The keywords "blockbuster" and "movie-flop"

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IMDb: Advanced Title Search

Keywords:

Blockbuster, Including Adult Titles (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1,361 titles
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?keywords=blockbuster&adult=include

Movie-flop, Including Adult Titles (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
795 titles.
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?keywords=movie-flop&adult=include

Box-office-bomb, Including Adult Titles (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
3 titles.
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?keywords=box-office-bomb&adult=include

1. An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1997)

   Keywords  : 78 plot keywords

  
2. Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009)
   Keywords  - 29 plot keywords
 
3. Tiger Man (1983)
    Keywords - 78 plot keywords

Wikipedia Blockbuster

Blockbuster (entertainment) 
a term coined for an extremely successful movie, 
from which most other uses are derived.

Blockbuster bomb,
a series of WWII-era air dropped bombs large enough to demolish a city block

Wikipedia bomb

Box-office bomb, 
which refers to a film for which the production and marketing costs
greatly exceeded the revenue retained by the movie studio.
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Imperfect as such keywords may be, they are also the only way to include box office status in a search.

I also know that box-office-bomb is already a forbidden keyword. So why not these two also?

They should be deleted.  I have even found them attached to student films!  

Another one that should be deleted: "cult-film."  This, too, has been attached to all kids of questionable titles.  I guess ANY film could be a "cult-film."  On student films, if your classmates, friends and family like it (because you were involved with it), I quess some think that makes it a "cult-film."  

I wholeheartedly support the request to delete and block the keywords "movie-flop" and "blockbuster." 

I was actually planning on eventually posting the exact same request, and for the same reasons: these keywords are too subjective and the similar "box-office-bomb" is already banned.

I'll first note that there do not appear to be any Adult titles with the 'blockbuster' keyword, as that may have been unclear from the previously posted search. As I've done some work in this area, I'll explain the criteria that have been used over the years for its inclusion: It's been added to titles that were among each year's top ten films in either domestic (U.S-Canada), international (non-U.S.) or worldwide (combined) box office, with some minor variations when there may have been a film that was close to 10th, but well ahead of #12. Usually, the result has been about 12-13 titles per year, as the three groups tend to overlap. Certainly there are instances in which someone may have added the keyword to titles where it obviously doesn't apply (sometimes even titles still awaiting release). Titles which were among the top ten box office films in one or more countries, but were not more widely successful, get the keyword 'local-blockbuster'.

@hurdy_gurdy_man 

hurdy_gurdy_man
Thu, May 5, 2022
Solved
The keyword "movie-flop" still exists.
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=movie-flop

Can we just ban this permanently? Thank you.
https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/the-keyword-movieflop-still-exists/62740695768de216cd5cd034

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Michelle, Employee
Mon May 9 2022 
Hi hurdy_gurdy_man -
The "movie-flop" keywords you reported have now been removed from the site and blocked.
Cheers!
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Wayback Machine
http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=movie-flop

  
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=movie-flop - 800 titles

2 hours later
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=movie-flop - 766 titles 

2 hours later
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=movie-flop - 215 titles

1/2 hour later
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=movie-flop -   0 titles !!

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