This just really bothers me. What is the deal with the IMDB rating of Tyler Perry's movies? I have not seen any of Mr. Perry's movies, and I know that he kind of mass produces a product that will turn a quick buck, but still, his films are in demand and make lots of money. Madea Goes to Prison has earned over 64,000,000 dollars in just 2 weeks (#1 at the box office).
People clearly enjoy the Perry films and enjoy the character of Madea, so why is the IMDB rating of his film a 2.7 out of 10. I don't know what number installment this is, but there are a lot of Madea films. So, most people going into this film should be able to know what type of product they are getting. I clicked on the IMDB rating to see the breakdown, and discovered that 1,599 people out of 2,718 (58.8%) rated the film a 1 out of 10.
This freaked the crap out of me. Because even though I'm guessing it was not the greatest movie ever, I am pretty damn sure that to its target audience this was not a 1 out of 10 movie. So for me, this leads to all kinds of questions like who really went to see this movie that could really be that disappointed? It just doesn't add up, and the only logical answer seems to be that there is some secret hateful group that is against Tyler Perry's movies. And that scares me.
The fact that their might be a group of people out there using the IMDB rating system as a weapon to attack filmmaking they don't agree with, really scares me. I sure hope it is not a racial thing, sure hope it is not anger about him playing a female character, I mean I don't know. But it is completely wrong.
And even though I haven't seen Madea Goes to Prison; I did see Saw III, and holy cow that was one god awful movie. That is a movie I should have rated a 1, and it would have deserved it. But surprisingly, it's rating on IMDB is 6.3, with only 5% of votes as 1 and 14.9% of votes as a 10. All because of the fans of the franchise. For the same reason, Madea should have a higher rating.
Seriously, whoever these Tyler Perry haters are, they should really be stopped. Too bad IMDB doesn't have a system in place to deal with these trolls. And I know it is just an IMDB rating, but seriously, the principals of those people has got be zero.
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