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I got tired of the lack of color at Movie Say, and decided to come up with a new design. While the blog still runs under the old design (I’ll take care of that at some later point), the rest of the site has been redesigned. There are still some things to take care of, and some strange bugs to crush, but all in all I am quite pleased with the result.

I don’t know if it is because of Google taking over YouTube or what, but recently YouTube has been removing trailers from their website faster than I can link to them. The “Favourites” list at YouTube, which I use for pulling out some data, has also been very buggy recently, and it has therefore been impossible to really make use of that data.

Since the YouTube data has never really been that useful to begin with because the number of trailer views per movie is affected by a whole range of variables, I have decided to drop YouTube from the MovieSay buzz calculations altogether. While it was in a sense a hard decision to make, as dropping an information source is never easy, I believe that without YouTube the information on this website will be more accurate.

Disney currently tops both the modern classics and classic movies buzz lists, probably thanks to the related discussion the new The Little Mermaid DVD edition has generated. Many forums currently run threads asking about the posters’ favourite Disney films, which shows here in MovieSay’s rankings.

While the top 10s are largely unchanged from what it was about a week ago, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, which has been climbing up in the charts for the past months in anticipation with next year’s “Final Cut” re-release, now finds itself 11th on the classic movies list. Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, on the other hand, has started to fall, and is now 17th.

The enormously successful opening of Martin Scorsese’s The Departed last weekend is, based on buzz calculations, by and large all that movie goers are talking about before this weekend. Not only has the film broken the 100 decibel line (see buzz ratings for movies now in theaters), but it has also left all the other movies far behind in the rankings: the second placed Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, which led The Departed in pre-release buzz, is currently at only 51dB.

It is more than probable that this weekend’s major openers, The Grudge 2 and the Robin Williams starring Man of the Year will not be able to threaten the top spot. Indeed, it may well be until the opening of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette on October 20th that The Departed will remain the most talked about current movie.

In order to see the buzz rankings for movies now in theaters, see here. For more about Martin Scorsese’s The Departed, see IMDb.

The ‘Movies now in theaters’ and ‘Upcoming movies’ sections were temporarely down due to some technical issues. They are now back up and should be working normally again.

Apologies for the inconvenience caused.

I have added two Disney classics to the database: the 1989 The Little Mermaid (pictured here) and the 1991 animated movie Beauty and the Beast.

Both movies taken fairly high positions in the rankings. The Little Mermaid currently tops the classic movies list, probably thanks to the recent Disney double DVD release of the movie, while Beauty and the Beast is fourth in the classic movies rankings.

While the movies now in theaters and upcoming movies lists include (almost) every film currently or soon in release — certainly all that really matter buzz-wise — the other lists are not as complete. Especially the classics lists are a never-ending work to compile, and while I am doing my best to have the films with top buzz included, you can expect further additions as time goes bye. Or, in case you would like to suggest movies for inclusion, please contact me through the contact form.

Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 movie Apocalypse Now is currently the most talked about classic movie, according to Movie Say: the Film Buzz Index.

Movie Say monitors and ranks movies according to the amount of discussion they generate on the Internet. While the service is still in its infancy, it already provides a range of buzz listings, including those for movies now in theaters, upcoming movies, most anticipated movies, cinema classics, and modern cinema classics.

Movie Say started from a simple desire to know what films matter to the public right right now. While there are numerous well-constructed lists ranking films by their quality, their impact on society, their influence on the art of cinema itself, or their box-office record, no ranking seemed to be based on the actual buzz these films generate. Movie Say attempts to fill this void.