Movielens, the UMN collaborative filtering site, has finally fixed its publishing system, so that it can show more than 50 movies at a time on a page. Therefore I am proud to bring you my list of all the movies I've rated, broken out by genre. Note that they don't have all the movies ever made in their system, so this isn't a list of everything I've ever seen, but there's plenty here to peruse:
Also, a few other lists:
Before you go howling "you only gave Title three stars!?!" let me explain how I approached these ratings. Three stars is good. I like three star movies.
5.0 stars: Wow. A movie that stays with you, a movie you can watch again and again and again. Transcendent.
4.5 stars: A great, great movie.
4.0 stars: A must-see movie, among the best of its genre.
3.5 stars: An entertaining movie that's a cut above.
3.0 stars: A solidly likable and entertaining movie.
2.5 stars: Pretty good movie, but somehow fails to deliver on its promise.
2.0 stars: Disappointing. Not worth the time, effort or money to watch, let alone make.
1.5 stars: A pretty bad movie, but there's at least one good thing about it -- a good line, a cameo, something. Don't bother watching it, though.
1.0 star: This movie is actively bad. There is absolutely nothing to recommend it. You will want your 90 minutes back.
0.5 star: Every available copy of this movie should be burned, the remains ejected into space on a collision course with a black hole.
The idea is to have something approximating a bell curve, even though ratings systems like this will tend to be top-heavy, since you're more likely to see movies that you think you're going to actually like. I don't come out too badly on this:
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So there you have it. Sit back and relax, enjoy the show.
M E-L posted this on June 10, 2005 5:12 PM
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