The Best Web Sites for Movie Fans - Part 2

MOVIE FACTS:

6. MovieMistakes.com

http://www.moviemistakes.com

At first glance, MovieMistakes.com isn't much to look at, but look deeper, and you'll see that the site is chock full of the worst movie goofs in recent history. Did you know that there are already 66 found mistakes in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull? For example, "In the chase scene around the campus, Mutts' motorcycle has a belt drive. Harley Davidson did not make belt drive bikes until two decades later." Currently, Apocalypse Now holds the record for the most goofs, with 396. There's also a list of the "best" movie mistakes, the most mistakes of 2008, movie trivia, best movie quotes, and even TV mistakes.

- Best Feature: Who knew laughing at someone else's mistakes would be so entertaining?

- Worst Feature: The underwhelming site design.

7. IMDb

http://www.imdb.com

No site can match the extensive information that the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) provides its 57 million monthly users. Moviegoers can look up film release dates, watch trailers, and read movie news. But most fans use IMDb to search for films and learn about the cast and crew, nominations and awards, trivia, recommendations, and more.

- Best Feature: The breadth of information available.

- Worst Feature: The addition of celebrity news. I don't want gossip mixed with facts!

MOVIE TRAILERS/SPOILERS:

8. Apple Movie Trailers

http://www.apple.com/trailers/

Want to watch movie trailers without news and reviews taking up screen real estate? Apple's Movie Trailers site offers a slew of current and upcoming movie trailers, including the comedy Get Smart, the Disney/Pixar film WALL-E, and the drama August. Sort by Just Added, Exclusive, Just HD, Most Popular, Genres, or Movie Studio. Users can view the trailers on their computer screens or download them to their iPods.

- Best Feature: All the movie trailers you can handle.

- Worst Feature: All the movie trailers you can handle.

9. The Movie Spoiler

http://www.themoviespoiler.com

Warning: Unless you don't have the time to watch this summer's blockbusters, or you're crazy enough to read about a film's ending before seeing it, The Movie Spoiler will definitely spoil the ending for you. Relying on user-submitted content, the site is broken down by weekly box office film earnings and a plot-by-plot guide of that particular movie. Visit the archives for even more spoilers from 8 Mile to Zoom.

- Best Feature: A simple, albeit ugly, site to navigate.

- Worst Feature: Ads galore.

SOCIAL NETWORKING:

10. Criticker

http://www.criticker.com

With Criticker, rate movies on a 1 to 100 scale, and you'll be matched with other users who share the same cinematic interests. In order to give each film you've seen a rating, page through the randomly generated lists of movies or search the site for specific films. Once you've ranked at least 10 films, you will generate what the site refers to as The Taste Compatibility Index (TCI): a measure of the similarity between two users' tastes in films.

- Best Feature: The Facebook, MySpace, and iGoogle widgets to show others what films you dig and don't dig.

- Worst Feature: The site's TCI ranking system is a bit confusing.

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*** From: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2320864,00.asp