IMDb Top 250 is a Lie 

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.

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

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.

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.

I assumed they used some sort of algorithm that weighed views against ratings, like maybe one film isn't rated quite as high but has been rated higher by more people or something.

IMDb top 250 is much easier to watch than the Letterboxd list as it is much more easygoing while the Letterboxd list[ is much more artsy.

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

I do think this is the best list we're going to get that has input from fans. It just bugs me to see popular movies listed above perfect films. And to see classics usurp movies that stood rhe test of time when we don't know if a film will be good even a few years later.

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

No. I EXTREMELY DISAGREE. Why? Because this list is so damn good (I'm like about 10 movies left from completion), and I hope it doesn't change. Granted, the removal of Stalker and other russian movies are unjustified, but that doesn't matter because this list needs to exist for beginner movie-goers. This list is what got me into cinema and I've discovered SO MANY GOOD MOVIES through this list that even going through it gives me so much nostalgia and good memories. Let Letterboxd's List be for advanced cinema-goers, and IMDB for beginner-cinema-goers. IMDB's list should not have Satantango nor Jeanne Dielmann(despite being exceptional films). Also here are some EXTREME GEMS from IMDB 250(even tho 85% of this list is FIRE): 1. Best Years of Our Lives. 2. 3 Idiots. 3. A Seperation. 4. In the Name of the Father. 5. Unforgiven. 6. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 7. La Haine 8. The Sound of Music 9. Amores Perros

Interesting to compare with the Flickchart Top 250 as well.

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

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

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.

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

what's up with the women directors comparison

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.

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

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

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😂

Found your channel... Great videos

Rate your music has the best list of films

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

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

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?

I think letterboxd list is fake.)

Great to know!

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

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

The greatest commercial for Letterbox ever done. Bravo.

@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.