Plex Summaries for Movies have Long Winded text coming from non default IMDB Plots

[anon5074910]

Can I ask where plex is getting the summary metadata for this movie, Beast → Beast (2017) - Watch the movie free - Plex

The summary is long and contains star along with director information directly in the summary.

I thought plex defaulted to using TMDB for summary if a summary existed but it seems to not be the case.

Have checked …

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/470918-beast
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5628302
https://thetvdb.com/movies/beast

… and the summary is not coming from there. However, the text plex is using is contained at https://www.filmink.com.au/beast so maybe its coming from there but there is no way to edit this to correct it.

TMDB also has a better summary IMO but I guess that is open to opinion!

[anon5074910]

This is a wider question than just this one movie. I’ve noticed these two harry potter movies have cast members embedded in the summaries …

https://watch.plex.tv/movie/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-1
https://watch.plex.tv/movie/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-2

… while these don’t and have the summary from TMDB …

https://watch.plex.tv/movie/harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone
https://watch.plex.tv/movie/harry-potter-and-the-chamber-of-secrets

I for one hope this is a mistake as I strongly dislike having long summaries for movies. The plex apps truncate the text so having long winded summaries is just counter productive and silly.

[anon5074910]

Anyone from plex willing to comment on this ?

[drzoidberg33]

It comes from IMDB: Beast (2017) - Plot Summary - IMDb

[anon5074910]

Thanks. So it comes from the second plot summary from IMDB which is why I missed it when I went checking. Can I ask why the second plot summary has selected ? The first one is more precise IMO. It’s also the same text which TMDB uses.

The deathly hallows harry potter examples I used above seem to be doing the same thing (using second plot summary from IMDB) while other movies from the franchise don’t.

[drzoidberg33]

There is some logic that picks one based on the length I believe.

[anon5074910]

Wouldn’t that be flawed

What I mean is that most plex apps (if not all) truncate the length of the plot summary so they cannot be read any on the main summary screen.

Regardless, I have my answer, thanks. Hopefully something can be done to improve this in the future.

[anon5074910]

@drzoidberg33 something must have changed recently as more and more movies are starting to have long winded silly plot summaries. Could I be so bold as to request you take this feedback back to the team and ask them to look into the algorithm which decides what plot summary to pull.

Another movie which has what I would consider a ridiculous plot is Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Look at this rubbish Its coming directly from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) - Plot Summary - IMDb and Sony Pictures own review.

Who in the right mind cares about the lego movie and 21 jump street when they are reading the plot for the movie. The default plots on the landing pages for these movies at TMDB and IMDB are much better than the one plex has decided to take.

Anyhow, while I’m ranting a bit please do take this as constructive feedback. I’d also be curious if others on the forum agree or disagree with the plot summaries as they now.