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[http://www.imdb.com 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 [[Troll]]s and [[Sock Puppet]]s -- particularly the "Politics" and "Soapbox" subforums, which are troll-magnets.
[http://www.imdb.com 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 [[Troll]]s and [[Sock Puppet]]s -- 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 [[Praising Shows You Don't Watch|pre-emptively gave]] ''[[The Dark Knight Saga (Film)|The Dark Knight]]'' a perfect 10 rating, while at the same time giving perennial high rankers such as ''[[The Godfather (Film)|The Godfather]]'' a rating of 1. Prior to the release of ''The Twilight Saga: New Moon'' the more avid of the ''[[Twilight (Literature)|Twilight]]'' [[Fan Dumb]] gave mass ratings of 10 to the film [[Praising Shows You Don't Watch|before it even came to theaters]], luckily /b/ was there to even it out with a healthy dose of 1s [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch|without even seeing it]]. [[IMDb]]'s averaging algorithm is designed to compensate for this kind of behaviour to an extent.
Users can give 1-10 grades to movies. After the death of [[Heath Ledger]], many users [[Praising Shows You Don't Watch|pre-emptively gave]] ''[[The Dark Knight Saga|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 (novel)|Twilight]]'' [[Fan Dumb]] gave mass ratings of 10 to the film [[Praising Shows You Don't Watch|before it even came to theaters]], luckily /b/ was there to even it out with a healthy dose of 1s [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch|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]].
Oh, and to remind everyone, we are ''not'' trying to emulate [[IMDb]].
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# 9.2 - ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]'' (1994)
# 9.2 - ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]'' (1994)
# 9.2 - ''[[The Godfather (Film)|The Godfather]]'' (1972)
# 9.2 - ''[[The Godfather]]'' (1972)
# 9.0 - ''The Godfather: Part II'' (1974)
# 9.0 - ''The Godfather: Part II'' (1974)
# 8.9 - ''[[Pulp Fiction (Film)|Pulp Fiction]]'' (1994)
# 8.9 - ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'' (1994)
# 8.9 - ''[[The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Film)|The Good, the Bad and the Ugly]]'' (1966)
# 8.9 - ''[[The Good, the Bad and the Ugly]]'' (1966)
# 8.9 - ''[[The Dark Knight Saga (Film)|The Dark Knight]]'' (2008)
# 8.9 - ''[[The Dark Knight Saga|The Dark Knight]]'' (2008)
# 8.9 - ''[[12 Angry Men (Film)|12 Angry Men]]'' (1957)
# 8.9 - ''[[12 Angry Men]]'' (1957)
# 8.9 - ''[[Schindler's List (Film)|Schindler's List]]'' (1993)
# 8.9 - ''[[Schindler's List]]'' (1993)
# 8.8 - ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Film)|The Lord of the Rings]]: The Return of the King'' (2003)
# 8.8 - ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]: The Return of the King'' (2003)
# 8.8 - ''[[Fight Club (Film)|Fight Club]]'' (1999)
# 8.8 - ''[[Fight Club (film)|Fight Club]]'' (1999)




As of December 31, 2013, the 10 [http://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom lowest rated films] (the Bottom 100 list usually has a lot of movies featured on ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000 (TV)|Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'') are:
As of December 31, 2013, the 10 [http://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom lowest rated films] (the Bottom 100 list usually has a lot of movies featured on ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'') are:


# 1.8 - ''[[Final Justice (Film)|Final Justice]]'' (1985)
# 1.8 - ''[[Final Justice]]'' (1985)
# 1.8 - ''Superbabies: [[Baby Geniuses]] 2'' (2004)
# 1.8 - ''Superbabies: [[Baby Geniuses]] 2'' (2004)
# 1.8 - ''Keloglan vs. the Black Prince'' (2006)
# 1.8 - ''Keloglan vs. the Black Prince'' (2006)
# 1.8 - ''Die Hard Dracula'' (1998)
# 1.8 - ''Die Hard Dracula'' (1998)
# 1.8 - ''[[Disaster Movie (Film)|Disaster Movie]]'' (2008)
# 1.8 - ''[[Seltzer and Friedberg|Disaster Movie]]'' (2008)
# 1.8 - ''[[Manos: The Hands of Fate (Film)|Manos: The Hands of Fate]]'' (1966)
# 1.8 - ''[[Manos: The Hands of Fate]]'' (1966)
# 1.8 - ''[[Invasion of the Neptune Men]]'' (1961)
# 1.8 - ''[[Invasion of the Neptune Men]]'' (1961)
# 1.8 - ''[[The Hottie and The Nottie]]'' (2008)
# 1.8 - ''[[The Hottie and The Nottie]]'' (2008)
# 1.9 - ''[[Going Overboard]]'' (1989)
# 1.9 - ''[[Going Overboard]]'' (1989)
# 1.9 - ''[[Birdemic (Film)|Birdemic: Shock and Terror]]'' (2010)
# 1.9 - ''[[Birdemic|Birdemic: Shock and Terror]]'' (2010)


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