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The Top 250 on this site sucks

posted 8 years ago by heisenberg12
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Seriously, scroll down top to bottom on the top 250 list....

How the hell are great classics like Jaws and Terminator barely hanging on at 239 and 231 respectively, and yet all those mediocre, uninteresting, lesser movies are all ranked above them? One of the things I've noticed is some of the movies have no appeal or marketing value so they're there to stay bc the younger crowd would never watch them in large quantities, whereas action movies or marketable ones will attract larger crowds, subjecting them to more potential votes..I know I for one have no interest in seeing half the movies on the list.

But that's not the main problem. Movies that have no right being ranked as high as they are are not only above classics like these, but they're way up.the list in the top 150, top 100...

This site's users are clueless and have no methodology to how they vote and see movies.

[–] AdrenalinDragon 8 years ago

It's because a very large portion of IMDb users are people in their 20s. Something like Jaws could be a bit slow or boring to them. It basically all went downhill around the time The Dark Knight showed up. New movies have the advantage now where as old classics are slowly dropping down the list as a result.

[–] lembitloopmann 8 years ago

You're right,but Dark Knight is not a bad movie,it's a good movie.

[–] karenleung081231 8 years ago

not god enough to be at the top 4.

[–] wooody 8 years ago

It's a very imperfect, stilted list for amusement purposes only.

[–] jpc-34200 8 years ago

My top ten favorite films from memory:
1. The lord of the rings trilogy
2. E.T.
3. The goonies
4. Raiders of the lost ark
5. Lawrence of Arabia
6. Citizen Kane
7. The mAsk
8. Fantastic voyage
9. Singin in the rain
10. Forrest Gump

Honorable mentions
Titanic
Rudy
Jurassic park
Fences
Catch me if you can
Braveheart
Throw momma from the train
Edward scissors hands
The nightmare before Christmas
City slickers
The Ten Commandments
The Martian
The incredibles

[–] rollsroyce423 8 years ago

Agreed. I stopped taking that list seriously after the top 10. I could see it's mostly determined by teenagers and young twenty somethings. Most older folks don't even bother going to movies these days. And Dark Knight should be on the list of most overrated movies of all time.