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serious crayons:

This is pretty fun. One reason is that, although it's one of the fastest moving of this kind of thing I've ever seen, you can often actually identify the movies as they go by, probably because he uses a lot of iconic moments. Plus, it's artier than most supercuts; the producers of the Oscars broadcast could do worse than to hire this guy.

Also, since as many of us share IMDb DNA, it's a fond look back at the (fairly predictable) tastes of our old message board brethren. I don't need to tell you what movie ISN'T in this supercut. Still, there are a lot of good ones. Just imagine a "I wish I knew how to quit you" inserted at some point.


[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=U0x9HtYgVqA[/youtube]

southendmd:
Dizzifying!

Penthesilea:
You're right, lots of fun even! :)
It's amazing how many movies you can recognize in going-by-in-a-flash-segments. Makes me want to re-watch them.

But what - our movie isn't under the top 250? :o
I'm pretty sure it was, back at the time.

serious crayons:

--- Quote from: Penthesilea on November 03, 2012, 01:14:13 pm ---But what - our movie isn't under the top 250? :o
I'm pretty sure it was, back at the time.

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It's not there now. I tried to find a longer list than the top 250, to see where it does rank, but as far as I could tell IMDb doesn't display movies below 250.

"The Dark Knight," if it's any consolation, is No. 8.

http://www.imdb.com/chart/top

For the record, No. 1, "Shawshank Redemption," probably wouldn't make my top 100, maybe not even 250. Judging from the list, the voters' demographics, as we noted back in the day, appear to be skewed young(ish), heterosexual and male. They're mostly very good movies, but only a handful have women as major characters and the vast majority would not pass the Bechdel Test.

Bechdel Test Movie List
/bech·del test/ n.
1. It has to have at least two [named] women in it
2. Who talk to each other
3. About something besides a man

Penthesilea:

--- Quote from: serious crayons on November 03, 2012, 03:14:39 pm ---It's not there now. I tried to find a longer list than the top 250, to see where it does rank, but as far as I could tell IMDb doesn't display movies below 250.
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The lowest of the 250 have ratings of 8.0 and BBM has a rating of 7.7
That way, we can estimate its distance to the top 250.

But I guess since the Oscar's 2006 we shouldn't give a flyin f**k. :laugh:





--- Quote ---For the record, No. 1, "Shawshank Redemption," probably wouldn't make my top 100, maybe not even 250. Judging from the list, the voters' demographics, as we noted back in the day, appear to be skewed young(ish), heterosexual and male. They're mostly very good movies, but only a handful have women as major characters
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I've never understood that fascination with/ praise about Shawshank. It's a good movie alright, no doubt about it. But the top leading movie of all times? Certainly not.
It would be in my top 100 though (if I were able to name 100 movies from the top of my head like this :laugh:).






--- Quote ---and the vast majority would not pass the Bechdel Test.

Bechdel Test Movie List
/bech·del test/ n.
1. It has to have at least two [named] women in it
2. Who talk to each other
3. About something besides a man

--- End quote ---


Despite its flaws, the fact that the vast majority of modern movies don't pass it is the actual shocking fact. >:(

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