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Why is this not in The IMDB Top 250?

posted 19 years ago by mrm45
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I mean this landmark of a movie?

"Which one of you nuts has got any guts?"
Jack Nicholson - One Who Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

[–] tomgjcromwell 8 years ago

Because it's a mostly boring, overly preachy, morally suspect movie.

It wasn't very good, it's certainly not one of the Top 250 best movies ever.

[–] !!!deleted!!! (65657775) 8 years ago

I am just amazed by your youthful ignorance.
Not boring at all. So sorry but no vampires or zombies or guro must have just let you down.

Preachy about what? Not a religious film.

Morally suspect?
In what sense?
The inability of love to overcome hatred & resentment?

Your post is intellectually suspect.

[–] tomgjcromwell 8 years ago

Morally suspect?

Because the "intolerance" and "hatred & resentment" that this movie is bashing is people not liking W.D. Giffith's previous movie about how great the Klan is.

[–] LaurenceBranagh 8 years ago

As far as I'm concerned, this should be at the very top.

[–] FilmBuff (6701) 3 years ago

You and me both, pal.

[–] prplayer 8 years ago

i didn't like the movie, there was too much going on it was hard to follow 5/10

in the silent film genre, i think Metropolis is the greatest hands down, that one is a masterpiece

so many movies, so little time

[–] FilmBuff (6701) 3 years ago

Probably the same reason it lost so much money at the box office. Audiences now, as then, aren't prepared for a work of this magnitude. Intolerance is arguably the greatest film ever made, so of course it's poorly regarded by "the masses," and barely anyone knows it exists.