Wow, Inception is currently in IMDb.com’s All-Time Top 250 Movie List with a near perfect average rating of 9.0; pretty good recognition for such a great film. It’s also cool to see two movies from 2010 on the top 10.
In 1994, we were feeling for prisoners and bringing out the Gimp. Now we’re happy to cry over our toys and take a nap.
Sigh.
This vote looks like it was taken of people who haven’t seen very many movies. “The Best Movies of ALL TIME”?
Yeah, it’s probably younger people who spend more overall time online. Added to that is the influx of votes for recent films people see (as is the norm on IMDB) and you get these results. I agree with about half the list though, The Godfather parts 1 and 2, GB&U, and 12 Angry Men are all top 10 for me. The rest of these (aside from TS3, which I haven’t seen) are at least top 25, so it’s not like it goes “Godfather, The Empire Strikes Back, The Hanna Montana Movie.”
Every time I see lists like this I have such a tough time thinking what my own top 10 would be, because so much of it is influenced by who I was at the time and which part of my life that film inserted into. Se7en, for instance, is top 20 for me, because it hit me at the right time in my life to do the maximum amount of artistic damage - twice, in fact. Ditto for Fight Club. Ditto for Empire, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, LOTR, and Silverado.
So where does one put a movie that showed him for the first time that a fairytale ending wasn’t the only option, that violence is far scarier when it’s implied and not seen, and that a villain can, in fact, win? Or that showed him during film school that something of a scale so much larger than he thought possible was not only achievable, but achievable with incredible results? Or that reminds him of watching films with his dad on the couch on sunday afternoons after church and a soccer game? Or was the film that became the reason he decided to go into entertainment in the first place?
There’s no room on a “top 10” list for those films, and they don’t have the same impact on others so you cannot expect them to share the same artistic or intrinsic value. But that’s why films are what they are - they affect you deeply, viscerally, personally, and perhaps completely differently from others.
No need to panic. This happen with The Dark Knight, too.
If I recall correctly, The Dark Knight was in second place for many months: now it’s slipped to a more reasonable position—12th (although this is still too high in my opinion).
Yo dawg, you saw this coming…
jonnyathan via juliasegal
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