Please Stop F*ing IMDB Top 250

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Way to self-troll. It's Indians not Hindus. And yes it's a brilliant movie and it exactly achieves what it wanted to. And no it's not on par with 12 Angry Men and Fight Club. That's why it's ranked BELOW them. Not every top 250 movie has to be depressing and "important" and brooding you know.

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oh yeah,this movie deserves it,it is one of the most amazing movies ever made!and who made you guys the kings of imdb?

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Top 250 is a list of popular movies not the best,artistic movies. I believe you know the difference between the "best" and "popular". The difference is clearer than the difference between "Hindu" and "Indian"

Lagaan was one of the biggest box office hits of 2001. In 2010, the film was ranked No. 55 in Empire magazines "The 100 Best Films of World Cinema".In 2011, it was listed in Time magazine's special "The All-TIME 25 Best Sports Movies".

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It only makes Hindus' movie taste look incredibly bad.

WTF - only Hindus' movie taste looks bad. What about all the other religions in India.

First of all, Hindu is just one religion and everyone from India is not a Hindu. India has a huge population of Muslims, Sikhs, Bhuddhists, Jains, and Christians as well. So if you are implying that out of all these religions only the Hindus' are voting up this film then you are living in some kind of a bubble unheard of in human history. Why would only Hindus vote up Amir Khan's films, who is not even a Hindu to begin with but a Muslim. That is not to say that Hindu's shouldn't vote on his movies, ofcourse they should, but it definitely strikes the very basis of this giant IMDb conspiracy theory you are trying to make Lagaan's presence in the IMDb Top 250 look like.

If you are implying at all Indians are voting up this movie to get some morbid pleasure out of seeing this movie in the IMDb Top 250, then let me tell you a few things.

First of all categorising all Indians as Hindus' makes you look like a totally ignorant racist. So instead of worrying about what should and shouldn't be on IMDb Top 250, you should really spend more time worrying about general social awareness.

Secondly out of the total population of India, the people who know of the existence of IMDb would be not more than 0.5% of the population would have heard of IMDb or know that it has a Top 250 list. So to jump to this conclusion that Indians are voting up Lagaan to get it to the Top 250 list, so that they feel ... I don't know, wtf are they supposed to feel ... happy(?), is more illogical than your belief in the first place that the IMDb Top 250 means sh!t. 99.5% of Indians have probably never heard of IMDb and thus in all likelihood, don't give a tiny rats arse about which Indian films feature on it and which don't.

Lastly, IMDb Top 250 is not a list of the 'Best' films. Its only a list of the 250 most 'popular' films, which the general audience liked and would recommend. There are tonnes of these popularity lists on almost every movie related website and the IMDb Top 250 is another you could add to that list.

In any case even excluding Indian movies, IMDb Top 250 has enough crap films on it anyway, to not make it worth taking seriously to begin with. Mediocre, but popular films like, The Matrix, Terminator - Judgment Day, American Beauty are all in the Top 60, while true masterpieces like, Citizen Kane, A Clockwork Orange, To Kill A Mockingbird, Once Upon a Time in America, For a Few Dollars More all languish behind.

Do you really think this movie is one of the greatest movies ever produced? On a par with Godfather? Shawshank Redemption? 12 Angry Men? Fight Club?

I ask you is Terminator 2 better critically than Citizen Kane or To Kill A Mockingbird. Obviously not. However then how so does it find a place so far ahead of these eternal beauties. Simply because the people voted it up. Thats how the votes fell. However, I do not see you making a fuss about that. So if you can make you peace with Terminator 2 and Matrix outvoting these classics what about Lagaan's presence do you find hard to accept?

If users can vote up Matrix and Terminator 2 above Citizen Kane, and To Kill a Mocking Bird, Lagaan being on the Top 250 most popular movies list is by miles the lesser travesty.

What do you want, each and every one to call you and ask your permission before voting on Lagaan?

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Wake up pal, the top 250 is a popularity vote. Although I really like Shawshank and have watched it several times, it is clearly not the best movie of all time - that belongs to movies like Citizen Kane, 2001, Vertigo - movies that are consistently lauded over decades by critics, directors and movie lovers alike and have had a significant impact on cinema. I mean when a really good (not great) movie like Usual Suspects is in the Top 25, then you should realize how meaningless it is to attach importance to the Top 250.

Lagaan too is an enjoyable film but probably not top 250 great. I would like to point out though that 3 Idiots is a glaring abomination in this list and it saddens me how we Indians upvote this *beep* and ignore the real gems from Indian cinema.

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3 idiots is one of the best hindi movie!!!
If you cannot recognize this, how come an incompetent person like u ask us to vote?

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