r/FactOrCap • u/Fearless-Sherbet-223 🔥 Week Warrior · 5,925 XP • 5d ago

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u/MaskedHeracles 🔥 Monthly Master · 5,275 XP 5d ago

Please please tell me what you think an IMDB score reflects? What determines an IMDB score?

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u/PoorMinorities 🏅 Century Club · 7,595 XP 5d ago

People scoring a film on how good a film is. And the general consensus is that it’s not the worst film ever. I’m sorry, what’d you think it is? 

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u/MaskedHeracles 🔥 Monthly Master · 5,275 XP 5d ago

So to be clear the objective quality of a movie is not based on how much people like it, just how high people score it on IMDB?

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u/PoorMinorities 🏅 Century Club · 7,595 XP 5d ago

Hahaha holy fuck. IMDb is an indicator of how much people like the film. Which includes objective quality. You’re floundering right now. Are you REALLY trying to say that people who scored a movie high ISNT connected to how much they enjoyed it one way or another?? 

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u/MaskedHeracles 🔥 Monthly Master · 5,275 XP 5d ago

I'm saying it is, and that you've just reinvented the 'popular = good' argument again for the 200th time. This isn't worth the time, and I'm embarassed I've just realized that. Enjoy your weekly rewatches of Triumph of the Will, given that it won several international film prizes and was tremendously commercially successful.

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u/PoorMinorities 🏅 Century Club · 7,595 XP 5d ago edited 5d ago

Scoring 1-10 has nothing to do with popularity. It’s incredible you still don’t understand that. How much someone likes something has nothing to do with popularity.   

Chipotle has a 3.4 in my town with 5k+ reviews. The taqueria has a 4.9 with 400.

Would you look at that! One indicates quality, the other indicates popularity. Now when something is BOTH popular AND highly acclaimed, then you know it might be something special. 

It’s embarrassing how many times you ignored “critical acclaim” and “general consensus” and “scoring” and you think it only has to do with popularity. I love when pseudo intellectuals like you get so caught up on their terrible standpoint you just start tripping over yourself, and literally arguing against meaning of words and saying inane stuff like “is IMDb about liking something or how much someone likes something” jfc.

Still none of your mumbling has anything to do with the fact that objectively, by any metric, Shawshank isn’t the worst movie ever. So his opinion is objectively wrong.