Has someone any idea how to make the genre lists usable again? There always had some stinkers been popping up, but since IMDb themselves made the lists unofficial and iCM relies on a simple, mostly 1000/5000-vote-calculated search, it has become dreadful to watch. You know, earlier IMDb used to ban certain films from those lists (and the prestigious Top 250 lists as well as Top 500 & 1000) and they very likely had their reasons to do so - because something fishy was going on with them. Call it vote manipulation, call it mafia ..
Also, the distinction for regular votes and IMDb's weighted vote ratings showed far more convenient results.
Fact is, now even holding your gold or silver award seems impossible on certain lists (weren't the 1970s actually one of cinema's finest decades? BECAUSE IT DOESN'T LOOK SO).
So, I know chances aren't too high for this to happen, but I'd still like to hear some opinion on it:
Ban these films from appearing on IMDb lists!
I'm not sure about how complicated this would be technically, although it doesn't look impossible to me.
Like: Search for IMDB's highest rated movies from the 1970's + exclude http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0252488 (I dare you to follow this link!)
Technical complexities aside, the question remains whether it's principally correct to do that. Well, if you take a look at these IMDb lists .. it is. As populist as it may sound, iCM should still mostly be designed for its users, and I can hardly see people in favor of these certain films - yet many being annoyed by them and even put off to take a look at the IMDb tab at all. That's not what was intended with the site, right?
The tougher question would be where to draw the line for what constitutes a mafia film. For 70's Turkish comedies, it's simple. I also trust users to be able to differentiate between Hababam, Saban Oglu Saban and the likes and a movie like Gegen die Wand (or at least Eskiya). With Indian films, I think there's a common sense in the community that a lot of films have a bloated rating, but it's mostly not as obviously stacked as with Ertem Egilmez's films and also there's a prospering fan scene and the world's most prolific film industry behind it, thus the results have at least twice the legitimation; complicated. Russia's Leonid Gayday seems like a more typical case, and then there are the obvious fakes like Kandisha from Morocco (!), undoubtedly absurd hypes like Waar from Pakistan and sometimes the rare but hopeful case that IMDb rightfully bans a film like with Vishwaroopam (which had a rating of like 8.8. when it reached the Top-250-relevant vote amount of 25.000).
For a start, it might already help to take the ominous weighted rating into account instead of the "normal" rating, but I neither know how it's calculated nor how to get it and if it improve the outcome that much.
PeacefulAnarchy, I think you're experienced with this? ..So .. let me hear what you think.
Maybe we can make this whole thing better.
