IMDb Top 250 is a Lie

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10 ай бұрын

Link to the Letterboxd list of films missing from IMDb's Top 250: letterboxd.com/mediamuse/list...
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IMDb’s Top 250 rated films is a staple list of the best movies for casual movie-goers and film enthusiasts alike.
But what if I told you that IMDb’s list is all a lie (kind of).
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@robertmarginean164 10 ай бұрын

I honestly don't think 25k is too high. I mean, there are movies on that list with over a million ratings, so you can't really put those on the same list as a movie with like 5k ratings. In addition, there is an IMDb list that doesn't account for the number of ratings, which you can pretty easily find

@Mr.Goodkat 9 ай бұрын

How do I find that?

@pittbull 2 ай бұрын

You're also overlooking the fact, which completely undermines his entire analysis, that ratings always decline as they accumulate. The movies he mentions are unlikely to maintain their ratings once they exceed 100,000 votes. Therefore, it would be entirely misplaced to include them on the same list as other movies that have the same rating but a million votes. A rating of 8.3 based on 20,000 votes is not the same as a rating of 8.3 subjected to a million votes. The stupidity in this video is astronomical.

@xx99Username99xx 10 ай бұрын

I'm not trying to be contrarian here, but, like, it should be intuitively obvious that they'd have a minimum threshold. They can't just stick a movie only one person has seen at #1 because that one person gave it a 10. There has to be a threshold of some sort to keep the list from being student films seen solely by their own directors, and whatever number they choose is necessarily going to be somewhat arbitrary. You decrease the minimum threshold, and sure some good movies are going to make the list that otherwise wouldn't, but only by kicking off some (presumably also pretty good) movies that already are on the list. You can't have 289 movies on your top 250 list. Some quick googling is showing me 9 million users for Letterboxd vs. 83 million for IMDB as of last year, so IMDB having 5x the minimum threshold seems reasonable enough to me.

@pittbull 2 ай бұрын

@anether 6 ай бұрын

Apart from the threshold, IMDb uses a weighted rating formula to determine a movie's rating for the list. The more votes a movie has, the closer its weighted rating will be to its actual rating. The formula currently used isn't publicly available, but one can find the old one on IMDb's Wikipedia page.

@hurricaneofcats 10 ай бұрын

Interesting that both Green Book and Moonlight focus on racial topics and both show the greatest disparities. I know that Moonlight was very critically lauded for its complex portrayal while Green Book... Not quite as much.

@sanelino3069 10 ай бұрын

I watched both movies and remember not liking Moonlight for how boring I find it but enjoying Green Book a lot. So I guess I am more like the IMDb community 😅

@rolandkloka 8 ай бұрын

Found your channel... Great videos

@thepop-culturediscussion6495 2 ай бұрын

I always wondered about this! Thank you so much for making a video about it.

@BlindGardener 10 ай бұрын

I think the star rating system is outdated. I mean on IMDb why even have 1 to 3 stars, it all means the movie was terrible. And everybody judges differently what a 6 or 7 is. I think something in line like emojis that represen how you felt while watching a movie is more relatable and then in addition you can give it the badge of favourite movie or guilty pleasure. And then when you look for movies you can organise them by rating or by how many people marked them as favourite.

@sebastianmontano9979 Ай бұрын

There actually is a list on Letterboxd like this, it's called "Official Top 250 Films with the Most Fans". La La Land is number one.

@tbss42 8 ай бұрын

Interesting to compare with the Flickchart Top 250 as well.

@Nehimsupacac 10 ай бұрын

Great to know!

@declanseefeld963 8 ай бұрын

IMDb just has higher standards obviously with the higher threshold. You don’t want it to be the exact same as letterboxd, otherwise there’d be no difference between the lists! The lists are designed for different sorts of audiences

@flangalvin5368 Күн бұрын

what's up with the women directors comparison

@thunderb4stard80 4 ай бұрын

I knew about the threshold but maybe its just because im one of the regular voters. Ill try get some of these into the viewer threshold😂

@onion1306 10 ай бұрын

Ngl it’s pretty sad how many films get done dirty by that 25k threshold. Good video

@charlieboardman2005 2 ай бұрын

Rate your music has the best list of films

@Mr.Fridaynight 8 ай бұрын

Using Little Mermaid remake noooot a good example of review boming... the movie was bad and it bombed....

@danielom8446 4 ай бұрын

It was bad, sure, but its score was also depressed by review bombing because of racists

@ryanlazarus3381 8 ай бұрын

Any list that doesn’t have “The Shawshank Redemption” as #1, is wrong.

@vitaliyhoncharov3349 7 ай бұрын

Agree.

@Gavrik_Korogodskiy 5 ай бұрын

Overrated

@vitaliyhoncharov3349 5 ай бұрын

@@Gavrik_Korogodskiyyour comment is overrated. Because The Shawshank Redemption is the greatest movie of all time.

@Gavrik_Korogodskiy 5 ай бұрын

@@vitaliyhoncharov3349 7 stars is more than enough for it. So naive and simple. But for crowd it's 10 for sure.

@vitaliyhoncharov3349 5 ай бұрын

@@Gavrik_Korogodskiy 😂😂😂. Nice joke.

@alimfuzzy 6 ай бұрын

Im going to compare a generalized movie review site vs. a film snob website... they arent exactly the same.. so it must be wrong! 😂

@arcanethink 3 ай бұрын

Why is 25k minimum ratings too much ? Also why are you pointing to the fact that letterbox has more women directed movies in its toplist? Does that somehow make them better movies? I thought this was a best movies list not a buzzfeed article. Your video reeks of being sponsored by letterbox.

@Thomas.deNorth 4 ай бұрын

IMDB top 250 has become a bit silly. Lawrence Of Arabia on no 100 and Spider-Man on no 31. 😂😂😂

@apfelkuchen4399 10 ай бұрын

I am curious about one question: Why 250 movies though? And not 100 as often used by other websites?

@danielom8446 4 ай бұрын

There's a lot of great fucking movies

@arcanethink 3 ай бұрын

Because 100 is too fking short when you're consider over a century worth of great movies.

@apfelkuchen4399 3 ай бұрын

Ok, but 250 isn't?

@arcanethink 3 ай бұрын

@@apfelkuchen4399 It isn't because you can see the ratings closing on the 7 star area by the end of the list.

@davebaconusa1062 8 ай бұрын

Next you’re going to tell us that Rotten Tomatoes’ reviews are faked 😅

@travelz698 6 ай бұрын

Their list sucks. Titanic, the fugitive, little miss sunshine, gone with the wind, fiddle on the roof among many great movies not on the list that should be. I can't remember seeing field of dreams there either. Shit list. How the hell is Spiderman at 28 too, that's way too high on the list

@Maitatron 6 ай бұрын

Titanic comes from far, at one moment it was rated 6.5 on imdb between 2000-2010, now it is 7.9, so Titanic had a kind of redemption on IMDB and now we know that this movie has passed the test of time as an undisputed classic of cinema.

@Choopytrags 8 ай бұрын

The greatest commercial for Letterbox ever done. Bravo.

@vitaliyhoncharov3349 5 ай бұрын

I think letterboxd list is fake.)

@Pvt-Lenny 8 ай бұрын

When a show is pure trash deserving of negative votes it is not "review bombing" . Thats just the natural rating for the show. The fact that they try to label it as some sort of coordinated hate thing is laughable. I mean is anyone on the planet dumb enough to think rings of power is a legit 7.0 show?

@skynetintex5878 3 ай бұрын

Title says 'is a lie' then within 25 seconds of the video, then says 'well, partially a lie'. More clickbait BS.

@toycanon Ай бұрын

@xx99Username99xx wow and I thought my user name was complicated. Anyway this user is correct. You need some reasonable number of votes to be in the IMDB top 1000 never mind the top 250.