WTF? I would expect older people to rate it higher than younger audiences, given the fact it's a silent film.
Is it because of what happens to Gretchen?
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Women do generally dislike silent movies seems like(always lower ratings then men). Also I could see how older peoples attention span is not long enough.
shareAlso I could see how older peoples attention span is not long enough.
Are you serious? It's the other way around, if you ask me. Just look at a lot of action movies. They will always be rated higher by younger audiences.
Maybe you're right, but it seems kind of dumb to rate a movie you haven't watched properly.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Maybe you're right, but it seems kind of dumb to rate a movie you haven't watched properly.
Oh, it was a general statement, I wasn't referring to you. You said older people's attention span is shorter and gave an example with your mother falling asleep during Metropolis. It would be pointless for someone to rate a movie during which they fell asleep. I suppose your mother didn't, lol.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Oh ok. Of course she didn't rate it. I could still see how many older people could think it's slow and rather boring. But I don't want to generalize it that much. I guess there are many old people who like it. However might be it's them that aren't on imdb cause they don't really give a damn about those ratings.
In the end it's always hard to understand the ratings here^^.
In the end it's always hard to understand the ratings here^^.
old people have the shortest attention spanAnd how does this relate to aged 45+?
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And how does this relate to aged 45+?
It's the oldest age group for stats on IMDb but 45+ =/= old people.
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I did not call people 45+ old. But I'd call someone 65+ old. The age group 45+ includes people 65+. It's hard to draw a line but you can't argue against the fact, that 45+ is the oldest age group.
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Women do generally dislike silent movies seems like(always lower ratings then men). Also I could see how older peoples attention span is not long enough.
CountVladDracula isn't your real name?
shareIf you ignore the ratings of 1 and 10, the median rating in this demographic is an 8 which is very high. I'm in this demographic and I liked it a lot. The average is so low because of all the 1s which I think is indeed because of what happens to Gretchen. She didn't ask for any of what happened to her, nor did thousands of other people who suffered and died.
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Gretchen's story was always tragic. This is a consistent dating back to Goethe's Faust. Even in Kamelot's albums Epica and the Black Halo she is tragic, seduced, unwed, and impregnated by Faust (re-named Ariel in the Kamelot albums) but she is also the catalyst for what becomes Faust's redemption in the end.
These 1 reviews clearly have no appreciation for the original story or Gretchen's eternal goodness despite her suffering and madness.
These 1 reviews clearly have no appreciation for the original story
Yes, but Faust is a work of classic literature and I don't think it should be politically correctified to clean up Gretchen's story. It seems audiences today are more judgmental, ironically, than German audiences of the late eighteenth / early nineteenth century when the play was written (As poor Gretchen suffers a similar fate).
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