The Internet Movie Database
, a website founded in 1990 that records every movie ever released, along with television series and episodes, video games, actors, voice actors, major characters, and so on and so forth. Every movie has its own little forum for heated and aggressive exchanges to take place. And like any other site, you will sometimes find
Trolls and
Sockpuppets (for absolute troll-magnets, look no further than the "Politics" and "Soapbox" subforums). The
G.I.F.T. became so prevalent in the boards that parent company Amazon
decided to shut them down in 2017.
Users can give 1-10 grades to movies. After the death of
Heath Ledger, many users
pre-emptively gave The Dark Knight a perfect 10 rating, while at the same time giving perennial high rankers such as
The Godfather a rating of 1. Prior to the release of
The Twilight Saga: New Moon the more avid of the
Twilight Fan Dumb gave mass ratings of 10 to the film
before it even came to theaters, luckily
/b/ was there to even it out with a healthy dose of 1s without even seeing it. IMDb's averaging algorithm is designed to compensate for this kind of behaviour to an extent. (This doesn't prevent
some gaming of the system)
Oh, and to remind everyone, we are
not trying to emulate IMDb.
As of February 11, 2017 the
ten highest rated films (scale of 1 - 10) are:
- 9.2 - The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
- 9.2 - The Godfather (1972)
- 9.0 - The Godfather: Part II (1974)
- 8.9 - The Dark Knight (2008)
- 8.9 - 12 Angry Men (1957)
- 8.9 - Schindler's List (1993)
- 8.9 - Pulp Fiction (1994)
- 8.9 - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
- 8.8 - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
- 8.8 - Fight Club (1999)
As of February 11, 2017, the 10
lowest rated films (the Bottom 100 list usually has a lot of movies featured on
Mystery Science Theater 3000) are:
- 1.5 - Codename: K.O.Z. (2015)note Basically a Turkish propaganda film for the Erdogan government.
- 1.5 - Saving Christmas (2015)
- 1.6 - Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004)
- 1.6 - Daniel der Zauberer (2004)note Think of a German version of From Justin to Kelly, except even worse.
- 1.7 - "Manos" The Hands of Fate (1966)
- 1.7 - Pledge This! (2006)note This and ''The Hottie & the Nottie trade places as to which is Paris Hilton's worst-rated film.
- 1.8 - Turks In Space (2006)
- 1.8 - Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010)
- 1.8 - Dream.net (2009) note A Hungarian teen drama that has much in common with Paris Hilton movies.
- 1.8 - Titanic: The Legend Goes On (2000)
