The IMDb rating for the film jumped up way high
It was at 5.2 r something before then one day jus jumped up to 6.7. Hmmm
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shareIt's really hard for me to believe any IMDB ratings anymore. The visceral this movie has produced should make it impossible to get anything higher than a 5. The original is 7.8, so this is only 1.1 worse?
Ghostbusters 2 has a 6.6. So this is a better movie than Ghostbuster 2, which had all the original cast in it?
Sadly, I go to Google Reviews and read the first few comments now, and even then with a grain of salt. I feel like everything else is manipulated.
It's because people are streaming it that never saw it before and aren't scared off by (or even aware of) the shit that some sad obsessed people post about it and then add their score to IMDb.
Sorry if that offends you.
What utter and complete BS. Seriously get over yourself. What does getting 'scared off' of watching a movie mean anyway? (Unless you mean because of the ghosts?) You either want to see a movie or you don't, and there is never an obligation to watch anything - not even a woke movie. (Sorry if that offends you!)
Thousands of people didn't suddenly, all at once decide to watch this forgettable little shit remake they had no interest in years ago, and they most certainly didn't change the general consensus from what it was for many years (since even the critics who watched it could barely work up praise for it - they just defended the IDEA of the it). Now, there ARE movies that over time went from poorly received to much more praised - even attaining 'classic' status (Scarface, Vertigo, Blade Runner, even It's a Wonderful Life are some examples)...BUT this tended to happen as gradual reappraisals lead by professional critics and filmmakers, for movies that were decades old and were originally underpromoted, released in poorly cut versions, or were just poorly understood for their time. This is not the case with Grrlbusters, which is only five years old, and has undergone no re-examination from critics OR from fans (ONLY the IMDb score changed). It has been reviewed as between average and unwatchably awful, and is still the same exact movie it was in 2016 - a movie that is virtually impossible to find any fans of. A movie that its own distributing studio disowned.
That's funny. You're the type of person that would try to sell ice to an Eskimo.
shareUp to 6.9 now. IMDb is officially a complete joke. I'd love to see the SJWs who cried foul about 'incel trolling' explain this sudden overnight ratings surge. I'd just like to see them explain the merits of this movie while leaving the audience drama and politics completely out of it.
Notice it has jumped ahead of Ghostbusters 2. Who the fuck is buying that? Just think about how much fun and joy the Ghostbusters franchise brought millions of fans going all the way back to the 80s. Think about the childhood memories, the toys, the Saturday morning cartoon, Nintendo games, the movie's endlessly quotable lines and still hilarious scenes. What a shining moment it was for at least three great comedic stars. Jump ahead to 2016 and these fans who had so long been eager for a new release, were finally offered one - only to learn that it resembled nothing of the original in spirit, was instead heavy on trendy political correctness and braindead, juvenile-minded humor, and featuring subpar excuses for 'comedic stars'. Not only that, but the creators and their paid off media lackeys then staged a campaign to denigrate and dehumanize fans who were not happy with this disrespectful dumpster fire of a movie offering. (Probably creating some Trump supporters in the process given the year it was - lol.)
Now imagine that fanbase having a sudden 'epiphany' in the last year or so that this tasteless reboot with all its baggage, and all the abuse they took, "was not so bad after all". Is that realistic? Of course not, because there's no shot in hell that this movie would ever win over those fans. So then where would this sudden substantial change in IMDb score be coming from? As far as I can gather, it can only be coming from the people who fought most hard to defend it in 2016. The change in score happened leading up to the release of Ghostbuster 2021, which these people were pretty vocal in opposing as 'a slap in the face to 2016'. So they obviously decided to activate a campaign to get 2016 movie's IMDb score raised, whether it involved actually WATCHING it or not (which you know they didn't). Naturally the now compromised IMDb opted to go along with these shenanigans, telling you all you need to know how much you can ever trust them again as a movie source.
But fortunately, the influence of these triggered turds IS limited to IMDb, since NO where outside of the site has the movie been actually reevaluated.
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Does anyone even use IMDB anymore?
shareYou have to be straight up insane to rate this movie a 7.
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