{"id":141,"date":"2008-01-06T22:36:31","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T21:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/2008\/01\/06\/has-imdbs-rating-system-lost-its-touch-with-reality\/"},"modified":"2008-01-06T22:51:21","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T21:51:21","slug":"has-imdbs-rating-system-lost-its-touch-with-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/2008\/01\/06\/has-imdbs-rating-system-lost-its-touch-with-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Has IMDbs rating system lost its touch with reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to view the IMDb voting system as one of the greatest examples of why the wisdom of crowds is often much more in touch with reality than a panel of experts but lately some &#8220;b-movies&#8221; have been getting excellent initial scores. First it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0417148\/\">Snakes on a Plane<\/a> that started above 8.0 but now is at 6.5, and then we have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0758730\/\">AvP2<\/a> which apparently started at above 7.5 but now is below 6. The following comment on IMDb more or less summed up my feelings:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> This movie really sucked. In fact, after using the IMDb for some years, I just now registered to be able to vote and comment on how bad this movie sucks.<\/p>\n<p>Just before I went to see this, I looked it up here and was positively surprised to find a 7.6 rating with &gt;800 votes. But what I saw at the theater makes me think that all the money the studio saved on writers and cast was spend on &gt; 400 people who rated this thing 10.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Are movie studies actively abusing systems like IMDb to try and lure people into the theaters? And if they are, what will iMDB do about to not become irrelevant?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to view the IMDb voting system as one of the greatest examples of why the wisdom of crowds is often much more in touch with reality than a panel of experts but lately some &#8220;b-movies&#8221; have been getting excellent initial scores. First it was Snakes on a Plane that started above 8.0 but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}