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WTH is wrong with IMDB

posted 16 years ago by Ransom-7
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Ok, as someone who saw the 7.X rating and thought "wow, must be a decent movie!" and then spent 90 minutes wondering if I should just shut it off or not...

THIS IS A CRAP FILM. Laughably bad in fact.

So don't be fooled by the ratings or glowing reviews, the only way I can rationalize this is Fox Pictures or whoever has some kind of giant sock-puppet team that is manipulating things here.

To think anything less would cause me to lose hope for my fellow man.

[–] kennethfriend 16 years ago

I won't be fooled by you anyway. The movie was pretty good. I won't be thinking about it for weeks, but it was better than much and not worse than some. No need for such superlative language.

[–] devastation_x 16 years ago

I don't look at the rankings. They are voted on by the same nitwits who vote for pitiful amateurs as their singing idols.

But whatever number people deemed it to be, it was a suck ass movie.

[–] Phanatic77 16 years ago

Just a few words and it should clear everything up:

1. This movie wasn't mind blowing as the Matrix, or entertaining as let’s say Lethal Weapon, nor was it as dramatic as The Departed. However someone said it was on the level with Training Day, and I'd tend to agree, it had somewhat of a similar tone. In addition it had some great cameos as well as minor supporting roles that made it more entertaining and authentic to itself.

2. If to be honest they could've gone with better than Keanu if they would've wanted a very dynamic character. However as you can tell, the character meant to be somewhat of a black-sheep that's mainly following orders while trying to get clues to his own agenda, and while is the main protagonist, his character is entirely driven and fed off of the other characters around him. That's Keanu's biggest gift and biggest flaw. He can carry a tremendous movie, but somehow his character is never the catalyst, rather propelled into action and then taking a life on its own. This is why some people may call him a wooden actor... But believe me, he's far from it. There's no way you can take the character from The Replacements, Bill and Ted, Devil's advocate, Speed, The Matrix or The Watcher and say it's the same one every time, not to mention this one as well.

And as far as this movie to be compared to one, I'd say it's just as good if not better than Dark Blue, which I thought was well made and well acted.

3. Trolls will always claim a good movie sucks and never bother to explain what it is they disliked. And the reason why they can't is the same reason why they could not comprehend the movie. So instead of hating themselves for not getting it, they blame the movie. No troll has ever successfully managed properly to elucidate what it is that they disliked. It doesn't have to be convincing, but at least compelling.

[–] BaronVictor 16 years ago

Yep that sounds about right.

You ain't leadin' but two things, right now: Jack and sh!t... and Jack left town.

[–] iffy619 13 years ago

Very well said. I really enjoyed this film and I don't get the hate for keanu reeves , I think he is a good actor.

"Whoo-ah"

[–] killamike316 16 years ago

The rating that street kings got on imdb is pretty high, too high in my opinon. There are a lot of movies on imdb that are better movies than street kings but have lower ratings than it, which is baffling--and why i dont take the imdb ratings seriously at all (a lot of movies are unfairly underrated and there are a lot of overrated ones as well). The first half of the movie was promising but it sinks in the second half---because i thought that it was kinda predictable in a bad way, and cliche as well. But Revees does give a solid performance in it, and Forest Whitaker is good as always. But they wasted Chris Evans' character, they should had gave him more to do in the movie. I would say that around the 6 area is fair, since a lot of movies seem to have ratings around that area for some reason. That rating that street kings has makes it seem like its one of the best of 2008.

[–] Phanatic77 16 years ago

What movies on IMDB scored lower than Street Kings that are actually better, or deserve to be rated better.

In addition, you must consider Genres when you bring Examples, because different Genre movies' ratings will always differ from one to another. Even though I brought the Lethal Weapon example, S.K. and the latter should not be compared on the same level. L.W. might as-well be rated 7.1 on its own, but it would be rated with contrast to movies in that typical genre and them while S.K. will be contrasted to ones alike Training Day, The Recruit, The Departed and Dark Blue... and Among them, I think 7.0 or 7.1 is very fair. The Departed was great but extremely overated and everyone knows this. And yes, S.K. was predictable and slightly cliche'd but it was written that way on purpose. I doubt that it meant to have the OMG twist End. I mean as soon as the young rookie wanted to tag along for the meet I knew the outcome of that. But like I said before, nowadays everything has been done and seen, so it's not so much about originality anymore as it is about story-telling. And this one told it well, was believable to a degree and compelling.

[–] Nina_and_Inge 15 years ago

It's a Hollywood movie, for Christ's sake... does anyone really expect anything intelligent to come out of the USA? I'll give it 1.5, despite never having seen it, simply because I might consider sleeping with Keanu Reeves if he were to ask me, but that's about as generous as I'm prepared to be.

[–] ryanboudreau 16 years ago

Simply because you didn't like doesn't mean the entire world needs to hate it. I gave it a 7/10 because you can't give half star ratings on this site, though I round up. The ratings are not based an average vote, not a critic score. I'm sure there are hundreds of people who thought that the top ten movies on this site deserved a 1 star.

[–] Vagabond7154 16 years ago

******Ok, as someone who saw the 7.X rating and thought "wow, must be a decent movie!" and then spent 90 minutes wondering if I should just shut it off or not...

THIS IS A CRAP FILM. Laughably bad in fact.

So don't be fooled by the ratings or glowing reviews, the only way I can rationalize this is Fox Pictures or whoever has some kind of giant sock-puppet team that is manipulating things here.******

Yeah, because Fox gives a s**t about what IMDB comment junkies have to say about one of their films. They employed a mass team of voters to get the score up because they knew that the talent, writers, etc. attached to the project would not contribute to strategic marketing, but that your reviews would be quite the contrary annnnnd because they knew that the general public of moviegoers would totally ignore the marketing and come straight to IMDB to get the real skinny on what you thought in order to determine if they should see it. So, they were in such panic about your valued opinion that they bought the polls. Makes sense. Let me guess- do you consider yourself to be indie?

[–] coolcleangreen 16 years ago

while not excellent, the movie was definitely good and entertaining. not as good as training day as others have said, but in the same genre as training day, dark blue, the departed, etc...i think street kings holds its own. i gave it a 7 because the starpower carries the film if the dialogue doesn't.

besides... movies + big guns + common (even for 2 secs of screen time) = me happee :)

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"the whole world's on fire, isn't it?"

[–] jackkiller21 16 years ago

Its really a worst movie.I gave only 4 for this movie.At the first this movie rating was 8.2 in IMDB,thats t reason i watched it.And after couple of months its rating was 6.8.And now some nuts voted it to reach 7.Screw them. :-[]

[–] beakage 16 years ago

What really boggles my mind, is how can a individual post such a completly ordinary, pointless, lousy writen shyte, and then go "OMG!!! This is brilliant!! I'm gonna post it twice!!!"

"Oh well. If we fail it's only death."

[–] MeridianWest 15 years ago

i agree completely.

fortunately i downloaded it on the internet. it's the first time in my life i'm thoroughly glad i used illegal means to watch a film. i'm f'cking glad i didn't contribute one cent to this piece of sh't. a retarded film.