Today I Learned @lemmy.world lousyd @lemmy.sdf.org 6d ago

TIL "This is Spinal Tap" has a 7.9/11 rating on IMDB

m.imdb.com Hei me rokataan! (1984) ⭐ 7.9 | Comedy, Music

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It's disappointing that they didn't hardcode it to 11/10
- To be fair, the joke is "it goes up to 11."
  
  To be fair.
IMD ratings are stupid. I almost never see a rating even as high as 9 for anything no matter how much people love a movie or consider it one of the greatest ever made:

Citizen Kane: 8.3
The Maltese Falcon: 7.9
Star Wars: 8.6
No Country for Old Men: 8.2
The Shining: 8.4
Lawrence of Arabia: 8.3
Psycho: 8.5

Here's a few 9s.

Schindler's List: 9.0
The Godfather: 9.2
The Shawshank Redemption: 9.3

That's how rare it is. Even The Shawshank Redemption couldn't get a 10.

Edit: Whooosh for me on the joke. And I love This is Spinal Tap too. I love it so much I sat through the terrible 4-hour rough cut on the Internet Archive.
- Rotten Tomato ratings are stupid.
  With every review being either a 👍 or 👎, the most simple meh movie that nobody hates (or loves), gets a 100% fresh.
  
  IMDb and Metacritic are much better.
  
  I honestly don't find any number rating especially useful.
  
  What I have found useful is to follow 3 or 4 specific movie critics, get to know their opinions and contrast them with my own. We're never going to agree on every movie, but at least I'll know why they liked or didn't like it as a way to figure out if it's worth my time.
  
  I find Rotten Tomatoes much more useful. Knowing that 90% of critics gave a favorable review is infinitely more helpful for my decision to watch a movie than its IMDB score.
  
  That's only because the FilthyCritic quit.
- Well at least it's not as broken as games rating, nowadays almost every game is 8-9.9
- I don't want ratings from imdb. I want facts about the film from imdb.
  
  I really like movies that were critically panned. I hate movies that are very popular. I'll watch terrible movies for the MST3K of it all. Ratings are worthless.
  
  I want to know who played Guy With Grocery Bag in the scene in The Clampertons when Glenn Clamperton was running down the street chasing the demon giraffe that stole his pocket watch, you know the guy who says "What in the neck is going on?" Because is he the same guy as the pilot in Club Paradise?
  
  That's what I want imdb for.
  
  I really like movies that were critically panned.
  
  Agreed. Critics hate Zardoz. They are incorrect. In fact, all Zardoz-haters are incorrect.
  
  I hate movies that are very popular.
  
  I really do not like Rogue One. I know everyone else thinks it's the best Star Wars movie. I didn't like it in the theater and then I watched it again to see what I must have missed and I still didn't like it. (I did like Andor.)
  
  I’ll watch terrible movies for the MST3K of it all.
- IMDB ratings are meaningless. I base this on the fact that firefly isn't rated 10/10.
  
  I want all the comments to be "thanks for giving it a shot, Fox. The second season was amazing!"
- ThanksKilling was peak cinema. Gobble gobble, motherfucker!
- I like IMDb ratings as a broad gauge of quality. 99% of movies under 5.5 or so are not something I enjoy. Beyond that it's just taste. Although I like most movies in the top 250, the order of movies (x is better than y) is useless to me.
- Rotten tomatoes is pretty bad too
- It's a better reference to how good a movie might be to a broad audience than most other sources.
  
  Honestly citizen Kane is a 5 for me, tops. Same with Lawrence of Arabia, which is beautiful but not my cup of tea in terms of story
That's because Nigel did the math on his fingers, and he has 6 fingers on his right hand.
Who's the drummer? I don't recognize him. _/jk
- I wouldn't worry about it.
that is funny. I assume all others are out of 10.
Why not just make 10 worth more?
- ….This one goes to 11
Solidifying their reputation as one of England's loudest bands!

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