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Monday, April 3rd, 2023 4:59 PM

Live Poll: Movies at 75 in 2023

​Movies released in 1948 are now 75 years old. This poll includes the top rated 35 of the ​​1,568 movies released in 1948​​.​

​Which one of these is your favorite?​

​List: ​​https://www.imdb.com/list/ls569253536/​

Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/AFNBdahTd-8/

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DC,

Movies released in 1948 are now 75 years old. This poll includes the top rated 35 of the 1,568 movies released in 1948.

I found 124 movies of the 1,568 movies IMDb has listed ranked higher at 7.2+ (about 8% of the total). All are higher than the three lowest 7.1 rated titles on your list you claim to be top-rated. So, the claim you make above is false. I think what you meant to say is: "Movies released in 1948 are now 75 years old. This poll includes the top-rated 35 of the 1,568 movies released in 1948 that have a minimum of 5,000 IMDb votes." It is probably just easier to say what you mean, so there is no confusion.

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@urbanemovies​ 

Benu, the number of votes plays a vital role in this type of polls. Selecting top 35 movies from 1000+ movies you have to use both rating and number of votes factor.

Example: 

IMDb Top 250 List requires at least 25,000 votes to qualify.

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@Dibyayan_Chakravorty

I think you are missing my point. I don't disagree with a vote threshold, although 5,000 is pretty high for a 1948 movie (112 films (1948) > 1,000+IMDb votes, 61 films (1948) > 2,500+ IMDb votes & 38 films (1948) > 5000+ IMDb votes). Plus, if you think about it, these movies were released forty years before IMDb even existed and people even had the opportunity to vote for them online. I disagree with you using one and not stating you are using one.

​Movies released in 1948 are now 75 years old. This poll includes the top rated 35 of the ​​1,568 movies released in 1948​​.​

Also, it is very deceptive to claim that you considered or this was a competition between 1,568 films, when in reality it was a competition between the 38 films that had 5,000+ IMDb votes for the top 35 spots.

The solution is simple, say what you mean, by not mentioning the threshold it completely makes the statement false.

Correction

Movies released in 1948 are now 75 years old. The poll's answer pool includes the top-rated 35 films of the 1,568 movies released in 1948 that have a minimum of 5,000 IMDb votes.

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