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Keywords "historically-accurate" and "historically-inaccurate"
I noticed that there are two keywords "historically-accurate" and "historically-inaccurate". I would personally prefer to see both of these keywords removed from the database.
Even the films that try to portray historical events accurately tend to include some errors, so calling them "historically-inaccurate" may be an overly negative characterization. Furthermore, this keyword has been assigned to films that don't purport to tell true stories, such as Inglourious Basterds (2009), Django Unchained (2012), The Three Musketeers (2011) (which is based on a novel), and Free Birds (2013) (an animated film whose main characters are anthropomorphic turkeys).
Meanwhile, the "historically-accurate" keyword is used much less often. But that's a high standard to live up to, because, as I said, even the films that try to portray historical events accurately tend to include some errors.
Ironically, Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party (2016) has both the "historically-accurate" and "historically-inaccurate" keywords, which makes no sense except to the extent that it reflects the supporters and opponents of the film's political views trying to push their opinions onto IMDb.
So I think we can do without both the "historically-accurate" and "historically-inaccurate" keywords.
Even the films that try to portray historical events accurately tend to include some errors, so calling them "historically-inaccurate" may be an overly negative characterization. Furthermore, this keyword has been assigned to films that don't purport to tell true stories, such as Inglourious Basterds (2009), Django Unchained (2012), The Three Musketeers (2011) (which is based on a novel), and Free Birds (2013) (an animated film whose main characters are anthropomorphic turkeys).
Meanwhile, the "historically-accurate" keyword is used much less often. But that's a high standard to live up to, because, as I said, even the films that try to portray historical events accurately tend to include some errors.
Ironically, Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party (2016) has both the "historically-accurate" and "historically-inaccurate" keywords, which makes no sense except to the extent that it reflects the supporters and opponents of the film's political views trying to push their opinions onto IMDb.
So I think we can do without both the "historically-accurate" and "historically-inaccurate" keywords.
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8 years ago
What about "political-correctness" and "politically-incorrect"?
Would you vote to keep those, or dump them?
I suppose some keywords could be considered "subjective". There may be quite a number of questionable keywords that ought to be removed. For example:
One dumb keyword is: "dumb".
Currently, there are 10 "dumb" titles on IMDb.
Another silly keyword is: "silly".
Currently, there are 6 "silly" titles on IMDb.
Another bad keyword is: "bad".
Currently, there are 7 "bad" titles on IMDb.
Another questionable keyword is: "masterpiece".
Currently, there are 7 "masterpieces" on IMDb.
Another unnecessary keyword is: "popular".
Currently, there are 9 "popular" titles on IMDb.
I fail to discern the useful value of this keyword.
Yet another unnecessary keyword is: "fantastic".
Currently, there are 22 "fantastic" titles on IMDb.
Yet another questionable keyword is: "award-winning".
Currently, there are 28 "award-winning" titles on IMDb.
(Given IMDb's existing facilities for recording awards data,
there's arguably no need for this keyword.)
Another perfectly unnecessary keyword is: "perfect".
Currently, there are 2 "perfect" titles on IMDb.
I'm not trying to hijack your specific topic, but given how easy it is to find numerous questionable keywords, maybe it is time to go through the entire list of keywords and compile a list of candidates for deletion. ... Shall we begin?
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gromit82
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The keywords "dumb", "silly", and "bad" all seem inappropriate. Keywords should generally not be value judgments about the title (and in most cases, they should be nouns rather than adjectives).
The keyword "masterpiece" might be an appropriate keyword when referring to a masterpiece that is a significant focus of the title, such as a Rembrandt painting in Nightwatching (2007), a Van Gogh painting in Vincent & Theo (1990), or the movie Citizen Kane in RKO 281 (1999) (TV). The "masterpiece" keyword is currently used for all three of those titles. For the other four titles using that keyword, I'm not sure what it refers to.
I don't know what the keyword "popular" is supposed to mean. In the case of "Amazing Stories: The Main Attraction" (1985), whose plot is described as "Athletic teenage hunk Brad Bender thinks he is too cool for nerdy classmate Shirley, who is crazy over him, until, to his horror, a meteor shower's power suddenly turns him into a human magnet", the keyword "popularity" would probably be more appropriate than the adjective form.
"Fantastic" might refer to the artistic genre known as the fantastic (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic). I don't know if it is actually being used that way.
I agree that "award-winning" seems unnecessary as a keyword.
"Perfect" doesn't look like a good keyword either, although I don't think it's currently being used as a value judgment about the titles where it is currently applied.
If you want to go through the entire list of keywords, that's fine with me (but I won't necessarily comment on all the ones you raise problems with, as I did in this post).
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Michelle
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8 years ago
Thanks for reporting these title keywords. I have passed along your comments to our data editors who will take a look as soon as they can. Once I have an update on the clean-up I will let you know the status here.
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Michelle
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8 years ago
I'm just following up here to confirm that the Keywords reported have now been cleaned up and deleted.
Cheers!
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