Entertainment Forum General Chat Thread • Page 218

I give The Lion King ten golden bananas

 

The one time I did find rating movies useful was in the days of Netflix DVD-by-mail. Their algorithm almost always knew how I was going to feel about a movie.

 

But which Lion King??

 

I miss that system SO much. It was so much more intuitive and I agree, it always seemed to be aware of what I might enjoy or not. Just giving a thumbs up or thumbs down in the new app is useless, especially when their “percentage” recommendation always seems to be skewed toward originals.

 

Oh yeah sure I agree lol. I only give ratings as an easy mental trigger for myself, e.g. if I look back at a film and wonder why I only gave it 8 bananas.

I especially hate that critics give ratings, since it's supposedly their literal job to do exactly what you described and yet they know that 9/10 bananas people won't bother going past the score

 

Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes will even assign scores to films when the critic does not give a score. I believe some magazines and newspapers require critics to give a score as well. It is Siskel and Ebert's fault.

Sometimes I look at other user's ratings breakdown and the bell curve, or sometimes lack of one, is all over the place. I would be very stingy with 5's but I would give out way too many 3's because I don't have a strong like it/hate it feeling.

 

I don’t think I’ve ever used a service like Letterboxd where anyone else could see my ratings. Maybe the old Netflix had that feature but it’s way too long ago to remember. I really did like that five-star shorthand, especially since it could easily be changed if a rewatch shifted your opinion. I use to love going through and seeing what I loved and what I hated and how that might hold up or not with my current views.

There was a time where if you used an old
enough system to stream Netflix still gave you the star rating. I wonder if I tried using the old Wii disc if I could see them or if it wouldn’t start up at all.

 

I used to make myself write something about every movie I saw when I logged consistently on Letterboxd because yeah, I don’t get anything out of seeing “so and so watched and rated Spider-Man 3.5 stars”. I got busy and had trouble keeping up though but still liked logging star ratings with no written entries for my personal film log, but I’m trying to get back into writing at least a quick little something. I still rate a star rating but don’t give it more than like 3 seconds thought

 

I especially love people who see the “Fresh” % on Rotten Tomatoes and don’t get that a 100% just means no outright negative scores. Cs get degrees baby

And yeah in my weird mental calculus a 2.5-3 out of 5 basically means it succeeded in not being a poorly made film but that at the same time I could not care less about it. Anything below that is when a movie starts failing to maintain basic coherence

 

Brad Pitt might be in that film too

Damien Chazelle Old Hollywood Script ‘Babylon; Emma Stone Circling – Deadline

 

You never used IMDB? Everyone can see your ratings there too. I think you can hide them though.

 

Bruhhhhhh

Replicants welcome: There’s a ‘Blade Runner’-inspired bar coming to L.A.

 

Lol @ this episode of ER where Sam is acting all sanctimonious about how John Stamos is looking after her kid. Like sis under ur watch he set a building on fire while u were having sex in the next room like ur gonna judge????

 

I'm actually enraged on behalf of John Stamos rn.

 

Watched The Insider for the first time, was incredible. Think Mann is slowly becoming one of my favorite directors

 

Nope! I think I might have had an account for their messageboard way back in the day, but I’ve never rated anything there.

 

Yupp. I still use it too haha

 

Um

 

I don't know if there's a thread for general movie soundtrack discussion but The Perfect Storm is on TV right now and I've had to have seen it at least 100 times at this point but I just now noticed it uses some of the exact same songs from Enemy at the Gates....which it turns out were done by the same composer.

 

Oooh

 

Now I am become Cats, destroyer of worlds.

 

Sorry It, you don’t win the most terrifying trailer drop of the day now. My eyes are forever tainted.

 

It’s staggering. I used to dislike Tom Hooper, but now I’m sort of in a weird sort of awe of him, an awe lacking any respect or esteem, similar to my feelings for Tommy Wiseau