imdb.com top 50 movies of all time

[Stiganator]

hmmm hotel rwanda seems like it shouldn't be on it statistically. The confidence interval seems skewed. Flat line rating, maybe they should say add a rank for number of votes, since 15,000 is small compared to the others. 5,000 poor ratings would take it off the chart. Maybe I'm just being anal though.

 

[czech09]

Where is "Life is Beautiful" that should be up there...

 

[czech09]

Originally posted by: Stiganator
hmmm hotel rwanda seems like it shouldn't be on it statistically. The confidence interval seems skewed. Flat line rating, maybe they should say add a rank for number of votes, since 15,000 is small compared to the others. 5,000 poor ratings would take it off the chart. Maybe I'm just being anal though.

Was a great movie nevertheless...

 

[hemiram]

I've seen 37!

Some I don't think should be in the top 500, let alone 50.

One of the things that I think is odd is that they have Star Wars rated over Empire. Empire is a much better movie in almost every way than SW was.

 

[Trente]

15 so far.

 

[SKORPI0]

43.

 

[Modeps]

36... There's a website that allows you to track your top 250 viewing...

http://www.twofifty.org

 

[Modeps]

Originally posted by: czech09
Where is "Life is Beautiful" that should be up there...

It's currently #72.

 

[Eli]

I've seen 13 of those.

 

[Modeps]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: Kilgor
All except for

19. 8.6 Cidade de Deus (2002) 33,439
29. 8.5 Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) 67,332
42. 8.4 Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) 29,178
45. 8.4 Hotel Rwanda (2004) 15,703

You have to see 45

and 29

Agreed on #29. I think it's one of the best movies EVER made. It's in my Top 10.

 

[Juno]

21.

 

[ZeroEffect]

Shichinin no samurai = Seven Samurai

Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il = The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

Cidade de Deus = City of God

C'era una volta il West = Once Upon a Time in the West

Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le = Amelie

Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi = Spirited Away



Seven Samurai is the best movie of all time... the biggest complaint these days is that it's
too long, and boring in parts. Growing up watching the Mtv edit has effected our children's
attention span. If you're a movie buff, you owe it to yourself to experience this masterpiece.

 

[Sphexi]

32

 

[aircooled]

21

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Originally posted by: ZeroEffect
Shichinin no samurai = Seven Samurai

Seven Samurai is the best movie of all time... the biggest complaint these days is that it's
too long, and boring in parts. Growing up watching the Mtv edit has effected our children's
attention span. If you're a movie buff, you owe it to yourself to experience this masterpiece.

I agree. I can't really think of any movie better than Seven Samurai.

 

[Aves]

18

 

[mk]

43.

 

[meltdown75]

edit: 21

Thanks for the translations, ZeroEffect!!

City of God was the one I was missing. Great film.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

13, much more than I thought. I have to see more off there. Great movies deserved to be watched.

 

[mitmot]

looks like i got me some new movies to watch

 

[YetioDoom]

24

 

[Abe Froman]

30 for me

 

[NatePo717]

18

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Stiganator
hmmm hotel rwanda seems like it shouldn't be on it statistically. The confidence interval seems skewed. Flat line rating, maybe they should say add a rank for number of votes, since 15,000 is small compared to the others. 5,000 poor ratings would take it off the chart. Maybe I'm just being anal though.

The "rating" is based on a combination of the actual rating and the number of votes it gets, so movies with a large number of votes are weighted higher:

weighted rank (WR) = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m ÷ (v+m)) × C where:
R = average for the movie (mean) = (Rating)
v = number of votes for the movie = (votes)
m = minimum votes required to be listed in the Top 250 (currently 1300)
C = the mean vote across the whole report (currently 6.8)

Furthermore, they have some method to combat the fanboys who go in and give a movie a 10 or a 1 that it doesn't deserve. They don't reveal how they do that so that people can't manipulate the system.

It's not a good indicator of what movies the general public like, but it is a good indicator of what movies the people who bother to vote on imdb like. Those people are probably a mixture of movie buffs and nerds.

Everyone one of the movies on that list is a darn good movie though, they just might not really be the top 50 movies of all time. But how do you define the top 50 movies? On what criteria? Any list you come up with will be influenced by some bias.

 

[MrChad]

That's an awful list, but I've seen 26 of them.