TS: allmovieguide vs imdb

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which do you prefer? imdb is better for it's popularity and user ratings, and message boards, but I like allmovieguide for the stars given along side the movies. This tells me what to look for easily. If imdb provided this feature it would be much better. Also Allmovieguide as a good list of experimental and avant gard movies, and imdb doesn't. But I check imdb much more often.

http://www.imdb.com/
http://www.allmovie.com/

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 03:39 (twenty-two years ago)

or are there anyother databases that compete?

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 03:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I usually look stuff up on www.rottentomatoes.com first, that gives me the main info - stars, director, year, and maybe a couple of reviews.

I'll also look up recent ('86-) movies in the Ebert review database. I don't agree with him all that often, but he is comprehensive.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 04:34 (twenty-two years ago)

i find myself using allmovie first because i like the interface better, and then if i need more detailed information i'll usually hit up imdb.

― j fail (cenotaph), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Video Hound's Golden Movie Retriever to thread!

― slutsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

imdb all the way

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 8 May 2003 02:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, no comparison.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 8 May 2003 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't find a raison d'etre for allmovie, since it really isn't in the review-biz -- and if it's just offering synopses and cast/crew info, it's going to be difficult to compete with IMDB.

However, does All Movie get its cast/crew info straight from the studios/producers?

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 9 May 2003 05:21 (twenty-two years ago)

The gossip on IMDB is pretty ridiculous but of course i only know this because I read it daily.

― Eve, Friday, 9 May 2003 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

The IMDB is incredibly thorough, and the amount of improvement since their first incarnation is astounding. They must have contacts at film archives everywhere, as well as an amazing array of reference books and so forth, because they seem to have near-complete filmographies--including lost films--of early figures like Urban Gad and Louis Feuillade (who made more than 800 films). Every so often I find something missing; they're poor on experimental cinema, but it's no wonder since notions of release dates and completed titles are a little sketchy when it comes to people like Ken Jacobs and Stan Brakhage. The Allmovie Guide is pretty worthless, especially as they seem to assign star ratings at random to unreviewed films (even to unreviewed lost films which is patently absurd).

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

seven years pass...

imdb redesign sux imo

― no one was protesting when this happened to (history mayne), Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:45 (fifteen years ago)

"let's make it white. wait, it's white already? remove half the links"

― my sex drew back into itself tight and dry (abanana), Thursday, 23 September 2010 18:47 (fifteen years ago)

yes; it sucks. you can get to the old version, for now, by some accidental process (click 'combined details' or something)

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 17:38 (fifteen years ago)

is there a user javascript file for imdb yet

― my sex drew back into itself tight and dry (abanana), Sunday, 10 October 2010 18:29 (fifteen years ago)

oh wait, you can just go into your account and change the site preferences. "Show previous title and name page design"

― my sex drew back into itself tight and dry (abanana), Sunday, 10 October 2010 18:31 (fifteen years ago)

I have to have an account for imdb? that's shit

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 10 October 2010 19:09 (fifteen years ago)

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