I follow IMDB ratings

[evilkog]

I'm sure we all do it to an extent but it's pretty cringe to admit. I'll check a show's IMDB rating before watching it. If it's under a 7, I won't watch it unless the summary is really interesting. I've found that IMDB tends to overrate, but rarely underrates. People give shows a nice rating for having a nice aesthetic regardless of substance, if they're unique, just because other people said so etc. But it's very rare I'll find something rated below a 6 worth watching. If there is though tell me I need something to watch.

 

[Estate]

Pinky, go to Deep Thoughts if you want to inform us you're a faggot.

 

[Dysnomia]

I don't use ratings at all. I use summaries. I also sometimes read the whole plot summary. I don't care about spoilers because I figure I've seen just about every plot device already anyway. Not much is new under the sun. What I care about is the execution. And since my tastes are more eclectic I will probably find that weird low rated indie film to be more entertaining than its ratings suggest. Yet I cannot sit through blockbusters like Titanic. The best film about the Titanic will always be A Night To Remember.

 

[Idiotron]

There's a trick to IMDB ratings:

1.0-3.0 is mostly amateur shit that you and I can make over the weekend with an iPhone 6.

If it's 3.5-4.5, that has a high chance of being funny bad.

5.0 is competently made slop that you won't remember after 1 hour.

If something is 6.0 or around there and there is a lot of 1's and 10's, that is possibly a really good movie that dummies just don't get.

7.0-8.5 is usually reserved for mainstream trash like modern capeshit.

Movies rated 9.0 and above... that depends.
Anything with a big budget made after 2005 with that rating is most likely some soup of the day "greatest movie of all time" that consoomers all upvote.
Older movies and smaller budget movies with a really high rating are usually the good ones.

This of course can be wrong but it's a solid guide, I think.

 

[Giles Corey]

Wouldn't go as far as to say I follow the ratings but IMBD ratings are a fairly reliable for how likely I am to enjoy a movie. I know people like to bitch, crib, sob and moan when they have disagreements with a site's rating system but I just move on.

Same shit the Oscars. So many people always crib about the Oscars selections and wins. Why people can't just treat it as the other team winning the superbowl boggles my mind. Honesty, something I noticed with the Oscar moaners is that very often they have no unique opinions. They will follow consensus as much as possible.

There's a trick to IMDB ratings:



7.0-8.5 is usually reserved for mainstream trash like modern capeshit.

Dude. Lots of things of movies, young, old, big budget or indie are there. Tbh 90% of movies that are considered good are probably within in that bracket.

Movies rated 9.0 and above... that depends.
Anything with a big budget made after 2005 with that rating is most likely some soup of the day "greatest movie of all time" that consoomers all upvote.
Older movies and smaller budget movies with a really high rating are usually the good ones.

There's only one movie that would really fit that description "The Dark Knight".

I don't know. You're trying to sound like you know a lot.