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Botted votes and review . Don't look for this movie


The current vote count, rating and extremely positive user reviews on IMDB for this movie are bogus. In my opinion, you shouldn't bother looking for this movie based on the current information displayed for this movie. Hopefully IMDB will clean this up shortly.


Looks like someone has figured out how to bypass IMDB's bot filter. This movie has received thousands of votes in the last month, all rated 8+ (the majority rate it 10). The only time movies legitimately receive votes at this pace is when they are a new-release with a large advertising budget, neither of which applies to this unheard-of movie. And of course the 8.7 rating this movie currently enjoys (as of the time of this post) is ridiculous.

In addition, eight people have reviewed the movie... four of these reviews give the movie 10/10 stars. For each of these four reviews IMDB shows an extraordinary "631 out of 632 people found the following review useful" (or something equally outrageous). On the other hand, the two extremely negative reviews show "12 out of 633 people found the following review useful", and the two neutral reviews show "37 out of 46 people found the following review useful". It's absurd that almost exactly 630 people uniformly found the extremely good reviews useful, while finding the bad reviews not useful. And mysteriously most of these 630 people had no comment about the two neutral reviews.

Lastly, I've never seen such a quiet message board for any movie with as many votes and such a high rating as this movie (3 posts before mine, seriously?). Maybe its because 12000/12010 of the votes registered for this movie were made by one person using automated means?

I hope someone considering looking for this movie based on the current data finds this post useful.


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Found this movie whilst searching the top 100 movies of the 2000's...

So I had to come here to the boards for more info.... Thanks!

Something looks fishy here...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0306846/ratings

Notice the demographic curves, very odd...
  
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My vote history: http://imdb.to/GeoDudeVotes

  

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Thank you for this interesting post.

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This movie's sibling.. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0811057/

And watch this.. this is the best..

http://www.imdb.com/lists/tt0811057

The documentary SCUBA featured in 5 fav list.. All the 5 list have this no Pain No Gain movie with three random very famous movies.. And those who have created those lists have created no other lists.. :)



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Yep, this was already posted on the Help board:
http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000041/nest/188266194

Everybody betray me! I fed up with this wurhld!

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Heh Heh, to compare, this has over FOUR TIMES the votes as "Bigger Stronger Faster," a film with FORTY-SEVEN user and SEVENTY-THREE critic reviews, and FIVE PAGES of message board topics.

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Wow, this movie was just "recommended" to me by Imdb front page....thanks Imdb!

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