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I have use IMDb's rating system to download a bunch of movies to start a collection. They have this listing by year, which gives the "most popular" movies of that year, each movie then with its own rating, which I followed to do my downloads. I basically downloaded those with ratings 6.5 or higher. Here is one example of the lists:
Now that I have a chance to starting seeing some of the movies I downloaded, I found that many of the movies sucks. I would watch a movie for 5 minutes, and I want to stop.
Is Hollywood generally produces crap movies? Or is IMDb just not a good guide on movies? If the latter, what might be a better rating guide?
The idea is to find movies you like. Once you do, pay attention to who the director is. Many of new movies I see are from the director of the last great watch that I just had. This method seldom disappoints. I rarely follow actors, though a few crop up that I do follow (latest: Sally Hawkins).
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The prob with RT is that many movies rated "fresh" contain negative remarks, and movies rated "rotten" contain positive remarks (sometimes with equivalent scores like 2.5/5 or 3/5), so it's less than reliable.
Or is IMDb just not a good guide on movies? If the latter, what might be a better rating guide?
IMDB is a horrible guide for movies. The site has suffered from shill voting and down rating campaigns for a very long time. None of any of the lists that it pulls are reliable at all.
I think maybe "oeccscclhjhn" is on the right track. Start with lists maybe created by critics. But the IMDB, fuhgeddaboutit.
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