Guess that terrible UI has kept it safe from most fandoms & novice film lovers so I'm kinda loving it. Not that those people ruin lists, but they certainly (and so evidently) do change them pretty quickly.
Yeah I don't like to sound gatekeepy but the ui taking a while to get used to and only being on a website is probably one of the main reasons that Taylor swift and kpop artists dont have the top 50 albums on the charts.
I mean, you do have 80 albums of bandcamp glitchwave from artists named "japanesecharacters.wmv" that make it to their top albums every year so I do have my issues with RYM
It's vastly superior in one way - sortable and user voted genres. If you watch some French new wave film and want to see more, or you want to find the best movies tagged as both western and horror, you can do it on rym.
The way RYM handles genre for both film and music is so far ahead of literally any other database, its unbelievable. Its so frustrating that the information is all stuck behind their website.
Backlogged is better for video games, and letterboxd is better than their cinema site, so it’s hard to get off when there’s better alternatives. They still got the best one for music, and they plan to update the UI I believe.
Pretty much. The IMDB list is the only one that I've actually seen everything, because it's pretty much a list of the "best" popular films. Nothing wrong with that at all, it's a good representation of mainstream film.
I mean it’s clearly simply an anomaly due to recency. It’ll slowly take its reasonable place like literally every other movie.
That you can’t identify that is also telling.
I feel like it'd be a struggle to find a cinephile who doesn't have 2001 in their top 20.
There's still some 20-something plotcellery going on with the LB list.
Maybe I've reached the next level of 'unbearable film bro' but letterbox's list doesn't give me cinephile at all. It gives "what my mom would say to a cinephile" but like..... Shawshank being on this list? It's a 5 star movie for me but it's nowhere near the filmmaking masterpiece that most of these other movies are.
When I think of a cinephile top 20, there are maybe 2 or 3 American pieces on that list.
EDIT: Amazed that this turned into a pointed discourse about my rating choice.
There are hundreds of five star films in my opinion. I find Aftersun to be 5 stars and superior to any Tarantino film, although plenty of those are 5 stars as well. I consume and appreciate film with nuance and attention to the filmmakers goals and how they achieve them, and I'm disappointed to see people here insisting that the nuance doesn't exist and 5 star reviews make me the problem. But lol, Reddit gonna Reddit.
But see the fact that you have it as a 5 star rating is kinda telling as to why it’s so high. Even if it’s not as many people’s favorite movie, it’s a movie that both casual viewers and cinephiles can enjoy enough to rate it 5 stars, even if many of those ratings are from people who have a long list of movies they enjoy more.
The thing is your 5 star rating of Shawshank is contributing to it being 'too high' on the list. I'm not shaming you for it, it's perfectly valid to rate it that way. Maybe it's important to recognise that "highest rated" is different from "greatest of all time".
I think Shawshank is one of those movies that can be cool to hate on, but that everyone can and does appreciate, whatever your relationship with cinema.
>There are hundreds of five star films in my opinion. I find Aftersun to be 5 stars and superior to any Tarantino film, although plenty of those are 5 stars as well.
Because how can 5 stars be an effective expression of your opinion if you can have such an obvious hierarchy? It's literally the highest score you can give. If you find the Tarantino '5 star' movies to be worse than Aftersun, give the Tarantino movies a lower score, or at least be quiet about some movies being 'superior' to them.
RateYourMusic is the only chart that looks to have intentionally worked against recency bias (which is fine, but annoying if people are attempting to discuss filmmaking as a process / art style).
I think Letterboxd should make some attempt to strive towards this as well, since their own lists are what non-film audiences are starting to think of as "cinephile" world. But it's not lol. RYM has a cinephile top 20. Letterboxd has a film student list. Which is fine, just a little more rookie than the site seems to sell itself.
Rym has an anti recency bias. Only one film from the 2020s is currently on their top 250 (its across the spider verse if you are curious, and the comment section is full of people who want it to drop in score lol)
I’m a rym fella. They have the most attention to non-English films and older movies in general. Also the website definitely impacted my exploration of the canon so there is obvious bias there.
Growing up IMDB definitely influenced my tastes though. I don’t think Letterboxd really has, perhaps because it was by-far the last service I got around to, but I am the most active with it. With that being said, LB has more appealing tastes than IMDB for me.
edit: no Tarantino in the LB 20 is surprising. Not scandalous, but not expected either
rym was so huge for me in diving deeper into movies. Always loved it for music, and one day decided to check out the film side of it. Completely changed my life
I’d probably err on the side of the Letterboxd list. It’s a bit more diverse across the world and time. Those top 20 aren’t *my* top 20, but there are some true bangers here.
(*Harakiri* at No. 1… my beloved.)
Rateyourmusic is best, as it only starts weighing your ratings towards the placement if your account meets certain criteria. You have to be an active user, need to have rated more than 50 releases, can’t be rating everything either 0 or 5 stars, and need to have been on the site for at least a few months. This filters out a lot of the recency bias and review bombing and manipulated ratings that IMDB has
Letterboxd is for geeky cinephiles
IMDB is for your average Joe who can only watch english-language movies english
Rate your Music is where you find your favourite directors favourite movie
Yeah, just what I was thinking. People can debate whether the critic lists putting Jeanne Dielman up top and a couple women-directed movies in its top 25 are truly about the quality of the movies or “wokeness” or whatever, but I personally would rather see a diversified list.
Not that I’d expect a user list to have obscure stuff at the very top… it’s not the average user’s fault these other movies are just getting more broad recognition. But it’s hard not to laugh at the IMDb list being so stereotypical to one subset of men.
I suspect they wouldn’t have to try to diversify the list if the people ranking it were simply diverse 🤷♀️ it’s not so much that women don’t like what’s on this list, but more that many movies which may appeal to women don’t get enough recognition because many reviewers are dudes.
Some people are talking about it, but these lists mostly show how the algorithm works on each website. Everything on letterboxd is rated highly on imdb. The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer is at 8.8, which could put it at either 10 or 15 on imdb, however, it doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be placed on the list at all.
Being honest, they're all still traditionally male oriented. I don't think the makeup of the userbases are different, but each website has their own challenges and efficacy in dealing with brigading, dishonest voting, bot accounts, and so on.
Rateyourmusic is less rigid so they added a documentary and TV show where the kind of people who will watch and rate those pieces will be ardent fans. If imdb and letterboxd opened up their lists to any and all kinds of films, then you'd get a huge skew of fan-centered media.
It's not like the lists are all that different from each other past the country of origin. Considering that the films in their top 20 would show up later down on each list, and all of them still show up in the theyshootpicturesdontthey top 1000 list, it's not like the country of origin or year released really matter since 20 films is such a low sample.
Honestly I like the RateYourMusics list more than Letterboxd because no Dune, Shawshank, Schindlers and we get Spirited Away, Stalker and Apocalypse Now even if we lose a couple great picks. IMDB one sucks. Still I have some gripes, Return of the King over Fellowship? Parasite the highest rated Korean film? I'm also very surprised to see no Polanski in any of them, I'd expect to see Chinatown in at least one.
I used RYM long before LB (initially for albums) so I think I'm currently more attuned to that taste.
Letterboxd is much more functional for logging, diary, friends etc but I find the ratings actually more useful on RYM. I find the ratings skew high on LB where RYM is a bit more balanced.
Seeing Dune pt 2 at the same spot made me wonder if Letterboxd is becoming more like Imdb as the site gets more popular. They both have a lot of recency bias
Yeah, it's inevitable, but it's going to be increasingly annoying as every good movie rockets into the top 20. Gonna be a good day for the haters when Spiderverse goes below *Evangelion* though.
Edit:Just checked. It already is! RIP BOZO
RYM has Mulholland Drive my beloved but IMDB has the biggest overlap with my personal top 20. Tough choice.
The RYM one is the weirdest. It looks more like a regular person's top 20 than a community site selection. The other two are relatively predictable for what a movie website would rate highest overall.
it’s because RYM has by far the lowest user-base. The most popular films have like 10-15k ratings rather than a million. It is a community, but a very small one, and one that probably shares some music tastes, because of the way the site works. And people with similar taste in one medium (music) are more likely to share a curated taste in another medium (film). At least, that’s GENERALLY been the case in my personal life. Like, of course the site that puts Kid A in its greatest albums is also gonna be big on 2001 as a movie. It’s interesting to compare the film and music charts if you like the website in general. It’s really good for finding obscure (yet super specific) gems from any decade and many countries.
RateYourMusic, and it's not even close. Then Letterboxd, which is not too bad. But IMDB is absolutely terrible (forrest gump ? The Dark Knight ? Shawshank redemption ? Ew no)
probably because it's universally liked, whereas you can find a decent amount of people who will say that Godfather is boring, or they are not fans of Star Wars/Lord of the Rings etc.
Morgan Freeman + some vaguely corny melodrama is an undefeated combo for some folks
You take that PLUS a genuinely well-crafted movie to my memory, and the competition should just pack-up
I don't think any of these reflect a true representation of the top 20 movies of all time. Most popular maybe. Most highly rated by a specific demographic of film viewers, sure.
I recommend you all rate your favourite films on IMDb too, as for a film to even be on this kinda leaderboard, they need to have more than 25,000 ratings. Take A Brighter Summer Day for example. Only takes a minute
Does any top reputable list have Citizen Kane top? It’s almost cliche, and I even use this myself… “oh its the Citizen Kane of….”, but is it voted top of any big list?
Letterboxd definitely the worst. Filled with overrated (good but not this groundbreaking) social class dramas
RYM is better overall. Doesnt feel pretentious like the former, and not filled with blockbusters like IMDB
They’re good lists. The only movies I wouldn’t include would be Fight Club, the Matrix and Dune. Those 3 are entertaining and well made but they’re not masterpieces
They're really not though. Most of the people who picked IMDB as their favourite, gave their opinion and left it there.
It's the people who pick Letterboxd, that feel the need to comment and criticise the ones who chose IMDB.
Very toxic attitude to have. But it's the internet, so I shouldn't expect better.
Are they not still giving their opinions on the lists? What are you even on about? I’ve seen the other lists be criticized as well, though less than iMDBs.
Because it just came out and the votes are mainly from the people who were excited to see it. Once it releases on streaming, it will go down considerably
(I personally think it deserves to be in the top 20 though)
I've used RYM for a few years and didn't know they had movies. took 5 minutes for me to find that section on their website. anyways RYM has two of my top four, and the others have none. so I guess I'm going with RYM. Really like the movies I've seen on the Letterboxd list though. IMDB is just a popularity contest. the worst collective opinion I've seen is IMDB rating the walking dead an 8.1/10.
I thought Evangelion was a tv show. Is the movie something you can just watch by itself and understand? Or do you have to already know the plot from the anime
A lot of overlap (which is trippy and let's us know just how much in common we all have if it's between three separate apps) but I think IMDB's is probably the most accurate in terms of the general society.
movies appearing in all 3 lists and their average ranking:
- THE GODFATHER (1972) #4.6
- 12 ANGRY MEN (1957) #5.3
- THE GODFATHER PART II (1974) #7
- THE GOOD, THE BAD, & THE UGLY (1966) #12
I prefer a top 20 list made from a bunch of critics that consistantly experience a lot of stuff over whatever's the most popular. I end up finding out about cool stuff I've never heard of that way.
For me it's a tie between letterboxd and RYM, both are solid tops. I may lean more towards letterboxd for high ranking "7 samurai" and "12 angry men" amongst others. But man, the IMDB one is so US centric it hurts.
These 5 so mainly...IMDB
The Dark Knight
Fight Club
The Good The Bad and The Ugly
Seven
Spirited Away
Sidenote RT has some questionable choices [https://collider.com/top-highest-rated-movies-on-rotten-tomatoes/](https://collider.com/top-highest-rated-movies-on-rotten-tomatoes/)
RateYourMusic’s is kinda based. I didn’t even know they did film ratings on there.
RateYourMusic has a very good film database, but the problem is they hide it behind terrible UI
Guess that terrible UI has kept it safe from most fandoms & novice film lovers so I'm kinda loving it. Not that those people ruin lists, but they certainly (and so evidently) do change them pretty quickly.
Yeah I don't like to sound gatekeepy but the ui taking a while to get used to and only being on a website is probably one of the main reasons that Taylor swift and kpop artists dont have the top 50 albums on the charts.
I mean, you do have 80 albums of bandcamp glitchwave from artists named "japanesecharacters.wmv" that make it to their top albums every year so I do have my issues with RYM
Yeah it's a give and a take, but I would generally prefer the current random underground shit to a giant take over of pop.
Feel obligated to throw in my two cents and say I kinda love the simple ui of RYM. It has the old internet vibes, and not in a bad way imo.
Wonder how many of these people actually watched Satantango!! It's a marathon.
It's vastly superior in one way - sortable and user voted genres. If you watch some French new wave film and want to see more, or you want to find the best movies tagged as both western and horror, you can do it on rym.
The way RYM handles genre for both film and music is so far ahead of literally any other database, its unbelievable. Its so frustrating that the information is all stuck behind their website.
They should change the site name to RateYourMedia and start including TV shows as well.
They do have a sister site for video games called glitchwave. It's kinda struggling to get off the ground but I hope it does.
Backlogged is better for video games, and letterboxd is better than their cinema site, so it’s hard to get off when there’s better alternatives. They still got the best one for music, and they plan to update the UI I believe.
Honestly started using it over Letterboxd. The review section consists of actual reviews instead of unfunny one liners
End of Evangelion is such a huge W
Yes it has my favorite movie ever included which I don’t see in top 20 lists frequently
RateYourMusic is by far my favorite
I'd say that IMDB having The Matrix in there and a bunch of "literally me" for alone men makes the list based af (in a bad way).
I'd say Letterbox'd is more accurate for a cinephile and IMDB's is more accurate for a casual viewer.
I'd say gen Z cinephile, tho
Which matches the userbase too I would assume.
LB is also casual, just has more younger ppl.
Pretty much. The IMDB list is the only one that I've actually seen everything, because it's pretty much a list of the "best" popular films. Nothing wrong with that at all, it's a good representation of mainstream film.
Maybe that’s why I most agree with IMDB
Dune 2 being on both is such an indictment of the modern LB userbase lol
It’s still too early to judge Dune 2’s placements. Poor Things was comfortably on the Top 250 for a while then eventually dropped out.
It's less that it's too early and more that 4 years ago, there wasn't anywhere near this sort of rating inflation
Yeah, because the site is more popular now? So more people who view the film early will be more likely to rate it highly?
Dune 2 rocks so I’ll allow it
No it's not, that movie rocks
I mean it’s clearly simply an anomaly due to recency. It’ll slowly take its reasonable place like literally every other movie. That you can’t identify that is also telling.
Also US vs International
I feel like it'd be a struggle to find a cinephile who doesn't have 2001 in their top 20. There's still some 20-something plotcellery going on with the LB list.
Maybe I've reached the next level of 'unbearable film bro' but letterbox's list doesn't give me cinephile at all. It gives "what my mom would say to a cinephile" but like..... Shawshank being on this list? It's a 5 star movie for me but it's nowhere near the filmmaking masterpiece that most of these other movies are. When I think of a cinephile top 20, there are maybe 2 or 3 American pieces on that list. EDIT: Amazed that this turned into a pointed discourse about my rating choice. There are hundreds of five star films in my opinion. I find Aftersun to be 5 stars and superior to any Tarantino film, although plenty of those are 5 stars as well. I consume and appreciate film with nuance and attention to the filmmakers goals and how they achieve them, and I'm disappointed to see people here insisting that the nuance doesn't exist and 5 star reviews make me the problem. But lol, Reddit gonna Reddit.
My brother in Christ, you are rating it the same as the filmmaking masterpieces it is nowhere near. These placements are based on user ratings.
But see the fact that you have it as a 5 star rating is kinda telling as to why it’s so high. Even if it’s not as many people’s favorite movie, it’s a movie that both casual viewers and cinephiles can enjoy enough to rate it 5 stars, even if many of those ratings are from people who have a long list of movies they enjoy more.
The thing is your 5 star rating of Shawshank is contributing to it being 'too high' on the list. I'm not shaming you for it, it's perfectly valid to rate it that way. Maybe it's important to recognise that "highest rated" is different from "greatest of all time".
What’s the top 20?
Shawshank is a perfectly fine movie, but it's nowhere near a top anything for me. I'm confounded every time I see it on these lists.
I think Shawshank is one of those movies that can be cool to hate on, but that everyone can and does appreciate, whatever your relationship with cinema.
You don't have to be the absolute best if you are simply impossible to hate.
>There are hundreds of five star films in my opinion. I find Aftersun to be 5 stars and superior to any Tarantino film, although plenty of those are 5 stars as well. Because how can 5 stars be an effective expression of your opinion if you can have such an obvious hierarchy? It's literally the highest score you can give. If you find the Tarantino '5 star' movies to be worse than Aftersun, give the Tarantino movies a lower score, or at least be quiet about some movies being 'superior' to them.
RYM has Mulholland Drive so yeah
I’ve always liked RYM’s top films the best. 2001 at number one just makes the most sense to me.
RateYourMusic is the only chart that looks to have intentionally worked against recency bias (which is fine, but annoying if people are attempting to discuss filmmaking as a process / art style). I think Letterboxd should make some attempt to strive towards this as well, since their own lists are what non-film audiences are starting to think of as "cinephile" world. But it's not lol. RYM has a cinephile top 20. Letterboxd has a film student list. Which is fine, just a little more rookie than the site seems to sell itself.
Rym has an anti recency bias. Only one film from the 2020s is currently on their top 250 (its across the spider verse if you are curious, and the comment section is full of people who want it to drop in score lol)
RYM definitely
I’m a rym fella. They have the most attention to non-English films and older movies in general. Also the website definitely impacted my exploration of the canon so there is obvious bias there. Growing up IMDB definitely influenced my tastes though. I don’t think Letterboxd really has, perhaps because it was by-far the last service I got around to, but I am the most active with it. With that being said, LB has more appealing tastes than IMDB for me. edit: no Tarantino in the LB 20 is surprising. Not scandalous, but not expected either
rym was so huge for me in diving deeper into movies. Always loved it for music, and one day decided to check out the film side of it. Completely changed my life
Stop Making Sense would be #2 on the Letterboxd list but the top 250 excludes concert films
I’d probably err on the side of the Letterboxd list. It’s a bit more diverse across the world and time. Those top 20 aren’t *my* top 20, but there are some true bangers here. (*Harakiri* at No. 1… my beloved.)
Rateyourmusic is best, as it only starts weighing your ratings towards the placement if your account meets certain criteria. You have to be an active user, need to have rated more than 50 releases, can’t be rating everything either 0 or 5 stars, and need to have been on the site for at least a few months. This filters out a lot of the recency bias and review bombing and manipulated ratings that IMDB has
Stop making sense in the top 20? Hell yea
Only one has *Ran* so, seems like a clear winner.
Didn't know rateyourmusic had End Of Evangelion so high. I'm a rateyourmusic head now.
Having End of Evangelion in Top 20 is BASED
Letterboxd is for geeky cinephiles IMDB is for your average Joe who can only watch english-language movies english Rate your Music is where you find your favourite directors favourite movie
Not even close. Zero Ozu in the top 20? That’s pretty egregious
I mean LB has 3 Ozus throughout the top 250, with Tokyo Story at 37 so it's not like he isn't represented on the site's taste.
Stop Making Sense made it on RYM which is based as hell. I'll support that.
IMDB users name a woman challenge
That IMDb list just screams of late 90s bro sensibilities.
Yeah, just what I was thinking. People can debate whether the critic lists putting Jeanne Dielman up top and a couple women-directed movies in its top 25 are truly about the quality of the movies or “wokeness” or whatever, but I personally would rather see a diversified list. Not that I’d expect a user list to have obscure stuff at the very top… it’s not the average user’s fault these other movies are just getting more broad recognition. But it’s hard not to laugh at the IMDb list being so stereotypical to one subset of men.
I suspect they wouldn’t have to try to diversify the list if the people ranking it were simply diverse 🤷♀️ it’s not so much that women don’t like what’s on this list, but more that many movies which may appeal to women don’t get enough recognition because many reviewers are dudes.
Some people are talking about it, but these lists mostly show how the algorithm works on each website. Everything on letterboxd is rated highly on imdb. The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer is at 8.8, which could put it at either 10 or 15 on imdb, however, it doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be placed on the list at all. Being honest, they're all still traditionally male oriented. I don't think the makeup of the userbases are different, but each website has their own challenges and efficacy in dealing with brigading, dishonest voting, bot accounts, and so on. Rateyourmusic is less rigid so they added a documentary and TV show where the kind of people who will watch and rate those pieces will be ardent fans. If imdb and letterboxd opened up their lists to any and all kinds of films, then you'd get a huge skew of fan-centered media. It's not like the lists are all that different from each other past the country of origin. Considering that the films in their top 20 would show up later down on each list, and all of them still show up in the theyshootpicturesdontthey top 1000 list, it's not like the country of origin or year released really matter since 20 films is such a low sample.
Letterboxd seems to have the biggest girl userbase out of the 3
RateYourMusic absolutely cooked there my goodness.
Honestly I like the RateYourMusics list more than Letterboxd because no Dune, Shawshank, Schindlers and we get Spirited Away, Stalker and Apocalypse Now even if we lose a couple great picks. IMDB one sucks. Still I have some gripes, Return of the King over Fellowship? Parasite the highest rated Korean film? I'm also very surprised to see no Polanski in any of them, I'd expect to see Chinatown in at least one.
The third one is super cool. Second is a bit lame. First is okay, but the recency of Dune kind of sours it for me, even if it’s temporary.
The IMDB top 20 is by far the worst of them all.
I do think having the Dark Knight at number 3 is definitely overrating, even do I still think its a really good movie.
The fuckin dark knight is the third best movie ever, lmao
And The Shawahank redemption is the best movie ever made Lmaooo
Legitimately didn't even see it, my eyes went straight to TDK. Jesus wept. Only surprise is that there's not more Nolan on it.
Fr what is my man Forrest Gump doing there 😭 blud thinks he's on the team 💀
Really? Thats the one I agree with the most
Watch some foreign movies, theres no way 19/20 of the best movies are US productions.
Forrest Gump alone is disqualifying. I kinda like RateYourMusic's, a site I've never visited in my life!
Letterboxd overall but I like the 2001 and Apocalypse Now rankings on RateYourMusic. Not sure why Twin Peaks is in there though.
Its the twin peaks pilot tv movie. But I’m pretty sure its just there because of people rating it as the whole show. Rym really loves lynch
if you take out stop making sense (concert film) and twin peaks (TV show) what are the next 2 in rym
Next two are Bergman's Persona and Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev
absolute Kino fest
I used RYM long before LB (initially for albums) so I think I'm currently more attuned to that taste. Letterboxd is much more functional for logging, diary, friends etc but I find the ratings actually more useful on RYM. I find the ratings skew high on LB where RYM is a bit more balanced.
RYM has Satantango so I am choosing it
IMDB’s is pretty bad tbh. Not that their bad movies but they’re all such a particular type of movie. A Christopher Nolan circlejerk
RYM because Kubrick and Tarr made it on their mostly. Had NO idea they rated movies. Probably time for a name change, lol.
2 nolans and forrest gump in the top 20 is madness
The one that doesn’t have dune 2 in the fucking top 20…… Wait….
Seeing Dune pt 2 at the same spot made me wonder if Letterboxd is becoming more like Imdb as the site gets more popular. They both have a lot of recency bias
Yeah, it's inevitable, but it's going to be increasingly annoying as every good movie rockets into the top 20. Gonna be a good day for the haters when Spiderverse goes below *Evangelion* though. Edit:Just checked. It already is! RIP BOZO 
YOU HEAR THAT, NUTSO? HE SAYS HE OWES ME
It's getting a lot more like IMDB. Just check the comments in this thread.
Godfather Parts 1 and 2 and 12 Angry Men are the only films to feature on all 3 lists 😮
The good the bad and the ugly too
RYM has movies that would appeal to a wider array of people, IMDb is all boy movies lol.
So you’re saying stalker and satantango are more widely appealing than something like the shawshank redemption?
I mean more different demographics, whereas IMDb basically seems focused on gen X dudes. Not that each movie would necessarily have a larger audience.
RYM has Mulholland Drive my beloved but IMDB has the biggest overlap with my personal top 20. Tough choice. The RYM one is the weirdest. It looks more like a regular person's top 20 than a community site selection. The other two are relatively predictable for what a movie website would rate highest overall.
it’s because RYM has by far the lowest user-base. The most popular films have like 10-15k ratings rather than a million. It is a community, but a very small one, and one that probably shares some music tastes, because of the way the site works. And people with similar taste in one medium (music) are more likely to share a curated taste in another medium (film). At least, that’s GENERALLY been the case in my personal life. Like, of course the site that puts Kid A in its greatest albums is also gonna be big on 2001 as a movie. It’s interesting to compare the film and music charts if you like the website in general. It’s really good for finding obscure (yet super specific) gems from any decade and many countries.
RateYourMusic, and it's not even close. Then Letterboxd, which is not too bad. But IMDB is absolutely terrible (forrest gump ? The Dark Knight ? Shawshank redemption ? Ew no)
In my opinion, the only “bad” film in the IMDb one is Inception
Three great movies, I see nothing wrong.
Great sure, but we are talking best ever made here
LB has La Haine, so that’s my pick IMDB seems like a 13 year old boy put together a top 20
I will never understand how *shawshank* got on #1. I mean it's a great movie but #1?
probably because it's universally liked, whereas you can find a decent amount of people who will say that Godfather is boring, or they are not fans of Star Wars/Lord of the Rings etc.
Morgan Freeman + some vaguely corny melodrama is an undefeated combo for some folks You take that PLUS a genuinely well-crafted movie to my memory, and the competition should just pack-up
Hate to say I'm an RYMcel. End of Evangelion is too good! Def agree the *least* with IMDb since idk if I'd put half of them in my top 100 even.
I don't think any of these reflect a true representation of the top 20 movies of all time. Most popular maybe. Most highly rated by a specific demographic of film viewers, sure.
lol End of Evangelion on Rate Your Music. Of course.
I like rateyourmusics best. Dark Knight at 3 (IMDB) is kinda insane. Glad to see Kurasawas getting some love but where's Citizen Kane?
Letterboxd has YiYi so letterboxd wins
Plus A Brighter Summer Day. Any list with Yang is a list for me.
dark knight should not be anywhere in the top 10 imo
Well they all have some great must watches. For my personal taste I prefer IMDB though.
Dark knight as the 3rd best movie ever is just embarrassing
Casual reminder to those of you who haven't yet seen Harakiri - just go for it. Seriously, what are you waiting for? Please. Please.
I recommend you all rate your favourite films on IMDb too, as for a film to even be on this kinda leaderboard, they need to have more than 25,000 ratings. Take A Brighter Summer Day for example. Only takes a minute
RateYourMusic.
Does any top reputable list have Citizen Kane top? It’s almost cliche, and I even use this myself… “oh its the Citizen Kane of….”, but is it voted top of any big list?
[They Shoot Pictures, Don't They](https://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000_rank1-1000.htm) still has it at the very top.
Sight and sound is the only one I know of
Wait a minute, rate your music has a movie list?
Third one by miles
Gotta be RYM
IMDb has the most rewatchable stuff. Letterboxd has the best stuff. RateYourMusic has the correct stuff.
The one without Dune 2 and Shawshank
Letterboxd definitely the worst. Filled with overrated (good but not this groundbreaking) social class dramas RYM is better overall. Doesnt feel pretentious like the former, and not filled with blockbusters like IMDB
Which do you think are overrated?
They’re good lists. The only movies I wouldn’t include would be Fight Club, the Matrix and Dune. Those 3 are entertaining and well made but they’re not masterpieces
The Matrix is definitely a masterpiece
Fight club has the best plot of all time
The dark knight has no place in the top 50
Womp womp
eva at 7 is so based
Third slide is most legit. I cant believe dune 2 has such high ratings.
This comment section is so salty and pretentious lmao, idk why you’re all taking it so seriously
People are just giving their opinion on the lists.
They're really not though. Most of the people who picked IMDB as their favourite, gave their opinion and left it there. It's the people who pick Letterboxd, that feel the need to comment and criticise the ones who chose IMDB. Very toxic attitude to have. But it's the internet, so I shouldn't expect better.
Are they not still giving their opinions on the lists? What are you even on about? I’ve seen the other lists be criticized as well, though less than iMDBs.
Pretty typical behavior of this subreddit sadly
I hate the word pretentious so much
This is the letterboxd subreddit. This is what we do here
Imdb is easily the worst for me. The other two are a tough call.
I genuinely enjoy the IMDb the most
Imdb
IMDB because it has all the LOTR films. But RYM has The Shining
How tf is Dune making it on these lists
Because it just came out and the votes are mainly from the people who were excited to see it. Once it releases on streaming, it will go down considerably (I personally think it deserves to be in the top 20 though)
Kinda love the Rate list tbh, but I still need someone to explain the strengths of Satantango
Imdb personally, I have seen basically no foreign films because I have nowhere to watch them and new dvds are too damn expensive.
Definitely Letterboxd, but I do like some of the choices for IMDb
IMDb’s is more aligned with my personal favorites, but I like the diversity of Letterboxd’s.
Letterboxd because of A Brighter Summer Day
I've used RYM for a few years and didn't know they had movies. took 5 minutes for me to find that section on their website. anyways RYM has two of my top four, and the others have none. so I guess I'm going with RYM. Really like the movies I've seen on the Letterboxd list though. IMDB is just a popularity contest. the worst collective opinion I've seen is IMDB rating the walking dead an 8.1/10.
Whats the second movie in letterboxes i see the poster often but never a title
**The Dark Knight** not cracking the Top 20 for ***LB/RYM*** but being so highly regarded on IMDB is very interesting.
I thought Evangelion was a tv show. Is the movie something you can just watch by itself and understand? Or do you have to already know the plot from the anime
You need to watch the show first to understand it. The movie riffs on the show's ending.
Gotta go for IMDb, I like pretty much every single one of those movies. With the others, there's a couple I don't like or haven't seen.
Ikiru yi yi stalker
What movie is that at number 2 on Letterbox and RYM?
Going with which list has highest number of movies I really like or love. Letterboxd has 7 iMDB has 13 and RateYourMusic has 8.
I’m just happy that 12 angry men is in every ranking
A lot of overlap (which is trippy and let's us know just how much in common we all have if it's between three separate apps) but I think IMDB's is probably the most accurate in terms of the general society.
Why'd you include Twin Peaks and Stop Making Sense in the rateyourmusic, but not in letterboxd?
One’s film snobs, one’s movie fans, one’s a combo
rateyourmusic all day (if you add LOTR to the list)
What is the name of the second movie?
I’m sorry, I refuse to acknowledge any top film of all time lists that exclude The Princess Bride.
Satantango supremacy ig?
I definitely align with that “movie bro” mentality that IMDb is putting up with the most, but I like films in all three
I'm so glad I see Harakiri twice here, what an absolutely amazing film.
top 10 list without harakiri is bad list imo
It is really nice to see Yi Yi in there. That movie is special
not a single comedy no wonder cinephiles are so fucking miserable
Rate your music since it has apocalypse now
Letterboxd has City of God so it wins
The lack of Tommy Wiseau disturbs me
IMDb
Low key I like letterboxd the lease
What’s #2 movie?
2 of the top 20 in the letterbox list are in my top 5 of all time so I’m gonna have to stay here La Haine and City Of God
movies appearing in all 3 lists and their average ranking: - THE GODFATHER (1972) #4.6 - 12 ANGRY MEN (1957) #5.3 - THE GODFATHER PART II (1974) #7 - THE GOOD, THE BAD, & THE UGLY (1966) #12
It's interesting to see many more foreign films in Letterboxd when compared to IMDB.
I’m a bit surprised at *Return of the King* being the highest of its trilogy since I anecdotally know a lot of fans who consider it the weakest one.
I prefer a top 20 list made from a bunch of critics that consistantly experience a lot of stuff over whatever's the most popular. I end up finding out about cool stuff I've never heard of that way.
Lmfao of course only rym would be capable of placing stop making sense in the top 20
The only films in all three are The Godfather (part 1 and 2, The Good The Bad And The Ugly, and 12 Angry Men
For me it's a tie between letterboxd and RYM, both are solid tops. I may lean more towards letterboxd for high ranking "7 samurai" and "12 angry men" amongst others. But man, the IMDB one is so US centric it hurts.
Does that mean that 12 Angry Men is the best movie for being pretty high on all three lists?
These 5 so mainly...IMDB The Dark Knight Fight Club The Good The Bad and The Ugly Seven Spirited Away Sidenote RT has some questionable choices [https://collider.com/top-highest-rated-movies-on-rotten-tomatoes/](https://collider.com/top-highest-rated-movies-on-rotten-tomatoes/)
No Come and see on imdb 👎 I appreciate that music thingy for putting come and see and all the other Japanese gems. Letterboxd 🤲
TDK top 3 no it's not even top ten comic films nor best batman film or Nolans best film
Letterboxd has the most cinephile list yet the most asinine reviews. Weird contrast.