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I've noticed a trend with IMDB reviews: * The rating will be very high around release time, then drop a point or two after a few weeks * The top 1-2 reviews w

by graeme 11y ago

I've noticed a trend with IMDB reviews: * The rating will be very high around release time, then drop a point or two after a few weeks * The top 1-2 reviews will be 9-10 star. After that will follow a large number of reviews saying the movie was terrible. I first noticed this with movies that I disliked, and couldn't believe their high imdb rating. For example, I loathed American Hustle, and it had that same pattern. That movie was around 8.4 when first out, and had a ten star review on top. (I've now noticed the ten star review is gone.)

dublinben 11y ago
It's likely that you just have specific tastes, and you were not the target audience for that movie. It is almost universally liked by critics, earning a 93% on RT and 90% on MC. The high rating on IMDB wasn't misleading in any way.
- graeme 11y ago
  It's possible, but then what's going on with the imdb reviews? The users hate it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1800241/reviews?ref_=tt_ov_rt http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1800241/reviews?ref_=tt_ov_rt When I look at older movies (pre 2010 or so) there is no such divergence in rotten tomatoes and imdb user reviews. Recent movies have a massive divergence. I'm not sure what's going on.
- graeme 11y ago
  It's possible, but then what's going on with the imdb reviews? The users hate it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1800241/reviews?ref_=tt_ov_rt http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1800241/reviews?ref_=tt_ov_rt When I look at older movies (pre 2010 or so) there is no such divergence in rotten tomatoes and imdb user reviews. Recent movies have a massive divergence. I'm not sure what's going on.
aaron695 11y ago
> The rating will be very high around release time Pretty simple, people see movies they think will suit them early so will rate slightly higher than the rest who see it later / on DVD and rate it less. There's a type of movie that fools critics and American Hustle was one. I think it was great but it was over rated. But it took a while for that to get out. Rarely it goes the other way where movies break genre so the keen people are a little disappointed but the rest are pleasantly surprised and the rating goes up.

by graeme 11y ago

dublinben 11y ago

It's likely that you just have specific tastes, and you were not the target audience for that movie. It is almost universally liked by critics, earning a 93% on RT and 90% on MC. The high rating on IMDB wasn't misleading in any way.

graeme 11y ago
It's possible, but then what's going on with the imdb reviews? The users hate it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1800241/reviews?ref_=tt_ov_rt http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1800241/reviews?ref_=tt_ov_rt When I look at older movies (pre 2010 or so) there is no such divergence in rotten tomatoes and imdb user reviews. Recent movies have a massive divergence. I'm not sure what's going on.
graeme 11y ago
It's possible, but then what's going on with the imdb reviews? The users hate it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1800241/reviews?ref_=tt_ov_rt http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1800241/reviews?ref_=tt_ov_rt When I look at older movies (pre 2010 or so) there is no such divergence in rotten tomatoes and imdb user reviews. Recent movies have a massive divergence. I'm not sure what's going on.

aaron695 11y ago

> The rating will be very high around release time Pretty simple, people see movies they think will suit them early so will rate slightly higher than the rest who see it later / on DVD and rate it less. There's a type of movie that fools critics and American Hustle was one. I think it was great but it was over rated. But it took a while for that to get out. Rarely it goes the other way where movies break genre so the keen people are a little disappointed but the rest are pleasantly surprised and the rating goes up.