The website IMDb.com generates a list of the Top 250 movies based on user ratings and their own algorithm. The list has problems for sure. There's been significant attempts to game the system, promoting and demoting certain movies. Right now (and for the long forseeable future) The Shawshank Redemption is at #1 on the list. Whether that movie actually deserves to be #1 on the Top 250 Movies list is suspect. But despite it's flaws, the Top 250 does showcase a great collection of interesting, important, worthwhile, and fun movies.

IMDb is both relatively open and relatively opaque on how they create the Top 250 list. They speak in detail on how the list is created and provide lots of data on user ratings, but also only use a subset of top users to determine ratings, the make-up of whom is not entirely clear.

As I have been going through the list watching movies in an attempt to watch all the Top 250 (I'm currently 4 movies away), I thought it would be very interesting to gather the data IMDb provides in a spreadsheet, where ratings and other information can be crunched relatively to each other. There are countless interesting results that could be determined if all of this information was in one place:

• Which movies have the highest or lowest 10's?

• Which movies are rated highest by non-US users?

• Which movies are enjoyed most by women, or men, and what ages gravitate to which movies?

• Which movies rankings are the most controversial?

The list goes on and on. To create this list seems almost insurmountable. There are 250 movies on the list and entering the stats takes about 2 minutes per movie. That would take one person over 8 hours. So I thought I would present this spreadsheet to my fellow Redditors, and see who would like to contribute to the project. If each person reading this picked a couple movies to add the rating information, this spreadsheet would be completed in no time, available to whomever would find the data interesting, and would only take a few minutes of everyone's time.

If you would like to contribute, pick a couple of your favorite movies and navigate to their IMDb pages (links provided on the actual spreadsheet). At the top of the movie's page, you will see the Rating for the movie (between 8.0 - 9.2) Directly underneath the rating is the number of people that have rated the film. If you click that number, it will take you to a page that has all the data that needs to be inputted to the spreadsheet. The columns of the spreadsheet are organized to follow the order of information on the site, so it is easier to enter data.

Once the spreadsheet is fully fulled out, I will go through and come up with as many interesting results as I can with the data and everyone is welcome to do the same.

You can find the spreadsheet here.