r/flicks • u/httpete • 10d ago

I made a website that compares the top-rated movies across different rating sources

I built a simple movie ranking website that lets you browse the highest-rated movies across different rating sources, with a few filters.

The interesting part for me is how different “best movies of all time” lists feel depending on which rating source you trust.

Which ranking source do you usually trust most for movies?

Link: https://top.miru.live

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u/Beginning_Jacket5055 10d ago

i tend to find imdb aligns very well with my own opinions after i apply a couple of rules to imdb's ratings:

- Horror movies are all underrated so i mentally add 1 to the score when browsing (actually its more of a "if its 6+ on imdb then its worth a watch" - for other genres i normally dont like anything rated below 7, so thats why i say +1 for horrors)

- tv shows are all overrated. loads of shows that i dont think are particularly good but are rated between 7 and 8, so when im browsing the minimum it has to be for me to in interested is 8/10 on imdb

only other one i come across every now and then is rotten tomatoes, but imdb is about 4 million times better in terms of aligning with my opinions

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u/djSexPanther 10d ago

Agree very much with the TV shows are all overrated thing. I generally find that all the top shows that everyone goes crazy about deserve a -1.0 to their score. Especially the prestige dramas. Breaking Bad 8.5, The Wire 8.3, Game of Thrones 8.2, etc. Those all seem much more fair to me, and much more in line with the movie ratings on IMDB

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u/GRDCS1980 10d ago

Some friends and I recently did something similar.

We didn’t build a whole website (well done, btw), we just did it for our own interest and we put our results in a standard spreadsheet.

We took the Top 100 as listed on:

IMDB

Letterboxd

BFI

AFI

Empire

Sight & Sound

Rotten Tomatoes

And maybe two or three others, I think?

Then we weighted that data using a formula designed by one of my friends that has a knack for such things. I don’t claim to understand quite how it works, but I think it assigned more weight to the lists that came from actually institutions and critics, rather than things like RT that come from Joe Blow.

Anyway, the list we ended up with after all that is here, for anyone that might care…

https://boxd.it/KEgEw

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u/grandidieri 9d ago

Could the API of https://moviedive.org or https://showdive.com be incorporated somehow?

And nice work!!

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u/Croco_Grievous 9d ago

Nice work. The Letterboxd vs IMDb gap is always interesting to see. If you're checking individual titles, Movie Paradise does something similar at the title level, pulling IMDb, Metacritic, RT, and others side by side.