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Top 250
posted by dennisn on August 11th, 2008 at 12:34PM

So, in a futile attempt to understand human culture through the medium of moving pictures, we have the statistically infallible [[ImdbTop250]] list (hosted locally) to watch. We'll start from the top.

We've all pretty much seen 1-4. I just got 5, "The Good, The Bad, and the ugly" -- and it appears to be in english, even though IMDB claims it to be italian.

So, when?

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posted by blehblah on August 13th, 2008 at 9:23PM

Sounds awesome! Would you guys be up for watching it in the evening of my barbeque on Sunday, August 24?

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posted by dennisn on August 13th, 2008 at 10:17PM

Affirmative.

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posted by Driusan on August 11th, 2008 at 6:33PM

The IMDB isn't "statistically infallable," unless by "statistically infallable" you mean "highly biased."

It:
1. Excludes movies that don't have "enough" ratings and
2. Excludes votes from people who aren't "regular" voters.

That said, I've only seen 1 of the "top 5" and don't care enough to go out of my way to see the others.. but I'll watch:
a) any that are non-English or Canadian (oh, wait, there are none due to the exclusions above, weighting of ratings, and possibily other, undocumented restrictions.)
and
b) Dr. Strangelove

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posted by dennisn on August 11th, 2008 at 7:44PM

The minimum number of votes to be included (currently 1300) is pretty reasonable. I'm not sure what "non-regular" voters means -- but I'm sure it's also a reasonable critereon -- maybe it's people who only vote 0's and 10's, or who consistently vote completely off the bell curve and thus exhibit monkey behaviour?

I have Strangelove -- haven't you already seen it?

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Worst to best?
posted by Nylorac on August 11th, 2008 at 3:10PM

I feel like we should be building up to the best.

Poll: Worst to best?

No (1/2) 50%

Yes, It Builds The Anticipation (1/2) 50%

(The title of your last reply gets polled.)

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No
posted by dennisn on August 12th, 2008 at 1:01PM

Lots of the bottom ones are absolute crap. I think we'll end up stopping before the top-100.

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posted by Nylorac on August 12th, 2008 at 7:14PM

I wasn't thinking of starting from the top 100. I was thinking that we'd start at the top 25? 20? 15? 10?

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yes, it builds the anticipation
posted by Nylorac on August 12th, 2008 at 12:48PM

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posted by Nylorac on August 11th, 2008 at 12:47PM

I've seen 5.

So, whenever happens to be convenient is good.

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posted by dennisn on August 11th, 2008 at 12:49PM

There's no need to be forced to re-watch these things. I certainly wouldn't want to be forced to re-watch Dark Knight :\.

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posted by Nylorac on August 11th, 2008 at 2:13PM

I'm not being forced. I would like to. The last time I watched that movie was probably YEARS ago because of my parents.

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