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The Promise
2016 · Film · 133 min
Directed by Terry George
Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, a love triangle develops between Mikael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated artist Ana, and Chris, a renowned American journalist based in Paris.
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I'm surprised the article makes no reference to the worst of this phenomenon: 2016's The Promise: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4776998/ratings?ref_=tt_ov_rt
* 52.9% 10/10 * 42.6% 1/10
For a total of 95.5% polarizing votes!
Interesting that The Ottoman Lieutenant is top of the 538's list and it deals with exactly the same subject matter.
Turks really need to grow up and stop being such babies about their history. Face it, don't go spamming down the ratings for movies that dare talk about your history.
Wikipedia has some more information on the issue:
"By the end of October 2016, before its official release and after only three pre-release screenings in September 2016 at the Toronto International Film Festival to small audiences, IMDb had registered over 86,000 ratings for the film. 55,126 of which were one-star and 30,639 of which were 10-star, with very few ratings falling anywhere in between. The majority of these votes had been cast by males outside of the US. By mid-November the total was over 91,000 votes, with over 57,000 one-star votes. Commentators assessed that these were mostly votes by people who had never seen the film, and that the one star voting was part of an orchestrated campaign by Armenian Genocide deniers to downrate the movie, which had then initiated an Armenian response to highly rate the movie."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Promise_(2016_film)#IMDb_public_votes_controversy