Let's talk prostit...err, Reviews.

[ookaze]

Reviewers are prostitutes, so there's no way you can reach the results of IMDB.

IMDB doesn't give their own ratings, so if you want to do the same as them, reviewers can't give ratings. But they can't, as contrary to IMDB, they're convinced that the ratings they give sell or break games (thus the prostitutes if they're given incentives to give good ratings).
In IMDB, users who saw the movies/series/... or not rate the media. Besides, the rating doesn't stay the same, it changes based on these things :
- it's not just an average of the score, though they give that too. I don't know the english word for the kind of average they give (weighed average I think), but it's not a simple average, thus eliminating those that want to artificially lower or increase the score,
- even the users score given is not taken as is, but is a weighed average based on other scores they gave on other movies. I don't know if they separate it by genres or not, it's a secret. It thus eliminate the accounts made just to destroy or increase one or several movies.

Thus, the ratings actually change with the time, and counter the trolls, and you can't see stupid things happen like in the videogame industry, where the full scale of 1-10 ratings is not even used, which in itself is pathetic. On IMDB, a movie with 5.5 rating is average, as it should be.
The saddest thing is that IMDB is younger than videogames, even if it was there before the WWW. Papers reviewing videogames also were there before WWW but never managed to gain the excellence of IMDB. Instead, we got nonsense like metacritic and game rankings.