Comments on: Useless IMDB ratings

By: shigga

shigga — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:42:05 +0000

comes down to personal taste, personally I loved Sin City. I think ratings may have a boost during the screening stage because people that enjoyed it will rate it right away but this is usually scaled down in the later stages IMO.

By: raul

raul — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:04:45 +0000

i believe there might be two reasons for such unnatural ratings..

1. the increase in the social marketing( people actually pay for increasing the brand image and public talk in social networking forums(myspace, facebook etc).. so why not imdb)
2. casual movie reviewers rate their favourite movie 10 or close to that.( it is very unlikely that they think twise about relative rating as in.. 10 being the best movie ever and so on )

By: dont matter

dont matter — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:04:43 +0000

only the people who rate on a normal basis count for the top 250. If anything your wrong because certain movies are rated by tens to hundreds of thousands…thats like not agreeing with everybody. you lost

By: gardner

gardner — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:10:51 +0000

I have a sneaking suspicion that interested parties drive up the ratings at IMBD. If you look at ratings’ breakdowns there’s just too many 10s to be realistic. As I know companies employ people to effect other opinions on the net it seems reasonable that people in the employ of production companies are bending the numbers. While I use IMDB to scan the specs of a film I trust Rotten Tomatoes or Yahoo Movies more for the ratings.

By: Rickard

Rickard — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:59:23 +0000

Lets hope so :)

By: Anatoly

Anatoly — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:55:01 +0000

Besides the general “bad taste of the crowd”, the “average” ratings seem to me incorrect because a very few fans of one movie may pull it up by their several high votes.
It seems to me more correct a -10 to +10 system and the resulting rating should be a simple sum of all the votes. So the high score will really be an achievement. Referring to IMDB the movie rating should be SUM(vote – 5.5).

Blade Runner will rise again then :-)

By: Rickard

Rickard — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:26:52 +0000

While I agree that the Lord of the Rings movies and Sin City were great cinematic experiences, that’s just one aspect of a good movie. Just being pretty isn’t enough.

By: Anton

Anton — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:16:48 +0000

Because people are morons and not critics – but I must say that Lord of the Rings and especially Sin City is a great cinematic experience. They deserve their place. Sin City should maybe even be even higher up.

The superhero-craze has gone to far though. I agree with you on that.