IGN's "top film franchises" list honors Godzilla - sort of.

What was I just saying about lists? IGN pads what must be a slow news month with a list of the top 25 film franchises of all time. Godzilla rings in at #18, which is kind of ridiculous given that the big G is the longest-running and most prolific fictional character created exclusively for the screen (James Bond and Sherlock Holmes were both literary characters first).

I'm guessing "top" in this context means "the ones we like best" given that #25 was is the Saw franchise. There's just no way they're not going to include The Matrix and the Police Academy franchsies, neither of which is as historically significant as Godzilla and should therefore have appeared before the big G did.

See? This is why I hate "best of" lists. They get me in a bad mood and I sound all whiny.