A Deep Dive into Summer-Themed Films

Analyzing Audience Engagement and Ratings Across Movie Formats

Jiahua Chen, Brianna Ramnath, Hung Phung

2025-03-04

Introduction

“Summer Movies” Dataset

  • Films, videos, and TV movies that contain “summer” in their title
  • Two tables within the dataset:
  1. summer_movies.csv
  2. summer_movie_genre.csv
  • Ability to analyze how ratings, votes, and genres interact across different title types (movies, videos, TV movies), providing insights into trends in summer-themed media

Question 1: How Has Genre Popularity Changed Over Time?

Visualization 1

  • The most popular genre, among Romance, Comedy, and Action, among “summer” movies varied year to year.

  • The Action genre is historically lower than Comedy and Romance.

Visualization 2

  • Action movies emerges with the introduction of CGI in the 50s.

  • Around 1997 to 2020, comedy and romance dominated heavily over action in terms of popularity.

Question 2: How Do Votes and Ratings Differ Across Title Types?

Visualization 1

  • Most movies cluster around 90-120 minutes, while others have a wider distribution

  • There is no strong correlation between runtime and IMDb rating

Visualization 2

  • TV movies have a slightly higher median IMDb rating compared to movies and videos, but all three categories show similar overall distributions.

  • Videos have the widest range of ratings, with some highly rated and others very low