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I'm a little confused as to how some of these are so low as well tbh.
Not about The Sound Of Music though. Can't stand that film. For me it's like Maori Bobbins and the 70s version of Willy Wonka... I just don't get the love for it.
Not about The Sound Of Music though. Can't stand that film. For me it's like Maori Bobbins and the 70s version of Willy Wonka... I just don't get the love for it.
I think the 50-25 mark is appropriate for something like Easy Rider, it's the same as Bonnie and Clyde. A cultural classic, but not an absolute favourite of many on the forum. How often do you see these films discussed, and even rarer, loved by members of the forum? The answer is not many, I would say the average rating for these type of films is around , but the majority of people will have watched them and you'll have a handful who love them, meaning this placing is about right.
As someone who visits pretty much every important thread, every day if I can, especially the movie ones: Movie You're Watching Tonight, Rate the last Movie you saw, Movie Tab II and partakes in hall of fames, tournaments and has discussions with all sorts of members who like all sorts of films, I would like to think I have a pretty good understanding of what would come up.
Even if you used something like IMDb to quickly judge the popularity of these films with the average audience, Easy Rider is a 7.4, so there's plenty of films ahead of it on their in the 60s.
I think if you asked people like Mark, Swan, Cricket who always post their ratings of films, they would agree with me. Mark doesn't like Contempt or Pierrot Le Fou, but he knew they'd show on the list, then equally him and Cricket have been conservative about some of the movies he knows he loves but are more difficult to judge whether they'd make a list like this: Onibaba, Z etc.
I think now it gets slightly easier to predict. Just look at the recent films to come up, lets take Easy Rider for example... it received 178 and appeared on 16 lists. Pick a film you want to predict? Will it appear on more than, lets say... 12 lists? Do a handful of people on here love it? Is it often discussed with regards to the decade? How often do people discuss it on here, how do they rate it, is it in many top tens?
Of course, there are still some surprises, and the matter of rankings, but I think some people need to stop letting their own watching habits influence their thoughts and feelings on what is or is not coming up, and look at the list as what it is, a kind of democratic system where a number of factors come into play when deciding if a film will make it and where it will rank
tl;dr - just because you don't like this "foreign crap" (Sexy), doesn't mean that everybody else feels the same
