IMDb top reviews are often completely awful, why is that?

I feel like you may have just described IMDB's typical user. IMDB isn't exactly a bastion of intelligence. Highly-rated movies such as Gravity have a tendency to dredge up the viewers who can't see beyond their own short-sighted opinions. Ironically, it is the very same short-sightedness that causes them to feel superior to others.

He's actualy right.
Gravity is absolute Garbage.

I actually sorta wish there were 2 rating systems, one from a more objective point of view and one more subjective rating.
Or something like a breakdown rating for Visuals, Acting, Story etc. and using these numbers to come to an average score.

For example (IF the people on here can make the distinction), a movie like Ace Ventura is pretty "bad", but ive seen that movie at least 10 times, while ive seen this movie only once and dont particularly desire to see it more often.

But i still rated Gravity a 9 because of the attention to the visuals and its immersion with Space, but i dont specifically think it was great, or up to par with all the praise that it has gotten before the removing of the pedestal.
And i also rated Ace Ventura a 9 simply because of the fun it gave me and its rewatch value (which is of course a subjective thing).

Objectively (but still effectively being subjective, but to a far lesser extend), Ace might deserve a ±6,5 and Gravity a 7,5 or something, unfortunately IMDb doesnt deal with decimals either (as in, giving us the ability to add decimals).
But there would be no shame in admitting that Ace Ventura is just pure fun and therefore doesnt come close to Alien in quality, but it delivers its Comedy as intended, which in itself is also an accomplisment.

What im trying to say is, i wish there was a way to keep the fanboys and haters at bay, because being subjective is not the real problem, its the irrational ratings that somehow have to act as a representation of what "everyone" feels about the movie, and im just as guilty of that too by giving this a 9 while i felt that this movie had its obvious flaws, but i mostly valued its production, not the actual product.
Having said that, a lot of movies do share, or come close to my objective thoughts of the movies, so its not like the ratings are always failing, this movie settled down to a 7,9. i can accept that, its much more reasonable than the 9,6 it started out with. Same for Ace which stands at a 6,9 right now.


EDIT: what the reviewer also fails to understand is that of the 7 Oscars that it got, 6 of them were awarded for Sound Mixing, Cinematography, Sound Editing etc. the parts that i also liked most of the movie.
Only 1 Oscar went to the director, so no Oscars for any actors or writing (even though Cuaron is credited writer for the movie, but not awarded with the Oscar FOR it).