To think that E.T. and The Exorcist are not on the list but these movies are, is a travesty:
-Warrior (2011) #152
-Coco (2017) #72
-Gran Torino (2008) #171
-Avengers: Endgame (2019) #33
-Avengers: Infinity War (2018) #58
-Whiplash (2014) #45
-Inside Out (2015) #148
-Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse (2018) #60
-Rush (2013) #207
-Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009) #209
I even liked some of these, but top 250? Come on.
The IMDB top 250 is kind of a joke.
Some classics, but a lot of super hero movies and such that are getting ten'ed by kids who hand out tens to anything they really like.
RUSH makes that list easily.
sharewarrior's a great, great movie imo.
i don't think it belongs on a top 250 film list, but it's on my own top 100 (i don't think that's a contradiction).
i'm happy that so many people love it as much as i do.
i feel the same way about into the spider-verse. that's on my own personal top 20.
lists like this are silly, i suppose, & it's easy to pick holes & laugh & criticize, but ultimately they are popularity contests & those are the films that are most popular among people who've voted on imdb. & i don't know how much sense it makes to sit back and say 'the 1million people who put green mile at#28 really need to get their act together.'
that said, i much prefer the letterboxd top 250 list. it has things i don't like on it of course, but it's more of a snob's list, and it's got lots of fun, quirky things on it.
https://letterboxd.com/visdave34/list/official-top-250-narrative-feature-films/
You're right, that list is so much better. A lot more non-English films, too.
shareI don't think it's a contradiction. There's a difference between you putting it in your top 100 and you feeling that it doesn't belong on IMDb's top 250 because people have seen movies you haven't and have put it on the list.
shareI'll just list the films on the list which I rate less than 5/10. From a quick glance - I may be missing some.
Amelie
Shutter Island
Interstellar
The Green Mile
A Beautiful Mind
Rush
Lock, Stock and Two Smokng Barrels
Green Book
Incendies
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Braveheart
The Great Dictator
Avengers: Endgame
Man, you're harsh. Less than a 5/10?
share5/10 = ok/worth a look. I honestly didn't think that any of these films made it to that level.
shareA 5/10 is worth a look? Lol. I agree about Amelie though. That movie is trash, no idea how so many people like it.
shareYes... 5/10 is average, middle of the scale. I wouldn’t recommend it but it’s not a waste of time. If I rate a film 6 or above I can say I liked it, to some degree.
Yeah, I loathed Amelie - obnoxious junk in ugly colours!
That list at the IMDB is such garbage, it's better to ask which movies deserve to be in the top 250. Someone needs to shame that site into oblivion if that list is to be a guide for younger viewers.
shareI know that Inside Out may not be everyone's cup of tea, but I think that it does warrant a spot on that list. It had a really great message for kids.
shareIt's a 7/10 for me, but not top 250 worthy.
shareWhat does make a movie worthy in your opinion? I'm trying to figure that out for myself and I've come to the conclusion that I just don't know. I know that movies that I like are not all great movies, but I like them anyways, and other movies which the "experts" think are amazing I can't stand.
shareIt's hard to say. For example, I don't love Ben-Hur, but it's slipping off the top 250 (#211), but I feel like it should still be high on the list. Just because I don't personally love it, I'm aware of its impact in cinema history.
Some movies that are on the list and I think deserve to be:
The Shawshank Redemption
Fargo
American Beauty
Seppuku
The Silence of the Lambs
Schindler's List
Fight Club
Seven Samurai
City of God
A Clockwork Orange
The Lion King
I agree with most of those choices, but Fight Club. I've just never understood the appeal of it.
shareI went through the list and included those in my top 50:
Pulp Fiction
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West
Apocalypse Now
Taxi Driver
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Come and See
There Will be Blood
No Country for Old Men
The Thing
Blade Runner
The Deer Hunter
The Big Lebowski
Platoon
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
The Terminator
I actually like the Top 250 and think it's certainly quite diverse. Many people seem to ingore or forget the art house films and brilliant foreign language films that have snuck their ways onto the list amongst the mainstream action films. These are the films that I just cannot agree in any way, shape, or form could be considered in the Top 250. Some of these are movies that I really like, but they certainly aren't among the Top 250 films ever made.
A Beautiful Mind
Gran Torino
The Lion King
Rush
Ameile
Any Marvel movie, maybe with the exception of Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse. Maybe.
Batman Begins
Die Hard
Gladiator
Jurassic Park
Django Unchained
How To Train Your Dragon
12 Years A Slave
Logan
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Aladdin
Hachi: A Dog's Tale
For the most part I do like the list, but there are some movies where is just baffles me why they're there. I brisked through the list and missed a lot of the ones you mentioned.
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