Actually, it's all about ethics in ghostbusting

Pornography_saves_li · 2016-07-13T13:46:19+00:00

This subject is petty as fuck.

Consilio_et_Animis · 2016-07-13T12:49:02+00:00

Don't forget that in the "This is Spinal Tap" entry you can vote upto ELEVEN!

http://imdb.com/title/tt0088258/#

civilsaint · 2016-07-13T13:25:14+00:00

Is the movie even out yet? I would imagine only screeners saw it so far.

I can't see it being either a 10 or a 1... The distribution just isn't there for that.

It's just a political statement.

JebberJabber · 2016-07-13T12:32:08+00:00

IMDB demographics show overwhelming vote-rigging by people abusing the rating system.

Who is doing this, and what do they hope to accomplish? I know opposing camps of movie nerds are fighting over it but vote manipulation via 5000 users smells more like the work of political actors.

Nobody previously bought the line that MRAs just happened to dislike the movie on artistic grounds, and now they will feel there is hard proof of butt-hurt. The MRM is going to be blamed for this regardless of who it was, because MRAs have been butting in to feminist discussions on the movie to explain why they think it is a bad movie. Obviously it is a topic of significance to us, and feminists are already scornful about that.

5000 users, 55.5% of votes scored it 1 out of 10. For ages 18-29, females gave 7.6, males gave 3.6.

For comparison I Googled "chick flick" and checked the rating ratio on the first five movies that popped up. They had about 10% - 18% difference in score between M and F, just in case anyone thinks the difference of more than double could be natural.

I didn't like either GB movie or the new trailer so I don't have a dog in this fight, it is just sad the MRM is seen as insecure boys throwing a tantrum because the girls wanted to do something without us.
(OMG they shot a guy in the dick and now girls are laughing at that and I'm scared some crazy girl is going to start shooting guys in the dick for real on the way home from the cinema and other girls will just stand around and laugh while my dick bleeds to death.!!!)

I understand the disappointment of seeing something you love exploited or done badly - the last two Alien movies pissed me off. But I didn't see corrupting a useful movie rating demographic system as a suitable response.

TBFProgrammer · 2016-07-13T12:43:28+00:00

Votes skew heavily towards both 1s and 10s (with there simply being more ideologically motivated to score a 1 than a 10). Looking at other movies on the site, this is an aberration.

Title	Actually, it's all about ethics in ghostbusting
Author	JebberJabber
Upvotes	8
Comments	15
Date	July 13, 2016 12:03 PM UTC (10 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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