IMDB Top 100 Movies

But yea if you are gonna target specific demographics (instead of allowing everyone to rate) like 6 year old kids you would get a different list than 80 year old grandmothers.

(Though they both might like "UP" ;) )

I actually think that, by and large, what happens on IMDb is the opposite of what you describe. In general, most of the ratings are absolutely spot-on. This is product of the "wisdom of crowds": the tendency to arrive at very close to the exact right answer when you average guesses from a very large number of people. But, sometimes, a film's large number of rabid haters (Titanic, Avatar), will bring down the average score much lower than it objectively ought to be. So it seems to me that the haters have more influence on IMDb than the fanboys do. Otherwise you might expect to see films like Twilight or Harry Potter or the Star Wars prequels near the top.

Could it be you haven't really thought through this analysis and are just leaving unbalanced knee-jerk comments? Because you saw some movies on the list that you didn't personally care for? hm....

That's why I think that you can rely much more on ratings of movies that came out before IMDB was online and popular. Some real classics managed to stay in the Top 250, but in general newer movies get the benefit of all the hype and media coverage around them. Sure, some people might rate them especially low, because of disappointment after too high expectations, but in general, you can see that new movies will enter with high rating and then slowly move down, though usually not enough.

In 2021, outside of China, 5 out of 10 of the 10 highest-grossing films worldwide were comic book movies. Or 50%. Only one of which was anywhere near good enough to make it on the above prestigious list... but it still fell just short.

They're extremely underrepresented. Also, the comic book movies that appear on the above list were, in addition to being rated very highly by thousands if not millions of IMDb user, also glowingly reviewed by film critics of all ages and genders. And every one of the 6 were thoroughly enjoyed by the 70-year-old grandmother that I often go to movies with (my mom). I know it hurts, but maybe try to open your mind just a little bit.

I'm guessing that you are a) not Indian, and b) haven't visited the cinema since 1939.

If the latter guess is accurate, you should go again! Things have gotten a lot better since then!