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How Imdb "fixes" the rating!


The rating is now 6.4, it was much lower. Makes no sense considering Metascore is 60.

Look at the breakdown: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1289401/ratings/

> Our rating mechanism has detected unusual voting activity on this title. To preserve the reliability of our rating system, an alternate weighting calculation has been applied.

Men rate it 4.9, women 6.4. Just throw away all the male votes then!

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imdb is shit rotten tomatoes is even more shit

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so , what are you comparing that to? given that they are the only two standards on the net

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google user likes rating is most accurate out of the mainstream options

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I thought this was a joke, but you're absolutely right. Now it's 6.6, only a month later. The ratings of a five years old movie just isn't going to change that much in such a short amount of time.

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They're probably disregarding all of the one-star ratings.

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So, IMDB IS rigging the score for this "stunning and brave" movie, then.

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I would do that, also any 10s. For a variety of reasons (mostly dumb ones) people decided to hate this film before it was even released so I wouldn't trust the rating anyway.

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To be fair most of the 1/10s are probably from people who never watched the movie.

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You could say the exact same thing for all the 10/10.

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I doubt someone would rate a movie they have no intention of watching 10/10.

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Of course they would. Fanatically fans of anything will do it.

Scores get upvoted as well as downvoted.

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If you give a movie 10/10 without seeing it obviously you want to watch it and are going to watch it.

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Well isn't that convenient? You're so adamant that fake 1/10 votes from non-viewers were a plague on the movie yet deny that fake 10/10 votes are even possible (despite that it is the same trolling behavior). You're so hilariously full of it. Despite what the controlled woke-shill media convinced you to think, you have no way of knowing how many people fake-voted against the movie or if the amount was substantial enough to have unfairly sabotaged the IMDb score. You just know that (as you were told) a politically pre-approved movie that wasn't supposed to be attacked, was attacked, which is therefore is wrong and sexist/racist/homophobe/etc.
So you 'do the right thing' and jump to its defense despite the fact that what it seems, you didn't watch it yourself. Surely you'd have something more to say about the movie itself than "haters didn't watch it" if you did, wouldn't you? You definitely didn't watch it.

At any rate, even if too many 1/10 votes from non-viewers was the problem needing correcting, then why'd it take so long for a 'corrected' version of the rating to finally come about? Why didn't it go up from 5.2 to 6.9 in its very first year of release, rather than several years later? If I had to cite one thing, I'd cite the new Ghostbusters movie announced in 2020 being a turning point. After all, the announcement of a movie that promised to be along the lines of what Ghostbusters fans would want to see, and so essentially apologizing for the last movie AND rewarding the 'toxic incels' with something they want, caused no end of consternation to feminists. After the hard work they put into to shilling for Grrlbusters (via ugly hit job on those critical of it), the new movie naturall felt like a personal attack on THEM (what goes around, comes around huh losers?). So they attacked back. And isn't it funny how these attacks against GB 2021 - including from the moron Leslie Jones herself who compared the movie to of course, TRUMP - were somehow acceptable?

Are there many people who would give 10/10 to a movie they don't plan to watch? Well with just any movie there probably wouldn't be too many, but this wasn't just any movie was it? It can't be ignored what was decided was 'at stake' in terms of politics and social agenda, and so if the media is desperately telling people that fake 1/10 votes are being given by 'hateful bigots', then guess what the outraged are going to do in response? Not just the ones who didn't watch but the ones did watch it but didn't actually feel it was quite THAT good.

You see, it didn't matter whether the movie was filmed, written, plotted or acted well or respectful of its source material - none of that was important when there was a MESSAGE to sell. And it had WOMEN now fighting the ghosts! So it grew sort of a 'cult following', but only amongst those who lapped up the media propaganda that the movie was really a CAUSE to be defended against incel manbabies.

Fuck this movie. And fuck Leslie Jones, the femcel womanbaby.

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I give it a 5/10.
The dialogue caused actors to constantly step on eachother's jokes. I didn't like it, but I've seen much worse. It was certainly better than Black Christmas (2021) or most direct to streaming videos. Honestly, the filmmakers should have stayed off Twitter.

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A "6" IS A FAIR RATING FOR THE FILM...ITS DEEPLY FLAWED BUT NOT TRASH EITHER.

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Yeah I think I agree with you. I saw some of it on TV awhile back, and I thought it looked okay. Some parts were amusing. I might put it at a 5 though, because I think I have to judge a remake a little harsher.

Like, I watched Cocktail for the first time the other night, and I'd rate it at about a 6. But, I think it's better than this Ghostbusters, because it's more original.

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"4" at most... deeply flawed can't amount to "6" that's illogical

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THATS JUST INCORRECT.

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Batwoman is also deeply flawed... do you also give it a "6" ?

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NO SUCH MOVIE.

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🤦it's a series, but nevermind

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EWW...YOU WATCHED THAT?....YOU SHOULD MAKE BETTER CHOICES.🙂

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2 episodes... had to see what it was all about.. unfortunately

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Wow... IMDb is trash... whatever math they do there's no way this movie is a 6.6/10.

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dont tell me - you gave it a 1?

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if you could score a movie 0/10 then that is what this movie deserves.

It has literally no redeeming features.

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THAT IS EXCESSIVE AND UNTRUE.🙂

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My opinion cannot be untrue.

This film is trash on every level.

It isn't funny, they catch no ghosts, the writing is lazy, the VFX are straight out of a Scooby Doo cartoon.

How many dance sequences do you need.

We get it in the first 10 mins. Melissa Mccarthy is fat and Leslie Jones is black. That is the running joke throughout the whole movie.

The villain disapears half way through and completely forgotten about and calling him a villain is a disservice to actual movie villains.

Say no it is not excessive or untrue. This movie deserves a score of 0/10

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YOURE EITHER FILLED WITH HATE OR HAVENT SEEN MORE THAN A COUPLE DOZEN MOVIES IN TOTAL...OTHERWISE...THAT IS EXCESSIVE AND NOT TRUE.🙂

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Whatever.

Opinion cannot be unture even if you don't like it.

Yes i am filled with hate and rage because i dislike this movie. What a childish response. That is a response from someone who has no response and will just use insults to try to win a discussion.

Believe what you want to believe. Doesn't take away the fact theis movie is utter trash.

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IF YOURE FILLED WITH HATE AND RAGE OVER ANY MOVIE...YOU SHOULDNT BE ONLINE...YOU SHOULD BE IN THERAPY.

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Filled with hate, says the person raging in all caps 🙄

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YOU HAVE A LOT TO LEARN.🙂

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if you could score a movie 0/10 then that is what this movie deserves.

And that is why imdb have to some how filter out idiot votes when making their average.
Usually by just throwing out all the 1s and 10s i imagine.

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A lot of people have been watching the movie for the first time in anticipation of the new movie eventually coming out. And they've been able to enjoy it without the chorus of shrill little shit stains who didn't even watch it telling them that it's the worst thing since women were allowed to vote.

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A lot of people must be stupid, because the new movie is not a sequel to that abomination...!

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Or maybe they're not all uptight creeps on the asshole spectrum who impose arbitrary rules like only watching Ghostbusters movies on the same continuity to sate their appetite for the new one.

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no... they are just uptight creeps on the asshole spectrum who impose arbitrary rules like only watching Ghostbusters movies that are not on the same continuity to sate their appetite for the new one.

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Get your own patter, chump. How do you know they didn't watch the other two, creep?

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don't look at the ratings - read the reviews, and not the helpful or recommended reviews, but the most recent reviews - then you get the full picture. imdb is closely affiliated with the studios - ratings reflect as much, and the recommended/most helpful reviews are also all bought and paid for -

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