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I remember the imdb-ratings on movies from India were also absurdly high, I brushed it off as a cultural thing back then; but unfortunately [0] the rigging seem

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• yes_no 4y ago
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  • guesswho_ 4y ago
  • hackernewds 4y ago
    This seems like one of the widest tangents to an unrelated (even if important) topic I've seen on HN :)
    • hef19898 4y ago
      Hoenstly, the recent trend of specifically created accoubts posting shit like that under everything even just remotely India related is troublesome. Especially since it either to paint any, slight criticism as being anti-Hinu and anti-Modi or to paint Indians as victims of cololianism (true, but no excuse to do whatever you want and usually used totally out of cont!xt) or those evil Muslims (using the same made up shit Islamophobs in the West use). HN is no place to spread propagabda of any kind, would be nice to keep it that way.
• humaniania 4y ago
  After Amazon bought IMDB it became more about advertising for movies and less about being a database. Same thing as when Warner Bros and Universal Studios (via its parent Comcast) bought RottenTomatoes. Now everything brags about it's RT rating when it's coming from 2 movie studios...
  • 411111111111111 4y ago
    RT at least still has viewer ratings. You predictably can't sort by them but it's at least an indicator if the reviewer and viewer score are on completely different heights. And you've got trakt.tv now too, not sure if anyone owns that
  • cobbaut 4y ago
    > After Amazon bought IMDB it became more about advertising for movies and less about being a database. Yes, but several years later, since Amazon bought IMDB back in 1998!
  • tyingq 4y ago
    >less about being a database I do really like the "X-ray" feature in Amazon Prime, which I assume is partially powered by IMDB. I miss it when using other services like HBOMax, Netflix, etc.
• rurban 4y ago
  Indian fake ratings are a big thing, but from my own experience collecting good ratings, I can attest that keeping fakes out if the system is a big effort, and it cannot be done manually. I implemented a complicated but fair statistical system to keep fake ratings out from my site. But I'm only doing the top 3 film festivals, not all the crap. The manual blacklist is still huge. In the west the biggest offender is A24 btw. And to be fair to the Indian movies: The top Indian movies are usually better than the best western movies. But we didn't have top Indian movies for almost over a decade now.
  • worthless-trash 4y ago
    > The top Indian movies are usually better than the best western movies. Is that because they are in your native tongue ? Or is there some kind of rating site.... oh wait ;)
    • rurban 4y ago
      I"m an Austrian film critic, who just watches most good movies. Since Indian movies rarely make to to western festivals (mostly only Rome), there's not much to compare with. The ones which make it into Cannes are entirely different, and not as the good ones which make it into Rome or dominate the local markets. Berlin has nothing (but Dil Se won there ages ago, still the top Indian movie), Sundance had at least Gangs Of Wasseypur.
  • palimpsests 4y ago
    it seems you left out a few words: > In my opinion, the top Indian movies are usually better than the best Western movies.
    • loeg 4y ago
      If it wasn't his opinion, he wouldn't say it.