The Shawshank Redemption has now reached the number one spot on the IMDb Top 250 rankings. Yeah, who cares, but I thought the way it got to number one was funny. If it's true, that is. According to one of the posters at the Shawshank forums over at imdb, the reason that Shawshank reached number one is because the Godfather fans and the Batman fans have a bit of a feud.

When The Dark Knight was released it reached number one right away. No biggie, a lot of new movies that are good get a high ranking for a while, but I don't know if anyone has ever gotten to #1. Well, this pissed of the Godfather fans and they started giving The Dark Knight a rating of 1 to push it down the list. Of course this pissed off the fans of The Dark Knight, so they started giving the Godfather 1s. The result is that Shawshank is rated number one, The Godfather is at #2 and The Dark Knight #3.

 

I didn't know people had so strong fealings about the Top 250, but apparently they do. :)

Dark Knight should not be #3 in my opinion.  It will continue to drop over the years.

I concur, I think it should be in the top 100 or so if you talk about all time, but not #3 and certainly not #1.  I'd go with somewhere around #20, but there are a few movies on there I haven't seen. 

Well, I think Shawshank is fantastic, though I'm not enough of a movie buff to know what should actually be at number one. It is a funny story, though.

yeah niether of them should be there.  everyone knows LOTR is the one that should ocupy all three spots  :P

Can you believe

That I haven't seen The God Father, all the way through?

*gasp*

Can you believe

That I haven't seen The God Father, all the way through?

*gasp*

 

In your case, yes I can believe that.

 

I have never looked at that list, and seeing thses rankings does not really make me interested in paying attention to it.

The Dark Knight should not make top 20. Shawshank should not make top 50. The Godfather 1 & 2 should be top 10, but probably not #1.

And none of the lotr movies should be in top 20 either for that matter.

 

Sorry, I don't think LOTR should be top 20 either.  It was good, but not better than some of the classics.

casablanca 

star wars (as a whole 4-6 anyway)

ben hur

larence of arabia

its a mad mad mad mad world

the great dictator

 

i think these should all be in the top 20 if not 10.

 

 

What about The Gods Must be Crazy?