A good discussion. You highlight some fascinating stats (only 17 films from the 70's ), but.... Let it go Dude 🤣 You obviously think and care more about cinema than the average IMDB voter and you've clearly outgrown the IMDB list. ...which is a really good thing 👍. Like you say, it was a good place to start. There's so much more out there, which is one of the reasons cinema is so exciting (and frustrating) 😀.
I don't really like to say which decades are stronger than others I think it depends on what kind of cinema you're looking at, for most people it's usually a shorthand for American cinema.
This is of course indicative of the age group of IMDb users and reviewers. Most who loved 1920s to 1970s are not that active online (like me, other than you tube) or aren't with us anymore. I pretty much ignore the list. I go by following good directors.
Good point, a lot of great directors do feature on it though I feel, but a lot of middle of the road stuff clutters it too. I think when younger you soon use auteurs as a guiding hand to discover more great films. I like to not be too cynical and hope younger people, like myself and younger, appreciate cinema regardless of when a film was made.
@reel_reflections agreed. I am in my mid forties and started following directors led film exploration from my 20s. Mostly Japanese and foreign directors. Right now I am watching all major ivory/merchant works and starting the aki karumasaki curzon boxset. In terms of young generation, I have introduced my kids to Chaplin, Hitchcock, Kubrick and lynch etc, they also look at exploring filmmakers when discovering new and old films. So it's not an age thing. I just think the vast majority watch what's modern, out now, spoke about, feature hip actors at the time, and not old and black and white films, and that's why the reviews on IMDb are focused more over the last 3 decades.
Martial arts and horror films get snubbed for these lists but superheroes get the pass. 🤷 Way of the dragon and rumble in the Bronx should be on the list as representatives for Hong Kong cinema and the best of martial arts cinema.
You may find more horror on the popular vote lists than say critics ones perhaps. The Academy is obviously very snooty when it comes to those genres you mention, the films have to first pass a kind of respectability test (e.g. Silence of the Lambs). Most lists though you find are either elitist or philistine (IMDb's is mostly the latter).
Realistically, you’ve discovered that any list or Top Ten, on the internet, is all a mirage. It doesn’t matter if it’s films, guitar solos or Formula 1 drivers 🤷♂️. We are of a certain age and today’s voters don’t share our view that Time is the greatest Gilmour solo, or Enter The Dragon is the greatest martial arts film. It takes a certain wisdom…to not care what the great unwashed think…because they are always wrong 😉😆
A good discussion. You highlight some fascinating stats (only 17 films from the 70's ), but.... Let it go Dude 🤣 You obviously think and care more about cinema than the average IMDB voter and you've clearly outgrown the IMDB list. ...which is a really good thing 👍. Like you say, it was a good place to start. There's so much more out there, which is one of the reasons cinema is so exciting (and frustrating) 😀.
Thank you.
Surely, the 70’s is the greatest decade of cinema. My favourite film is Chinatown.
I don't really like to say which decades are stronger than others I think it depends on what kind of cinema you're looking at, for most people it's usually a shorthand for American cinema.
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Indeed it is! 🙂
This is of course indicative of the age group of IMDb users and reviewers.
Most who loved 1920s to 1970s are not that active online (like me, other than you tube) or aren't with us anymore.
I pretty much ignore the list. I go by following good directors.
Good point, a lot of great directors do feature on it though I feel, but a lot of middle of the road stuff clutters it too. I think when younger you soon use auteurs as a guiding hand to discover more great films.
I like to not be too cynical and hope younger people, like myself and younger, appreciate cinema regardless of when a film was made.
@reel_reflections agreed. I am in my mid forties and started following directors led film exploration from my 20s. Mostly Japanese and foreign directors. Right now I am watching all major ivory/merchant works and starting the aki karumasaki curzon boxset. In terms of young generation, I have introduced my kids to Chaplin, Hitchcock, Kubrick and lynch etc, they also look at exploring filmmakers when discovering new and old films. So it's not an age thing. I just think the vast majority watch what's modern, out now, spoke about, feature hip actors at the time, and not old and black and white films, and that's why the reviews on IMDb are focused more over the last 3 decades.
Martial arts and horror films get snubbed for these lists but superheroes get the pass. 🤷 Way of the dragon and rumble in the Bronx should be on the list as representatives for Hong Kong cinema and the best of martial arts cinema.
You may find more horror on the popular vote lists than say critics ones perhaps. The Academy is obviously very snooty when it comes to those genres you mention, the films have to first pass a kind of respectability test (e.g. Silence of the Lambs). Most lists though you find are either elitist or philistine (IMDb's is mostly the latter).
Realistically, you’ve discovered that any list or Top Ten, on the internet, is all a mirage.
It doesn’t matter if it’s films, guitar solos or Formula 1 drivers 🤷♂️.
We are of a certain age and today’s voters don’t share our view that Time is the greatest Gilmour solo, or Enter The Dragon is the greatest martial arts film.
It takes a certain wisdom…to not care what the great unwashed think…because they are always wrong 😉😆
But.. Enter the Dragon isn't the best though 😉 I'm not arguing with Time however!