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Trivial? Trivial to build a site, populate it with critic content for each movie, as either text or scores that seem credible to a particular audience type? Or
by riazrizvi 7y ago
Trivial? Trivial to build a site, populate it with critic content for each movie, as either text or scores that seem credible to a particular audience type? Or trivial to carve out market share from Rotten Tomatoes/Imdb/Metacritic?
- derefr 7y agoTrivial to use cash-on-hand to buy a small existing movie reviews site and rebrand it.
- squarefoot 7y agoThe real challenge is to build a reliable reviews mechanism, then resist the temptation to sell it to media companies. IMDB moved from a respectable site to a parody of itself for that exact reason: they didn't resist and today their reviews are complete garbage. They got to the point of removing the comments section altogether when users found how to spot fake accounts that were created just to give bogus ratings.
- will_pseudonym 7y agoIMDb is owned by Amazon (from Apr 1998), which explains the lack of concern about quality user reviews. Rotten Tomatoes has been suffering the same fate, as it's now owned by Fandango (from Feb 2016).
- dragonwriter 7y ago> IMDB moved from a respectable site to a parody of itself for that exact reason: they didn't resist and today their reviews are complete garbage. We're IMDB reviews ever good? I used them from fairly early on, but only for actual factual (mostly vast/crew) information, the reviews were always, AFAIR, pretty useless.
- dvt 7y agoBoth really, but I meant the latter. People don't really trust Rotten Tomatoes (and IMDb and Metacritic are memes at this point). I'm sure Moviefone's parent company has a few mil to spend.
- flafla2 7y agoMaybe you should read the article. The full headline is: "Moviefone, Worth 1% of Its Former Value, Is Being Run by One Employee After Parent Company’s Bankruptcy "