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Xiaou2:
 
Personally, I hate movie ratings with a scale of  1 - 5.

 That Range is far too shallow to make any real assessment of a movie at all.

 Tell me what your rating in a range of  1 - 100.  Then Ill better know where
these movies stood.

AtomSmasher:

--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on January 10, 2010, 02:53:02 pm ---
Personally, I hate movie ratings with a scale of  1 - 5.

 That Range is far too shallow to make any real assessment of a movie at all.

 Tell me what your rating in a range of  1 - 100.  Then Ill better know where
these movies stood.


--- End quote ---
multiply by 20 and you'll have your answer :)
Personally I find rating between 1-100 far too much to be a good rating system.  You can't really say what makes a movie a 86 instead of a 87, but limiting the rating system allows you to put movies into subgroups of other movies roughly just as good, which is all that is needed.

Ginsu Victim:
I like using "x out of 10" for rating movies. (Giving half point values where needed)

Also, I don't rate movies by comparing to other films. Even though I gave Drag Me to Hell a 10/10, that doesn't mean I'm saying it's on par with The Godfather part II. I judge according to whether or not I was entertained, if I could follow the narrative, and if the makers were able to put their ideas on film properly (and how well they managed it).

Loafmeister:
My favorite rating system:

- It's crap
- It's meh
- It's ok (with a smile)
- It's pretty good
- It's freakin' great
- It's friggin' fantastic!

So I guess my scoring is out of 6. :)

If anyone wants to know more, then no larger scoring would help, reasons have to be provided that mean more than a number to backup the argument (ie: atomsmasher makes a great point about 1 percent difference).

AtomSmasher:
I just watched a movie that I thought was amazing, and since it's a virtual unknown movie I thought I'd share.  It's called "Ink" and I think it's best described as bizarrely awesome.  It's probably one of the best movies of 2009 and easily the best independent film of the year.  I don't really want to say much about the story because IMO telling anything about the story really is a spoiler for this one, but that might be because I knew nothing about this film before seeing it and realizing what was happening was a large part of why I loved it.
Ultimately I would give the movie a 4.5/5 simply because a lot of the acting wasn't very good, but everything else about it was fantastic.  I highly recommend this movie.  I don't buy movies very often anymore, but I'll definitely be picking this one up.

Here's a trailer for the film so you can get a sense of what it's about.  There actually is another trailer for it which I think is a better trailer, but it also gives away too much of the story, so I didn't want to post it.

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