It's got a poor average ratings because of the 'ones'

It's a shame that movies like LOTR are in the top ten and this one isn't even in the top 250, it's definatly one of the most important film in the history of cinema and will always be.

everybody who gives this movie a "one" demonstrates that he/she has no eyes to see and should be banned from further voting. such a vote is a bigger insult than any 4-letter-word. I would like to know which movies brucedgo rates 10 because if I don't know them I would like to see them asap.

The ones are from people who either dislike subtitles or need car chases and fight scenes bigger than the one little one. Besides, a median of nine out of ten is not bad at all.

Among others, the rating for this film makes me question whether the IMDB rating system really has any validity. _Les enfants du paradis_ is a masterpiece of world cinema. It has historical significance, it is almost perfectly acted and photographed, and it has had an influence on later films that would be impossible to measure. The fact that it flouted the Nazis right under the noses of their censors during WWII gives it a historical cache impossible to duplicate, as well.

As they state, IMDB only allows 1,000 "regular voters" to select the "Top 250" films. Unfortunately, IMDB will not release their definition of a "regular voter" and so the "Top 250" films becomes an utterly spurious list, and merely an oddity, rather than a resource for readers looking for a reliable viewing guide.

Nevertheless, the bizarre nature of the list provokes discussion of its arbitrary lack of some of the world's greatest films, I suppose. If people discuss _Children of Paradise_ because of its weird omission, at least they are discussing it. Not much consolation, I know.

I find it difficult to believe that anyone could seriously give this a "one."

Maybe the "one" voters are all high-school french students who were forced to watch it. If you took a random bunch of high-school students and forced them to watch "Greed" you would probably get a similar reaction.

Also, people will often vote "1" when they don't like a film very much, they look at the average score on IMDb, and they think it's very overrated.

From the score on the main page, this film appears to have a rating almost high enough to get it into the Top 250. (It's actually not even in the Top 500 here (you can check if you have IMDbPro), because of the weighting system IMDb uses). So someone who didn't think it was so great might vote a "1" to "counterbalance" what they see as overrating, and help make sure that it doesn't get into the Top 250.

I didn't like the film so much, either, but I always vote honestly . . . which was a 6 for this film, but just barely.

Again, I have to keep re-posting this because the original thread seems to have dropped off, but a couple of years ago a group of Johnny Depp fangirls decided en masse that the best way to get whatever lame Pirates movie Depp was doing at the time onto the imdb top 250 was to vote a "1" for other movies that were on the list with a relatively small number of votes. That way they made it so "Les Enfants" dropped off the list, even though the stupid Pirate movie never lasted past the initial hype. These things will even out. And we shouldn't take imdb voting too seriously anyway, this is just one example of where the final results are easily skewed.

Did I not love him, Cooch? MY OWN FLESH I DIDN'T LOVE BETTER!!! But he had to say 'Nooooooooo'