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human
I believe movies on imdb with more than 20 - 30 years should not be open for rating, CMV

I state this because I think movies in general are made/released in the context of their time and that people who see them decades in the future might not really understand them or their importance/quality.

I can give 2 examples: some years ago I saw Citizen kane for the first time, I understand as a movie being realeased in the time of musicals and westerns it must have been an amazing breath of fresh air, but decades away it's looks to me just as an ok movie, so I refrained from rating as it would be unfair to give it a relativelly slow rating.

Another example was the blues brothers: saw it weeks ago and thought it was mainly boring and childish, after seeing the reviews (and trying to understand the high rating) I realized at it's time with those actors, those cameos it must have been something great, just not from my actual point of view...
(this could probably be said about most movies of the 80s)


SO basicly that's it: movies/tv shows should be judged in the context of their time and rating them decades in the future will result in unfair ratings.
gpt
If someone goes onto imdb to see how good a film is, knowing how good a film was to people 30 years ago isn't going to help much. What is useful to them (and indeed would have been useful to you before you watched those films) is how much you, in the context of modern society, will enjoy those films. If a film has aged badly, this would be reflected in the ratings.

Perhaps what would help would be two ratings, one that was given at the time, and one that can be constantly updated.