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Which films are slipping out of the canon of 'Best Movies Ever Made'?
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With the help of someone who sounds AND looks JUST like Keanu Reeves, I looked at which movies that everyone says are great, really are not.
CHAPTERS
00:00 - The greatest movies ever made are not that great
01:15 - The evidence: 70 years of Sight & Sound polls
02:48 - Five charges. Bring on the advocates
03:24 - Charge 1: The culture revokes permission
07:25 - Charge 2: Guilt by association
12:05 - Charge 3: The canon only has 100 seats
14:52 - Charge 4: Progress makes the innovation invisible
18:10 - Charge 5: Modern audiences don't connect
22:20 - Closing arguments
24:10 - Sight & Sound's top 10, IMDb's top 10, and the correct top 10
26:18 - You're the jury (plus the real Keanu Reeves)
Explore the research behind this episode:
"Which films are slipping out of the canon of 'Best Movies Ever Made'?"
stephenfollows.com/p/which-films-are-slipping-out-of-best-ever-canon
The study behind this episode: 70 years of Sight & Sound polls, how the electorate grew from 63 to 1,639, the biggest fallers, and the films that took their seats.
"Do film critics and film audiences agree?"
stephenfollows.com/p/do-film-critics-and-audiences-agree
Why the Sight & Sound and IMDb top tens look nothing alike: 2,000 films, critics scoring ten points lower than audiences on average, and a Shawshank Redemption that tops every audience list and misses the critics' top 125.
"How one-star and ten-star votes break IMDb's user score"
stephenfollows.com/p/how-one-star-and-ten-star-votes-break-imdb
85 million votes across 73,000 films, and what actually props up the IMDb Top 10. 54.9% of Shawshank's votes are a straight ten.
"What makes people never want to rewatch a great film?"
stephenfollows.com/p/what-makes-people-never-want-to-rewatch-great-movie
A different kind of greatness decay: 19,821 films from Letterboxd lists of masterpieces people refuse to watch twice, led by Requiem for a Dream, which appears on 99.2% of them.
Which charge convinced you, and which one was unfair? Has this made you rethink a film you assumed was great? And the only question that really matters: how many movies is The Godfather Part II? I read every comment.
This video is part of the Data:tainment Network, helping movie fans use maths and data to better understand the films they love.
CHAPTERS
00:00 - The greatest movies ever made are not that great
01:15 - The evidence: 70 years of Sight & Sound polls
02:48 - Five charges. Bring on the advocates
03:24 - Charge 1: The culture revokes permission
07:25 - Charge 2: Guilt by association
12:05 - Charge 3: The canon only has 100 seats
14:52 - Charge 4: Progress makes the innovation invisible
18:10 - Charge 5: Modern audiences don't connect
22:20 - Closing arguments
24:10 - Sight & Sound's top 10, IMDb's top 10, and the correct top 10
26:18 - You're the jury (plus the real Keanu Reeves)
Explore the research behind this episode:
"Which films are slipping out of the canon of 'Best Movies Ever Made'?"
stephenfollows.com/p/which-films-are-slipping-out-of-best-ever-canon
The study behind this episode: 70 years of Sight & Sound polls, how the electorate grew from 63 to 1,639, the biggest fallers, and the films that took their seats.
"Do film critics and film audiences agree?"
stephenfollows.com/p/do-film-critics-and-audiences-agree
Why the Sight & Sound and IMDb top tens look nothing alike: 2,000 films, critics scoring ten points lower than audiences on average, and a Shawshank Redemption that tops every audience list and misses the critics' top 125.
"How one-star and ten-star votes break IMDb's user score"
stephenfollows.com/p/how-one-star-and-ten-star-votes-break-imdb
85 million votes across 73,000 films, and what actually props up the IMDb Top 10. 54.9% of Shawshank's votes are a straight ten.
"What makes people never want to rewatch a great film?"
stephenfollows.com/p/what-makes-people-never-want-to-rewatch-great-movie
A different kind of greatness decay: 19,821 films from Letterboxd lists of masterpieces people refuse to watch twice, led by Requiem for a Dream, which appears on 99.2% of them.
Which charge convinced you, and which one was unfair? Has this made you rethink a film you assumed was great? And the only question that really matters: how many movies is The Godfather Part II? I read every comment.
This video is part of the Data:tainment Network, helping movie fans use maths and data to better understand the films they love.