Seems to be a push from Amazon (they own IMDB if you didn’t know) to enshitify user reviews across the board. They’re doing it on Amazon for some items as well, but even worse.
There’s only one user review I’ve read that I ever got anything out of: it was a review left for Sex and The City Movie 2, and it was hilarious. Just going on about how awful everything in that movie is.
Used to go to:
- Look up cast lists
- Read the forums on trailers
Now:
- The cast list is obfuscated and harder to navigate
- The forums were removed
I use TMDB now
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Then it has no value to casual browsers, which is probably a majority of their visits. No ones signing up for that shit (i hope)
I agree they have no value. Most of the ones I’ve read have been pretending like they’re Siskel or Ebert using an LLM to write some excessively long review just to get likes and climb the influencer ladder.
The only reason I ever had an account was the boards which they killed.
Now it just prompts me to log in and its like… why?
ENSHITIFICTION
Their design, layout and navigation are fucking terrible.
It began as crowd sourced database that became enshittified even before Amazon bought it.
It was cool up until the mid-1990s.
ENSHIGIFICTION
As opposed to enshigi non-fiction?
Fuck dyslexia…
Thanks IMDB. It’s been real.
themoviedb.
comorg ist way better anyways.Oops, you’re right of course.
This is the way.
Its a shame i really enjoyed the brainrot of seeing assorted yokels prattle on about how project hail mary is an evil woke movie that brainwashed them into being gay and also had too much dialogue and too much emotion and they skipped through everything that wasn’t a shot of the CG ships flying around
I used to love going to the IMDb forum and reading all of the user posts. There was a troll named Michael flatley that was genius
Letterboxd is where it’s at
Letterboxd is more like a social media for movies instead of a user movie review site.
It’s also terrifically unhinged
Was that review written by Peter Griffin?
the top rated imdb reviews have a half decent chance at being interesting to read. the top rated letterboxd reviews are all extremely shit, unfunny jokes
I don’t like IMDb, but I’m not ready to move yet. I’ve exported everything to TMDB (The Movie Database) but I still use both. IMDb has the trivia. TVDB doesn’t have an app. I use Safari web shortcuts for both (and Wikipedia).
Doesn’t have an app
That sounds like a plus to me
Yes and no. IMDb is ten billion percent better in Safari if you have a competent content blocker. On the Android side, I wouldn’t make the shortcut, because I assume it would go through Chrome. I’d just use Firefox and uBlock Origin. But yes, IMDb without the app is better. However, it doesn’t save searches (which also might be a plus, but if I keep coming back to what I’m watching, having the history does save time).
If a site is perfectly servicable without an app, I’d recommend people just do that all day long. Apps are not the best thing, but they’re convenient to a point. I think people should be aware of what apps can do without their permission vs web content. This varies between iOS and Android too, so you gotta know what you’re running and what it can do/what can be done to it by others.
App for a web site is ALWAYS worse. I hate that shit. The only time the app is better is if they purposefully make the mobile site worse so you switch to the app. Facebook was excellent at doing this.
Who cares? The reviews are the worst part of IMDB. I use it to verify facts of a movie - year, actors, director, etc. I have no interest in the weird opinions that end up on IMDB.
Then you should use themoviedb.org
If you want good reviews use Letterboxd. Funniest meme shit on there.
It did get mildly enshitified recently too though because they moved the reviews under a button in favor of cast and crew listings. Like, no one cares about that Letterboxd, we have IMDB and TMDB for that. We don’t need a third option, just stick to tracking and meme reviews.
My son is a big cinephile, and Letterboxd is his go-to. He doesn’t even want hear about IMDB.
Exactly. This is a non issue. Like being upset you have to sign into Next Door to see Doris down the street complain about things.
The only time I cared about reviews on imdb was this one guy who had a absolutely ludicrous amount of porn reviews and looked exactly like the type of person to have a ludicrous amount of porn reviews.
Ok, but why is the button Hub themed 😳
Aren’t there some alternative movie rating databases?
no boomers allowed
