IMDB user ratings of movies and why I ignore them

IMDB user ratings of movies and why I ignore them Oct 27, 2021 9:59:16 GMT Winter_King likes this

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Post by Jason143 on Oct 27, 2021 9:59:16 GMT

Oct 27, 2021 8:24:08 GMT Winter_King said:

Oct 26, 2021 23:27:13 GMT movielover said:

I still like to use IMDb ratings as a guide because they’re generally pretty accurate (despite my disagreeing big time with a rating on occasion).

I do agree that comedies (as well as horror movies) tend to get underrated on IMDb and that animated movies tend to get slightly overrated

I think the IMDB rating is much better indicator than the tomatometer on RT.

I have yet to find a IMDB rating of a movie that is highly egregious. But it happens all the time with RT, especially recently. Some examples:

Black Panther 96%. (7.3 on imdb)

Shape of Water 92% (7.3 on imdb)

The Last Jedi 91% (6.9 on imdb)

T would say the imdb is a pretty fair score for those movies wheras the RT is a huge over reach.