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After lots of surfing through the net, I hadn't longer great expectations that I would find anything of enormous interest that would feed all my need within one area, but I did for some days ago. The area was movies. Often when I search Altavista, the only URLs I find are text pages with white background. Sometimes when I search after music clips, I just find lists of what people have in their own MP3-collection or places where I can buy songs/albums. Other times I find places of quite huge interest, but when I discovered IMDb it started a new era for me online. First of all because it's so huge! Both that it remains as good as every movies produced for commercial release & that you can see which movies the masses [& not just film experts], though most of them are American males, has enjoyed & where you freely can take part in the voting. It's not just the voting, it's also the quotes, the posters, the huge archive of old movies [for instance it was in the IMDb's top 250 I discovered "Gandhi" for the first time!] & user comments... If you're a movie lover, you should definitly try this service & become an registered user. IMDb consists of 8 language parts; one American, one British, one Spanish, one German, one Brazilian, one French, one Italian & finally one Portugese.

This will be my start page for everything related with IMDb. I've talked about it in most of/all my movie pages & here you can compare how my film choices are doing it at the IMDB lists & I will also add a part about which movies are leading week for week at IMDb's top 250 & other IMDb rankings. If I've seen the leading movie at the top 250, I will also tell a little bit about that movie at this page.

My favourite movies ranking at the top 250, the total voters, the average vote, my own ranking & the last weeks placing; 1. Gandhi; 135/250, 2925 votes, 7.9/10, 10/10 [last week; 134.] 2. Forrest Gump; 232/250, 15571 votes, 7.7/10, 10/10 3. Festen [The Celebration]; 65/250, 1077 votes, 8.6/10, 10/10 [last week; 64.] 4. The Truman Show; 101/250, 10388 votes, 7.9/10, 9/10 [last week; 100.] 5. Fucking Åmål [Show Me Love]; not on the list/250, 514 votes, 8.5/10, 9/10

The current top 20 at the top 250 & the their placing earlier weeks in parenthesis [PS: Top films shouldn't just have a high average, but also many votes! That's why many of the top films have a low average... While the total votes & average change continuely, the placing change only ones a week]; 2. The Shawshank Redemption [1994] 8.6/10 [20893 votes] [last week; 1.] 1. The Godfather [1972] 8.6/10 [13929 votes] [last week; 2.] [WE'VE GOT A NEW LEADER, VOLKS!] 3. Star Wars [1977] 8.7/10 [28908 votes] 4. Schindler's List [1993] 8.5/10 [17419 votes] 5. Casablanca [1942] 8.6/10 [11846 votes] 6. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest [1975] 8.5/10 [11446 votes] 7. Citizen Kane [1941] 8.5/10 [9557 votes] 8. The Godfather: Part 2 [1974] 8.5/10 [6491 votes] 9. La Vita È Bella [1997] 8.5/10 [5000 votes] 10. The Empire Strikes Back [1980] 8.5/10 [20305 votes] 11. The Usual Suspects [1995] 8.5/10 [17154 votes] 12. Raiders of the Lost Ark [1981] 8.4/10 [16258 votes] 13. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Bomb [1964] 8.5/10 [9090 votes] 15. Saving Private Ryan [1998] 8.5/10 [12701 votes] [last week; 14.] 14. Rear Window [1954] 8.4/10 [5911 votes] [last week; 15] 16. Psycho [1960] 8.4/10 [7799 votes] 17. North by Northwest [1959] 8.4/10 [5602 votes] 18. The Silence of the Lambs [1991] 8.3/10 [14775 votes] 19. 12 Angry Men [1957] 8.4/10 [3940 votes] 20. The Matrix [1999] 8.5/10 [8886 votes]

The movies at the top 250 which I have seen; 1. [2.] The Shawshank Redemption [1994] [last week; 1.] 2. [4.] Schindler's List [1993] - I've seen first part of it 3. [9.] La Vita È Bella [1997] 4. [31.] Pulp Fiction [1994] [last week; 30.] 5. [48.] Shakespear In Love [1998] 6. [62.] Amadeus [1984] [last week; 60.] 7. [65.] Festen [1998] [last week; 64.] 9. [101.] The Truman Show [1998] [last week; 100.] 8. [100.] Central do Brasil [1998] [last week; 102.] [moved two placed up since last week & passed one of my favourite movies!] 10. [120.] As Good As It Gets [1997] [last week; 116.] 11. [135.] Gandhi [1982] [last week; 134.] 12. [145.] Life of Brian [1979] [last week; 144.] 13. [167.] Dead Man Walking [1995] [last week; 165.] 14. [221.] Toy Story [1995] [last week; 216.] 16. [235.] Breaking the Waves [1996] [last week; 226.] [fall NINE placed this week!] 15. [232.] Forrest Gump [1994] [my favourite movie passed one of the worst movie I've seen this week! :o)] 17. [242.] Out of Sight [1998] [last week; 234.]

Most popular movies since I was born [Decembre 27. '82]; 1. [2.] The Shawshank Redemption [1994] [last week; 1.] 2. [4.] Schindler's List [1993] 3. [9.] La Vita È Bella [1997] 4. [11.] The Usual Suspects [1995] 5. [15.] Saving Private Ryan [1998] [last week; 14.] 6. [18.] The Silence of the Lambs [1991] 7. [20.] The Matrix [1999] 8. [24.] GoodFellas [1990] [last week; 23.] 9. [26.] American History X [1998] 10. [27.] L.A. Confidential [1997] 11. [31.] Pulp Fiction [1994] [last week; 30.] 12. [39.] The Wrong Trousers [1993] 13. [44.] Ran [1985] [last week; 41.] [ooops...three places down!] 14. [46.] Return of the Jedi [1983] 15. [47.] Glory [1989]

The cathegories I like best is comedy, mystery, documentary, drama & romance. Here you have the best in each cathegory; Comedy 1. [9.] La Vita È Bella [1997] 2. [13.] Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Bomb [1964] 3. [16.] Psycho [1960] 4. [33.] The Sting [1973] 5. [35.] Monty Python & the Holy Grail [1975] [last week; 36.] Mystery 1. [23.] Vertigo [1958] [last week; 22.] 2. [27.] L.A. Confidential [1997] 3. [32.] The Maltese Falcon [1941] [last week; 31.] 4. [36.] Chinatown [1974] [last week; 35.] 5. [45.] The Third Man [1949] Documentary 1. [-] When We Were Kings [1996] - 390 votes, should have at least 400 to join top 250 2. [223.] Hoop Dreams [1994] [last week; 227.] [up four places!] 3. [-] Crumb [1994] 4. [-] Baraka [1992] - 390 votes, should have at least 400 to join top 250 5. [-] Looking for Richard [1996] Drama 1. [1.] The Godfather [1972] [last week; 2.] [New number one!] 2. [2.] The Shawshank Redemption [1994] [last week; 1.] 3. [4.] Schindler's List [1993] 4. [9.] La Vita È Bella [1997] 5. [5.] Casablanca [1942] Romance 1. [5.] Casablanca [1942] 2. [78.] City Lights [1931] 3. [40.] Singin' in the Rain [1952] [last week; 42.] 4. [48.] Shakespear In Love [1998] 5. [-] Les Enfants du paradis [1945]

Not many women have registered for IMDb, therefore most charts are almost not influenced by women at all. That's why I've decided to include them at this page; 1. [2.] The Shawshank Redemption [1994] [last week; 1.] 2. [4.] Schindler's List [1993] 3. [9.] La Vita È Bella [1997] 4. [11.] The Usual Suspects [1995] 5. [3.] Star Wars [1977] 6. [21.] To Kill a Mockingbird [1962] 7. [56.] The Princess Bride [1987] [last week; 55.] 8. [5.] Casablanca [1942]

I promised to tell about the leading movie at the top 250 if I had seen it, but I haven't. As a substitute I can tell you a little bit about the movie at 2., which was the leader last week - The Shawshank Redemption. I bought it for some days ago because it was the leading one at the top 250 & because I couldn't believe that so many people thought it was much greater than Forrest Gump, a movie which was made the same year, in 1994, & got 6 Oscars, while The Shawshank Redemption only got one. First I want to say that I think Forrest Gump is a much better movie, though Gandhi probably is my favourite film now, but The Shawshank Redemption is very good too! For me, the movie has two different messages; That everyone needs their own Andy Dufresne [the leading role in the movie, played by Tim Robbinson] & that imprisoning of human beings create more problems than it solve! As Andy said; "Before I came here I was an honest man, it was they that made me a criminal". I've never believed that we need prisons. I think what we need is a little more care of other people & that we shouldn't be so egoistic all the time. Is it strange that street urchins in Rio De Janeiro steal & do criminal things, when nobody take care of them & they're at the bottom of a society where there are more differences than between the poorest [Mozambique] & the richest [Switzerland] country in the world??? What they need is someone who want to be their parents. Because of Andy & the promise that the second leading role in The Shawshank Redemption, Red, had given Andy in the prison, Red [played by Morgan Freeman - I love his voice!!!] didn't commit suicide. He knew he had at least one person outside the prison, where he had been for 40 years [!!!!!], that cared about him. Since Andy was living in Mexico now, Red had to set off for a long journey which he didn't knew the end of. This hold his thoughts in work, which was all he needed to forget his thoughts about commiting suicide. The last half an hour of the movie is just wonderful!!! :o) 9/10.

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