A very good year here at UltimateMovieRankings.com.
3,735,107 total views for the website in 2016
201 countries reached
13,536 cities reached
153 new UMR pages written in 2016
2.38 days between new UMR pages in 2016….our lowest ratio ever!
Top 5 Viewed Pages of 2016
- Pixar versus DreamWorks 132,325 views
- Marvel vs D.C. Movies 112,728 views
- John Wayne Movies 46,270 views
- Black Hawk Down 46,024 views
- Elvis Presley Movies 34,499 views
If there is a best then there has to be a worst. Our least viewed UMR movie page is Russell Crowe….with only 345 views for the entire year.
Top 5 Viewed “New” Pages of 2016
- Tarzan Movies 25,584 views
- Film Noir Movies 17,061 views
- 2016 Movies 16,473 views
- Gene Wilder Movies 15,568 views
- Top Musical Movies 14,851 views
Best Stats of 2016 at UMR.com? Easily the comments received. 22,817 comments were posted in 2016. Granted half were my responses…but still that is over 11,400 comments…or 31 comments a day!
UMR Hall of Fame Commenters in ABC Order (People With At Least 50 comments)
- Bob – our Brando/Crawford/Ladd and billing expert – he has been reading our pages for years….but stepped out of the shadows in 2016 and started commenting…he might be more aware of what is on our website than we do
- BryRog57 – the top two UMR pages of 2016…(Pixar v DreamWorks & Marvel v D.C.) were his suggestions….our top sharer of links
- Chris – makes great UMR subject requests and provides well thought out and interesting comments on most of our pages
- Dan…..our Kevin Bacon Oracle expert……he posts tons of information that help add to our pages….his movie databases put our movie databases to shame
- Flora – our best Candanian commenter….huge Peck/Widmark fan..another HubPage alumni
- John…..our Gary Cooper expert…..he makes great UMR movie subject suggestions….his vast movie knowledge especiallly when it comes to color versus black and white movies has been a welcome addition to our website
- Laurent…..a fellow classic movie gross treasure hunter….he made our USC Warner Brother ledger trip even more successful with his sharing of information
- Lyle…..almost 10% of all the new UMR pages in 2016 came from his suggestions…he has been providing awesome comments for a few years
- Søren…..another HubPage alumni….he has been making comments and suggestions since 2011
- Stein….one of the most prolific commenters on the page….rarely makes suggestions…but if he did they would quickly move up the request list….hint hint
- WoC….she might not comment too often…..but she is the brains of our team….leaving HubPages?…her idea…..creating a database that made it easy to write new pages?..her idea….creating a computer program that automatically calculates adjusted box office grosses? ….her idea. I could go on and on….but just know WoC is a huge reason for our successful 2016. I did come up with the “…….” seen in so……many comments.
Thought we forgot Steve Lensman? Nope we did not. Just saving the best for last. Steve and I have been commenting on each other’s web pages since 2011. Our combined comments have reached over 10,000! Steve and I befriended each other when we were both active members at HubPages. On our second website…CogersonMovieScore.com…..it was often just the me and Steve commenting on my latest movie pages. Steve was involved in the naming of this website. He talked us out of naming it ….”Ultimate Movie Ranker”…because it sounded too much like “Wanker”…which is apparently not a good thing in London. Steve was the last person to comment on CMS.com and the second person (WoC was first) to comment on UMR.com. So Steve…just want to tell you something…..THANK YOU for all the time you have given our movie pages….it is greatly appreciated.
UMR In Memoriam 2016
Every year we lose lots of people….2016 seemed like a horrible year…especially if you are a rock star or an actor. The double whammy of Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds was especially hard to take in….not good Christmas news at all. We do not write a UMR page on every movie actor that passes away…..but if it is somebody we feel connected to ….it seems to make us feel better. In 2016 that happened 4 times.
UMR Pages Written After The Celebrity Passed Away
David Bowie passed away on January 11th, 2016..the news was so shocking….that we wrote this page as a way to deal with his passing.
Anton Yelchin passed away on June 19th 2016….his death was the result of a freak accident….which I found even stranger because I had just watched his Odd Thomas and was reading the book.
Gene Wilder passed away August 29th 2016. When Willie Wonka passed away I was devasted. This page made me feel better…and it turned out to be one of our most popular pages of the year.
Carrie Fisher passed away December 27th 2016. When I first wrote this page..Fisher was in the hospital following her heart attack….sadly a few days later Princess Leia was no longer with us.
UMR Pages Written Before The Celebrity Passed Away
Garry Marshall…actually wrote this page about 10 days before his passing. Had no idea he was sick….so his passing was shocking.
Debbie Reynolds….this page was written years before she passed away.
Some of the Other Actors/Actresses That Passed Away In 2016
- Alan Rickman…..RIP Hans Gruber
- Oscar winner Patty Duke Astin
- Robert Vaughn
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
- Oscar winner George Kennedy
- Abe Vigoda
- Garry Shandling
- Guy Hamilton…James Bond director
- William Schallert,
- Ken Howard
- Burt Kwouk…Pink Panther’s Cato
- Gloria DeHaven
- Kenny Baker…Star Wars’ R2D2
- Michael Cimino….Oscar winning director
Finally….thanks to everybody that visited these pages and made 2016 a very successful year for us. Looking forward to an even better 2017.
OOPS OOPS OOPS – RIGHT is what I should have spelled not WRITE. Correcting myself.
Hey Bern…..I will fix your errors when I get back to Virginia….thanks for checking out our 2016 review…and thanks for all your comments.
Hey, me, your mother is the ANONYMOUS above – it did not say BERN 1960. Just want to get it write, eh!
Hey BERN1960…..I figured it was you……thanks for the support.
Hey, interesting that I am at the top of the list. I sometimes edit when I first read your pages.
Happy New Year to you and all the family here, there and everywhere. Missed you guys. Drive safely coming home. PS – I do not remember that Ken Howard died this year. THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK.
Hey BERN1960…..the cream rises to the top…lol. Yep Mr. Howard passed away in the middle of the year…..The White Shadow is no longer with us. Thanks for the visit and the comment.
Thanks for the honor and for the wonderful page. I was really surprised to see my name pop up in the page. Happy New Year. Hope your 2017 is even more successful.
Hey Helakoski….hope your New Year is awesome too. Thanks for all the support in 2016….any UMR suggestions from you will quickly move up the que. Glad to see you were surprised to see your name pop up.
Thanks for the nice comment. Winding down 2016 watching Renegade Girl from 1946 starring Ann Savage who I think you mentioned in the Lyle Talbot page. Happy new year.
Hey Dan…glad you found your HOF notice…..thanks for all the great comments that you have provided. An interesting choice to wrap up your 2016 movie watching….my last movie of 2016 was the unknown gem Who Is Cletus Tout? starring Tim Allen as a movie loving hitman. Hope you have a great New Year holiday.