Live Poll: Highest Rated Films by IMDb Poll Board Contributors

Regardless of whether this makes a decent poll, I will post a link to summary of the results.

ElM,

It doesn't make any difference. I will download the public ratings for all the contributors to the IMDb Poll board and GS IMDb Poll board, then average the ratings. If the ratings are not public, they will not be included in the average.

I'm not asking anyone to provide their ratings in this thread. However, you can if you wish to do so.

You mean all the ratings or only the 10?

ElM,

Whatever you want: but it's not necessary.

It would be too long anyway...  but my ratings are public.

leavey-2,

Thanks for your support.

I agree it will be interesting to compare how we collectively rate films versus IMDb in general. When I publish the summary, I will include the overall rating of the film and the IMDb Top 250 rank as appropriate.

ruby,

Thanks for the encouragement. I've downloaded 28 ratings histories so far. Collectively, poll authors and other contributors have a diverse taste in films.

It's labor intensive, so it will take a fair amount of time. Unfortunately, there is no practical way for people to help me in compiling the data.

After I compile the data, I will ask for advice on the minimum number of votes for a title to be included in the poll.

I think you should start with that parameter, it might be the most relevant for the poll.

Begin by selecting the movies with a specific number of votes. If you work on 28 members, then how about focusing on movies that got at least 14 votes (that appear in 14 lists, or 20... or maybe you'll find out that there are movies rated by all of us.

There's no need to have movies that only 1,2 or 3 of us have rated a 10. 

I suppose you have a table for each user, each table contains hundreds of movies and their ratings, if that's the case you add in each line the name of the user and combine all the elements, so you have a table with these categories:

user ----- movie ------ rating

if you use Excel pivot table, you can see how many times Pulp Fiction or The Good, the Bad and the Ugly were featured in a list (a number between 1 and 28) and you can calculate the average rating for the movies you'll have selected. I'm pretty sure you already know that so maybe that's not the way it works.

ElM,

I'm using Excel pivot tables to tabulate the results. I will probably have to tabulate portions and combine together later.

For 28 users and a minimum of 14 votes, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly has 19 votes with a rank of 14 and an average rating of 8.579. This is lower than IMDb's overall rank of 9 and rating of 8.9.

I hope I added my favorite films to my ratings in time. :)

'Interesting stats for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. 

Ruby, I fairly certain you rated your favorites in time. These are the last films I show you rated. These are included in my download of your ratings.
Swimming to Cambodia
The Ox-Bow Incident
The Deep End
Matewan
Raise the Red Lantern
Reds
Norma Rae
Wonder Boys
Manhattan
Stand by Me
12 Angry Men
Casablanca
Lost in Translation
Magnolia
The Tree of Life
Little Children

How strange: There were movies 'The Florida Project?'  ; )

How strange: There were movies 'The Florida Project?'  ; )

TheMovieSmith,

Thanks for the encouragement. The results so far are interesting.

Hoekkie,

Extremely preliminary top 5 results:
12 Angry Men
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Lawrence of Arabia
Schindler's List

This is based on 28 rating histories with a minimum of 14 votes and is likely to change, possibly drastically.

Pencho15,

Thanks for the permission.

Not that surprising then, although the Godfather movies are lower than in the Top 250, and newer films like Inside Out and Spotlight rank higher.

I like seeing this list shaping up, not surprised by the results

Great to see this list! I was hoping for more surprises and for non-top 250 movies. Maybe in the final list.

It's interesting to look back at this. Thanks for pulling it out of the past, Pencho.  : ) 

Pencho15 and rubyfruit76,

IMDb changed the format of the exported list while I was compiling the list.

I'm inclined to go with this preliminary list that I compiled, since I do not know when/if I will be able to start this again from scratch.

Extremely preliminary top 35 results:

01 The Shawshank Redemption
02 12 Angry Men
03 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
04 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
05 Schindler's List
06 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
07 The Dark Knight
08 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
09 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
10 Saving Private Ryan
11 The Godfather
12 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
13 Inception
14 Whiplash
15 Fight Club
16 Apocalypse Now
17 The Silence of the Lambs
18 Amadeus
19 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
20 Inside Out
21 Forrest Gump
22 Memento
23 Back to the Future
24 Se7en
25 Pulp Fiction
26 The Green Mile
27 Toy Story 3
28 Psycho
29 2001: A Space Odyssey
30 Spotlight
31 Terminator 2
32 Leon: The Professional
33 The Godfather: Part II
34 The Departed
35 The Usual Suspects

This is based on 120 rating histories with a minimum of 60 votes and is likely to change, possibly drastically. This is about 1/3 done.

Nia,

Sorry, it's impractical for me to include your ratings in this poll. If/when I get a chance to do a more current version of this poll, I will include your ratings.