On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan <che...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan > <kiran.karthike...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2009/3/31 Venkat Inumella <ven...@gmail.com> >> Welcome. If you're shooting for finishing the IMDB top 250, I might be able >> to help you if you have a region code hacked dvd player and lots of time. I >> can also help you if you are found of Kiarostami, Bergman, Kieslowski, >> Truffaut et al. > I went through most of the IMDB top 250 over a period of a couple of > months - 3 movies a day on average. I must say it got depressing since > the movies that tend to get selected for artistic excellence are often > very sad and unhappy. I found the IMDB top 250 to be overly weighted towards US films and recent films. That said they had a decent selection of Japanese films, though no Ozu that I could see. Watching 3 movies a day I'm surprised your brain survived. I can't imagine trying it. Yes there are a lot of depressing movies on that list, including one of my all time favorite depressing movies - "Hotaru no haka" aka "Graveyard of the Fireflies." However in looking over the list, I think you may have overweighted the depressing movies, perhaps because they are SO depressing, but there is a reasonable balance of happy movies as well. The number 1 movie (Shawshank Redemption) is definitely a "feel good" movie for example. -- Charles
