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Should Brokeback Mountain be on AFI's Top 100 Movies of All Time?

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Anya_Angie:
If you say the answer is Yes, then go to AFI's website, login or register, download the ballott and VOTE! WE are the ones who get to decide this time what the 100 greatest films of all time are!

www.afi.com

I was so happy to find this out I had to come share it. I don't know if anyone else mentioned it or posted about it, but here you go!

Front-Ranger:
Rebelwithsadness tells us that the update to this list will be out very shortly and BBM should be in it!!

serious crayons:

--- Quote from: Anya_Angie on April 10, 2007, 02:43:44 pm ---If you say the answer is Yes, then go to AFI's website, login or register, download the ballott and VOTE! WE are the ones who get to decide this time what the 100 greatest films of all time are!
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Unless I'm misunderstanding, we get to vote but it looks to me like they have an "official jury of experts" who will make the real decision.

http://connect.afi.com/site/PageServer?pagename=100register_landing

Which is fine with me, actually. I trust experts much more than I trust the general public, especially when it comes to Brokeback Mountain. For example, BBM is NOT among the top 250 movies at IMDb, largely because vapid teenage boys with too much time on their hands get all their loserish friends to rate it 1 on a 1-10 scale. BBM has a lot of 10s, but also a huge amount of 1s, for that reason.

Some idiot boasted on the imdb BBM board lately about actually having done this, to lower the film's average imdb rating from 7.9 to 7.8. My response was, who puts any faith in a rating system that can be so easily manipulated by a stupid teenage prank?

moremojo:

--- Quote from: ineedcrayons on June 08, 2007, 05:55:20 pm ---My response was, who puts any faith in a rating system that can be so easily manipulated by a stupid teenage prank?
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Quite so. Along the same lines, I was once invited on IMDb (don't remember by whom; not sure if they made it over here) to rate the film a 10 repeated times precisely to counteract that puerile sabotage. I declined, because I felt that that, in its way, was just as unfortunate, in that it was abusing this blind spot of IMDb's system, and thus artificially skewering the resulting data.

IMDb, we have since learned, has lots of problems that are unlikely to be rectified by its overburdened or apathetic administrators.

loneleeb3:
Well, it certainly deserves to be.
Never before has a movie touched me the way this one has.
It is in my psyche, it has become p[art of my everyday life.
The characters portryaed have become real to me.
No, not in a wierd Donnie Darko/Frank sort of way.
But they have rocked me to my core.
No film has ever come close to doing that ever.
I have to say, I love movies. Ecspecially old ones.
Up till now, To Kill a Mockingbird has been my favorite.
After seeing BBM, it's a distant second!

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