12 Bafflingly High 2017 IMDB Scores You Will Not Believe
The general public can't be trusted.
IMDB is one of the old dinosaurs of the Internet, and though many film lovers prefer to gauge movies by Rotten Tomatoes' critical consensus or the decades-old Cinemascore system, IMDB's user scores do carry a huge amount of weight with the average moviegoer.
The fact that Star Wars: The Last Jedi has already racked up close to 200,000 votes is proof enough that IMDB's numerical scores mean something, and if a film does well enough, it might even win a place in the coveted IMDB Top 250 (as Coco, Blade Runner 2049, Dunkirk, Logan and Thor: Ragnarok already have this year).
However, sometimes an IMDB score is so eyebrow-raisingly off the mark, so divorced from the critical consensus, that you wonder how such a huge contingent of audiences arrived at that figure.
In the case of these 12 movies, whether unconscionably terrible or actually pretty decent, each proudly touts a suspiciously high IMDB score, which isn't at all indicative of their quality, especially when compared to other equivalent movies on the website.
Sure, it's just a number, but to Joe Public, it really means something, and will surely help shape their own viewing habits...