I just saw that it was #1 a second ago, I have already been to the theater and seen it 3 times. Once at the IMAX

Nanananananananana....BATMAN! I still havent seen it, For some reason with the 7 million plus population in the dfw metroplex we only have 1 Imax in a ghetto part of dallas and its sold out until like Thursday....

They say The Godfather was #1 since 1999. 1999!!!

Would a link to the actual page not be a wonderful thing to have in this article?

Introduce a little anarchy........

THAT ISD BULLCRAP!!!!!!!!!!! THIS MOVIE WAS NOT BETTER THAT THE GODFATHER OR STAR WARS V!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS PEOPLE ARE JUST OVERHYPED!!!!!! IN A COUPLE OF DAYS THEY WILL REALIZE THIS AND THE DARK KNIGHT WILL DROP TO LIKE # 5 OR 6!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU'LL SEE!!!!!! YOU'LL ALL SEE!!!!!!!!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations to everyone involved in the making of this film. My fiancee and I were lucky enough to slide in to an Imax showing here in Halifax, NS, buying our tickets only 20 minutes before showtime.

By the time we left the theatre, they had sold out every other showing for the rest of the day.

This film is nothing less than a masterpiece, and it deserves to unseat the Godfather, even if only for a while. I predict it will remain in the top ten permanently, if not the top five.

omg please stop this madness
this is getting out of hand. without internet this movie would just have 8 something rating at most.

Like IMDb is a really hard-to-find website..

The dark knight makes the Godfather look like Gigli.

To Starblazer101:

The movie will most definitely slide down the list. I doubt that the thousands of jealous Godfather, Shawshank, Pulp Fiction fans (etc) will let the Dark Knight stay at #1.

Of course, jealous fans of movies that are in the top 10-20 will be jealous of how The Dark Knight has bested their favorite movies.

These lifeless losers will be spending the next few weeks making multiple accounts and constantly voting the movie 1/10. Believe me, these people will make it their life's mission to find anyway possible to lower The Dark Knight's ratings.

I'm pretty sure that YOU are doing everything in your power to lower The Dark Knight's ratings.

Nevertheless, The Dark Knight has won.

It has dethroned The Godfather as the #1 IMDB movie of all time, if only for a couple of days. NO OTHER movie has EVER done that. AND, in record breaking time.

UNPRECEDENTED.

while The Dark Knight is an incredible film and is worthy of being noted as one of the best films of the decade, IMDB users tend to give movies either a 1 or a 10.

Me: Not true, if you look at a movie with a high sample of votes like The Godfather, you will see that about 40% of the entries are 2-9. And if you look at a film that isn't in the top 250, for example, Bee Movie (6.4/10), only 15% of the votes are a 1 or 10.

"This time the mob has just gone too far"

"No, the internet went too far and made them desperate. And in their desperation they turned to a film they didn't fully understand. Some movies just don't play by other film's rules. Some movies can't be neglected. Some films just want to make the world burn with happiness."

No but in all seriousness this film doesn't deserve to even be in the top ten. It's an awesome movie, but aside from Ledger's Joker, far from one of the best of all time.

It's also worth noting I think Return of the King deserved the #1 spot.
Just my personal opinion.

It's simple: KILL THE GODFATHER!

I disagree, Return of the King is overrated, and definitely not a perfect film. It's too long. I can think of probably three scenes in the third act alone which would have been better suited on the cutting room floor.

I hope this sets a trend or at least sends a message to studios that they should let these super hero movies be more serious and not totally driven for children.

This is great news though, but this is going to start a spark of hate for the movie. Yes this movie has been geeked over at nauseum, but for once almost EVER it was well deserved. But that wont stop people from hating the movie for the mere fact that a lot of us love it.

"A Better Class of Criminal" = moron

Return of the King was awesome I think it should be in top 10 but the third act did have problems especially with the 15 different endings it had.

@ P. Ross

To have your vote counted on the Top 250, you need to have cast around 1200 other ratings. Kinda prevent the fake account business.

I imagine this only happened as the fans rushed out to see it immediately on release and loved it. I think this will go down a tad after non-fans see it.

Superman.

Wakka! Wakka! Wakka!

it'll stay in the top 20.

not sure if dark knight is a better film than the godfather especially godfather part 2 but it was a fantstic film.

I assume it made the number 1 spot due to the HUGE fanbas and hysteria over the film.

@ddog:

Isn't that the great part about IMDB? Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes use the professional critics ratings, but IMDB lets fans vote. No, I do not think that The Dark Knight is better than The Godfather, Part II (it may be better than Part I, I'm still undecided), but fans have (thus far) found it more entertaining. As a fellow fan, I would certainly look to IMDB just as much if not more than Metacritic or Rotten Tomatoes because it is people just like me voting, not someone whose job it is to review movies. I therefore expect to get a view of the film from an entertainment side, rather than a technical side, from IMDB, which is what most (but certainly not all) fans are ultimately looking for.

I have to admit that I'm one of the many of thousand of people to blame because of this. I voted 10 for TDK. I rarely ever do vote 10 for anything, actually, I think I've done that twice in my entire life and none of those occasion were movies before (video games). It was not my intention to give it a 10, because I know it doesn't deserve it, but I was not going to give it a 9 because it doesn't deserve either. I was planning on giving it something around 9.6 and 9.8, but as you all know, that is not possible in IMDB, so I gave it what was the closest to it.

I honestly think most people were in my situation and it is not that we were going into IMDB like crazy trying to surpass The Godfather purposely, which in my opinion is a better film than TDK. I still think that TDK deserves a place at least in the top 20 of all time.

And as for you haters, keep hating, so that your heart will burn on flame! I do not understand why the @#$% you people feel the need to hate, but do as you please. At least I'm not the one pissed when I should be celebrating like everybody else for the masterpiece that we were able to watch.

Overall this has been the best movie experience I've ever had: from casting/viral/hype/Internet/to release.

It absolutely is better than star wars, and peter is right bout ROTK being overrated, plus fellowship is a far better film.

We watch & study films as much if not more than critics & academy voters, so I'll take our opinion over any other - this film IS that good. I think some are just gunshy to declare modern films as classic.

@ matty hc

Amen. This film is SUCH an acheivment, targeted directly at us, yet there are still bitchy little fucks who will always complain about something - even a gift like TDK. Its its irritating as hell, but as you said, let em do as they please. if theyre not happy with this, they never will be.

Wow Haters! I encourage you to keep doing the great job. I was just checking the IMDB ratings and you guys voting 1/10 (A.K.A. The Envious Haters) are in 4th place already! With 1.7 % of the votes and 402 votes (Sat 19/07/08)

I congratulate you! Keep the great work, maybe by the end of the week TDK will be #2 and maybe in 5 years, if you keep going everyday and voting from every computer that you have access to, you can make TDK #10.

Keep it up guys! Do not quit!

I don't know much about movies or critics but I feel critics look for art and world/moral issues first and then entertainment value second. Thats why I love IMDB its about the fans and they tend to be more about entertainment first and art and value second. Atleast the average person. Thats why I think TDK should be #1 Godfather 1 and 2 were great but they lacked action. What also puzzles me how Godfather and Shawshank are up there in the first place. Because when you ask a normal average person what there favorite movie is they tend to say something like the Matrix, LOTR, Star Wars, Kill Bill or something of that nature. But, I guess critics and fans alike can say TDK.

agree with orange cinema, this was by far the best movie experience i've ever had. i could only hope that another film will have half the viral/hype/quality that The Dark Knight has.

@ Adam


How old are you and the people that you hang out with?

in my lifetime that is.

Well Im 20 that might have something to do with it haha. But, I think Im representative of an average person. Most of the people here seem like educated people, but they also seem like movies are there life and analyze to much (thats the difference). And, the people I hang out with are people go see movies to relieve stress and entertain after a hard week at college. Like Hancock (which i thought was all right good for a Dvd rental). And considering it has made almost 400 million worldwide I don't think I am wrong.

I honestly hope that this will change the way people think about movies. Especially the Acadamy, because now they can't ignore it. Best Picture nomination? I'd like to see it - and see it win.

What kind if list is this, they don't even have No Country up there. There is no doubt that The Dark Knight is the best movie of the year, so far. That's undisputable, but i don't think it was good to the point where it actually dethroned The Godfather. I think it's just the hype but in a couple of weeks, when people start to calm down, it probably fall down to #5 or 6. That's my opinion.

I find it funny that while I do love Godfather 1 and 2. That anytime a film like this gets lots of recognition and praise. It's due to "fanboyism", Because it's "impossible" to genuinely be really appreciative about this film's design itself.

The fanboy remark wipes the slate of anyone voicing their opinion of why this film was great to begin with.

@ Captain Awesome


Totally agree. Is it that Comics it's just a mere joke and money maker to Hollywood and everybody else? It is kind of the same way a lot of people perceive video games a being childish and not as what it is a form of entertainment as it is. I seriously hope they start taking this genre a little more seriously and actually admit that this can be good art and not just a money maker!

Wow.

What a joke! Everyone who has ever been on the IMDB nows that the rankings are seriously distorted by the nerds, the very same nerds who -- with their love of cartoon movies -- have destroyed the market for film. I am extremely unimpressed.

This picture hasn't even been out one week, and the fanboys are saying it has revolutionized cinema? Hey -- KILLED cinema is more like it. For a person whose nervous system hasn't been perverted into an addiction to overstimulation by video games and parent & teacher-induced behavior-moderating drugs, these video-game/comic book movies are seen for what they are: trash and the death of the cinema,

Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring was actually number 1 for a think a day when it first came out. Dark Knight will definitly be in the top 50 films if not at least in the top 25. Everything just came together with this movie. The only thing that scaries me and excites me if they do make a 3rd film. Is how are they going to top this movie. Nolan definitly put everything in this film. Im just not sure what villian out of Batman's rogue's gallery they can use to top or equal the Joker. To me there is just no way. But im hoping that I will be surprised and that in 3 years they will have a third film that really blows me away like this one. Its been 2 days since I saw it and just can not get images from that film out of my head. Just that last few mins and knowing what has happened the last 2hr 30mins left me with such a high. And was I the only one who thought of the movie "Shane" when Gordon's son was crying out for Batman to "come back!"?

Yeh this will be hard to top. But I think if anyone can do it it is Nolan. I picture a sinister Riddler played by Daniel Day Lewis

You may not agree with the placement of certain films on the IMDB Top 250 but referring to the the list as being "soooooo bad" is just, well... ignorant.

How is it ignorant? Because I've seen thousands of movies and realize that a list composed of one movie older than 50 years is BS? You are an idiot if you think this list is good.

Well the list is not perfect but it is good. Its based on fans opinions. Not career movie watchers. Second yes maybe the list doesn't contain older movies and that is because as time goes by people tend to watch new movies and not old black and white even though they might be good they do not reflect views of the general public. People tend to watch what is out at the time or what is shown on tv/rented. Not something that is made in the 30s even though it good. IMDB is for fans. Rotten tomatoes and ect is for critics.

To Sean:

Please elaborate WHY you think this list is stupid?

Because the top ten only has one movie that is 50 years old? A movie doesn't have to be 50 years old to be a classic.

I admit, I would put more classic 40's/50's movies in the top ten, but that's not to say that it's wrong to have more recent movies topping the list.

For instance, I wouldn't disagree if someone were to put 1999's "The Matrix" as their top 10 movie of all time. Even though it's something I wouldn't do, I wouldn't consider it absurd. The movie is tremendously influential, inventive, enjoyable and thoughtful.

...which is the exact same reasoning anyone would have for calling Casablanca, Seven Samurai or Citizen Kane a classic movie...or for any accepted classic movie.

...Oh, and in case you haven't seen the other 240 entries in the list, there are 25 movies in that list that come from the 1940's and 38 movies that come from the 1950's.

Even very recent movies like "WALL-E", "The Bourne Ultimatum" or "There Will Be Blood" would be considered modern day classics of their genres and of film making in general.

We don't need to wait 40-50 years for a movie to be considered a classic.

I definitely remember Lord of the Rings: Fellowship becoming #1, and I think Two Towers and Return did so too.

I think Shawshank has unseated Godfather once before.