• Steve@communick.news
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    2 days ago

    They’re about general critic and public sentiment.
    And for that, no movie should ever get a perfect 10. No movie could ever get a perfect 10.
    They are useful for evaluating a movie’s actual quality. But quality has nothing to do with any individuals enjoyment of a movie.

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      They are useful for evaluating a movie’s actual quality.

      Sometimes. When they don’t get brigaded. Movies that star women and minorities or, heaven forbid, queer people bizarrely tend to have much lower scores on the IMDB than movies that star heteronormative white men.