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Or do you have a different definition of 'ignore list' to everybody else, as you do with 'left-wing ideology' and 'libertarianism'?
Batman fans beat Godfather with 'rank trick'
By staff writers July 30, 2008 12:01am
THE blogosphere is buzzing over claims internet users enamoured with the latest Batman film have been sabotaging the reputation of The Godfather on one of the world's biggest movie websites.
Fans of The Dark Knight, which broke box office records when it was released earlier this month, have voted the latest Batman instalment into the number one spot on the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) Top 250 Movies list.
But several blogs have aired allegations that fans of The Dark Knight provided bad reviews of the former top movie, The Godfather, to skew the ratings.
"Could it be that Dark Knight fans are intentionally voting down Godfather in hopes of keeping The Dark Knight at the top spot?” asked one writer on movie blog "/film".
"The percentage of users who gave Godfather a 1 out of 10 grew from 6.1 per cent to 6.4 per cent, just enough to push (The Shawshank Redemption) ahead, while the percentage... who loved the film, giving it a 10 out of 10, remained the same."
Pop culture website Radar said the campaign had been started on The Dark Knight's official website forums.
"According to the ridiculously active message boards on TDK's page, the movement to promote the movie to the top of the 250 involves registering multiple accounts and using them to give TDK 10 stars while simultaneously rating The Godfather one star, keeping it down below."
One blogger on technology website CNET said the event was the latest "meltdown" in the "wisdom of crowds" mentality that underpinned Web 2.0 sites like Wikipedia and Digg.
"We have seen, with some consistency, that the system can be broken or manipulated by the actions of a passionate group of individuals acting as a mob," Harrison Hoffman wrote.
"If these incidents are not largely prevented in the future and become commonplace, we risk a lot of people losing faith in this otherwise very useful system.
"Most serious movie watchers would argue that claiming that The Dark Knight is the best movie of all time is ridiculous."
A similar campaign was staged after the release of Lord Of The Rings to promote that film to the top of IMDb's Top 250 and was sure to happen again in the future, Radar said.
Not including such internet campaigns, The Godfather has been at the top of the list for almost a decade.
Only regular IMDb users can vote for films on the website's Top 250 Movies list.
She's an idiot for taking an 8 year old kid to see it! How much stupider can you get!??!
I disagree with that. I never take any notice of the ratings because as we all know they have been tampered with for years. Studios hiring people to give flicks 10/10 is really a shitty exercise. For a good review site try metacritic.com
But IMDb isn't 100% useless as I am yet to find any other site that can equal IMDb in terms of the quantity of movies & TV shows and all the other info it lists. It can be a great rescource for looking up movies for plots and a general feel of how good it may be. Which I think is its real purpose.
As for TDK...pretty good movie but nowhere near The Godfather.
I disagree with that. I never take any notice of the ratings because as we all know they have been tampered with for years. Studios hiring people to give flicks 10/10 is really a shitty exercise. For a good review site try metacritic.com
But IMDb isn't 100% useless as I am yet to find any other site that can equal IMDb in terms of the quantity of movies & TV shows and all the other info it lists. It can be a great rescource for looking up movies for plots and a general feel of how good it may be. Which I think is its real purpose.
As for TDK...pretty good movie but nowhere near The Godfather.
