Are Idlebain reviews still credible ?
idlebrain Jeevi is famous for his telugu movie reviews. Gone are the days where junta's decision of watching a movie relied on his review. Long back, idlebrain movie ratings and movie collections were directly propotional. Now you do not see any significant relation. And you also find many good sites which are faring better than Idlebrain either in reviews or industry updates.
In the past idlebrain, was unbiased towards high budget and star studded movies. These days we see idlebrain stamping a minimum rating of 3 to every top league hero acted movie. We also see those minimum ratings if the movie is produced by leading production houses. idlebrain also did avoid writing reviews of many movies in the recent past.
In the graph below you see that in last two years idlebrain has not rated even a single movie below 3.The number of movies reviewed annually have also come down drastically.
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| idlebrain Movie Ratings From 2000 - To Date |
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| Web Traffic Rank 2011- To Date |
The rating standards of idlebrain came down considerably. I think idlebrain does not have the guts to say that a particular movie is bad. idlebrain is trying to play safe and be nice to everyone. I might be wrong. This strategy definitely will not work. The web traffic to the site which is going down day by day proves that.
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| Movie Ratings 2009-To Date |
Only 9% of the total movies among which idlebrain has rated have a rating below 3. Even those movies are rated in 2009. In 2010 and 2012 not even a single movie is rated below 3. Is idlebrain trying to convey that 91% of the movies which it has rated are decent enough to watch ??? I dont think so !!!!
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| Movie Ratings 2002-2004 |
In the time frame 2002-2004, idlebrain has rated almost half of the overall movies which it has rated, below 3. This is contrasting to the trend we saw above. I think these figures
give us a more realistic sense. I think this very much answers the doubts relating to credibility of idlebrain reviews.
Long back, idlebrain used to published the review first on net. These days, its not just the reviews, even movie industry updates are published late. There are many months in a row where not even a single update is published.
Long back, idlebrain used to published the review first on net. These days, its not just the reviews, even movie industry updates are published late. There are many months in a row where not even a single update is published.
