Live Poll: Must See Spanish-Language Movies of This Century

I like your poll suggestion, especially the dual English and Spanish feature.

But I agree with both of  Pencho15 observations.Your list seems to be mostly highly rated IMDb 7.0+rated movies with votes from 1,000 to 100,000+, but undefined. Pbn's poll answer list for ¿Cuál es la mejor película en español? includes films that are primarily in Spanish with an IMDb rating of 7.5 or more from at least 25,000 voters. While his asks asks the best question and pbn asks the favorite question, the danger is that the will be to similar.

If some parameters that are different like Spanish-language Best foreign-language Oscar winners/nominees culled from (ie List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film) or Highest Spanish-language Box Office Movies culled from (ie All-Time Top Grossing Spanish-Language Films in the U.S.)  or (ie Box Office Mojo's Domestic Box Office Foreign Language 1980-Present) were used it would be better. You still might have a lot of the same movies in the end, but it would at least create a unique poll suggestion with a different spin that is more likely to go live.

I also agree ElM's observation on removing "they usually have little international recognition" in the introduction... or the "underrated grade".  Most movies because they represent an average tend to move to the middle. Movies that you or I would score a 10 or 9 will get low 8 high 7 overall IMDb ratings. Conversely, movies at the bottom tend to get overrated. Movies that you or I would score a 1 or 2 will get low 3 high 2 overall IMDb ratings. It just the law of averages where minority voters voting the opposite of the majority voters will move the average to the middle.

Is that necessary?

This is normal, most poll suggestions evolve from being good suggestions (initial) to better ones (final), based on outside feedback. You should just decide on the criteria you want to to use, the modify your introduction, question and answer options using the existing list.That final list version is what in the end will be published. It is better to do the existing thread, so the polls progression can be seen and comments aren't duplicated. I wouldn't worry about the poll thread header matching, as this happens all the time and once complete your title and revised question can be updated by the editors.

Yonyx,

I fully agree with what Jeorj and urbanemovies wrote.

Creating, suggesting and refining polls is not particularly hard, but it involves time, effort and a certain amount of collaboration. This thread is a record of how your initially created and refined your poll suggestion. Having one thread associated with a poll makes it easier to review the poll and helps to reduce duplicate recommendations.

It is a step in the right direction.

But, I think it has too many not well-seen titles (half have less than 2,500 votes). I think most poll makers set a floor of minimum votes (10k, 25k or higher) to ensure enough options that poll takers actually have seen. I think the bar can be set a bit lower for Spanish-Language movies. While, you may have seen all of these movies, but most poll takers will struggle to find more than a handful of options (if any) to choose from.

I also think you need a catchier, shorter title that is interesting enough for someone to want to click on and take your poll. You can mention the scope in a poll introduction or sentence.

I still think focusing on a theme is a MUST: Highest Spanish-Language Box Office Movies, Oscar-Nominated Spanish-Language Movies or something else.

As your list stands now, it just seem like a random list of Spanish-Language movies. But, If you are going to do a personal list, you could hand-pick lower profile movies but not not too low from a search Feature Film User Rating between 6.5 and 10 Rating Count at least 5,000 votes in Spanish (Sorted by IMDb Rating Descending) (sorry, couldn't exclude English titles) or Feature Film User Rating between 6.5 and 10 Rating Count between 5,000 and 25,000 Spanish (Sorted by IMDb Rating Descending) (sorry, couldn't exclude English titles) and call it something like, Hidden Gems of Spanish-Language Cinema or a theme of your own choosing.

The description is much better, but from your current list I could not vote, I know around half of the films but I have not seen any of them.

I am from a Spanish speaking country so I'm more related to this films, but my guess is most IMDb users would not even hear about this movies. You could rephrase the question in a slightly different way that has been used in other polls to avoid a problem with this: Which is your favourite film or, if you haven't seen them, which one seems more interesting to you? That way anyone could vote it doesn't matter if they have seen the films or not.


Ha mejorado mucho la descripción, aunque de tu lista actual yo en lo personal no podría votar, pues aunque conozco varias (no todas) no he visto ninguna.

Siendo que yo soy hispanohablante, lo mas probable es que la gente que mas está en la IMDb no haya siquiera oído de estas cintas. Una opción para evitar que esto sea un problema es formular la pregunta de este modo: ¿cuál es tu película favorita o, si no las conoces, cual te interesa mas ver? Así cualquiera puede votar las haya visto o no.

What are the criteria?

Of the items in the recomposed list, the only one I've seen is XXY. I would be most interested in seeing La Zona for the first time, though. Chico & Rita looks interesting too.

The cronocrímenes has more than 50 thousand votes, is not a hidden gem. Voces inocentes has more than a 7.5 in IMDb.

The rest of the films have less than 1000 votes. They suggested to me that I put more well-known films, without the limitation of 1000 votes I could have included many more movies.

Okay. That makes sense.

Hi, Yonyx.
When you publish a link to your list, please do it without "edit" sublink, otherwise the link will not work for other users.

Since you've decided to limit this poll to XXI century, it would be great to reflect this in the name of poll. This could prevent further misunderstandings if you or other person is going to suggest a similar poll but for XX century.

Sorry, I didn' see your post before. I appreciate your suggestion, This is why I decided to change the name of the list, now it is: "Must See Spanish-Language Movies of this Century"

Although I think I can't change the name of the poll in the first post.

Thank you very much for all your help, I had't noticed (it's fixed now).

How many people have to like the list to be able to do the poll?

Oh, it's not really a question of likes. The comments here help, though. Other than that, it's just about which suggestions are prioritized.