[a character points at a scale on a board]
10: Excellent
9: Good
8: Fine
7: Bad
6: Trash
0-5: Barely in use
[the character speaks while pointing at it]
This is my ratings system
It makes sense somehow and will never skew the ratings of the websites I contribute ratings to
[a varied crowd of characters are giving thumbs up]
WE ARE ALL STUPID AND
WE UNIRONICALLY AGREE
https://thebad.website/comic/ratings_scale
It mirrors american school grading on a 10 point scale.
91-100 - A
81-90 - B
71-80 - C
61-70 - D
0-60 - F
People are rating movies like they were graded on their homework and tests. But yes it is a very stupid system.
What a silly system indeed when seen by outsiders.
Nah, there’s nothing wrong with this system.
Most of the movies that people are going to bother watching aren’t total shit.
If you’ve heard of it, it’s probably at least halfway decent, with a few terrible exceptions (Birdemic, Bling Bling, I guess “The Room”?)
Even Battlefield Earth is a quality flick, on that scale.
You’re the one that removed the 5-star rating system from YouTube, aren’t you?
MUST DUMB EVERYTHING DOWN TO JUST “LIKE”
When it comes to movies, my scale is a bit different. Of course, there’s 1-10, with 10 being absolutely phenomal and 1 being terrible. But I also have -1 to -10, for portraying how entertaining a movie is despite or because of how terrible it is. This would include films like The Room, the love action Cat in the Hat, and Red Riding Hood starring Henry Cavill. And 0 is for a movie with no value to me. It isn’t good, but it’s also not so bad it’s good. A total waste of time.
There are currently more than 600.000 movies in Western Cinema alone.
If you watch a movie every day of your life since you are born, and live to be a 100, that’s a little over 36.000 movies.
… Why would you watch anything under a 7?
I gave some of my favorite movies below-7 ratings! Just because something is not exceptional when looked at through a more-objective lens doesn’t make it resonate with someone less. Most movies are around a 5/10 on my list, with a lot of sixes and fours. Almost nothing gets a one or a ten.
How are you supposed to trust ratings given by total strangers whose subjective tastes are unknown to you?
We like to pretend we’re so different, don’t we?
I’m sorry, how dare I have opinions of my own. I’ll make sure to kowtow to popular opinion from now on…
We live in a world where thoroughly mediocre movies like Inception and Interstellar feature on imdb’s list of ‘Top 250 Movies of all Time’, so I feel entirely justified in making my own decisions rather than trusting those of total strangers, thank you very much.
To paraphrase a line from a popular British sitcom: “People like Coldplay and voted for the nazis: you can’t trust people.”
[…] thoroughly mediocre movies like Inception and Interstellar
I thought you said you like movies…
I do, but only good ones :)
Scores aren’t for contrarians
Coldplay slaps though, so they’re at least half right
I go down to 5, personally, but that’s mostly because I don’t have access to all 600,000 available movies. I’m also entirely unwilling to watch certain genres, like war movies and westerns, while others are rare like horror, so my options are dramatically limited in that regard.
Also sometimes I end up with a really shitty movie while trying to find something else. Sometimes I’ll still watch them. Like allmighty thor is sitting at 1.9, I watched that to see how bad a movie had to be to not crack a 2. It’s really bad even by my standards. I’ve also watched sequels that range from 3-5, just because they are sequels and I’m a curious person. Like S. Darko, sitting at a 3. The kid being left to die in the mine at the end of the movie was enough of a loose end that didn’t get tied to warrant that rating even if the entire rest of the movie was good, which it was not.
But I’m heavily neurodivergent, and bad acting doesn’t usually register unless it’s really awkward or flat. Plot holes are very swiss cheese obvious to me though. I’m very willing to suspend disbelief, and it takes a lot for that lense to crack. I’m willing to accept that people are behaving irrationally and over-the-top for the sake of on-screen plot movement, even if other people are turned off by that, which in a lot of cases is why things fall below a 7 but above 5.
What is worse is when it is a 1-5 scale and people are like this is a 2.5 essentially m it back into a 10 point scale.
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