OT: How many of the iMDB Top 250 have you seen?

Cool!

 

Or not.

 

Anybody care to fill me in as to who put this list in that order? I think the top spot is universally accepted, after that I agree with barely any, so who done it?

 

I think it's just based on imdb ratings.

It is bullshit tho, not one naked gun film made the list

 

It's quite an odd list on the whole mate, but most lists of this type are obviously going to cause debate I guess.

A film I've watched probably 50 times since I was a kid, Home Alone (1&2), absent, yet there's films on there I couldn't even watch for 5 minutes before turning off, but I guess it's down to personal preference.

 

Yeah it's based on the iMDB ratings, which are voted for by users. As a result, films with huge fanbases can storm up the list, whilst films that aren't particularly well known don't get a look in. On the whole I find it a fairly good list, whilst the order will clearly be debated.

 

108 for me.

Doubts above about The Matrix making top 20, yet Return of the King and The Dark Knight being top 10 is ok?! Seriously, show me someone who can conceive a more original and frankly brilliant idea and I'll show you a multi-millionaire...

Not convinced it's quite the comprehensive list. That any Pirates of the Caribbean movie could be considered watchable, let alone in the top 250 of all time is just absurd. And give me Anchorman, Austin Powers, Scott Pilgrim, Blood Diamond, Constantine, 28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead, Desperado, Black Hawk Down and even King Kong above crap (IMO) such as The Prestige, Eternal Sunshine, Inglorious Basterds, Heat and the frankly awful Black Swan (to name just a few, and to ignore the fact that so many "classics" are actually incredibly dull...)

I mean, has anyone watched There Will Be Blood? And The Artist? Horses for courses and that, but...


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...the fact that The Artist is basically 90 mins of prelude to the fact he couldn't really speak English very well is just boring. It's hardly "her head is in the box" or "he is Keyser Soze", is it?

 

Essentially this list suggests The Dark Knight is the greatest super hero movie of all time. How disappointing.

 

I can't think of any better ones

 

Constantine? Really? Bit of a Keanu Reaves fan boy?

 

Will Ferrell, Mike Myers, Michael Cera, Leonardo Di Caprio, Keanu Reeves, Cillian Murphy, Simon Pegg, Antonio Banderas, Josh Hartnett, Adrian Brody/Jack Black. Each one the lead role in the movies I listed, so why pick out Keanu? Constantine is a comic book adaption and a damn good one.


Short answer is yes.

 

Because you seem to rate the Matrix so highly as well

 

So my top 5 movies are Matrix, Constantine, Speed, Point Break and...ummm....Johnny Mnemonic, so what? Doesn't mean a thing.

 

lost count. most of them.

note, thats the top 250 popular films, not 250 best.

Shawshank Redemption always tops those lists, it's a hugely overrated pile of saccharine schmaltz, but very popular amogst the general public.

 

The fact that you deride There Will Be Blood, The Artist, and Eternal Sunshine is quite revealing of your taste.
Of all the movies you mentioned, those three are significantly the best...

but as you say, Horses for Courses (and Mules for Fools it would appear)

 

Am I the only one surprised that Bill & Ted didn't make your top 5?

 

Most superhero / comic book based movies are popular on release, but in hindsight pretty weak.

The new Dredd is quite impressive though...Sin City was good too.

Batman Begins is decent enough, Dark Knight is **** if you remove the Joker, and the new one is awful.
Tim Burton's two first Batman movies stand up for what they are still...

First two X-Men films are passable.
Watchmen was OK....as was V for Vendetta, Hellboy, The Mask, The Crow.
Kick-Ass and Chronicle as two recent ones that are watchable...

but mostly, they date very very badly.
The more accurate they are to the story usually puts them in better standings - however this isn't as profitable as 'Hollywooding' them...

 

Yep, you got me there. I'm afraid dull, overrated, Palme D'or crap produced solely to win Oscars are really not to my taste at all. Film is escapism - the films you rate so highly are to celluloid as something like The Lovely Bones is to literature; painful.

Always seems to me that the kind of people who give these films 'critical acclaim' are all the same; they feel they're individuals who operate on a separate intellectual plane from those who like exploding vampires. For instance, a review of Eternal Sunshine said...

"Works marvel after marvel in expressing the bewildering beauty and existential horror of being trapped inside one's own addled mind..."(Time Out)

Fck off does it.

Anchorman has lines like "these bears are massive" and "you know I don't speak Spanish". Winning.

 

Constantine is awful. Matrix is a quality film, just a shame Keanu can't actually act

 

The Green Mile?

I see Michael Clarke Duncan, the actor whose dozens of films included an Oscar-nominated performance as a death-row inmate in The Green Mile and such other box office hits as Armageddon, Planet of the Apes and Kung Fu Panda, is dead at age 54.

Just died seemingly. Didn't know much about him apart from that one film.