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posted by HarrisonHanksHackmanSTAFFMOD on August 18, 2019 at 12:27 PM
Out of curiosity are you picky about giving a movie or TV show a 10 rating? What drops it down to a 9 or 8 in your eyes?
I'm brand new here this past week and the first thing I did was start rating many of my favorite actors movies and many of my favorite TV shows. I've noticed that I have ranked many movies and TV shows with a 10 that professional critics or film snobs would laugh at.
For me it is all about my enjoyment of the film and how many times I will watch it again, or more importantly for a 10, I must watch it again, and again, and again. I try not to let what the professional critics think affect or bother me one way or the other. I couldn't tell you if the cinematography of one film was better then another. And for me even knowing what is expert directing of a movie only comes down to did I like the movie or not. So my favorite directors are the ones who have directed a lot of my favorite movies.
All this is after all subjective. So many times with movies it comes down to a certain actor or actress as to why I watched the movie to begin with. The example I used in the title is Clint Eastwood and The Outlaw Josey Wales. He is someone who the critics hated early on but they not treat as a national treasure. I have seen just about everything he has done back to the Rawhide days. So I have rated all of my very favorites a 10, some that I consider a tad less but I know I will watch again a 9 (The Eiger Sanction), some still worth repeated viewings an 8 (The Enforcer), some I probably will never watch again a 7 (Bronco Billy), and finally some I know I won't watch again a 6 or lower (Pink Cadillac).
So are you conservative or liberal with your 10's? And if you feel like sharing, why?
Reply by genplant29
on August 21, 2019 at 3:02 PM
I agree with what lassie stated. I want to further state that, IMO, anyone who rates anything - regardless of what rating they give - should actually truly sit through and watch bare minimum of the first full 1/5 of the film before they give it any rating. Many films are uneven, or slow (or/and poor, etc.) starters, and get steadily better - often substantially so - the further along they go.
I personally never rate anything that I haven't 100% start-to-finish watched (and wish everyone else would do likewise), as that way I know I'm being truly fair and not rushing to potentially inaccurate judgement. Doing otherwise is like jurors convicting someone of a crime (or, similarly undeservedly exonerating someone) without first actually listening to all the testimony and seeing all the evidence exhibits.
More than likely a lot of people rate things 1-5 (= 10% to 50%) based on the first 5-10 minutes of whatever that they then completely turned off and didn't even see any of the rest of.
Reply by JustinJackFlash
on August 21, 2019 at 7:33 PM
Yeah, it stands to reason that people would try and watch films they know they'd enjoy and the majority of my ratings are also 6's, 7's and 8's. But there are a lot of people who rate everything as either 1 or 10.
Reply by HarrisonHanksHackman
on August 21, 2019 at 9:57 PM
I don't know that I have ever rated anything less then a 5 for some of the reasons mentioned. Usually when I watch a movie it is because of an actor I like, or a famous actor I haven't seen much of and want to get to know more, or a recommendation from a friend, or maybe because it won or was nominated for Oscars. But even then I usually look at ratings on IMDB and if it is under a 7, it better be an actor I like, under a 6, I rarely bother.
Reply by lassie
on August 22, 2019 at 8:56 PM
I agree, I will not give a rating to a movie that I have not watched from start to finish. Occasionally I will stop watching a movie usually because it's bad - I don't rate it then. Off topic, but I have never walked out of a movie at a theater.
Reply by Don Jon
on August 22, 2019 at 10:48 PM
my rate system and to trump it down for yall:
10- Perfect mind blown and meaningful
9- would watch again and strongly recommend to others
8-void rarely rate anything at 8
7-average wouldn't mind watching again but not crazy about it