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by mkmk 4421 days ago
It's not that the rating is inaccurate... it's that a huge population of people that don't usually rate movies on IMDB has suddenly entered the rating pool. Maybe the solution is to have country-specific ratings, so that my ratings are averaged with the ratings of my peers, rather than the ratings of people in entirely different cultures.
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The rating is completely inaccurate. The ratings have nothing to do with the movie or its merits, but from a perceived slight that a bunch of bloggers and nationalists were offended at.
While there's certainly a culture common to my compatriots and me, it's hardly a great indicator viz-a-viz preferences in films. At least in that area, I probably have more in common with many people here than with the average citizen of my country.

Besides, for us in small countries, we would probably have almost no ratings in any film besides blockbusters.