Let me tell you, although not all, Douban’s ratings do have this tendency. I only discuss commercial films. Generally speaking, a Hollywood commercial blockbuster has a better reputation in North America than in China, and the score on IMDB is often lower than that on Douban. Americans think it is bad (5), but Douban thinks it is pretty good (6); Americans just I think it’s okay (7), and Douban thinks it’s excellent (8). For the same movie, IMDB’s score is about 1 point lower than Douban. Present facts and reason, there is no truth without pictures. Let me start with examples. Let’s take some of this year’s movies that everyone is familiar with as examples. Take the most topical movie "Warcraft" this summer as an example. The Rotten Tomatoes rating is only 38. Critics think it is worth watching, and the audience score is 4.8. The IMDB score is slightly better at 7.0, and the Douban score is as high as 7.8. . This contrast is a bit big.

Then let’s talk about the Transformers series. Rotten Tomatoes gave all four works in this series rave reviews. On Douban, “Transformers 1” scored as high as 8.1 (excellent level). For comparison, IMDB The score is 7.1 (just average). As for "Transformation 4", the Douban score is 6.6 (a good popcorn movie), and the IMDB score is 5.7 (no doubt a bad movie). We can imagine that Douban now rates "The Great Wall" 5.4 as a bad movie, which is equivalent to IMDB's rating of "The Great Wall". If IMDB also rates "The Great Wall" 6.5 or above, then the experiences of "The Great Wall" and "The Great Wall" in China and the United States will be very different. A good example of mirror comparison.

Of course, Douban is not so fond of all Hollywood commercial blockbusters. For example, the ratings of "Captain America 3" and "X-Men" on Douban and IMDB are not that big of a contrast. This year's "Suicide Squad", which gained a lot of popularity in North America, had an IMDB rating of 6.4 and Douban only a 6.1.

What’s funny is that Hollywood is quite good at domestic commercial blockbusters that Douban disdains. Let's take Zhang Yimou as an example. The Douban score of "Hero" is only 6.7, which can only be considered average. On IBDB, it is as high as 7.9, which is a very good performance. The same is true for "House of Flying Daggers", with a Douban 5.5, which is close to the Great Wall's rating, but the IMDB rating is as high as 7.6. If only the IMDB score of "The Great Wall" could reach 7 points this time... As for "The Golden Armor", which was scolded by Cheng Xiang in China, Douban scored 5.1, which is undoubtedly a bad movie, while the IMDB score was 7.0. This is more embarrassing.