The Internet Movie Database has been adding keywords to its movie search for a while now, but the whole endeavor is getting out of hand. Apparently 27 movies have the keyword "exploding gas station," including Zoolander, Superman, and The Birds. The problem is "exploding gas station" isn't even a word -- it's a phrase. Plus, who searches for movies by exploding gas stations? Of course I probably shouldn't criticize too much, since I discovered this plethora of movies featuring exploding gas stations by searching for the keyword "yellow gas," which returns only Fredric Hobbs' Godmonster of Indian Flats -- one of the world's finest cult flicks about marauding mutant sheep and exploding gas stations. Is *Godmonster *really the only movie in IMDB with yellow gas? This seems like a quality control issue. I wonder if somebody at IMDB is actually being paid to monitor keywords, or if it's a decentralized, chaotic community effort -- a folksonomy of random things that fans have used to label their favorite films.
Keyword: Exploding Gas Station [via IMDB]
