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Deserves a higher score

posted 8 years ago by sackofwhine
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Still baffled how this movie has such a low rating for such a good movie. Does it have something to do with factual inaccuracies? Because from a film-making standpoint, this is as good as it gets.

[–] julianmarq 8 years ago

It has to do with the fact that a lot of the imdb userbase is made of the morons this movie has nothing to do with nor it does provide escapism for them.

And since most of those morons hated the nerds, which this movie is about, in high school and college (well, the few who actually managed to go to college) out of jealousy, this movie's rating suffers in consequence.

I'm fairly certain it will eventually get a high place in Film History and that's ultimately what matters.

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[–] kobe_q 8 years ago

nor it does provide escapism for them

That's my feeling too. Movies are only good for a lot of people how big a window they open to some kind of false reality. And because this movie IS about reality (well, factual inaccuracies aside), it kind of suffers from it.

[–] julianmarq 8 years ago

The movie doesn't suffer for it. If one wants escapism, one doesn't watch biopics.

It's really as simple as that.

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[–] cartesianthought 7 years ago

Lots of vague black-or-white thinking here. I've made endless posts about Star Wars being overrated. I feel no need to rehash.

Social Network is better than many of the 8.0+ rated movies, but probably hundreds of movies are too.

[–] alanfrancis95 8 years ago

Agree. I think it deserves at least an 8,2.

[–] cartesianthought 7 years ago

It's at 7.7 now, right?

7 means good. 8 means great. So it's somewhere between a good movie and a great movie, leaning toward the latter. So it's an almost-great movie.

Sounds accurate to me.

[–] RemusMoon 7 years ago

Fair enough if you think it deserves higher but in general 7.7 is not a low score... especially for IMDb standards. It's a solid rating.

[–] julienforletta 7 years ago

Agreed . I rated it a 9 and it probably could be a 10. Seen it dozens of times and love it more every time
I view it

[–] bond998 (1206) 7 years ago

Maybe because not everyone finds a movie about some nerd getting sued to be super compelling.

[–] Rindercella (39) 7 years ago

It's a good story. I watch foreign films in which their culture is vastly different than mine, yet I still enjoy some of them. This was a 9/10 great story. Some people are just downers.

[–] liscarkat (16543) 9 months ago

Deserves a lower score. It's about an uninteresting jerkoff of a person, it's boring, and the dialog recording is a total failure. From a film-making standpoint, it's almost as bad as it gets, in spite of the fact that it seems to excite a lot of morons.