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[swee'pea99]

I do, as a filter. By my tastes it over-rates noisy plot-free crap like Iron Man and under-rates most foreign language films, but if it gives a low-ish score to a mainstream release I have always found that it was indeed a waste of a fiver. And it is a well built website with a huge amount of information.

I agree. IMDB is far from perfect, but you get to learn and allow for most of its 'imperfections', and on the whole it's a fairly reliable starting point at the very least.

 

[Over The Hill]

Surely it falls down in that on paper it is just a far fetched story that some seem to buy into.

On the screen is there really a boat in which they shove two lions and two zebras! Acted out it must become rather laughable.

 

[ASC1951]

...On the screen is there really a boat in which they shove two lions and two zebras! Acted out it must become rather laughable.

It worked well with Life of Pi, an excellent film. OTOH it was only a boat, a boy and one tiger - and the tiger was animatronic.

 

[Lullabelle]

Really, you use IMDB ratings? They put Shawshank Redemption as the best film ever made.

It was a great book but I haven't seen the film.

 

[ASC1951]

A great film, too. It would be on my Best 50 list, although not in the top half - I would put Kieslowski's Three Colours trilogy above it, for instance, which came out the same year.

 

[ufkacbln]

I miss Barry Norman.

He was always a good source, and I usually found his opinions reliable

 

[ASC1951]

I miss Barry Norman.
He was always a good source, and I usually found his opinions reliable

Same here. But even Barry had the constraint that he couldn't say on primetime TV "this film is absolute pants. Do not waste your money" - because he had a living to earn as well. IMDb is in that sense entirely honest.

 

[Ganymede]

Rotten Tomatoes can be a useful site...

BTW I've just seen the Indian film "The Lunchbox" and it was utterly, utterly brilliant. Hilarious and heartrending.

 

[ufkacbln]

Same here. But even Barry had the constraint that he couldn't say on primetime TV "this film is absolute pants. Do not waste your money" - because he had a living to earn as well. IMDb is in that sense entirely honest.

I always though that he had a way of emphasis and tone that would convey the message that the film was worse than he was actually saying

 

[DiddlyDodds]

So the film was a wash out !

 

[ufkacbln]

I don't understand all the fuss, surely this is a storm in a teacup

 

[Dave Davenport]

Surely it must be a bit like that film about the plane crash in the Andes 'Alive'. Not great, but compelling none the less because it's a true story and has some good special effects. .