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Dirty Deeds
2005 · Film · 87 min
Directed by David Kendall
According to a high school's lore, the "Dirty Deeds" are a daunting list of dares almost no student has ever completed. To win the student body's respect and get noticed by his crush, senior Zach is determined to finish the list in the allotted 24-hour time period. As the school's bullying jocks try to thwart him at every turn, Zach embarks on a wild journey, highlighted by beer swilling, grand theft auto and the snagging of an ex-homecoming queen's bra.
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Interestingly enough, I noticed the same thing regarding a movie called "Project X" recently. The cover (and Netflix link) were to a Matthew Broderick movie from the 80s, but the rest of the information shown was for a movie from last year with a 25% RT rating.
I sent an email to the guy behind the website telling him of the error and suggesting that maybe there need to be a few sanity checks (release year +/- 1, cast, etc.).
He responded pretty quickly, and lamented that the problems are due to the limited information he gets from Netflix Canada:
> When I get new releases from Netflix, I actually don't even get the release year, just the movie name, summary, and box art, and then I try to extrapolate as much as I can from that. I usually just keep a close eye on it and fix the errors as I see them.
His email did state that he's found another way to get more information, but that he's had to rewrite a lot of the site because of it. He's beta testing now, and hopefully it will be live relatively soon.
For now, I just try to be mindful of the limitations of the site, and if a movie looks vaguely interesting, I'll check it out on Netflix and/or directly on RT myself.
You've actually just accidentally save me from falling victim to this trap again, since I saw Dirty Deeds on the feed today, but dismissed it based on the extremely low RT rating. I guess even knowing about the problem doesn't always save you from being influenced by it. Either that, or it had a lot to do with looking when I got up at 7am today, and was still too groggy to think.
Thanks for the link xatax... that's definitely easier for sure.
It's just a shame that the Dirty Deeds movie that the site is linking to on IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes is another movie with the same name, that's apparently nowhere near as good as the actual one that is 'now available'. Well, I thought it was pretty good at least :)