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The keywords "blockbuster" and "movie-flop"
Since these two IMDb keywords are vague-sounding - as a film's box office cannot always be conclusively proved - I propose that they both be deleted.
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Since these two IMDb keywords are vague-sounding - as a film's box office cannot always be conclusively proved - I propose that they both be deleted.
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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
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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Peter_pbn
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Imperfect as such keywords may be, they are also the only way to include box office status in a search.
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hurdy_gurdy_man
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I also know that box-office-bomb is already a forbidden keyword. So why not these two also?
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bradley_kent
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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."
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keyword_expert
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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.
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scgary66
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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'.
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@hurdy_gurdy_man
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