Top 250 - What movies should be in the top what are not?

Big Trouble in Little China

Every movie within "My Favorite Movies" (see signature link below) that are not already in there which is the vast majority listed in that link (which contains ALL movies i scored a 7 or higher). there is 196 movies total listed in there.

but with that said, just to list my 10/10's that are not in the Top 250 (IN NO ORDER)...

-Road to Perdition (2002)
-Lord of War (2005)
-Open Range (2003)
-Training Day (2001)

etc etc. ill leave it here since i don't want to type a novel.

@daredevil1 ; you said "The list is rigged, I would give it no stock. We should come up with a new top 250 list of our own for true film fans."

i would not say IMDb's Top 250 is rigged but it does make me wonder how they calculate their Top 250. maybe it's some sorta balance between popularity/total votes/votes from a wider range of age groups/the scores people give etc.

either way, i don't think it's possible to come up with a list that will please everyone as some people might think the Top 250 is too mainstream where as i think if you get too far away from the mainstream then it's a bad thing in general as, at least based on my own tastes in movies, i tend to think more known movies tend to be better than lesser known movies in general (which i expect is inline with most people in that more mainstream movies tend to be better than ones on the other end of the spectrum in general). with that said... i am sure there are some movies i consider amongst my favorites that i imagine quite a few random people on the street likely never heard of though. but from what i can tell... the IMDb Top 250 does seem to have a fairly decent balance of movies that are known and probably more unknown amongst the masses.

so i guess until another site gets more popular IMDb, or something like that, is probably the best we have in trying to determine good movies amongst a decent portion of people out there. outside of that... i guess all we got to go by is how well known a movie is to the more common person as that's probably a good indicator of a movies true popularity/worth amongst a wider range of people. speaking of 'wider range of people'... i do think there are some movies that have more wider appeal than others as i think movies like Fight Club are probably more limited to the really young crowds where as i feel something like The Green Mile would be a movie i would think has wide appeal amongst a wider range of age groups.

just some thoughts as i am sure you can look at something like this plenty of ways

  The Legend of 1900 (1998) 

 The Sound of Music (1965) 

  Black Swan (2010) 

  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

Man, I did not get Stalker at all.

There are PLENTY:

Rain Man
The Exorcist
The Wild Bunch
The Verdict
Mulholland Drive
Paper Moon
All the President's Men
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Deliverance
Dead Poets Society 
Empire of the Sun
West Side Story
The Miracle Worker
Eight Men Out
Summer of '42
The Boys in the Band 
Boogie Nights
Misery
Dolores Claiborne
American Graffiti 
Scent of a Woman 
Glory
Dark City
Wall Street
Midnight Run
Airplane!
A Fish Called Wanda
The Last Samurai 
Lenny
Sophie's Choice

There's more I could list, but that's enough.  

Glengarry Glen Ross
Ed Wood
Edward Scissorhands
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Babe
Brokeback Mountain
The Social Network
American Graffiti
Pleasantville
Adaptation.
Airplane!
Young Frankenstein
The Insider

Tried to balance personal preferences with movies I'm surprised aren't there already.

And though it's still there, Jaws is rapidly falling out.