rickyclark commented on…
IMDb's Top 250 Movies as voted by its users
rejects? — 49 weeks ago
what about ones that have been in and dropped out, as the list changes all the time…
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MKaiserman
West Orange
251-500
IMDb Pro (which you have to pay for) gives you access to the list of films #251-500, which is where most films end up after falling off the Top 250 list.
For example, as of August 2, 2007, previous new movies in the Top 250 have now settled in as:
269. Knocked Up
270. 300
Brokeback Mountain is currently #500.
It is a much more volatile list changing significantly in order every day as the spread of average rating is only 7.7-7.9 (on the Top 250 it is 7.9-9.1) – meaning all 250 films are close to being tied.
The 251-500 is also more heavily filled with recent films. For example from the past 3 years (2005-2007) there are 17 films on the Top 250 list, but 33 films on the 251-500 list.
When I finish the Top 250 finally (knowing I’ll never truly finish it), I’ll move onto some other fixed top 100 or 250 list rather than the ever-changing Top 500 of the IMDb.
Larry Gilbert
San Diego
Theoretically, it should be possible to pick up these “honorable mentions” using the power search form. Unfortunately, that seems to be broken. I tried a search telling it to ignore TV movies, series, etc. the way the Top 250 does, but the results showed a whole bunch of TV series anyway. Hope they fix that someday.
MKaiserman
West Orange
IMDb’s 251-500 are so ever-changing that a format like List of Bests – which makes moving entries around a bit of a chore – is not well-suited for it. For anyone who has helped update the Top 250, you know it is 201-250 that is most of the work.
Just as a small example, two months after my above post, 300 has moved from #270 to #327, Knocked Up from #269 to #450, and Brokeback Mountain from #500 to off-the-list.
Even for movies that don’t move dramatically up and down, they change incrementally every single day.
#251-500 is a fascinating list, mixing classics and movies released weeks ago in a more unusual blend than the Top 250. But it is a volatile list that very few users here have access to update it and doesn’t seem ideal for Lists of Bests.
rickyclark