Movie How to rate movies?

[Sterge]

5/7 if a movie is perfect and work down from there

 

[Coolangatta]

I saw Atomic Blonde at the cinemas and gave it a 4/5. Watched it again on Sunday and would reduce it to 3.5/5 because I couldn't wait for it to end, in contrast to say, Casino, which I've watched several times because I ****in' love it. That one's a 5/5 for me on that basis alone.

 

[BlakeyNoFlakey]

I rate out of ten.

9-10 Cinematic masterpiece
7-8 Good (worth seeing at the cinema and owning)
6 above average (might have an unexpected performance or plot twist that lifts it from mediocrity)
5 average (OK for movie night, usually watch once and forget it)
4 below average (watchable, but ultimately disappointing)
1-3 terrible

 

[Kong]

I think a lot of people would benefit from considering all of their previous film ratings when they do new ones.

I think if they did this, they'd be less likely to throw out 7 and 8 out of 10s as often as they do, because they'd see that most films don't stack up to ones they've previously given a 9 or 10.

So often I hear or read comments along the lines of "yeah it was solid; maybe 8/10". It doesn't add it up.

 

[Mitchell54]

I think a lot of people would benefit from considering all of their previous film ratings when they do new ones.

I think if they did this, they'd be less likely to throw out 7 and 8 out of 10s as often as they do, because they'd see that most films don't stack up to ones they've previously given a 9 or 10.

So often I hear or read comments along the lines of "yeah it was solid; maybe 8/10". It doesn't add it up.

Agreed. A solid is probably a 4-6

 

[edgie]

I rate out of enjoyment, and then competency.

If I enjoy it it starts at six then better film making practise moves it up. Bloodsport 2000 would top out at five or six for instance lol, despite most people would think that it's garbage. One mans trash...

Terminator 2 however is a class production that makes ten easily. Mass enjoyment. Flawless film making craft.

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[charcoalchicken]

GG.exe interested on your thoughts on how you rate films

 

[Exe Gesis]

GG.exe interested on your thoughts on how you rate films

Ten Categories. Each category is a binary figure, 1 or 0, yes or no. Tho I can also give 0.5 too. Tally up the points. Get my rating out of 10. I also am more harsher or less easily pleased, so my ratings tend to give a lot of low ratings for bad to average films.

Story
Script
Acting
Music
Editing
Directing
cinematography
Challenging?
Rewatchability
GGness (a certain je ne sais quoi)

 

[GeelongFTW]

sorted Decent effort. Would personally change some of your ratings of course. For example: would rate Finding Dory a 7 (6)- i actually thought it was better 2nd watch than at the cinema. Also Arrival as 10 (8)- honestly one of my all time fav movies- shows that you dont need a full-scale invasion when talking about aliens.

Would bump inception down to 8 (9) and Hunger Games to 6(7) as well.

 

[dumb]

i have to rate by enjoyment, a lot of the movies i watch repeatedly are devoid of what people might consider cinematic or technical skill. troma or other lo-fi, transgressive stuff, so-bad-it's-good, etc. i love pink flamingos, and i love groundhog day.

 

[Exe Gesis]

i have to rate by enjoyment, a lot of the movies i watch repeatedly are devoid of what people might consider cinematic or technical skill. troma or other lo-fi, transgressive stuff, so-bad-it's-good, etc. i love pink flamingos, and i love groundhog day.

A lot of sheer enjoyable movies ARE technically well made tho.

 

[HahnPremium]

Emotional investment.
Plot.
Character development.
Blood levels in penis.

 

[edgie]

No movie with **** can ever be a zero.

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[Toump Ass]

If I like a film I give it a high-ish number on a scale of either 100, 10, 7 or 5 depending on how I feel that day. Sometimes I use "stars" as a rating and award a film a number of stars, usually out of a possible 5 stars in total (although on some days, 4 stars will be the maximum number of stars offered). Occasionally I like to throw in the odd decimal point or fraction, for example "this film is a good 6.7 out of 10" / "Brilliant, 4 and a half stars!". Mix it up a bit.

If I don't like a film, I'll usually just call it shit.

Personally I don't give a hoot about technical details, but obviously if it's a good film anyway then set design, nice special effects/cinematographing and lovely acting can "elevate" the film and the score I give. I don't care about hype, and historical significance and influence only matters if I already like a film. I'm not pretending to be an academic or trying to be some kind of Ebert-lite film critic, I just want to watch a ****in' movie while I'm shoving butter stuff and chocolate into my face so what.

Very nice scriptwriting, lovely camera angles, good job acting! Sorry, doesn't matter if it's a crap story, because a film with a crap story is a crap film ("Here's looking at you, Shawshank Redemption!"). It's a bit like Ed Sheeran isn't it. Take Shape Of You: wonderful "technical details", innovative use of dancehall rhythms, the slippery snippet of TLC's No Scrubs, classic I–IV–VI–VII chord progression, beautiful microphone technique topping off a relatable story of getting hammered and wanting to **** a girl next to you at a pub (nice presence and "air" in the guitar recording too, nice reverb too). Most streamed song ever, it must be good! And what would I rate it out of 100? I wouldn't. I'd just call it shit. Sorry Ed, no hard feelings mate!

I do sometimes like "artistry" in films but I usually equate "artistry" with good stories being told in unique and interesting ways. For instance Marvel Comic Universe films like Black Guy and Avengers might have lots of work put into them by lots of talented people but I don't see a lot of "artistry" there because they're all the same movie over and over and over and over and over again. It really doesn't matter how many megapixels of CGI you shoved into my eye-sockets (again), Michael Bay already did that trick with Transformers and he probably did it better too.

Mostly I just want to see big ol' pair of **** bouncing around with lots of explosions, bad guys getting killed, aliens ripping people's heads off, monsters, demons, ancient indian burial grounds, cool stuff like that. Occasionally I want to feel something when I watch movie too, maybe learn some stuff or do some thinking. Being surprised is always good too. If I'm surprised, experiencing something new, I'm emotionally invested and thinking about stuff and there's two big breasts bouncing up and down on the screen with guns going off, dudes getting shot and mad aliens and things then that's probably gonna get a score of around 92, 9, 6, 4.5, 4 stars or 3 and a half stars depending on what arbitrary rating system I am using on the day.

Thanks for joining my TED talk I learned something today I hope you did too.

tl;dr enjoyable film = high number on arbitrary made up scale, not enjoyable film = "shit".

Edit: Forgot to mention, a little bit of kung fu is nice too. Love some karate kicks, ninja backflips etc.

 

[BEaston]

I've mentioned Critcker.com on here before I think but this is a good piece about it's benefits with regards to ratings/rankings



It's still the best site for movie ratings hands down for me.

 

[kickazz]

I've mentioned Critcker.com on here before I think but this is a good piece about it's benefits with regards to ratings/rankings



It's still the best site for movie ratings hands down for me.

I'll check it out, but in the mean time, what makes you say it is so good? Does it happen to match your tastes, do they explain what is good, etc?

 

[BEaston]

I'll check it out, but in the mean time, what makes you say it is so good? Does it happen to match your tastes, do they explain what is good, etc?

It uses your own ratings of movies to predict what rating you would give to movies you haven't seen. It's ridiculously accurate. So it's great for movie recommendations of what to watch.

How it works: Criticker - The TCI Explained - Taste Compatibility Index

Also you can use heaps of different filters on the movie database including the ones you've rated so if I wanted to see which are my top rated Drama movies from 2005 (for example), I can easily see that.

 

[Frank Bunn]

Sometimes it's not clear why we like or dislike certain movies. It can be an emotional response that we rationalise into a rating out of 10, or a detailed review.

In the video below Kurt Vonnegut highlights some classic storylines that people find satisfying. For example, "Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it." He's written plenty of other stuff on story writing but some of his 'rules' include -

Give your audience at least one character they can root for.​

Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them — so the reader may see what they're made of.​

End on a high note. The way a story makes people feel when they finish is how they remember it.​

 

[Frank Bunn]

An interesting tangent in the Rings of Power thread. My rating system for movies works for me but I've haven't rated TV shows, probably because I never figured out a good way to do it.

While on the topic of ratings, I find it interesting that on imdb, ratings for TV shows are much higher than movies on the whole. I don't know what that means, but I just needed to share it with someone.

Yes it's really odd. Universally TV shows are rated very high with the likes of True Detective, the Wire, Breaking Bad, GoT regularly having 9+ ratings scores, whereas your top movies are in the low 8's as far as I recall.

It's an odd phenomenon but I think it's a combination of:

• less people using IMDB to rate TV vs movies;
• TV having a more dedicated ongoing fan base;
• the repetitive nature of TV meaning 'fans' are the only ones likely to interact with a weekly rating mechanism
• people following the trend, i.e the smaller IMDB using TV fan base regularly rate TVs 10 so other people follow to stay 'closer to the average', whereas films are rated on a wider spectrum

 

[crafty_bernardo]

I personally don't see how you can rate TV series on a numeracy level

It's either good or bad/ thumbs up or thumbs down