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15 hours ago, ng4ever said:

 

Why do they want so much money though for the data ?

Because providing data is their business.

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GrimReaper

Bumping this up for visibility.

On 9/4/2022 at 5:29 PM, Luke said:

I think movie db also has reviews now.

They do, both for movies and TV shows:

https://developers.themoviedb.org/3/movies/get-movie-reviews

https://developers.themoviedb.org/3/tv/get-tv-reviews

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On 9/4/2022 at 5:44 PM, Happy2Play said:

Yes they do, so the question is would this meet the needs of this topic?  Then where would they go?

We have a popup for Overview>More, might as well have one for Reviews, that would require absolute minimum space in the UI.

On 9/4/2022 at 6:06 PM, Luke said:

It's just that these are not professional reviews.

For the better, as those are way more honest and down to earth compared to mainstream media critics. I'm positive majority of users would prefer RT Audience Ratings/Reviews compared to RT Critics ones, given the chance. In lack of thereof, go for the next best thing available.

On 9/4/2022 at 6:06 PM, Luke said:

And also are they moderated for profanity, that could be an issue.

I wouldn't mind unmoderated as a lot of content nowdays deserved to be mocked and ridiculed at to no end, and swearing is a (big) part of it; however, simple profanity filter would take care of majority of that.

Edit: Yep, reviews are moderated:

Approval time for reviews - Talk — The Movie Database (TMDB) (themoviedb.org)

 

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Cheesegeezer

yeah i used to have a "Reviews" button in my WMC Themes on the Details page to show critic reviews.

I quite liked them back then.  But now i don't believe any reviews that are on imdb or RT, i also don't believe the scores anymore.  Before a movie is released it has a score of 9.5 on imdb.. i mean WTFlipping heck is all that about.

the only ones i listen to are right here on this forum in our little TV and Movie Club!  

 

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13 hours ago, GrimReaper said:

Was this ever given any more thought? 

H, yes it's an idea that we're interested in. Thanks.

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