This is getting out of hand...
I hate to say it, but i think it's time imdb adds something to their top 250 algorithm that discounts votes from India.
shareI agree that most of the Indian movies are overrated. But there very few movies which are really good And Gangs of Wassepur is one of them. I am not saying it deserve to be in top 250.But this is the best Indian movie of the decade.
shareAnd you don't think most American movies now are overrated?
Or are superhero movies REALLY the new Golden Age of Cinema?
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This!
"Andy Dufresne - who crawled through a river of sh!t and came out clean on the other side."
Say what you want about the legitmacy of superhero's as quality entertainment, but there is no denying that some of the superhero movies that have come out of the last decade have been absolutely stellar films, at least in regards to the kinds of films thier trying to be. You actually have to understand that different genre's of film are very different forms of entertainment even if they are in the same medium. To suggest that superhero films arent the new golden age of cinema is nothing more than a singular subjective opinion in a wolrd that literally has billions of different subjective opinions.
Honestly, all these kinds of comments show is that you think your opinion is superior to all of the people that absolutely love superhero films and trust me on this one, it isn't.
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I don't disagree with you...
But...
Could most of what you said not also apply to the Indian films people are deriding on this thread? Read your post again, replace the word 'superhero' perhaps with the word 'Bollywood', and you pretty much have my argument right there.
Superhero films aim for a demographic, and that demographic also happens to be the same one that most frequently and aggressively vote on IMDB titles - the males aged 18-29. This demographic usually makes up anywhere between 30-50% of the votes on any given title. Superhero movies appeal to these people, so they get voted highly. Fine, no problem.
But people shouldn't cry foul when the same thing happens elsewhere. For what they are, many of these Bollywood films - just like the superhero films - achieve EXACTLY what they set out to do: appeal to Indian people en masse. Indian people see them, like them, vote high for them, the same as any voted would do, regardless of nationality or genre. And then people start campaigns saying votes from India shouldn't count. Why? Because the presense of Indian films in that oh-so-precious top 250 conflicts with their own opinion of that constitutes 'quality'.
You say I think my opinion is superior to everyone else, find the threads where I am calling for an entire country's worth of people to have their votes banned, simply because the movies they make don't fall into what I consider 'quality'.
P.S. I have nothing specific against superhero movies on the whole. It just disappoints me that people put so much stock in the top 250 that for every new one that is released, some tried and true classic has to step aside to make way for it. I think already close to 25% of the films in the entire list are less than 20 years old.
Sorry for the long rant.
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I never made any statements regarding Indian films or the legitimacy of the scores they recieve on sites like IMDB and yes, you could replace superhero films with indian films in my entire post and it would still be equally true depending on who you talk too and thier taste in fims. There is no right or wrong with subjectivity so an opinion that thinks the kind of films that came out of Hollywood during a particular era or come from a particular region of the world are superior to films that came from other era's, regions or genre's is no more right or wrong than someone suggesting the same thing about films from another era or another genre or region.
The inherent flaw with any of these kinds of threads is that they immediately insinuate that the people making them have superior opinions than the hundreds to hundreds of thousands of people that vote on films on this site to give a particular film a particular score. That entire idea is absurd to anyone that has any understanding of opinions and the meaning of the word subjectivity. The same could be said about the general purpose for even having sites like these that score films. Its just a shame that a significant number of people that visit movie sites like this seem utterly incapable of understanding that very basic and simple premise. If they did, you woulldn't have to wade through the sea of these kinds of ridiculous threads to find posts that actually have a quality discussion regarding films.
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Couldn't agree more :-)
Never defend crap with 'It's just a movie'
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> The inherent flaw with any of these kinds of threads is that they immediately
> insinuate that the people making them have superior opinions
Nope. The problem is not that so many Indians vote for Indian movies and seemingly really love them. All of them.
The problem is that they vote "10" on every Indian movie indiscriminately.
That leaves two possible conclusions:
1. Indians can not differentiate. As long as its colorful and makes sound, they love it.
OR
2. A large group of Indians try to cheat the voting system and upvote every single Indian movie they can find.
From personal experience, I disregard option 1.