If IMDB ran the contest....

[dethwing]

I was wondering what would happen if the contest was done based on IMDB ratings/rankings. So here is the anwser. (#X) indicates that it wasn't in the top 250. Uden...has not recieved 5 votes yet, so it is unrated. The number of X's next to the name indicate what round it lost in.

Division 1:
1)Princess Bride 8.2 (#109) XXX
16)Hero (Jet Li) 8.2 (#127) X

8)Die Hard 1 8.0 (#161) XX
9)Who Framed Roger Rabbit? 7.4 (#X) X

5)The Usual Suspects 8.7 (#18) XXXX
12)Lost in Translation 8.0 (#166) X

4)Boondock Saints 7.7 (#X) X
13)Toy Story 7.9 (#185) XX

6)Lion King 7.7 (#X) X
11)Blade Runner 8.2 (#98) XX

3)Star Wars V: Empire Strikes Back 8.7 (#15)
14)The Great Escape 8.3 (#78) X

7)The Wizard of Oz 8.3 (#68) X
10)12 Angry Men 8.7 (#21) XX

2)Memento 8.7 (#20) XXX
15)Udenrigskorrespondenten (UNRATED) X

Division Winner: Star Wars V: Empire Strikes Back 8.7 (#15)


Division 2:
1)The Shawshank Redemption 9.1 (#3)
16)Glory 8.1 (#128) X

8)Alien 8.3 (#61) X
9)LOTR: The Two Towers 8.8 (#9) XX

5)Groundhog Day 7.9 (#200) X
12)Reservoir Dogs 8.3 (#75) XXX

4)Ocean's Eleven 7.5 (#X) XX
13)Men in Black 6.8 (#X) X

6)The Silence of the Lambs 8.5 (#28) XX
11)The Sting 8.3 (#69) X

3)Star Wars IV: A New Hope 8.8 (#10) XXXX
14)Jurassic Park 7.4 (#X) X

7)Se7en 8.4 (#51) X
10)North by Northwest 8.6 (#23) XXX

2)Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 8.6 (#32) XX
15)Kill Bill, Vol 1 8.4 ($58) X

Division Winner: The Shawshank Redemption 9.1 (#3)


Division 3:
1)Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail 8.4 (#57) X
16)American Beauty 8.5 (#33) XX

8)Godfather 1 9.0 (#1)
9)Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi 8.1 (#136) X

5)Monsters, Inc. 8.0 (#182) X
12)Pulp Fiction 8.7 (#13) XXX

4)Aladin 7.5 (#X) X
13)Forest Gump 8.2 (#110) XX

6)Back to the Future 1 8.0 (#142) X
11)The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 8.7 (#19) XXXX

3)Indiana Jones and The Raiders of the Lost Ark 8.6 (#17) XX
14)Terminator 1 7.9 (#206) X

7)The Shining 8.3 (#86) XXX
10)The Fifth Element 7.1 (#X) X

2)Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 8.0 (#154) X
15)The Sixth Sense 8.2 (#101) XX

Division Winner: Godfather 1 9.0 (#1)


Division 4:
1)The Matrix 8.5 (#35) XX
16)Ferris Beuller's Day Off 7.7 (#X) X

8)Amelie 8.7 (#27) XXX
9)The Incredibles 8.2 (#113) X

5)LOTR: Return of the King 9.1 (#2)
12)This is Spinal Tap 7.9 (#215) X

4)Terminator 2: Judgement Day 8.1 (#112) XX
13)Monty Python's the Life of Brian 8.0 (#159) X

6)LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring 8.8 (#8) XXX
11)American History X 8.4 (#63) X

3)Donnie Darko 8.3 (#96) X
14)Finding Nemo 8.3 (#80) XX

7)Godfather 2 8.9 (#4) XXXX
10)Battle Royale 7.8 (#X) X

2)Fight Club 8.5 (#39) X
15)Citizen Kane 8.7 (#11) XX

Division Winner: LOTR: Return of the King 9.1 (#2)

Final Four:
Star Wars V: Empire Strikes Back 8.7 (#15) VS The Shawshank Redemption 9.1 (#3)
Godfather 1 9.0 (#1) VS LOTR: Return of the King 9.1 (#2)

Going by current Ratings as opposed to the official rankings (which stand to be updated semetime),
Return of the King defeats Godfather, while the Shawshank Redemption breases easily by Star Wars.

This leave us with a tie between SR and RotK.

Highest Ranked movie not in the contest: #5, The Seven Samauri.

Lowest Rated to get in (Not counting Uden...): Men in Black with 6.8

Interesting, no?

[mathgrant]

I don't remember a movie called Udenrigskorrespondenten. I thought the title was Fhqwhgads.
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[Jedo the Jedi]

I don't agree with IMDB most of the time. I don't know how they rate the movies, but it is completely wrong. (I picked option 3) It's a good thing we didn't do this tourney according to them.

[dethwing]

They say how they determine them on their website:

weighted rank (WR) = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m ÷ (v+m)) × C where:
R = average for the movie (mean) = (Rating)
v = number of votes for the movie = (votes)
m = minimum votes required to be listed in the Top 250 (currently 1250)
C = the mean vote across the whole report (currently 6.8)

Some kind of "Baysien Estimate". Probably some deep statistical reason that I don't undersand. Why they just don't do mean rating, I have no idea.

Most of them I don't agree either, and to try to make my point I put all the LotR movies at 1...but it didn't do any good. It seems that the Godfather will not be #1 for long. RotK and Shawshank both stand poised to pass it.

[CrystyB]

Here's a page explaining what the true Bayesian estimate really does...

[Samadhi]

I find myself disagreeing with IMDB often, but in most cases above I was in agreement.
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[arandomguy]

Well, which movie is the best is an opinion. It's not odd or anything that you disagree.
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[Samadhi]

I disagree.
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And he lived happily ever after. Except for the dieing at the end and the heartbreak in between.

[CrystyB]

btw dethy, i hope you only intended this as a comparison to our contest, because otherwise, of course the (very first) top rated movie in each category would go into the semifinals.

[dethwing]

Hmmm...prophetic? It got 3 of the final 4 right, and looks to get the final match as well. It looks like we agree with IMDB more often than we realize.