After failing to conquer theaters this past week the way Yankee soldiers once took the beaches of Iwo Jima, "Flags of Our Fathers" didn't drop much in the best picture rankings at our new Buzzmeter.

The Buzzmeter ranks the kudos forecasts of our team of stellar Oscarologists: Edward Douglas (ComingSoon.net), Claudia Puig (USA Today), Richard Roeper (Ebert & Roeper), Gene Seymour (Newsday), Art Spiegelman (Rueters), Peter Travers (Rolling Stone), Jeffrey Wells (Hollywood-Elsewhere.com) and, well, me. These are our pundits who piped in a week ago with their initial rankings. This week, five of us offer new, updated predix. Out of those five, three of us (Puig, Travers and me) continue to include "Flags," although it's dropped a rung or two in the overall best-pic lineup. Douglas and Wells didn't list it earlier (they're among the minority of critics who gave it bad reviews) and, of course, still don't.

Currently, "Flags" lands at number four in our overall ranking in the top Oscar race. To check out the Buzzmeter — CLICK HERE!

Once on the Buzzmeter page, make a point of clicking on one of the links marked "Individual Panelist's Rankings" to see our separate forecasts. There's a drop-down menu on top to compare this week's rankings with last week's. Please ignore my predix from last week. When this new gizmo launched we were told that we could change our minds whenever we want (instead of once per week, which is really the case), so I started screwing around with it, trying to see how radically I could skew the composite rankings by pushing longshots up high in a few races at my listings. When I was done playing and tried to enter my real predix, the gizmo wouldn't let me! Ah, well, at least this week I was able to set things right.

By the way, when you're on the main Buzzmeter page, please make a point of clicking on "Meet the Panel" to read the bios of our esteemed contributors.

Please check our rankings every week to see how they change! That's the fun part. We also feature predix of the upcoming Country Music Association Awards and will soon include the Grammys as well.