Strange...
Almost 88% of the people who voted on this film gave it a 7 or above...
...and the IMDB average score is 4.1
??????
This makes no sense to me at all; rather than an 8.whatever it's 4.1 because of SIX out of 82 voters? Is the president and CEO of IMDB one of those six voters?
I've heard of a weighted average, but this seems statistically laughable.
Honestly imdb voting is getting steanger and stranger. You are absolutely right. I watched the film today in Edinburgh International Festival and I loved it. Great performance by Robert Carlyle. In the end the director of the movie gave us a talk and gave us a nice perspective of his movie.
An honest unbiased list of the top movies I have watched
http://www.imdb.com/list/-plP1uWQzgE/
So...you're right, the numbers are not "weighted" per the actual data. I think they discount voters who consistantly vote 10 or 1 to help prevent an unrealistic number. For this film, I hardly see how that would have mattered. It almost looks like a lot of the positive votes were thrown out for no good reason.
Sucks because other chit films get 500 ten votes before they even open and sucker those into going to the movies before crashing down where they belong. Not sure what the answer is to this problem but looks like this movie was a casualty of the IMDB "Man".
Where there's a relatively small number of votes, I often find the mean or median to be a better indication of the actual voting pattern than the weighted average.
shareIMDB "weighs" its votes based on how many films that user votes on or comments on. A User voting a 10 on a movie that NEVER votes on ANYTHING isn't given a very strong weighted average, and that 10 they submitted will be counted more like a 5 if at all. A lot of "trolls" that vote 1's, 2's, 3's are "trolls" because they hate alot of things AND vote on EVERYTHING. Ironic...
shareOk, so let's do our own polling then! I'd give it probably a 7.5. Most of that is due to Robert Carlyle -- no one plays that kind of character like him, damaged and self-destructive, but still retaining a human truth that draws you in. But subtle, effective writing, the supporting cast, and the look are all great too.
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