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Getting Fed Up With IMDb Ratings

posted 12 years ago by cooblimey
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I've always thought IMDb is missing a MASSIVE trick with not being able to filter film reviews and ratings by demographic.

The other night I watched 'Letters to Juliet', which gets 6.3 on IMDb. Personally I thought it was one of the worst movies I have ever watched, and that's not a phrase I use willy nilly, but I assume the rating was so high because it appealed to a large audience of teenage girls. Quite possibly this audience makes up a disproportionately large percentage of IMDb users.

Conversely, the 3.8 rating this film gets is completely nonsensical. This is twice the film 'Letters to Juliet' was, yet it is, apparently, if I am to believe IMDb, only half as good. What utter tosh.

This film is not going to win awards but it is entertaining in a classic swash-buckling kind of way. The acting wasn't that bad and the fight scenes were quite well choreographed. Formulaic? Absolutely, but sometimes that's all I want to watch, especially when I'm feeling ill on a Monday afternoon. And what's all this hatred towards Uwe Boll films? You sound like a classroom of juveniles. Get over it.

What's my point? In viewing the ratings of a film I want to be able to filter out the brainless idiots who give movies 1 out of 10 when they haven't even seen the film. I want to filter out anyone connected to the movie industry because we all know so many trolls on the IMDb forums are directly related to the film industry with vested interests in the ratings. I want to see film reviews by, for example, adult men aged 24-40 who have a preference for drama or sci-fi, and filter out the reviews by 14 year old girls who like pink bubble gum and fluffy dogs because their views are not important to me and their ratings of films are different to mine. (That was just an example.)

I've lost count of the amount of films I almost didn't hire/buy because of the misleading ratings on IMDb, and this is one such film. I've been using IMDb since time immemorial and I've patiently put up with this without complaint. Sadly over the last few years I've watched average IMDb ratings deteriorate. And that's a waste of a potentially powerful research tool.

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[–] ubcool 12 years ago

i agree this was defently a 3.9

[–] cooblimey 12 years ago

Thanks for your considered reply on this subject, it's great to have these kind of discussions with intelligent users like yourself.

[–] ubcool 12 years ago

Rotten Tomatoes (4%) , Metacritic (15/100). end of discussion.

[–] cooblimey 12 years ago

This has little to do with the vein of my thread.

[–] ubcool 12 years ago

it means that there is nothing wrong with the imdb voting system as the score is perfectly consistant with general concensious of the film.

and as to your theory;

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460780/ratings

yes that is correct. out of the 26000+ votes a massive 25 of them were by females under 18.

and with leters to juilet there were 5 times as many males voters over 18 as there were females under 18, and just like with in the name of the king there scores for were pratically identical.

so congratulations you are wrong in just about every possible way.

[–] cooblimey 12 years ago

Interesting. I've not seen this on IMDB before. How do you get the breakdown demographically? Also, how does it know what my demographic is when I vote? I've never told IMDB how old I am, where I live and what kind of films I like. Maybe I need to do some more investigation.

Thanks for the link, useful stuff. And yes, it seems I AM wrong if we use these basic demographic breakdowns. I still would like to breakdown by further demographic like 'types of film' and so on, but cheers for the info.

[–] mikebourkefan 8 years ago

I rate this a 6\10 due to Jason statham and Ron Perlman. action scenes could have been better if this had been unrated or rated a hard R. did like the mid evil setting and soundtrack

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[–] Ratchapakinai 8 years ago

Who gives a *beep* about imdb ratings? Watch a film and make you're own decision whether you like it or not. Who cares what anyone else thinks?

[–] timmytoo2001-2 7 years ago

So, basically you want IMDB to filter out scores and ratings that do not coincide with your own?.

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