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  • UtwigMU
    Super MURCer
    • Jul 2002
    • 5651

    #1

    Where do you find movie suggestions

    I used to rely on IMDB the rating was a good indicator whether I'm going to like a movie or not. There was at most 1.5 grade variance in both directions between how I'd grade movie and the grade it had there. Now there are several movies from 2010 (most so far from the same year) in the top 250 and some are rated ridiculously high. Example: Inception 7th greatest movie of all times, Black Swan 52nd, ... 9/250 top movies made between 1924 and 2010 were made in 2010

    Then I peeked behind scenes and noticed that most people rate movies as either 1 or 10. Extreme Example would be this vote justification: Ledger used drugs, I hate junkies so I rated Dark Knight as 1. There are very few movies I would rate as 10 or 1 yet most people give these votes.

    Then I went to rotten tomatoes and other critic sites and it's not much better, professional reviewers were being influenced before IMDB posters.

    So where do you guys go for movie suggestions these days?
    Last edited by UtwigMU; 19 January 2011, 19:49.
  • Dr Mordrid
    Moderator
    • Apr 2001
    • 26592

    #2
    If I have an interest in a known subject I may go. Otherwise I go week 2 and ask friends.
    Dr. Mordrid
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    An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.

    I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps

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    • Rakido
      Super MURCer
      • Feb 2000
      • 1313

      #3
      Trailers i see before other movies, ads on the TV, Chit-Chat on the net like in "The Lounge"@Murc, invited by friends, general lemmings behaviour as everyone else watches a movie, once in a month i get paid to watch one ...



      R.
      "Women don't want to hear a man's opinion, they just want to hear their opinion in a deeper voice."

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      • Belwarrior
        MURCer
        • Nov 2000
        • 888

        #4
        erm.. i come here to get my movie suggestions.. i find murc members to be more reliable or having similar taste and appreciation in movies as myself
        Life is a bed of roses. Everyone else sees the roses, you are the one being gored by the thorns.

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        • VJ
          Moderator
          • Mar 2001
          • 9733

          #5
          I commonly go based on what people around me tell me... I try to avoid watching trailers or moviesites, as I feel they might reveal too much of the plot...

          movie-lounge forum?
          pixar
          Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow. (James Dean)

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          • cjolley
            Super MURCer
            • Aug 1999
            • 7672

            #6
            Pixar.


            PS This actually comes close to being literally true.
            Chuck
            秋音的爸爸

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