Over 130 10-star Reviews of Fight Club in less than 48-hours.

Why does Fight Club suddenly have over 130 reviews between the 16th & 17th March 2024? They majority mention Grimace and/or Odysseus from fake accounts created less than 24-hours prior to posting. It looks like the last valid rating was on 7 March 2024.

This has caused Fight Club to drop to #14 on the Top 250 - for the first time ever. Prior to this it's always had 2.3 million reviews, over 2,000 10-star reviews and more.

It looks like fans of Dune: Part Two or Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers are doing this intentionally to Drop Fight Club to #14 or Fight Club fans are doing this in attempt to bring it back to #12. The reviews from 16th & 17th March should be deleted

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bonitao

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6 months ago

Common :(

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instantix

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It's really screwed up. It's annoying to see this. Do you know if IMDb responds to these posts & takes action?

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6 months ago

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gromit82

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6 months ago

Instantix: I see there are a bunch of strange new reviews of Fight Club which mention "Grimace" and "Odysseus". But since these are all 10/10 reviews, the best possible rating, how could they drag the film's rating down?

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instantix

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Idk but maybe too many reviews in a short period of time (depending on algorithms?) can do that.

Dune 2 had an overwhelming amount of 10-star shortly after opening weekend with around ~101k ratings, a total of only a few hundred reviews and it was nearly shy of taking Pulp Fiction's rank for some unknown reason.

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6 months ago

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ACT_1

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@gromit82 😀

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Monday March 18 2024

Fight Club (1999)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/ratings/

IMDb RATING
8.8/10 : 2.3M
10 33.8% (779K)
9 30.8% (712K)
8 20.5% (473K)
7 8.4% (193K)
6 2.9% ( 66K)
5 1.3% ( 30K)
4 0.7% ( 15K)
3 0.4% ( 10K)
2 0.4% ( 8.1K)
1 0.9% ( 21K)
8.7 Unweighted mean

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/reviews?sort=submissionDate&dir=desc&ratingFilter=0

4,595 Reviews

Wayback Machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20240315000000*/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/

Saved 3,229 times between October 1, 2003 and March 18, 2024.
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6 months ago

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Ozzy

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6 months ago

Hi @instantix,

Thank you for reporting this.

We have filed a ticket (ref. #V1303321125) to investigate this issue further. We will update this thread once we receive further information. Thank you for your patience.

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VonPunk

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6 months ago

At least 60% of those recent reviews trigger 100% AI written when scanned with an AI detector as well. Most of these accounts are new and all have hit up to 5 reviews on the same 5 films mentioning "Grimace" and "Odysseus" a lot. 'GRIMACE Odysseus' is some crypto coin thing.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026174/ - Captain Blood (1935)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1675434/ - The Intouchables (2011)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/ - Pulp Fiction (1994)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/ - Fight Club (1999)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092067/ - Castle In The Sky (1986)

Looks like AI conducted testing to me.

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