Save My IMDb Top 250

Save My IMDb Top 250 is a contest run by CasanovaZelos that started on September 14, 2008. Like the name implies, users save movies from the IMDb Top 250 from September 14, 2008.

Results

 * May Contain Spoilers*

Eliminated:
 * 129-131: Annie Hall, M, The Exorcist-Even with these movies eliminated, it won't bring back your children.
 * 132-134: Dog Day Afternoon, Into the Wild, The Thing-Got lost in Alaska on the way to being saved.
 * 135-137: Bonnie and Clyde, Patton, Run Lola Run-Ran in front of an ambulance on the way to being saved.
 * 138-140: Chinatown, Frankenstein, Platoon-The second of my 21 masterpieces in this contest falls out (Chinatown). I must have done a good job of forgetting it...
 * 141-142: Rocky, Singin' in the Rain-Board 8 prefers the other two movies with Singin' in the Rain. (But I bet they can only name one of them...)
 * 143-145: Million Dollar Baby, Modern Times, The Great Escape-Wow... The Great Escape came in 6th in Yesmar's contest...
 * 146-148: Amadeus, Casino, The Bridge on the River Kwai-Salieri did it.
 * 149-152: Gone with the Wind, The Bicycle Thief, To Kill a Mockingbird, Vertigo-"After all... tomorrow is another day." Yeah, but you sure aren't getting back in this contest.
 * 153-156: Heat, Rosemary's Baby, Scarface, The Sting-These movies didn't have enough little friends.
 * 157-160: Butch Cassidy and the Sandance Kid, For a Few Dollars More, Paths of Glory, Some Like It Hot-The first movie I consider a masterpiece (Paths of Glory) goes out-like everyone else, board 8 isn't perfect.
 * 161-164: Oldboy, Once Upon a Time in the West, Spartacus, The Grapes of Wrath-So many movies were saying that they were Spartacus that people didn't realize they missed the actual Spartacus.
 * 165-168: King Kong, On the Waterfront, Stand by Me, The Seventh Seal-These movies finally accepted death; but I don't think they needed to.
 * 169-172: Bride of Frankenstein, Ikiru, The Bourne Ultimatum, Young Frankenstein-Well, it could be raining.
 * 173-176: Brief Encounter, Ed Wood, Infernal Affairs, The Kid-The remake has outlasted the original. Poor Infernal Affairs.
 * 177-180: A Streetcar Named Desire, La Dolce Vita, La Strada, Witness for the Prosecution-These movies tried to act like The Godfather, but Board 8 saw through this and eliminated them.
 * 181-184: Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Graduate, The Great Dictator-The seduction failed.
 * 185-188: Glory, Manhattan, Nosferatu, The Third Man-I was going to offer you 20,000 pounds to eliminate these movies next round, but you did it early.
 * 189-192: All About Eve, Dial M for Murder, Once Upon a Time in America, Rebecca-Last place in Yesmar's contest finally falls out.
 * 193-196: City Lights, It Happened One Night, Rashômon, The Gold Rush-Board 8 wishes it was still cool to wear undershirts, and one of these movies is at fault for its decline in popularity.
 * 197-200: Gandhi, In Bruges, The Wages of Fear, Wild Strawberries-Would you please diagnose these movies, professor? What do you mean they're dead?
 * 201-205: Das Boot, Les Diaboliques, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre-These movies were actually saved, but then they suddenly disappeared!
 * 206-210: Beauty and the Beast (French), Downfall, High Noon, The Deer Hunter, The Searchers-Six movies played reverse Russian roulette, these are the five that lost.
 * 211-215: Notorious, Strangers on a Train, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Killing, The Night of the Hunter-When it came to these movies, the board's opinion came closer to the left hand of HATE
 * 216-220: Judgment at Nuremberg, Rope, The Lady Vanishes, The Philadelphia Story, Touch of Evil-Two Hitchcock movies out
 * 221-225: 8 1/2, Barry Lyndon, Nights of Cabiria, The Battle of Algiers, The Lives of Others-The first movie from this decade and the first Kubrick movie go out on the same day
 * 226-230: Double Indemnity, Great Expectations, Stalker, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Wild Bunch-Even with great expectations, they ended up with failure
 * 231-235: La Haine, Le Samouraï, Roman Holiday, The Apartment, The Big Sleep-Another Best Picture Winner goes down
 * 236-240: Anatomy of a Murder, Arsenic and Old Lace, Shadow of a Doubt, The African Queen, Umberto D.-another five movies down, another five I don't know much about
 * 241-245: Ran, Harvey, The Conversation, Stalag 17, In the Heat of the Night-They may call him Mister Tibbs, but apparently board 8 doesn't know that. Another Best Picture Winner goes out in the second day.
 * 246-250: The Ox-Bow Incident, The Lost Weekend, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, His Girl Friday, Ace in the Hole-First day, and two Best Picture Winners down already