Overrated movie?

Rating: 7/10 (16 September 2011)

I, like most of the people I have known in the past thirty years or so that discuss movies find that some stick out as gems. This is not one. Since this movie came out, no one of dozens of people that are my friends have described it as the best movie ever. In terms of its rank on IMDb, is TSR overrated? YES! I went to about twenty other movie sites before I stopped looking and only found it on only one site within the top twenty. Just try it yourself. You won't even find it in the top fifty on most. Better than "The Godfather", no. Better than "Citizen Kane", maybe - (another overrated movie). Se7en is a more engaging movie in terms of relationships between people. Shawshank Redemption is like a vanilla R rated Disney movie, but enjoyable nonetheless. I don't dislike the movie. I just do not understand the complex and secret algorithms that IMDb uses. On some pages IMDb claims to explain its vote calculation methods to you and on others it says that it will never disclose its method of calculation completely. Maybe they have a system that works but is not perfect. It certainly does not coincide with the number of people that have seen a particular movie. Maybe the compensation for the fact that far fewer people have seen TSR than The Godfather is a factor.