Top 250


This is one of my Top 10 favorite movies of all time so maybe somebody who understands the ranking system a little better than me can explain what it's going to take to get it into the top 250. It already has the required number of votes.

It is definitely deserving.

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I think the people whose votes are to count have to have voted for a large number of films overall. So if you want your vote in favour of Cabiria to count you need to go and register votes for every crappy TV movie you've ever seen until you've rated over 250 or whatever the threshold is.

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I agree it should be on the top 250 list. It is in my opinion Fellini's best film, much better than either La Dolce a Vita and 8 1/2. That isn't taking anything a way from those two brillant films.

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Nights of Cabiria is currently #361 based on the vote score described on the top 250 page (there is a formula at the bottom). However, IMDB does not release their exact process of which votes count and don't count, so it's impossible to know for sure where this movie or others rate. IMDB certainly has a filtering method to eliminate tainted votes (the Godfather has 8000+ "1" votes, which might be Shawshank fans attempting to sabotage). The best way to see where a movie ranks is to compare it to other movies with similar vote scores (totals as of 9/16/05):
YR____Movie______________________Rtg__Vts___WR__Wrk_250?
1946 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST,THE _8.2 _2580 7.7431 358 x
2000 GHOST WORLD________________7.8 19538 7.7399 359 x
1980 ORDINARY PEOPLE____________7.9 _7254 7.7383 360 x
1957 NIGHTS OF CABIRIA___________8.2 _2511 7.7347 361 x
1992 HARD-BOILED_________________7.9 _7067 7.7347 362 x
2002 25TH HOUR____________________7.8 17743 7.7342 363 x
2000 DANCER IN THE DARK_________7.8 16942 7.7313 364 x
(Rtg and Vts are from the movie's main page, WR is those values entered in the formula, WRk is my rankings that includes all eligible movies, and 250 is the movie's current spot on the IMDB top 250).

For a WR of 8.2, the movie with the fewest votes that is in the top 250 is this:
1961 JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG__8.2 3804 7.8537 264 230

To summarize all this, Nights of Cabiria needs about 1500 more votes before it will approach the top 250.

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Wow. That certainly explains that. Thanks a lot.

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"1946 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST,THE _8.2 _2580 7.7431 358 x
2000 GHOST WORLD________________7.8 19538 7.7399 359 x
1980 ORDINARY PEOPLE____________7.9 _7254 7.7383 360 x
1957 NIGHTS OF CABIRIA___________8.2 _2511 7.7347 361 x
1992 HARD-BOILED_________________7.9 _7067 7.7347 362 x
2002 25TH HOUR____________________7.8 17743 7.7342 363 x
2000 DANCER IN THE DARK_________7.8 16942 7.7313 364 x"

Where did you get the numbers in the last column (358-364)? Just curious because I thought it only listed the top 250.

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Yes I was wondering the same thing.

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Well, it's now at #147. I haven't seen it yet, but I decided to check it out, because I noticed it was the movie on the Top 250 with the least number of votes, and I'm always interested in seeing gems that no one knows about.

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it's listed with the average point of 8.0 but the actual point is 8.6, I need some explanation?thx

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read the formula at the bottom of the top 250. The fact it has only 3000ish votes is why its listed with other 8.0s. Also Top 1000 voters votes count for more i think and dont ask me how to become a top 1000 voter(casue i dont know).

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*bump* This board has been dead for a while. As of now this needs 25.000 votes to make the top 250, and it's just under 22.000 votes. Anyone who hasn't voted on it, please do! And for those visiting who haven't seen it, do whatever you can to watch it asap! We need this back in the top 250!!

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592 votes more to go for this masterpiece to enter the list

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Only 333 votes more to go!

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Only 39 now.

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Great!

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