IMDb Top 250

I don't really like the list. I always try to increase my number (I've seen about half), so I'll get a movie like Come and See or The Passion of Joan of Arc which are totally awesome but I find that they like don't have enough votes or something like that.

Like I said, I've only seen about half.

The IMDB 250 is the dumbest shit on the internet regarding movies.


It is based on opinion, and critics picks. As you should know, critics suck. They didn't even like certain classic movies when they first came out but they were quick to jump the bandwagon when audiences liked it (see Roger Ebert's original reaction to The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly and then how many years he spent praising after people liked it)


Lots of bad movies constantly plague the Top 250. Transformers and the fucking Star Wars prequels (both Episode 1 and Episode 3) were in the Top 250 at one point. That alone is pretty sad when those shitty prequels were higher than the originals some years ago, maybe that's what George Lucas meant when he tried to say his prequels were better than the originals. Fucking Avatar was on there at one point. You might as well have Dances With Wolves on there twice, and besides I like Terminator 2 too but I wouldn't put it up there.


To those of you talking about Saw and The Ring and The Grudge not being in there, those movies sucked. Horror movies in general suck, and are rarely ever taken seriously. To even make most horror films work, the characters have to be flat out retarded cause the film maker don't know how to write a plot involving smart people. Most of them were remakes of bad Japanese films that sold to an audience first because people are bored to death with American's bullshit twist endings and the second time around, the Americanized versions were even more terrible than the originals.

The horror genre itself has been dead since the 80's exploitation era of "hey we made some money! Let's make another sequel and another sequel and another sequel and make even more money!". That's why no one takes those series seriously, besides the fact that the characters tending to be the dumbest people in movies ever that question all logic and common sense.


Besides, you know the Top 250 on that site is fucked up when The Godfather and Godfather Part II are directly behind one another. Most people can't admit but Godfather II is overrated. It is way, way too long and drags out far too much as it goes back and forth between what should have been a prequel, and a mediocre sequel that ruins a lot of what the original stood for. Had it been two separate films, instead of splicing them together, it would not be that bad. It's a good movie don't get me wrong, but it's totally overrated and gets far beyond enough praise.

I wouldn't be shocked if Godfather Part III was in the Top 250 at one point since that one is even far more overrated than the second one but the downside is there is absolutely nothing redeemable about it. Part III is one of the worst third movies ever made, and should be the definition of 'cash in'.

Copolla a few years ago admitted that the sequels should have never been made. He didn't just regret Part III, he regrets Part II as well cause I guess he sat down with Mario Puzo's book one day and realized that those sequels ruined the perfect ending.