I’m not sure how movie fans did it before the internet, but it’s hard to imagine being a contemporary cinephile without IMDB at your fingertips. The site celebrates 25 years in 2015 of bringing movie heads reams of film information, trivia, charts, and a ruthless comments section that is still somewhat like the Wild West. But indeed, it is the users who keep the site moving along and the folks at IMDB have unveiled a look at what movies have captured their attention across two and a half decades.
Vanity Fair has been provided with a handy list of the top ranked film of each year, since IMDB launched in 1990, and the results aren’t hugely surprising. It’s blockbusters that rule the roost, with the foreign film sensation "Intouchables" marking an intriguing anomaly. Movie fans really like Christopher Nolan with five of his films appearing, more than Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, and Quentin Tarantino. And of course "The Shawshank Redemption" is on there, with the movie continuing to maintain its place in the number one slot on the Top Rated Movies of all time list (sorry "The Godfather").
Check out the full rankings below and argue it out in the comments section.
IMDB Top User-Rated Movies By Year
2014: Interstellar
2013: The Wolf of Wall Street
2012: Django Unchained
2011: Intouchables
2010: Inception
2009: Inglourious Basterds
2008: The Dark Knight
2007: Into the Wild
2006: The Departed
2005: Batman Begins
2004: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2001: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2000: Memento
1999: Fight Club
1998: Saving Private Ryan
1997: Life Is Beautiful
1996: Fargo
1995: Se7en
1994: The Shawshank Redemption
1993: Schindler’s List
1992: Reservoir Dogs
1991: The Silence of the Lambs
1990: Goodfellas
Kristen\’s Stewart\’s fans are not little girls, they\’re some of the most vicious, vindictive and warped old women in the world. Check out an article on Bustle, "Is Kristen Stewart Married? Why Conspiracy Theorists Think She Is," that details how her 60 year old Twilight fans have an online cult to worship her and pretend she\’s married with 2 kids. As for the Twilight ratings not being overly inflated, her fans can\’t make a dent in the massively negative numbers, but ITW has no such negative backlash, so it\’s easy to pump the number up. As far as IMDB ratings being manipulated, this has been discussed in THR on May 14th, 2014, StackExchange on April 17, 2012, FightBeat on Feb. 7, 2013, and Hollywood Investigator on June 28, 2008. It is a fact that Stewart\’s fans are some of the worst culprits, they\’re so dumb that they bragged out it on the SWATH board and all over Twitter. They\’re also insanely paranoid and fabricate "enemies" as part of their paranoid delusions. Her fandom has also been called out for their racism against her ex\’s new fiancee because she\’s biracial. Check out articles specifically calling out Stewart\’s racist fans by name in Vanity Fair, the Huffington Post, US Weekly, Dazed, SPIN, and others.
Reality Check is an insane Robert Pattinson grandma fan with a frightening obsession with Kristen Stewart. Seriously, she is on any article that even remotely mentions Stewart or one of her films. I\’d honestly be worried, if I were Stewart, that this is the type of insane stalker who would follow her around and do who knows what. Complete psychopath.
Huh? Into the Wild is a superb movie, the best Sean Penn ever directed and Emile Hirsch and Hal Holbrook gave moving performances. Kristen Stewart\’s fans are little girls and little girls don\’t hang out on the IMDb, fanboys do. She was a bit player in that. Don\’t be ridiculous. People love complaining when some other movie beats out their all time fave and obviously films that had big box office were seen by more potential fans – like Chris Nolan movies. Reality Check, get a paranoia check.
It you\’re theorizing about the Kristen Stewart fans were true, why isn\’t every Twilight film on this list?
Yeah, I can deny that BB & TDK were the best films of their years. I couldn\’t even make it all the way through TDK. The Batman fans are just as bad as the Stewart fans, they even brag on IMDB about how they manipulate the numbers. The biggest trolls on IMDB are Batman fans. They have the arrested development of a 14 year old comic book addict, not unlike Stewart\’s immature fans. As if manipulating the ratings system to get their films to the top makes any difference in the real world — it doesn\’t. Especially after there have been articles exposing their fraudulent methods.
I agree with you completely about fans rigging numbers, i.e. Into The Wild. But Batman fan or not, you can\’t deny that Batman Begins and The Dark Knight were the best films of their year
Into the Wild is a good example of how the numbers at IMDB can easily be manipulated. It\’s in the top spot because Kristen Stewart fans create sock accounts and vote multiple times. Check out the ratings of her other flop movies that died at the box office and that are rotten on RT, and you\’ll see that their ratings are artificially inflated. Her fans are famous for this, stuffing the ballot boxes of online contests like the BAFTA \’newcomer\’ award and any MTV online contest. MTV even had to stop the vote once, throw out all the ballots because her fans were caught passing a script around that would allow them to vote multiple times with just one click. They were putting the link on Twitter and got caught cheating out in the open. They are infamous for the lengths they will go to in order to make it appear that she\’s popular. There have been stories about this kind of manipulation of the IMDB Top 250 before. Batman fans also create multiple sock accounts so they can rig the standings. Into the Wild was not the best film of 2007, not by a long shot.
Wow. I wasn\’t expecting Into the Wild to take the top spot for 2007. Especially since it was competing with the likes of There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men. Funny thing is, it\’s also my favorite film of that year.
Further proof IMDB is only used by people under 20.