About

I watch a lot of movies. Enough that I felt the need to make a dedicated blog for keeping track of them and what I thought of them. When I see a movie (or watch a complete season/set of a TV show), I make a post about it.

“The List”

Some time around March 2008 I started a certain ginormous project. I’m watching (and, therefor, my wife is watching) everything on the Internet Movie Database’s list of the Top 250 movies. Or at least all of them that are readily available on video.  About half the movies we watch are watched because they’re on The List.

Ratings

For every title I post, I include a “subjective” and “objective” rating. I should explain exactly what I mean by that.

Subjective ratings are just how much I enjoyed it, using the following scale:
10/10 = Favorite of my favorites
9/10 = One of my favorites
8/10 = Great
7/10 = Good
6/10 = Okay
5/10 = Indifferent
4/10 = Eh
3/10 = Bad
2/10 = Terrible
1/10 = Eew get it away!

Objective ratings are calculated by averaging a score for each of the following aspects:
- concept
- story
- characters
- dialog
- pacing
- cinematography
- special effects/design
- acting
- music
- subjective rating [oh no it's recursive!]
resulting in a rating out of ten on the following scale:
10/10 = Great
9/10 = Very good
8/10 = Good
7/10 = Pretty good
6/10 = Okay
5/10 = Indifferent
4/10 = Eh
3/10 = Pretty bad
2/10 = Bad
1/10 = Very bad
0/10 = Terrible
(See this post for a more detailed explanation.)
It’s not really all that objective, but it comes up with different ratings than the subjective scale. Both ratings represent a different sense of “what I thought of the movie.” By the way, wherever you see a single rating on the site, such as on the title list, it’s the subjective rating.