How important is IMDB?

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On another forum that I post to, several people were talking about their listings on IMDB (Internet Movie Data Base). My own IMBD listing is pretty much incomplete in terms of credits, though I have worked on several big film and tv projects.

How big is the overall importance of this site in terms of reflecting one's body of work? Should I take the time and effort to get everything listed?
 
How important is IMDB?

As an ego rub, OK.
Impress your friends, OK.
Sounds good, OK.


To the industry.....meaningless.
 
IMDb isn't that important as far as crew goes. From the people I know in the industry they mostly just use it for researching actors.

Rob
 
And even then I'm not so sure. Don't get me wrong, it would be cool to see my name there, but I know people who are listed there who aren't very successful in the commercial sense.

Pookie, as soon as I can afford you, we are gonna have to work together.
 
The only real thing that the IMDB is good for is calculating an actor's "Bacon Number".

Mine is 4.
David G. Smith was in Survive (aka, Channel Dead) (2003) with Michael Kallio
Michael Kallio was in Renaissance Man (1994) with Khalil Kain
Khalil Kain was in How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass (2003) with David Alan Grier
David Alan Grier was in Woodsman, The (2004) with Kevin Bacon

http://oracleofbacon.org/cgi-bin/or...vin&game=1&secondname=Chaney+Jr.,+Lon&using=1
 
Barry_Green said:
Wow, I'm a 2... I was in Dune 2000 with Nancy Valen, who was in The Big Picture with Kevin Bacon...
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Very cool, you are right there with Clark Gable!!! (He was a 2 too!!!).

And Elvis

And Marilyn....
 
I'm a "3".

Christopher (V) Thomas was in Sandtown (2004) with Danny Fendley
Danny Fendley was in Stars and Bars (1988) with Keith (I) David
Keith (I) David was in Novocaine (2001) with Kevin Bacon

I definitely think IMDB is more important to actors than those behind the camera. I know one guy who petitioned IMDB to remove his name from several older projects that embarrassed him. He got all but one removed.

IMDB also lists casts and crew for porn movies. While that is an extreme example, some IMDB credits could come back to haunt you.
 
pookie said:
How important is IMDB?

As an ego rub, OK.
Impress your friends, OK.
Sounds good, OK.


To the industry.....meaningless.
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Not necessarily.

The last three shows I worked on, they looked at my IMDB listing (which I keep more-or-less up to date) before calling me in to interview.

Now, the IMDB-check probably just had more to do with wanting to 'see a resume' and check out my overlap with people they knew, than being a make-or-break as to whether they wanted to meet with me (which they all did) or hire me (which they all did).

But, industry people, at least, in the art dept/vfx dept, do use IMDB to check you out, sometimes. Half the time as a result of an office conversation about "did he do this...? did she work on that...? let's imdb their ass and find out..."

I guess my Bacon-factor is 1, since I worked on "Apollo 13," which he was in.
 
Sad Max said:
Not necessarily.
I guess my Bacon-factor is 1, since I worked on "Apollo 13," which he was in.
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I worked on Apollo 13 too, only to lose out to a talking pig. Of coarse Babe must have had a pretty hi Bacon factor :laugh:

IMDB sucks. There are a ton of attorneys, agents and HBO sales reps who get producing and writing credits for doing nothing. Then they get this long list of credits on IMDB, show it to executive producers who give them money to produce crap becuase they don't have a clue...

I'm bitter - I just worked with one of these idiots and he wasted $4M :angry:
 
Okay, Chris, I'm (slightly) impressed, as my "Bacon" factor is nil. Leave it to you, however, to pull in the T&A aspect of IMDB! J/K, my friend. :thumbsup:
 
Once, while mixing meditations on Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon and being one with the universe, I reached a state of pure Kevin Baconness. Realizing that this was only a rung on the ladder, I went further until I, for a brief moment, was every actor in every film EVER!!! But then my cat attacked my foot under the covers and shifted my conciousness into a state of pure Phillip Seymour Hoffman awareness.
 
ChuckS said:
I worked on Apollo 13 too, only to lose out to a talking pig. Of coarse Babe must have had a pretty hi Bacon factor :laugh:

IMDB sucks. There are a ton of attorneys, agents and HBO sales reps who get producing and writing credits for doing nothing. Then they get this long list of credits on IMDB, show it to executive producers who give them money to produce crap becuase they don't have a clue...

I'm bitter - I just worked with one of these idiots and he wasted $4M :angry:
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I've worked on "seaQuest," "The One," and "Supernova."

I'm past being bitter.

Anyway, someone who would give out money based solely upon an IMDB listing, deserves to have their $4m wasted.

What didja do on "Apollo 13?" I was first pencil on the crew that built the splashdown/recovery capsule, and the full-size LEM mockup for the imaginary walk-on-the-moon sequence...
 
I was Scott's and Wooks wipping post, they'd call me every other day to tell me they were going to use Alias if we didn't give them more fuctionality in Prisms. I was with SideFX at the time. I worked a lot with Denise B and Kevin M.

Did you also work at VIFX?
 
My mother used to ask me why my name is never in the credits and wouldn't that prevent me from getting future work? I told her I don't get work because my name is in credits. Credits are ego boosters, nothing more. That website will never get you a job because your name is in the credits. Im my opinion having your name there is about as important as writing it on a phone booth somewhere in the world.
 
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