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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
That list is bull, the fact that the 3 Lord of the Rings movies are in the top 30 means this is just a popularist bs list dominated by average Americans. The Departed (#42) is on there while the original and superior film Infernal Affairs is #236??? Pirates of the Caribbean 3 is #250? That should be in the bottom 250 movies of all time!
I'm glad I haven't seen a lot of movies on this list because they are just mainstream, recent, commercial crap!!! What foreign films that are on there are just the popular ones most available in english. This list is HORRIBLE!
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It's a list generated by a large cross-section of english speaking internet users, which sets out a ranking of the films that those people found have found most entertaining.
As I'm pretty sure the goal of the vast majority of the movies being made is to be entertaining and the goal of the vast majority of movie consumers is to be entetained, I think it's a damn fine list.
Now you apparently have different standards and/or have sampled from a different pool. And that's fine, but all it means is that the list isn't suited to your tastes. It doesn't make it a bad list, or compiled by morons, or inferior to a list you might draw up.
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Objectivity vs. Subjectivity:
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In philosophy, an objective fact means a truth that remains true everywhere, independently of human thought or feelings. For instance, it is true always and everywhere that '2 and 2 make 4'. A subjective fact is a truth that is only true in certain times, places or people. For instance, 'That painting is good' may be true for someone who likes it, but it is not necessarily true that it is a good painting pure and simple, and remains so always no matter what people think of it. If the painting could claim this, someone who thought the painting was bad would be completely wrong, in the same way someone who says the sun goes around the earth is wrong. So the reliability of mathematics is an objective truth, whereas the beauty of paintings is probably a subjective one.
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