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The Promise - Unjustifiably low rating becasue of political reasons
Yesterday, September 11th, a new historical drama movie premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. The movie called 'The Promise' was directed by Terry George (Hotel Rwanda) and is starring Christian Bale and Oscar Isaac. It tells a story about the Armenian Genocide, which was the Ottoman Empire's systematic extermination of nearly 1.5 million Armenians within the Ottoman Empire and its successor state, the Republic of Turkey.
Although undeniable evidence has been provided for over a century and a great number of countries have officially recognized the acts of the Ottoman Empire as genocide, the Turkish government is stubbornly refusing to recognize the truth.
This movie, which is based on real events, currently has rating of 1.4 after only SINGLE DAY of its release. Is the movie really that bad? VERY UNLIKELY! 92.8% of the votes (3930 out of 4235) are 1. I want to emphasize that this movie has only been released within the Toronto International Film Festival, so 4235 people could not have possibly seen it in one day.
OBVIOUSLY, the low rating is caused by Turkish people who try to deliberately lower the rating so that fewer audience watch the movie that tells about their horrendous and inhuman past. The rating of the movie is so low because of the political reasons, not because of its value as a film or a peace of art.
I would like to get the attention of IMDB on this matter. This is unacceptable! I'm asking IMDB to restore the justice. Please delete all the 1 votes from IPs in Turkey and Azerbaijan and prohibit IPs from these countries to rate this movie in the future. This can not be tolerated from such a renowned Internet service.
Although undeniable evidence has been provided for over a century and a great number of countries have officially recognized the acts of the Ottoman Empire as genocide, the Turkish government is stubbornly refusing to recognize the truth.
This movie, which is based on real events, currently has rating of 1.4 after only SINGLE DAY of its release. Is the movie really that bad? VERY UNLIKELY! 92.8% of the votes (3930 out of 4235) are 1. I want to emphasize that this movie has only been released within the Toronto International Film Festival, so 4235 people could not have possibly seen it in one day.
OBVIOUSLY, the low rating is caused by Turkish people who try to deliberately lower the rating so that fewer audience watch the movie that tells about their horrendous and inhuman past. The rating of the movie is so low because of the political reasons, not because of its value as a film or a peace of art.
I would like to get the attention of IMDB on this matter. This is unacceptable! I'm asking IMDB to restore the justice. Please delete all the 1 votes from IPs in Turkey and Azerbaijan and prohibit IPs from these countries to rate this movie in the future. This can not be tolerated from such a renowned Internet service.
micca_maximillian
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g_rkem_demirel
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micca_maximillian
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mikail_fsodrhkp5zh7c
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arpine_harutyunyan
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8 years ago
Low rating -UNJUSTIFIED
On
the 11th of September TIFF aired "The Promise" directed by
Terry George. The movie is about a love triangle and the events are taking
place back in 1915 during the events of Armenian Genocide by Ottoman Turks. For
more than a century this topic has almost never been screened for a worldwide
public and this attempt with a talented Director and cast is unprecedented.
Today I was disturbed by the low rating of the
film and the fact that Turkish and Azerbaijanian activists are trying to underscore the movie to prevent its success in access to wider public is just devastating obvious fact.
I would kindly ask IMDb to draw the attention on
rating banners especially in the countries where the movie has not been
premiered yet.
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warm_dev
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92 Points
8 years ago
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt4776998/ this movie is not out and people with political motives are alreayd voting 1 star on it. 7,000 votes? Come on.
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mike_uzunyan
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8 years ago
Turkish and Azerbaijani activists started rating the movie "The Promise" with a rating of 1/10, this is an unacceptable behavior and I consider this to be ruining a great movie and a piece of art!! This is a big problem since many people base their opinions and decisions on whether or not to watch a movie on the IMBd rating.
I think this problem should be fixed. Voters from Turkey and Azerbaijan should be banned from rating this movie and their votes that have occurred already should not be taken into consideration.
Thank you.
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ashot_danelyan
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berke_akant
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berke_akant
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miguel_nu_ez_gdt4on7jbjuqt
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8 years ago
Sorry for my english, I do my best
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jes_gregersen
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8 years ago
In short, history is very rarely just black and white:
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/4/what-we-all-get-wrongaboutthearmeniangenocide.html
And sure, a movie should never be rated because of politics. That would render many American movies potential targets for hate-votes - lets be honest.
But dont do the IP-thing, thats a slippery slope.....really bad. Who will be prohibited from voting the next time then? Germans, when another WWII-movie is released?
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bar_erg_n
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bar_erg_n
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8 years ago
All reviews with low scores are being deleted on The Promise, while high score-reviews are being permitted. Isn't this exactly the "Do you find this review helpful" button is for? If a review is bad, let people vote it down. Don't prevent them from seeing different opinions. Otherwise it's unwarranted censorship by IMDB that skews the review pools unfairly. And that's not a site I would trust to read reviews on if there's such a biased censorship process.
From now on, how can I trust IMDB user reviews? Who knows the reason they might have deleted a review, if they had an agreement with the production company or whomever. It's clearly unhealthy.
And before anyone starts, there were ones among which criticized just the movie without mentioning the related political issues.
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filmalert
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82 Points
8 years ago
A few days ago Turks and Azeri's started downvoting the film The Promise (which will be released in December) for the sole reason that the story revolves around the 1915 Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. As a response, Armenians are now upvoting the film. These links show how many people are being exhorted to engage in fake voting.
http://incisozluk.com.tr/w/t%C3%BCrk-d%C3%BC%C5%9Fman%C4%B1-film-%C3%A7ekiliyor-gelin-beyler/
https://www.facebook.com/samvel/posts/10154528953808781
This can continue indefinitely. Please resolve this issue, so that The Promise can have a fair rating.
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