'The Dark Knight' Won Twitter's Latest Hashtag War

We love highlighting our favorite movies, but it’s not easy to list just a few of them. Or even 1000, as was the case for director Edgar Wright. Still, thousands of people took part in a social media meme this week where you name your top seven favorite movies in any order. Using the Twitter hashtag #fav7films, we each stressfully shared at least a temporary septet of titles. 

And then Mashable got the digital media research firm Fizziology to go through more than 100,000 tweets and compile a ranked list of the most popular movies mentioned just on Monday (5am to 7pm). Here are the top 15, which includes individual titles and some lumped-together trilogies and franchises along with their tallied number of appearances: 

1. The Dark Knight: 5,056
2. Pulp Fiction: 4,966
3. The Shawshank Redemption: 4,910
4. The Empire Strikes Back: 4,772
5. The Godfather* (all films): 4,604
6. Goodfellas: 3,877
7. Alien* (all films): 3,730
8. Fight Club: 3,574
9. Harry Potter* (all films): 2,757
10. Jaws*: 2,622
11. Forrest Gump*: 2,530
12. Jurassic Park*: 2,356
13. Blade Runner: 1,862
14. The Big Lebowski: 1,860
15 Rocky* (all films): 1,807

Do the results look as you expected? Compare the above list to the very similar IMDb top 15: 

1. The Shawshank Redemption 
2. The Godfather
3. The Godfather: Part 2
4. The Dark Knight
5. Schindler’s List
6. 12 Angry Men
7. Pulp Fiction
8. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
9. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
10. Fight Club
11. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
12. The Empire Strikes Back
13. Forrest Gump
14. Inception
15. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

It is strange how no Lord of the Rings movies nor the trilogy as a whole wound up making the Twitter cut. Mashable also has other interesting data, such as Suicide Squad beating out Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Space Jam being more recognized than Annie Hall. The site also features some of the funnier jokey responses to the meme.

This wasn’t just a fun activity for movie-loving regular folk, either. Check out some lists from celebrities, including Adam McKay, Amy Schumer and Michael McKean:

#fav7films Jesus’s son. Shortcuts. Royal tenenbaums. Best in show. City of God. Personal Velocity. The big Lebowski.

— Amy Schumer (@amyschumer) August 16, 2016

#fav7films
(I can’t resist)
24 hr Party People
The Man Who Would Be King
Diner
Sound of Music
Office Space
Kung Fu Hustle
La Dolce Vita

— Adam McKay (@GhostPanther) August 16, 2016

#Fav7Films The Fast and the Furious, 2 Fast 2 Furious, FF Tokyo Drift, Fast and Furious, Fast 5, Fast & Furious 6, Rashomon

— Taran Killam (@TaranKillam) August 15, 2016

#fav7films
Goonies
Back to the Future
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Wizard of Oz
Empire Strikes Back
Ghostbusters (Original)
Godfather 1&2 (Tie)

— Josh Gad (@joshgad) August 15, 2016

Sense & Sensibility/This Is It/Lone Star/Adaptation/Terminator 2/Bridget Jones Diary/No Country For Old Men #Fave7Films

— Mindy Kaling (@mindykaling) August 16, 2016

Godfather I & II (counted as one)
Fight Club
Pulp Fiction
Goodfellas
Se7en
Shawshank Redemption
The Empire Strikes Back#7favfilms – drama

— Joe Manganiello (@JoeManganiello) August 16, 2016

Little Big Man
Network
You Can’t Take It With You
Arsenic and Old Lace
Bullet
The Grand Illusion
Dumbo
#fav7films

— Matthew Modine (@MatthewModine) August 16, 2016

#fav7films
NXNW
City Lights
The Third Man
Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Nights of Cabiria
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Paths of Glory

— Michael McKean (@MJMcKean) August 15, 2016

Close Encounters. Searching For Bobby Fisher. The Graduate. West Side Story. Fame. Amelie. Life Is Beautiful. #fav7films

— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) August 16, 2016

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