BEFORE YOU MAKE A REViEW THREAD!!!

[JBond]

Just a few things we like to do here to help everyone:

- First off, make sure there isn't already an existing thread on your viewed movie.

- START WITH A REVIEW! Don't post "What did you think?" or "It was wack."

- Add a POLL so people can rate the movie. 10 - 1 would be best.

- Do not close the polls. Leave that box set to zero or blank so that it remains open.

- Select the feature "Make Votes Public", which allows members to see what other members chose in the poll.

[bbf2]

Hope you don't mind if I add a suggestion:

Include an actual review in the first post. Don't call it the "Official (Movie) Review Thread" and just have a poll and say "wut u think"

[Ewok Droppings]

Or for that matter - don't start a thread with someone else's review from some other website. That's annoying.

[slinger]

BIG CAPITAL LETTERS FOR THE THE THREAD TITLE, JIBBS!

SO THEY CAN REALLY SEE IT.

do i have to do everything ; )

[JBond]

There

[sshuttari]

Pizza!

[JBond]

I imagine that there will still be a fair amount of people who don't bother to read this before starting a review thread, but hey, I tried.

[Fanible]

Originally Posted by JBond

I imagine that there will still be a fair amount of people who don't bother to read this before starting a review thread, but hey, I tried.

It will still catch some people though. I'd rather have you try, than to simply say "No one will end up reading it anyway, so what's the point?".

[Alien]

Originally Posted by JBond

I imagine that there will still be a fair amount of people who don't bother to read this before starting a review thread, but hey, I tried.

That might be true but hopefully there will be a fair amount of people that do read this thread first too.

[Ewok Droppings]

Originally Posted by JBond

I imagine that there will still be a fair amount of people who don't bother to read this before starting a review thread, but hey, I tried.

Ha - can't catch me! Now, I'm going to open a review thread of a movie I haven't yet seen with just a simple 7/10 with nothing more than just links to other website reviews! I think I might throw in a couple of links to Nokia websites for kicks.

[JokerNick]

and don't forget to post a naked pic of your mom and or sister sitting on the toilet....

[Warhammer Zero]

4 or 5 star ratings are so much better than 1/10.

[Doomsday]

I don't mind the 1/10 or 5 star ratings, it's the people who put like "7.4/10" and crap like that. What's the difference between a 7.2 and a 7.4? Or a 5.6 or a 5.8? Those are the people that drive me crazy.

[Warhammer Zero]

Exactly.

I'm glad that we agree.

[Fanible]

The larger the scale, the better, IMO, at least in the long run. You can better sort your ratings and your list between the lowest and highest rated movies if you have a more diverse rating scale. This is why I hate 4 or 5 star ratings because the differences between each are so simplistic and imprecise. Knowing the general differences in a vast, huge amount of movies and quality, and then crunching a rating into only 4 or 5 possible scores is ridiculous. It would drive me nuts if that's the only options we had on polls.

I don't mind people giving a point grade between each, like I said, for diversity, but then again I'm not that nitpicky either. I really don't see the problem with it though. That's some serious nitpicking if it does actually bother you when you see someone do it.

I, myself, rate movies on a 20 point scale. So I'll give some movies a 7 / 10, and sometimes a 7.5 / 10. Moving to a 50 point or 100 point scale would definitely make my list of movies more organized, but I don't have the time or effort willing to pick at a movie's layers enough to justify it. Yeah, it's not as big a deal to do from someone else's point of view (but honestly I don't know why you'd even care one way or another), but for a listing of movies in general scores from one to the other, a 100 point scale is easier to work with (like said, I don't go that far, only using a 20 point scale, but still). It's why RT.com movies are better listed as far as average ratings go.

As far as questioning what's the difference between 7.4 and 7.2, it depends on how the person is actually rating it. If he does actually add up every aspect of a movie's quality and that's the average point in the end, then that's perfectly fine by me. They enjoy taking a movie apart and grading it on whole. If they pull the number out of their ass, well, I dunno then... it seems too wide a scale to just decide at random after seeing it. But as I said, increasing the scale like that will allow you to better list movies according to their 100 point scale than it would be when you're limiting it to only a simplistic "5 stars". Thankfully most sites that use the star rating still do the whole "half stars" thing, so they are still going by a 1-10 point scale. It's the sites that limit their ratings to only 4 or 5 points that drive me crazy.

[Alien]

Unless we have half stars I don't like them and even then that just makes it out of 10 so pointless.

[masterful misha]

i remember when i first got here and i made a thread abiout saw 3...and that was a mistake because it was already made

[Kaboom]

Originally Posted by JBond

I imagine that there will still be a fair amount of people who don't bother to read this before starting a review thread, but hey, I tried.

i read it =(

[Tzarinna]

Same here,I just wish the forum were titled a little different.

[Warhammer Zero]

Originally Posted by Fanible

The larger the scale, the better, IMO, at least in the long run. You can better sort your ratings and your list between the lowest and highest rated movies if you have a more diverse rating scale. This is why I hate 4 or 5 star ratings because the differences between each are so simplistic and imprecise. Knowing the general differences in a vast, huge amount of movies and quality, and then crunching a rating into only 4 or 5 possible scores is ridiculous. It would drive me nuts if that's the only options we had on polls.

I don't mind people giving a point grade between each, like I said, for diversity, but then again I'm not that nitpicky either. I really don't see the problem with it though. That's some serious nitpicking if it does actually bother you when you see someone do it.

I, myself, rate movies on a 20 point scale. So I'll give some movies a 7 / 10, and sometimes a 7.5 / 10. Moving to a 50 point or 100 point scale would definitely make my list of movies more organized, but I don't have the time or effort willing to pick at a movie's layers enough to justify it. Yeah, it's not as big a deal to do from someone else's point of view (but honestly I don't know why you'd even care one way or another), but for a listing of movies in general scores from one to the other, a 100 point scale is easier to work with (like said, I don't go that far, only using a 20 point scale, but still). It's why RT.com movies are better listed as far as average ratings go.

As far as questioning what's the difference between 7.4 and 7.2, it depends on how the person is actually rating it. If he does actually add up every aspect of a movie's quality and that's the average point in the end, then that's perfectly fine by me. They enjoy taking a movie apart and grading it on whole. If they pull the number out of their ass, well, I dunno then... it seems too wide a scale to just decide at random after seeing it. But as I said, increasing the scale like that will allow you to better list movies according to their 100 point scale than it would be when you're limiting it to only a simplistic "5 stars". Thankfully most sites that use the star rating still do the whole "half stars" thing, so they are still going by a 1-10 point scale. It's the sites that limit their ratings to only 4 or 5 points that drive me crazy.

I think that 7.2 ratings are stupid. The margin from 1-10 is already wide enough. What the f*** is a 7.2 anyway?
Some people don't know what they are doing when they rate the movie like that.
They just do it, for no apparent reason at all.

Also, the fact that nobody is ever going to properly use 1-10 properly annoys me. They could hate the movie, so they'd just say 5/10. Nobody is ever going to say 3/10 (seriously, how many times have you seen it?). Since 7/10 is loosely considered average/OK, what is the point of 1-6? 6 different types of suck? They just pick and choose a number. What's so different between 2/10 and 3/10? Not that people don't ever use them anyway. IMO, the margins are too wide to be fully accurate.

IMO, 4 star ratings (with half stars) are the best. 5 star ratings are good, as well. Star ratings are more accurate in telling how well a movie was. 4 meaning the highest quality of movie, 3 1/2 meaning a great movie, 3 meaning a good movie, 2 1/2 meaning an OK/average movie, 2 meaning an bad movie, 1 1/2 meaning a mediocre movie, and 1 meaning a TERRIBLE movie, and so on.

[Fanible]

Originally Posted by Warhammer Zero

Also, the fact that nobody is ever going to properly use 1-10 properly annoys me. They could hate the movie, so they'd just say 5/10. Nobody is ever going to say 3/10 (seriously, how many times have you seen it?). Since 7/10 is loosely considered average/OK, what is the point of 1-6? 6 different types of suck? They just pick and choose a number. What's so different between 2/10 and 3/10? Not that people don't ever use them anyway. IMO, the margins are too wide to be fully accurate.

IMO, 4 star ratings (with half stars) are the best. 5 star ratings are good, as well. Star ratings are more accurate in telling how well a movie was. 4 meaning the highest quality of movie, 3 1/2 meaning a great movie, 3 meaning a good movie, 2 1/2 meaning an OK/average movie, 2 meaning an bad movie, 1 1/2 meaning a mediocre movie, and 1 meaning a TERRIBLE movie, and so on.

You're not even making any sense.

You're complaining about a 1-10 rating scale, and not knowing the difference between a 2 and a 3, but then turn around and try to claim that 4 and 5 star rating scales with half stars is better ("the best" and "good"). 4 and 5 star ratings with half stars has an 8 or 10 point scale. There is no difference. Saying "What's so different between a 2 and a 3?" is the exact same thing as saying "What's so different between one star and one and a half stars?"

So... what? You'd prefer a 10 options poll, but have each say 1 star, 1 and a half, 2 star, 2 and a half, etc? What great difference would it make? There is no real difference, other than what the points in the scale are named.

It's as if you're proposing a debate, but at the exact same time, agreeing.

[Tornado]

Originally Posted by Fanible

You're not even making any sense.

You're complaining about a 1-10 rating scale, and not knowing the difference between a 2 and a 3, but then turn around and try to claim that 4 and 5 star rating scales with half stars is better ("the best" and "good"). 4 and 5 star ratings with half stars has an 8 or 10 point scale. There is no difference. Saying "What's so different between a 2 and a 3?" is the exact same thing as saying "What's so different between one star and one and a half stars?"

So... what? You'd prefer a 10 options poll, but have each say 1 star, 1 and a half, 2 star, 2 and a half, etc? What great difference would it make? There is no real difference, other than what the points in the scale are named.

It's as if you're proposing a debate, but at the exact same time, agreeing.

I'm not sure if I've ever agreed with Fanible more than I do right now.

[halo7]

I am one of the "7.4" folks. I dont literally use a calculator to "add up" why I liked the movie. Usually you just pick what feels right. It is never about actual math as that its impossible to calculate your opinion. But sometimes I dont think something is quite deserving of an 8.5 but also think it is better than an 8. So I give it something inbetween. It really works out in the long run it is much easier to tell which movies I liked better because instead of having a long list of 8.5s. You can see the slight marginal difference in how much I actually enjoyed the films. But if it really pisses you off that much my main advice is, get the **** over it.

[Fanible]

Originally Posted by halo7

But sometimes I dont think something is quite deserving of an 8.5 but also think it is better than an 8. So I give it something inbetween. It really works out in the long run it is much easier to tell which movies I liked better because instead of having a long list of 8.5s. You can see the slight marginal difference in how much I actually enjoyed the films. But if it really pisses you off that much my main advice is, get the **** over it.

Yeah, that was a point I was trying to make, but he seemed to just ignore it or didn't bother reading my entire post.
Meh. *shrugs*

[JBond]

I rate this thread a 6.7

Interesting at first, but then it kind of dragged on.