Ok Let's Start:
Indulge Me for a moment if you will:
You go to the movie with two of your friends. The opening credits start and already your friends are digging it. As the movie goes on it seems your enjoying the experience less and less but your friends are experiencing the opposite. They're laughing and getting wrapped up into the action but your just getting bored. When the film wraps up you ask your friends what they though and unsurprisingly they say they liked it, in some cases you can sympathize why. However when you convey your feelings of the movie your friends they stare at you perplexed and confused, you just saw the same film they did yet they had a completely different experience.
This scenario is in no way suppose to reflect any particular experience I had, nor is it meant to stir me into a rant, but I did want it to mirror how we experience movies as a community. Movies are never unanimously loved, and you can always find somebody with a different opinion then yours, yet, if there is one thing I have learned over the last year from seeing more and more movies, its that movies in design are made to be loved. No studio sets out to make a bad movie, yet a majority of flicks that come out in a given year tend to score unfavorably on critics sites like Rotten Tomatoes (If you talked to me in person then you know how much I bring up RT). Ultimately though these movies are seen by tons of people and working as the guy who sells the tickets I can tell you its rare to here somebody doesn't like a movie.
So here's the dilemma, is there really such a thing as a bad movie? Well no, just as there such thing as a perfect movie either; this ideology is consistent though all mediums of art: novels, paintings, video games, anything that is created to elicit and emotional response. There are plenty of movies I dislike but I still want to give them their due if they made me laugh or I enjoyed my self. I want to be able to say that I didn't like a movie but here is where it stood out to me; comedies for examples never seem to make a good movie for me but if it made me laugh it should get some credit, it is a comedy after all.
The Rating System I will use will be a two part system, The first part will be a score out of five like I used in the past. To clarify each score is out of five consist only of integers (whole numbers) and each score is reflected of my enjoyment of the movie:
(1/5) I Did Not Enjoy the Movie
(2/5) I May have liked or disliked the film but ultimately would not recommended it to everyone
(3/5) I Liked the movie enough to recommend it to most people
(4/5) I Loved the Movie
(5/5) I takes a little extra to get this score, usually I have to loved the movie and It has to "resonate" with me in some way. This and the 2/5 score are defiantly the most flexible and up for interpretation.
The new second part will be an accolade system in which movies can be awarded based on areas they accolade at. These Accolades include:
- Funny As Hell (You know for funny movies)
- Action Packed (Movies with Action Throughout)
- WOW (Movies that inspire Awe for whatever reason)
- What a Twist (Maybe I'll use this one for movies with a great twist)
- WTF (For Movies that Just generally baffle me, could be for good or bad)
- Ect...
These Accolades are meant to reflect the movie in the most positive way and there aren't really any specific categories so don't expect to see certain accolades all the time. I'll probably have the cap be around four or five accolades for any given movie just so things stay under control. Im still not sure what to do if A movie really deserves no Accolades and I have been considering using Anti Accolades but as I mentioned these are suppose to be positive awards so I'm probably just going to figure this out as I go along. Finally at the end of the summer movie season and the year I can do a little Gold Metal, Silver Metal, and Bronze Metal award based on the most the most common accolades and which movies I think stood out the most in there respective categories. This is the system Im sticking with for now so I hope it sticks and helps best communicate how I feel about the movies I see. I think its going to be a lot of fun!
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