The Internet Movie Database
, a website 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. Each movie has its own forums, and these forums are often plagued by
Trolls and
Sockpuppets — particularly the "Politics" and "Soapbox" subforums, which are troll-magnets.
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.
Oh, and to remind everyone, we are
not trying to emulate
IMDb.
As of April 13th, 2012, 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 - Pulp Fiction (1994)
- 8.9 - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
- 8.9 - 12 Angry Men (1957)
- 8.9 - Schindler's List (1993)
- 8.8 - The Dark Knight (2008)
- 8.8 - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
- 8.8 - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
As of May 21, 2012, the 10
lowest rated films
(the Bottom 100 list usually has a lot of movies featured on
Mystery Science Theater 3000
) are:
- 1.3 - Titanic: The Legend Goes On (2000)
- 1.5 - Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004)
- 1.5 - Daniel the Wizard (Daniel - Der Zauberer) (2004)
- 1.5 - Monster a-Go Go (1965)
- 1.5 - Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)
- 1.5 - Night Train to Mundo Fine (1966)
- 1.5 - Dream Well (2009)
- 1.5 - The Skydivers (1963)
- 1.5 - Ben & Arthur (2002)
- 1.6 - The Starfighters (1964)