I agree with you, but the problem is, IMDb collates ratings from thousands of people, each of whom have their own scale. I might have the same opinion about a movie, but I rate it as a 5 because it was completely average, and the next person who feels the same gives it a 7.
I would love to use a service that asks you a series of questions about a movie and generates a rating based on that. That way, if you’re honest about your answers, the ratings should match. Questions like “was the acting good?” with answers like “the acting was exceptional,” “the acting was bad,” and “the acting didn’t make me think about it at all.” But if you ask if the movie was good? If it’s a movie about a working man being pushed to the breaking point and he dies, the rich man is going to like that a lot more than a working man.
Then you have review bombing. I think the best example of this is Fullmetal Alchemist. FMA fans believe that no anime should be rated higher than FMA, so if something starts to get popular, they will organise a review bombing of it. Don’t get me wrong, Fullmetal Alchmist was a good anime, but it was also kinda trash. The first series in 2003 did 20-odd episodes, caught up with the manga, then they decided to write their own ending/second half. In 2009 after the books were done, they did a remake, but the first episode was original (not in the books), the next nine summed up the first half of the books (because the 2003 series already covered that), and then the next 50-odd episodes cover the second half of the books, so you have one where the pacing is good but the story goes off the rails (IMO, in a good way, I like where they took it), and another one where it’s more true to the books (except that random ass first episode) but the pacing sucks. To top it all off, the lead actor was accused of sexual misconduct a few years ago and has basically been cancelled online. It’s still an awesome series, but is it so good that nearly 20 years later, nothing can be rated more highly?
What dub did you think I meant? Was I, at any point, speaking French, Japanese, German, or Spanish? No, I was not — so why would you think I’d be talking about some foreign language dub?
I agree with you, but the problem is, IMDb collates ratings from thousands of people, each of whom have their own scale. I might have the same opinion about a movie, but I rate it as a 5 because it was completely average, and the next person who feels the same gives it a 7.
I would love to use a service that asks you a series of questions about a movie and generates a rating based on that. That way, if you’re honest about your answers, the ratings should match. Questions like “was the acting good?” with answers like “the acting was exceptional,” “the acting was bad,” and “the acting didn’t make me think about it at all.” But if you ask if the movie was good? If it’s a movie about a working man being pushed to the breaking point and he dies, the rich man is going to like that a lot more than a working man.
Then you have review bombing. I think the best example of this is Fullmetal Alchemist. FMA fans believe that no anime should be rated higher than FMA, so if something starts to get popular, they will organise a review bombing of it. Don’t get me wrong, Fullmetal Alchmist was a good anime, but it was also kinda trash. The first series in 2003 did 20-odd episodes, caught up with the manga, then they decided to write their own ending/second half. In 2009 after the books were done, they did a remake, but the first episode was original (not in the books), the next nine summed up the first half of the books (because the 2003 series already covered that), and then the next 50-odd episodes cover the second half of the books, so you have one where the pacing is good but the story goes off the rails (IMO, in a good way, I like where they took it), and another one where it’s more true to the books (except that random ass first episode) but the pacing sucks. To top it all off, the lead actor was accused of sexual misconduct a few years ago and has basically been cancelled online. It’s still an awesome series, but is it so good that nearly 20 years later, nothing can be rated more highly?
I just checked and it’s just the English dub’s VO that’s been cancelled, so who cares?
What dub did you think I meant? Was I, at any point, speaking French, Japanese, German, or Spanish? No, I was not — so why would you think I’d be talking about some foreign language dub?
I hadn’t heard about the voice actor. I wonder if someone has done a fan dub… But yeah, review bombers are scum.