IMDb is messing with the rating. It’s now rised to 6.9
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1289401/
shareIf you click the actual rating it has the following statement.
NOTE: Our rating mechanism has detected unusual voting activity on this title. To preserve the reliability of our rating system, an alternate weighting calculation has been applied.
They're quit openly stating they're altering it. Lmao.
US users give it a 5.3 on average with Non-US users giving it a 5.1
The all demos rating is 6.9, whilst the highest individual demographics are Females between 18 and 44 who give it a 6.4 on average. Ridiculous.
I've never seen this before. I checked Captain Marvel to see if they done similar, nope. What's the point of user ratings when they're openly manipulating the ratings? The whole thing is fucking rigged. share
Nowhere in that statement does it suggest anything is rigged. The film has been targeted by people rating it out of hatred rather than giving an honest rating, so they took measures to combat that campaign. I think that's a good move on their part, because it gives a more realistic rating than one that allows a handful of trolls to bomb it with 100,000 1-star ratings.
shareWhat constitutes an honest rating and a rating bore of hatred ?
I'll tell you this, I do hate some films and naturally if I hate them I rate them a 1/10. Mother! (2017) is an example of a 1 star movie for me. If people hate Ghostbusters, for whatever reason, why is their rating less valid ? Because you disagree with their reasoning ?
So many films get poor reviews due to differences they attempted. Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) has a shit ton of 1/10s and till this day still gets people leaving poor reviews because it's a Sci-Fi Horror unrelated to the other slasher entries of the franchise. Should the H3 rating be altered to disregard those haters ?
Why allow people to rate a film 1/10 if you will just disregard it ?
If a dated film holds racist or homopobic content and people rate it 1/10 because of their hatred for those slurs is that not honest ? For example I've seen Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) get a number of 1/10s due to Mickey Rooneys 'yellowface' character. Should they be disregarded because of their hatred for the film based on political beliefs ?
They should not tamper with the voting whatsoever.
It's fine if you truly believe it's a 1-star film and rate it so, but when you rate it 1 out of 10 1,000 times, it becomes a problem. Or, if you start a campaign and recruit 10,000 people to vote the film 1 out of 10 not based on merit, but out of some politics-based gripe, those ratings should be ignored. Don't you agree?
In the case of the Ghostbusters film in question, there was a loud backlash from a small group of detractors, most of whom likely never watched the film, but instead banded together to bomb the reviews. While there is no surefire way to know exactly which reviews are real or not, a lot of fake or repeat votes can be identified and deleted, which seems to be what was done.
Now I know IMDB don't disclose how they calculate the ratings, but I think it's always been assumed and I certainly have been under the assumption that IMDB does not take into consideration new accounts, accounts with little activity or accounts with uneven ratings (i.e, accounts which are a day old, only rated one film, or accounts with say 200 ratings but they're all 10/10).
So their system should already be weeding out bot bombardment. So why Ghostbusters of all things gets a further application on the ratings is to me clear political posturing. They assume the hate for the film is 'misogyny' and thus have taken action against it. That's my reading of the situation.
My stance is if Ghostbuster fans hate the fact they gender swapped them and for them that's a 1/10 offense then that's their prerogative and is no different from masses of people giving Batman & Robin a 1/10 because they don't like how goofy it is, or people giving Halloween III a 1/10 because they don't like the direction it took the franchise in.
As I said I've seen people give Breakfast at Tiffany's a 1/10 because of racism, I've seen others give early 00s Horror films a 1/10 because it contains a homophobic slur. If that ruins the film for them, then so be it.
As for campaigns and recruitment, I agree people shouldn't do that. But unfortunately that's the nature of the beast. I remember The Dark Knight vs The Godfather war where TDK fans campaigned to get it first place by spamming 1/10 ratings on it's competition. They succeeded.
I'd greatly prefer they didn't tamper with the ratings beyond stringent bot prevention. But that's just my stance, have a nice day.
Agree with you completely, SASKIA47. Great points, with this one being especially pertinent:
So their system should already be weeding out bot bombardment. So why Ghostbusters of all things gets a further application on the ratings is to me clear political posturing.
This was a case of a politically preapproved movie being promoted by woke media as a 'cause', therefore leading IMDb to do their part to protect and elevate it. They certainly would never go through this kind of trouble for a movie for with say, overtly conservative or Christian themes that got bombarded with a bunch 1 votes in a campaign from angry liberals (something I bet it'd be easy to find happened to for example, a Dinesh D'Souza documentary).
Still, even that doesn't entirely explain the mystery of why the movie sat at a 5/10 for years, before shooting up to nearly a 7. The automatic answer from the usual (woke crybaby) suspects is to complain about how 'troll votes' skewered the initial score, yet that doesn't explain why it took YEARS before fixing this troll vote problem allowed for an actual score jump (and a big one). I can only pinpoint the fact that it was almost immediately following the announcement of Ghostbusters 2021 that 2016's score started climbing up. We know that that a lot of feminists were quite upset by the announcement, bemoaning the fact that the GB fanbase of 'toxic manbabies' were being rewarded with a movie they actually wanted.
So you look up one day and suddenly GB 2016's score is nearly two whole points higher.
Draw your own conclusions (which are pretty easy).