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Amazon-owned IMDB steps in to prop up audience rating of Fauci documentary
justthenews.com ^ | 10/16/2021 | Christian Toto

Posted on 10/17/2021 9:42:29 AM PDT by bitt

Citing "unusual voting activity," the film reference site says it's applying "alternate weighting calculation" to friendly portrait of polarizing COVID czar "to preserve the reliability of our rating system."

ocumentary film tracking Dr. Anthony Fauci's medical career from the AIDS crisis to COVID-19, is creating controversy away from the big screen.

"Fauci," from NatGeo and Magnolia Pictures, hit select theaters Sept. 10 before getting a Disney+ release earlier this month. The documentary lets disparate figures like President George W. Bush, U2's Bono and Bill Gates praise the

Infectious disease specialist.

The studios failed to make the documentary's box office figures available to film industry sites or JustTheNews.com. The vast majority of studios, large and small, routinely share that data, as NatGeo and Magnolia have done on previous releases.

Movie fans then noticed RottenTomatoes.com, arguably the biggest review aggregator site on the web, didn't initially feature any "audience" reviews of the film.

Mainstream film critics saluted "Fauci," although most admitted the film served up a hagiography of the 80-year-old bureaucrat. Once audiences started weighing in on the film at Rotten Tomatoes, though, the results were withering. Professional critics gave "Fauci" a 92% "fresh" score, while audiences gave it just a 2% — or "rotten" — rating.

A similar pattern emerged at IMDB.com, a major film and TV reference destination. "Fauci's" audience rating, on a scale from 1-10, hovered around 1.8. This week, however, the site altered its review algorithm. Now, the audience review tally is a more robust 5.8.

A quick glimpse at the review breakdown, provided by the site, shows the overwhelming number of audience critics gave the film a one-star rating.

The site now features this explanation:

(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...


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KEYWORDS: amazon; coronafascism; fauci; imdb
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1 posted on 10/17/2021 9:42:29 AM PDT by bitt
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...

BWAHAHAHA!


2 posted on 10/17/2021 9:42:47 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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Hail Fauci! We who are about to die salute you!


3 posted on 10/17/2021 9:44:03 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: bitt

If they make a Movie about the Trial and Execution of Fauci for GENOCIDE, I will PAY to see it, ok.


4 posted on 10/17/2021 9:44:46 AM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: bitt

Quintessential propaganda. Let’s go, Brandon!


5 posted on 10/17/2021 9:45:18 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (No nation that sanctions the wholesale slaughter of its unborn citizens is fit to endure.)
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To: bitt
The more lockdowns there is, the more money Amazon/Bezos make.
6 posted on 10/17/2021 9:47:26 AM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: bitt

Bezos may not run the company but he still owns the bulk of evil twisted leftist Amazon (and **** on anyone who still buys from that communism pushing company to save a few bucks). The left always rally to support each other, and Fauci is cheerleader #1 for the work produced by Communist China (their third attempt after SARS and H1N1 Swine Flu). Wuhan virus was used as the foundation of the scamdemic. They are now owed and Joe will do whatever Xi tells him to do. I read an article over at DailyWire about one example, “Will Biden Abandon Taiwan?”, so give that a look. Joe owes everything to his Chinese masters and after being prepaid via Hunter by them for the damage he does now he won’t risk angering them. Fauci is a demon and one of the greatest mass murderers of all time, as his death count will grow for years and years.


7 posted on 10/17/2021 9:48:51 AM PDT by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: blueunicorn6

Dude has held that same government job since 1984 (when Reagan was running for his 2nd term). Anthony also botched AIDS. Or did he?


8 posted on 10/17/2021 9:49:52 AM PDT by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: SmokingJoe

Lots of videos streaming on Prime during lockdown.


9 posted on 10/17/2021 9:50:24 AM PDT by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: bitt

An “alternate weighting calculation”? I thought the folks at Amazon were smarter than that. The should have just hired Dominion to count the original votes. Then whatever numbers they’d want, they’d get.


10 posted on 10/17/2021 9:52:12 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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Fauci has replaced Joseph Mengele as the world’s deadliest doctor.

Funding Chinese bioweapons would have earned him a seat in the electric chair in previous eras.


11 posted on 10/17/2021 9:54:41 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: bitt

Not much chance of us seeing this “crockumentary”. Actually, ZERO chance.


12 posted on 10/17/2021 9:55:16 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: bitt

So many Leftists — from the “President” on down, seem to be surprised and shocked that Americans don’t like what they want them to like.

These people — the majority of whom seem stuck in approximately 1974 — are just pathetic.


13 posted on 10/17/2021 9:55:19 AM PDT by JennysCool (Let's go, Brandon!)
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I would be eager to see a 100% factual docu about this sad excuse for a physician...


14 posted on 10/17/2021 9:58:04 AM PDT by Bobalu (Figure out what you like, learn enough to be dangerous, and then start fiddling around)
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To: bitt

“alternate weighting calculation”

Dominion software?


15 posted on 10/17/2021 10:00:37 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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"Fauci," from NatGeo and Magnolia Pictures

I misread that as:

"Fauci," from NatGeo and Mongolia Pictures...

16 posted on 10/17/2021 10:00:51 AM PDT by null and void (LGBTQ = Let's Get Biden To Quit, FORKN'A = First Uttery Cancel Kamala, Nancy Axed)
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To: bitt

You could make a full length motion picture just on Flounder Fauci’s flip flops.


17 posted on 10/17/2021 10:03:07 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: null and void

Bono, Bill Gates, & George W Bush.

Stop reading right there ….


18 posted on 10/17/2021 10:05:18 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: bitt

Who goes to IMDB for reviews? It’s for movie cast and crew credits. And now everything is behind a paywall, so there’s really no point in going at all.


19 posted on 10/17/2021 10:09:43 AM PDT by DrGunsforHands
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx
Plus lockdowns mean more people buy goods online from Amazon.
Amazon had one of their best years, last year. Revenues skyrocketed.
20 posted on 10/17/2021 10:11:16 AM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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