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1. sph+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-09-07 15:20:52
Rotten Tomatoes, owned by Warner Bros. and NBC, part of Fandango Media, a movie ticketing company.

One would have to work hard to prove they were NOT biased in the first place, or at least since 2011 when they sold out to the movie industry.

FYI, the other big name in movie reviews, IMDb, has been owned by Amazon since 1998 (color me surprised, I didn't know it had been this long until I checked on Wikipedia), and they also had their own streaming service, IMDb TV, now called Amazon Freevee.

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2. darkwi+3R[view] [source] 2023-09-07 18:35:56
>>sph+(OP)
Maybe less in the review scene but Amazon through IMDB also bought BoxOfficeMojo which was such a nice and easy UI to see how movies were performing box office wise...
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3. kwanbi+aU[view] [source] 2023-09-07 18:48:49
>>sph+(OP)
I dunno. For me rotten tomatoes is always closer to my taste than any other, including IMDb.
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4. nebula+fV[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-09-07 18:52:41
>>darkwi+3R
Have you looked at the-numbers.com?

It is 2000s UX but sometimes that is quite functional. Especially the compare feature which seems like its generating the charts on demand but is quite nice to use.

5. foobar+JV[view] [source] 2023-09-07 18:54:47
>>sph+(OP)
Huh. That makes the X-Ray feature in the Prime Video UI make a lot more sense to me now...
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6. adamzo+LV[view] [source] 2023-09-07 18:54:55
>>sph+(OP)
IMDB predates html and http protocols.

When IMDB was sold, it was seen as if wikipedia was sold to a private company. Amazon promised to leave IMDB mostly alone, and to provide data feeds / db backups for free. They are still available although new features of IMDb have not been migrated to the original datasets.

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7. choppa+IW[view] [source] 2023-09-07 18:58:32
>>sph+(OP)
Rotten Tomatoes was started by the same guy who started Flickster as start-ups so at that point they could not have had bias towards big studios.
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8. ramraj+UW[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-09-07 18:59:19
>>foobar+JV
The XRay feature is impressive and yet totally not worth whatever effort they’re putting. I’d rather they put this effort into tuning their UI Ux.
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9. Gordon+AX[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-09-07 19:02:03
>>adamzo+LV
I'm still salty about Amazon removing the IMDB forums :(
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10. keithx+221[view] [source] 2023-09-07 19:21:00
>>sph+(OP)
IMDB and Goodreads; two useful review-services purchased by Amazon and left abandoned. Are there other similar Amazon acquisitions?
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11. coremo+v21[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-09-07 19:22:33
>>ramraj+UW
I really like xray, but you are right, their UX is abysmal; worse even than disney IMO
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12. jvzr+P41[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-09-07 19:33:17
>>keithx+221
DPReview
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13. nntwoz+hf1[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-09-07 20:24:30
>>Gordon+AX
I've been using moviechat.org ever since that happened, it's a great substitute.
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14. at_a_r+rk1[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-09-07 20:49:52
>>adamzo+LV
Eh, the data feeds have narrowed, or at least they have since the last time I looked at them. It used to have exports of things like soundtracks. You wouldn't think that was valuable but I ended up using it.
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15. mcpack+ka2[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-09-08 02:41:41
>>adamzo+LV
> They are still available although new features of IMDb have not been migrated to the original datasets.

It's a pity keywords aren't in those datasets. Still, it's nice that this still exists. https://developer.imdb.com/non-commercial-datasets/

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